What's new: ----------- - Cygwin can now generate passwd/group entries directly from Windows user databases (local SAM or Active Directory), thus allowing to run Cygwin without having to create /etc/passwd and /etc/group files. Introduce /etc/nsswitch.conf file to configure passwd/group handling. For bordercase which require to use /etc/passwd and /etc/group files, change mkpasswd/mkgroup to generate passwd/group entries compatible with the entries read from SAM/AD. - Add -b/--remove-all option to setfacl to reduce the ACL to only the entries representing POSIX permission bits. - Provide Cygwin documentation (PDFs and HTML) for offline usage in /usr/share/doc/cygwin-${version}. What changed: ------------- - Revamp Solaris ACL implementation to more closely work like POSIX ACLs are supposed to work. Finally implement a CLASS_OBJ emulation. Update getfacl(1)/setfacl(1) accordingly. - The xdr functions are no longer exported for newly built executables. Use libtirpc-devel instead. - 32 bit only: Change default values for socket buffer size to raise performance on 10Gb networks. - When spawning a process under another user account, merge the user's default Windows environment into the new process' environment. Bug Fixes --------- - Fix the problem that ptys master side always writes single byte packages to the slave side, and pty slaves always read VMIN byte packages from the master side if VMIN is > 0. Fixes: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2014-11/msg00000.html - Fix a synchronization problem in signal handling when using pthreads. Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-11/msg00472.html - Fix an "invalid handle" problem when using flock(2) with a parent process holding the lock. Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-12/msg00012.html