4 User visible incompatible changes
5 ---------------------------------
9 2009-11-12 getgroups These functions now use a signature of gid_t,
10 getugroups rather than GETGROUPS_T. This probably has no
11 effect except on very old platforms.
13 2009-11-04 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
14 'suffixlen' argument. You can safely pass 0.
16 2009-11-04 nproc The num_processors function now takes an argument.
18 2009-11-02 inet_pton The use of this module now requires linking with
21 2009-11-02 inet_ntop The use of this module now requires linking with
24 2009-10-10 utimens The use of this module now requires linking with
27 2009-09-16 canonicalize-lgpl
28 The include file is changed from "canonicalize.h"
31 2009-09-04 link-follow The macro LINK_FOLLOWS_SYMLINK is now tri-state,
32 rather than only defined to 1.
34 2009-09-03 openat The include files are standardized to POSIX 2008.
35 For openat, include <fcntl.h>; for
36 fchmodat, fstatat, and mkdirat, include
37 <sys/stat.h>; for fchownat and unlinkat,
38 include <unistd.h>. For all other
39 functions provided by this module,
40 continue to include "openat.h".
42 2009-08-30 striconveh The functions mem_cd_iconveh and str_cd_iconveh
43 now take an 'iconveh_t *' argument instead of three
46 2009-08-23 tempname The gen_tempname function takes an additional
47 'flags' argument. You can safely pass 0.
49 2009-08-12 getopt This module is deprecated. Please choose among
50 getopt-posix and getopt-gnu. getopt-gnu provides
51 "long options" and "options with optional
52 arguments", getopt-posix doesn't.
54 2009-06-25 fpurge The include file is changed from "fpurge.h" to
57 2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-from-enc
58 modules/uniconv/u16-conv-from-enc
59 modules/uniconv/u32-conv-from-enc
60 The calling convention of the functions
61 u*_conv_from_encoding is changed.
63 2009-04-26 modules/uniconv/u8-conv-to-enc
64 modules/uniconv/u16-conv-to-enc
65 modules/uniconv/u32-conv-to-enc
66 The calling convention of the functions
67 u*_conv_to_encoding is changed.
69 2009-04-24 maintainer-makefile
70 The maint.mk file was copied from
71 coreutils, and the old
72 coverage/gettext/indent rules were
73 re-added. If you used 'make syntax-check'
74 this will add several new checks. If some
75 new check is annoying, add the name of the
76 checks to 'local-checks-to-skip' in your
79 2009-04-01 visibility Renamed to lib-symbol-visibility.
81 2009-04-01 ld-version-script Renamed to lib-symbol-versions.
83 2009-03-20 close The substituted variable LIB_CLOSE is removed.
85 2009-03-05 filevercmp Move hidden files up in ordering.
87 2009-01-22 c-strtod This function no longer calls xalloc_die(). If
88 c-strtold you want to exit the program in case of out-of-
89 memory, the calling function needs to arrange
93 if (val == 0 && errno == ENOMEM)
96 2009-01-17 relocatable-prog In the Makefile.am or Makefile.in, you now also
97 need to set RELOCATABLE_STRIP = :.
99 2008-12-22 getaddrinfo When using this module, you now need to link with
100 canon-host $(GETADDRINFO_LIB).
102 2008-12-21 mbiter The header files "mbiter.h", "mbuiter.h",
103 mbuiter "mbfile.h" can now be included without checking
104 mbfile HAVE_MBRTOWC. The macro HAVE_MBRTOWC will no
105 longer be defined by these modules in a year. If
106 you want to continue to use it, you need to invoke
107 AC_FUNC_MBRTOWC yourself.
109 2008-11-11 warnings This module subsumes the file m4/warning.m4 which
112 2008-10-20 lstat The include file is changed from "lstat.h" to
115 2008-10-20 getaddrinfo The include file is changed from "getaddrinfo.h"
118 2008-10-19 isnanf The include file is changed from "isnanf.h" to
120 isnand The include file is changed from "isnand.h" to
122 isnanl The include file is changed from "isnanl.h" to
125 2008-10-18 lchmod The include file is changed from "lchmod.h" to
128 2008-10-18 dirfd The include file is changed from "dirfd.h" to
131 2008-10-18 euidaccess The include file is changed from "euidaccess.h"
134 2008-10-18 getdomainname The include file is changed from "getdomainname.h"
137 2008-09-28 sockets When using this module, you now need to link with
140 2008-09-24 sys_select The limitation on `select', introduced 2008-09-23,
141 was removed. sys_select now includes a select
142 wrapper for Winsock. The wrapper expects socket
143 and file descriptors to be compatible as arranged
144 by the sys_socket on MinGW.
146 2008-09-23 sys_socket Under Windows (MinGW), the module now adds
147 wrappers around Winsock functions, so that
148 socket descriptors are now compatible with
149 file descriptors. In general, this change
150 will simply improve your code's portability
151 between POSIX platforms and Windows. In
152 particular, you will be able to use ioctl and
153 close instead of ioctlsocket and closesocket,
154 and test errno instead of WSAGetLastError ().
