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ee9247c3 1GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
688903eb 2Copyright (C) 1992-2018 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 2.28
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10Major new features:
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12* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
13 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
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15 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
16 fMxaddfNx functions.
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18 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
19 fMxsubfNx functions.
20
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21 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
22 fMxmulfNx functions.
23
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24 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
25 fMxdivfNx functions.
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27* Nominative and genitive month names are now supported for the following
28 languages: Catalan, Czech, Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon.
29 The Catalan and Greek languages now support abbreviated alternative
30 month names.
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32* Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
33 patches.
34
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35* IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
36 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
37 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
38 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
39 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
40 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
41 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
42 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
43 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
44
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45Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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47* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
48 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
49 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
50
51* The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
52 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
53 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
54 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
55 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
56 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
57
58* All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
59 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
60 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
61 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
62 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
63 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
64 (Bug #1190.)
65
66* The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
67 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
68 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
69 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
70 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
71 further explanation.
72
73 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
74 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
75 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
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77* The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
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79* The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
80 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
81 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
82
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83* The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
84 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
85 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
86 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
87
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88* The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
89 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
90 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
91 for this function instead.
92
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93* The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
94 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
95 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
96
97* The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
98 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
99 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
100 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
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102Changes to build and runtime requirements:
103
104 [Add changes to build and runtime requirements here]
105
106Security related changes:
107
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108 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
109 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
110 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
111 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
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113 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
114 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
115
116 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
117 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
118 Izbyshev.
119
120 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
121 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
122 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
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124The following bugs are resolved with this release:
125
126 [The release manager will add the list generated by
127 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
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130Version 2.27
131
132Major new features:
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134* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
135 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
bd7bbb26 136 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
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137 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
138 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
139 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
140 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
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141 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
142 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
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ac817e08 144* Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
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145 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
146 H.J. Lu from Intel.
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148* Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
149
4cf82d23 150* Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
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152* In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
153 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
154 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
155 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
156 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
157 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
158 from a security and performance perspective.
159
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160* The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
161 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
162 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
163 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
164
81325b12 165* On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
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166 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
167 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
168 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
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169 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
170
a23aa5b7 171* On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
40ca951b 172 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
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173 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
174 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
175 _Float128.
176
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177* The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
178 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
179 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
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4bab0224 181* glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
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183* Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
184 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
185 pkey_get.
186
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187* The copy_file_range function was added.
188
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189* Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
190
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191* The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
192 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
193 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
194
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195* Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
196 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
197 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
198 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
199 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
200 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
201 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
202
203 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
204 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
205 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
206 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
207 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
208 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
209 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
210
211 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
212 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
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213 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
214 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
215 respectively.
216
217 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
218 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
219 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
220 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
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222 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
223 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
224 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
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226 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
227 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
0a32e219 228 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
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230* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
231 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
232 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
233
234 - rv64imac lp64
235 - rv64imafdc lp64
236 - rv64imafdc lp64d
237
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238Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
239
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240* Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
241 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
d4ae7827 242 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
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243 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
244 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
245 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
246 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
247 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
248 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
249 fix this.
250
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251* Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
252 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
253 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
254
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255* Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
256 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
257 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
258 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
259 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
260 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
261 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
262 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
263 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
264 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
265 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
266 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
267 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
268 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
269 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
270 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
271 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
272 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
273 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
274 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
275 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
276 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
277 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
278 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
279 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
280 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
281
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282* On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
283 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
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285* libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
286 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
287 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
288 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
289 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
290 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
291 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
292
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293* The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
294 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
295 exp10l for these functions instead.
296
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297* The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
298 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
299 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
300
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301* The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
302 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
303 ignored.
304
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305* The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
306 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
307 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
308 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
309
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310* The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
311 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
312
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313* In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
314 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
315
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316* The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
317 programs.
318
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319* The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
320
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321* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
322 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
323 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
324 instead.
325
326 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
327 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
328 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
329 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
330 use, but predates the bits convention.
331
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332Changes to build and runtime requirements:
333
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334* bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
335 subdirectory.
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337Security related changes:
338
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339 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
340 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
341 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
342 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
343 script.)
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345 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
346 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
347 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
348 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
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350 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
351 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
352 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
353 of service.
354
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355 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
356 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
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357 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
358
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359 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
360 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
361 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
362 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
363
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364 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
365 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
366 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
367 Qualys.
368
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369 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
370 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
371 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
372 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
373 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
374
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375 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
376 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
377 current directory.
378
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379 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
380 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
381 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
382
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383 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
384 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
385 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
386
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387 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
388 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
389 small, instead of NULL.
390
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391The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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393 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
394 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
395 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
396 locale
397 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
398 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
399 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
400 cases
401 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
402 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
403 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
404 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
405 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
406 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
407 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
408 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
409 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
410 "Bangla"
411 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
412 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
413 width Latin characters
414 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
415 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
416 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
417 letters
418 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
419 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
420 (CVE-2009-5064)
421 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
422 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
423 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
424 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
425 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
426 if malloc succeeded
427 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
428 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
429 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
430 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
431 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
432 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
433 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
434 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
435 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
436 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
437 U+309A
438 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
439 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
440 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
441 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
442 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
443 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
444 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
445 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
446 for Nicaragua
447 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
448 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
449 are not found.
450 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
451 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
452 access
453 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
454 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
455 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
456 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
457 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
458 __regcall calling convention
459 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
460 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
461 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
462 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
463 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
464 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
465 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
466 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
467 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
468 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
469 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
470 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
471 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
472 locale
473 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
474 protector=all
475 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
476 wcwidth
477 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
478 consistency check failures
479 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
480 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
481 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
482 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
483 PIE
484 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
485 locales
486 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
487 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
488 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
489 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
490 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
491 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
492 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
493 on memory allocation failure
494 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
495 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
496 the suspect)
497 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
498 default (i386)
499 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
500 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
501 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
502 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
503 instead of EAI_NODATA
504 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
505 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
506 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
507 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
508 implementation
509 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
510 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
511 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
512 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
513 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
514 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
515 allocation in syscall loops)
516 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
517 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
518 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
519 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
520 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
521 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
522 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
523 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
524 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
525 occur with -O3
526 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
527 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
528 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
529 amounts)
530 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
531 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
532 niu_NZ
533 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
534 checks
535 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
536 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
537 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
538 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
539 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
540 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
541 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
542 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
543 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
544 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
545 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
546 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
547 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
548 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
549 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
550 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
551 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
552 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
553 parsing after OOM
554 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
555 object
556 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
557 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
558 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
559 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
560 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
561 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
562 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf oupts a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
563 ppc64le
564 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
565 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
566 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
567 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
568 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
569 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
570 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
571 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
572 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
573 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
574 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
575 math_force_eval
576 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
577 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
578 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
579 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
580 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
581 the svid compat wrapper
582 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
583 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
584 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
585 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
586 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
587 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
588 --verbose.
589 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
590 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
591 to 2.26
592 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
593 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
594 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
595 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
596 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
597 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
598 (CVE-2017-15804)
599 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
600 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
601 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
602 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
603 failure."
604 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
605 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
606 -m32
607 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
608 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
609 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
610 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
611 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
612 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
613 inside the ASCII printable range
614 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
615 -mlong-double-64
616 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
617 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
618 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
619 Internet
620 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
621 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
622 backslash
623 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
624 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
625 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
626 heaps in an arena
627 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
628 networking interface
629 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
630 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
631 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
632 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
633 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
634 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
635 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
636 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
637 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
638 order
639 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
640 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
641 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
642 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
643 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
644 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
645 same as for Croatian
646 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
647 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
648 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
649 for initial thread"
650 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
651 SC_SSIZE_MAX
652 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
653 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
654 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
655 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
656 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
657 (CVE-2017-1000408)
658 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
659 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
660 modified in case of success
661 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
662 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
663 success
664 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
665 stack-protector=all
666 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
667 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
668 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
669 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
670 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
671 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
672 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
673 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
674 adding it on top
675 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
676 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
677 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
678 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
679 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
680 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
681 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
682 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
683 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
684 (CVE-2018-1000001)
685 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
686 elision and tunables
687 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
688 "invalid" exception
689 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
690 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
691 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
692 exception
693 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
694 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
695 power4
696 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
697 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
698 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
699 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
700 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
701 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
702 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
703 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
704 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
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708
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710
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712 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
713 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
714 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
715 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
716 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
717 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
718
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720 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
0b38d66a 721 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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722 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
723 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
724 are rendered with pango, see for example:
725 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
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728 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
729 Egmont Koblinger.
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2b2ccd0c 731* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
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734 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
735 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
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738 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
739 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
740 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
741 object are still limited to six search domains.
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744 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
745 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
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748 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
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751 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
752 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
753 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
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755* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
756 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
757 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
758 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
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761 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
762 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
763 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
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765* errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
766 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
767 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
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2b2ccd0c 769* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
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771 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
772 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
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2b2ccd0c 774 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
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776 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
777 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
778 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
779
780 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
781 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
782 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
783 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
784 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
785 interfaces should be used instead.
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788
789* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
790 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
791 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
792 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
793 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
794 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
795 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
796 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
797
798* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
799 removed.
800
801* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
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804 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
805
806* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
807 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
808 default.
809
810 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
811 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
812 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
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814 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
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816 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
817 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
818 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
819 name service modules, to be built and installed.
820
821* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
822 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
823 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
824 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
825
826* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
827 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
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830 exported by accident.
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833 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
834 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
835
836* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
837 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
838 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
839 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
840
841* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
842
843* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
844
845* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
846 free instead.
847
848* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
849 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
850
851* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
852 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
853
854* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
855 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
856 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
857 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
858 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
859 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
860 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
861 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
862
863* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
864 synced with the kernel:
865
866 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
867 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
868
869 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
870 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
871 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
872
873 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
874 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
875
876Changes to build and runtime requirements:
877
878* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
879 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
880 x86-32 and x86-64.)
881
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885 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
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887 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
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888 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
889 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
890 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2b2ccd0c 891 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
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893Security related changes:
894
e14a2772 895* The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
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896 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
897
898* LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
899 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
900
901* Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
902 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
903 (CVE-2010-3192).
904
905* A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
906 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
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908The following bugs are resolved with this release:
909
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910 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
911 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
912 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
913 fields
914 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
915 (CVE-2010-3192)
916 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
917 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
918 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
919 ld.bfd is available
920 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
921 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
922 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
923 x86 and other generic code
924 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
925 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
926 incorrect
927 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
928 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
929 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
930 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
931 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
932 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
933 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
934 resolver
935 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
936 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
937 order of 0D36 and 0D37
938 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
939 chillu characters
940 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
941 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
942 receiving data
943 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
944 whitespace
945 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
946 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
947 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
948 for Peru
949 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
950 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
951 failures consistently
952 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
953 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
954 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
955 frame-pointer on i386
956 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
957 register
958 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
959 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
960 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
961 generic c code is used
962 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
963 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
964 around 4000
965 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
966 (CVE-2017-12133)
967 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
968 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
969 with -lieee
970 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
971 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
972 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
973 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
974 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
975 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
976 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
977 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
978 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
979 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
980 remove()
981 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
982 checked for errors.
983 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
984 new posix_spawn implementation
985 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
986 leads to lower CPU frequency
987 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
988 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
989 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
990 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
991 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
992 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
993 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
994 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
995 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
996 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
997 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
998 not support gethostbyname4_r
999 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
1000 switching
1001 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
1002 arenas
1003 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
1004 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
1005 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
1006 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
1007 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
1008 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
1009 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
1010 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
1011 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
1012 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
1013 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
1014 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
1015 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
1016 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
1017 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
1018 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
1019 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
1020 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
1021 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
1022 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
1023 retry value
1024 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
1025 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
1026 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
1027 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
1028 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
1029 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
1030 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
1031 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
1032 [21537] libc:
1033 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
1034 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
1035 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
1036 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
1037 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
1038 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
1039 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
1040 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
1041 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
1042 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
1043 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
1044 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
1045 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
1046 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
1047 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
1048 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
1049 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
1050 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
1051 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
1052 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
1053 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
1054 issue on x86-64
1055 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
1056 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
1057 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
1058 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
1059 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
1060 construction
1061 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
1062 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
1063 between_2_3
1064 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
1065 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
1066 conditions
1067 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
1068 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
1069 Hindi Locale
1070 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
1071 posix/sched_cpucount.c
1072 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
1073 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
1074 locale
1075 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
1076 leading to relocation crash
1077 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
1078 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
1079 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
1080 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
1081 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
1082 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
1083 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
1084 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
1085 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
1086 locale
1087 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
1088 locale
1089 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
1090 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
1091 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
1092 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
1093 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
1094 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
1095 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
1096 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
1097 strings
1098 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
1099 protector=all
1100 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
1101 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
1102 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
1103 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
1104 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
1105 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
1106 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
1107 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
1108 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
1109 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
1110 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
1111 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
1112 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
1113 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
1114 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
1115 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
1116 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
1117 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
1118 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
1119 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
1120 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
1121 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
1122 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
1123 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
1124 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
1125 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
1126 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
1127 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
1128 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
1129 with unicode 9.0
1130 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
1131 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
1132 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
1133 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
1134 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
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1137Version 2.25
1138
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1139* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
1140 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
1141 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
1142 Library.
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1144* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
1145 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
a5ac5676 1146 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
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1147 the GNU C Library.
1148
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1149* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
1150 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
1151 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
1152 the GNU C Library.
1153
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1154* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
1155 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
1156 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
1157 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
1158 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
1159 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
1160 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
1161 will not.
1162
1163 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
1164 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
1165 many years.
1166
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1167* The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
1168 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
1169 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
1170
1171 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
1172 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
1173 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
1174 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
1175 problem.
1176
ec94343f 1177* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
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1178 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
1179 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
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1181* Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
1182 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
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1183 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
1184 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
1185 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
1186 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
1187 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
1188 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
1189 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
1190 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
1191 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
1192 WINT_WIDTH.
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1194* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
1195
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1196 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
1197
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1198 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
1199 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
1200 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
41c67149 1201
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1202 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
1203 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
1204
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1205 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
1206 fminmagf, fminmagl.
1207
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1208 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
1209
29cb9293 1210 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
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1212 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
1213 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
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1215 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
1216
eb3c12c7 1217 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
457663a7 1218 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
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1220* The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
1221 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
1222
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1223* Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
1224 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
1225 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
1226
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1227* The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
1228 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
1229 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
1230 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
1231 effects of the memory clear).
1232
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1233* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
1234 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
1235 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
1236 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
1237
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1238* On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
1239 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
1240 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
1241 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
1242 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
1243 if they are compiled or used with those options.
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1245* The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
1246 have been added.
1247
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1248* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
1249 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
1250 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
1251 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
1252 as large as several megabytes.
1253
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1254* The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
1255 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
1256 been removed.
1257
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1258* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
1259 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
1260 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
1261 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
1262 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
1263 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
1264 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
1265
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1266* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
1267 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
1268 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
1269 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
1270
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1272 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
1273 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
1274 Internet.
1275
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1276* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
1277 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
1278 They were already unimplemented.
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1280* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
1281 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
1282 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
1283 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
1284
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1285* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
1286 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
1287 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
1288 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
1289 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
1290
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1291* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
1292 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
1293 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
1294 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
1295 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
1296
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1297* The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
1298 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
1299 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
1300 did not reflect that.
1301
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1302* For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
1303 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
1304 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
1305 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
1306 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
1307 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
1308 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
1309 'gcc/config.gcc'.
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1311* GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
1312 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
1313 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
1314 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
1315
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1316* Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
1317 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
1318 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
1319 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
1320
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1321* A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
1322 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
1323 guarantees.
1324
1325* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
1326 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
1327 make state changes.
1328
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1329Security related changes:
1330
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1332 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
1333 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
1334 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
056dd72a 1335 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
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1337* The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
1338 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
1339 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
1340 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
1341 (CVE-2015-5180)
1342
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1343The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1344
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1345 [4099] stdio: Overly agressive caching by stream i/o functions.
1346 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
1347 protector-all
1348 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
1349 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
1350 before it started waiting
1351 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
1352 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
1353 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
1354 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
1355 wrong type
1356 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
1357 library linked with pthread
1358 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
1359 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
1360 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
1361 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
1362 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
1363 after being __libc_memalign()'d
1364 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
1365 when it shouldnt
1366 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
1367 not
1368 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
1369 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
1370 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
1371 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
1372 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
1373 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
1374 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
1375 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
1376 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
1377 termination
1378 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
1379 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
1380 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
1381 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
1382 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
1383 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
1384 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
1385 causes a segmentation fault
1386 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
1387 linking
1388 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
1389 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
1390 uninitialized GOT
1391 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
1392 versions
1393 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
1394 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
1395 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
1396 is always true.
1397 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
1398 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
1399 modes
1400 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
1401 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
1402 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
1403 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
1404 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
1405 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
1406 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
1407 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
1408 libpthread.a
1409 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
1410 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
1411 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
1412 _res_hconf
1413 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
1414 information.
