From fa455c3b5de21ee59b3e997f3b3f6ef3090e862a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Andreas=20K=2E=20H=C3=BCttel?= Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2024 16:22:54 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] NEWS: add more major improvements for 2.40 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Signed-off-by: Andreas K. Hüttel --- 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: