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@@ -124,6 +124,13 @@ Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
+* System call wrappers for time system calls now use the new time64 system
+ calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
+ the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
+ calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
+ that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
+ -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
+
Changes to build and runtime requirements:
* It is no longer necessary to have recent Linux kernel headers to build