| Message ID | 20240720142430.2834462-1-dilfridge@gentoo.org |
|---|---|
| State | New |
| Headers | show |
| Series | [COMMITTED] NEWS: add more major improvements for 2.40 | expand |
> On 20 Jul 2024, at 11:25, Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@gentoo.org> wrote: > > Signed-off-by: Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@gentoo.org> > --- > Further suggestions and corrections welcome... > --- > NEWS | 16 +++++++++++++--- > 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS > index 3824815917..282243f75c 100644 > --- a/NEWS > +++ b/NEWS > @@ -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: > > -- > 2.44.2 > LGTM, thanks. Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 3824815917..282243f75c 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -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:
Signed-off-by: Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@gentoo.org> --- Further suggestions and corrections welcome... --- NEWS | 16 +++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)