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@@ -12,6 +12,14 @@ Major new features: * Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and H.J. Lu from Intel. +* In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API + family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack + backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the + amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential + security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time + leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both + from a security and performance perspective. + Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility: * On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer |