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1 Important notes
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4 User visible incompatible changes
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7 Date        Modules         Changes
8
9 2007-07-26  human           The function human_options takes an additional
10                             third argument, the option that introduced the
11                             argument that was passed to a xstrto* function.
12
13 2007-07-14  gpl, lgpl       New Texinfo versions with no sectioning commands.
14
15 2007-07-10  version-etc     Output now mentions GPLv3+, not GPLv2+.  Use
16                             gnulib-tool --local-dir to override this.
17
18 2007-07-07  wcwidth         The include file is changed from "wcwidth.h" to
19                             <wchar.h>.
20
21 2007-07-02  gpl, lgpl       Renamed to gpl-2.0 and lgpl-2.1 respectively.
22                             (There is also a new module gpl-3.0.)
23
24 2007-06-16  lchown          The include file is changed from "lchown.h" to
25                             <unistd.h>.
26
27 2007-06-09  xallocsa        Renamed to xmalloca. The include file "xallocsa.h"
28                             was remamed to "xmalloca.h". The function was
29                             renamed:
30                               xallocsa -> xmalloca
31
32 2007-06-09  allocsa         Renamed to malloca. The include file "allocsa.h"
33                             was remamed to "malloca.h". The function-like
34                             macros were renamed:
35                               allocsa -> malloca
36                               freesa -> freea
37
38 2007-05-20  utimens         Renamed futimens to gl_futimens, to avoid
39                             conflict with the glibc-2.6-introduced function
40                             that has a different signature.
41
42 2007-05-01  sigprocmask     The module now depends on signal, so replace
43                               #include "sigprocmask.h"
44                             with
45                               #include <signal.h>
46
47 2007-04-06  gettext         The macro HAVE_LONG_DOUBLE is no longer set.
48                             You can replace all its uses with 1, i.e. assume
49                             'long double' as a type exists.
50
51 2007-04-01  arcfour         Renamed to crypto/arcfour.
52             arctwo          Renamed to crypto/arctwo.
53             des             Renamed to crypto/des.
54             gc              Renamed to crypto/gc.
55             gc-arcfour      Renamed to crypto/gc-arcfour.
56             gc-arctwo       Renamed to crypto/gc-arctwo.
57             gc-des          Renamed to crypto/gc-des.
58             gc-hmac-md5     Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-md5.
59             gc-hmac-sha1    Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-sha1.
60             gc-md2          Renamed to crypto/gc-md2.
61             gc-md4          Renamed to crypto/gc-md4.
62             gc-md5          Renamed to crypto/gc-md5.
63             gc-pbkdf2-sha1  Renamed to crypto/gc-pbkdf2-sha1.
64             gc-random       Renamed to crypto/gc-random.
65             gc-rijndael     Renamed to crypto/gc-rijndael.
66             gc-sha1         Renamed to crypto/gc-sha1.
67             hmac-md5        Renamed to crypto/hmac-md5.
68             hmac-sha1       Renamed to crypto/hmac-sha1.
69             md2             Renamed to crypto/md2.
70             md4             Renamed to crypto/md4.
71             md5             Renamed to crypto/md5.
72             rijndael        Renamed to crypto/rijndael.
73             sha1            Renamed to crypto/sha1.
74
75 2007-03-27  vasprintf       The module now depends on stdio, so replace
76                                #include "vasprintf.h"
77                             with
78                                #include <stdio.h>
79
80 2007-03-24  tsearch         The include file is changed from "tsearch.h" to
81                             <search.h>.
82
83 2007-03-24  utf8-ucs4       The include file is changed from "utf8-ucs4.h"
84                             to "unistr.h".
85             utf8-ucs4-unsafe  The include file is changed from
86                             "utf8-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
87             utf16-ucs4      The include file is changed from "utf16-ucs4.h"
88                             to "unistr.h".
89             utf16-ucs4-unsafe  The include file is changed from
90                             "utf16-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
91             ucs4-utf8       The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf8.h"
92                             to "unistr.h".
93             ucs4-utf16      The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf16.h"
94                             to "unistr.h".
95
96 2007-03-19  iconvme         The module is removed. Use module striconv instead:
97                             iconv_string -> str_iconv
98                             iconv_alloc -> str_cd_iconv (with reversed
99                                            arguments)
100
101 2007-03-15  list            The functions gl_list_create_empty and
102             array-list      gl_list_create now take an extra fourth argument.
103             carray-list     You can pass NULL.
104             linked-list
105             linkedhash-list
106             avltree-list
107             rbtree-list
108             avltreehash-list
109             rbtreehash-list
110
111 2007-03-15  oset            The function gl_oset_create_empty now takes a
112             array-oset      third argument. You can pass NULL.
113             avltree-oset
114             rbtree-oset
115
116 2007-03-12  des             The types and functions in lib/des.h have been
117             gc-des          renamed:
118
119                             des_ctx -> gl_des_ctx, tripledes_ctx -> gl_3des_ctx,
120                             des_is_weak_key -> gl_des_is_weak_key,
121                             des_setkey -> gl_des_setkey,
122                             des_makekey -> gl_des_makekey,
123                             des_ecb_crypt -> gl_des_ecb_crypt,
124                             des_ecb_encrypt -> gl_des_ecb_encrypt,
125                             des_ecb_decrypt -> gl_des_ecb_decrypt,
126                             tripledes_set2keys -> gl_3des_set2keys,
127                             tripledes_set3keys -> gl_3des_set3keys,
128                             tripledes_makekey -> gl_3des_makekey,
129                             tripledes_ecb_crypt -> gl_3des_ecb_crypt.
130
131                             Also consider using the "gc-des" buffer instead of
132                             using the "des" module directly.
133
134 2007-02-28  xreadlink       The module xreadlink was renamed to
135                             xreadlink-with-size. The function was renamed:
136                             xreadlink -> xreadlink_with_size.
137
138 2007-02-18  exit            The modules now depend on stdlib, so replace
139             mkdtemp           #include "exit.h"
140             mkstemp           #include "mkdtemp.h"
141                               #include "mkstemp.h"
142                             with
143                               #include <stdlib.h>
144
145 2007-01-26  strdup          The module now depends on string, so replace
146                               #include "strdup.h"
147                             with
148                               #include <string.h>
149
150 # This is for Emacs.
151 # Local Variables:
152 # indent-tabs-mode: nil
153 # whitespace-check-buffer-indent: nil
154 # End: