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| author | Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx> | 2024-02-29 21:07:33 -0500 |
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| committer | Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx> | 2024-02-29 21:07:33 -0500 |
| commit | 0784374d561435f7c787a555aeab8ede699ed298 (patch) | |
| tree | 2deb5f7c62d8c9e9733c9ed77d9210b708bbb69e /WHATSNEW | |
| parent | f5dba42f361c2c985dbe7d1087077d57fac561ba (diff) | |
| download | musl-0784374d561435f7c787a555aeab8ede699ed298.tar.gz | |
release 1.2.5v1.2.5
Diffstat (limited to 'WHATSNEW')
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1 files changed, 42 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -2396,3 +2396,45 @@ arch-specific bugs fixed: - 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 |