[PATCH] NEWS: mention more recent developments
Andreas K. Hüttel <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.lib.glibc.alpha |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Signed-off-by: Andreas K. Hüttel <[email protected]> --- NEWS | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index ed83b27356..30637df766 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ Version 2.44 Major new features: +* Support for reading system-wide tunables from /etc/tunables.conf has + been added. + * A new tunable, glibc.elf.thp, is added to map read-only segments with Transparent Huge Pages (THP) if THP is not disabled in the kernel. When glibc.elf.thp is set to 1, malloc uses the actual kernel THP mode @@ -22,10 +25,13 @@ Major new features: been imported from the CORE-MATH project, in particular cosh, sinh, and tanh. -* The SVID handling for cosh and sinh were moved to compat symbols, allowing - improvements in performance. +* Many additional improvements to existing functions have been synchronized + from the CORE-MATH project. -* New locale added: hrx_BR (Hunsrik language spoken in Brazil). +* assert is now supported as a variadic macro for C++26. + +* The SVID handling for cosh and sinh was moved to compat symbols, allowing + improvements in performance. * Static PIE is now supported for arm-*-linux-gnueabi. It requires toolchain support to correctly set the expected linker options. @@ -37,8 +43,24 @@ Major new features: status via the prctl syscall. This prevents disabling or corrupting the GCS shadow stack during runtime. +* On AArch64 targets, log, exp, sin, cas, sinh, cosh, asinh, acosh, atanh + single and double precision special cases have been vectorized for SVE and + AdvSIMD, and vector variants of powr have been added. + +* On RISC-V targets, vector extension optimized variants of memcmp, memccpy, + memchr, memcpy, memmove, stpncpy, strcmp, strchr, strcpy, strncmp, strncpy, + strlen, and strrchr have been added. + +* On PowerPC, memchr optimized for power10 has been re-added. + +* Support for LoongArch32 has been added. + * Pre-built ld.so.cache files can be installed with ldconfig. +* Unicode support has been updated to version 17.0.0. + +* A new locale has been added: hrx_BR (Hunsrik language spoken in Brazil). + Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility: * Although malloc and related functions currently return pointers -- 2.54.0