NEWS

   1 Important notes
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   4 User visible incompatible changes
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   6
   7 Date        Modules         Changes
   8
   9 2008-08-19  strverscmp      The include file is changed from "strverscmp.h"
  10                             to <string.h>.
  11
  12 2008-08-14  lock            The include file is changed from "lock.h"
  13                             to "glthread/lock.h".
  14             tls             The include file is changed from "tls.h"
  15                             to "glthread/tls.h".
  16
  17 2008-07-17  c-stack         The module now requires the addition of
  18                             $(LIBCSTACK) or $(LTLIBCSTACK) in Makefile.am,
  19                             since it may depend on linking with libsigsegv.
  20
  21 2008-07-07  isnanf-nolibm   The include file is changed from "isnanf.h"
  22                             to "isnanf-nolibm.h".
  23             isnand-nolibm   The include file is changed from "isnand.h"
  24                             to "isnand-nolibm.h".
  25
  26 2008-06-10  execute         The execute function takes an additional termsigp
  27                             argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
  28             wait-process    The wait_subprocess function takes an additional
  29                             termsigp argument. Passing termsigp = NULL is ok.
  30
  31 2008-05-10  linebreak       The module is split into several modules unilbrk/*.
  32                             The include file is changed from "linebreak.h" to
  33                             "unilbrk.h". Two functions are renamed:
  34                             mbs_possible_linebreaks -> ulc_possible_linebreaks
  35                             mbs_width_linebreaks -> ulc_width_linebreaks
  36
  37 2008-04-28  rpmatch         The include file is now <stdlib.h>.
  38
  39 2008-04-28  inet_ntop       The include file is changed from "inet_ntop.h"
  40                             to <arpa/inet.h>.
  41
  42 2008-04-28  inet_pton       The include file is changed from "inet_pton.h"
  43                             to <arpa/inet.h>.
  44
  45 2008-03-06  freadahead      The return value's computation has changed. It
  46                             now increases by 1 after ungetc.
  47
  48 2008-01-26  isnan-nolibm    The module name is changed from isnan-nolibm to
  49                             isnand-nolibm. The include file is changed from
  50                             "isnan.h" to "isnand.h". The function that it
  51                             defines is changed from isnan() to isnand().
  52
  53 2008-01-14  strcasestr      This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
  54                             implementations; clients that use controlled
  55                             needles and thus do not care about worst-case
  56                             efficiency should use the new strcasestr-simple
  57                             module instead for smaller code size.
  58
  59 2008-01-09  alloca-opt      Now defines HAVE_ALLOCA_H only when the system
  60                             supplies an <alloca.h>.  Gnulib-using code is now
  61                             expected to include <alloca.h> unconditionally.
  62                             Non-gnulib-using code can continue to include
  63                             <alloca.h> only if HAVE_ALLOCA_H is defined.
  64
  65 2008-01-08  memmem          This module now replaces worst-case inefficient
  66                             implementations; clients that use controlled
  67                             needles and thus do not care about worst-case
  68                             efficiency should use the new memmem-simple
  69                             module instead for smaller code size.
  70
  71 2007-12-24  setenv          The include file is changed from "setenv.h" to
  72                             <stdlib.h>. Also, the unsetenv function is no
  73                             longer declared in this module; use the 'unsetenv'
  74                             module if you need it.
  75
  76 2007-12-03  getpagesize     The include file is changed from "getpagesize.h"
  77                             to <unistd.h>.
  78
  79 2007-12-03  strcase         The include file is changed from <string.h> to
  80                             <strings.h>.
  81
  82 2007-10-07  most modules    The license for most modules has changed from
  83                             GPLv2+ to GPLv3+, and from LGPLv2+ to LGPLv3+.
  84                             A few modules are still under LGPLv2+; see the
  85                             module description for the applicable license.
  86
  87 2007-09-01  linebreak       "linebreak.h" no longer declares the functions
  88                             locale_charset, uc_width, u{8,16,32}_width. Use
  89                             "uniwidth.h" to get these functions declared.
  90
  91 2007-08-28  areadlink-with-size
  92                             Renamed from mreadlink-with-size.
  93                             Function renamed: mreadlink_with_size ->
  94                             areadlink_with_size.
  95
  96 2007-08-22  getdelim, getline
  97                             The include file is changed from "getdelim.h"
  98                             and "getline.h" to the POSIX 200x <stdio.h>.
  99
 100 2007-08-18  idcache         Now provides prototypes in "idcache.h".
 101
 102 2007-08-10  xstrtol         The STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR macro is removed.
 103                             Use the new xstrtol_fatal function instead.
 104
 105 2007-08-04  human           The function human_options no longer reports an
 106                             error to standard error; that is now the
 107                             caller's responsibility.  It returns an
 108                             error code of type enum strtol_error
 109                             instead of the integer option value, and stores
 110                             the option value via a new int * argument.
 111             xstrtol         The first two arguments of STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR
 112                             are now an option name and option argument
 113                             instead of an option argument and a type string,
 114                             STRTOL_FAIL_WARN is removed.
 115
 116 2007-07-14  gpl, lgpl       New Texinfo versions with no sectioning commands.
 117
 118 2007-07-10  version-etc     Output now mentions GPLv3+, not GPLv2+.  Use
 119                             gnulib-tool --local-dir to override this.
 120
 121 2007-07-07  wcwidth         The include file is changed from "wcwidth.h" to
 122                             <wchar.h>.
 123
 124 2007-07-02  gpl, lgpl       Renamed to gpl-2.0 and lgpl-2.1 respectively.
 125                             (There is also a new module gpl-3.0.)
 126
 127 2007-06-16  lchown          The include file is changed from "lchown.h" to
 128                             <unistd.h>.
 129
 130 2007-06-09  xallocsa        Renamed to xmalloca. The include file "xallocsa.h"
 131                             was remamed to "xmalloca.h". The function was
 132                             renamed:
 133                               xallocsa -> xmalloca
 134
 135 2007-06-09  allocsa         Renamed to malloca. The include file "allocsa.h"
 136                             was remamed to "malloca.h". The function-like
 137                             macros were renamed:
 138                               allocsa -> malloca
 139                               freesa -> freea
 140
 141 2007-05-20  utimens         Renamed futimens to gl_futimens, to avoid
 142                             conflict with the glibc-2.6-introduced function
 143                             that has a different signature.
 144
 145 2007-05-01  sigprocmask     The module now depends on signal, so replace
 146                               #include "sigprocmask.h"
 147                             with
 148                               #include <signal.h>
 149
 150 2007-04-06  gettext         The macro HAVE_LONG_DOUBLE is no longer set.
 151                             You can replace all its uses with 1, i.e. assume
 152                             'long double' as a type exists.
 153
 154 2007-04-01  arcfour         Renamed to crypto/arcfour.
 155             arctwo          Renamed to crypto/arctwo.
 156             des             Renamed to crypto/des.
 157             gc              Renamed to crypto/gc.
 158             gc-arcfour      Renamed to crypto/gc-arcfour.
 159             gc-arctwo       Renamed to crypto/gc-arctwo.
 160             gc-des          Renamed to crypto/gc-des.
 161             gc-hmac-md5     Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-md5.
 162             gc-hmac-sha1    Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-sha1.
 163             gc-md2          Renamed to crypto/gc-md2.
 164             gc-md4          Renamed to crypto/gc-md4.
 165             gc-md5          Renamed to crypto/gc-md5.
 166             gc-pbkdf2-sha1  Renamed to crypto/gc-pbkdf2-sha1.
 167             gc-random       Renamed to crypto/gc-random.
 168             gc-rijndael     Renamed to crypto/gc-rijndael.
 169             gc-sha1         Renamed to crypto/gc-sha1.
 170             hmac-md5        Renamed to crypto/hmac-md5.
 171             hmac-sha1       Renamed to crypto/hmac-sha1.
 172             md2             Renamed to crypto/md2.
 173             md4             Renamed to crypto/md4.
 174             md5             Renamed to crypto/md5.
 175             rijndael        Renamed to crypto/rijndael.
 176             sha1            Renamed to crypto/sha1.
 177
 178 2007-03-27  vasprintf       The module now depends on stdio, so replace
 179                                #include "vasprintf.h"
 180                             with
 181                                #include <stdio.h>
 182
 183 2007-03-24  tsearch         The include file is changed from "tsearch.h" to
 184                             <search.h>.
 185
 186 2007-03-24  utf8-ucs4       The include file is changed from "utf8-ucs4.h"
 187                             to "unistr.h".
 188             utf8-ucs4-unsafe  The include file is changed from
 189                             "utf8-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
 190             utf16-ucs4      The include file is changed from "utf16-ucs4.h"
 191                             to "unistr.h".
 192             utf16-ucs4-unsafe  The include file is changed from
 193                             "utf16-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
 194             ucs4-utf8       The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf8.h"
 195                             to "unistr.h".
 196             ucs4-utf16      The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf16.h"
 197                             to "unistr.h".
 198
 199 2007-03-19  iconvme         The module is removed. Use module striconv instead:
 200                             iconv_string -> str_iconv
 201                             iconv_alloc -> str_cd_iconv (with reversed
 202                                            arguments)
 203
 204 2007-03-15  list            The functions gl_list_create_empty and
 205             array-list      gl_list_create now take an extra fourth argument.
 206             carray-list     You can pass NULL.
 207             linked-list
 208             linkedhash-list
 209             avltree-list
 210             rbtree-list
 211             avltreehash-list
 212             rbtreehash-list
 213
 214 2007-03-15  oset            The function gl_oset_create_empty now takes a
 215             array-oset      third argument. You can pass NULL.
 216             avltree-oset
 217             rbtree-oset
 218
 219 2007-03-12  des             The types and functions in lib/des.h have been
 220             gc-des          renamed:
 221
 222                             des_ctx -> gl_des_ctx, tripledes_ctx -> gl_3des_ctx,
 223                             des_is_weak_key -> gl_des_is_weak_key,
 224                             des_setkey -> gl_des_setkey,
 225                             des_makekey -> gl_des_makekey,
 226                             des_ecb_crypt -> gl_des_ecb_crypt,
 227                             des_ecb_encrypt -> gl_des_ecb_encrypt,
 228                             des_ecb_decrypt -> gl_des_ecb_decrypt,
 229                             tripledes_set2keys -> gl_3des_set2keys,
 230                             tripledes_set3keys -> gl_3des_set3keys,
 231                             tripledes_makekey -> gl_3des_makekey,
 232                             tripledes_ecb_crypt -> gl_3des_ecb_crypt.
 233
 234                             Also consider using the "gc-des" buffer instead of
 235                             using the "des" module directly.
 236
 237 2007-02-28  xreadlink       The module xreadlink was renamed to
 238                             xreadlink-with-size. The function was renamed:
 239                             xreadlink -> xreadlink_with_size.
 240
 241 2007-02-18  exit            The modules now depend on stdlib, so replace
 242             mkdtemp           #include "exit.h"
 243             mkstemp           #include "mkdtemp.h"
 244                               #include "mkstemp.h"
 245                             with
 246                               #include <stdlib.h>
 247
 248 2007-01-26  strdup          The module now depends on string, so replace
 249                               #include "strdup.h"
 250                             with
 251                               #include <string.h>
 252
 253 # This is for Emacs.
 254 # Local Variables:
 255 # indent-tabs-mode: nil
 256 # whitespace-check-buffer-indent: nil
 257 # End: