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diff --git a/docs/uclibc.org/old-news.html b/docs/uclibc.org/old-news.html index 618a1940d..f42763fa7 100644 --- a/docs/uclibc.org/old-news.html +++ b/docs/uclibc.org/old-news.html @@ -53,6 +53,122 @@ <ul> <p> + <li> <b>17 February 2003, development system updates</b> + <br> + + The uClibc development systems for + <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/root_fs-i386.bz2">i386</a> + and + <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/root_fs-powerpc.bz2">powerpc</a>, + and + <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/root_fs-arm.bz2">arm</a> + have been again updated. This time around a few broken symlinks + (one preventing C++ code from compiling) have been fixed, several + system calls related to uids and gid have been fixed, the powerpc + system call mechanism has been updated, and GNU tar and GNU grep + have been added. gcc, gcc+, ssh, etc are all still included and + things remain binary compatible with uClibc 0.9.18. + Have Fun. + <p> + + + <p> + <li> <b>12 February 2003, development system updates</b> + <br> + + The uClibc development system has had a number of problems + fixed, and has been updated for uClibc 0.9.18. The + <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/root_fs-i386.bz2">i386</a> + and + <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/root_fs-powerpc.bz2">powerpc</a>, + and + <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/root_fs-arm.bz2">arm</a> + devel systems are updated and ready to download and use. + Have Fun. + <p> + + + <p> + <li> <b>12 February 2003, uClibc 0.9.18 Released</b> + <br> + + CodePoet Consulting is pleased to announce the immediate availability of + uClibc 0.9.18. This is primarily a bug-fix release, as there were a few + directory handling problem that could cause application using uClibc 0.9.17 + to either segfault or lose the first character when reading directry names. + Unfortunately, once again, this release is _NOT_ binary compatible with + earlier uClibc releases. I _think this will be the last time (with the + possible exception of some future changes to our locale support...) + + <p> + As usual, the + <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/Changelog">Changelog</a> + and <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/uClibc-0.9.18.tar.bz2">source code</a> + for this release are available <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/">here</a>. + You might want to download uClibc from the closest + <a href="http://kernel.org/mirrors/">kernel.org mirror site</a>. + Just pick the closest mirror site, and then go to + <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/"> + http://www.XX.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/</a> + to download uClibc, where XX is your two letter country code. + <p> + <p> + + <p> + <li> <b>25 January 2003, uClibc 0.9.17 Released</b> + <br> + + CodePoet Consulting is pleased to announce the immediate availability of + uClibc 0.9.17. The biggest piece of news with this release, thanks to + Manuel Novoa's continuing hard work, is that we now have fully standards + compliant locale support (optional of course). The support works nicely, + (though configuring the locales you wish to support is still manual -- a + task for the next release). Full locale data for over 300 locales adds + approximately 250k. The collation data for all supported locales is + roughly 180k. This may seem rather large to some -- but it is much smaller + than the approximately 40 MB needed by Glibc to provide the same data. And + if you don't need it, you can either disable locale support entirely, or + enable a smaller set of locales. + + <p> + + This release also fixes <em>lots and lots</em> of bugs. The arm + architecture support (I am embarrassed to note) was totally broken in the + last release, but is now working as expected. A security problem (a + buffer overflow in getlogin_r) was fixed. And there were architecture + updates across the board (x86, arm, powerpc, cris, h8300, sparc, and mips). + And of course, this release includes the usual pile of bug fixes. Many + thanks for the large number of patches and fixes that were contributed! + + <p> + + Unfortunately, this release is not binary compatible with earlier uClibc + releases. As noted as item 3 <a href="downloads/Glibc_vs_uClibc_Differences.txt">here</a>, + uClibc does not (yet) attempt to + ensure binary compatibility across releases. We will eventually do that + (once we reach the "1.0" release) but not yet. A few bugs turned up that + needed to be fixed, and the only good way to fix them was to change some + fundamental data structure sizes. As a result, this release is _NOT_ + binary compatible with earlier releases -- you will need to recompile your + applications. The x86, arm, powerpc, and mips architectures (i.e. the + systems Erik has available in his office for testing) have been tested and + are known to work following this change. Other architectures <em>may</em> + need additional updates. Sorry about that, but it had to be done. + + <p> + As usual, the + <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/Changelog">Changelog</a> + and <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/uClibc-0.9.17.tar.bz2">source code</a> + for this release are available <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/">here</a>. + You might want to download uClibc from the closest + <a href="http://kernel.org/mirrors/">kernel.org mirror site</a>. + Just pick the closest mirror site, and then go to + <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/"> + http://www.XX.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/</a> + to download uClibc, where XX is your two letter country code. + <p> + + <p> <li> <b>25 January 2003, dev system updates, arm image released</b> <br> |