From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/2706 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rich Felker Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: musl 0.9.9 released Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 02:10:53 -0500 Message-ID: <20130201071053.GA14593@brightrain.aerifal.cx> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1359702676 25354 80.91.229.3 (1 Feb 2013 07:11:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 07:11:16 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-2707-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Fri Feb 01 08:11:35 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1U1AmV-0003U7-OQ for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Feb 2013 08:11:27 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 15988 invoked by uid 550); 1 Feb 2013 07:11:07 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 15979 invoked from network); 1 Feb 2013 07:11:07 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:2706 Archived-At: Hi all, I'm pleased to announce the release of musl 0.9.9. In some ways it's less of a "big release" than I wanted while in other ways it's more. The biggest aspect of this release which isn't reflected in the blurb below is the record number of commits by persons other than myself, particularly nsz and John Spencer. I didn't realize how much was going to be new in this release until I sat down to write the change log and looked back at how much they'd done. Thanks! I know we also have some pending patches from other contributors that didn't make it into this release, and some work of my own that's not ready to commit yet. I'm looking forward to taking care of these after the release, now that we have a bit more freedom to make bigger changes without worrying about breaking an impending release. With that said, musl 0.9.9 features: Major compatibility improvements, including Linux-specific features, GNU extension functions, grsec kernel quirks compatibility, and workarounds for subtle but dangerous portability errors in some programs. Size, performance, and correctness improvements to the math library. Numerous low-impact bugs fixed. http://www.musl-libc.org/releases/musl-0.9.9.tar.gz There's a bunch of post-release agenda spread across several other threads on the mailing list which I won't try to summarize at the moment; let's just say there's lots of good stuff left to be done on musl in the next few release cycles leading towards a 1.0... Cheers, Rich