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| author | Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx> | 2013-06-29 22:43:05 -0400 |
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| committer | Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx> | 2013-06-29 22:43:05 -0400 |
| commit | 6688a778b0419eab32e715f269319248edee9da5 (patch) | |
| tree | d1f759c9565007b56dc22769dc05bd18477ce492 /WHATSNEW | |
| parent | 4ca442157e381690202c3bcc102627d137fd0466 (diff) | |
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release notes for 0.9.11v0.9.11
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@@ -915,3 +915,46 @@ arch-specific bugs fixed: - various low-impact type size/alignment mismatches in some headers - epoll struct alignment wrong on non-x86[_64] archs - broken pipe2 fallback code on mips with old kernels + + + +0.9.11 release notes + +new features: +- %m allocation modifier for scanf +- week number and ISO week-based-year functionality in strftime +- per-process and per-thread cputime clocks +- ethernet address conversion interfaces +- legacy classful ipv4 network address interfaces +- minimal dlinfo function (nonstandard) + +other improvements: +- dynamic linker path file can now use newlines to separate paths +- math optimizations for archs with extended precision (i386) +- musl-gcc wrapper now exposes gcc's intrinsic headers +- quality of rand and rand_r pseudo-random sequences +- support for large device minor numbers (greater than 8 bits) +- various header conformance and compatibility fixes + +directly user-visible bugs fixed: +- scanf losing characters on unbuffered streams and fmemopen streams +- failure of mbsrtowcs to record stop position when dest is full +- failure of iconv to convert to legacy codepages +- non-working pthread_[sg]etschedparam functions (wrong syscall arguments) + +other potentially-serious bugs fixed: +- resource leaks in sem_open +- various bugs in thread exit synchronization +- invalid access in aio notification after aiocb free/reuse +- synchronization in dynamic linker when new thread dlopens during ctors +- lack of error handling for failure to read dynamic linker path file +- creation by mmap or shmget of objects larger than PTRDIFF_MAX + +minor conformance bugs fixed: +- overflow handling for the clock function +- workaround for incorrect exceptions in fma due to compiler bugs +- workaround wrong kernel type for sem_nsems field in struct semid_ds + +arch-specific bugs fixed: +- x86_64 sigsetjmp clobbered the signal mask rather than saving it +- misaligned stack when calling ctors/dtors (crashing on x86_64) |