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| author | Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx> | 2026-03-20 11:40:00 -0400 |
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| committer | Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx> | 2026-03-20 11:40:00 -0400 |
| commit | 9fa28ece75d8a2191de7c5bb53bed224c5947417 (patch) | |
| tree | 327fcb21f2dab7b27c3c8b11f74c04fe13883526 /WHATSNEW | |
| parent | 1347154cdc5c18518383ad64dda5531aedac6020 (diff) | |
| download | musl-9fa28ece75d8a2191de7c5bb53bed224c5947417.tar.gz | |
Diffstat (limited to 'WHATSNEW')
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@@ -2438,3 +2438,56 @@ arch-specific bugs fixed: - 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 + + + +1.2.6 release notes + +new features: +- posix_getdents interface (new in POSIX-2024) +- renameat2 interface (linux extension) +- iconv support for CP858 +- vdso clock_gettime for riscv{32,64}, powerpc{,64}, and s390x +- loongarch64 TLSDESC support +- exposed __getauxval for compiler runtime use detecting cpu features + +compatibility: +- initgroups no longer artificially limits number of supplementary groups +- getusershell now skips blank lines and comments +- exit is now explicitly thread-safe (possible future requirement) +- atexit now fails rather than deadlocking if called from late dtor +- strerror now has error strings for EUCLEAN and ENAVAIL +- isatty no longer collapses errors to ENOTTY +- sched.h namespace pollution with _GNU_SOURCE is reduced +- hasmntopt now matches only whole options, not arbitrary substrings +- shadow.h no longer declares an unimplemented sgetspent interface +- vdso with missing sysv hash table (only gnu hash) is now supported + +conformance: +- pwrite now handles O_APPEND correctly, reports error if it can't +- mbnrtowcs now conforms to new POSIX-2024 requirement for partial character +- iconv GBK now properly includes euro symbol +- strptime now accepts conversion specifiers added in POSIX-2024 +- inet_ntop IPv6 "zero compression" now conforms to RFC 5952 + +bugs fixed: +- iconv euc-kr decoder could do oob writes on invalid inputs (CVE-2025-26519) +- iconv shift_jis decoder could produce wrong outputs for some invalid inputs +- printf did not honor hex float precision correctly in some cases +- lost or delayed wakes in sem_post under race condition +- termios input speed handling was wrong +- strcasestr failed to match zero-length needle +- fma handled corner case with negative zero wrongly +- syslog LOG_MAKEPRI macro was incorrect +- timer_create is no longer affected by known pthread_barrier bugs +- sysconf(_SC_MINSIGSTKSZ) computed min size incorrectly +- statx emulation left some fields uninitialized +- mntent wrongly included final newline in parsed field output +- SIGEV_THREAD timers could abort process if SIGTIMER became unblocked +- bind_textdomain_codeset returned wrong value + +arch-specific bugs fixed: +- early dynamic linker handled page size wrong on dynamic pagesize archs +- arm and aarch64 crti/n files had wrong alignment +- m68k POLLWRNORM and POLLWRBAND values were incorrect +- x32 mq ABI was mismatched |