Tuesday, January 28 2003 @ 04:02 AM EST Contributed by: sde
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!
