Add CHANGES for msvc cache change

Signed-off-by: Mats Wichmann <[email protected]>
SCons · Aug 28, 2023 · 9681d6c · 9681d6c
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diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -145,6 +145,9 @@ RELEASE  VERSION/DATE TO BE FILLED IN LATER
       file an error. It has issued a warning since 3.0, with "warn instead
       of fail" deprecated since 3.1.  Fixes #3958.
     - Minor (non-functional) cleanup of some tests, particuarly test/MSVC.
+    - msvc "config cache" made more resilient - now throws away the
+      cache if it took a decode error reading it in. Suspect a possible
+      race condition creating it in certain CI builds.
 
   From Jonathon Reinhart:
     - Fix another instance of `int main()` in CheckLib() causing failures

diff --git a/RELEASE.txt b/RELEASE.txt
@@ -98,8 +98,12 @@ FIXES
 - MSCommon: Test SConfTests.py would fail when mscommon debugging was enabled via the
   MSVC_MSCOMMON_DEBUG environment variable.  The mscommon logging filter class registered
   with the python logging module was refactored to prevent test failure.
-- MSVS: Add arm64 to the MSVS supported architectures list for VS2017 and later to be
-  consistent with the current documentation of MSVS_ARCH.
+- MSVS: Add arm64 to the MSVS supported architectures list for VS2017 and later
+  to be consistent with the current documentation of MSVS_ARCH.
+- MSCommon: "config cache" made more resilient - now throws away the cache if
+  it took a decode error reading it in. Suspect a possible race condition
+  creating it in certain CI builds, which always start from a "no cache file
+  exists" state.
 
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