[release-notes] noting gcc and glibc version bump

Pete Travis immanetize at fedoraproject.org
Sun May 12 18:41:37 UTC 2013


commit 71c7b7f3d0bed4a9fb1fe8938f30212cdba09399
Author: Pete Travis <immanetize at fedoraproject.org>
Date:   Sun May 12 12:40:42 2013 -0600

    noting gcc and glibc version bump

 en-US/Development_GCC_Tools.xml |   23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/en-US/Development_GCC_Tools.xml b/en-US/Development_GCC_Tools.xml
index 9deac5e..ae59f88 100644
--- a/en-US/Development_GCC_Tools.xml
+++ b/en-US/Development_GCC_Tools.xml
@@ -6,5 +6,28 @@
 <section>
   <title>GCC Tools</title>
   <para />  
+  <section>
+    <title>GCC 4.8.x</title>
+    <para>
+      As of Fedora &PRODVER;, GCC 4.8.x is shipped as the default GCC. In addition, all Fedora packages have been rebuilt with GCC 4.8.x (and GLIBC 2.17; see below)
+    </para>
+    <para>
+      Users will be able to see compiled code improvements and use the newly added features, such as improved C++11 and C11 support, improved vectorization support, etc.
+    </para>
+    <para>
+      For more information on the changes in GCC 4.8.x, please see <ulink url="http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.8/changes.html" />
+    </para>
+  </section>
+  
+  <section>
+    <title>GLIBC 2.17</title>
+    <para>
+      As of Fedora 19, GLIBC 2.17 is shipped as the default GLIBC. All Fedora packages have been rebuilt with GLIBC 2.17 (and GCC 4.8.x; see above).
+    </para>
+    <para>
+      For more information on the changes in GLIBC 2.17, please see <ulink url="http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-announce/2012/msg00001.html" />
+    </para>
+  </section>
+
 </section>
   


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