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Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2016 17:47:10 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.6.0-0.8
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Hi folks,


I uploaded a new Cygwin test release 2.6.0-0.8.

The new locale stuff has been folded into the master branch.  This
version adds the GNU-specific locale functions for converting strings to
numbers

...AND...

...hopefully...

fixes the problem introduced with 2.6.0-0.7, see
https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-08/msg00250.html and
https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-08/msg00252.html

=======================================================================

The 2.6.0 release is going to introducing the locale_t datatype, as well
as all functions related to locale_t locales and per-thread locales per
POSIX-1.2008.

So, rather than just providing a single, per-process locale, you can now
create new locales ("newlocale") and set it as locale for the current
thread ("uselocale") or use it directly with one of the new functions
taking a locale_t as parameter (i.e. isalpha_l).

The full list of new interfaces is:

  newlocale, freelocale, duplocale, uselocale

  isalnum_l, isalpha_l, isascii_l, isblank_l, iscntrl_l, isdigit_l,
  isgraph_l, islower_l, isprint_l, ispunct_l, isspace_l, isupper_l,
  iswalnum_l, iswalpha_l, iswblank_l, iswcntrl_l, iswctype_l,
  iswdigit_l, iswgraph_l, iswlower_l, iswprint_l, iswpunct_l,
  iswspace_l, iswupper_l, iswxdigit_l, isxdigit_l
  
  toascii_l, tolower_l, toupper_l, towctrans_l, towlower_l, towupper_l,
  wctrans_l, wctype_l

  strcasecmp_l, strcoll_l, strncasecmp_l, strxfrm_l

  wcscasecmp_l, wcscoll_l, wcstrncasecmp_l, wcstrxfrm_l

  strfmon_l, strftime_l

  strtol_l, stroll_l, strtoul_l, strtoull_l
  strtod_l, strtofl, strtold_l

  wcstol_l, wcsoll_l, wcstoul_l, wcstoull_l
  wcstod_l, wcstofl, wcstold_l

=======================================================================

Since this is brand-new code, this code *will* have bugs.

It would be very helpful if interested developers and Cygwin package
maintainers could give this new stuff some good testing.

Other than that:

=======================================================================

What changed:
-------------

- Drop support for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003/2003 R2.

- Drop support for very old SUNWNFS filesystem.

- Further header file improvements in terms of feature test macros.

- Raise number of supported partitions per disk (for raw access) to 63.
  Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-06/msg00136.html

- Add a workaround for filesystems not supporting the FileAllInformation
  info class.
  Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-07/msg00350.html

- "nobody" account support for WinFSP.


Bug Fixes
---------

- Make sure ldd(1) does not exit prematurely when enumerating DLLs.
  Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-05/msg00185.html

- Fix strace timer output in child process.
  Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-07/msg00067.html

- Change blkcnt_t to signed type per POSIX.

- Fix definition of SSIZE_MAX on 32-bit systems.
  Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-07/msg00179.html

- Fix transposing invalid chars in Windows filenames on relative paths.
  Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-07/msg00193.html

- Don't raise SIGTTIN from select(2)/poll(2).
  Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2016-07/msg00004.html

- Fix truncl which was using the wrong FPU rounding mode.
  Addresses: https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=128665

- Fix a regression in ioctl(fd, FIONREAD, ...) introduced in Cygwin 2.5.0.
  This only affects 64 bit Cygwin.
  Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-07/msg00001.html

- Handle "clear screen" escpae sequence in console window more reliable.
  Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-07/msg00310.html

- Allow kill(pid, <anysig>) on zombies to return successfully, rather than
  only kill(pid, 0), to align behaviour with POSIX requirements.
  Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-08/msg00188.html

=======================================================================


Thanks,
Corinna

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