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authorSiddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>2021-06-10 16:45:10 +0530
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Add NEWS item for gconv-modules.d change
Reviewed-by: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
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@@ -39,6 +39,14 @@ Major new features:
supported when LFS (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) is also enabled. It is only
enabled for Linux and the full support requires a minimum version of 5.1.
+* The main gconv-modules file in glibc now contains only a small set of
+ essential converter modules and the rest have been moved into a supplementary
+ configuration file gconv-modules-extra.conf in the gconv-modules.d directory
+ in the same GCONV_PATH. Similarly, external converter modules directories
+ may have supplementary configuration files in a gconv-modules.d directory
+ with names ending with .conf to logically classify the converter modules in
+ that directory.
+
Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
* The function pthread_mutex_consistent_np has been deprecated; programs