The glibc version 2.30 was released–according to the schedule–on August 1, 2019. The changes in the locale data are not big, most of them are related with but not limited to calendars support. Let’s look at the details, and also let’s take a look at the version 2.29.
See also: glibc 2.26: New and updated locales, glibc 2.27: New and updated locales. New version 2.28 of glibc library has been released according to the schedule, that means on August 1, 2018. This time the changes in locale support are not revolutionary. Most of them just continue the works started and partially completed in the previous versions. Alphabetic Collation …
For those interested: ffmpeg-compat package for Fedora is still alive. The package is a very old version of ffmpeg whose most recent release is 4.0.2 (as of September 2018). It was maintained by RPM Fusion but it has been retired since the release for Fedora 27 (the last supported Fedora version was 26). If you need this binary for Fedora 28, for example …
See also: glibc 2.26: New and Updated Locales. The new version glibc 2.27 has been released on February 1, 2018 (or February 2, depending on your time zone). This is the much belated report of the new changes in locale support. Collation Major rework has been started on the correct alphabetic sorting using ISO 14651:2016 standard (click here …
People learn from errors. Therefore bugs should be made public, not hidden. GLib is a utility library originally developed for GNOME but also used by other projects. One of many functions it provides is g_date_set_parse(). It is really smart and simple. It accepts a string to parse but other than many date parsing functions it …
Linux Autumn 2017 is coming, it’s starting in 3 days only. While waiting let’s take a look at one presentation of the last year. Dmitriy Kostiuk talked about How GNU/Linux and FLOSS keeps history of graphical user interface alive. Why was this talk so special? We all have seen many talk slides, including those about …
On March 13, 2017 the new version 1.18 of MATE Desktop was released. One of the last minute changes in the project was pulling the most recent translations from Transifex. Usually this is a good thing but apparently for the Polish language this turned out to be a little disaster because the plural rules have …
On August 2, 2017 glibc (The GNU C library) version 2.26 has been released. Among others, many issues related with supported locales have been addressed, most of them shortly before the release. Let’s see what has been changed. New locales Compared to the previous version, this release introduces the support of 6 new languages: Aguaruna, …
