From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1659 invoked by alias); 21 Jan 2002 06:56:58 -0000 Mailing-List: contact libc-announce-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-announce-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 27827 invoked from network); 21 Jan 2002 06:43:50 -0000 X-Authentication-Warning: myware.mynet: drepper set sender to drepper@redhat.com using -f To: libc-announce@sources.redhat.com, libc-alpha@sources.redhat.com, VGER gcc list Subject: glibc 2.2.5 Reply-To: drepper@redhat.com (Ulrich Drepper) X-fingerprint: BE 3B 21 04 BC 77 AC F0 61 92 E4 CB AC DD B9 5A X-fingerprint: e6:49:07:36:9a:0d:b7:ba:b5:e9:06:f3:e7:e7:08:4a From: Ulrich Drepper Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 22:56:00 -0000 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.5 (asparagus) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2002/txt/msg00000.txt.bz2 I've uploaded the files glibc-2.2.5.tar.bz2 (also .gz) glibc-linuxthreads-2.2.5.tar.bz2 (also .gz) glibc-2.2.4-2.2.5.diff.bz2 (also .gz) glibc-2.2.5pre1-2.2.5.diff.bz2 (also .gz) to ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/glibc/releases/ The files will shortly appear on ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/glibc/ and all the mirrors (of both servers) world-wide. Please use mirrors if possible. The user visible changes in this release include: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Version 2.2.5 * Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the 128-bit long double format. * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160, IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets. * Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux. * Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd. * libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams as well. * optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils versions start up quicker due to reduced time spend on relocations. * Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Despite this short list the changes are quite long and complicated. The dynamic linker change as well as the gcc3 support are quite complicated and potentially carry the risk of problems. But we don't expect any problems and therefore upgrading to version is advised. Installation is not easy and has the potential to ruin your system. Therefore it is highly encouraged to use the packages provided by the distribution maker once they become available. The release has been tested and no big problems were reported. Only on Alpha one of the tests (reldep6 in elf/) fails due to a bug in the binutils. No solution exists for this at this point so just ignore the problem for now. If no dangerous problems are found this will be the last release in the 2.2 series. Work on 2.3 is already on the way and all efforts are concentrated on this. As usual, I couldn't have done the work alone. The usual crowd is responsible and deserves thanks: Wolfram Gloger Bruno Haible Richard Henderson Andreas Jaeger Jakub Jelinek Thorsten Kukuk Kaz Kylheku H.J. Lu Roland McGrath Stephen L Moshier Andreas Schwab Masahide Washizawa plus many more who send reports and patches. -- ---------------. ,-. 1325 Chesapeake Terrace Ulrich Drepper \ ,-------------------' \ Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA Red Hat `--' drepper at redhat.com `------------------------