1415 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
1416 penalty
1417 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
1418 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
1419 cause transition penalty
1420 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
1421 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
1422 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
1423 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
1424 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
1425 mcount.oS)
1426 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
1427 Checking
1428 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
1429 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
1430 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
1431 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
1432 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
1433 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
1434 multi-arch
1435 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
1436 (RES_USEBSTRING)
1437 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
1438 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
1439 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
1440 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
1441 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
1442 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
1443 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
1444 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
1445 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
1446 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
1447 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
1448 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
1449 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
1450 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
1451 glibc
1452 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
1453 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
1454 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
1455 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
1456 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
1457 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
1458 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
1459 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
1460 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
1461 U+20AC), not same as GBK
1462 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
1463 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
1464 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
1465 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
1466 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
1467 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
1468 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
1469 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
1470 RES_USE_INET6
1471 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1472 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
1473 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
1474 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
1475 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
1476 wrong condition
1477 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1478 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
1479 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
1480 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
1481 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
1482 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
1483 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
1484 clang
1485 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
1486 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
1487 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
1488 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
1489 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
e720d3d9 1490\f
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1491Version 2.24
1492
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1493* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
1494 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
1495 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
1496 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
1497 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
1498 architectures.
1499
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1500* The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
1501 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
1502 been included in previous releases.
11fca961 1503
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1504* The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
1505 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
1506
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1507* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
1508 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
1509 instead of “union wait”.
1510
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1511* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
1512 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
1513 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
1514 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
1515 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
1516 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
1517 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
1518
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1519* The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
1520 API.
1521
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1522* The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
1523 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
1524 drop it.
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1526* nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
1527 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
1528 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
1529 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
1530 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
1531 extensions.
1532
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1533Security related changes:
1534
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1535* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
1536 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
1537 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
1538
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1539* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
1540 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
1541 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
1542 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
11fca961 1543
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1544* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
1545 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
1546 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
1547
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1548* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
1549 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
1550 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
1551
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1552* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
1553 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
1554 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
1555 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
1556
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1557The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1558
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1559 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
1560 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
1561 of MS-DOS.
1562 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
1563 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
1564 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
1565 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
1566 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
1567 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
1568 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
1569 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
1570 CLDR data
1571 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
1572 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
1573 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
1574 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
1575 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
1576 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
1577 romanisation
1578 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
1579 and +/-
1580 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
1581 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
1582 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
1583 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
1584 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
1585 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
1586 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
1587 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
1588 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
1589 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
1590 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
1591 all locales
1592 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
1593 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
1594 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
1595 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
1596 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
1597 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
1598 execute
1599 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
1600 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
1601 -Wsystem-headers
1602 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
1603 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
1604 Romanian locale data
1605 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
1606 symbol
1607 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
1608 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
1609 language
1610 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
1611 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
1612 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
1613 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
1614 machine
1615 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
1616 description
1617 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
1618 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
1619 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
1620 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
1621 when using RTLD_NEXT
1622 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
1623 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
1624 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
1625 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
1626 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
1627 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
1628 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
1629 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
1630 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
1631 Excavator core
1632 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1633 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1634 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1635 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
1636 double range
1637 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
1638 part zero incorrect
1639 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
1640 equality tests
1641 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
1642 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
1643 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
1644 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
1645 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
1646 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
1647 glibc-2.22
1648 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
1649 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
1650 'tst-numeric.c'
1651 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
1652 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
1653 low part
1654 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
1655 result
1656 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
1657 unaligned stack
1658 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
1659 pointers and lengths in error-case.
1660 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
1661 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
1662 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
1663 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
1664 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
1665 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
1666 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
1667 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
1668 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
1669 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
1670 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
1671 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
1672 modes
1673 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
1674 server addresses
1675 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
1676 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
1677 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
1678 response to getaddrinfo
1679 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
1680 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
1681 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
1682 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
1683 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
1684 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
1685 sometimes incorrect
1686 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
1687 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
1688 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
1689 record types
1690 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
1691 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
1692 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
1693 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
1694 (CVE-2016-3075)
1695 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
1696 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
1697 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
1698 resolving symbols
1699 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
1700 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
1701 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
1702 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
1703 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
1704 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
1705 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
1706 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
1707 gethosts
1708 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
1709 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
1710 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
1711 (CVE-2016-3706)
1712 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
1713 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
1714 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
1715 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
1716 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
1717 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
1718 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
1719 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
1720 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
1721 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
1722 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
1723 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
1724 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
1725 executable
1726 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
1727 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
1728 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
1729 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
1730 XPG3
1731 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
1732 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
1733 (CVE-2016-4429)
1734 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
1735 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
1736 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
1737 AS not supporting AVX512
1738 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
1739 sNaN argument
1740 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1741 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
1742 argument
1743 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
1744 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
1745 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
1746 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
1747 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
1748 eax=0x80000001
1749 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
1750 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
1751 subnormals
1752 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
1753 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
1754 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
1755 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1756 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1757 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
1758 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1759 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
1760 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
1761 input
1762 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1763 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1764 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1765 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1766 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1767 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1768 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1769 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
1770 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
1771 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
1772 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
1773 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
1774 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
1775 double rounding
1776 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
1777 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
1778 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
1779 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
1780 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
1781 (Only arm/linux)
1782 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
1783 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
1784 fallbacks
1785 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
1786 "invalid" exceptions
1787 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
1788 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
1789 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
1790 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
1791 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
1792 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
1793 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
1794 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
1795 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
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1797Version 2.23
1798
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1799* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1800 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
1801 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1802 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
1803 89, 16061, and 18568.
1804
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1805* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
1806 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
1807 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
1808 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
1809 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
1810 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
1811 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
1812
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1813* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
1814 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
1815 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
1816
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1817* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
1818 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
1819 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
1820 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
1821 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
1822 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
1823 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
1824
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1825* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
1826 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
1827 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
1828 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
1829 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 1830 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
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1831 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
1832 Ericsson.)
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1834* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
1835 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
1836 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
1837 independent of the GNU C Library.
1838
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1839* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
1840 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
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1842* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
1843 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
1844 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
1845 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
1846 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
1847 Linux kernel.
1848
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1849* Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
1850 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
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1852* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
1853 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
1854 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
1855 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
1856 defining their own copy.
1857
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1858* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
1859 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
1860 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
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1862Security related changes:
1863
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1864* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
1865 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
1866
1867* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
1868 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
1869 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
1870 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
1871 (CVE-2015-8777)
1872
1873* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
1874 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
1875
1876* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
1877 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
1878
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1879* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
1880 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 1881 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
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1883* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
1884 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
1885 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
1886 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
1887 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
1888 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
1889 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
1890 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
1891 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
1892 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
1893 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
1894 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
1895 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
1896
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1899 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
1900 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
1901 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
1902 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
1903 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
1904 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
1905 use `mkstemp'
1906 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
1907 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
1908 overflow/underflow errors
1909 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
1910 overflow/underflow
1911 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
1912 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
1913 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
1914 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
1915 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
1916 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
1917 are not contiguous
1918 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
1919 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
1920 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
1921 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
1922 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
1923 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
1924 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
1925 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
1926 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
1927 all exceptions
1928 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
1929 arguments
1930 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
1931 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
1932 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
1933 should include
1934 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
1935 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
1936 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
1937 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
1938 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
1939 GNU/Linux
1940 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
1941 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
1942 arguments
1943 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
1944 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
1945 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
1946 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
1947 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
1948 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
1949 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
1950 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
1951 rounding results
1952 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
1953 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
1954 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
1955 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
1956 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
1957 fails
1958 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
1959 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
1960 block boundary
1961 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
1962 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
1963 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
1964 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
1965 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
1966 4.7?
1967 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
1968 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
1969 (related to lock elision)
1970 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
1971 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
1972 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
1973 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
1974 (CVE-2015-8779)
1975 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
1976 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
1977 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
1978 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
1979 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
1980 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
1981 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
1982 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
1983 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
1984 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
1985 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
1986 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
1987 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
1988 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
1989 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
1990 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
1991 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
1992 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
1993 contains a vector instruction exception.
1994 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
1995 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
1996 locales
1997 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
1998 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
1999 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
2000 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
2001 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
2002 missing break ?
2003 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
2004 32bit processes
2005 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
2006 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
2007 infinity
2008 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
2009 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
2010 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
2011 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
2012 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
2013 be forced unloaded
2014 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
2015 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
2016 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
2017 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
2018 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
2019 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
2020 statically too large
2021 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
2022 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
2023 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
2024 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
2025 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
2026 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
2027 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
2028 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
2029 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
2030 FUTEX_SHARED
2031 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
2032 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
2033 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
2034 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
2035 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
2036 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
2037 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
2038 opendir()
2039 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
2040 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
2041 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
2042 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
2043 signgam
2044 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
2045 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
2046 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
2047 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
2048 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
2049 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
2050 dependencies
2051 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
2052 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
2053 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
2054 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
2055 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
2056 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
2057 (CVE-2015-8776)
2058 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
2059 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
2060 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
2061 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
2062 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
2063 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2064 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
2065 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
2066 contention
2067 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
2068 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
2069 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
2070 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2071 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
2072 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
2073 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
2074 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
2075 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
2076 rounding modes
2077 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
2078 ILP32
2079 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
2080 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
2081 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
2082 threshold
2083 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
2084 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
2085 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
2086 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
2087 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
2088 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
2089 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
2090 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
2091 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
2092 pthread_setaffinity_np
2093 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
2094 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
2095 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
2096 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
2097 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
2098 prelink
2099 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
2100 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
2101 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
2102 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
2103 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2104 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
2105 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
2106 bits/mathcalls.h
2107 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
2108 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
2109 for C99-based standards
2110 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
2111 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
2112 math-only
2113 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
2114 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
2115 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
2116 disabled
2117 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
2118 "inexact" exceptions
2119 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
2120 arguments
2121 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
2122 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
2123 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
2124 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
2125 rules
2126 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
2127 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
2128 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
2129 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
2130 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
2131 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
2132 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
2133 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
2134 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
2135 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
2136 from 32bit
2137 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
2138 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
2139 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
2140 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
2141 subnormals
2142 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
2143 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
2144 error on 32-bit architectures
2145 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
2146 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
2147 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
2148 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
2149 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
2150 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
2151 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
2152 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
2153 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
2154 -Os
2155 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
2156 CPU's.
2157 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
2158 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
2159 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
2160 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
2161 architectures
2162 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
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1c7a4a51
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2164Version 2.22
2165
2166* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2167
3df5cd98 2168 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
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2169 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
2170 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
2171 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
2172 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
2173 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
2174 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
2175 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
2176 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
2177 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
2178 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
2179 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
2180 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
2181 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
2182 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
2183 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
2184 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
2185 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
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2186 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
2187 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
2959eda9 2188
f7fba805
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2189* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
2190 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
2191
2959eda9
AS
2192* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
2193 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
2194 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
2195 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
2196 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
2197 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4a4839c9 2198
42261ad7
FW
2199* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
2200 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
2201 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
2202 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
2203 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
2204
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AM
2205* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
2206 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
2207 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
2208
4a4839c9
AO
2209* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
2210 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
2211 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
2212 17998.
2213
b13b96ca
AS
2214* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
2215 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
2216 condition in some applications.
21933112
AS
2217
2218* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
a6336cc4
AS
2219 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
2220 pow, powf.
21933112
AS
2221 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
2222 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
037e4b99
AS
2223 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
2224 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 2225 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
fdb7d390
AZ
2226
2227* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
2228 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
2229 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
2230 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
7fde904c
MF
2231
2232* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
2233 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
2234 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
7493ab25
RM
2235
2236* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
2237 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
2ec11c2b
ZW
2238
2239* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
2240 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
2241 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
2242
a03ba363 2243 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
2ec11c2b
ZW
2244 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
2245 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
1c7a4a51 2246\f
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2247Version 2.21
2248
2249* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2250
042e1521 2251 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
5bd80bfe
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2252 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
2253 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
2254 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
2255 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
2256 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
2257 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
2258 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
2259 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
2260 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
2261 17892.
2262
46d54873
FW
2263* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
2264 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
2265 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
2266 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
2267 intended.
042e1521
CD
2268
2269* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
2270 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
2271 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
2272 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
2273 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
2274 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
a39208bd 2275
522e6ee3
CLT
2276* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
2277
d3b00f46
AZ
2278* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
2279 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 2280 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
96d6fd6c 2281
8d2c0a59
AZ
2282* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
2283 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
2284 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
2285 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
2286 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
2287 effects being visible outside transactions.
2288
dc400d7b
RE
2289* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
2290 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
ec582ca0 2291
0f9dfe04
L
2292* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
2293
a39208bd
CD
2294* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
2295 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
ebda2f17 2296 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
a39208bd
CD
2297 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
2298 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
fb89b46d 2299
a5357b7c
JL
2300* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
2301 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
2302
e54db0ea
AM
2303* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
2304 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
2305 format.
11e3417a 2306
4863355a
JM
2307* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
2308 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
2309 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
2310
a4ecc9eb
JM
2311* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
2312 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
2313
0d560bbf 2314* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
0781a777
RM
2315
2316* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
2317 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
2318 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
2319 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
6d248857
WN
2320
2321* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
2322 with newer versions of bison.
28c38448
MF
2323
2324* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
2325 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
2326 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
2327 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
2328 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
2329 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
2330 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
2331 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
2332 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
2333 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
2334 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
2335 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
2336 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
2337
2338 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
2339 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
2340 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
2341 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
2342 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
58b930ae 2343\f
d5b396c1
AM
2344Version 2.20
2345
2346* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2347
6a9350c8
JM
2348 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
2349 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
2350 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
2351 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
2352 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
2353 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
2354 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
2355 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
2356 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
2357 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
2358 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
2359 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
2360 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
2361 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
2362 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
0961f7e1 2363
95ee7fb1
SL
2364* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
2365 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
2366 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
2367 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
2368 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 2369 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
95ee7fb1
SL
2370 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
2371 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
2372 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
2373 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
2374
0961f7e1
JL
2375* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
2376 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
2377 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
2378 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
2379 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
f3d338c9 2380
f940b965
RE
2381* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
2382
d0f5b3f8
JM
2383* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
2384 can be used with is 2.6.32.
2385
d6fe5e58
JM
2386* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
2387 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
2388 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
2389 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
2390 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
2391 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
2392
464263cc
JM
2393* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
2394 from ports.
c941736c
JM
2395
2396* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
2397 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
2398 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
2399 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
2400 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
2401 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
2402 test macros defined.
f63c86fe
WN
2403
2404* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5a414ff7
DV
2405
2406* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
2407 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
2408 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
2409 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
2410 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
2411 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
2412 is not built.
d03efb2f
AM
2413
2414* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
2415 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
2416 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
2417 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
2418 invocation.
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JM
2419
2420* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
2421 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
2422 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
f083450f
RM
2423
2424* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
2425 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
2426 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
2427 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
4e8f95a0
FW
2428
2429* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
2430 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
2431 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
2432 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
2433 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
2434 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
2435 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
2436 additional checks.
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RM
2437
2438* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
2439 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
2440 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
2441 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
2442 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
2443 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
2444 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
2445 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
2446 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
a1a6a401
FW
2447
2448* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
2449 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
2450 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
2451 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
2452 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 2453 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
41488498
FW
2454
2455* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
2456 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
2457 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
2458 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
6c1fd795
DM
2459\f
2460Version 2.19
2461
2462* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2463
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2464 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
2465 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
2466 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
2467 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
2468 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
2469 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
2470 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
2471 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
2472 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
2473 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
ed27ed83
JM
2474 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
2475 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
2476 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
2477 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
2478 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
798212a0
PP
2479 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
2480 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
2481 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
141f3a77 2482
11520a57
CD
2483* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
2484 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
2485
2fe16229
CD
2486* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
2487 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
2488 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
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CD
2489 extension which uses __block.
2490
303e567a
SP
2491* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
2492 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
2493 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
2494 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
2495 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
2496
141f3a77
SP
2497* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
2498 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
2499 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
2500 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
2501 if malloc fails.
c61b4d41
CD
2502
2503* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
2504 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
2505 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
2506 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
2507 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
91ce4085
FW
2508
2509* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
2510 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
2511 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
2512
ba0d798c
WN
2513* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
2514 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
2515 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
2516 #15856, #15857).
2517
7cbcdb36
SP
2518* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
2519 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
2520
82bab04b 2521* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 2522 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
ddd9fb8f 2523
c5f840fd
MB
2524* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
2525
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CD
2526* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
2527 supported locales.
ddd9fb8f 2528
3e181dda 2529* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
7447ccd9 2530
8a05c252
CL
2531* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
2532
6055173a
JM
2533* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
2534 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
2535 for which the C library was built.
2536
b125d3e5
JM
2537* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
2538 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
2539 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
2540 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
2541 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
2542 in the following circumstances:
2543
2544 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
2545
2546 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
2547 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
2548
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2549* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
2550 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
2551
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2552* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
2553 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
e35696c3 2554
ffb89e53
AO
2555* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
2556
5d29ccce
SP
2557* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
2558 transcendental functions have been introduced.
2559
8b7d57cd 2560* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
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2561
2562* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 2563
fd712ef3 2564* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 2565
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2566* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
2567 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
2568 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
2569 disable some of those declarations.
2570
7011c262 2571* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
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2572 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
2573 that did nothing) has also been removed.
0a57b83e
AO
2574
2575* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
2576 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
ee4ec1d7
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2577
2578* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
2579 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
2580 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
2581 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
2582 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
2583 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
2584 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
2585 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
2586 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
2587 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
2588 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
2589 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
2590 require recompilation.
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2592Version 2.18
2593
2594* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2595
17db6e8d 2596 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
0432680e
PY
2597 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
2598 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
8c17cb1f
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2599 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
2600 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
2601 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
2602 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
2603 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
2604 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
2605 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
2606 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
2607 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
2608 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
2609 15755, 15759.
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2610
2611* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
2612 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
2613 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
2614 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
2615 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
2616 understands and accepts the risks.
1cef1b19 2617
5b535ac4
AS
2618* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
2619 #15078).
2620
1cef1b19
AS
2621* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
2622 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
7fffbdff 2623
55e4107b
SP
2624* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
2625 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
2626 destructor calls to glibc.
2627
e5c74c63
SP
2628* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
2629 output.
2630
2631* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
2632 non-x86 architectures.
2633
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2634* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
2635
2636* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
2637
2638* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
2639 Richard Henderson.
2640
2641* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
2642
2643* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
2644 Richard Henderson.
2645
2646* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
2647 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
2648
8cfdb7e0
SP
2649* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
2650
57267616
TS
2651* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
2652 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
58206c68 2653
c204ab28
SP
2654* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
2655 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
61dd6208 2656
0748546f
PE
2657* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
2658 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
2659 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
2660
61dd6208
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2661* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
2662 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
2663 attributes of a process.
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2664
2665* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
2666 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
2667 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
2668 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
2669 mutexes.
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RA
2670
2671* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
2672 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
2673
2674* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
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2675\f
2676Version 2.17
2677
2678* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2679
80ceeaee 2680 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
b4180a5e
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2681 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
2682 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
2683 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
2684 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
2685 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
2686 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
2687 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
2688 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
2689 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
2690 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
2691 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
2692 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
2693 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
2694 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
14bc93a9 2695
95b4f1b6
SE
2696* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
2697
14bc93a9
JL
2698* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
2699 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
7a845b2c 2700
b54eb3cb
JM
2701* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
2702 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
2703
7e2bd01f
MS
2704* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
2705
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AK
2706* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
2707 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
2708 zEnterprise z196.
2709 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
2710
84b3fd84
FW
2711* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
2712 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
2713 the internal function __secure_getenv.
2714
815e6fa3
GB
2715* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
2716 Implemented by Gary Benson.
2717
400726de
MK
2718* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
2719 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
2720
7aab07e4 2721* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 2722 can be used with is 2.6.16.
7aab07e4 2723
15d0da8c
WS
2724* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
2725 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
2726
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2727* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
2728 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
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2729 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
2730 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3cc3ef96 2731
b54eb3cb
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2732* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
2733 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
2734
85429b1a 2735* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 2736 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
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2737 default.
2738
b54eb3cb
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2739* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
2740 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
2741 information in --help and --version output.
2742
050af9c4
SP
2743* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
2744 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
2745 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
2746
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AO
2747* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
2748 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
2749 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
2750 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
2751 when the mode is enabled.
2752
6e6249d0
RM
2753* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
2754 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
2755 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
2756 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
2757 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
2758 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
2759 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5a04f376 2760
d9286582
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2761* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
2762 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
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2763\f
2764Version 2.16
2765
2766* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2767
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2768 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
2769 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
2770 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
2771 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
2772 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
2773 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
2774 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
2775 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
2776 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
2777 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
2778 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
2779 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
2780 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
2781 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
2782 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
2783 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
2784 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
2785 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
2786 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
2787 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
2788 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
2789 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
2790 14277, 14278.
380d7e87 2791
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2792* Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
2793 configuring glibc with:
2794 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
2795 Visit <http://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
2796 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
2797
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2798* ISO C11 support:
2799
2800 + define static_assert
2801
2802 + do not declare gets
2803
2804 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
2805
2806 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
2807 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
2808 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
2809 implementation.
8d44e150 2810
74033a25 2811 + timespec_get added
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2812
2813 + uchar.h support added
d75a0a62 2814
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2815 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
2816
16dd419d
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2817 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2818
9dc4e1fb 2819* Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
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2820
2821* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
d9a216c0
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2822
2823* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
2824 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
daa891c0
UD
2825
2826* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
2827 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
021db4be
AJ
2828
2829* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
2830 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
2831 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
2832 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
2833 existing applications.
ffb7875d 2834
21708942 2835* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
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2836 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
2837 before 2.6.
83678f76 2838
edb00e4d
RH
2839* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
2840 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
2841 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
2842
83678f76 2843* New locales: mag_IN
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2844
2845* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
2846 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
2847 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
2848 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
2849 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
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2850
2851* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
2852
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
2853* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
2854 and Will Schmidt.
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JM
2855
2856* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
2857
2858* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
2859 without a previously built glibc.
2860
2861* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
2862 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
2863
2864* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
2865 now supported for ARM processors.
2866
2867* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
2868 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
2869 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
2870
2871* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
2872
2873* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
2874 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
2875 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
2876 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
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2877
2878* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
2879 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
2880 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
2881 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
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2882
2883* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
2884 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
2885 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
2886 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
2887 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
2888
2889* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
2890 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
2891 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
2892 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
ee1a7fab 2893\f
e80fab37 2894Version 2.15
11988f8f 2895
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2896* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2897
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2898 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
2899 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
2900 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
2901 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
2902 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
2903 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
2904 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
c0244a9d 2905
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2906* New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
2907 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2908
2909* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
2910 and support for initgroups lookups.
2911 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
0b1cbaae
L
2912
2913* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
2914 Contributed by HJ Lu.
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2915
2916* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
2917 Contributed by HJ Lu.
99710781 2918
fc2ee42a
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2919* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
2920 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 2921 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 2922
d42964a0 2923* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
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2924 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
2925
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2926* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
2927 for x86-64 and x86-32.
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2928 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
2929
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2930* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
2931 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a0f33f99
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2932
2933* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
2934 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2935
2936* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
2937 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
0ac5ae23
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2938
2939* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
2940 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
d9a4d2ab
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2941
2942* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
2943 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2944
2945* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
2946 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2947
2948* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
e188ebba
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2949
2950* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
2951 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a1267ba1 2952
f0b264f1
AZ
2953* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
2954 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
2655fd5c 2955
6b64057b 2956* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
e80fab37 2957\f
dded88cd 2958Version 2.14
9f94d2ea 2959
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2960* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2961
553149f6 2962 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 2963 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 2964 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 2965 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
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2966 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
2967 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
2968 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
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2969 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
2970 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 2971 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
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2974 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
2975 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 2976 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
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2978 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
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2979 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
2980 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
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2981 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2982
c6489db3 2983* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
f1f929d7 2984 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
83fe108b 2985
72d1dddb 2986* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 2987 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
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2989* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
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2991* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
2992 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2994* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
2995 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
2996 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
2997 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
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3000
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3002
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3003 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
3004 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
3005 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
3006 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
3007 12378, 12394, 12397
ac2b484c 3008
10b3bedc 3009* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
c08fb0d7 3010
ac2b484c 3011* POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
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3013* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
3014 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 3015 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3017Version 2.12
3018
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3020
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3021 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
3022 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
3023 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
3024 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
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3025 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
3026 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
3027 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 3028 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
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3030* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
d36b9613 3031
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3032* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
3033
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3034* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
3035
3036* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
3037 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
3038 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3039
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3041 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
3042 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
3043 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
3044 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3045
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3049
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3051
3052 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
3053 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
3054 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
3055 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
3056 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
3057 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
3058
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3059* New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
3060 mkostemps64
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3061 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3062
24ab9c76 3063* Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
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3064 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3065
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3066* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
3067 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3068
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3069* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
3070
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9d36a6c4 3072 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 3073 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
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3075
9d36a6c4 3076 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
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3077 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3078
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3079* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
3080 strstr, strcasestr.
3081 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
3082
3083* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
3084 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
3085
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3086* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
3087 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3088
3089* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
3090 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3091
3092* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
3093 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
3094 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
3095 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
3096 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
3097 necessity is every process again.
3098 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3099
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3100* New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
3101 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
3102
3103* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
3104 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
3105
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3106* Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
3107 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
3108 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3109
9dd5b8a1 3110* New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
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3113
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3114* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3115
3116 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
3117 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
3118 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
3119 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
3120 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
3121
bb066545 3122* New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
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3123 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3124
425ce2ed 3125* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
e109c612 3126 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 3127
1fdd89a7 3128* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
735be400 3129 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
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3131* XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
3132 now in POSIX.
77db439e 3133
1f04d005 3134* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6cbe890a 3135 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1f04d005 3136
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3137* New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
3138 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3139
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3140* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
3141 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3142
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3143* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
3144 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3145
3146* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
3147 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
3148 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3149
735be400 3150* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
878b72c5 3151
84aa52d7 3152* Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
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3153 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3154
3155* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
3156 and extend existing format specifiers.
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3157 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3158
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3159* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
3160 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3161
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3162* DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
3163 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
3164 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
3165 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
3166 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
3167 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3169Version 2.9
3170
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3171* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3172
3173 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447, 6461,
3174 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712, 6713,
3175 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839, 6843,
3176 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955, 6966,
3177 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
3178
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3180 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3181
3182* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
3183 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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3184
3185* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
3186 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3187
3188* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
3189 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
3190 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3191
3192* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
3193 Implemented by Eric Blake.
e038616f 3194
8ec2550e 3195* New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
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3196
3197* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
ebcc1f4d 3198 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
e038616f 3199
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3200* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
3201 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
3202 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
3203 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3204
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3205* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
3206 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3208* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
3209 Sinhala)
48b22986 3210 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
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3212* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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3214Version 2.8
3215
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3216* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3217
3218 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
3219 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
3220 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
3221 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
3222 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
3223 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
3224 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
3225
e038616f 3226* New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
b4354cf4 3227
77751669 3228* New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
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3229
3230* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
3231 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
3232
3233* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
3234
3235* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
3236 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3237
3238* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
3239 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3240
3241* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
3242 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
3243 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3244
3245* Faster memset for x86-64.
3246 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
3247
3248* Faster memcpy on x86.
3249 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3250
3251* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
3252 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3254* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
d990b282 3255 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
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3257Version 2.7
3258
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3259* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3260
3261 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
3262 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
3263 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
3264 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
3265 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
3266
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3267* More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
3268 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3269
3270* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3271
3272* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
3273 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
3274 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3275
3276* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
3277 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
3278
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3280 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3281
3282* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3283
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3284* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
3285 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3286
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3287* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
3288 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3289
3290* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
3291 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
3292
3293* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3294
3295* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
3296 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3298* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
3299 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
3300 yo_NG.
3301
3302+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
3303 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3308
3309 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
3310 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
3311 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
3312 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
3313 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
3314 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
3315 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
3316 4702, 4858
3317
bce20b9a 3318* New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
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3320* New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
3321
b21fa963 3322* nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3325
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3326* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3327
3328 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
3329 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
3330 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
3331 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
3332 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
3333 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
3334 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
3335 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
3336 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
3337
3af48b5b 3338* For Linux, the sorting of addresses returned by getaddrinfo now also
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3339 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
3340 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3342* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
3343 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3344
871b9158 3345* New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
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3346
3347* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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3349* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
3350 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
3351 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
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3353 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3354
07bfff20 3355* Iterating over entire database in NIS can be slow. With the
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3356 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
3357 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
3358 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3359
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3360* The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
3361 Ulrich Drepper.
3362
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3363* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
3364
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3365* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
3366 Ulrich Drepper.
3367
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3368* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
3369
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3370* New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
3371 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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3373Version 2.4
3374
3375* More overflow detection functions.
3376
3377* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
3378 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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3380 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
3381 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
3382 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
3383 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
3384 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
3385 by Masahide Washizawa.
3386
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3387* It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
3388 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3389
3390* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
3391 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
3392 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
3393 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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3395* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
3396 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
3397
3398* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
3399
3400* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
3401 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
3402 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
3403
3404* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
3405 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
3406
3407* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
3408 for compatibility with some other systems.
3409
3410* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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3412Version 2.3.6
3413
3414* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3415
3416 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
3417 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
3418 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
3419 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
3420 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
3421 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
3422
3423 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
3424
3425* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
3426
3427* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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3429Version 2.3.5
3430
3431* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3432
3433 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
3434 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
3435 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
3436 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
3437
3438 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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3440Version 2.3.4
3441
3442* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
3443 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3444
3445* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
3446 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
3447 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3448
3449* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
3450 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
3451
0325dd20 3452* getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
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3453 efficiently.
3454 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3455
3456* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
3457 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
3458 handling data.
3459
3460* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
3461 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
0325dd20 3462 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3463
3464* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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3465 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3466
3467* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
3468 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
3469 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
3470 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3471
3472* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
3473 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
3474 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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3475 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3476
3477* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
3478 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
3479 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
3480 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
3481 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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3483Version 2.3.3
3484
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3485* New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
3486 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
3487
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3488* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
3489 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
925c3c5c 3490
69be6aaf 3491* getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
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3492 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
3493
3494* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
3495 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3497* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
3498 by Roland McGrath.
3499
c5af724c 3500* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
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3501 and Ulrich Drepper.
3502
3503* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
3504 RFC 3484.
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3506Version 2.3.2
3507
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3508* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
3509 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
3510 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
3511 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
3512 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
3513 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
3514 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
3515 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
3516 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
3517
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3518* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
3519 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
3520 and are now also available on the Hurd.
3521
3522* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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3523
3524* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
3525 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
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3527* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
3528 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
3529
52a16e58 3530* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
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3532* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
3533 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
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3534
3535* With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
3536 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
3537 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
3538 of weak definition in ld.so.
3539
3540* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
3541 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
3542
3543* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
3544 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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3548* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
3549 charsets.
3550
3551* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
3552 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
47e8b443 3553
bb0ec5bd 3554* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 3555 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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3556
3557* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
3558 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
8e57fc70 3559
bb0ec5bd 3560* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
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3561 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
3562 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3563
3564* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
3565 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3b0bdc72 3566
bb0ec5bd 3567* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3b0bdc72 3568 implementation of regex.
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3569
3570* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
3571 Unicode 3.2.
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3573* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
3574 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
be45f421 3575
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3576* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
3577 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
3578 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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3579
3580* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
f87277f2 3581 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
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3582
3583* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
3584 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
3585 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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3586
3587* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
3588 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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3589
3590* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
3591 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
3592 and Ulrich Drepper.
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3593
3594* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
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3596Version 2.2.6
3597
3598* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
3599 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
3600
3601* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
3602 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
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3604Version 2.2.5
3605
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3606* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
3607 128-bit long double format.
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3609* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
3610 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
a8ae31c2 3611
ad2e4f18 3612* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
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3614* Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
3615
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3616* libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
3617 as well.
3618
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3619* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
3620 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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3621
3622* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
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3624Version 2.2.4
3625
2995f70e 3626* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 3627 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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3628
3629* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
3630 support Unicode 3.1.
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3631
3632* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
3633 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
045fcd26 3634
69d5f925 3635* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 3636
69d5f925 3637* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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3638 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
3639 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
3640
3641* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
3642 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
3643
3644* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
3645 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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3646
3647* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
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3649Version 2.2.3
3650
1746f2b0 3651* Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
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3652 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
3653 in float, double, and long double format.
3654
f128331c 3655* Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
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3656 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
3657 128-bit long double format.
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3659* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
3660 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
3661 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
3662 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
3663
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3664* An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
3665 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
3666 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3667
3668* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
3669 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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3670
3671* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
3672 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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3673
3674* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
3675 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
3676 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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3677
3678* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
3679 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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3680
3681* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
3682 of functions for Linux/x86.
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3684* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
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3686Version 2.2.2
3687
464d97ec 3688* Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
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3689 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
3690 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
3691 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
3692 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
3693 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
3694 other headers.
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3695
3696* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
3697 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
3698
3699* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
3700 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
3701 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
3702 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
3703
3704* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
3705 locales. While
3706
3707 locale -a
3708
3709 only lists the names of the supported locales
3710
3711 locale -a --verbose
3712
3713 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
3714 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
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3716Version 2.2.1
3717
3718* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
3719 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
3720 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
3721 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
3722 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
3723
3724 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
3725
3726 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
3727
3728 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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3729
3730* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
3731 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
3732 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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3734* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
3735 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
3736
3737* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
3738 changed from the default "C" locale.
3739
3740* The usual bug fixes.
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3743
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3744* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
3745 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
3746 is in progress.
