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What's new: -----------

- Allow unprivileged symlink creation in Windows 10 1703 and lat-
er.

- New API: reallocarray

What changed: -------------

Bug Fixes ---------

- Fix build problem with GCC 6.
  Addresses:                  https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-patch-
es/2017-q2/msg00014.html

- Fix stat.st_blocks for files compressed with CompactOS method.
  Addresses:                  https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-patch-
es/2017-q2/msg00026.html

- Fix extreme lagging during strace in certain scenarios.
  Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2017-04/msg00240.html

- Fix unwanted decimal point localization in /proc/loadavg
  Addresses: Reported on IRC.

- Fix ldd potentially looping on non-continuable exception
  Addresses:                  https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-patch-
es/2017-q2/msg00002.html

- Fix buffer overflow problem in wcsxfrm/wcsxfrm_l.
  Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2017-05/msg00149.html

- Fix crash if env var name starts with non-ASCII char
  Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2017-05/msg00330.html