From 330c9d0db1ff29f2f0c2b3561f39539836fbeed5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Siddhesh Poyarekar Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2019 22:01:21 +0530 Subject: Prepare for 2.29 release * NEWS: Add the list of bugs fixed in 2.29. * manual/contrib.texi: Update contributors list with some more names. * manual/install.texi: Update latest versions of packages tested. * INSTALL: Regenerated. --- manual/contrib.texi | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- manual/install.texi | 10 +++++----- 2 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) (limited to 'manual') diff --git a/manual/contrib.texi b/manual/contrib.texi index 76462cb..3ee4404 100644 --- a/manual/contrib.texi +++ b/manual/contrib.texi @@ -19,6 +19,9 @@ stack smashing protector enabled. John David Anglin for various fixes to the hppa port. @item +Albert ARIBAUD for Y2038 related fixes. + +@item Ryan S. Arnold for his improvements for Linux on PowerPC and his direction as FSF Project Steward for @theglibc{}. @@ -33,6 +36,9 @@ Jeff Bailey for his maintainership of the HPPA architecture. Petr Baudis for bug fixes and testing. @item +Anton Blanchard for various fixes. + +@item Stephen R. van den Berg for contributing a highly-optimized @code{strstr} function. @@ -105,9 +111,6 @@ and wide-character support functions (@file{wctype.h}, @file{wchar.h}, etc.). @end itemize @item -Wilco Dijkstra for various fixes. - -@item Richard Earnshaw for continued support and fixes to the various ARM machine files. @@ -169,6 +172,9 @@ Richard Henderson for the port to Linux on Alpha David Holsgrove for the port to Linux on MicroBlaze. @item +Leonhard Holz for various fixes. + +@item Daniel Jacobowitz for various fixes and enhancements. @item @@ -239,6 +245,12 @@ code. Chris Leonard for various fixes and enhancements to localedata. @item +Ilya Leoshkevich for various fixes. + +@item +Dmitry V. Levin for various fixes. + +@item Stefan Liebler for various fixes. @item @@ -282,6 +294,9 @@ Chris Metcalf for the port to Linux/Tile kernel syscall interface used by several newer ports. @item +Jim Meyering for various fixes. + +@item David Miller for contributing the port to Linux/Sparc (@code{sparc*-@var{anything}-linux}). @@ -363,6 +378,9 @@ Maciej W. Rozycki for MIPS fixes, support for ABSOLUTE symbols, and various fixes. @item +Leonardo Sandoval for various fixes. + +@item Pravin Satpute for writing sorting rules for some Indian languages. @item @@ -386,6 +404,9 @@ Martin Schwidefsky for porting to Linux on s390 Thomas Schwinge for his contribution to Hurd and the SH architecture. @item +Martin Sebor for various fixes. + +@item Andrew Senkevich for contributing vector math function implementations for x86. @item @@ -427,10 +448,16 @@ Samuel Thibault for improving the Hurd port. Pino Toscano for various fixes. @item +Matt Turner for various fixes to the Alpha port. + +@item Tim Waugh for the implementation of the POSIX.2 @code{wordexp} function family. @item +Ulrich Weigand for various fixes to the PowerPC64 and Arm ports. + +@item Florian Weimer for his maintainership of the network component, for handling of security issues, and for various fixes. @@ -439,6 +466,9 @@ Zack Weinberg for the @code{explicit_bzero} implementation and for various fixes. @item +Mark Wielaard for various fixes. + +@item Eric Youngdale for implementing versioning of objects on the symbol level. @item diff --git a/manual/install.texi b/manual/install.texi index 2a87a27..2cfa387 100644 --- a/manual/install.texi +++ b/manual/install.texi @@ -504,7 +504,7 @@ GCC 5 or newer GCC 5 or higher is required. In general it is recommended to use the newest version of the compiler that is known to work for building @theglibc{}, as newer compilers usually produce better code. As of -release time, GCC 8.1.1 is the newest compiler verified to work to build +release time, GCC 8.2.1 is the newest compiler verified to work to build @theglibc{}. For PowerPC 64-bits little-endian (powerpc64le), GCC 6.2 or higher is @@ -555,7 +555,7 @@ to work to build @theglibc{}. GNU @code{bison} 2.7 or later @code{bison} is used to generate the @code{yacc} parser code in the @file{intl} -subdirectory. As of release time, @code{bison} version 3.0.4 is the newest +subdirectory. As of release time, @code{bison} version 3.0.5 is the newest verified to work to build @theglibc{}. @item @@ -563,7 +563,7 @@ Perl 5 Perl is not required, but if present it is used in some tests and the @code{mtrace} program, to build the @glibcadj{} manual. As of release -time @code{perl} version 5.28.0 is the newest verified to work to +time @code{perl} version 5.28.1 is the newest verified to work to build @theglibc{}. @item @@ -577,7 +577,7 @@ with any version of @code{sed}. As of release time, @code{sed} version Python 3.4 or later Python is required to build @theglibc{}. As of release time, Python -3.6 is the newest verified to work for building and testing +3.7.1 is the newest verified to work for building and testing @theglibc{}. @item PExpect 4.0 @@ -595,7 +595,7 @@ GDB itself needs to be configured with Python support in order to use the pretty printers. Notice that your system having Python available doesn't imply that GDB supports it, nor that your system's Python and GDB's have the same version. As of release time GNU @code{debugger} -8.0.1 is the newest verified to work to test the pretty printers. +8.2 is the newest verified to work to test the pretty printers. Unless Python, PExpect and GDB with Python support are present, the printer tests will report themselves as @code{UNSUPPORTED}. Notice -- cgit v1.1