Hi Cygwin friends and users,
I just released Cygwin 1.7.22. ======================================================================= INTRODUCING A 64 BIT RELEASE ======================================================================= This is the first official Cygwin release which is publically available as a 64 bit version for AMD64 Windows systems. Right now the 64 bit Cygwin distribution doesn't come with as many packages as the 32 bit version, but it's as stable as the 32 bit version, and more packages will be available over time. If you're already running a 32 bit version of Cygwin on 64 bit Windows machines, you can continue to do so. If you're planning a new install of Cygwin on a 64 bit Windows machine, consider to use the new 64 bit Cygwin version, unless you need certain packages not yet available in the 64 bit release. To install 32-bit Cygwin use the new http://cygwin.com/setup-x86.exe To install 64 bit Cygwin use the new http://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe ======================================================================= Other than that, 1.7.22 is mostly a bugfix release. What changed: ----------- - Support for /dev/mem, /dev/kmem and /dev/port removed, since OS support was limited to 32 bit Windows XP only. - Added cygwin GetCommandLine wrappers which will allow Cygwin programs to (appear to) use the Windows command line functions. - regcomp(3) now allows character values >= 0x80 if the current codeset is ASCII (default codeset in the "C"/"POSIX" locale). This allows patterns containing arbitrary byte values as GLibc's regcomp. Fixes: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-07/msg00405.html Bug fixes: ---------- - Fix an off-by-one error in path handling which made the access check for the existing path before a ".." component (introduced with 1.7.21) fail for UNC paths (//server/share/path). Fixes: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-07/msg00375.html - Fix long-standing problem which allows to access files via ".." using an invalid POSIX path, for instance, `cd nonexistant/../existing_dir". Fixes: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-05/msg00222.html - Fix an initialization bug in XSI IPC on, which could result in XSI IPC functions misbehave on x86_64. Fixes: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2013-07/msg00063.html http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2013-07/msg00229.html - Fix a timer handle leak in sleep family of functions. Fixes: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-07/msg00379.html - Fix issue with raise() not causing the process to exit with a signal status. Also only set "dumped core" flag when it's a "kernel" signal. See: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2013-07/msg00251.html Have fun, Corinna *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: cygwin-announce-unsubscribe-you=yourdomain....@cygwin.com If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sourceware.org/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL. -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple