[bug-gettext] gettext 0.19.8-rc1

[Daiki Ueno]

Hello,

The first rc of gettext 0.19.8 is available from:

http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/gettext-0.19.8-rc1.tar.xz
http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/gettext-0.19.8-rc1.tar.xz.sig

Since this release is mainly for bug fixes, I plan to release it soon
unless there is any critical issue.

Please send feedback to address@hidden

Here is a tentative NEWS entry for this release:

Version 0.19.8 - June 2016

* Support for reproducible builds:
  - msgfmt now produces little-endian .mo files by default.

* Programming languages support:
  - XML:
    xgettext and msgfmt now look for .its files in directories
    supplied through the GETTEXTDATADIRS or XDG_DATA_DIRS environment
    variable.
  - JavaScript:
    xgettext and msgfmt now recognize numbered arguments in format
    strings.

* Portability:
  - Improve OS/2 kLIBC support.
  - Fix libintl compilation issue with pre-C99 compilers.  It was a
    regression since 0.19.5.
  - The AM_GNU_GETTEXT macro can now detect musl-libc's gettext
    implementation.

Regards,
-- 
Daiki Ueno