@@ -37,6 +37,13 @@ Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
<utmpx.h> (except for login_tty) due to locking and session management
problems.
+* The bundled timezone data compiler, zic, now defaults to the “slim”
+ output format. This format does not include 32-bit time zone data in
+ the generated TZif files. If the system time zone database is
+ compiled with the default zic settings, applications that read the
+ timezone database directly and do not process the 64-bit part of the
+ files will treat all time zones as unnamed UTC.
+
Changes to build and runtime requirements:
[Add changes to build and runtime requirements here]
Commit 1f94147a79fcb7211f1421b87383cad93986797f ("timezone: sync to TZDB 2024a") changed the default output format to -b slim, which causes problems for some current software versions (notably pytz). --- NEWS | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) base-commit: a07e000e82cb71238259e674529c37c12dc7d423