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@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2017-02-05 Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org> + + * NEWS: Add missing news items. + 2017-02-04 Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org> * elf/tst-env-setuid.c (do_execve): Return EXIT_UNSUPPORTED in @@ -189,6 +189,14 @@ Version 2.25 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has instructions on adding new tunables to the library. +* A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in + the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering + guarantees. + +* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more + scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to + make state changes. + Security related changes: * On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which |