From 5a22ac0c1dbd71a853698e7ab47733b9e598f138 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Simons Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 13:19:38 +0200 Subject: NEWS: document recent changes --- NEWS | 55 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 54 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index dcdae09..79e910a 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -8,7 +8,60 @@ # and this notice are preserved. This file is offered as-is, without any # warranty. -* Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?] +* Noteworthy changes in release 2015.09.25 (2015-09-25) [stable] + + The Archive no longer releases an "lzip"-compressed tarball. The only + supported format now is "xz". The rationale is that xz so widely supported + that it seems pointless to archive two release archives on our servers for no + apparent reason. + + AX_PYTHON_DEVEL changed to provide PYTHON_LIBS, not PYTHON_LDFLAGS. This + change breaks scripts written with previous versions in mind! The rationale + is that -L and -l are LIBS arguments, not LDFLAGS arguments. Returning output + in PYTHON_LDFLAGS suggested wrongly that they should be used in LDFLAGS, + which can cause the -L and -l arguments to be ignored when they are not in + the expected position in the list of command line arguments. This is a + problem, for instance, with the command line generated by AC_LINK_IFELSE. + + AX_CXX_COMPILE_STDCXX_11 now supports Cray's crayCC compiler (CCE 8.4). + + AX_PYTHON, AX_PYTHON_EMBED now support Python 3.4. + + AX_LIB_ORACLE_OCI now supports Oracle 12. + + AX_EXT now supports AVX2/AVX512 and other CPU extensions. + + The new macro AX_GNU_AUTOTEST was added. The macro supports multiple + test-suites, Makefiles in different locations and many more features. + + AX_CXX_COMPILE_STDCXX_11 now checks for attribute support with C++11 macro. + Some compilers pass the other tests while not implementing this part of the + C++11 specification. The test used also does not cause warnings with GCC or + Clang, and can be used with -Werror. + + The new macro AX_PROG_BISON_VERSION can be used to check for specific + versions of bison. + + The new macro AX_PROG_FLEX_VERSION can be used to check for specific + versions of flex. + + AX_APPEND_FLAG no longer fails if the given flag contains a ','. + + AX_LUA now supports Lua 5.3. + + AX_BERKELEY_DB_CXX now supports FreeBSD. + + AX_CXX_COMPILE_STDCXX_11 now support HP aCC. + + AX_PYTHON_MODULE and AX_PYTHON_MODULE_VERSION now support Python 3. + + The new macro AX_PYTHON_MODULE_VERSION has been added. + + AX_LIB_POSTGRESQL provides a new output variable POSTGRESQL_LIBS. + + AX_PATH_GENERIC now supports flags that contain spaces. + + AX_BOOST_BASE now supports native Windows header only libraries. * Noteworthy changes in release 2015.02.24 (2015-02-24) [stable] -- cgit v1.2.1