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NEWS: add more major improvements for 2.40

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Signed-off-by: Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@gentoo.org>
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@ -30,13 +30,23 @@ Major new features:
- Logarithmic functions: log2p1, log10p1, logp1. - 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 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 more extensive verification tests for AT_SECURE programs and not meant to
be a security feature. be a security feature.
* On Linux, update epoll header to include epoll ioctl definitions and * On Linux, the epoll header was updated to include epoll ioctl definitions
related structure added in Linux kernel 6.9. 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: Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility: