From e8c2d79ec42c70b6e4fa282bc0c024bf42f0585f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2021 17:34:46 -0700 Subject: Add commentary for Time::HiRes patches --- NEWS | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 3c50ff8a..818ba1f4 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -3,6 +3,10 @@ GNU Autoconf NEWS - User visible changes. * Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?] ** Backward incompatibilities + +*** Autoconf now requires perl 5.8 (2002) or later. + Generated 'configure' scripts continue to run without perl. + ** New features ** Obsolete features and new warnings @@ -15,6 +19,12 @@ GNU Autoconf NEWS - User visible changes. ** Notable bug fixes +*** Autoconf caches now use finer-grained timestamps. + + Autoconf now uses floating-point numbers rather than integers to + represent cache file timestamps, thus avoiding some problems where + automake incorrectly decides not to regenerate stale caches. + * Noteworthy changes in release 2.71 (2021-01-28) [stable] ** Bug fixes, including: -- cgit v1.2.1