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| author |   Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@gentoo.org> | 2024-07-20 16:22:54 +0200 |
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| committer | Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@gentoo.org> | 2024-07-20 16:22:54 +0200 |
| commit | fa455c3b5de21ee59b3e997f3b3f6ef3090e862a (patch) | |
| tree | 0b2020580678662168d975cc6f577bb612ae86e1 | |
| parent | linux: Trivial test output fix in tst-pkey (diff) | |
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NEWS: add more major improvements for 2.40
Signed-off-by: Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@gentoo.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 16 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -30,13 +30,23 @@ Major new features: - Logarithmic functions: log2p1, log10p1, logp1. -* A new tunable, glibc.rtld.enable_secure, used to run a program +* A new tunable, glibc.rtld.enable_secure, can be used to run a program as if it were a setuid process. This is currently a testing tool to allow more extensive verification tests for AT_SECURE programs and not meant to be a security feature. -* On Linux, update epoll header to include epoll ioctl definitions and - related structure added in Linux kernel 6.9. +* On Linux, the epoll header was updated to include epoll ioctl definitions + and the related structure added in Linux kernel 6.9. + +* The fortify functionality has been significantly enhanced for building + programs with clang against the GNU C Library. + +* Many functions have been added to the vector library for aarch64: + acosh, asinh, atanh, cbrt, cosh, erf, erfc, hypot, pow, sinh, tanh + +* On x86, memset can now use non-temporal stores to improve the performance + of large writes. This behaviour is controlled by a new tunable + x86_memset_non_temporal_threshold. Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility: |