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@@ -52,6 +52,14 @@ Major new features:
- C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
- C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
+* strftime's default formatting of a locale's alternative year (%Ey)
+ has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
+ like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
+ the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
+ for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
+ alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
+ overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
+
Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
* The glibc.tune tunable namespace has been renamed to glibc.cpu and the