From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15255 invoked by alias); 20 Jan 2015 16:48:22 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 12928 invoked by uid 89); 20 Jan 2015 16:42:49 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,EXECUTABLE_URI,KAM_EXEURI,SPAM_BODY1 autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: calimero.vinschen.de Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 16:48:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin-announce@cygwin.com Subject: TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-005 Message-ID: <20150120164242.GA23732@calimero.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-announce@cygwin.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-SW-Source: 2015-01/txt/msg00022.txt.bz2 Hi Cygwin friends and users, I released another TEST version of the next upcoming Cygwin release. The version number is 1.7.34-005. If nothing's overly badly broken, I'm planning to release 1.7.34 officially end of January or early February. This version contains the latest bugfix to cygserver which is supposed to fix the signalling problem reported on the Cygwin mailing list: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-01/msg00259.html !!! Please test this release in your environment !!! The major change in this new release is the new method to read account information (passwd and group) from the Windows user databases directly, without the requirement to generate /etc/passwd and /etc/group files to generate Unix-like uid and gid. The new documentation is not part of the official docs yet, but it's available at https://cygwin.com/preliminary-ntsec.html I recommend to read it so you know what will change. If you find problems in the new features or regressions compared to the current stable release 1.7.33, please report them to the public mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Following is a list of changes in this new release: What's new: ----------- - Cygwin can now generate passwd/group entries directly from Windows user databases (local SAM or Active Directory), thus allowing to run Cygwin without having to create /etc/passwd and /etc/group files. Introduce /etc/nsswitch.conf file to configure passwd/group handling. For bordercase which require to use /etc/passwd and /etc/group files, change mkpasswd/mkgroup to generate passwd/group entries compatible with the entries read from SAM/AD. - Add -b/--remove-all option to setfacl to reduce the ACL to only the entries representing POSIX permission bits. - Add -k/--remove-default option to setfacl to remove all default ACL entries from an ACL. - Provide Cygwin documentation (PDFs and HTML) for offline usage in /usr/share/doc/cygwin-${version}. - New APIs: qsort_r, __bsd_qsort_r. - New APIs: __fbufsize, __flbf, __fpending, __freadable, __freading, __fsetlocking, __fwritable, __fwriting. - New APIs: clearerr_unlocked, feof_unlocked, ferror_unlocked, fflush_unlocked, fgetc_unlocked, fgets_unlocked, fgetwc_unlocked, fgetws_unlocked, fileno_unlocked, fputc_unlocked, fputs_unlocked, fputwc_unlocked, fputws_unlocked, fread_unlocked, fwrite_unlocked, getwc_unlocked, getwchar_unlocked, putwc_unlocked, putwchar_unlocked. What changed: ------------- - Revamp Solaris ACL implementation to more closely work like POSIX ACLs are supposed to work. Finally implement a CLASS_OBJ emulation. Update getfacl(1)/setfacl(1) accordingly. - The xdr functions are no longer exported for newly built executables. Use libtirpc-devel instead. - 32 bit only: Change default values for socket buffer size to raise performance on 10Gb networks. - When spawning a process under another user account, merge the user's default Windows environment into the new process' environment. Bug Fixes --------- - Fix the problem that ptys master side always writes single byte packages to the slave side, and pty slaves always read VMIN byte packages from the master side if VMIN is > 0. Fixes: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2014-11/msg00000.html - Fix a synchronization problem in signal handling when using pthreads. Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-11/msg00472.html - Fix an "invalid handle" problem when using flock(2) with a parent process holding the lock. Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-12/msg00012.html - Load correct timezone offsets when fetching timezone info from zoneinfo files. Use tm_gmtoff and tm_zone members in strftime to generate more correct timezone info for non-recent eras. Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-12/msg00313.html - Fix type of cmsg_len member of struct cmsghdr in /usr/include/cygwin/socket.h to size_t to align with Winsock. Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-12/msg00376.html - Fix a problem in the resolver trying to resolve "localhost". Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-01/msg00044.html - Update Cygserver's idea of signal handling to the latest state of per-thread signalling in Cygwin. Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-01/msg00259.html https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-01/msg00269.html To install 32-bit Cygwin use https://cygwin.com/setup-x86.exe To install 64 bit Cygwin use https://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe If you're already running a 32 bit version of Cygwin on 64 bit Windows machines, you can continue to do so. If you're planning a new install of Cygwin on a 64 bit Windows machine, consider to use the new 64 bit Cygwin version, unless you need certain packages not yet available in the 64 bit release. Have fun, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat