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  1. 0.5.0 - initial release
  2. 0.5.9 - signal ABI bugfix, various cleanup and fixes:
  3. sigset_t was wrongly defined as 1024 bytes instead of 1024 bits,
  4. breaking the intended ABI compatibility with the LSB/glibc sigaction
  5. structure. users should upgrade immediately and rebuild any libraries
  6. or object files that might be using the incorrect definitions.
  7. improved security against DoS with tcb shadow passwords by checking
  8. that the file opened was really an ordinary file.
  9. fixed a bug in the implementation of atomic ops that could have
  10. allowed the compiler to incorrectly reorder them (in practice, gcc
  11. with the default settings on i386 was not reordering them).
  12. greatly improved conformance to the C and POSIX standards regarding
  13. what the standard header files make visible. _POSIX_C_SOURCE is now
  14. needed to get POSIX functions in standard C headers, and _XOPEN_SOURCE
  15. or _GNU_SOURCE are required to get XSI interfaces or GNU extensions,
  16. respectively.
  17. many internal improvements have been made to the syscall-related code
  18. in preparation for porting to x86_64 and other archs.