155 On the other hand, you have to audit your code to
156 remove usage of these Winsock-specific functions.
158 This change does not remove the need to call
159 the gl_sockets_startup function from the sockets
160 gnulib module. Also, for now select is disabled
161 when you include the sys_socket module; while
162 the functionality will be restored soon, for
163 efficiency it is suggested to use the poll system
164 poll system call and gnulib module instead.
166 2008-09-13 EOVERFLOW The module is removed. Use module errno instead.
168 2008-09-01 filename The module does not define the function
169 concatenated_filename any more. To get an
170 equivalent function, use function
171 xconcatenated_filename from module
174 2008-08-31 havelib On Solaris, when searching for 64-bit mode
175 libraries the directory $prefix/lib is now ignored.
176 Instead the directory $prefix/lib/64 is searched.
177 You may need to create a symbolic link for
178 $prefix/lib/64 if you have 64-bit libraries
179 installed in $prefix/lib.
181 2008-08-19 strverscmp The include file is changed from "strverscmp.h"
184 2008-08-14 lock The include file is changed from "lock.h"
185 to "glthread/lock.h".
186 tls The include file is changed from "tls.h"
189 2008-07-17 c-stack The module now requires the addition of
190 $(LIBCSTACK) or $(LTLIBCSTACK) in Makefile.am,
191 since it may depend on linking with libsigsegv.
193 2008-07-07 isnanf-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnanf.h"
194 to "isnanf-nolibm.h".
195 isnand-nolibm The include file is changed from "isnand.h"
196 to "isnand-nolibm.h".
198 2008-06-10 execute The execute function takes an additional termsigp
199 argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
200 wait-process The wait_subprocess function takes an additional
201 termsigp argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
203 2008-05-10 linebreak The module is split into several modules unilbrk/*.
204 The include file is changed from "linebreak.h" to
205 "unilbrk.h". Two functions are renamed:
206 mbs_possible_linebreaks -> ulc_possible_linebreaks
207 mbs_width_linebreaks -> ulc_width_linebreaks
209 2008-04-28 rpmatch The include file is now <stdlib.h>.
211 2008-04-28 inet_ntop The include file is changed from "inet_ntop.h"
214 2008-04-28 inet_pton The include file is changed from "inet_pton.h"
217 2008-03-06 freadahead The return value's computation has changed. It
218 now increases by 1 after ungetc.
220 2008-01-26 isnan-nolibm The module name is changed from isnan-nolibm to
221 isnand-nolibm. The include file is changed from
222 "isnan.h" to "isnand.h". The function that it
223 defines is changed from isnan() to isnand().
225 2008-01-14 strcasestr This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
226 implementations; clients that use controlled
227 needles and thus do not care about worst-case
228 efficiency should use the new strcasestr-simple
229 module instead for smaller code size.
231 2008-01-09 alloca-opt Now defines HAVE_ALLOCA_H only when the system
232 supplies an <alloca.h>. Gnulib-using code is now
233 expected to include <alloca.h> unconditionally.
234 Non-gnulib-using code can continue to include
235 <alloca.h> only if HAVE_ALLOCA_H is defined.
237 2008-01-08 memmem This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
238 implementations; clients that use controlled
239 needles and thus do not care about worst-case
240 efficiency should use the new memmem-simple
241 module instead for smaller code size.
243 2007-12-24 setenv The include file is changed from "setenv.h" to
244 <stdlib.h>. Also, the unsetenv function is no
245 longer declared in this module; use the 'unsetenv'
246 module if you need it.
248 2007-12-03 getpagesize The include file is changed from "getpagesize.h"
251 2007-12-03 strcase The include file is changed from <string.h> to
254 2007-10-07 most modules The license for most modules has changed from
255 GPLv2+ to GPLv3+, and from LGPLv2+ to LGPLv3+.
256 A few modules are still under LGPLv2+; see the
257 module description for the applicable license.
259 2007-09-01 linebreak "linebreak.h" no longer declares the functions
260 locale_charset, uc_width, u{8,16,32}_width. Use
261 "uniwidth.h" to get these functions declared.
263 2007-08-28 areadlink-with-size
264 Renamed from mreadlink-with-size.
265 Function renamed: mreadlink_with_size ->
268 2007-08-22 getdelim, getline
269 The include file is changed from "getdelim.h"
270 and "getline.h" to the POSIX 200x <stdio.h>.
272 2007-08-18 idcache Now provides prototypes in "idcache.h".
274 2007-08-10 xstrtol The STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR macro is removed.
275 Use the new xstrtol_fatal function instead.
277 2007-08-04 human The function human_options no longer reports an
278 error to standard error; that is now the
279 caller's responsibility. It returns an
280 error code of type enum strtol_error
281 instead of the integer option value, and stores
282 the option value via a new int * argument.
283 xstrtol The first two arguments of STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR
284 are now an option name and option argument
285 instead of an option argument and a type string,
286 STRTOL_FAIL_WARN is removed.
288 2007-07-14 gpl, lgpl New Texinfo versions with no sectioning commands.
290 2007-07-10 version-etc Output now mentions GPLv3+, not GPLv2+. Use
291 gnulib-tool --local-dir to override this.
293 2007-07-07 wcwidth The include file is changed from "wcwidth.h" to
296 2007-07-02 gpl, lgpl Renamed to gpl-2.0 and lgpl-2.1 respectively.
297 (There is also a new module gpl-3.0.)
299 2007-06-16 lchown The include file is changed from "lchown.h" to
302 2007-06-09 xallocsa Renamed to xmalloca. The include file "xallocsa.h"
303 was remamed to "xmalloca.h". The function was
307 2007-06-09 allocsa Renamed to malloca. The include file "allocsa.h"
308 was remamed to "malloca.h". The function-like
313 2007-05-20 utimens Renamed futimens to gl_futimens, to avoid
314 conflict with the glibc-2.6-introduced function
315 that has a different signature.
317 2007-05-01 sigprocmask The module now depends on signal, so replace
318 #include "sigprocmask.h"
322 2007-04-06 gettext The macro HAVE_LONG_DOUBLE is no longer set.
323 You can replace all its uses with 1, i.e. assume
324 'long double' as a type exists.
326 2007-04-01 arcfour Renamed to crypto/arcfour.
327 arctwo Renamed to crypto/arctwo.
328 des Renamed to crypto/des.
329 gc Renamed to crypto/gc.
330 gc-arcfour Renamed to crypto/gc-arcfour.
331 gc-arctwo Renamed to crypto/gc-arctwo.
332 gc-des Renamed to crypto/gc-des.
333 gc-hmac-md5 Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-md5.
334 gc-hmac-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-sha1.
335 gc-md2 Renamed to crypto/gc-md2.
336 gc-md4 Renamed to crypto/gc-md4.
337 gc-md5 Renamed to crypto/gc-md5.
338 gc-pbkdf2-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-pbkdf2-sha1.
339 gc-random Renamed to crypto/gc-random.
340 gc-rijndael Renamed to crypto/gc-rijndael.
341 gc-sha1 Renamed to crypto/gc-sha1.
342 hmac-md5 Renamed to crypto/hmac-md5.
343 hmac-sha1 Renamed to crypto/hmac-sha1.
344 md2 Renamed to crypto/md2.
345 md4 Renamed to crypto/md4.
346 md5 Renamed to crypto/md5.
347 rijndael Renamed to crypto/rijndael.
348 sha1 Renamed to crypto/sha1.
350 2007-03-27 vasprintf The module now depends on stdio, so replace
351 #include "vasprintf.h"
355 2007-03-24 tsearch The include file is changed from "tsearch.h" to
358 2007-03-24 utf8-ucs4 The include file is changed from "utf8-ucs4.h"
360 utf8-ucs4-unsafe The include file is changed from
361 "utf8-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
362 utf16-ucs4 The include file is changed from "utf16-ucs4.h"
364 utf16-ucs4-unsafe The include file is changed from
365 "utf16-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
366 ucs4-utf8 The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf8.h"
368 ucs4-utf16 The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf16.h"
371 2007-03-19 iconvme The module is removed. Use module striconv instead:
372 iconv_string -> str_iconv
373 iconv_alloc -> str_cd_iconv (with reversed
376 2007-03-15 list The functions gl_list_create_empty and
377 array-list gl_list_create now take an extra fourth argument.
378 carray-list You can pass NULL.
386 2007-03-15 oset The function gl_oset_create_empty now takes a
387 array-oset third argument. You can pass NULL.
391 2007-03-12 des The types and functions in lib/des.h have been
394 des_ctx -> gl_des_ctx, tripledes_ctx -> gl_3des_ctx,
395 des_is_weak_key -> gl_des_is_weak_key,
396 des_setkey -> gl_des_setkey,
397 des_makekey -> gl_des_makekey,
398 des_ecb_crypt -> gl_des_ecb_crypt,
399 des_ecb_encrypt -> gl_des_ecb_encrypt,
400 des_ecb_decrypt -> gl_des_ecb_decrypt,
401 tripledes_set2keys -> gl_3des_set2keys,
402 tripledes_set3keys -> gl_3des_set3keys,
403 tripledes_makekey -> gl_3des_makekey,
404 tripledes_ecb_crypt -> gl_3des_ecb_crypt.
406 Also consider using the "gc-des" buffer instead of
407 using the "des" module directly.
409 2007-02-28 xreadlink The module xreadlink was renamed to
410 xreadlink-with-size. The function was renamed:
411 xreadlink -> xreadlink_with_size.
413 2007-02-18 exit The modules now depend on stdlib, so replace
414 mkdtemp #include "exit.h"
415 mkstemp #include "mkdtemp.h"
420 2007-01-26 strdup The module now depends on string, so replace
427 # indent-tabs-mode: nil
428 # whitespace-check-buffer-indent: nil