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Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 02:22:43 -0400
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...ifal.cx>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Drafting 1.0 announcements
The below are DRAFTS, not actual announcements of a release. I'm
posting them now in search of suggestions for improving them.
Rich
Short release announcement for freecode and anyone already familiar
with musl just needing to know about the new release:
This release adds support for a soft-float ABI variant on MIPS as
well as new experimental ports to SuperH and x32 (the new 32-bit
ABI for x86_64). Two floating point printf bugs have been fixed
including a rounding error and off-by-one buffer overflow that
could occur only when printing certain denormal values with
thousands of places of precision. A second overflow issue was
fixed in wcsxfrm where a buffer length of zero was misinterpreted.
Several other minor bug fixes and compatibility improvements have
also been made.
Blurb for news sites that accept moderate-length submissions:
The musl libc project has released version 1.0, the result of
three years of development and testing. Musl is a lightweight,
fast, simple, MIT-licensed, correctness-oriented alternative to
the GNU C library (glibc), uClibc, or Android's Bionic. At this
point musl provides all mandatory C99 and POSIX interfaces (plus a
lot of widely-used extensions), and well over 5000 packages are
known to build successfully against musl.
Several options are available for trying musl. Compiler toolchains
are available from the musl-cross project, and several new
musl-based Linux distributions are available (Sabotage and
Snowflake, among others). Some well-established distributions
including OpenWRT and Gentoo now have musl-based variants too, and
others (Aboriginal, Alpine, Bedrock, Dragora) are in the process
of switching to musl as their default libc.
[Optional: provide links for all other projects mentioned?]
Or a bit shorter, for sites that don't accept long submissions:
Musl libc 1.0 is now available. Musl is a light, fast, simple,
MIT-licensed, correctness-oriented alternative to the GNU C
library (glibc), uClibc, or Android's Bionic, providing all
mandatory C99 and POSIX interfaces plus many widely-used
extensions. Well over 5000 packages are known to build against
musl. Several musl-based Linux distributions are now available
including musl-based variants of OpenWRT and Gentoo and several
new distributions built around musl. Compiler toolchains are also
available from the musl-cross project.
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