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@@ -2164,3 +2164,277 @@ arch-specific bugs fixed:
- riscv64 atomics had broken asm constraints (missing earlyclobber flag)
- arm clone() was broken when compiled as thumb if start function returned
- mipsr6 setjmp/longjmp did not preserve fpu register state correctly
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+
+
+1.2.0 release notes
+
+new features:
+- time_t is now 64-bit on all archs (not just 64-bit archs)
+- character type & case mapping data updated to Unicode 12.1.0
+- header-level support for new linux features in 5.3 and 5.4
+
+performance:
+- new O(1) wchar_t case mapping implementation
+- i386 now uses C math code for exp, faster than old asm
+- mips math asm
+
+compatibility & conformance:
+- endian.h now aims to conform to future POSIX definition
+- support older compilers that don't accept powerpc math asm constraints
+- fdpic code in ldso was incompatible with valid optimizations in gcc 9+
+- RLIMIT_RTTIME was missing from sys/resource.h
+
+bugs fixed:
+- wcwidth wrongly returned 0 for most of planes 4 and up
+- missing case mapping between U+03F3 and U+037F
+- wrong cacosh results for arguments with negative imaginary part
+- wrong catanf/catanl results for various classes of arguments
+- wrong return value for ungetc with argument outside [0,UCHAR_MAX]
+- posix_openpt with no ptys available produced wrong errno
+
+arch-specific bugs fixed:
+- sigcontext/regset definition mistakes & omissions on m68k, powerpc64
+- fesetenv(FE_DFL_ENV) crashed on riscv64
+- sh2 dynamic linker was broken since 1.1.21 (crash in stage 2b)
+- arm dynamic linker chose wrong tls/atomic variants since 1.1.21
+- some math library functions returned excess precision on i386
+- unconfirmed regression in fchmodat AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW on mips*
+
+
+
+1.2.1 release notes
+
+major changes:
+- new malloc implementation (mallocng & overhauled bump allocator)
+
+new features:
+- DNS queries via res_* now set AD flag, report zone signedness (DNSSEC)
+- PTHREAD_NULL macro (POSIX-future)
+
+performance:
+- optimized memcpy and memset for aarch64
+- optimized memcpy for arm now supports big endian
+- optimized x86_64 remquol
+- improved strerror without linear search
+
+bugs fixed:
+- lock-skipping for processes that returned to single-threaded was wrong
+- AF_UNSPEC dns lookups mishandled single failure in paired A+AAAA
+- res_send and res_query returned wrong value on errors from nameserver
+- corrupted sysvipc timestamps on 32-bit archs with old kernels
+- incorrect parsing of timezone offsets after overly-long zone name
+- clock_adjtime was broken on 32-bit archs (time64)
+- pthread_kill as not async-signal-safe
+- pthread_cancel was not async-cancel-safe
+- large-ulp errors in various math functions in non-default rounding modes
+
+arch-specific bugs fixed:
+- arm clock_gettime was broken on some hw due to bad time64 vdso
+- m68k sqrtl lacked long double precision
+- mips* syscall mechanism regressions on older kernels
+- mips* had negated error codes for some syscalls (kernel bug)
+- mips* SIGEMT was wrongly called SIGSTKFLT
+- sh fesetround didn't work correctly on sh
+
+
+
+1.2.2 release notes
+
+major changes:
+- child restrictions lifted after fork of multithreaded parent
+
+new features:
+- _Fork function (POSIX-future)
+- reallocarray function (extension from OpenBSD, now widespread)
+- gettid function (kernel tid as supported concept)
+- SIGEV_THREAD_ID sigevent API (Linux extension)
+- tcgetwinsize and tcsetwinsize functions (POSIX-future)
+
+performance:
+- faster software sqrt on archs without native sqrt instruction
+
+compatibility:
+- realpath no longer depends on procfs availability & accuracy
+- time zone parser now always prefers 64-bit tables if present
+- crypt_blowfish now supports $2b$ prefix
+- res_query now reports errors via h_errno
+- set*id and setrlimit are now safe in vforked/cloned child
+- setgroups now applies to all threads
+- dlopen debugger notification is improved, should work with lldb
+- setrlimit no longer needs __synccall broadcast on linux 2.6.36+
+- faccessat with AT_EACCESS no longer needs child process on linux 5.8+
+
+bugs fixed:
+- buffer overflow and infinite loop errors in wcsnrtombs (CVE-2020-28928)
+- sem_close unmapped still-referenced semaphores
+- fork of process with active aio could deadlock or crash paren
+- pthread_cond_wait was broken with priority-inheritance mutex
+- getgrouplist wrongly failed when nscd reported an empty list
+- abort could leak modified SIGABRT disposition to fork or posix_spawn child
+- regression with mallocng: malloc_usable_size(0) crashed
+- readlink wrongly gave EINVAL on zero length dest buffer
+- sqrtl was severely inaccurate (not correctly rounded) on ldquad archs
+- assert failure wrongly flushed stdio (possible deadlock)
+- MUSL_LOCPATH search was broken with multiple components
+- missing newline in herror output
+- possible deadlock in pthread_exit with pshared mutex or barrier usage
+- pthread_mutexattr_getprotocol didn't read back protocol
+- v4l2 ioctl translation for pre-time64 kernels didn't work
+
+arch-specific bugs fixed:
+- x86_64 longjmp failed to handle 0 argument reliably
+- i386 __set_thread_area fallback for pre-2.6 kernels didn't work
+- missing O_LARGEFILE macro value on x86_64, x32, mips64
+- unpredictable s390x breakage from failure to preserve call-saved registers
+
+
+
+1.2.3 release notes
+
+new features:
+- qsort_r function (POSIX-future)
+- pthread_getname_np extension function
+- hard float on SPE FPU for powerpc-sf
+- SEEK_DATA and SEEK_HOLE exposed in unistd.h (Linux extensions)
+
+compatibility:
+- free now preserves errno (POSIX-future requirement)
+- setjmp is declared explicitly with returns_twice for non-GCC compilers
+- macro version of isascii is no longer defined for C++
+- dynamic linker now tolerates zero-length LOAD segments
+- epoll_[p]wait is now a cancellation point
+- pwd/grp functions no longer fail on systems without AF_UNIX support
+- POSIX TZ parsing is stricter to allow more names to fallback to files
+- NULL is now defined as nullptr when used in C++11 or later
+- gettext now accepts null pointer as argument
+
+bugs fixed:
+- old regression in wcwidth of Hangul combining (vowel/final) letters
+- duplocale used wrong malloc when malloc was replaced (1.2.2 regression)
+- fmaf rounded wrong on archs without FE_TOWARDZERO (all softfloat archs)
+- popen didn't honor requirement not to leak other popen pipe fds to child
+- aligned_alloc and variants crashed on allocation failure
+- dl_iterate_phdr reported incorrect module TLS pointers
+- mishandling of some inputs in acoshf and expm1f and functions using them
+- potentially wrong-sign zero in cproj functions at infinity
+- multiple bugs in legacy function cuserid
+- minor posix_spawn file actions API conformance issues
+- pthread_setname_np fd leak
+- out-of-bound read in zoneinfo handling with distant-past times
+- out-of-tree builds lacked generated debug cfi for x86 asm
+
+arch-specific bugs fixed:
+- powerpc (32-bit) struct shmid_ds layout was wrong for some fields
+- time64 struct layout was wrong in sound ioctl fallback (32-bit archs)
+
+
+
+1.2.4 release notes
+
+new features:
+- large dns record lookups via tcp fallback
+- new getaddrinfo EAI_NODATA result to distinguish NODATA/NxDomain
+- support for new RELR compressed format for relative relocations
+- sysconf keys for querying signal stack size requirements
+- real vfork on riscv64
+
+performance:
+- mallocng no longer uses MADV_FREE (high performance cost, little gain)
+- vdso clock_gettime is supported once again on 32-bit arm
+
+compatibility:
+- gethostbyname family now distinguishes NO_DATA from HOST_NOT_FOUND
+- res_send now works with caller-provided edns0 queries
+- arpa/nameser.h RR types list is now up-to-date
+- previously-missing POSIX confstr keys have been added
+- mntent interfaces now accept missing fields
+- alt signal stack, if any, is now used for internal signals
+- the LFS64 macros are no longer exposed without _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE
+- memmem (POSIX-future) is now exposed in default feature profile
+- pthread_atfork now admits calls from an application-provided malloc
+- debugger tracking of shared libraries now works on MIPS PIE binaries
+- sendmsg now supports up to SCM_MAX_FD fds in SCM_RIGHTS messages
+
+bugs fixed:
+- gethostbyname[2]_r wrongly returned nonzero (error) on negative result
+- parallel v4/v6 address queries could fail on query id collisions
+- spurious getaddrinfo/AI_ADDRCONFIG failures due to errno clobbering
+- dns search domains ending in dot (including lone dot) broke lookups
+- ipv6 servers in resolv.conf broke lookups on systems with v6 disabled
+- systems with bindv6only failed to query both v4 and v6 nameservers
+- res_mkquery mishandled consecutive final dots in name
+- res_send could malfunction for very small answer buffer sizes
+- resolver dns backend accepted answers with wrong (A vs AAAA) RR type
+- getservbyport_r returned junk or ENOENT (vs ERANGE) on buffer size errors
+- dns result parsing of malformed responses could process uninitialized data
+- freopen didn't reset stream orientation (byte/wide) & encoding rule
+- fwprintf didn't print most fields on open_wmemstream FILEs
+- wide printf %lc ignored field width
+- wide printf erroneously processed %n after encoding errors
+- use of wide printf %9$ argument slot overflowed undersized buffer
+- swprintf malfunctioned on nul character in output
+- strverscmp ordered digit sequences vs nondigits incorrectly
+- timer_create/SIGEV_THREAD failure leaked the thread
+- semaphores were subject to missed-wake under certain usage patterns
+- several possible rare deadlocks with lock handling at thread exit
+- several possible rare deadlocks with aio and multithreaded fork
+- dynamic linker relro processing was broken on archs w/variable pagesize
+- async cancellation could run cancellation handlers in invalid context
+- pthread_detach was wrongly a cancellation point in rare race code path
+- use-after-close/double-close errors in mq_notify error paths
+- mq_notify event thread wrongly ran with signals unmasked
+- wcs{,n}cmp, wmemcmp returned wrong results when difference overflowed
+- accept4, pipe2, and dup3 handled unknown flags wrong in fallback cases
+- CPU_SETSIZE macro had wrong unit
+- select fallback for pre-time64 kernels truncated timeout (vs clamping)
+
+arch-specific bugs fixed:
+- x32 new socketcalls took fallback path due to pointer sign extension
+- x32 wait4 didn't fill rusage structure (time64 regression)
+- x32 semtimedop mismatched timespec ABI with kernel (time64 regression)
+- sigaction signal mask was bogus on or1k, microblaze, mips, and riscv
+- powerpc-sf longjmp asm clobbered value argument
+- or1k poll function passed timeout to syscall in wrong form
+
+
+
+1.2.5 release notes
+
+new features:
+- statx function (linux extension; via syscall and fallback using fstatat)
+- clone function is now usable and gives _Fork-like consistency in child
+- statvfs now provides f_type result
+- preadv2 and pwritev2 (linux extension) syscall wrappers
+- riscv64 TLSDESC support
+
+new ports:
+- loongarch64
+- riscv32
+
+compatibility:
+- DNS resolver can now handle answers with long CNAME chains
+- string.h no longer provides (C23-incompat) non-prototype decl of basename
+- fstatat statx backend now matches stat syscall non-automounting behavior
+- mntent interfaces now handle escaped whitespace in paths/options
+
+standards updates:
+- printf %lc of nul wchar now produces output
+- snprintf and swprintf no longer fail on n > INT_MAX
+- ppoll is now exposed in default feature profile
+
+bugs fixed:
+- some long DNS answers were wrongly rejected despite new TCP support
+- glob could wrongly return GLOB_NOMATCH if aborted before any matches
+- multithreaded set*id could malfunction from thread sequencing logic bug
+- certain use of threads after fork could deadlock thread-list lock
+- posix_spawn child could deadlock in race with async parent death
+- mbrtowc return value was wrong if argument n exceeded UINT_MAX
+- 80-bit extended acoshl and powl got some corner cases wrong
+- syslog incorrectly generated localized timestamps
+
+arch-specific bugs fixed:
+- arm (32-bit) TLSDESC malfunctioned due to addends being processed wrong
+- riscv64 icache flush operation was non-functional
+- sh sigsetjmp failed to properly restore call-saved register r8 on return
+- sh dlsym RTLD_NEXT did not identify calling module correctly