[uClibc]uClibc 0.9.17 released

[Erik Andersen]

uClibc 0.9.17 released
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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. 
    
This release also fixes lots and lots 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!

Unfortunately, this release is not binary compatible with
earlier uClibc releases.  As has been previously noted,
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 may need additional updates.  Sorry
about that, but it had to be done.  

As usual, the uClibc 0.9.17 release can be obtained from:
    http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/uClibc-0.9.17.tar.bz2
    http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/uClibc-0.9.17.tar.bz2

The Changelog for this release is here:
    http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/Changelog
    http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/Changelog.full



About uClibc:
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    uClibc (aka µClibc/pronounced yew-see-lib-see) is a C library
    for developing embedded Linux systems. It is much smaller
    then the GNU C Library, but nearly all applications supported
    by glibc also work perfectly with uClibc. Porting
    applications from glibc to uClibc typically involves just
    recompiling the source code.  uClibc even supports shared
    libraries and threading. It currently runs on standard Linux
    and MMU-less (also known as µClinux) systems with support for
    alpha, ARM, i386, i960, h8300, m68k, mips/mipsel, PowerPC,
    SH, SPARC, and v850 processors.

    The uClibc web site can be found at:
	http://www.uclibc.org/

 -Erik

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