glibc 2.5 CVS has been tested for a long time in our beta tree, the final release is now planned for the 29th and therefore we've moved it to factory on friday. The switch from 2.4 to 2.5 was rather easy (compared with the switch From=202.3 to 2.4), so only a few packages needed fixing (I only saw some using splice as function). FYI, I'm appending the NEWS file for glibc 2.5 so that you get a high level overview. Besides this, a lot of bug fixes and optimizations have been done. Version 2.5 * For Linux, the sorting of addresses returned by getaddrinfo now also handles rules 3 and 7 from RFC 3484. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. * Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. * New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice. * New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov. * For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some site might have problems with default behavior. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. * Iterating over entire database in NIS can be slow. With the SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. * The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by Ulrich Drepper. * Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper. * Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper. * Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek. Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126