NEWS

   1 Important notes
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   3
   4 User visible incompatible changes
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   6
   7 Date        Modules         Changes
   8
   9 2007-09-01  linebreak       "linebreak.h" no longer declares the functions
  10                             locale_charset, uc_width, u{8,16,32}_width. Use
  11                             "uniwidth.h" to get these functions declared.
  12
  13 2007-08-28  areadlink-with-size
  14                             Renamed from mreadlink-with-size.
  15                             Function renamed: mreadlink_with_size ->
  16                             areadlink_with_size.
  17
  18 2007-08-22  getdelim, getline
  19                             The include file is changed from "getdelim.h"
  20                             and "getline.h" to the POSIX 200x <stdio.h>.
  21
  22 2007-08-18  idcache         Now provides prototypes in "idcache.h".
  23
  24 2007-08-10  xstrtol         The STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR macro is removed.
  25                             Use the new xstrtol_fatal function instead.
  26
  27 2007-08-04  human           The function human_options no longer reports an
  28                             error to standard error; that is now the
  29                             caller's responsibility.  It returns an
  30                             error code of type enum strtol_error
  31                             instead of the integer option value, and stores
  32                             the option value via a new int * argument.
  33             xstrtol         The first two arguments of STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR
  34                             are now an option name and option argument
  35                             instead of an option argument and a type string,
  36                             STRTOL_FAIL_WARN is removed.
  37
  38 2007-07-14  gpl, lgpl       New Texinfo versions with no sectioning commands.
  39
  40 2007-07-10  version-etc     Output now mentions GPLv3+, not GPLv2+.  Use
  41                             gnulib-tool --local-dir to override this.
  42
  43 2007-07-07  wcwidth         The include file is changed from "wcwidth.h" to
  44                             <wchar.h>.
  45
  46 2007-07-02  gpl, lgpl       Renamed to gpl-2.0 and lgpl-2.1 respectively.
  47                             (There is also a new module gpl-3.0.)
  48
  49 2007-06-16  lchown          The include file is changed from "lchown.h" to
  50                             <unistd.h>.
  51
  52 2007-06-09  xallocsa        Renamed to xmalloca. The include file "xallocsa.h"
  53                             was remamed to "xmalloca.h". The function was
  54                             renamed:
  55                               xallocsa -> xmalloca
  56
  57 2007-06-09  allocsa         Renamed to malloca. The include file "allocsa.h"
  58                             was remamed to "malloca.h". The function-like
  59                             macros were renamed:
  60                               allocsa -> malloca
  61                               freesa -> freea
  62
  63 2007-05-20  utimens         Renamed futimens to gl_futimens, to avoid
  64                             conflict with the glibc-2.6-introduced function
  65                             that has a different signature.
  66
  67 2007-05-01  sigprocmask     The module now depends on signal, so replace
  68                               #include "sigprocmask.h"
  69                             with
  70                               #include <signal.h>
  71
  72 2007-04-06  gettext         The macro HAVE_LONG_DOUBLE is no longer set.
  73                             You can replace all its uses with 1, i.e. assume
  74                             'long double' as a type exists.
  75
  76 2007-04-01  arcfour         Renamed to crypto/arcfour.
  77             arctwo          Renamed to crypto/arctwo.
  78             des             Renamed to crypto/des.
  79             gc              Renamed to crypto/gc.
  80             gc-arcfour      Renamed to crypto/gc-arcfour.
  81             gc-arctwo       Renamed to crypto/gc-arctwo.
  82             gc-des          Renamed to crypto/gc-des.
  83             gc-hmac-md5     Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-md5.
  84             gc-hmac-sha1    Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-sha1.
  85             gc-md2          Renamed to crypto/gc-md2.
  86             gc-md4          Renamed to crypto/gc-md4.
  87             gc-md5          Renamed to crypto/gc-md5.
  88             gc-pbkdf2-sha1  Renamed to crypto/gc-pbkdf2-sha1.
  89             gc-random       Renamed to crypto/gc-random.
