From c2caa3425b1c9ce5415fb4eeaa9da44af1851f7d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Stefan=20E=C3=9Fer?= Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2020 14:43:14 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add a note regarding the introduction of the new bc and dc implementations that are built by default on -CURRENT after 2020-06-26. --- UPDATING | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING index 29d11f3c923f..ee69605d9f28 100644 --- a/UPDATING +++ b/UPDATING @@ -26,6 +26,15 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 13.x IS SLOW: disable the most expensive debugging functionality run "ln -s 'abort:false,junk:false' /etc/malloc.conf".) +20200627: + A new implementation of bc and dc has been imorted in r362681. This + implementation corrects non-conformant behavior of the previous bc + and adds GNU bc compatible options. It offers a number of extensions, + is much faster on large values, and has support for message catalogs + (a number of languages are already supported, contributions of further + languages welcome). The option WITHOUT_GH_BC can be used to build the + world with the previous versions of bc and dc. + 20200625: r362639 changed the internal API used between the NFS kernel modules. As such, they all need to be rebuilt from sources.