From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30785 invoked by alias); 8 Jun 2009 20:48:38 -0000 Received: (qmail 30572 invoked by uid 22791); 8 Jun 2009 20:47:44 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:48:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin-announce@cygwin.com Subject: [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-49 Message-ID: <20090608204726.GY25832@calimero.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-announce@cygwin.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-02-20) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-announce-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-announce-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Cygwin Mailing List Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-announce@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2009-06/txt/msg00014.txt.bz2 Hi folks, I just uploaded a new Cygwin 1.7 test release, 1.7.0-49. The list with the changes related to the previous test release 1.7.0-48 is attached below. ======================================================================= IMPORTANT NOTE The former -48 test release came with a couple of modifications which are based around a change in mount point handling. I strongly advise that you update to the latest setup-1.7.exe, version number is 2.627, from http://cygwin.com/setup-1.7.exe before installing this latest Cygwin test release. ======================================================================= Cygwin 1.7 is a major jump from Cygwin 1.5.x. The list with the changes related to Cygwin 1.5.25 is part of the User's Guide now: http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/ov-new1.7.html ======================================================================= If nothing goes overly wrong, the official 1.7.1 release goes public within the next 3 weeks. ======================================================================= Just download http://cygwin.com/setup-1.7.exe and use that setup tool to install Cygwin 1.7. As usual, please report bugs and problems to the mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com. We have a new User's Guide for 1.7, which is currently located at http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/cygwin-ug-net.html We now have new API documentation http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-api/cygwin-api.html And we have a new FAQ, though very likely not quite complete since we still don't know what exactly *is* a FAQ related to Cygwin 1.7. http://cygwin.com/1.7/faq/faq.html Bug fixes and extensions to the documentation in the form of patches to the source SGML files are much appreciated. The SGML sources are located in the CVS repository under the winsup/doc directory, for example here: http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/winsup/doc/?cvsroot=src Same goes for Cygwin patches in general, of course. ======================================================================= This is still a TEST release. Don't use in critical production environments. Nevertheless I'd like to encourage everyone to give 1.7 a shot. Due to internal changes it is possible to install a 1.7 release in parallel to a 1.5 release and even run 1.7 processes in parallel to 1.5 processes. * The processes will not know about each other! Any try to interact * between 1.7-based and 1.5-based processes will lead to, at least, funny * results. To install a 1.7 release in parallel to a 1.5 release, all you have to do is to choose another root directory (for instance: C:\cygwin-1.7) in setup-1.7's "Choose Installation Directory" dialog. * NOTE: Due to the way setup-1.7 works, you have to change the directory * right the first time you visit this dialog! If you pressed the "Next" * button and then "Back" again, it's already too late and setup-1.7 will * create a broken 1.7 install. If you pressed "Next" by mistake, exit * setup-1.7 and start it again. ======================================================================= What's new in contrast to 1.7.0-48 =================================== - When running Cygwin applications in the Windows console window, the Backspace key now returns ASCII DEL (^?, \177) instead of ASCII BS (^H, \008). The Control-Backspace key now returns ESC-DEL (^[^?, \033\177) or \377, dependent on the meta mode set by the setmetamode utility, rather than DEL. Control-Space now returns ASCII NUL. These changes should running emacs in a console window support better and improve compatibility with the Linux Console and xterm. - Add -C option to cygpath(1) to allow specifying a codepage when converting a path to a native Win32 path. - Improved implementation of wcwidth now handles CJK Ambiguous Width characters differently based on the language set with setlocale(3). If language is "jp", "ko", or "zh", set the width of these characters to 2, otherwise to 1. - Optimize a couple of wide character functions for speed. Bugfixes: ========= - Fix a few bugs in the new mount handling which could result in missing /usr/bin and /usr/lib entries. - Try harder to create a complete UTF-16 string, especially when converting the command line for native Windows processes. - Fix implementation of certain synchronization functions. This should fix a couple of scenarios in which Cygwin potentially hang. - Fix setting console title string when using multibyte charsets. - Fix potential crash when trying to read from /dev/clipboard if Windows clipboard is empty. - Reimplement memory allocation for a per-DLL helper structure, which drops the probability for undesired DLL rebasing when loading DLLs into a process. DLL rebasing is the major factor which contributes to failing fork() calls in Cygwin. - Fix accessing files on removable media, if no medium is inserted in the drive. - Fix a bug when building cygpath(1) and ps(1) so that Cygwin functions are not shadowed by the same functions from the system's ntdll.dll. - Fix a long-standing misbehaviour in fork, which flushed stdout before forking. - Fix /proc/stat and /proc/uptime output on 64 bit Windows systems. FAQ: ==== - Q: How do I know that I'm running Cygwin 1.7.0-49? A: The `uname -v' command prints "2009-06-08 22:13" Have fun, Corinna *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. 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