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@@ -80,6 +80,16 @@ Major new features:
Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
+* Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-nsl. libnsl is only built
+ as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules "nis"
+ and "nisplus" are not built at all and libnsl's headers aren't
+ installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs
+ that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement
+ implementations based on TI-RPC, which additionally support IPv6, are
+ available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not
+ affect the "compat" NSS module, which does not depended on libnsl
+ since 2.27 and thus can be used without NIS.
+
* The deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
@@ -115,11 +125,11 @@ Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same thread or
if the thread is terminated. It makes strerror MT-safe.
-* The "files", "nis" and "nisplus" NSS modules no longer supports the
- "key" database (used for secure RPC). The contents of the
- /etc/publickey file will be ignored, regardless of the settings in
- /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of storing RPC keys only supported
- the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES flavor of secure RPC.)
+* The "files" NSS module no longer supports the "key" database (used for
+ secure RPC). The contents of the /etc/publickey file will be ignored,
+ regardless of the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of
+ storing RPC keys only supported the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES
+ flavor of secure RPC.)
Changes to build and runtime requirements: