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1 Important notes
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4 User visible incompatible changes
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6
7 Date        Modules         Changes
8
9 2007-06-16  lchown          The include file is changed from "lchown.h" to
10                             <unistd.h>.
11
12 2007-06-09  xallocsa        Renamed to xmalloca. The include file "xallocsa.h"
13                             was remamed to "xmalloca.h". The function was
14                             renamed:
15                               xallocsa -> xmalloca
16
17 2007-06-09  allocsa         Renamed to malloca. The include file "allocsa.h"
18                             was remamed to "malloca.h". The function-like
19                             macros were renamed:
20                               allocsa -> malloca
21                               freesa -> freea
22
23 2007-05-20  utimens         Renamed futimens to gl_futimens, to avoid
24                             conflict with the glibc-2.6-introduced function
25                             that has a different signature.
26
27 2007-05-01  sigprocmask     The module now depends on signal, so replace
28                               #include "sigprocmask.h"
29                             with
30                               #include <signal.h>
31
32 2007-04-06  gettext         The macro HAVE_LONG_DOUBLE is no longer set.
33                             You can replace all its uses with 1, i.e. assume
34                             'long double' as a type exists.
35
36 2007-04-01  arcfour         Renamed to crypto/arcfour.
37             arctwo          Renamed to crypto/arctwo.
38             des             Renamed to crypto/des.
39             gc              Renamed to crypto/gc.
40             gc-arcfour      Renamed to crypto/gc-arcfour.
41             gc-arctwo       Renamed to crypto/gc-arctwo.
42             gc-des          Renamed to crypto/gc-des.
43             gc-hmac-md5     Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-md5.
44             gc-hmac-sha1    Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-sha1.
45             gc-md2          Renamed to crypto/gc-md2.
46             gc-md4          Renamed to crypto/gc-md4.
47             gc-md5          Renamed to crypto/gc-md5.
48             gc-pbkdf2-sha1  Renamed to crypto/gc-pbkdf2-sha1.
49             gc-random       Renamed to crypto/gc-random.
50             gc-rijndael     Renamed to crypto/gc-rijndael.
51             gc-sha1         Renamed to crypto/gc-sha1.
52             hmac-md5        Renamed to crypto/hmac-md5.
53             hmac-sha1       Renamed to crypto/hmac-sha1.
54             md2             Renamed to crypto/md2.
55             md4             Renamed to crypto/md4.
56             md5             Renamed to crypto/md5.
57             rijndael        Renamed to crypto/rijndael.
58             sha1            Renamed to crypto/sha1.
59
60 2007-03-27  vasprintf       The module now depends on stdio, so replace
61                                #include "vasprintf.h"
62                             with
63                                #include <stdio.h>
64
65 2007-03-24  tsearch         The include file is changed from "tsearch.h" to
66                             <search.h>.
67
68 2007-03-24  utf8-ucs4       The include file is changed from "utf8-ucs4.h"
69                             to "unistr.h".
70             utf8-ucs4-unsafe  The include file is changed from
71                             "utf8-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
72             utf16-ucs4      The include file is changed from "utf16-ucs4.h"
73                             to "unistr.h".
74             utf16-ucs4-unsafe  The include file is changed from
75                             "utf16-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
76             ucs4-utf8       The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf8.h"
77                             to "unistr.h".
78             ucs4-utf16      The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf16.h"
79                             to "unistr.h".
80
81 2007-03-19  iconvme         The module is removed. Use module striconv instead:
82                             iconv_string -> str_iconv
83                             iconv_alloc -> str_cd_iconv (with reversed
84                                            arguments)
85
86 2007-03-15  list            The functions gl_list_create_empty and
87             array-list      gl_list_create now take an extra fourth argument.
88             carray-list     You can pass NULL.
89             linked-list
90             linkedhash-list
91             avltree-list
92             rbtree-list
93             avltreehash-list
94             rbtreehash-list
95
96 2007-03-15  oset            The function gl_oset_create_empty now takes a
97             array-oset      third argument. You can pass NULL.
98             avltree-oset
99             rbtree-oset
100
101 2007-03-12  des             The types and functions in lib/des.h have been
102             gc-des          renamed:
103
104                             des_ctx -> gl_des_ctx, tripledes_ctx -> gl_3des_ctx,
105                             des_is_weak_key -> gl_des_is_weak_key,
106                             des_setkey -> gl_des_setkey,
107                             des_makekey -> gl_des_makekey,
108                             des_ecb_crypt -> gl_des_ecb_crypt,
109                             des_ecb_encrypt -> gl_des_ecb_encrypt,
110                             des_ecb_decrypt -> gl_des_ecb_decrypt,
111                             tripledes_set2keys -> gl_3des_set2keys,
112                             tripledes_set3keys -> gl_3des_set3keys,
113                             tripledes_makekey -> gl_3des_makekey,
114                             tripledes_ecb_crypt -> gl_3des_ecb_crypt.
115
116                             Also consider using the "gc-des" buffer instead of
117                             using the "des" module directly.
118
119 2007-02-28  xreadlink       The module xreadlink was renamed to
120                             xreadlink-with-size. The function was renamed:
121                             xreadlink -> xreadlink_with_size.
122
123 2007-02-18  exit            The modules now depend on stdlib, so replace
124             mkdtemp           #include "exit.h"
125             mkstemp           #include "mkdtemp.h"
126                               #include "mkstemp.h"
127                             with
128                               #include <stdlib.h>
129
130 2007-01-26  strdup          The module now depends on string, so replace
131                               #include "strdup.h"
132                             with
133                               #include <string.h>
134
135 # This is for Emacs.
136 # Local Variables:
137 # indent-tabs-mode: nil
138 # whitespace-check-buffer-indent: nil
139 # End: