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=== Boost 1.64
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The http://www.boost.org[Boost C++ libraries] have been upgraded to version 1.64. Apart from a number of bugfixes and improvements to existing libraries, this brings a new library compared to Fedora 26, Boost.Process.
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For more information, see the http://www.boost.org/users/history/version_1_64_0.html[Boost 1.64 release notes].
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+ [[sect-c-glibc]]
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+ === GNU C Library 2.26
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+ Fedora 27 ships with version 2.26 of the GNU C Library (glibc). New features include:
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+ * A per-thread malloc cache has been added that significantly improves the malloc API family of functions on certain multithreaded workloads.
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+ * Unicode 10.0.0 support for character encodings, character type info, and transliteration tables.
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+ * Improvements in the DNS stub resolver including runtime detection of changed DNS servers (/etc/resolv.conf changes) and use of those new servers without needing to restart the process.
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+ Security improvements include fixes for the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2017-12132, CVE-2017-1000366, CVE-2010-3192, CVE-2017-12133.
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+ More information about this version of the GNU C Library can be found in https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2017-08/msg00010.html[the release notes].
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sclark
commented 7 years ago
A release note for Issue #24 'GNU C Library 2.26'. @codonell please would you review the text and let me know if anything needs to be added or changed?