[PATCH v2] NEWS: Add some more news from the 2.41 cycle

[Adhemerval Zanella Netto]

On 27/01/25 10:19, dilfridge@gentoo.org wrote:
> From: Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@gentoo.org>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@gentoo.org>

LGTM, thanks.

Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella  <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>

> ---
>  NEWS | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
>  1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
> index 3e0cf4e112..b11422b060 100644
> --- a/NEWS
> +++ b/NEWS
> @@ -9,18 +9,19 @@ Version 2.41
>  
>  Major new features:
>  
> -* Support for testing a glibc build with a different set of C and C++
> -  compilers from the C and C++ compilers used to build glibc has been
> +* Support for testing a glibc build with a set of C and C++ compilers
> +  different from the C and C++ compilers used to build glibc has been
>    added:
> -
>    $ ../configure TEST_CC="gcc-6.4.1" TEST_CXX="g++-6.4.1"
>  
>    This includes support for testing the glibc build with Clang, e.g.,
> -
>    $ ../configure TEST_CC="clang" TEST_CXX="clang++"
>  
>    Some run-time failures with Clang are expected.
>  
> +* The glibc test suite has been extended again significantly, with now
> +  6232 separate tests compared to 5408 in glibc-2.40.
> +
>  * In /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_OPTIONS environment variable, option
>    flags can now be prefixed with “-” to clear previously set flags.
>    For example, if /etc/resolv.conf contains “options no-aaaa”, a
> @@ -44,6 +45,9 @@ Major new features:
>  * The iconv program now supports converting files in place.  The program
>    automatically uses a temporary file if required.
>  
> +* Character encoding, character type info, and transliteration tables
> +  have been updated to Unicode 16.0.0.
> +
>  * The following ISO C23 function families (introduced in TS
>    18661-4:2015) are now supported in <math.h>.  Each family includes
>    functions for float, double, long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx, and a
> @@ -65,6 +69,9 @@ Major new features:
>    sinhf, and tanhf functions have been added from the CORE-MATH
>    project <https://core-math.gitlabpages.inria.fr/>.
>  
> +* A benchtest framework is now in place to track the performance of many
> +  (mostly numerical) functions.
> +
>  * A new tunable, glibc.rtld.execstack, can be used to control whether an
>    executable stack is allowed from the main program, either implicitly
>    due to a mising GNU_STACK ELF header or explicit explicitly because
> @@ -90,18 +97,30 @@ Major new features:
>    controlled at runtime via the glibc.cpu.aarch64_gcs tunable. By
>    default GCS is disabled.  Linux kernel supports this since 6.13.
>  
> +* Significant effort has been put into improving the code generation
> +  and speed of mathematical functions in the vector mathematics library
> +  on AArch64, with regard to the Scalable Vector Extension (SVE) and
> +  Advanced SIMD (Neon) intrinsics.
> +
> +* Support for memory protection keys on AArch64 systems with enabled
> +  Stage 1 permission overlays feature as introduced in Armv8.9 / 9.4
> +  has been added.
> +
> +* On PowerPC64, support for the return-oriented programming protection
> +  instructions added in ISA 3.1 (Power10) has been added, as well as
> +  function optimizations for Power10.
> +
> +* A new architecture type has been introduced internally to better
> +  support Hygon x86-64 processors.
> +
>  Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting
>  compatibility:
>  
> -* The big-endian ARC port (arceb-linux-gnu) has been removed.
> -
>  * abort is now async-signal-safe and its implementation makes longjmp
>    from the SIGABRT handler always abort if set up with setjmp.  Use
>    sigsetjmp to keep the old behavior, where the handler does not stop
>    the process execution.
>  
> -* The nios2*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
> -
>  * dlopen and dlmopen no longer make the stack executable if a shared
>    library requires it, either implicitly because of a missing GNU_STACK
>    ELF header (and default ABI permission having the executable bit set)
> @@ -109,6 +128,10 @@ compatibility:
>    stack is not already executable.  Instead, loading such objects will
>    fail.
>  
> +* The nios2*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
> +
> +* The big-endian ARC port (arceb-linux-gnu) has been removed.
> +
>  Changes to build and runtime requirements:
>  
>  * On recent Linux kernels with vDSO getrandom support, getrandom does