X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.5 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_20,EXECUTABLE_URI X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:17:57 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-45 Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-02-20) Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Note-from-DJ: This may be spam Hi folks, I just uploaded a new Cygwin 1.7 test release, 1.7.0-45. ======================================================================= IMPORTANT NOTE This test release comes with a major change in terms of support for native character sets. I added a new chapter to the documentation to explain the new capabilities and how to use them. Along the same lines the CYGWIN=codepage environment variable option has gone away. Please, see the "What's new" section below for more details! ======================================================================= Cygwin 1.7 is a major jump from Cygwin 1.5.x. The list with all changes related to Cygwin 1.5.25 is attached below. ======================================================================= If nothing goes overly wrong, the official 1.7.1 release goes public within the next two and a half months. ======================================================================= Just download http://cygwin.com/setup-1.7.exe and use that setup tool to install Cygwin 1.7. As usual, please report bugs and problems to the mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com. We also have a new User's Guide for 1.7, which is currently located at http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/cygwin-ug-net.html We also now have new API documentation http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-api/cygwin-api.html And we have a new FAQ, though very likely not quite complete since we still don't know what exactly *is* a FAQ related to Cygwin 1.7. http://cygwin.com/1.7/faq/faq.html The list of user visible changes in Cygwin 1.7 compared to the old Cygwin 1.5.25 release is NOT appended to this mail anymore, rather it's now part of the Cygwin User's Guide: http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/ov-new1.7.html Bug fixes and extensions to the documentation in the form of patches to the source SGML files are much appreciated. The SGML sources are located in the CVS repository under the winsup/doc directory, for example here: http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/winsup/doc/?cvsroot=src Same goes for Cygwin patches in general, of course. ======================================================================= This is still a TEST release. Don't use in critical production environments. Nevertheless I'd like to encourage everyone to give 1.7 a shot. Due to internal changes it is possible to install a 1.7 release in parallel to a 1.5 release and even run 1.7 processes in parallel to 1.5 processes. * The processes will not know about each other! Any try to interact * between 1.7-based and 1.5-based processes will lead to, at least, funny * results. To install a 1.7 release in parallel to a 1.5 release, all you have to do is to choose another root directory (for instance: C:\cygwin-1.7) in setup-1.7's "Choose Installation Directory" dialog. * NOTE: Due to the way setup-1.7 works, you have to change the directory * right the first time you visit this dialog! If you pressed the "Next" * button and then "Back" again, it's already too late and setup-1.7 will * create a broken 1.7 install. If you pressed "Next" by mistake, exit * setup-1.7 and start it again. ======================================================================= What's new in contrast to 1.7.0-44 =================================== - A lot of character sets are supported now via a call to setlocale(). The setting of the environment variables $LANG, $LC_ALL or $LC_CTYPE will be used. For instance, setting $LANG to "de_DE.ISO-8859-15" before starting a Cygwin session will use the ISO-8859-15 character set in the entire session. UTF-8 is supported as well, as in "en_US.UTF-8". Along these lines, the "CYGWIN=codepage:{ansi,oem}" setting has been removed in favor of using $LANG, $LC_ALL, or $LC_CTYPE. The full list of supported character sets: "ASCII", "ISO-8859-x" with x in 1-16, except 12, "UTF-8", Windows codepages "CPxxx", with xxx in (437, 720, 737, 775, 850, 852, 855, 857, 858, 862, 866, 874, 1125, 1250, 1251, 1252, 1253, 1254, 1255, 1256, 1257, 1258), "JIS", "SJIS", "GBK", "eucJP", "eucKR", and "Big5". The leading language and territory part (en_US, for instance) is not used by Cygwin yet, but is required for POSIX compatibility. This is documented in length now in the Cygwin documentation. Please read http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/setup-locale.html - If a filename cannot be represented in the current character set, the character will be converted to a sequence Ctrl-N + UTF-8 representation of the character. This allows to access all files, even those not having a valid representation of their filename in the current character set (codepage). This is also documented in the Cygwin documentation. Please read http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-unusual - Symlinks are now using UTF-16 encoding for the target filename for better internationalization support. Cygwin 1.7 can read all old style symlinks, but the new style is not compatible with older Cygwin releases. No surprise, this is also documented in the Cygwin documentation now. Please read http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/setup-locale.html#setup-locale-problems and the shiny new FAQ entry: http://cygwin.com/1.7/faq/faq.using.html#faq.api.symlinkstoppedworking - New functions log2, log2f, wordexp, wordfree. Bugfixes: ========= - Fix a bug in creating secondary libs pointing to the Cygwin DLL (libc.a, libm.a, libdl.a, libpthread.a, libresolv.a, libutil.a) - Revert a patch in dlopen which disallowed to load shared libs using the Windows default DLL search path. - Several fixes in header files. - Fix a memory leak in pathconf(3). - Fix a potential crash in getaddrinfo(3). - Print IPv6 address using lowercase hex characters in inet_ntop(3). - Fix various bugs in passwd(1) tool which disallowed to change user information or password if the calling user wasn't the same as the user to be changed. - mbtowc now sets errno to EILSEQ if an invalid multibyte char has been found, according to POSIX. FAQ: ==== - Q: How do I know that I'm running Cygwin 1.7.0-45? A: The `uname -v' command prints "2009-03-31 12:05" Have fun, Corinna *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: cygwin-announce-unsubscribe-you=3D3Dyourdomain DOT com AT cygwin DOT com If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL. -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/