diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
index 812f77049..adc1c1b8c 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+2013-11-26  Corinna Vinschen  <corinna@vinschen.de>
+
+	* common.din: Export posix_spawn[...] functions.
+	* exec.cc (execve): Add EXPORT_ALIAS _execve.
+	* include/cygwin/version.h (CYGWIN_VERSION_API_MINOR): Bump.
+	* posix.sgml (std-susv4):  Add posix_spawn[...] here.
+	(std-notimpl): Drop here.
+
 2013-11-26  Corinna Vinschen  <corinna@vinschen.de>
 
 	* nlsfuncs.cc (strcoll): Add "__restrict" to definition.
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/common.din b/winsup/cygwin/common.din
index c068911ae..613f9592e 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/common.din
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/common.din
@@ -775,6 +775,27 @@ posix_fallocate SIGFE
 posix_madvise SIGFE
 posix_memalign SIGFE
 posix_openpt SIGFE
+posix_spawn SIGFE
+posix_spawnattr_destroy SIGFE
+posix_spawnattr_init SIGFE
+posix_spawnattr_getflags NOSIGFE
+posix_spawnattr_getpgroup NOSIGFE
+posix_spawnattr_getschedparam NOSIGFE
+posix_spawnattr_getschedpolicy NOSIGFE
+posix_spawnattr_getsigdefault NOSIGFE
+posix_spawnattr_getsigmask NOSIGFE
+posix_spawnattr_setflags NOSIGFE
+posix_spawnattr_setpgroup NOSIGFE
+posix_spawnattr_setschedparam NOSIGFE
+posix_spawnattr_setschedpolicy NOSIGFE
+posix_spawnattr_setsigdefault NOSIGFE
+posix_spawnattr_setsigmask NOSIGFE
+posix_spawnp SIGFE
+posix_spawn_file_actions_destroy SIGFE
+posix_spawn_file_actions_init SIGFE
+posix_spawn_file_actions_addclose SIGFE
+posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2 SIGFE
+posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen SIGFE
 pow NOSIGFE
 pow10 NOSIGFE
 pow10f NOSIGFE
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/exec.cc b/winsup/cygwin/exec.cc
index fb92fdcb8..b7342d7c2 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/exec.cc
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/exec.cc
@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ execve (const char *path, char *const argv[], char *const envp[])
   MALLOC_CHECK;
   return spawnve (_P_OVERLAY, path, argv, envp);
 }
+EXPORT_ALIAS (execve, _execve)	/* For newlib */
 
 extern "C" int
 execvp (const char *file, char * const *argv)
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/include/cygwin/version.h b/winsup/cygwin/include/cygwin/version.h
index 6d447a23c..47f610a06 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/include/cygwin/version.h
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/include/cygwin/version.h
@@ -441,12 +441,13 @@ details. */
       269: Allow application override of posix_memalign.
       270: Redefine mtget.mt_resid field to contain current partition as well
            as number of partitions on tape.
+      271: Export posix_spawn, posix_spawnp, and helper functions.
      */
 
      /* Note that we forgot to bump the api for ualarm, strtoll, strtoull */
 
 #define CYGWIN_VERSION_API_MAJOR 0
-#define CYGWIN_VERSION_API_MINOR 270
+#define CYGWIN_VERSION_API_MINOR 271
 
      /* There is also a compatibity version number associated with the
 	shared memory regions.  It is incremented when incompatible
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/posix.sgml b/winsup/cygwin/posix.sgml
index af9cd2b9a..52c77c5be 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/posix.sgml
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/posix.sgml
@@ -521,6 +521,27 @@ also IEEE Std 1003.1-2008 (POSIX.1-2008).</para>
     posix_madvise
     posix_memalign
     posix_openpt
+    posix_spawn
+    posix_spawnattr_destroy
+    posix_spawnattr_init
+    posix_spawnattr_getflags
+    posix_spawnattr_getpgroup
+    posix_spawnattr_getschedparam
+    posix_spawnattr_getschedpolicy
+    posix_spawnattr_getsigdefault
+    posix_spawnattr_getsigmask
+    posix_spawnattr_setflags
+    posix_spawnattr_setpgroup
+    posix_spawnattr_setschedparam
+    posix_spawnattr_setschedpolicy
+    posix_spawnattr_setsigdefault
+    posix_spawnattr_setsigmask
+    posix_spawnp
+    posix_spawn_file_actions_destroy
+    posix_spawn_file_actions_init
+    posix_spawn_file_actions_addclose
+    posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2
+    posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
     pow
     powf
     pread
@@ -1404,7 +1425,6 @@ also IEEE Std 1003.1-2008 (POSIX.1-2008).</para>
     nexttowardf
     nexttowardl
     posix_mem_offset
-    posix_spawn[...]
     posix_trace[...]
     posix_typed_[...]
     powl
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/release/1.7.26 b/winsup/cygwin/release/1.7.26
index ed4eaf424..12935d38c 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/release/1.7.26
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/release/1.7.26
@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ What's new:
 - getnameinfo now supports glibc-specific International Domain Name (IDN)
   extension flags: NI_IDN, NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES.
 
+- Preliminary, experimental support of the posix_spawn family of functions.
+  New associated header /usr/include/spawn.h.
+
 
 What changed:
 -------------