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<p>
+ <li> <b>17 February 2003, development system updates</b>
+ <br>
+
+ The uClibc development systems for
+ <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/root_fs-i386.bz2">i386</a>
+ and
+ <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/root_fs-powerpc.bz2">powerpc</a>,
+ and
+ <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/root_fs-arm.bz2">arm</a>
+ have been again updated. This time around a few broken symlinks
+ (one preventing C++ code from compiling) have been fixed, several
+ system calls related to uids and gid have been fixed, the powerpc
+ system call mechanism has been updated, and GNU tar and GNU grep
+ have been added. gcc, gcc+, ssh, etc are all still included and
+ things remain binary compatible with uClibc 0.9.18.
+ Have Fun.
+ <p>
+
+
+ <p>
+ <li> <b>12 February 2003, development system updates</b>
+ <br>
+
+ The uClibc development system has had a number of problems
+ fixed, and has been updated for uClibc 0.9.18. The
+ <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/root_fs-i386.bz2">i386</a>
+ and
+ <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/root_fs-powerpc.bz2">powerpc</a>,
+ and
+ <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/root_fs-arm.bz2">arm</a>
+ devel systems are updated and ready to download and use.
+ Have Fun.
+ <p>
+
+
+ <p>
+ <li> <b>12 February 2003, uClibc 0.9.18 Released</b>
+ <br>
+
+ CodePoet Consulting is pleased to announce the immediate availability of
+ uClibc 0.9.18. This is primarily a bug-fix release, as there were a few
+ directory handling problem that could cause application using uClibc 0.9.17
+ to either segfault or lose the first character when reading directry names.
+ Unfortunately, once again, this release is _NOT_ binary compatible with
+ earlier uClibc releases. I _think this will be the last time (with the
+ possible exception of some future changes to our locale support...)
+
+ <p>
+ As usual, the
+ <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/Changelog">Changelog</a>
+ and <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/uClibc-0.9.18.tar.bz2">source code</a>
+ for this release are available <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/">here</a>.
+ You might want to download uClibc from the closest
+ <a href="http://kernel.org/mirrors/">kernel.org mirror site</a>.
+ Just pick the closest mirror site, and then go to
+ <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/">
+ http://www.XX.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/</a>
+ to download uClibc, where XX is your two letter country code.
+ <p>
+ <p>
+
+ <p>
+ <li> <b>25 January 2003, uClibc 0.9.17 Released</b>
+ <br>
+
+ CodePoet Consulting is pleased to announce the immediate availability of
+ uClibc 0.9.17. The biggest piece of news with this release, thanks to
+ Manuel Novoa's continuing hard work, is that we now have fully standards
+ compliant locale support (optional of course). The support works nicely,
+ (though configuring the locales you wish to support is still manual -- a
+ task for the next release). Full locale data for over 300 locales adds
+ approximately 250k. The collation data for all supported locales is
+ roughly 180k. This may seem rather large to some -- but it is much smaller
+ than the approximately 40 MB needed by Glibc to provide the same data. And
+ if you don't need it, you can either disable locale support entirely, or
+ enable a smaller set of locales.
+
+ <p>
+
+ This release also fixes <em>lots and lots</em> of bugs. The arm
+ architecture support (I am embarrassed to note) was totally broken in the
+ last release, but is now working as expected. A security problem (a
+ buffer overflow in getlogin_r) was fixed. And there were architecture
+ updates across the board (x86, arm, powerpc, cris, h8300, sparc, and mips).
+ And of course, this release includes the usual pile of bug fixes. Many
+ thanks for the large number of patches and fixes that were contributed!
+
+ <p>
+
+ Unfortunately, this release is not binary compatible with earlier uClibc
+ releases. As noted as item 3 <a href="downloads/Glibc_vs_uClibc_Differences.txt">here</a>,
+ uClibc does not (yet) attempt to
+ ensure binary compatibility across releases. We will eventually do that
+ (once we reach the "1.0" release) but not yet. A few bugs turned up that
+ needed to be fixed, and the only good way to fix them was to change some
+ fundamental data structure sizes. As a result, this release is _NOT_
+ binary compatible with earlier releases -- you will need to recompile your
+ applications. The x86, arm, powerpc, and mips architectures (i.e. the
+ systems Erik has available in his office for testing) have been tested and
+ are known to work following this change. Other architectures <em>may</em>
+ need additional updates. Sorry about that, but it had to be done.
+
+ <p>
+ As usual, the
+ <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/Changelog">Changelog</a>
+ and <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/uClibc-0.9.17.tar.bz2">source code</a>
+ for this release are available <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/">here</a>.
+ You might want to download uClibc from the closest
+ <a href="http://kernel.org/mirrors/">kernel.org mirror site</a>.
+ Just pick the closest mirror site, and then go to
+ <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/">
+ http://www.XX.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/</a>
+ to download uClibc, where XX is your two letter country code.
+ <p>
+
+ <p>
<li> <b>25 January 2003, dev system updates, arm image released</b>
<br>