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In 20.0, -it included the Cygwin headers which was incorrect. - -The "-pipe" flag to gcc works correctly now. - -The cygcheck program now reassures users that not finding cpp is the -correct behavior. - -The "-b" flag to md5sum can now be used to generate correct checksums -of binary files. - -The libtermcap library has been added to the compiler tools sources. -It is the new source of the termcap library and /etc/termcap file. - -The less pager (using libtermcap) has been added to the binary -distribution. - -@subsection Changes in the Cygwin API (cygwin.dll): - -This version of Cygwin is backwards-compatible with the beta 20 and 19 -releases. The library is now much more stable under Windows 9x and the -bugs affecting configures under 9x (and NT to a lesser extent) have -also been fixed. - -The bug that made it necessary to start the value of the CYGWIN -environment variable with two leading spaces has been fixed. - -The serial support in the select call has been fixed. - -Handling of DLLs loaded by non-cygwin apps has been improved. Bugs in -dlopen have been fixed. - -Passing _SC_CHILD_MAX to the sysconf function now yields CHILD_MAX (63) -instead of _POSIX_CHILD_MAX (3). - -Several minor path bugs have been fixed. Including the one that -caused "mkdir a/" to fail. - -The include file sys/sysmacros.h has been added. Added missing protos -for wcslen and wcscmp to wchar.h. - -__P is now defined in include/sys/cdefs.h. To support that last change, -the top-level Makefile.in now sets CC_FOR_TARGET and CXX_FOR_TARGET -differently. - -Cygwin now exports the following newlib bessel functions: j1, jn, y1, -yn. - -Several tty ioctl options have been added: TCGETA, TCSETA, TCSETAW, and -TCSETAF. - -Several functions cope with NULL pointer references more gracefully. - -Problems with execution of relative paths via #! should be fixed. - -@section Release Beta 20 (Oct 30 1998) - -This is a significant update to the Beta 19 release. In addition to an -EGCS-based compiler and updated tools, this release includes a new -version of the Cygwin library that contains many improvements and -bugfixes over the last one. - -@subsection The project has a new name! - -Starting with this release, we are retiring the "GNU-Win32" name for the -releases. We have also dropped the "32" from Cygwin32. This means that -you should now refer to the tools as "the Cygwin toolset", the library -as "the Cygwin library" or "the Cygwin DLL", and the library's interface -as "the Cygwin API". - -Because of this name change, we have changed any aspects of the library -that involved the name "Cygwin32". For example, the CYGWIN32 -environment variable is now the CYGWIN environment variable. API -functions starting with cygwin32_ are still available under that form -for backwards-compatibility as well as under the new cygwin_-prefixed -names. The same goes for the change of preprocessor define from -__CYGWIN32__ to __CYGWIN__. We will remove the old names in a future -release so please take the minute or two that it will take to remove -those "32"s. Thanks and I apologize for the hassle this may cause -people. We would have changed the name to "Bob" but that name's already -taken by Microsoft... :-) - -Why change it? For one thing, not all of the software included in the -distributions is GNU software, including the Cygwin library itself. So -calling the project "GNU-Win32" has always been a bit of a misnomer. In -addition, we think that calling the tools the "Cygwin tools" that use -the "Cygwin library" will be less confusing to people. - -Also notice that we are now on the spiffy new sourceware.cygnus.com -web/ftp site. The old address will work for some unknown period of -time (hopefully at least until we get all of the mirrors adjusted). - -@subsection Changes in specific tools: - -The latest public EGCS release is now the basis for the compiler used -in Cygwin distributions. As a result, EGCS 1.1 is the compiler in this -release, with a few additional x86/Cygwin-related patches. - -Those of you who are more interested in native Windows development than -in porting Unix programs will be glad to know that a new gcc flag -"-mno-cygwin" will link in the latest Mingw32 libs and produce an -executable that does not use Cygwin. - -All of the other development tools have been updated to their latest -versions. The linker (ld) includes many important bug fixes. It is now -possible to safely strip a DLL with a .reloc section. The windres -resource compiler is significantly improved. - -Beta 20 also includes upgrades to a number of packages: ash-0.3.2-4, -bash 2.02.1, grep-2.2, ncurses 4.2, and less 332. We have added bzip2 -0.9.0 to the distribution. And you'll now find that the df utility -has joined its other friends from the fileutils package. - -The sh executable is still ash from the Debian Linux distribution but no -longer has the problematic quoting bug that was present in the Beta 19 -release. Control-Cs in the bash shell no longer kill background tasks. - -Tcl/tk are upgraded to version 8.1a2 (with additional patches). -Compatible versions of tix and itcl are included. These all include -Cygwin-compatible configury files so you can do a Unix-style build of -the Win32 ports of tcl/tk. expect has been upgraded to 5.26 with some -additional Cygwin patches. - -In response to customer requests and feedback, Cygnus has developed a -better graphical front end to GDB than GDBtk or WinGDB. This tcl-based -GUI is shipping today to customers of the GNUPro Toolkit. The -instrumentation changes to GDB and the tcl interpreter that was built -into GDB are part of the GPL'd source base. But the tcl scripts are not -being made available to the net at this time. For this reason, you will -only find a command-line version of gdb in this Cygwin release. - -DJ Delorie has written a new "cygcheck" program that will print out -useful information about how your Cygwin environment is set up, what -DLLs a named executable is loading from where, etc. We hope this will -make it easier to help diagnose common setup problems. - -The ps utility has been upgraded. It now has several options including -shorter and longer output formats. - -@subsection Changes in the Cygwin API (cygwin.dll): - -This version of Cygwin is backwards-compatible with the beta 19 release. -You can use the new "cygwin1.dll" with your old B19-compiled executables -if you move the old "cygwinb19.dll" out of the way and install a copy -of "cygwin1.dll" as "cygwinb19.dll". - -Quite a lot of the Cygwin internals have been rewritten or modified to -address various issues. If you have a question about specific changes, -the winsup/ChangeLog file in the development tools sources lists all -changes made to the DLL over the last three years. Following are a few -highlights: - -We are now using a new versioning scheme for Cygwin. There is now a -separate version number for the DLL, the API, the shared memory region -interfaces, and the registry interface. This will hopefully make it -easier for multiple Cygwin toolsets to coexist in one user environment. - -Windows 98 is now supported (it is like Windows 95 from Cygwin's -perspective). We still recommend upgrading to Windows NT. - -While there is still a lot left to do in improving Cygwin's runtime -performance, we have put some effort into this prior to the B20 release. -Hopefully you will find that the latest version of Cygwin is faster than -ever. In addition, we have plugged several nasty handle leaks -associated with opening/closing files and with using ttys. - -The lseek call now uses WriteFile to fill gaps with zeros whenever a -write is done past an EOF, rather than leaving "undefined" data as Win32 -specifies. - -Significant work has been done to improve the Cygwin header files. - -The Cygwin Support for Unix-style serial I/O is much improved. - -Path handling has had another round of fixes/rewrites. We no longer use -NT Extended Attributes by default for storing Unix permissions/execute -status because the file NT creates on FAT partitions is not scalable to -thousands of files (everything slows to a crawl). - -Signal handling has also gotten a fair amount of attention. -Unfortunately, there are still some problems combining itimers and -Windows 9x. - -The number of ttys has been upped from 16 to 128. - -New API calls included in the DLL: sethostent, endhostent. - -As mentioned earlier, all cygwin32_-prefixed functions are now exported -with a cygwin_ prefix instead. Please adjust your code to call the -newly named functions. - -reads of `slow' devices are now correctly interrupted by signals, i.e. -a read will receive an EINTR. |