glibc-2.8 released * New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN. * New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8. * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati). Implemented by Pravin Satpute. * IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID * nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. * nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. * More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf, vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek. * Faster memset for x86-64. Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu. * Faster memcpy on x86. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. * ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX). Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. * Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants. Implemented by Stephen Munroe.
