[ANNOUNCE] NSPR 4.8.9 Release

Wan-Teh Chang <[email protected]> Sat, 13 Aug 2011 18:01:56 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.nspr
Message-ID <CALTJjxGOg0ADagugKKq26jbmS3TNwJK7MoNxcbAZ9he41ytwAA@mail.gmail.com>
The NSPR 4.8.9 release is now available.  The CVS tag is
NSPR_4_8_9_RTM.  The source tar file can be downloaded from
https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/nspr/releases/v4.8.9/src/

The bug fixes in NSPR 4.8.9 can be found with this Bugzilla query:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?list_id=1088474&resolution=FIXED&classification=Components&query_format=advanced&target_milestone=4.8.9&product=NSPR

Bug 674880 - Fennec android builds are not thumb anymore.  Mike Hommey.
Bug 673223 - Add function to obtain version of NSPR at runtime.
             Kai Engert.
Bug 564851 - support building with profile-guided optimization (PGO).
             Ted Mielczarek and Tetsuro Kato.
Bug 661596 - Prevent NSPR from falling back to PR_Atomic functions on
             Mac when compiler intrinsics are available.  Justin Lebar.
Bug 665978 - Delete old .gcda / .pgd files during NSPR PROFILE_GENERATE
             phase.  Justin Lebar.
Bug 650474 - AIX5 Firefox 3.6.17 or Thunderbird 3.1.10 cannot resolve
             hostnames.  Uli Link.
Bug 673224 - The PR_*SEC_PER_*SEC constants being unsigned is a footgun
             when working with times before 1969.  Boris Zbarsky.
Bug 626035 - -march=armv5+ -mthumb* forced on all arm platforms.
             Mike Hommey.
Bug 513659 - SSL over IPv6 does not work under Windows XP 32-bit when
             receive buffer size is 64kb+.  Simon Arlott.
Bug 661351 - Handle errors in sysconf in PR_GetPhysicalMemorySize on
             Android 2.2.  Matt Brubeck.
Bug 655058 - PGO breaks Linux crash reports.  Mike Hommey.
Bug 645459 - Default to 32-bit NSPR builds on OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
             and later.  Kaspar Brand.
Bug 674470 - PR_MemMap documentation mentions incorrect restriction.
Bug 654436 - PR_ARRAY_SIZE macro: number of elements in array:
             sizeof(a)/sizeof(a[0]).  Konstantin Andreev.
Bug 663970 - Detect CPU count more accurately on Linux systems that
             support hotplugging/powersaving. Gian-Carlo Pascutto.
Bug 427858 - Remove declarations for unimplemented functions
             PL_AllocArenaPool and PL_DestroyArenaPool.  Warn that
             PL_CompactArenaPool is not implemented (a no-op).
             Robin Bate Boerop.

Wan-Teh Chang