aarch64: update NEWS for 2.43 release

Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Wilco Dijkstra <Wilco.Dijkstra@arm.com>
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Yury Khrustalev 2026-01-12 09:30:59 +00:00
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@ -58,6 +58,22 @@ Major new features:
openat and provides a superset of its functionality. It is supported only
in LFS mode and it is a cancellable entrypoint.
* On AArch64, support for 2MB transparent huge pages is enabled by default
in malloc (similar to setting glibc.malloc.hugetlb=1 tunable).
* On AArch64 Linux targets supporting the Scalable Matrix Extension
(SME), the clone() system call wrapper will disable the ZA state of SME.
* On AArch64 targets supporting the Branch Target Identification (BTI)
extension, it is possible to enforce that all binaries in the process
support BTI using the glibc.cpu.aarch64_bti tunable.
* On AArch64 Linux targets supporting at least one of the branch protection
extensions (e.g. Branch Target Identification or Guarded Control Stack), it
is possible to use LD_DEBUG=security to make dynamic linker show warning
messages about loaded binaries that do not support the corresponding
security feature.
Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
* Support for dumped heaps has been removed - malloc_set_state() now always