Package Release Info

gnucobol-3.2-bp160.1.1

Update Info: Base Release
Available in Package Hub : 16.0

platforms

AArch64
ppc64le
s390x
x86-64

subpackages

esql
esql-devel
gnucobol
libcob4

Change Logs

* Mon Feb 02 2026 Sarah Kriesch <sarah.kriesch@opensuse.org>
- Update keyring from the latest version from gnu ftp server
* Sat Jan 17 2026 Sarah Kriesch <sarah.kriesch@opensuse.org>
- Update to 3.2
  * improved dialect handling including changed defaults to better match
    the selected dialect
  * a complete new dialect GCOS and support for more COBOL statements
  * intrinsic functions and syntax from both "old" and new dialects
  * highly improved run-times for several statements,
    along with less memory usage, especially if runtime checks are enabled
  * fileio changes to support LINE-SEQUENTIAL per COBOL2023 and
    runtime options to change the way files are handled,
    see NEWS and runtime.cfg
  * improvements for source-level debugging via GDB and coredump support
  * output of context for diagnostics
  * improvements for reproducible builds
- Change download resources to gnu ftp for more stable source
- Add patch move_packed_decimal.patch
- Remove mlio.c in gnucobol-3.1.2-C99.diff
- Remove fix_test_698.patch
- Add patch fix-errno.patch
- Add newcob.val.tar.gz  for fixing download of value data for tests
- Add gnucobol-esql-3.0
  * ESQL preprocessor (esqlOC) relies on ODBC for access to a variety
    of SQL engines
- Renaming from gnu-cobol to gnucobol
* Sat Oct 25 2025 Arjen de Korte <suse+build@de-korte.org>
- Fix build errors with GCC 15
* Wed Jul 24 2024 Martin Jambor <mjambor@suse.com>
- Add gnucobol-3.1.2-C99.diff to add missing includes of
  libxml/parser.h which cause GCC 14 to emit compiler error rather
  than a warning.
- Add -Wno-error=incompatible-pointer-types to optflags so that GCC 14
  can compile test 0987 without failing with an error.
* Sat Jul 15 2023 Sarah Kriesch <sarah.kriesch@opensuse.org>
- Move libcob-devel files to gnucobol.lang because libcob.h can not be found
  (boo#1209438)
* Wed Dec 23 2020 Luigi Baldoni <aloisio@gmx.com>
- Update to version 3.1.2 (see NEWS or ChangeLog for details)
- Drop gnucobol-CFLAGS.patch (no longer needed)
- Add fix_test_698.patch and enable hardening
- Add buildtime requirements for libjson-c and libxml2
- Disable lto to avoid test failure
* Fri Jul 27 2018 jengelh@inai.de
- Trim redundancies from description.
* Sat May 12 2018 aloisio@gmx.com
- Enable parallel build and tests
* Tue May 08 2018 aloisio@gmx.com
- Update to version 3.0rc1, stabler than 2.2 final
  (see NEWS or ChangeLog for details)
- Refreshed gnucobol-CFLAGS.patch
- Switched source URL to sourceforge to get the latest tarball
- Fixed description
- Enabled tests
* Thu Sep 07 2017 aloisio@gmx.com
- Update to version 2.2 (see NEWS or ChangeLog)
- Switched license to GPL-3.0+/LGPL-3.0+
- Updated source URL and homepage on account of being accepted
  into the GNU Project
- Added gnucobol-CFLAGS.patch
- Dropped types.diff (apparently no longer necessary)