New module 'uniwidth/u16-width'.
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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 2007-07-02  gpl, lgpl       Renamed to gpl-2.0 and lgpl-2.1 respectively.
10                             (There is also a new module gpl-3.0.)
11
12 2007-06-16  lchown          The include file is changed from "lchown.h" to
13                             <unistd.h>.
14
15 2007-06-09  xallocsa        Renamed to xmalloca. The include file "xallocsa.h"
16                             was remamed to "xmalloca.h". The function was
17                             renamed:
18                               xallocsa -> xmalloca
19
20 2007-06-09  allocsa         Renamed to malloca. The include file "allocsa.h"
21                             was remamed to "malloca.h". The function-like
22                             macros were renamed:
23                               allocsa -> malloca
24                               freesa -> freea
25
26 2007-05-20  utimens         Renamed futimens to gl_futimens, to avoid
27                             conflict with the glibc-2.6-introduced function
28                             that has a different signature.
29
30 2007-05-01  sigprocmask     The module now depends on signal, so replace
31                               #include "sigprocmask.h"
32                             with
33                               #include <signal.h>
34
35 2007-04-06  gettext         The macro HAVE_LONG_DOUBLE is no longer set.
36                             You can replace all its uses with 1, i.e. assume
37                             'long double' as a type exists.
38
39 2007-04-01  arcfour         Renamed to crypto/arcfour.
40             arctwo          Renamed to crypto/arctwo.
41             des             Renamed to crypto/des.
42             gc              Renamed to crypto/gc.
43             gc-arcfour      Renamed to crypto/gc-arcfour.
44             gc-arctwo       Renamed to crypto/gc-arctwo.
45             gc-des          Renamed to crypto/gc-des.
46             gc-hmac-md5     Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-md5.
47             gc-hmac-sha1    Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-sha1.
48             gc-md2          Renamed to crypto/gc-md2.
49             gc-md4          Renamed to crypto/gc-md4.
50             gc-md5          Renamed to crypto/gc-md5.
51             gc-pbkdf2-sha1  Renamed to crypto/gc-pbkdf2-sha1.
52             gc-random       Renamed to crypto/gc-random.
53             gc-rijndael     Renamed to crypto/gc-rijndael.
54             gc-sha1         Renamed to crypto/gc-sha1.
55             hmac-md5        Renamed to crypto/hmac-md5.
56             hmac-sha1       Renamed to crypto/hmac-sha1.
57             md2             Renamed to crypto/md2.
58             md4             Renamed to crypto/md4.
59             md5             Renamed to crypto/md5.
60             rijndael        Renamed to crypto/rijndael.
61             sha1            Renamed to crypto/sha1.
62
63 2007-03-27  vasprintf       The module now depends on stdio, so replace
64                                #include "vasprintf.h"
65                             with
66                                #include <stdio.h>
67
68 2007-03-24  tsearch         The include file is changed from "tsearch.h" to
69                             <search.h>.
70
71 2007-03-24  utf8-ucs4       The include file is changed from "utf8-ucs4.h"
72                             to "unistr.h".
73             utf8-ucs4-unsafe  The include file is changed from
74                             "utf8-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
75             utf16-ucs4      The include file is changed from "utf16-ucs4.h"
76                             to "unistr.h".
77             utf16-ucs4-unsafe  The include file is changed from
78                             "utf16-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
79             ucs4-utf8       The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf8.h"
80                             to "unistr.h".
81             ucs4-utf16      The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf16.h"
82                             to "unistr.h".
83
84 2007-03-19  iconvme         The module is removed. Use module striconv instead:
85                             iconv_string -> str_iconv
86                             iconv_alloc -> str_cd_iconv (with reversed
87                                            arguments)
88
89 2007-03-15  list            The functions gl_list_create_empty and
90             array-list      gl_list_create now take an extra fourth argument.
91             carray-list     You can pass NULL.
92             linked-list
93             linkedhash-list
94             avltree-list
95             rbtree-list
96             avltreehash-list
97             rbtreehash-list
98
99 2007-03-15  oset            The function gl_oset_create_empty now takes a
100             array-oset      third argument. You can pass NULL.
101             avltree-oset
102             rbtree-oset
103
104 2007-03-12  des             The types and functions in lib/des.h have been
105             gc-des          renamed:
106
107                             des_ctx -> gl_des_ctx, tripledes_ctx -> gl_3des_ctx,
108                             des_is_weak_key -> gl_des_is_weak_key,
109                             des_setkey -> gl_des_setkey,
110                             des_makekey -> gl_des_makekey,
111                             des_ecb_crypt -> gl_des_ecb_crypt,
112                             des_ecb_encrypt -> gl_des_ecb_encrypt,
113                             des_ecb_decrypt -> gl_des_ecb_decrypt,
114                             tripledes_set2keys -> gl_3des_set2keys,
115                             tripledes_set3keys -> gl_3des_set3keys,
116                             tripledes_makekey -> gl_3des_makekey,
117                             tripledes_ecb_crypt -> gl_3des_ecb_crypt.
118
119                             Also consider using the "gc-des" buffer instead of
120                             using the "des" module directly.
121
122 2007-02-28  xreadlink       The module xreadlink was renamed to
123                             xreadlink-with-size. The function was renamed:
124                             xreadlink -> xreadlink_with_size.
125
126 2007-02-18  exit            The modules now depend on stdlib, so replace
127             mkdtemp           #include "exit.h"
128             mkstemp           #include "mkdtemp.h"
129                               #include "mkstemp.h"
130                             with
131                               #include <stdlib.h>
132
133 2007-01-26  strdup          The module now depends on string, so replace
134                               #include "strdup.h"
135                             with
136                               #include <string.h>
137
138 # This is for Emacs.
139 # Local Variables:
140 # indent-tabs-mode: nil
141 # whitespace-check-buffer-indent: nil
142 # End: