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authorFlorian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>2016-09-21 16:08:31 +0200
committerFlorian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>2016-09-21 16:08:32 +0200
commit3a2a1d2cc2e3c9fad9d93eaecf5874f04a679606 (patch)
treea5d700bf65bcd3af1430ec6dac11a1f605ef3ac0 /NEWS
parentf4a36548d86453792e3db05898f6f2b732c32581 (diff)
downloadglibc-3a2a1d2cc2e3c9fad9d93eaecf5874f04a679606.tar.gz
Remove obsolete DNSSEC support [BZ #20591]
The removed function declaration have never been implemented in libresolv.
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@@ -44,6 +44,12 @@ Version 2.25
for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
been removed.
+* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
+ <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
+ decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
+ only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
+ is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
+
Security related changes:
On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which