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1 Important notes
2 ---------------
3
4 User visible incompatible changes
5 ---------------------------------
6
7 Date        Modules         Changes
8
9 2007-06-09  xallocsa        Renamed to xmalloca. The include file "xallocsa.h"
10                             was remamed to "xmalloca.h". The function was
11                             renamed:
12                               xallocsa -> xmalloca
13
14 2007-06-09  allocsa         Renamed to malloca. The include file "allocsa.h"
15                             was remamed to "malloca.h". The function-like
16                             macros were renamed:
17                               allocsa -> malloca
18                               freesa -> freea
19
20 2007-05-20  utimens         Renamed futimens to gl_futimens, to avoid
21                             conflict with the glibc-2.6-introduced function
22                             that has a different signature.
23
24 2007-05-01  sigprocmask     The module now depends on signal, so replace
25                               #include "sigprocmask.h"
26                             with
27                               #include <signal.h>
28
29 2007-04-06  gettext         The macro HAVE_LONG_DOUBLE is no longer set.
30                             You can replace all its uses with 1, i.e. assume
31                             'long double' as a type exists.
32
33 2007-04-01  arcfour         Renamed to crypto/arcfour.
34             arctwo          Renamed to crypto/arctwo.
35             des             Renamed to crypto/des.
36             gc              Renamed to crypto/gc.
37             gc-arcfour      Renamed to crypto/gc-arcfour.
38             gc-arctwo       Renamed to crypto/gc-arctwo.
39             gc-des          Renamed to crypto/gc-des.
40             gc-hmac-md5     Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-md5.
41             gc-hmac-sha1    Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-sha1.
42             gc-md2          Renamed to crypto/gc-md2.
43             gc-md4          Renamed to crypto/gc-md4.
44             gc-md5          Renamed to crypto/gc-md5.
45             gc-pbkdf2-sha1  Renamed to crypto/gc-pbkdf2-sha1.
46             gc-random       Renamed to crypto/gc-random.
47             gc-rijndael     Renamed to crypto/gc-rijndael.
48             gc-sha1         Renamed to crypto/gc-sha1.
49             hmac-md5        Renamed to crypto/hmac-md5.
50             hmac-sha1       Renamed to crypto/hmac-sha1.
51             md2             Renamed to crypto/md2.
52             md4             Renamed to crypto/md4.
53             md5             Renamed to crypto/md5.
54             rijndael        Renamed to crypto/rijndael.
55             sha1            Renamed to crypto/sha1.
56
57 2007-03-27  vasprintf       The module now depends on stdio, so replace
58                                #include "vasprintf.h"
59                             with
60                                #include <stdio.h>
61
62 2007-03-24  tsearch         The include file is changed from "tsearch.h" to
63                             <search.h>.
64
65 2007-03-24  utf8-ucs4       The include file is changed from "utf8-ucs4.h"
66                             to "unistr.h".
67             utf8-ucs4-unsafe  The include file is changed from
68                             "utf8-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
69             utf16-ucs4      The include file is changed from "utf16-ucs4.h"
70                             to "unistr.h".
71             utf16-ucs4-unsafe  The include file is changed from
72                             "utf16-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
73             ucs4-utf8       The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf8.h"
74                             to "unistr.h".
75             ucs4-utf16      The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf16.h"
76                             to "unistr.h".
77
78 2007-03-19  iconvme         The module is removed. Use module striconv instead:
79                             iconv_string -> str_iconv
80                             iconv_alloc -> str_cd_iconv (with reversed
81                                            arguments)
82
83 2007-03-15  list            The functions gl_list_create_empty and
84             array-list      gl_list_create now take an extra fourth argument.
85             carray-list     You can pass NULL.
86             linked-list
87             linkedhash-list
88             avltree-list
89             rbtree-list
90             avltreehash-list
91             rbtreehash-list
92
93 2007-03-15  oset            The function gl_oset_create_empty now takes a
94             array-oset      third argument. You can pass NULL.
95             avltree-oset
96             rbtree-oset
97
98 2007-03-12  des             The types and functions in lib/des.h have been
99             gc-des          renamed:
100
101                             des_ctx -> gl_des_ctx, tripledes_ctx -> gl_3des_ctx,
102                             des_is_weak_key -> gl_des_is_weak_key,
103                             des_setkey -> gl_des_setkey,
104                             des_makekey -> gl_des_makekey,
105                             des_ecb_crypt -> gl_des_ecb_crypt,
106                             des_ecb_encrypt -> gl_des_ecb_encrypt,
107                             des_ecb_decrypt -> gl_des_ecb_decrypt,
108                             tripledes_set2keys -> gl_3des_set2keys,
109                             tripledes_set3keys -> gl_3des_set3keys,
110                             tripledes_makekey -> gl_3des_makekey,
111                             tripledes_ecb_crypt -> gl_3des_ecb_crypt.
112
113                             Also consider using the "gc-des" buffer instead of
114                             using the "des" module directly.
115
116 2007-02-28  xreadlink       The module xreadlink was renamed to
117                             xreadlink-with-size. The function was renamed:
118                             xreadlink -> xreadlink_with_size.
119
120 2007-02-18  exit            The modules now depend on stdlib, so replace
121             mkdtemp           #include "exit.h"
122             mkstemp           #include "mkdtemp.h"
123                               #include "mkstemp.h"
124                             with
125                               #include <stdlib.h>
126
127 2007-01-26  strdup          The module now depends on string, so replace
128                               #include "strdup.h"
129                             with
130                               #include <string.h>
131
132 # This is for Emacs.
133 # Local Variables:
134 # indent-tabs-mode: nil
135 # whitespace-check-buffer-indent: nil
136 # End: