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ee9247c3 1GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
d614a753 2Copyright (C) 1992-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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3See the end for copying conditions.
4
a306c790 5Please send GNU C library bug reports via <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
69be6aaf 6using `glibc' in the "product" field.
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8Version 2.33
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10Major new features:
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12* The dynamic linker accepts the --argv0 argument and provides opportunity
13 to change argv[0] string.
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15* The mallinfo2 function is added to report statistics as per mallinfo,
16 but with larger field widths to accurately report values that are
17 larger than fit in an integer.
18
96203980 19* Add <sys/platform/x86.h> to provide query macros for x86 CPU features.
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21* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been expanded to run on
22 32-bit hardware. This is supported for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
23
24 - rv32imac ilp32
25 - rv32imafdc ilp32
26 - rv32imafdc ilp32d
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28 The 32-bit RISC-V port requires at least Linux 5.4, GCC 7.1 and binutils
29 2.28.
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31Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
32
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33* The mallinfo function is marked deprecated. Callers should call
34 mallinfo2 instead.
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36Changes to build and runtime requirements:
37
38 [Add changes to build and runtime requirements here]
39
40Security related changes:
41
42 [Add security related changes here]
43
44The following bugs are resolved with this release:
45
46 [The release manager will add the list generated by
47 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
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50Version 2.32
51
52Major new features:
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54* Unicode 13.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
55 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 13.0.0, using
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56 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
57
58* New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq)
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60* Support for Synopsys ARC HS cores (ARCv2 ISA) running Linux has been
61 added. This port requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-8.3 and Linux-5.1.
62 Three ABIs are supported:
63
64 - arc-linux-gnu
65 - arc-linux-gnuhf
66 - arceb-linux-gnu
67
68 The arc* ABI is little-endian while arceb is big-endian. All ABIs use
69 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
70
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71* The GNU C Library now loads audit modules listed in the DT_AUDIT and
72 DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
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74* powerpc64le supports IEEE128 long double libm/libc redirects when
75 using the -mabi=ieeelongdouble to compile C code on supported GCC
76 toolchains. It is recommended to use GCC 8 or newer when testing
77 this option.
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79* To help detect buffer overflows and other out-of-bounds accesses
80 several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This
81 should help GCC 10 issue better warnings.
82
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83* On Linux, functions the pthread_attr_setsigmask_np and
84 pthread_attr_getsigmask_np have been added. They allow applications
85 to specify the signal mask of a thread created with pthread_create.
86
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87* The GNU C Library now provides the header file <sys/single_threaded.h>
88 which declares the variable __libc_single_threaded. Applications are
89 encouraged to use this variable for single-thread optimizations,
90 instead of weak references to symbols historically defined in
91 libpthread.
92
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93* The functions sigabbrev_np and sigdescr_np have been added. The
94 sigabbrev_np returns the abbreviated signal name (e.g. "HUP" for SIGHUP)
95 while sigdescr_np returns a string describing the signal number (e.g
96 "Hangup" for SIGHUP). Different than strsignal, sigdescr_np does not
97 attempt to translate the return description, both functions return
98 NULL for an invalid signal number.
99
100 They should be used instead of sys_siglist or sys_sigabbrev and they
101 are both thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
102
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103* The functions strerrorname_np and strerrordesc_np have been added. The
104 strerroname_np returns error number name (e.g. "EINVAL" for EINVAL) while
105 strerrordesc_np returns string describing error number
106 (e.g "Invalid argument" for EINVAL). Different than strerror,
107 strerrordesc_np does not attempt to translate the return description, both
108 functions return NULL for an invalid error number.
109
110 They should be used instead of sys_errlist and sys_nerr, both are
111 thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
112
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113* AArch64 now supports standard branch protection security hardening
114 in glibc when it is built with a GCC that is configured with
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115 --enable-standard-branch-protection (or if -mbranch-protection=standard
116 flag is passed when building both GCC target libraries and glibc,
117 in either case a custom GCC is needed). This includes branch target
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118 identification (BTI) and pointer authentication for return addresses
119 (PAC-RET). They require armv8.5-a and armv8.3-a architecture
120 extensions respectively for the protection to be effective,
121 otherwise the used instructions are nops. User code can use PAC-RET
122 without libc support, but BTI requires a libc that is built with BTI
123 support, otherwise runtime objects linked into user code will not be
124 BTI compatible.
125
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126Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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128* Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc. Sun RPC is removed
129 from glibc. This includes the rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and the Sun
130 RPC header files. Backward compatibility for old programs is kept
131 only for architectures and ABIs that have been added in or before
132 glibc 2.31. New programs need to use TI-RPC
133 <http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=summary> and
134 rpcsvc-proto <https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto>.
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136* Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-nsl. libnsl is only built
137 as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules "nis"
138 and "nisplus" are not built at all and libnsl's headers aren't
139 installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs
140 that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement
141 implementations based on TI-RPC, which additionally support IPv6, are
142 available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not
143 affect the "compat" NSS module, which does not depended on libnsl
144 since 2.27 and thus can be used without NIS.
145
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146* The deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
147 removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
148 exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
149 but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system
150 call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5.
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152* The sstk function is no longer available to newly linked binaries.
153 Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function
154 was not declared in any header file.
155
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156* The legacy signal handling functions siginterrupt, sigpause, sighold,
157 sigrelse, sigignore and sigset, and the sigmask macro have been
158 deprecated. Applications should use the sigsuspend, sigprocmask and
159 sigaction functions instead.
160
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161* ldconfig now defaults to the new format for ld.so.cache. glibc has
162 already supported this format for almost 20 years.
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164* The deprecated arrays sys_siglist, _sys_siglist, and sys_sigabbrev
165 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
166 have been removed from <string.h>. They are exported solely as
167 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
168 strsignal instead.
169
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170* The deprecated symbols sys_errlist, _sys_errlist, sys_nerr, and _sys_nerr
171 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
172 have been removed from from <stdio.h>. They are exported solely as
173 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
174 strerror or strerror_r instead.
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176* Both strerror and strerror_l now share the same internal buffer in the
177 calling thread, meaning that the returned string pointer may be invalided
178 or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same thread or
179 if the thread is terminated. It makes strerror MT-safe.
180
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181* Using weak references to libpthread functions such as pthread_create
182 or pthread_key_create to detect the singled-threaded nature of a
183 program is an obsolescent feature. Future versions of glibc will
184 define pthread_create within libc.so.6 itself, so such checks will
185 always flag the program as multi-threaded. Applications should check
186 the __libc_single_threaded variable declared in
187 <sys/single_threaded.h> instead.
188
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189* The "files" NSS module no longer supports the "key" database (used for
190 secure RPC). The contents of the /etc/publickey file will be ignored,
191 regardless of the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of
192 storing RPC keys only supported the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES
193 flavor of secure RPC.)
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195* The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
196 implementation __default_morecore have been deprecated. Applications
197 should use malloc interposition to change malloc behavior, and mmap to
198 allocate anonymous memory. A future version of glibc may require that
199 applications which use the malloc hooks must preload a special shared
200 object, to enable the hooks.
201
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202* The hesiod NSS module has been deprecated and will be removed in a
203 future version of glibc. System administrators are encouraged to
204 switch to other approaches for networked account databases, such as
205 LDAP.
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207Changes to build and runtime requirements:
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209* powerpc64le requires GCC 7.4 or newer. This is required for supporting
210 long double redirects.
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212Security related changes:
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214 CVE-2016-10228: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
215 invoked with the -c option and when processing invalid multi-byte input
216 sequences. Reported by Jan Engelhardt.
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218 CVE-2020-10029: Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack
219 corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido
220 Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
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222 CVE-2020-1752: A use-after-free vulnerability in the glob function when
223 expanding ~user has been fixed.
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225 CVE-2020-6096: A signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy and
226 memmove functions has been fixed. Discovered by Jason Royes and Samual
227 Dytrych of the Cisco Security Assessment and Penetration Team (See
228 TALOS-2020-1019).
229
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230The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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232 [9809] localedata: ckb_IQ: new Kurdish Sorani locale
233 [10441] manual: Backtraces code example lacks error checking
234 [10815] librt: [timer_create / SIGEV_THREAD] signalmask of
235 timer_sigev_thread dangerous
236 [14231] stdio: stdio-common tests memory requirements
237 [14578] libc: /proc-based emulation for lchmod, fchmodat
238 [16272] dynamic-link: dlopen()ing a DT_FILTER library crashes if
239 filtee has constructor
240 [19519] locale: iconv(1) with -c option hangs on illegal multi-byte
241 sequences (CVE-2016-10228)
242 [19737] admin: Doc page “20.5.2 Infinity and NaN” has incorrect HTML
243 character entities for infinity & pi
244 [20338] libc: Parsing of /etc/gshadow can return bad pointers causing
245 segfaults in applications
246 [20543] libc: Please move from .gnu.linkonce to comdat
247 [22489] network: gcc warns about implicit convertion in
248 ICMP6_FILTER_SETPASS with -Wsign-conversion
249 [22525] localedata: or_IN LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
250 [23294] math: Complex _FloatN functions are redirected to the wrong
251 function with -mlong-double-64
252 [23296] libc: Data race in setting function descriptor during lazy
253 binding
254 [23668] dynamic-link: ldconfig: Default to the new format for
255 ld.so.cache
256 [23819] hurd: hurd: Add C11 thread support
257 [23990] build: test-container error out on failure to exec child.
258 [23991] build: shell-container typo in run_command_array
259 [24638] manual: Error in example of parsing a template string
260 [24654] manual: Wrong declaration of wcschr in libc manual
261 [24943] dynamic-link: Support DT_AUDIT, DT_DEPAUDIT in the dynamic
262 linker
263 [25051] dynamic-link: aarch64, powerpc64 uses surplus static tls for
264 dynamically loaded dsos
265 [25098] nptl: nptl: ctype classification functions are not AS-Safe
266 [25219] libc: improve out-of-bounds checking with GCC 10 attribute
267 access
268 [25262] libc: getcontext/setcontext/swapcontext unnecessarily save and
269 restore EAX, ECX and EDX
270 [25397] dynamic-link: Legacy bitmap doesn't cover jitted code
271 [25414] glob: 'glob' use-after-free bug (CVE-2020-1752)
272 [25420] network: Race condition in resolv_conf.c can result in caching
273 stale configuration forever
274 [25487] math: sinl() stack corruption from crafted input
275 (CVE-2020-10029)
276 [25506] build: configure: broken detection of STT_GNU_IFUNC when GCC
277 defaults to PIE
278 [25523] libc: MIPS/Linux inline syscall template is miscompiled
279 [25620] libc: Signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy()
280 (CVE-2020-6096)
281 [25623] libc: test-sysvmsg, test-sysvsem, test-sysvshm fail with 2.31
282 on 32 bit and old kernel
283 [25635] libc: arm: Wrong sysdep order selection for soft-fp
284 [25639] localedata: Some names of days and months wrongly spelt in
285 Occitan
286 [25657] libc: sigprocmask() and sigisemptyset() manipulate different
287 amount of sigset_t bytes
288 [25691] stdio: printf: memory leak when printing long multibyte
289 strings
290 [25715] libc: system() returns wrong errors when posix_spawn fails
291 [25733] malloc: mallopt(M_MXFAST) can set global_max_fast to 0
292 [25734] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS fails to reset conversion
293 state for conversions that produce two Unicode code points
294 [25765] nptl: Incorrect futex syscall in __pthread_disable_asynccancel
295 for linux x86_64 leads to livelock
296 [25788] dynamic-link: [i386] -fno-omit-frame-pointer in CFLAGS causes
297 test failures, invalid instruction in ld.so
298 [25790] glob: Typo in tst-fnmatch.input
299 [25810] libc: x32: Incorrect syscall entries with pointer, off_t and
300 size_t
301 [25819] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 13.0.0
302 [25824] libc: Abnormal function of strnlen in aarch64
303 [25887] dynamic-link: Wasted space in _dl_x86_feature_1[1]
304 [25896] libc: Incorrect prctl
305 [25902] libc: Bad LOADARGS_N
306 [25905] dynamic-link: VSX registers are corrupted during PLT
307 resolution when glibc is built with --disable-multi-arch and --with-
308 cpu=power9
309 [25933] string: Off by one error in __strncmp_avx2 when
310 length=VEC_SIZE*4 and strings are at page boundaries can cause a
311 segfault
312 [25942] nptl: Deadlock on stack_cache_lock between __nptl_setxid and
313 exiting detached thread
314 [25966] libc: Incorrect access of __x86_shared_non_temporal_threshold
315 for x32
316 [25976] nss: internal_end*ent in nss_compat may clobber errno, hiding
317 ERANGE
318 [25999] nptl: Use-after-free issue in pthread_getaddr_default_np
319 [26073] math: getpayload() has wrong return value
320 [26076] dynamic-link: dlmopen crashes after failing to load
321 dependencies in audit mode
322 [26120] localedata: column width of of some Korean
323 JUNGSEONG/JONGSEONG characters wrong (should be 0)
324 [26128] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFLUSHOPT
325 [26133] libc: Incorrect need_arch_feature_F16C
326 [26137] libc: strtod() triggers exception FE_INEXACT on reasonable
327 input
328 [26149] libc: PKU is usable only if OSPKE is set
329 [26173] libc: powerpc64*: Add @notoc to calls to functions that do not
330 preserve r2
331 [26208] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFSH
332 [26210] network: Incorrect use of hidden symbols for global sunrpc
333 variables
334 [26211] stdio: printf integer overflow calculating allocation size
335 [26214] stdio: printf_fp double free
336 [26215] stdio: printf_fp memory leak
337 [26232] time: FAIL: support/tst-timespec for 32-bit targets
338 [26258] nss: nss_compat should not read input files with mmap
339 [26332] string: Incorrect cache line size load causes memory
340 corruption in memset
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343Version 2.31
344
345Major new features:
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347* The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
348 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
349 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
350 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
351 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
352 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
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354* The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
355 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
356 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
357 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
358
69ca4b54 359* The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
3ef5e118 360 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
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361 CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME. This function is a GNU extension.
362
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363* New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar).
364
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365* The DNS stub resolver will optionally send the AD (authenticated data) bit
366 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
367 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
368 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
369 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
370 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
371 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
372 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
373
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374Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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376* The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
377 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
378 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
379 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
380 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
381 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
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384 binaries, and its declaration has been removed from <time.h>.
385 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
386
387* We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
388 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
389 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
390 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
391
392* The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
393 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
394 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
395 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
396 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
397 made this no longer practical.
398
399 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
400 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
401 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
402 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
403 release.)
404
405 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
406 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
407 with the current time, use the localtime function.
408
409 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
410 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
411 using clock_gettime instead.
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414 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
415 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
416 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
417 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
418
419 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
420 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
421 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
422 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
423
424 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
425 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
426 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
427 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
428 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
429 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
430
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431 settimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. Programs that set
432 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
433 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
434 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
435 offset API.
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437* SPARC ISA v7 is no longer supported. v8 is still supported, but only if
438 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
439 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
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441 As the oldest 64-bit SPARC ISA is v9, this only affects 32-bit
442 configurations.
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444* If a lazy binding failure happens during dlopen, during the execution of
445 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
446 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
447 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
448 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
449
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450* For MIPS hard-float ABIs, the GNU C Library will be configured to need an
451 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
452 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
453 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
454 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
455 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
456 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
457 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
458
459 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
460 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
461
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462* System call wrappers for time system calls now use the new time64 system
463 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
464 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
465 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
466 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
467 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
468
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470
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472 working (non-stub) system call wrappers on all architectures except 64-bit
473 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
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475* The ChangeLog file is no longer present in the toplevel directory of the
476 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
477 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
478
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479Security related changes:
480
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481 CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an
482 out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context.
483
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484 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
485 environment variable during program execution after a security
486 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
487 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
488 program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
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490The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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492 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
493 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
494 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
495 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
496 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
497 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
498 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
499 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
500 linking failure
501 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
502 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
503 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
504 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
505 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
506 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
507 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
508 constructors/destructors is not fatal
509 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
510 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
511 7408-2005
512 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
513 with localedef
514 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
515 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
516 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
517 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
518 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
519 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
520 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
521 utmp entries
522 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
523 ABSOLUTE ABI
524 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
525 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
526 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
527 (stringop-overflow error)
528 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
529 functions other can lead to crashes
530 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
531 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
532 unconditionally
533 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
534 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
535 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
536 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
537 still can fail with an error
538 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
539 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
540 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
541 initialized correctly
542 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
543 -frewrite-includes
544 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
545 value to an unsigned
546 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
547 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
548 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
549 protection
550 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
551 ifunc variant.
552 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
553 al. for Clang++
554 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
555 (Slovenian)
556 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
557 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
558 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
559 with -std=c11
560 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
561 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
562 part
563 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
564 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
565 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
566 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
567 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
568 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
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573Major new features:
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575* Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
576 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
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577 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
578
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579* The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
580 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
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583 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
584 to the callback function.
585
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588* Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
589 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
590 nan_TW, lzh_TW.
591
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592* The entry for the new Japanese era has been added for ja_JP locale.
593
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594* Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
595 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
596 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
597 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
598 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
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600* The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
601 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
602 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
603 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
604 link time reference, is gone.
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607 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
608 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
609 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
610 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
611 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
612 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
613 the clock choice at initialization time).
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616 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
617 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
618
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622 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
623 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
624 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
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626 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
627 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
628 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
629 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
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632 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
633 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
634 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
635 since glibc 2.17.
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637* The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
638 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
639
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640* Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
641 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
642
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643* The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
644 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
645
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646* With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
647 BIND_NOW flag.
648
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650 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
651 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
652
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653* On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
654 header have been removed.
655
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656* The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
657 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
658 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
659 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
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664
665 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
666 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
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668Security related changes:
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671 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
672 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
673 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
674 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
675 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
676 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
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679 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
680 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
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684 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
685 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
686 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
687 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
688 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
689 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
690 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
691 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
692 invalid input drops valid char
693 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
694 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
695 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
696 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
697 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
698 malloc.h.
699 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
700 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
701 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
702 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
703 functions
704 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
705 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
706 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
707 for long double = double
708 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
709 long double = double
710 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
711 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
712 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
713 long timeouts
714 [24051] stdio: puts and putchar ouput to _IO_stdout instead of stdout
715 [24059] nss: nss_files: get_next_alias calls fgets_unlocked without
716 checking for NULL.
717 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
718 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
719 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
720 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
721 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
722 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
723 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
724 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
725 not the default "nor"
726 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
727 false positives, change to modern flexible array
728 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
729 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
730 compiler barriers.
731 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
732 unnecessary librt dependencies
733 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
734 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
735 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
736 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
737 unsorted chunk
738 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
739 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
740 to R_SPARC_H44
741 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
742 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
743 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
744 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
745 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
746 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
747 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
748 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
749 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
750 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
751 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
752 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
753 was not used
754 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
755 tests
756 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
757 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
758 time_t changes
759 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
760 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
761 kernels and break testing
762 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
763 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
764 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
765 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
766 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
767 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
768 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
769 -O3 -march=skylake
770 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
771 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
772 crash
773 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
774 linked glibc
775 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
776 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
777 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
778 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
779 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
780 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
781 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
782 always implemented in the same library
783 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
784 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
785 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
786 testroot
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790
791Major new features:
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794 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
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796* A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
797 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
798 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
799 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
800 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
801 configured location.
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806 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
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808* For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
809 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
810 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
811 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
812 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
813 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
814 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
815 process actually does not use HTM).
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818 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
819 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
820 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
821 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
822 of the same name.
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825 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
826 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
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830* Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
831 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
832 supported:
833 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
834 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
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837 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
838 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
839 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
840 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
841 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
842 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
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845 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
846 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
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851 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
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854 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
855 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
856 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
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859 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
860 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
861 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
862 structures.
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865 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
866 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
867 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
868 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
869 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
870
871 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
872 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
873 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
874 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
875 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
876
877 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
878 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
879 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
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882
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886 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
887
888 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
889 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
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894 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
895 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
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898 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
899 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
900 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
901 Reported by H.J. Lu.
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903 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
904 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
905 or command injection issues in applications.
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909 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
910 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
911 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
912 thousands
913 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
914 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
915 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
916 --param options)
917 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
918 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
919 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
920 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
921 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
922 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
923 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
924 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
925 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
926 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
927 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
928 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
929 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
930 pointer argument is non-NULL
931 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
932 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
933 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
934 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
935 multithreads call popen
936 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
937 and pthread_create fails.
938 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
939 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
940 constructor
941 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
942 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
943 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
944 source tree
945 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
946 float
947 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
948 one error
949 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
950 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
951 linker
952 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
953 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
954 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
955 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
956 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
957 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
958 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
959 filesystems
960 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
961 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
962 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
963 functions
964 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
965 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
966 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
967 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
968 have wrong type
969 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
970 wrong type
971 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
972 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
973 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
974 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
975 threads
976 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
977 start.S
978 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
979 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
980 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
981 powerpc64le
982 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
983 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
984 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
985 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
986 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
987 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
988 strftime
989 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
990 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
991 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
992 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
993 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
994 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
995 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
996 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
997 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
998 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
999 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
1000 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
1001 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
1002 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
1003 tcache size
1004 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
1005 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
1006 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
1007 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
1008 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
1009 (CVE-2018-19591)
1010 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
1011 nearest rounding mode
1012 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
1013 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
1014 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
1015 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
1016 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
1017 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
1018 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
1019 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
1020 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
1021 error
1022 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
1023 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
1024 using GCC 8
1025 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
1026 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
1027 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
1028 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
1029 ppc64le
1030 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
1031 expected result
1032 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
1033 x32 (CVE-2019-6488)
1034 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
1035 sigaltstack
1036 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
1037 answers will be rejected)
1038 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
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1042
1043Major new features:
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1045* The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
1046 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
1047 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
1048 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
1049 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
1050 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
1051 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
1052 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
1053 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
1054 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
1055 archive or binary locales.
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1058 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
1059 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
1060 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
1061 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
1062 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
1063 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
1064 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
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1065 Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
1066 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
1067 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
1068 validated for i686.
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1071 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
1072 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
1073 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
1074 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
1075 field) to indicate such support is required.
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1077* Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1078 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
1079 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1080
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1081* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
1082 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
1083
1084 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
1085 fMxaddfNx functions.
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1087 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
1088 fMxsubfNx functions.
1089
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1090 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
1091 fMxmulfNx functions.
1092
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1093 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
1094 fMxdivfNx functions.
1095
e607a352 1096* Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
df467d22 1097 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
9145f033 1098 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
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1099 support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
1100 and Kashubian.
c553cd6f 1101
61c4aad7 1102* Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
e607a352 1103 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
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1105* Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
1106 patches.
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1108* The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
1109 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
1110 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
1111 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
1112 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
1113 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
1114 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
1115 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
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1117* The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
1118 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
1119 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
1120 the fstatat64 function.
1121
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1122* IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
1123 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
1124 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
1125 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
1126 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
1127 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
1128 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
1129 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
1130 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
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1133 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
1134 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
1135 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
1136 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
1137 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
1138 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
1139 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
1140 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
1141 results in a load failure now.
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1143* Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The
1144 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
1145 <threads.h>:
1146
1147 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
1148 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
1149
1150 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
1151 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
1152
1153 - call_once for function call synchronization.
1154
1155 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
1156 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
1157
1158 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
1159
1160 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
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1164* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
1165 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
1166 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
1167
1168* The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
1169 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
1170 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
1171 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
1172 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
1173 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
1174
1175* All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
1176 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
1177 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
1178 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
1179 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
1180 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
1181 (Bug #1190.)
1182
1183* The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
1184 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
1185 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
1186 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
1187 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
1188 further explanation.
1189
1190 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
1191 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
1192 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
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1194* The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
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1196* The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
1197 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
1198 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
1199
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1200* The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
1201 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
1202 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
1203 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
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1205* The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
1206 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
1207 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
1208 for this function instead.
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1210* The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
1211 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
1212 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
1213
1214* The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
1215 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
1216 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
1217 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
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1219* The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
1220 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
1221 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
1222 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
1223 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
1224
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1225* The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
1226 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
1227 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
1228 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
1229 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
1230 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
1231 such as libgcrypt.
1232
1233* Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
1234 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
1235 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
1236 enabled.
1237
1238* The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
1239 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
1240 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
1241
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1242* We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
1243 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
1244 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
1245 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
1246 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
1247 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
1248
1249 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
1250 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
1251 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
1252 behavior in a future release.
1253
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1255
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1258Security related changes:
1259
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1260 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
1261 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
1262 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
1263 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
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1265 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
1266 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
1267
1268 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
1269 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
1270 Izbyshev.
1271
1272 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
1273 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
1274 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
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1278 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
1279 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
1280 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
1281 when __WORDSIZE != 64
1282 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
1283 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
1284 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
1285 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
1286 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
1287 14651
1288 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
1289 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
1290 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
1291 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
1292 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
1293 conversion is given
1294 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
1295 date
1296 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
1297 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
1298 scope with -O1 and higher
1299 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
1300 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
1301 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
1302 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
1303 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
1304 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
1305 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
1306 horrible machine code)
1307 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
1308 last constant.
1309 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
1310 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
1311 symbols
1312 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
1313 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
1314 defined
1315 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
1316 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
1317 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
1318 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
1319 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
1320 fpscr.c'
1321 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
1322 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
1323 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
1324 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
1325 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
1326 the base address
1327 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
1328 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
1329 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
1330 open_verify
1331 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
1332 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
1333 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
1334 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
1335 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
1336 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
1337 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
1338 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
1339 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
1340 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
1341 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
1342 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
1343 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
1344 dlopen
1345 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
1346 AT_SECURE=1
1347 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
1348 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
1349 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
1350 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
1351 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
1352 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
1353 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
1354 for Spanish with CLDR
1355 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
1356 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
1357 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
1358 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
1359 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
1360 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
1361 es_BO
1362 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
1363 CLOCKS_PER_SECOND
1364 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
1365 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
1366 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
1367 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
1368 dlopen failures
1369 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
1370 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
1371 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
1372 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
1373 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
1374 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
1375 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
1376 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
1377 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
1378 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
1379 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
1380 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
1381 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
1382 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
1383 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
1384 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
1385 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
1386 makecontext
1387 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
1388 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
1389 required
1390 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
1391 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
1392 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
1393 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
1394 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
1395 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
1396 disabled
1397 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
1398 failure
1399 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
1400 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
1401 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
1402 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
1403 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
1404 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
1405 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
1406 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
1407 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
1408 and libc build with -Os)
1409 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
1410 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
1411 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
1412 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
1413 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
1414 that changes /etc/passwd
1415 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
1416 (CVE-2018-11237)
1417 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
1418 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
1419 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
1420 posix/regcomp.c
1421 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
1422 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
1423 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
1424 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
1425 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
1426 AT_SECURE
1427 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
1428 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
1429 parser.c
1430 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
1431 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
1432 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
1433 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
1434 directed rounding
1435 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
1436 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
1437 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
1438 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
1439 lookup
1440 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
1441 interposition
1442 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
1443 DSO boundaries.
1444 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
1445 <linux/time.h>
1446 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
1447 checking
1448 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
1449 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
1450 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
1451 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
1452 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
1453 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
1454 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
1455 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
1456 processors
1457 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
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1460Version 2.27
1461
1462Major new features:
1463
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1464* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
1465 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
bd7bbb26 1466 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
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1467 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
1468 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
1469 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
1470 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
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1471 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
1472 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
9d7a3741 1473
ac817e08 1474* Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
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1475 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
1476 H.J. Lu from Intel.
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1478* Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
1479
4cf82d23 1480* Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
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1482* In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
1483 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
1484 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
1485 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
1486 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
1487 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
1488 from a security and performance perspective.
1489
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1490* The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
1491 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
1492 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
1493 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
1494
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1496 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
1497 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
1498 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
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1499 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
1500
a23aa5b7 1501* On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
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1503 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
1504 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
1505 _Float128.
1506
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1507* The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
1508 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
1509 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
0d93b7fd 1510
4bab0224 1511* glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
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1513* Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
1514 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
1515 pkey_get.
1516
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1517* The copy_file_range function was added.
1518
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1519* Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
1520
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1521* The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
1522 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
1523 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
1524
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1525* Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
1526 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
1527 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
1528 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
1529 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
1530 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
1531 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
1532
1533 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
1534 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
1535 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
1536 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
1537 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
1538 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
1539 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
1540
1541 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
1542 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
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1543 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
1544 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
1545 respectively.
1546
1547 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
1548 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
1549 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
1550 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
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1551
1552 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
1553 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
1554 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
1555
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1556 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
1557 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
0a32e219 1558 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
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1560* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
1561 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
1562 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
1563
1564 - rv64imac lp64
1565 - rv64imafdc lp64
1566 - rv64imafdc lp64d
1567
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1568Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1569
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1570* Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
1571 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
d4ae7827 1572 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
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1573 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
1574 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
1575 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
1576 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
1577 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
1578 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
1579 fix this.
1580
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1581* Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
1582 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
1583 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
1584
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1585* Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
1586 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
1587 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
1588 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
1589 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
1590 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
1591 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
1592 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
1593 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
1594 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
1595 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
1596 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
1597 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
1598 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
1599 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
1600 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
1601 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
1602 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
1603 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
1604 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
1605 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
1606 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
1607 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
1608 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
1609 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
1610 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
1611
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1613 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
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1615* libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
1616 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
1617 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
1618 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
1619 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
1620 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
1621 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
1622
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1623* The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
1624 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
1625 exp10l for these functions instead.
1626
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1627* The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
1628 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
1629 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1630
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1631* The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
1632 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
1633 ignored.
1634
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1635* The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
1636 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
1637 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
1638 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
1639
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1640* The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
1641 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
1642
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1643* In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
1644 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
1645
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1646* The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
1647 programs.
1648
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1649* The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
1650
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1651* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
1652 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
1653 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
1654 instead.
1655
1656 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
1657 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
1658 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
1659 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
1660 use, but predates the bits convention.
1661
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1663
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1664* bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
1665 subdirectory.
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1667Security related changes:
1668
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1669 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
1670 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
1671 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
1672 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
1673 script.)
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1675 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
1676 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
1677 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
1678 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
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1680 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
1681 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
1682 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
1683 of service.
1684
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1685 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
1686 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
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1687 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
1688
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1689 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
1690 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
1691 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
1692 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
1693
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1694 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
1695 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
1696 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
1697 Qualys.
1698
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1699 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
1700 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
1701 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
1702 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
1703 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
1704
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1705 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
1706 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
1707 current directory.
1708
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1709 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
1710 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
1711 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
1712
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1713 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
1714 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
1715 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
1716
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1717 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
1718 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
1719 small, instead of NULL.
1720
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1722
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1723 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
1724 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
1725 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
1726 locale
1727 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
1728 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
1729 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
1730 cases
1731 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
1732 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
1733 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
1734 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
1735 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
1736 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
1737 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
1738 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
1739 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
1740 "Bangla"
1741 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
1742 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
1743 width Latin characters
1744 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
1745 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
1746 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
1747 letters
1748 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
1749 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
1750 (CVE-2009-5064)
1751 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
1752 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
1753 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
1754 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
1755 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
1756 if malloc succeeded
1757 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
1758 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
1759 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
1760 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
1761 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
1762 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
1763 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
1764 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
1765 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
1766 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
1767 U+309A
1768 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
1769 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
1770 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
1771 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
1772 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
1773 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
1774 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
1775 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
1776 for Nicaragua
1777 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
1778 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
1779 are not found.
1780 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
1781 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
1782 access
1783 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
1784 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
1785 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
1786 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
1787 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
1788 __regcall calling convention
1789 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
1790 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
1791 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
1792 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
1793 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
1794 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
1795 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
1796 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
1797 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
1798 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
1799 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
1800 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
1801 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
1802 locale
1803 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
1804 protector=all
1805 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
1806 wcwidth
1807 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
1808 consistency check failures
1809 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
1810 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
1811 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
1812 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
1813 PIE
1814 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
1815 locales
1816 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
1817 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
1818 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
1819 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
1820 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
1821 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
1822 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
1823 on memory allocation failure
1824 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
1825 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
1826 the suspect)
1827 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
1828 default (i386)
1829 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
1830 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
1831 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
1832 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
1833 instead of EAI_NODATA
1834 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
1835 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
1836 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
1837 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
1838 implementation
1839 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
1840 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
1841 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
1842 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
1843 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
1844 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
1845 allocation in syscall loops)
1846 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
1847 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
1848 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
1849 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
1850 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
1851 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
1852 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
1853 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
1854 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
1855 occur with -O3
1856 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
1857 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
1858 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
1859 amounts)
1860 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
1861 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
1862 niu_NZ
1863 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
1864 checks
1865 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
1866 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
1867 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
1868 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
1869 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
1870 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
1871 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
1872 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
1873 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
1874 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
1875 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
1876 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
1877 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
1878 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
1879 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
1880 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
1881 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
1882 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
1883 parsing after OOM
1884 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
1885 object
1886 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
1887 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
1888 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
1889 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
1890 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
1891 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
1892 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf oupts a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
1893 ppc64le
1894 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
1895 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
1896 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
1897 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
1898 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
1899 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
1900 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
1901 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
1902 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
1903 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
1904 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
1905 math_force_eval
1906 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
1907 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
1908 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
1909 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
1910 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
1911 the svid compat wrapper
1912 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
1913 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
1914 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
1915 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
1916 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
1917 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
1918 --verbose.
1919 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
1920 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
1921 to 2.26
1922 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
1923 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
1924 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
1925 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
1926 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
1927 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
1928 (CVE-2017-15804)
1929 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
1930 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
1931 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
1932 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
1933 failure."
1934 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
1935 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
1936 -m32
1937 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
1938 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
1939 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
1940 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
1941 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
1942 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
1943 inside the ASCII printable range
1944 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
1945 -mlong-double-64
1946 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
1947 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
1948 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
1949 Internet
1950 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
1951 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
1952 backslash
1953 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
1954 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
1955 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
1956 heaps in an arena
1957 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
1958 networking interface
1959 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
1960 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
1961 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
1962 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
1963 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
1964 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
1965 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
1966 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
1967 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
1968 order
1969 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1970 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1971 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1972 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1973 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1974 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
1975 same as for Croatian
1976 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
1977 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
1978 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
1979 for initial thread"
1980 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
1981 SC_SSIZE_MAX
1982 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
1983 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
1984 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1985 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
1986 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
1987 (CVE-2017-1000408)
1988 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
1989 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
1990 modified in case of success
1991 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
1992 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
1993 success
1994 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
1995 stack-protector=all
1996 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
1997 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
1998 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
1999 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
2000 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
2001 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
2002 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
2003 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
2004 adding it on top
2005 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
2006 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
2007 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
2008 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
2009 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
2010 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
2011 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
2012 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
2013 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
2014 (CVE-2018-1000001)
2015 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
2016 elision and tunables
2017 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
2018 "invalid" exception
2019 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
2020 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
2021 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
2022 exception
2023 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2024 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
2025 power4
2026 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
2027 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
2028 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
2029 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
2030 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
2031 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
2032 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
2033 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
2034 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
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2037Version 2.26
2038
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2039Major new features:
2040
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2041* A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
2042 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
2043 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
2044 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
2045 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
2046 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
2047 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
2048
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2049* Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2050 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
0b38d66a 2051 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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2052 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
2053 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
2054 are rendered with pango, see for example:
2055 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
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2057* Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
2058 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
2059 Egmont Koblinger.
e4e79484 2060
2b2ccd0c 2061* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
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2063 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
2064 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
2065 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
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2067 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
2068 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
2069 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
2070 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
2071 object are still limited to six search domains.
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2073 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
2074 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
2075 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
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2077* The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
2078 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
d8cee557 2079
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2080* New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
2081 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
2082 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
2083 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
f0be25b6 2084
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2085* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
2086 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
2087 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
2088 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
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2090* posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
2091 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
2092 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
2093 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
2e0bbbfb 2094
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2095* errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
2096 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
2097 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
12d2dd70 2098
2b2ccd0c 2099* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
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2100 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
2101 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
2102 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
2c0b90ab 2103
2b2ccd0c 2104 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
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2105 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
2106 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
2107 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
2108 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
2109
2110 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
2111 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
2112 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
2113 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
2114 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
2115 interfaces should be used instead.
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2117Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2118
2119* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
2120 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
2121 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
2122 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
2123 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
2124 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
2125 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
2126 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
2127
2128* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
2129 removed.
2130
2131* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
7e368000 2132 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
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2133 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
2134 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
2135
2136* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
2137 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
2138 default.
2139
2140 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
2141 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
2142 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
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2143 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
2144 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
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2146 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
2147 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
2148 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
2149 name service modules, to be built and installed.
2150
2151* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
2152 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
2153 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
2154 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
2155
2156* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
2157 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
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2159* The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
2160 exported by accident.
2161
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2162* <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
2163 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
2164 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
2165
2166* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
2167 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
2168 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
2169 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
2170
2171* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
2172
2173* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
2174
2175* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
2176 free instead.
2177
2178* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
2179 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2180
2181* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
2182 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2183
2184* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
2185 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
2186 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
2187 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
2188 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
2189 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
2190 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
2191 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
2192
2193* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
2194 synced with the kernel:
2195
2196 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
2197 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
2198
2199 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
2200 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
2201 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
2202
2203 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
2204 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
2205
2206Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2207
2208* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
2209 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
2210 x86-32 and x86-64.)
2211
7e368000 2212* GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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2215 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
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2217 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
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2218 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
2219 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
2220 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2b2ccd0c 2221 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
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2224
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2226 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
2227
2228* LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
2229 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
2230
2231* Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
2232 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
2233 (CVE-2010-3192).
2234
2235* A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
2236 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
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2240 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
2241 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
2242 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
2243 fields
2244 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
2245 (CVE-2010-3192)
2246 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
2247 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
2248 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
2249 ld.bfd is available
2250 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
2251 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
2252 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
2253 x86 and other generic code
2254 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
2255 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
2256 incorrect
2257 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
2258 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
2259 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
2260 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
2261 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
2262 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
2263 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
2264 resolver
2265 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
2266 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
2267 order of 0D36 and 0D37
2268 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
2269 chillu characters
2270 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
2271 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
2272 receiving data
2273 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
2274 whitespace
2275 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
2276 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
2277 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
2278 for Peru
2279 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
2280 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
2281 failures consistently
2282 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
2283 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
2284 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
2285 frame-pointer on i386
2286 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
2287 register
2288 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
2289 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
2290 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
2291 generic c code is used
2292 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
2293 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
2294 around 4000
2295 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
2296 (CVE-2017-12133)
2297 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
2298 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
2299 with -lieee
2300 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
2301 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
2302 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
2303 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
2304 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
2305 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
2306 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
2307 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
2308 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
2309 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
2310 remove()
2311 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
2312 checked for errors.
2313 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
2314 new posix_spawn implementation
2315 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
2316 leads to lower CPU frequency
2317 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
2318 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
2319 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
2320 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
2321 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
2322 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
2323 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
2324 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
2325 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
2326 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
2327 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
2328 not support gethostbyname4_r
2329 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
2330 switching
2331 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
2332 arenas
2333 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
2334 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
2335 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
2336 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
2337 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
2338 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
2339 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
2340 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
2341 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
2342 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
2343 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
2344 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
2345 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
2346 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
2347 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
2348 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
2349 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
2350 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
2351 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
2352 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
2353 retry value
2354 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
2355 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
2356 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
2357 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
2358 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
2359 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
2360 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
2361 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
2362 [21537] libc:
2363 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
2364 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
2365 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
2366 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
2367 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
2368 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
2369 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
2370 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
2371 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
2372 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
2373 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
2374 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
2375 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
2376 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
2377 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
2378 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
2379 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
2380 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
2381 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
2382 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
2383 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
2384 issue on x86-64
2385 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
2386 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
2387 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
2388 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
2389 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
2390 construction
2391 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
2392 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
2393 between_2_3
2394 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
2395 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
2396 conditions
2397 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
2398 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
2399 Hindi Locale
2400 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
2401 posix/sched_cpucount.c
2402 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
2403 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
2404 locale
2405 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
2406 leading to relocation crash
2407 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
2408 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
2409 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
2410 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
2411 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
2412 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
2413 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
2414 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
2415 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
2416 locale
2417 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
2418 locale
2419 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
2420 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
2421 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
2422 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
2423 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
2424 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
2425 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
2426 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
2427 strings
2428 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
2429 protector=all
2430 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
2431 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
2432 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
2433 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
2434 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
2435 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
2436 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
2437 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
2438 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
2439 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
2440 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
2441 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
2442 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
2443 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
2444 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
2445 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
2446 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
2447 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
2448 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
2449 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
2450 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
2451 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
2452 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
2453 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
2454 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
2455 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
2456 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
2457 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
2458 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
2459 with unicode 9.0
2460 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
2461 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
2462 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
2463 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
2464 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
58557c22 2465
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2467Version 2.25
2468
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2469* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
2470 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
2471 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
2472 Library.
e720d3d9 2473
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2474* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
2475 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
a5ac5676 2476 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
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2477 the GNU C Library.
2478
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2479* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
2480 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
2481 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
2482 the GNU C Library.
2483
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2484* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
2485 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
2486 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
2487 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
2488 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
2489 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
2490 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
2491 will not.
2492
2493 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
2494 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
2495 many years.
2496
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2497* The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
2498 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
2499 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
2500
2501 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
2502 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
2503 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
2504 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
2505 problem.
2506
ec94343f 2507* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
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2508 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
2509 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
5146356f 2510
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2511* Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
2512 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
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2513 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
2514 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
2515 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
2516 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
2517 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
2518 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
2519 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
2520 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
2521 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
2522 WINT_WIDTH.
a292f45a 2523
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2524* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
2525
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2526 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
2527
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2528 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
2529 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
2530 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
41c67149 2531
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2532 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
2533 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
2534
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2535 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
2536 fminmagf, fminmagl.
2537
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2538 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
2539
29cb9293 2540 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
d942e95c 2541
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2542 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
2543 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
5e9d98a3 2544
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2545 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
2546
eb3c12c7 2547 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
457663a7 2548 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
f8e8b8ed 2549
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2550* The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
2551 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
2552
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2553* Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
2554 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
2555 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
2556
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2557* The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
2558 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
2559 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
2560 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
2561 effects of the memory clear).
2562
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2563* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
2564 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
2565 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
2566 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
2567
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2568* On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
2569 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
2570 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
2571 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
2572 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
2573 if they are compiled or used with those options.
6962682f 2574
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2575* The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
2576 have been added.
2577
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2578* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
2579 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
2580 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
2581 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
2582 as large as several megabytes.
2583
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2584* The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
2585 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
2586 been removed.
2587
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2588* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
2589 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
2590 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
2591 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
2592 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
2593 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
2594 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
2595
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2596* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
2597 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
2598 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
2599 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
2600
099191b1 2601* The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
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2602 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
2603 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
2604 Internet.
2605
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2606* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
2607 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
2608 They were already unimplemented.
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2610* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
2611 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
2612 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
2613 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
2614
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2615* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
2616 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
2617 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
2618 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
2619 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
2620
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2621* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
2622 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
2623 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
2624 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
2625 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
2626
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2627* The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
2628 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
2629 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
2630 did not reflect that.
2631
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2632* For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
2633 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
2634 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
2635 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
2636 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
2637 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
2638 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
2639 'gcc/config.gcc'.
2640
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2641* GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
2642 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
2643 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
2644 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
2645
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2646* Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
2647 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
2648 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
2649 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
2650
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2651* A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
2652 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
2653 guarantees.
2654
2655* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
2656 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
2657 make state changes.
2658
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2659Security related changes:
2660
fc82b0a2 2661* On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
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FW
2662 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
2663 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
2664 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
056dd72a 2665 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
e720d3d9 2666
fc82b0a2
FW
2667* The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
2668 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
2669 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
2670 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
2671 (CVE-2015-5180)
2672
e720d3d9
CD
2673The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2674
4e054e6b
SP
2675 [4099] stdio: Overly agressive caching by stream i/o functions.
2676 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
2677 protector-all
2678 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
2679 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
2680 before it started waiting
2681 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
2682 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
2683 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
2684 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
2685 wrong type
2686 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
2687 library linked with pthread
2688 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
2689 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
2690 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
2691 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
2692 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
2693 after being __libc_memalign()'d
2694 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
2695 when it shouldnt
2696 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
2697 not
2698 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
2699 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
2700 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
2701 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
2702 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
2703 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
2704 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
2705 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
2706 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
2707 termination
2708 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
2709 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
2710 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
2711 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
2712 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
2713 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
2714 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
2715 causes a segmentation fault
2716 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
2717 linking
2718 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
2719 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
2720 uninitialized GOT
2721 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
2722 versions
2723 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
2724 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
2725 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
2726 is always true.
2727 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
2728 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
2729 modes
2730 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
2731 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
2732 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
2733 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
2734 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
2735 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
2736 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
2737 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
2738 libpthread.a
2739 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
2740 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
2741 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
2742 _res_hconf
2743 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
2744 information.
2745 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
2746 penalty
2747 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
2748 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
2749 cause transition penalty
2750 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
2751 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
2752 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
2753 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
2754 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
2755 mcount.oS)
2756 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
2757 Checking
2758 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
2759 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
2760 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
2761 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
2762 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
2763 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
2764 multi-arch
2765 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
2766 (RES_USEBSTRING)
2767 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
2768 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
2769 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
2770 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
2771 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
2772 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
2773 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
2774 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
2775 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
2776 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
2777 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
2778 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
2779 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
2780 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
2781 glibc
2782 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
2783 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
2784 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
2785 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
2786 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
2787 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
2788 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
2789 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
2790 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
2791 U+20AC), not same as GBK
2792 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
2793 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
2794 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
2795 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
2796 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
2797 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
2798 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
2799 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
2800 RES_USE_INET6
2801 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2802 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
2803 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
2804 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
2805 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
2806 wrong condition
2807 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2808 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
2809 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
2810 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
2811 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
2812 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
2813 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
2814 clang
2815 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
2816 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
2817 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
2818 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
2819 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
e720d3d9 2820\f
11fca961
AZ
2821Version 2.24
2822
5b4ecd3f
JM
2823* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
2824 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
2825 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
2826 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
2827 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
2828 architectures.
2829
b6ebba70
MF
2830* The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
2831 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
2832 been included in previous releases.
11fca961 2833
7584a3f9
FW
2834* The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
2835 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
2836
b49ab5f4
FW
2837* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
2838 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
2839 instead of “union wait”.
2840
ced8f893
SG
2841* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
2842 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
2843 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
2844 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
2845 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
2846 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
2847 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
2848
2ba3cfa1
FW
2849* The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
2850 API.
2851
b7a9b7b0
MF
2852* The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
2853 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
2854 drop it.
6a54bcda 2855
41a359e2
RS
2856* nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
2857 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
2858 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
2859 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
2860 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
2861 extensions.
2862
11fca961
AZ
2863Security related changes:
2864
f5b3338d
FW
2865* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
2866 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
2867 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
2868
4ab2ab03
FW
2869* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
2870 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
2871 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
2872 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
11fca961 2873
5171f307
FW
2874* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
2875 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
2876 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
2877
bc779a1a
FW
2878* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
2879 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
2880 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
2881
fab38231
FW
2882* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
2883 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
2884 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
2885 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
2886
11fca961
AZ
2887The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2888
3c4f81ec
CD
2889 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
2890 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
2891 of MS-DOS.
2892 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
2893 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
2894 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
2895 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
2896 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
2897 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
2898 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
2899 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
2900 CLDR data
2901 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
2902 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
2903 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
2904 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
2905 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
2906 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
2907 romanisation
2908 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
2909 and +/-
2910 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
2911 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
2912 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
2913 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
2914 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
2915 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
2916 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
2917 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
2918 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
2919 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
2920 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
2921 all locales
2922 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
2923 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
2924 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
2925 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
2926 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
2927 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
2928 execute
2929 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
2930 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
2931 -Wsystem-headers
2932 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
2933 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
2934 Romanian locale data
2935 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
2936 symbol
2937 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
2938 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
2939 language
2940 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
2941 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
2942 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
2943 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
2944 machine
2945 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
2946 description
2947 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
2948 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
2949 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
2950 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
2951 when using RTLD_NEXT
2952 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
2953 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
2954 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
2955 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
2956 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
2957 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
2958 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
2959 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
2960 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
2961 Excavator core
2962 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2963 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2964 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2965 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
2966 double range
2967 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
2968 part zero incorrect
2969 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
2970 equality tests
2971 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
2972 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
2973 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
2974 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
2975 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
2976 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
2977 glibc-2.22
2978 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
2979 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
2980 'tst-numeric.c'
2981 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
2982 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
2983 low part
2984 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
2985 result
2986 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
2987 unaligned stack
2988 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
2989 pointers and lengths in error-case.
2990 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
2991 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
2992 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
2993 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
2994 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
2995 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
2996 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
2997 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
2998 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
2999 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
3000 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
3001 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
3002 modes
3003 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
3004 server addresses
3005 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
3006 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
3007 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
3008 response to getaddrinfo
3009 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
3010 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
3011 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
3012 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
3013 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
3014 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
3015 sometimes incorrect
3016 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
3017 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
3018 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
3019 record types
3020 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
3021 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
3022 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
3023 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
3024 (CVE-2016-3075)
3025 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
3026 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
3027 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
3028 resolving symbols
3029 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
3030 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
3031 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
3032 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
3033 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
3034 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
3035 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
3036 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
3037 gethosts
3038 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
3039 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
3040 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
3041 (CVE-2016-3706)
3042 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
3043 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
3044 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
3045 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
3046 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
3047 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
3048 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
3049 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
3050 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
3051 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
3052 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
3053 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
3054 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
3055 executable
3056 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
3057 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
3058 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
3059 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
3060 XPG3
3061 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
3062 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
3063 (CVE-2016-4429)
3064 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
3065 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
3066 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
3067 AS not supporting AVX512
3068 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
3069 sNaN argument
3070 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3071 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
3072 argument
3073 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
3074 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
3075 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
3076 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
3077 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
3078 eax=0x80000001
3079 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
3080 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
3081 subnormals
3082 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
3083 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
3084 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
3085 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3086 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3087 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
3088 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3089 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
3090 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
3091 input
3092 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3093 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3094 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3095 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3096 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3097 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3098 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3099 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
3100 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
3101 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
3102 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
3103 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
3104 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
3105 double rounding
3106 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
3107 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
3108 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
3109 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
3110 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
3111 (Only arm/linux)
3112 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
3113 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
3114 fallbacks
3115 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
3116 "invalid" exceptions
3117 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
3118 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
3119 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
3120 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
3121 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
3122 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
3123 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
3124 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
3125 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
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3127Version 2.23
3128
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3129* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
3130 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
3131 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
3132 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
3133 89, 16061, and 18568.
3134
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3135* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
3136 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
3137 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
3138 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
3139 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
3140 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
3141 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
3142
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3143* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
3144 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
3145 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
3146
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3147* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
3148 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
3149 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
3150 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
3151 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
3152 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
3153 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
3154
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3155* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
3156 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
3157 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
3158 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
3159 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 3160 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
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3161 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
3162 Ericsson.)
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3164* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
3165 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
3166 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
3167 independent of the GNU C Library.
3168
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3169* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
3170 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
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3172* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
3173 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
3174 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
3175 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
3176 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
3177 Linux kernel.
3178
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3179* Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
3180 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
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3182* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
3183 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
3184 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
3185 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
3186 defining their own copy.
3187
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3188* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
3189 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
3190 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
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3192Security related changes:
3193
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3194* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
3195 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
3196
3197* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
3198 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
3199 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
3200 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
3201 (CVE-2015-8777)
3202
3203* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
3204 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
3205
3206* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
3207 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
3208
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3209* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
3210 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 3211 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
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3213* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
3214 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
3215 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
3216 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
3217 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
3218 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
3219 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
3220 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
3221 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
3222 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
3223 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
3224 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
3225 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
3226
ad372e29 3227The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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3229 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
3230 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
3231 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
3232 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
3233 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
3234 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
3235 use `mkstemp'
3236 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
3237 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
3238 overflow/underflow errors
3239 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
3240 overflow/underflow
3241 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
3242 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
3243 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
3244 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
3245 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
3246 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
3247 are not contiguous
3248 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
3249 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
3250 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
3251 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
3252 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
3253 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
3254 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
3255 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
3256 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
3257 all exceptions
3258 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
3259 arguments
3260 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
3261 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
3262 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
3263 should include
3264 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
3265 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
3266 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
3267 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
3268 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
3269 GNU/Linux
3270 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
3271 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
3272 arguments
3273 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
3274 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
3275 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
3276 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
3277 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
3278 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
3279 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
3280 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
3281 rounding results
3282 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
3283 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
3284 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
3285 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
3286 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
3287 fails
3288 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
3289 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
3290 block boundary
3291 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
3292 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
3293 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
3294 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
3295 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
3296 4.7?
3297 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
3298 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
3299 (related to lock elision)
3300 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
3301 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
3302 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
3303 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
3304 (CVE-2015-8779)
3305 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
3306 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
3307 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
3308 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
3309 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
3310 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
3311 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
3312 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
3313 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
3314 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
3315 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
3316 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
3317 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
3318 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
3319 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
3320 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
3321 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
3322 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
3323 contains a vector instruction exception.
3324 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
3325 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
3326 locales
3327 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
3328 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
3329 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
3330 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
3331 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
3332 missing break ?
3333 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
3334 32bit processes
3335 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
3336 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
3337 infinity
3338 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
3339 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
3340 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
3341 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
3342 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
3343 be forced unloaded
3344 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
3345 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
3346 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
3347 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
3348 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
3349 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
3350 statically too large
3351 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
3352 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
3353 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
3354 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
3355 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
3356 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
3357 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
3358 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
3359 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
3360 FUTEX_SHARED
3361 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
3362 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
3363 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
3364 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
3365 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
3366 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
3367 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
3368 opendir()
3369 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
3370 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
3371 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
3372 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
3373 signgam
3374 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
3375 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
3376 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
3377 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
3378 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
3379 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
3380 dependencies
3381 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
3382 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
3383 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
3384 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
3385 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
3386 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
3387 (CVE-2015-8776)
3388 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
3389 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
3390 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
3391 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
3392 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
3393 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3394 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
3395 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
3396 contention
3397 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
3398 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
3399 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
3400 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3401 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
3402 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
3403 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
3404 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
3405 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
3406 rounding modes
3407 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
3408 ILP32
3409 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
3410 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
3411 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
3412 threshold
3413 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
3414 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
3415 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
3416 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
3417 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
3418 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
3419 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
3420 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
3421 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
3422 pthread_setaffinity_np
3423 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
3424 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
3425 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
3426 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
3427 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
3428 prelink
3429 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
3430 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
3431 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
3432 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
3433 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3434 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
3435 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
3436 bits/mathcalls.h
3437 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
3438 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
3439 for C99-based standards
3440 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
3441 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
3442 math-only
3443 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
3444 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
3445 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
3446 disabled
3447 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
3448 "inexact" exceptions
3449 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
3450 arguments
3451 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
3452 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
3453 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
3454 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
3455 rules
3456 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
3457 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
3458 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
3459 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
3460 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
3461 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
3462 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
3463 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
3464 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
3465 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
3466 from 32bit
3467 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
3468 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
3469 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
3470 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
3471 subnormals
3472 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
3473 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
3474 error on 32-bit architectures
3475 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
3476 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
3477 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
3478 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
3479 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
3480 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
3481 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
3482 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
3483 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
3484 -Os
3485 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
3486 CPU's.
3487 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
3488 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
3489 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
3490 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
3491 architectures
3492 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
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3494Version 2.22
3495
3496* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3497
3df5cd98 3498 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
0e569d30
MF
3499 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
3500 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
3501 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
3502 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
3503 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
3504 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
3505 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
3506 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
3507 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
3508 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
3509 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
3510 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
3511 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
3512 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
3513 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
3514 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
3515 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
6fdd5d65
FW
3516 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
3517 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
2959eda9 3518
f7fba805
SL
3519* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
3520 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
3521
2959eda9
AS
3522* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
3523 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
3524 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
3525 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
3526 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
3527 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4a4839c9 3528
42261ad7
FW
3529* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
3530 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
3531 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
3532 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
3533 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
3534
afcd9480
AM
3535* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
3536 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
3537 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
3538
4a4839c9
AO
3539* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
3540 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
3541 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
3542 17998.
3543
b13b96ca
AS
3544* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
3545 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
3546 condition in some applications.
21933112
AS
3547
3548* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
a6336cc4
AS
3549 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
3550 pow, powf.
21933112
AS
3551 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
3552 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
037e4b99
AS
3553 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
3554 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 3555 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
fdb7d390
AZ
3556
3557* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
3558 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
3559 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
3560 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
7fde904c
MF
3561
3562* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
3563 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
3564 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
7493ab25
RM
3565
3566* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
3567 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
2ec11c2b
ZW
3568
3569* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
3570 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
3571 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
3572
a03ba363 3573 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
2ec11c2b
ZW
3574 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
3575 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
1c7a4a51 3576\f
58b930ae
SP
3577Version 2.21
3578
3579* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3580
042e1521 3581 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
5bd80bfe
PP
3582 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
3583 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
3584 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
3585 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
3586 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
3587 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
3588 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
3589 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
3590 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
3591 17892.
3592
46d54873
FW
3593* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
3594 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
3595 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
3596 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
3597 intended.
042e1521
CD
3598
3599* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
3600 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
3601 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
3602 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
3603 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
3604 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
a39208bd 3605
522e6ee3
CLT
3606* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
3607
d3b00f46
AZ
3608* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
3609 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 3610 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
96d6fd6c 3611
8d2c0a59
AZ
3612* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
3613 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
3614 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
3615 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
3616 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
3617 effects being visible outside transactions.
3618
dc400d7b
RE
3619* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
3620 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
ec582ca0 3621
0f9dfe04
L
3622* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
3623
a39208bd
CD
3624* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
3625 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
ebda2f17 3626 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
a39208bd
CD
3627 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
3628 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
fb89b46d 3629
a5357b7c
JL
3630* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
3631 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
3632
e54db0ea
AM
3633* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
3634 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
3635 format.
11e3417a 3636
4863355a
JM
3637* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
3638 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
3639 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
3640
a4ecc9eb
JM
3641* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
3642 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
3643
0d560bbf 3644* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
0781a777
RM
3645
3646* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
3647 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
3648 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
3649 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
6d248857
WN
3650
3651* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
3652 with newer versions of bison.
28c38448
MF
3653
3654* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
3655 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
3656 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
3657 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
3658 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
3659 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
3660 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
3661 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
3662 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
3663 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
3664 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
3665 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
3666 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
3667
3668 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
3669 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
3670 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
3671 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
3672 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
58b930ae 3673\f
d5b396c1
AM
3674Version 2.20
3675
3676* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3677
6a9350c8
JM
3678 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
3679 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
3680 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
3681 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
3682 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
3683 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
3684 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
3685 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
3686 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
3687 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
3688 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
3689 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
3690 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
3691 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
3692 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
0961f7e1 3693
95ee7fb1
SL
3694* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
3695 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
3696 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
3697 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
3698 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 3699 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
95ee7fb1
SL
3700 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
3701 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
3702 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
3703 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
3704
0961f7e1
JL
3705* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
3706 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
3707 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
3708 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
3709 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
f3d338c9 3710
f940b965
RE
3711* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
3712
d0f5b3f8
JM
3713* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
3714 can be used with is 2.6.32.
3715
d6fe5e58
JM
3716* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
3717 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
3718 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
3719 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
3720 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
3721 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
3722
464263cc
JM
3723* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
3724 from ports.
c941736c
JM
3725
3726* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
3727 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
3728 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
3729 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
3730 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
3731 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
3732 test macros defined.
f63c86fe
WN
3733
3734* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5a414ff7
DV
3735
3736* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
3737 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
3738 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
3739 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
3740 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
3741 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
3742 is not built.
d03efb2f
AM
3743
3744* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
3745 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
3746 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
3747 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
3748 invocation.
cfd2ea50
JM
3749
3750* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
3751 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
3752 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
f083450f
RM
3753
3754* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
3755 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
3756 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
3757 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
4e8f95a0
FW
3758
3759* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
3760 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
3761 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
3762 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
3763 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
3764 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
3765 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
3766 additional checks.
9a8a5720
RM
3767
3768* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
3769 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
3770 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
3771 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
3772 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
3773 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
3774 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
3775 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
3776 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
a1a6a401
FW
3777
3778* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
3779 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
3780 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
3781 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
3782 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 3783 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
41488498
FW
3784
3785* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
3786 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
3787 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
3788 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
6c1fd795
DM
3789\f
3790Version 2.19
3791
3792* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3793
fd2f9486
JM
3794 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
3795 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
3796 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
3797 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
3798 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
3799 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
3800 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
3801 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
3802 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
3803 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
ed27ed83
JM
3804 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
3805 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
3806 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
3807 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
3808 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
798212a0
PP
3809 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
3810 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
3811 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
141f3a77 3812
11520a57
CD
3813* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
3814 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
3815
2fe16229
CD
3816* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
3817 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
3818 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
08d76093
CD
3819 extension which uses __block.
3820
303e567a
SP
3821* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
3822 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
3823 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
3824 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
3825 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
3826
141f3a77
SP
3827* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
3828 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
3829 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
3830 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
3831 if malloc fails.
c61b4d41
CD
3832
3833* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
3834 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
3835 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
3836 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
3837 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
91ce4085
FW
3838
3839* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
3840 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
3841 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
3842
ba0d798c
WN
3843* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
3844 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
3845 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
3846 #15856, #15857).
3847
7cbcdb36
SP
3848* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
3849 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
3850
82bab04b 3851* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 3852 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
ddd9fb8f 3853
c5f840fd
MB
3854* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
3855
3e181dda
CD
3856* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
3857 supported locales.
ddd9fb8f 3858
3e181dda 3859* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
7447ccd9 3860
8a05c252
CL
3861* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
3862
6055173a
JM
3863* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
3864 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
3865 for which the C library was built.
3866
b125d3e5
JM
3867* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
3868 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
3869 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
3870 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
3871 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
3872 in the following circumstances:
3873
3874 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
3875
3876 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
3877 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
3878
d4f66d37
JM
3879* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
3880 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
3881
3e181dda
CD
3882* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
3883 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
e35696c3 3884
ffb89e53
AO
3885* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
3886
5d29ccce
SP
3887* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
3888 transcendental functions have been introduced.
3889
8b7d57cd 3890* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
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3891
3892* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 3893
fd712ef3 3894* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 3895
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3896* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
3897 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
3898 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
3899 disable some of those declarations.
3900
7011c262 3901* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
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3902 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
3903 that did nothing) has also been removed.
0a57b83e
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3904
3905* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
3906 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
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3907
3908* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
3909 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
3910 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
3911 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
3912 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
3913 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
3914 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
3915 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
3916 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
3917 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
3918 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
3919 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
3920 require recompilation.
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3921\f
3922Version 2.18
3923
3924* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3925
17db6e8d 3926 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
0432680e
PY
3927 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
3928 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
8c17cb1f
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3929 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
3930 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
3931 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
3932 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
3933 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
3934 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
3935 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
3936 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
3937 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
3938 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
3939 15755, 15759.
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3940
3941* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
3942 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
3943 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
3944 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
3945 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
3946 understands and accepts the risks.
1cef1b19 3947
5b535ac4
AS
3948* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
3949 #15078).
3950
1cef1b19
AS
3951* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
3952 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
7fffbdff 3953
55e4107b
SP
3954* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
3955 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
3956 destructor calls to glibc.
3957
e5c74c63
SP
3958* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
3959 output.
3960
3961* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
3962 non-x86 architectures.
3963
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3964* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
3965
3966* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
3967
3968* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
3969 Richard Henderson.
3970
3971* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
3972
3973* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
3974 Richard Henderson.
3975
3976* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
3977 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
3978
8cfdb7e0
SP
3979* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
3980
57267616
TS
3981* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
3982 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
58206c68 3983
c204ab28
SP
3984* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
3985 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
61dd6208 3986
0748546f
PE
3987* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
3988 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
3989 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
3990
61dd6208
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3991* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
3992 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
3993 attributes of a process.
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3994
3995* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
3996 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
3997 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
3998 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
3999 mutexes.
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4000
4001* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
4002 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
4003
4004* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
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4005\f
4006Version 2.17
4007
4008* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4009
80ceeaee 4010 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
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4011 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
4012 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
4013 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
4014 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
4015 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
4016 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
4017 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
4018 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
4019 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
4020 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
4021 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
4022 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
4023 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
4024 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
14bc93a9 4025
95b4f1b6
SE
4026* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
4027
14bc93a9
JL
4028* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
4029 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
7a845b2c 4030
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4031* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
4032 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
4033
7e2bd01f
MS
4034* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
4035
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4036* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
4037 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
4038 zEnterprise z196.
4039 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
4040
84b3fd84
FW
4041* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
4042 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
4043 the internal function __secure_getenv.
4044
815e6fa3
GB
4045* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
4046 Implemented by Gary Benson.
4047
400726de
MK
4048* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
4049 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
4050
7aab07e4 4051* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 4052 can be used with is 2.6.16.
7aab07e4 4053
15d0da8c
WS
4054* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
4055 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
4056
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4057* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
4058 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
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4059 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
4060 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3cc3ef96 4061
b54eb3cb
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4062* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
4063 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
4064
85429b1a 4065* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 4066 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
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4067 default.
4068
b54eb3cb
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4069* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
4070 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
4071 information in --help and --version output.
4072
050af9c4
SP
4073* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
4074 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
4075 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
4076
89a3ad0b
AO
4077* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
4078 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
4079 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
4080 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
4081 when the mode is enabled.
4082
6e6249d0
RM
4083* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
4084 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
4085 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
4086 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
4087 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
4088 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
4089 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5a04f376 4090
d9286582
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4091* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
4092 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
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4093\f
4094Version 2.16
4095
4096* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4097
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4098 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
4099 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
4100 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
4101 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
4102 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
4103 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
4104 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
4105 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
4106 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
4107 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
4108 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
4109 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
4110 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
4111 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
4112 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
4113 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
4114 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
4115 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
4116 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
4117 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
4118 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
4119 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
4120 14277, 14278.
380d7e87 4121
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4122* Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
4123 configuring glibc with:
4124 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
8f7a75d7 4125 Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
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4126 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4127
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4128* ISO C11 support:
4129
4130 + define static_assert
4131
4132 + do not declare gets
4133
4134 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
4135
4136 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
4137 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
4138 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
4139 implementation.
8d44e150 4140
74033a25 4141 + timespec_get added
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4142
4143 + uchar.h support added
d75a0a62 4144
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4145 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
4146
16dd419d
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4147 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4148
9dc4e1fb 4149* Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
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4150
4151* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
d9a216c0
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4152
4153* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
4154 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
daa891c0
UD
4155
4156* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
4157 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
021db4be
AJ
4158
4159* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
4160 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
4161 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
4162 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
4163 existing applications.
ffb7875d 4164
21708942 4165* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
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4166 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
4167 before 2.6.
83678f76 4168
edb00e4d
RH
4169* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
4170 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
4171 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
4172
83678f76 4173* New locales: mag_IN
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4174
4175* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
4176 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
4177 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
4178 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
4179 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
47e452cf
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4180
4181* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4182
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
4183* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
4184 and Will Schmidt.
47e452cf
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4185
4186* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
4187
4188* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
4189 without a previously built glibc.
4190
4191* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
4192 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
4193
4194* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
4195 now supported for ARM processors.
4196
4197* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
4198 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
4199 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
4200
4201* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
4202
4203* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
4204 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
4205 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
4206 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
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4207
4208* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
4209 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
4210 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
4211 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
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4212
4213* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
4214 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
4215 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
4216 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
4217 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
4218
4219* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
4220 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
4221 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
4222 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
ee1a7fab 4223\f
e80fab37 4224Version 2.15
11988f8f 4225
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4226* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4227
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4228 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
4229 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
4230 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
4231 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
4232 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
4233 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
4234 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
c0244a9d 4235
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4236* New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
4237 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4238
4239* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
4240 and support for initgroups lookups.
4241 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4242
4243* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
4244 Contributed by HJ Lu.
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4245
4246* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
4247 Contributed by HJ Lu.
99710781 4248
fc2ee42a
LD
4249* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
4250 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 4251 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 4252
d42964a0 4253* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
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4254 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4255
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4256* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
4257 for x86-64 and x86-32.
093ecf92
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4258 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4259
c55fbd1e
UD
4260* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
4261 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a0f33f99
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4262
4263* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
4264 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4265
4266* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
4267 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4268
4269* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
4270 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
d9a4d2ab
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4271
4272* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
4273 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4274
4275* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
4276 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4277
4278* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
e188ebba
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4279
4280* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
4281 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a1267ba1 4282
f0b264f1
AZ
4283* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
4284 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
2655fd5c 4285
6b64057b 4286* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
e80fab37 4287\f
dded88cd 4288Version 2.14
9f94d2ea 4289
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4290* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4291
553149f6 4292 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 4293 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 4294 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 4295 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
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4296 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
4297 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
4298 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
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4299 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
4300 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 4301 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
50934221 4302
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4303* The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
4304 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
4305 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 4306 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
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4307
4308 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
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4309 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
4310 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
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4311 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4312
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f1f929d7 4314 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
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72d1dddb 4316* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 4317 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
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4319* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
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4321* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
4322 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4324* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
4325 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
4326 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
4327 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
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4332
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4333 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
4334 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
4335 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
4336 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
4337 12378, 12394, 12397
ac2b484c 4338
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c08fb0d7 4340
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4343* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
4344 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 4345 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4347Version 2.12
4348
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4350
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4351 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
4352 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
4353 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
4354 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
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4355 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
4356 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
4357 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 4358 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
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4360* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
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4362* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
4363
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4364* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
4365
4366* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
4367 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
4368 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4369
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4371 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
4372 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
4373 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
4374 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4375
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4379
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4381
4382 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
4383 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
4384 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
4385 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
4386 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
4387 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
4388
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4389* New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
4390 mkostemps64
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4391 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4392
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4394 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4395
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4396* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
4397 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4398
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4399* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
4400
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9d36a6c4 4402 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 4403 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
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4405
9d36a6c4 4406 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
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4407 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4408
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4409* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
4410 strstr, strcasestr.
4411 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
4412
4413* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
4414 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
4415
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4416* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
4417 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4418
4419* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
4420 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4421
4422* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
4423 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
4424 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
4425 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
4426 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
4427 necessity is every process again.
4428 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4429
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4430* New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
4431 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
4432
4433* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
4434 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
4435
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4436* Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
4437 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
4438 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4439
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4443
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4444* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4445
4446 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
4447 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
4448 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
4449 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
4450 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
4451
bb066545 4452* New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
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4453 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4454
425ce2ed 4455* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
e109c612 4456 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 4457
1fdd89a7 4458* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
735be400 4459 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
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4461* XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
4462 now in POSIX.
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1f04d005 4464* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6cbe890a 4465 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4467* New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
4468 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4469
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4470* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
4471 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4472
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4473* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
4474 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4475
4476* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
4477 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
4478 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4479
735be400 4480* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
878b72c5 4481
84aa52d7 4482* Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
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4483 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4484
4485* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
4486 and extend existing format specifiers.
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4487 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4488
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4489* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
4490 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4491
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4492* DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
4493 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
4494 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
4495 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
4496 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
4497 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4499Version 2.9
4500
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4502
4503 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447, 6461,
4504 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712, 6713,
4505 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839, 6843,
4506 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955, 6966,
4507 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
4508
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4510 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4511
4512* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
4513 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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4515* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
4516 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4518* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
4519 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
4520 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4521
4522* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
4523 Implemented by Eric Blake.
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4527* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
ebcc1f4d 4528 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4530* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
4531 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
4532 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
4533 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4534
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4535* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
4536 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4538* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
4539 Sinhala)
48b22986 4540 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
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4542* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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4545
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4546* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4547
4548 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
4549 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
4550 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
4551 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
4552 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
4553 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
4554 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
4555
e038616f 4556* New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
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77751669 4558* New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
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4560* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
4561 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
4562
4563* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
4564
4565* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
4566 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4567
4568* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
4569 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4570
4571* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
4572 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
4573 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4574
4575* Faster memset for x86-64.
4576 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
4577
4578* Faster memcpy on x86.
4579 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4580
4581* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
4582 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4584* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
d990b282 4585 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
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4587Version 2.7
4588
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4589* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4590
4591 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
4592 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
4593 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
4594 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
4595 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
4596
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4597* More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
4598 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4599
4600* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4601
4602* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
4603 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
4604 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4605
4606* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
4607 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
4608
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4610 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4611
4612* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4613
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4614* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
4615 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4616
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4617* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
4618 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4619
4620* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
4621 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
4622
4623* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4624
4625* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
4626 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4628* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
4629 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
4630 yo_NG.
4631
4632+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
4633 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4638
4639 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
4640 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
4641 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
4642 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
4643 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
4644 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
4645 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
4646 4702, 4858
4647
bce20b9a 4648* New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
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4651
b21fa963 4652* nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4655
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4657
4658 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
4659 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
4660 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
4661 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
4662 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
4663 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
4664 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
4665 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
4666 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
4667
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4669 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
4670 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4672* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
4673 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4674
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4677* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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4679* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
4680 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
4681 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
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4684
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4686 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
4687 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
4688 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4689
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4690* The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
4691 Ulrich Drepper.
4692
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4693* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
4694
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4695* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
4696 Ulrich Drepper.
4697
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4698* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
4699
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4700* New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
4701 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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4704
4705* More overflow detection functions.
4706
4707* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
4708 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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4710 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
4711 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
4712 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
4713 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
4714 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
4715 by Masahide Washizawa.
4716
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4717* It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
4718 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4720* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
4721 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
4722 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
4723 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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4725* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
4726 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
4727
4728* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
4729
4730* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
4731 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
4732 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
4733
4734* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
4735 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
4736
4737* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
4738 for compatibility with some other systems.
4739
4740* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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4742Version 2.3.6
4743
4744* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4745
4746 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
4747 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
4748 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
4749 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
4750 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
4751 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
4752
5a82c748 4753 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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4755* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
4756
4757* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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4759Version 2.3.5
4760
4761* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4762
4763 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
4764 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
4765 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
4766 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
4767
5a82c748 4768 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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4770Version 2.3.4
4771
4772* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
4773 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4774
4775* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
4776 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
4777 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4778
4779* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
4780 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
4781
0325dd20 4782* getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
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4783 efficiently.
4784 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4785
4786* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
4787 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
4788 handling data.
4789
4790* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
4791 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
0325dd20 4792 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4793
4794* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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4795 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4796
4797* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
4798 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
4799 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
4800 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4801
4802* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
4803 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
4804 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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4805 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4806
4807* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
4808 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
4809 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
4810 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
4811 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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4813Version 2.3.3
4814
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4815* New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
4816 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
4817
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4818* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
4819 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
925c3c5c 4820
69be6aaf 4821* getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
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4822 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
4823
4824* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
4825 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4826
4827* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
4828 by Roland McGrath.
4829
c5af724c 4830* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
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4831 and Ulrich Drepper.
4832
4833* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
4834 RFC 3484.
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4836Version 2.3.2
4837
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4838* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
4839 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
4840 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
4841 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
4842 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
4843 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
4844 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
4845 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
4846 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
4847
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4848* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
4849 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
4850 and are now also available on the Hurd.
4851
4852* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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4853
4854* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
4855 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
52a16e58 4856
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4857* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
4858 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
4859
52a16e58 4860* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
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4862* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
4863 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
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4864
4865* With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
4866 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
4867 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
4868 of weak definition in ld.so.
4869
4870* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
4871 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
4872
4873* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
4874 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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4878* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
4879 charsets.
4880
4881* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
4882 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
47e8b443 4883
bb0ec5bd 4884* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 4885 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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4886
4887* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
4888 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
8e57fc70 4889
bb0ec5bd 4890* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
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4891 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
4892 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4893
4894* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
4895 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3b0bdc72 4896
bb0ec5bd 4897* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3b0bdc72 4898 implementation of regex.
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4899
4900* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
4901 Unicode 3.2.
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4903* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
4904 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
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4906* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
4907 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
4908 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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4909
4910* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
f87277f2 4911 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
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4912
4913* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
4914 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
4915 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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4916
4917* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
4918 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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4919
4920* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
4921 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
4922 and Ulrich Drepper.
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4923
4924* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
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4926Version 2.2.6
4927
4928* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
4929 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
4930
4931* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
4932 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
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4934Version 2.2.5
4935
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4936* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
4937 128-bit long double format.
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4939* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
4940 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
a8ae31c2 4941
ad2e4f18 4942* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
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4944* Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
4945
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4946* libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
4947 as well.
4948
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4949* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
4950 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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4951
4952* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
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4954Version 2.2.4
4955
2995f70e 4956* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 4957 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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4958
4959* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
4960 support Unicode 3.1.
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4961
4962* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
4963 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
045fcd26 4964
69d5f925 4965* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 4966
69d5f925 4967* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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4968 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
4969 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
4970
4971* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
4972 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
4973
4974* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
4975 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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4976
4977* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
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4979Version 2.2.3
4980
1746f2b0 4981* Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
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4982 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
4983 in float, double, and long double format.
4984
f128331c 4985* Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
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4986 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
4987 128-bit long double format.
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4989* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
4990 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
4991 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
4992 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
4993
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4994* An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
4995 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
4996 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4997
4998* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
4999 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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5000
5001* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
5002 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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5003
5004* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
5005 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
5006 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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5007
5008* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
5009 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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5010
5011* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
5012 of functions for Linux/x86.
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5013
5014* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
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5016Version 2.2.2
5017
464d97ec 5018* Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
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5019 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
5020 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
5021 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
5022 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
5023 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
5024 other headers.
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5025
5026* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
5027 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
5028
5029* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
5030 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
5031 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
5032 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5033
5034* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
5035 locales. While
5036
5037 locale -a
5038
5039 only lists the names of the supported locales
5040
5041 locale -a --verbose
5042
5043 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
5044 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
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5046Version 2.2.1
5047
5048* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
5049 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
5050 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
5051 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
5052 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
5053
5054 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
5055
5056 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
5057
5058 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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5059
5060* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
5061 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
5062 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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5063
5064* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
5065 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
5066
5067* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
5068 changed from the default "C" locale.
5069
5070* The usual bug fixes.
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5072Version 2.2
5073
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5074* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
5075 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
5076 is in progress.
5077
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5078* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
5079
793bd4d9 5080* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
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5082 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
5083 obviously requires a database library being available.
5084
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5085* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5086
abbffdf9 5087* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
01c771d0 5088
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5089* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
5090 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
5091
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5092* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
5093
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5094* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
5095 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
5096 and Mark Kettenis.
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5097
5098 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
5099 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
5100 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 5101
a00c3ca9 5102 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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5103 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
5104
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5105* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
5106 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
5107 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
5108
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5109* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
5110 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
5111 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
5112 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5113
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5114 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
5115 structures for the wide character tables.
5116
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5117* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5118
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5119* The utmp daemon has been removed.
5120
5121* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
5122
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5123* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
5124 and Yutaka Niibe.
5125
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5126* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
5127
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5128* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
5129
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5130* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5131
5132* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
5133
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5134* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
5135
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5136* the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
5137 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
5138 implemented for Linux.
5139
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5140* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
5141 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
5142 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
5143 versions.
5144
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5145* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
5146 Masahide Washizawa.
5147
8f3f1e09 5148* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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5150Version 2.1.3
5151
5152* bug fixes
5153
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5155Version 2.1.2
5156
5157* bug fixes
5158
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5160Version 2.1.1
5161
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5162* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
5163
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5164* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
5165
407d26b7 5166* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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5167
5168* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
5169
407d26b7 5170* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 5171
407d26b7 5172* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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5173
5174* Update timezone data files.
27995311 5175
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5176* lots of charmaps corrections
5177
5178* some new locale definitions and charmaps
5179
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5181Version 2.1
5182
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5183* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
5184 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
5185 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
5186 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
5187 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
5188 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
5189
c84142e8 5190* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 5191 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 5192
1fb05e3d 5193* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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5194 symbol level.
5195
5196* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
5197 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
377a515b 5198
cbdee279 5199* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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5200
5201* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 5202 numbers.
377a515b 5203
cbdee279 5204* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
e61abf83 5205
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5206* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
5207 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
e61abf83 5208
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5209* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
5210 library.
5211
e61abf83 5212* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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5213 functions from ISO C 9X.
5214
5215* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
5216 real valued functions.
e61abf83 5217
a5a0310d 5218* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
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5220* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
5221
5222* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 5223
440d13e2 5224* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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5225
5226* Optimized string functions have been added.
5227
5228* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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5230* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
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5233 daemon for NSS (nscd).
5234
5235 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
5236 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
5237
0dee6738 5238 user system wall
48244d09 5239
0dee6738 5240 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 5241
0dee6738 5242 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 5243
0dee6738 5244 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
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5246 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
5247
5248 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
5249
5250 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
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5252 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
5253 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
0dee6738 5254 horribly slow.
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5256 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
5257 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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5259* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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5261* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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5262
5263* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
5264 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
5265
5266* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
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5268* A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
5269 Bambrough.
5270
5271* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
5272 latest draft standards.
5273
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5275
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5277~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
62595351 5278addseverity NEW: Unix98
48244d09 5279alphasort64 NEW: LFS
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5280argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
5281argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
5282argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
5283argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
5284argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
5285argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
5286argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
5287argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
5288argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
5289argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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5290authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
5291authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
5292authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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5293backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
5294backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
5295backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
5296cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
5297cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
5298cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
5299cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
5300cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
5301cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
5302capget NEW: kernel
5303capset NEW: kernel
5304carg NEW: ISO C 9x
5305cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
5306cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
5307casin NEW: ISO C 9x
5308casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
5309casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
5310casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5311casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5312casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
5313catan NEW: ISO C 9x
5314catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
5315catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
5316catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5317catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5318catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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5320ccos NEW: ISO C 9x
5321ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
5322ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
5323ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
5324ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
5325ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
5326cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
5327cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
5328cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
5329cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
5330cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
5331cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
5332clearerr_locked REMOVED
5333clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
5334clog NEW: ISO C 9x
5335clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
5336clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
5337clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
5338clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
5339clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
5340conj NEW: ISO C 9x
5341conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
5342conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
5343cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
5344cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
5345cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
5346cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
5347cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
5348cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
5349creal NEW: ISO C 9x
5350crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
5351creall NEW: ISO C 9x
5352creat64 NEW: LFS
5353csin NEW: ISO C 9x
5354csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
5355csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
5356csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5357csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5358csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
5359csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
5360csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
5361csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
5362ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
5363ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
5364ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
5365ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5366ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5367ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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5368des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
5369ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 5370endutxent NEW: Unix98
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5371exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x
5372exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
5373exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
5374exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
5375exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
5376exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
5377fattach NEW: STREAMS
5378fdetach NEW: STREAMS
5379fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
5380fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
5381fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
5382feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5383fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5384fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
5385fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
5386feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5387feof_locked REMOVED
5388feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5389ferror_locked REMOVED
5390fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5391fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
5392fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
5393fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5394feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5395fflush_locked REMOVED
5396ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
5397ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
5398fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
5399fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5400fileno_locked REMOVED
5401fma NEW: ISO C 9x
5402fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
5403fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
5404fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
5405fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
5406fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
5407fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
5408fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
5409fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
62595351 5410fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
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5411fopen64 NEW: LFS
5412fputc_locked REMOVED
5413fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5414fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5415freopen64 NEW: LFS
5416fseeko NEW: Unix98
5417fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
5418fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
5419fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
5420fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
5421ftello NEW: Unix98
5422ftello64 NEW: LFS
5423ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
5424ftw64 NEW: LFS
5425fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5426gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
5427gamma_r REMOVED
5428gammaf_r REMOVED
5429gammal_r REMOVED
5430getchar_locked REMOVED
5431getdate NEW: Unix98
5432getdate_err NEW: Unix98
5433getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
5434getmsg NEW: STREAMS
5435getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
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5437getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
5438getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
5439getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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5440getutxent NEW: Unix98
5441getutxid NEW: Unix98
5442getutxline NEW: Unix98
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5443glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
5444globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
5445gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
5446gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
5447grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
e980ca92 5448host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
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5449iconv NEW: iconv
5450iconv_close NEW: iconv
5451iconv_open NEW: iconv
5452if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
5453if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
5454if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
5455if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
5456in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
5457in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
5458inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
5459isastream NEW: STREAMS
5460iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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5461key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
5462key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
5463key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
5464key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
5465key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
5466key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
5467key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
5468key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
5469key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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5470llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
5471llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5472llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
5473llround NEW: ISO C 9x
5474llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5475llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5476log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
5477log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
5478log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
5479lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
5480lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5481lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
5482lround NEW: ISO C 9x
5483lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5484lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5485lseek64 NEW: LFS
5486makecontext NEW: Unix98
5487mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
5488mmap64 NEW: LFS
5489moncontrol REMOVED
5490modify_ldt NEW: kernel
5491nan NEW: ISO C 9x
5492nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
5493nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
5494nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
5495nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5496nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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5497netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
5498netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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5499nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
5500nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
5501nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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5502nftw NEW: Unix98
5503nftw64 NEW: LFS
5504open64 NEW: LFS
e980ca92 5505passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
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5506pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
5507pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
5508pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
5509pread NEW: Unix98
5510pread64 NEW: LFS
5511printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
5512printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
5513profil_counter REMOVED
5514pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
5515pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
5516ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
5517ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
5518putc_locked REMOVED
5519putchar_locked REMOVED
5520putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
5521putmsg NEW: STREAMS
5522putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
62595351 5523pututxline NEW: Unix98
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5524pwrite NEW: Unix98
5525pwrite64 NEW: LFS
5526readdir64 NEW: LFS
5527readdir64_r NEW: LFS
5528remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
5529remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
5530remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
5531round NEW: ISO C 9x
5532roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5533roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5534rtime NEW: GNU ext.
5535scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
5536scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
5537scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
5538scandir64 NEW: LFS
5539sendfile NEW: kernel
5540setcontext NEW: Unix98
5541setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 5542setutxent NEW: Unix98
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5543sighold NEW: Unix98
5544sigignore NEW: Unix98
5545sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
5546sigrelse NEW: Unix98
5547sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
5548sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
5549sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
5550sincos NEW: GNU ext.
5551sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
5552sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
5553statfs64 NEW: LFS
5554statvfs NEW: Unix98
5555statvfs64 NEW: LFS
5556strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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5557strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
5558strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
5559strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
e980ca92 5560svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
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5561svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
5562svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
5563swapcontext NEW: Unix98
5564tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
5565tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
5566tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
5567tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
5568tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
5569tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
5570trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
5571truncate64 NEW: LFS
5572truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
5573truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
5574umount2 NEW: kernel
5575unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 5576updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 5577user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 5578utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 5579versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
3ef4002b 5580versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
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5581waitid NEW: Unix98
5582wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
5583wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
5584wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
5585wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
5586wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
5587wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
5588wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
5589wcswcs NEW: Unix98
5590wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
5591wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
5592write_profiling REMOVED
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5593xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
5594xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
5595xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
5596xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
5597xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
5598xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
5599xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
5600xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
5601xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
5602xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
5603xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
5604xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
5605xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 5606xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
e980ca92 5607xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 5608~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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5610Version 2.0.6
5611
5612* more bug fixes
5613
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5615Version 2.0.5
5616
5617* more bug fixes
5618
5619* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
5620
5621* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
5622
5623* rewrite of cbrt function
5624
5625* update of timezone data
5626\f
5627Version 2.0.4
5628
5629* more bug fixes
5630\f
5631Version 2.0.3
5632
5633* more bug fixes
c84142e8 5634\f
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5635Version 2.0.2
5636
5637* more bug fixes
5638
5639* add atoll function
5640
5641* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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5642
5643* fix math functions
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5644\f
5645Version 2.0.1
5646
5647* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
5648
5649* dynamic loader preserves all registers
5650
5651* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
5652 the ELF dynamic loader.
5653
5654* support for parallel builds is improved
5655\f
40a4b79f 5656Version 2.0
28f540f4 5657
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5658* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
5659 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
5660 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
5661
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5662* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
5663 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
5664 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
5665 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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5666 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
5667 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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5668 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
5669 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
5670 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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5671 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
5672 files in the ELF format.
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5673
5674* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
5675 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
5676
5677* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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5678 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
5679 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
5680 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
5681 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
5682 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
5683 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
5684 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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5685 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
5686 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
5687 about dynamically linked binaries.
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5689* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
5690 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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5691 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
5692 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
5693 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 5694
f7eac6eb 5695* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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5696 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
5697 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
5698 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
5699 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
5700
5701* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
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5703* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
5704 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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5705 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
5706 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
5707 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
5708 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
5709 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
5710 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
5711 NSS services available.
5f0e6fc7 5712
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5713* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
5714 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
5715 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
5716
5717* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
5718 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
5719 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
5720
5721* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
5722 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
5723 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
5724 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
5725
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5726* The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
5727 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
5728 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
5729
5730* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
5731 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
5732 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
5733
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5734* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
5735 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
5736
f7eac6eb 5737* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 5738 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 5739 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
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5740 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
5741
5742* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
5743 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
5744 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 5745
71733723 5746* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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5747 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
5748 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
5749 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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5750 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
5751 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 5752 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 5753 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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5754
5755* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
5756 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
5757 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
5758 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
5759 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
5760 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
5761 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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5762
5763* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
5764 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
5765 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
5766 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
5767 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
5768 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
5769
5770* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
5771 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
5772
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5773* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
5774 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
5775 NSS scheme used in glibc.
28f540f4 5776
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5777* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
5778
5779* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
5780 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
5781 their use is discouraged.
5782
5783* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
5784 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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5786* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
5787 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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5788
5789* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
5790 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
5791
5792* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
5793 see <dirent.h>.
5794
5795* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
5796 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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5797 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
5798 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
5799 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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5800
5801* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
5802 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
5803 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
5804 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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5805
5806* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
5807 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
5808
5809* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
5810 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
5811 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
5812 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
5813 number generator.
5814
5815* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
5816 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
5817
5818* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
5819 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
5820
71733723 5821* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 5822 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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5824 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
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5826* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
5827
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5829 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
5830 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
5831
5832* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
5833 for arithmetic and string handling.
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c709e372 5835* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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5836 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
5837 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
5838 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
5839
5840* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
5841 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
5842 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
5843 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
5844 programs already written to use it.)
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5845
5846* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
5847 constants.
5848
5849* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
5850 with 4.4 BSD.
5851
5852* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
5853 a given effective group ID.
5854
5855* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
5856 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
5857 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
5858 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
5859
5860* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 5861 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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5862 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
5863 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
5864 doing the same thing.
5865
5866* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
5867 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
5868
5869* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 5870 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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5871
5872* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
5873
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5874* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
5875 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
5876 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 5877 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 5878 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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5879
5880* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
5881 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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5883* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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5884 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
5885 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
5886 function.
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5887
5888* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
5889
5890* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
5891 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
5892 strings.
5893
5894* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
5895 and writing the utmp file.
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5896
5897* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
5898 Thorsten Kukuk.
5899
5900* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
5901 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
5902 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
5903
5904* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
5905 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
5906
5907* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
5908 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
5909 specification.
5910
5911* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
5912 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
5913 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
5914 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
5915
5916* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
5917 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
5918 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
5919
5920* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
5921 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
5922 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
5923 expression matcher.
5924
5925* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
5926 functionality.
5927
5928* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
5929 by Ulrich Drepper.
5930
5931* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
5932
5933* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
5934 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
5935 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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5937Version 1.09
5938
5939* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
5940
5941* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
5942 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
5943
5944* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
5945 want to put themselves in the background.
5946
5947* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
5948 run without an operating system.
5949
5950* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
5951 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
5952
5953* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
5954 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
5955
5956* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
5957
5958* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
5959 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
5960 have YP (aka NIS).
5961
5962* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
5963 conventions.
5964
5965* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
5966 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
5967\f
5968Version 1.08
5969
5970* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
5971 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
5972 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
5973
5974* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
5975 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
5976
5977* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
5978 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
5979
5980* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
5981
5982* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
5983
5984* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
5985 compatibility.
5986
5987* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
5988 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
5989 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
5990
5991* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
5992
5993* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
5994 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
5995 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
5996
5997* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
5998 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
5999 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
6000 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
6001 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
6002 on a block).
6003
6004* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
6005 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
6006 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
6007 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
6008 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
6009 cross-compiler.
6010
6011* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
6012 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
6013\f
6014Version 1.07
6015
6016* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
6017 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
6018
6019* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
6020 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
6021 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
6022
6023* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
6024 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
6025 address of the last character written.
6026
6027* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
6028 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
6029
6030* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
6031 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
6032
6033* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
6034 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
6035 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
6036 you dereference this pointer.
6037
6038* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
6039 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
6040
6041* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
6042 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
6043 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
6044 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
6045
6046* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
6047 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
6048 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
6049 EAGAIN in every system call function.
6050\f
6051Version 1.06
6052
6053* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
6054 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
6055 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
6056 in Emacs or the `info' program.
ea278354 6057 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
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6059* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
6060
6061* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
6062
6063* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
6064 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
6065
6066* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
6067 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
6068
6069* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
6070 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
6071
6072* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
6073 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
6074 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
6075 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
6076 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
6077
6078* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
6079 to the error code in `errno'.
6080
6081* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
6082 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
6083 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
6084 malloc'd string.
6085
6086* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
6087 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
6088 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
6089
6090* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
6091 uniquely-named temporary file.
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6093Version 1.05
6094
6095* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
6096 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
6097 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
6098
6099* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
6100 characters.
6101
6102* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
6103 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
6104
6105* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
6106\f
6107Version 1.04
6108
6109* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
6110 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
6111 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
6112 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
6113
6114* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
6115 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
6116 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
6117
6118* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
6119 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
6120
6121* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
6122 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
6123 made itself into a shared library.
6124
6125* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
6126 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
6127
6128* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
6129 with limited length.
6130
6131* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
6132
6133* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
6134
6135* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
6136
6137* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
6138 function for traversing a directory tree.
6139
6140* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
6141 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
6142 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
6143 formatted output directly to an obstack.
6144
6145* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
6146 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
6147
6148* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
6149
6150* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
6151 things to your strings.
6152
6153* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
6154
6155* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
6156 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
6157 supporting those systems.
6158
6159* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
6160 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
6161 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
6162 configuration files.
6163
6164* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
6165 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
6166
6167* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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6168 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
6169 in <strings.h>.)
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6170
6171* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
6172 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
6173 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
6174 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
6175 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
6176 required storage is not available.
6177
6178* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
6179 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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6180
6181* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
6182 latest files released from Berkeley.
6183\f
6184----------------------------------------------------------------------
6185Copyright information:
6186
5f72f980 6187Copyright (C) 1992-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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6188
6189 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
6190 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
6191 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
6192 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
6193
6194 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
6195 of this document, or of portions of it,
6196 under the above conditions, provided also that they
6197 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
6198\f
6199Local variables:
6200version-control: never
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