  90             gc-rijndael     Renamed to crypto/gc-rijndael.
  91             gc-sha1         Renamed to crypto/gc-sha1.
  92             hmac-md5        Renamed to crypto/hmac-md5.
  93             hmac-sha1       Renamed to crypto/hmac-sha1.
  94             md2             Renamed to crypto/md2.
  95             md4             Renamed to crypto/md4.
  96             md5             Renamed to crypto/md5.
  97             rijndael        Renamed to crypto/rijndael.
  98             sha1            Renamed to crypto/sha1.
  99
 100 2007-03-27  vasprintf       The module now depends on stdio, so replace
 101                                #include "vasprintf.h"
 102                             with
 103                                #include <stdio.h>
 104
 105 2007-03-24  tsearch         The include file is changed from "tsearch.h" to
 106                             <search.h>.
 107
 108 2007-03-24  utf8-ucs4       The include file is changed from "utf8-ucs4.h"
 109                             to "unistr.h".
 110             utf8-ucs4-unsafe  The include file is changed from
 111                             "utf8-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
 112             utf16-ucs4      The include file is changed from "utf16-ucs4.h"
 113                             to "unistr.h".
 114             utf16-ucs4-unsafe  The include file is changed from
 115                             "utf16-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
 116             ucs4-utf8       The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf8.h"
 117                             to "unistr.h".
 118             ucs4-utf16      The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf16.h"
 119                             to "unistr.h".
 120
 121 2007-03-19  iconvme         The module is removed. Use module striconv instead:
 122                             iconv_string -> str_iconv
 123                             iconv_alloc -> str_cd_iconv (with reversed
 124                                            arguments)
 125
 126 2007-03-15  list            The functions gl_list_create_empty and
 127             array-list      gl_list_create now take an extra fourth argument.
 128             carray-list     You can pass NULL.
 129             linked-list
 130             linkedhash-list
 131             avltree-list
 132             rbtree-list
 133             avltreehash-list
 134             rbtreehash-list
 135
 136 2007-03-15  oset            The function gl_oset_create_empty now takes a
 137             array-oset      third argument. You can pass NULL.
 138             avltree-oset
 139             rbtree-oset
 140
 141 2007-03-12  des             The types and functions in lib/des.h have been
 142             gc-des          renamed:
 143
 144                             des_ctx -> gl_des_ctx, tripledes_ctx -> gl_3des_ctx,
 145                             des_is_weak_key -> gl_des_is_weak_key,
 146                             des_setkey -> gl_des_setkey,
 147                             des_makekey -> gl_des_makekey,
 148                             des_ecb_crypt -> gl_des_ecb_crypt,
 149                             des_ecb_encrypt -> gl_des_ecb_encrypt,
 150                             des_ecb_decrypt -> gl_des_ecb_decrypt,
 151                             tripledes_set2keys -> gl_3des_set2keys,
 152                             tripledes_set3keys -> gl_3des_set3keys,
 153                             tripledes_makekey -> gl_3des_makekey,
 154                             tripledes_ecb_crypt -> gl_3des_ecb_crypt.
 155
 156                             Also consider using the "gc-des" buffer instead of
 157                             using the "des" module directly.
 158
 159 2007-02-28  xreadlink       The module xreadlink was renamed to
 160                             xreadlink-with-size. The function was renamed:
 161                             xreadlink -> xreadlink_with_size.
 162
 163 2007-02-18  exit            The modules now depend on stdlib, so replace
 164             mkdtemp           #include "exit.h"
 165             mkstemp           #include "mkdtemp.h"
 166                               #include "mkstemp.h"
 167                             with
 168                               #include <stdlib.h>
 169
 170 2007-01-26  strdup          The module now depends on string, so replace
 171                               #include "strdup.h"
 172                             with
 173                               #include <string.h>
 174
 175 # This is for Emacs.
 176 # Local Variables:
 177 # indent-tabs-mode: nil
 178 # whitespace-check-buffer-indent: nil
 179 # End: