New module: popcount.
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1 Important notes
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3
4 User visible incompatible changes
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6
7 Date        Modules         Changes
8
9 2007-07-14  gpl, lgpl       New Texinfo versions with no sectioning commands.
10
11 2007-07-10  version-etc     Output now mentions GPLv3+, not GPLv2+.  Use
12                             gnulib-tool --local-dir to override this.
13
14 2007-07-07  wcwidth         The include file is changed from "wcwidth.h" to
15                             <wchar.h>.
16
17 2007-07-02  gpl, lgpl       Renamed to gpl-2.0 and lgpl-2.1 respectively.
18                             (There is also a new module gpl-3.0.)
19
20 2007-06-16  lchown          The include file is changed from "lchown.h" to
21                             <unistd.h>.
22
23 2007-06-09  xallocsa        Renamed to xmalloca. The include file "xallocsa.h"
24                             was remamed to "xmalloca.h". The function was
25                             renamed:
26                               xallocsa -> xmalloca
27
28 2007-06-09  allocsa         Renamed to malloca. The include file "allocsa.h"
29                             was remamed to "malloca.h". The function-like
30                             macros were renamed:
31                               allocsa -> malloca
32                               freesa -> freea
33
34 2007-05-20  utimens         Renamed futimens to gl_futimens, to avoid
35                             conflict with the glibc-2.6-introduced function
36                             that has a different signature.
37
38 2007-05-01  sigprocmask     The module now depends on signal, so replace
39                               #include "sigprocmask.h"
40                             with
41                               #include <signal.h>
42
43 2007-04-06  gettext         The macro HAVE_LONG_DOUBLE is no longer set.
44                             You can replace all its uses with 1, i.e. assume
45                             'long double' as a type exists.
46
47 2007-04-01  arcfour         Renamed to crypto/arcfour.
48             arctwo          Renamed to crypto/arctwo.
49             des             Renamed to crypto/des.
50             gc              Renamed to crypto/gc.
51             gc-arcfour      Renamed to crypto/gc-arcfour.
52             gc-arctwo       Renamed to crypto/gc-arctwo.
53             gc-des          Renamed to crypto/gc-des.
54             gc-hmac-md5     Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-md5.
55             gc-hmac-sha1    Renamed to crypto/gc-hmac-sha1.
56             gc-md2          Renamed to crypto/gc-md2.
57             gc-md4          Renamed to crypto/gc-md4.
58             gc-md5          Renamed to crypto/gc-md5.
59             gc-pbkdf2-sha1  Renamed to crypto/gc-pbkdf2-sha1.
60             gc-random       Renamed to crypto/gc-random.
61             gc-rijndael     Renamed to crypto/gc-rijndael.
62             gc-sha1         Renamed to crypto/gc-sha1.
63             hmac-md5        Renamed to crypto/hmac-md5.
64             hmac-sha1       Renamed to crypto/hmac-sha1.
65             md2             Renamed to crypto/md2.
66             md4             Renamed to crypto/md4.
67             md5             Renamed to crypto/md5.
68             rijndael        Renamed to crypto/rijndael.
69             sha1            Renamed to crypto/sha1.
70
71 2007-03-27  vasprintf       The module now depends on stdio, so replace
72                                #include "vasprintf.h"
73                             with
74                                #include <stdio.h>
75
76 2007-03-24  tsearch         The include file is changed from "tsearch.h" to
77                             <search.h>.
78
79 2007-03-24  utf8-ucs4       The include file is changed from "utf8-ucs4.h"
80                             to "unistr.h".
81             utf8-ucs4-unsafe  The include file is changed from
82                             "utf8-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
83             utf16-ucs4      The include file is changed from "utf16-ucs4.h"
84                             to "unistr.h".
85             utf16-ucs4-unsafe  The include file is changed from
86                             "utf16-ucs4-unsafe.h" to "unistr.h".
87             ucs4-utf8       The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf8.h"
88                             to "unistr.h".
89             ucs4-utf16      The include file is changed from "ucs4-utf16.h"
90                             to "unistr.h".
91
92 2007-03-19  iconvme         The module is removed. Use module striconv instead:
93                             iconv_string -> str_iconv
94                             iconv_alloc -> str_cd_iconv (with reversed
95                                            arguments)
96
97 2007-03-15  list            The functions gl_list_create_empty and
98             array-list      gl_list_create now take an extra fourth argument.
99             carray-list     You can pass NULL.
100             linked-list
101             linkedhash-list
102             avltree-list
103             rbtree-list
104             avltreehash-list
105             rbtreehash-list
106
107 2007-03-15  oset            The function gl_oset_create_empty now takes a
108             array-oset      third argument. You can pass NULL.
109             avltree-oset
110             rbtree-oset
111
112 2007-03-12  des             The types and functions in lib/des.h have been
113             gc-des          renamed:
114
115                             des_ctx -> gl_des_ctx, tripledes_ctx -> gl_3des_ctx,
116                             des_is_weak_key -> gl_des_is_weak_key,
117                             des_setkey -> gl_des_setkey,
118                             des_makekey -> gl_des_makekey,
119                             des_ecb_crypt -> gl_des_ecb_crypt,
120                             des_ecb_encrypt -> gl_des_ecb_encrypt,
121                             des_ecb_decrypt -> gl_des_ecb_decrypt,
122                             tripledes_set2keys -> gl_3des_set2keys,
123                             tripledes_set3keys -> gl_3des_set3keys,
124                             tripledes_makekey -> gl_3des_makekey,
125                             tripledes_ecb_crypt -> gl_3des_ecb_crypt.
126
127                             Also consider using the "gc-des" buffer instead of
128                             using the "des" module directly.
129
130 2007-02-28  xreadlink       The module xreadlink was renamed to
131                             xreadlink-with-size. The function was renamed:
132                             xreadlink -> xreadlink_with_size.
133
134 2007-02-18  exit            The modules now depend on stdlib, so replace
135             mkdtemp           #include "exit.h"
136             mkstemp           #include "mkdtemp.h"
137                               #include "mkstemp.h"
138                             with
139                               #include <stdlib.h>
140
141 2007-01-26  strdup          The module now depends on string, so replace
142                               #include "strdup.h"
143                             with
144                               #include <string.h>
145
146 # This is for Emacs.
147 # Local Variables:
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