From 996d148bf14b477b07fa3691bffeb930c67b2b62 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rich Felker Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 23:35:08 -0500 Subject: release 1.1.6 --- WHATSNEW | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+) (limited to 'WHATSNEW') diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW index 2a7e74c7..6fa87652 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW +++ b/WHATSNEW @@ -1368,3 +1368,45 @@ bugs fixed: - incorrect case mappings for U+00DF - namespace pollution via accidentally-non-static function named "dummy" - missing __fpclassifyl and __signbitl definitions for ld64 archs + + + +1.1.6 release notes + +new features: +- getopt '-' flag for processing non-option arguments +- getopt_long argument permutation extension +- getopt_long abbreviated options +- ns_parserr and related DNS-packet-parsing functions +- fnmatch FNM_CASEFOLD extension +- support for translation of getopt error messages +- login_tty function (legacy) + +performance: +- efficient atomics on armv7+ targets +- pthread_once shrink-wrapping of fast path + +compatibility: +- baseline arm binaries now work on new cpus/kernels without kuser_helper +- dynamic linker now honors DT_RUNPATH without DT_RPATH (new binutils) +- arm asm is now compatible with clang's internal assembler +- suppress macro implementations of functions when headers are used in C++ +- increased message length limit for syslog + +bugs fixed: +- open ignored file creation mode argument for O_TMPFILE +- wrong printf formatting for %#.0o with value zero +- missing private state for uchar.h functions (null ps pointer) +- sched_getaffinity left uninitialized data in output bit array +- wrong return values for pthread_getaffinity_np and pthread_setaffinity_np +- buggy handling of multibyte option chars with arguments in getopt +- printf failed to report or stop on write errors +- printf failed to honor '+' modifier when printing NANs +- wcsnrtombs returned the wrong value in one code path +- syslog failed to check for connect error +- multi-threaded set*id() had spurious failures from ugly workaround code +- various minor header conformance bugs (signedness, constant expressions, ...) + +arch-specific bugs fixed: +- on or1k, some syscalls with 64-bit arguments were broken (misaligned) +- usage of sahf instruction on x86_64 crashed on some early cpu models -- cgit v1.2.1