3747
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3748* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
3749
793bd4d9 3750* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
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3752 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
3753 obviously requires a database library being available.
3754
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3755* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3756
abbffdf9 3757* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
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3759* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
3760 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
3761
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3762* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
3763
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3764* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
3765 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
3766 and Mark Kettenis.
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3767
3768 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
3769 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
3770 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 3771
a00c3ca9 3772 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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3773 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
3774
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3775* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
3776 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
3777 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
3778
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3779* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
3780 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
3781 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
3782 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3783
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3784 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
3785 structures for the wide character tables.
3786
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3787* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3788
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3789* The utmp daemon has been removed.
3790
3791* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
3792
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3793* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
3794 and Yutaka Niibe.
3795
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3796* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
3797
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3798* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
3799
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3800* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3801
3802* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
3803
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3804* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
3805
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3806* the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
3807 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
3808 implemented for Linux.
3809
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3810* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
3811 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
3812 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
3813 versions.
3814
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3815* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
3816 Masahide Washizawa.
3817
8f3f1e09 3818* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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3820Version 2.1.3
3821
3822* bug fixes
3823
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3825Version 2.1.2
3826
3827* bug fixes
3828
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3830Version 2.1.1
3831
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3832* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
3833
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3834* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
3835
407d26b7 3836* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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3837
3838* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
3839
407d26b7 3840* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 3841
407d26b7 3842* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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3843
3844* Update timezone data files.
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3846* lots of charmaps corrections
3847
3848* some new locale definitions and charmaps
3849
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3851Version 2.1
3852
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3853* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
3854 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
3855 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
3856 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
3857 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
3858 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
3859
c84142e8 3860* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 3861 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 3862
1fb05e3d 3863* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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3864 symbol level.
3865
3866* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
3867 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
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cbdee279 3869* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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3870
3871* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 3872 numbers.
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cbdee279 3874* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
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3876* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
3877 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
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3879* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
3880 library.
3881
e61abf83 3882* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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3883 functions from ISO C 9X.
3884
3885* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
3886 real valued functions.
e61abf83 3887
a5a0310d 3888* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
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3890* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
3891
3892* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 3893
440d13e2 3894* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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3895
3896* Optimized string functions have been added.
3897
3898* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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3899
3900* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
ea278354 3901
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3902* Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
3903 daemon for NSS (nscd).
3904
3905 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
3906 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
3907
0dee6738 3908 user system wall
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0dee6738 3910 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 3911
0dee6738 3912 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 3913
0dee6738 3914 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
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3916 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
3917
3918 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
3919
3920 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
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3922 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
3923 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
0dee6738 3924 horribly slow.
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3926 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
3927 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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3929* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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3930
3931* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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3932
3933* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
3934 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
3935
3936* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
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3938* A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
3939 Bambrough.
3940
3941* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
3942 latest draft standards.
3943
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3945
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3947~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
62595351 3948addseverity NEW: Unix98
48244d09 3949alphasort64 NEW: LFS
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3950argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
3951argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
3952argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
3953argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
3954argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
3955argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
3956argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
3957argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
3958argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
3959argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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3960authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
3961authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
3962authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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3963backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
3964backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
3965backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
3966cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
3967cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
3968cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
3969cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
3970cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
3971cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
3972capget NEW: kernel
3973capset NEW: kernel
3974carg NEW: ISO C 9x
3975cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
3976cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
3977casin NEW: ISO C 9x
3978casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
3979casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
3980casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
3981casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
3982casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
3983catan NEW: ISO C 9x
3984catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
3985catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
3986catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
3987catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
3988catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
e980ca92 3989cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
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3990ccos NEW: ISO C 9x
3991ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
3992ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
3993ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
3994ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
3995ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
3996cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
3997cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
3998cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
3999cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
4000cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
4001cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
4002clearerr_locked REMOVED
4003clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
4004clog NEW: ISO C 9x
4005clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
4006clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
4007clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
4008clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
4009clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
4010conj NEW: ISO C 9x
4011conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
4012conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
4013cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
4014cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
4015cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
4016cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
4017cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
4018cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
4019creal NEW: ISO C 9x
4020crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
4021creall NEW: ISO C 9x
4022creat64 NEW: LFS
4023csin NEW: ISO C 9x
4024csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
4025csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
4026csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4027csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4028csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
4029csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
4030csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
4031csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
4032ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
4033ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4034ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
4035ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4036ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4037ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4038des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
4039ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 4040endutxent NEW: Unix98
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4041exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x
4042exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
4043exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
4044exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
4045exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
4046exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
4047fattach NEW: STREAMS
4048fdetach NEW: STREAMS
4049fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
4050fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
4051fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
4052feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4053fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4054fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
4055fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
4056feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4057feof_locked REMOVED
4058feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4059ferror_locked REMOVED
4060fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4061fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
4062fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
4063fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4064feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4065fflush_locked REMOVED
4066ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
4067ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
4068fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
4069fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4070fileno_locked REMOVED
4071fma NEW: ISO C 9x
4072fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
4073fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
4074fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
4075fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
4076fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
4077fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
4078fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
4079fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
62595351 4080fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
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4081fopen64 NEW: LFS
4082fputc_locked REMOVED
4083fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4084fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4085freopen64 NEW: LFS
4086fseeko NEW: Unix98
4087fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
4088fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
4089fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
4090fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
4091ftello NEW: Unix98
4092ftello64 NEW: LFS
4093ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
4094ftw64 NEW: LFS
4095fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4096gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
4097gamma_r REMOVED
4098gammaf_r REMOVED
4099gammal_r REMOVED
4100getchar_locked REMOVED
4101getdate NEW: Unix98
4102getdate_err NEW: Unix98
4103getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
4104getmsg NEW: STREAMS
4105getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
e980ca92 4106getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
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4107getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
4108getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
4109getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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4110getutxent NEW: Unix98
4111getutxid NEW: Unix98
4112getutxline NEW: Unix98
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4113glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
4114globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
4115gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
4116gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
4117grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
e980ca92 4118host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
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4119iconv NEW: iconv
4120iconv_close NEW: iconv
4121iconv_open NEW: iconv
4122if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
4123if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
4124if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
4125if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
4126in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
4127in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
4128inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
4129isastream NEW: STREAMS
4130iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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4131key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
4132key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
4133key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
4134key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
4135key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
4136key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
4137key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
4138key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
4139key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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4140llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
4141llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4142llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
4143llround NEW: ISO C 9x
4144llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4145llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4146log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
4147log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
4148log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
4149lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
4150lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4151lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
4152lround NEW: ISO C 9x
4153lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4154lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4155lseek64 NEW: LFS
4156makecontext NEW: Unix98
4157mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
4158mmap64 NEW: LFS
4159moncontrol REMOVED
4160modify_ldt NEW: kernel
4161nan NEW: ISO C 9x
4162nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4163nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
4164nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
4165nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4166nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4167netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
4168netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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4169nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
4170nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
4171nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4172nftw NEW: Unix98
4173nftw64 NEW: LFS
4174open64 NEW: LFS
e980ca92 4175passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
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4176pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
4177pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
4178pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
4179pread NEW: Unix98
4180pread64 NEW: LFS
4181printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
4182printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
4183profil_counter REMOVED
4184pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
4185pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
4186ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
4187ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
4188putc_locked REMOVED
4189putchar_locked REMOVED
4190putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
4191putmsg NEW: STREAMS
4192putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
62595351 4193pututxline NEW: Unix98
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4194pwrite NEW: Unix98
4195pwrite64 NEW: LFS
4196readdir64 NEW: LFS
4197readdir64_r NEW: LFS
4198remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
4199remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
4200remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
4201round NEW: ISO C 9x
4202roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4203roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4204rtime NEW: GNU ext.
4205scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
4206scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
4207scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
4208scandir64 NEW: LFS
4209sendfile NEW: kernel
4210setcontext NEW: Unix98
4211setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 4212setutxent NEW: Unix98
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4213sighold NEW: Unix98
4214sigignore NEW: Unix98
4215sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
4216sigrelse NEW: Unix98
4217sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
4218sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
4219sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
4220sincos NEW: GNU ext.
4221sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
4222sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
4223statfs64 NEW: LFS
4224statvfs NEW: Unix98
4225statvfs64 NEW: LFS
4226strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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4227strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
4228strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
4229strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
e980ca92 4230svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
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4231svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
4232svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
4233swapcontext NEW: Unix98
4234tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
4235tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
4236tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
4237tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
4238tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
4239tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
4240trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
4241truncate64 NEW: LFS
4242truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
4243truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
4244umount2 NEW: kernel
4245unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 4246updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 4247user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 4248utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 4249versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
3ef4002b 4250versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
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4251waitid NEW: Unix98
4252wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
4253wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
4254wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
4255wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
4256wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
4257wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
4258wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
4259wcswcs NEW: Unix98
4260wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
4261wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
4262write_profiling REMOVED
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4263xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
4264xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
4265xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
4266xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
4267xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
4268xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
4269xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
4270xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
4271xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
4272xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
4273xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
4274xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
4275xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 4276xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
e980ca92 4277xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 4278~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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4279\f
4280Version 2.0.6
4281
4282* more bug fixes
4283
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4284\f
4285Version 2.0.5
4286
4287* more bug fixes
4288
4289* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
4290
4291* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
4292
4293* rewrite of cbrt function
4294
4295* update of timezone data
4296\f
4297Version 2.0.4
4298
4299* more bug fixes
4300\f
4301Version 2.0.3
4302
4303* more bug fixes
c84142e8 4304\f
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4305Version 2.0.2
4306
4307* more bug fixes
4308
4309* add atoll function
4310
4311* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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4312
4313* fix math functions
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4314\f
4315Version 2.0.1
4316
4317* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
4318
4319* dynamic loader preserves all registers
4320
4321* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
4322 the ELF dynamic loader.
4323
4324* support for parallel builds is improved
4325\f
40a4b79f 4326Version 2.0
28f540f4 4327
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4328* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
4329 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
4330 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
4331
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4332* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
4333 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
4334 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
4335 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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4336 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
4337 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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4338 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
4339 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
4340 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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4341 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
4342 files in the ELF format.
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4343
4344* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
4345 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
4346
4347* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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4348 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
4349 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
4350 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
4351 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
4352 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
4353 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
4354 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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4355 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
4356 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
4357 about dynamically linked binaries.
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4359* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
4360 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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4361 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
4362 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
4363 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 4364
f7eac6eb 4365* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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4366 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
4367 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
4368 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
4369 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
4370
4371* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
f7eac6eb 4372
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4373* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
4374 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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4375 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
4376 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
4377 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
4378 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
4379 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
4380 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
4381 NSS services available.
5f0e6fc7 4382
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4383* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
4384 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
4385 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
4386
4387* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
4388 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
4389 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
4390
4391* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
4392 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
4393 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
4394 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
4395
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4396* The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
4397 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
4398 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
4399
4400* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
4401 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
4402 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
4403
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4404* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
4405 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
4406
f7eac6eb 4407* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 4408 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 4409 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
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4410 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
4411
4412* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
4413 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
4414 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 4415
71733723 4416* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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4417 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
4418 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
4419 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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4420 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
4421 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 4422 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 4423 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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4424
4425* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
4426 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
4427 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
4428 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
4429 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
4430 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
4431 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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4432
4433* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
4434 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
4435 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
4436 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
4437 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
4438 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
4439
4440* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
4441 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
4442
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4443* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
4444 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
4445 NSS scheme used in glibc.
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4447* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
4448
4449* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
4450 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
4451 their use is discouraged.
4452
4453* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
4454 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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4456* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
4457 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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4458
4459* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
4460 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
4461
4462* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
4463 see <dirent.h>.
4464
4465* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
4466 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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4467 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
4468 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
4469 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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4471* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
4472 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
4473 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
4474 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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4475
4476* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
4477 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
4478
4479* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
4480 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
4481 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
4482 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
4483 number generator.
4484
4485* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
4486 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
4487
4488* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
4489 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
4490
71733723 4491* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 4492 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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4494 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
c709e372 4495
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4496* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
4497
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4499 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
4500 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
4501
4502* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
4503 for arithmetic and string handling.
d3669add 4504
c709e372 4505* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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4506 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
4507 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
4508 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
4509
4510* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
4511 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
4512 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
4513 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
4514 programs already written to use it.)
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4515
4516* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
4517 constants.
4518
4519* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
4520 with 4.4 BSD.
4521
4522* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
4523 a given effective group ID.
4524
4525* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
4526 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
4527 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
4528 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
4529
4530* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 4531 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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4532 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
4533 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
4534 doing the same thing.
4535
4536* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
4537 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
4538
4539* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 4540 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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4541
4542* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
4543
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4544* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
4545 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
4546 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 4547 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 4548 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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4549
4550* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
4551 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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4553* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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4554 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
4555 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
4556 function.
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4557
4558* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
4559
4560* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
4561 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
4562 strings.
4563
4564* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
4565 and writing the utmp file.
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4567* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
4568 Thorsten Kukuk.
4569
4570* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
4571 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
4572 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
4573
4574* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
4575 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
4576
4577* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
4578 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
4579 specification.
4580
4581* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
4582 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
4583 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
4584 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
4585
4586* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
4587 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
4588 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
4589
4590* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
4591 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
4592 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
4593 expression matcher.
4594
4595* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
4596 functionality.
4597
4598* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
4599 by Ulrich Drepper.
4600
4601* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
4602
4603* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
4604 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
4605 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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4606\f
4607Version 1.09
4608
4609* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
4610
4611* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
4612 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
4613
4614* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
4615 want to put themselves in the background.
4616
4617* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
4618 run without an operating system.
4619
4620* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
4621 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
4622
4623* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
4624 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
4625
4626* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
4627
4628* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
4629 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
4630 have YP (aka NIS).
4631
4632* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
4633 conventions.
4634
4635* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
4636 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
4637\f
4638Version 1.08
4639
4640* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
4641 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
4642 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
4643
4644* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
4645 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
4646
4647* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
4648 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
4649
4650* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
4651
4652* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
4653
4654* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
4655 compatibility.
4656
4657* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
4658 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
4659 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
4660
4661* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
4662
4663* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
4664 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
4665 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
4666
4667* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
4668 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
4669 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
4670 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
4671 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
4672 on a block).
4673
4674* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
4675 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
4676 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
4677 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
4678 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
4679 cross-compiler.
4680
4681* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
4682 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
4683\f
4684Version 1.07
4685
4686* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
4687 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
4688
4689* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
4690 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
4691 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
4692
4693* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
4694 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
4695 address of the last character written.
4696
4697* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
4698 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
4699
4700* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
4701 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
4702
4703* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
4704 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
4705 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
4706 you dereference this pointer.
4707
4708* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
4709 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
4710
4711* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
4712 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
4713 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
4714 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
4715
4716* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
4717 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
4718 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
4719 EAGAIN in every system call function.
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4721Version 1.06
4722
4723* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
4724 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
4725 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
4726 in Emacs or the `info' program.
ea278354 4727 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
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4729* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
4730
4731* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
4732
4733* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
4734 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
4735
4736* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
4737 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
4738
4739* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
4740 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
4741
4742* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
4743 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
4744 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
4745 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
4746 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
4747
4748* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
4749 to the error code in `errno'.
4750
4751* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
4752 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
4753 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
4754 malloc'd string.
4755
4756* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
4757 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
4758 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
4759
4760* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
4761 uniquely-named temporary file.
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4763Version 1.05
4764
4765* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
4766 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
4767 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
4768
4769* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
4770 characters.
4771
4772* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
4773 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
4774
4775* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
4776\f
4777Version 1.04
4778
4779* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
4780 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
4781 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
4782 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
4783
4784* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
4785 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
4786 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
4787
4788* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
4789 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
4790
4791* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
4792 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
4793 made itself into a shared library.
4794
4795* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
4796 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
4797
4798* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
4799 with limited length.
4800
4801* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
4802
4803* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
4804
4805* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
4806
4807* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
4808 function for traversing a directory tree.
4809
4810* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
4811 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
4812 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
4813 formatted output directly to an obstack.
4814
4815* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
4816 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
4817
4818* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
4819
4820* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
4821 things to your strings.
4822
4823* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
4824
4825* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
4826 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
4827 supporting those systems.
4828
4829* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
4830 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
4831 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
4832 configuration files.
4833
4834* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
4835 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
4836
4837* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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4838 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
4839 in <strings.h>.)
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4840
4841* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
4842 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
4843 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
4844 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
4845 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
4846 required storage is not available.
4847
4848* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
4849 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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4851* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
4852 latest files released from Berkeley.
4853\f
4854----------------------------------------------------------------------
4855Copyright information:
4856
09533208 4857Copyright (C) 1992-2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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4858
4859 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
4860 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
4861 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
4862 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
4863
4864 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
4865 of this document, or of portions of it,
4866 under the above conditions, provided also that they
4867 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
4868\f
4869Local variables:
4870version-control: never
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