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