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