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*libc, cube, ncftp, tcl, openjpeg2, pthread, libcx, rpm//
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We released version 1:0.1.1-1 of libc, version 3.0-1 of cube (REXX procedure used to modify a CONFIG.SYS-like ASCII file), version 3.2.6-6 of ncftp (Improved console FTP client), version 8.5.9-4 of tcl (Tool Command Language, pronounced tickle), version 2.3.0-2 of openjpeg2 (C-Library for JPEG 2000), version 2:0.1-1 of pthread (A posix pthread emulation for OS/2 and OS/2 based systems), version 0.6.5-1 of libcx (kLIBC Extension Library), version 4.13.0-18 of rpm (The RPM package management system)
It is uploaded as rpm to the netlabs rel or exp repository. To install just use either yum or ANPM. If anyone prefers a zip file, those are available at the netlabs rel repo <rpm.netlabs.org/release/00/zip> or at the netlabs exp repo <rpm.netlabs.org/experimental/00/zip>.

What's new in libc:

* Fix failures to fork children from drive root directory [#31]
* Silence emxomf warnings not fixable by programmer [#32]

What's new in cube:

* fixes ticket #2 (courtesy of RLW)

What's new in ncftp:

* rebuild with latest macros.bww
* rebuild with latext libc and libcx
* better version to find sa_family

What's new in tcl:

* reworked fd handling in the mkstemp() case, to make it work
* create a nice bldlevel
* rebuild with latest scm_macros
* remove the dll from the devel rpm
* add debug package

What's new in openjpeg2:

* disable sse, as it crashed on some systems

What's new in pthread:

* Bump epoch to 2 to replace bulky versioning scheme with normal one
* Implement key destructors [#182]
* Make pthread_join survive kLIBC signal delivery
* Build against LIBCn (kLIBC successor)

What's new in libcx:

* mmap: Implement thread-safe concurrent access to file-based mappings
[#68]
* Build against LIBCn (kLIBC successor)

What's new in rpm:

* add buildlevel string
* fix ticket #333

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