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  1. 0.9.12 20 June 2002
  2. Release highlights:
  3. o Add full shared library support for mips, thanks
  4. to a lot of hard work from Steven J. Hill
  5. o i960 architecture support, thanks to Martin Proulx
  6. o An initial alpha port (works, but needs some cleanup)
  7. o Fixes shared library support for powerpc
  8. o Fixes for mmu-less systems
  9. o Much improved thread locking and reentrance.
  10. o More gcc wrapper updates. XFree86 really does link
  11. this time around. It still didn't last time.
  12. o Libcrypt now passes conformance tests
  13. o Nearly complete locale supporti thanks to a lot
  14. of hard work by Manuel Novoa III. This stuff is
  15. _way_ smaller than glibc's
  16. o Completely new time handling functions
  17. o Lots of other bug fixes and cleanups.
  18. See Changelog.full for the complete list of who did what.
  19. -Erik
  20. 20 June 2002
  21. Erik Andersen:
  22. 0.9.11 10 April 2002
  23. Release highlights:
  24. o Lots of bug fixes
  25. o Much better large file support
  26. o Several gcc wrapper bug fixes, so things like iproute2 and
  27. XFree86 should now link properly.
  28. o Fixes a stdio thread locking bug that could cause random
  29. deadlocks on s*printf calls when threading was enabled.
  30. Erik Andersen:
  31. o Added a generic implementation of truncate64.c and ftruncate64.c
  32. o Added missing creat64, glob64, mkstemp64, getrlimit64, setrlimit64
  33. o Removed internal erroneous use of __USE_FILE_OFFSET64
  34. o Made libpthread compile on sparc and powerpc
  35. o Made libpthread soname and symlinks match the other libraries.
  36. o Added finite() to the C89 math lib, since some math functions use it.
  37. o Added missing function pointer to error.c (some apps wanted it)
  38. o Fixed initfini build for arches where gcc tries to be sneaky
  39. o Fixed m68k/bits/setjmp.h which I has broken in the last release.
  40. o Fixed a buffer overflow in the dynamic library loader
  41. o Fixed a stdio thread locking bug that could cause random
  42. deadlocks on s*printf calls when threading was enabled.
  43. o Implemented sqrtf(), needed for libstdc++ on arm
  44. Miles Bader:
  45. o Make clean fixes to not blindly wipe all symlinks
  46. o Re-enabled clnt_perror()
  47. o Re-implemented swab()
  48. Dwayne Fontenot:
  49. o Many updates to the uClibc Working Application List
  50. Steven J. Hill:
  51. o Many updates to the mips dynamic loader. Not yet working but
  52. getting very close now.
  53. o Fixed locking bug in getttyent()
  54. o Support libpthread on mips
  55. Richard June:
  56. o Fixed several bugs in utmp code (pututline was only writing the
  57. first sizeof-a-pointer bytes to the utmpfile).
  58. o setutent() was only opening utmp readonly.
  59. m4@brecis.COM:
  60. o Fixed a silly typing problem with the getuid syscall.
  61. Manuel Novoa III:
  62. o Fixed stdio FILE read/write auto-transition bugs.
  63. o Better stdio errno handling
  64. o Changed setvbuf() to more closely match glibc's behavior
  65. o Fixed getpass() to not echo passwords to the console
  66. o Fixed locale ISblank flag.
  67. o Fixed an arg promotion handling bug in _do_one_spec for %c reported
  68. by Ilguiz Latypov.
  69. Kensuke Otake:
  70. o Implemented swab()
  71. Yoshinori Sato:
  72. o Fixed h8300 architecture support for pthreads and changes to
  73. the include files
  74. David Schleef:
  75. o Made powerpc assembly code PIC-compatible
  76. o Removed powerpc R_PPC_REL24 handling, since it was deceptively useless.
  77. John Traill:
  78. o Several types on powerpc, such as dev_t, are different than on other
  79. architectures. John spotted this, which fixed a _ton_ of problems since
  80. anything calling stat() was previously broken.
  81. Jim Treadway:
  82. o Eliminated use of alarm() from the DNS resolver by converting
  83. it to use select instead (much cleaner).
  84. 0.9.10 21 March 2002
  85. Major new features:
  86. o pthreads support (derived from glibc 2.1.3's linuxthreads library)
  87. by Stefan Soucek and Erik Andersen
  88. o pthreads support for MMU-less systems, by Stefan Soucek
  89. o Complete rewrite of all stdio functions for standards compliance,
  90. small size, pthreads support, wide/narrow stream support, large
  91. file support, unbuffered support, etc, etc by Manuel Novoa III
  92. o gcc wrapper reworked by Erik Andersen. Now operated correctly in
  93. all known cases, and now wraps g++ as well for C++ support.
  94. o constructor/destructor support, for C++ by Erik Andersen.
  95. o Eliminated duplicate include/bits header files, by Erik Andersen.
  96. Now all common include/bits headers are grouped together.
  97. Erik Andersen:
  98. o Lots of changes and improvements to the shared library loader
  99. o Cleaned up a piles of bugs
  100. o Fixed a segfault when scandir was called on empty directories.
  101. o Several syscalls added: pread/pwrite
  102. o Makefile/build system cleanups
  103. o Sighandling fixes
  104. o pthreads support (with Stefan Soucek)
  105. o Added ldexp to the C89 math library, per POSIX
  106. o fclose() EINTR handling is now correct per IEEE Std 1003.1-2001
  107. o Support isblank()
  108. o Reworked libcrypt to avoid leaking private symbols into the namespace
  109. o Added strtof(), strtold(), updwtmp(), strptime()
  110. o Fix ldso build for older arm cross compilers
  111. Miles Bader:
  112. o atexit cleanups
  113. o fixed gcc wrapper handling of -M* options
  114. o Fixed truncate64/ftruncate64 to restrict them to 64-bit systems,
  115. since we can't be sure that the _syscall macros can cope with 64
  116. bit args on 32 bit arches.
  117. o Large File support on the v850
  118. o Fixed v850 headers after Erik messed them up
  119. o Eliminate include/features.h namespace pollution
  120. M. R. Brown:
  121. o Fixed pthread support for SH, and fixed SH vfork as well
  122. o Fixed SH headers after Erik messed them up
  123. Geoffrey Espin:
  124. o Mips architecture cleanups. Now works perfectly
  125. with busybox, vi, ash, etc...
  126. o Merged in the random number support (rand, srand, etc) from glibc.
  127. Thomas Fritzsche:
  128. o Fixes DNS resolver bug from 0.9.9
  129. Steven J. Hill:
  130. o Fixed build to support both mips and mipsel
  131. o Beginnings of a mips ldso port
  132. Andrew Ip:
  133. o Support for gnu error() functions
  134. David McCullough:
  135. o Coldfire platform updates: clone, setjmp
  136. o Fixed simple malloc to work on systems with an MMU
  137. Manuel Novoa III:
  138. o Rewrote all stdio functions for standards compliance, small size,
  139. pthreads support, wide/narrow stream support, large file support,
  140. unbuffered support, etc, etc, etc.
  141. o Rewrote the various string to int functions to be smaller, more
  142. standards compilant, and reduce dependance on libgcc.a.
  143. Yoshinori Sato:
  144. o ptrace for the Hitachi h8300 fix
  145. David Schleef:
  146. o Debian packaging updates
  147. o Check for proper 16-byte aliged stack pointer on powerpc
  148. Stefan Soucek:
  149. o pthreads support for MMU-less systems
  150. o pthreads support (with Erik Andersen)
  151. Brian Stafford:
  152. o Rewrote strcasecmp() per SUSv2.
  153. Bart Visscher:
  154. o Added missing IPV6 support and reentrant networking function
  155. additions so iptables now runs with IPV6 support.
  156. 0.9.9 February 4, 2002
  157. Erik Andersen:
  158. o A bunch of doc updates. Major update to the working
  159. apps list.
  160. o Added a configurator script (extra/Configs/uClibc_config_fix.pl)
  161. which can simplify configuring uClibc.
  162. o Fixed setjmp/longjmp on x86,arm,powerpc,mips,and sparc.
  163. Hitting ^C in ash kills client apps now, not ash.
  164. o Reworked signal handling code so it now passes POSIX
  165. conformance tests.
  166. o Fixed sleep and usleep to work correctly when
  167. interrupted by signals.
  168. o Made getopt behave the same when staticly linking
  169. as when dynamicly linking. It was using different
  170. implementations depending on how apps were linked.
  171. o Added missing inttypes.h header file
  172. o Eliminate all C++ style comments from header files
  173. o Support statvfs and statfs
  174. o Support getmntent_r
  175. o Scandir and scandir64 were calling malloc without
  176. checking for ENOMEM
  177. o Fixed stpcpy function declaration
  178. o Many large file support improvements.
  179. o Fixed fcntl to work when DOLFS is enabled
  180. o Fixed termios code to do the Right Thing(tm)
  181. o Allow regex to be excluded at compile time
  182. o Implemented mempcpy
  183. o Build ldd and readelf for the target system and for the
  184. host system
  185. o Fix several cases where get-needed-libgcc-objects.sh
  186. could fail, breaking the shared uClibc library.
  187. o Include all shared library loader objects into a
  188. single C file, thereby reducing its size further.
  189. o Reworked the shared library linking process to be more
  190. flexible so that gcc and ld can more easily be built to
  191. target uClibc library.
  192. o Better error checking in the Makefiles. Be more pedantic
  193. about tar, chmod, etc to avoid system dependent failures.
  194. o We can now autodetect the target architecture
  195. o Hide references to wchar_t so GNU autoconf
  196. configure scripts won't get confused and try to
  197. enable wide char support.
  198. o Fixed stdio.h so apps can use varargs.h if they want to.
  199. o Added brk/sbrk support for ARM, powerpc, mips, and sparc
  200. and set them to default to the much faster brk using malloc
  201. o Added missing syscalls: get_kernel_syms, fcntl64,
  202. fdatasync, sched_setparam, sched_getparam,
  203. sched_setscheduler, sched_getscheduler,
  204. sched_get_priority_max, sched_get_priority_min,
  205. sched_rr_get_interval, sigaltstack, sendfile,
  206. pivot_root, sigsuspend, setfsuid, and setfsgid
  207. o Force DOPIC be true when HAVE_SHARED is true.
  208. o Fixed hstrerror()
  209. o Implemented gethostent(), sethostent(), and endhostent()
  210. o Added arch specific support so that sparc and mips actually
  211. compile and work
  212. Miles Bader:
  213. o Fixes for the v850 architecture: crt0, setjmp,
  214. arch autodetection, etc.
  215. o Fixed `make install' to not build ldso stuff on
  216. non-shared-library systems.
  217. Michael E Brown:
  218. o Allow the gcc wrapper to support setting DEVEL_PREFIX
  219. and BUILD_DIR at runtime (no more need to recompile).
  220. M. R. Brown and Erik Andersen:
  221. o Fixed the SH port so it now works. Tested and shown
  222. working on an SH4 Dreamcast system.
  223. Kim Heino:
  224. o Made 'make clean' remove generated bits/syscall.h
  225. David McCullough:
  226. o SH architecture updates. Added brk, sbrk,
  227. o Fixed simple malloc to work on systems with an MMU
  228. o Taught getutent to return NULL if utmp doesn't exist.
  229. o Added insque/remque support
  230. o Fixed DNS resolver version number so apps won't get
  231. confused and use the wrong API.
  232. o Added Config selectable shadow password support
  233. Yoshinori Sato
  234. o Contributed support for the Hitach H8/300H architecture
  235. Cédric Schieli:
  236. o Add support for inet_netof, inet_lnaof, inet_makeaddr
  237. and hstrerror.
  238. David Schleef:
  239. o Added libstrip, a nifty script to automagically
  240. strip unneeded content from the uClibc shared
  241. libraries.
  242. Martin Sieper
  243. o Added getw() and putw()
  244. o Added missing header files -- lastlog.h, sgtty.h,
  245. netipx/ipx.h, sys/perm.h
  246. Stefan Soucek:
  247. o Add rcmd support, i.e. rsh, rlogin, etc.
  248. o Fix rcmd to avoid alloca, which is dangerous
  249. on mmu-less systems
  250. spudmonkey@racsa.co.cr:
  251. o Eliminate a buffer overflow in the shared library loader
  252. Brian Stafford:
  253. o Enable support for Unix98 PTYs, and add option
  254. to disable old style PTYs.