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ee9247c3 1GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
2b778ceb 2Copyright (C) 1992-2021 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 2.34
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10Major new features:
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12* When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE are defined,
13 PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is no longer constant and is redefined to
14 sysconf(_SC_THREAD_STACK_MIN).
15
16* Add _SC_MINSIGSTKSZ and _SC_SIGSTKSZ. When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE
17 or _GNU_SOURCE are defined, MINSIGSTKSZ and SIGSTKSZ are no longer
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18 constant on Linux. MINSIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf(_SC_MINSIGSTKSZ)
19 and SIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf (_SC_SIGSTKSZ).
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21* The dynamic linker implements the --list-diagnostics option, printing
22 a dump of information related to IFUNC resolver operation and
23 glibc-hwcaps subdirectory selection.
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25* On Linux, the function execveat has been added. It operates similar to
26 execve and it is is already used to implement fexecve without requiring
27 /proc to be mounted. However, different than fexecve, if the syscall is not
28 supported by the kernel an error is returned instead of trying a fallback.
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30* The ISO C2X function timespec_getres has been added.
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32* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_EXT__, from draft ISO
33 C2X, is supported to enable declarations of functions defined in Annex F
34 of C2X. Those declarations are also enabled when
35 __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, as specified in TS 18661-1, is
36 defined, and when _GNU_SOURCE is defined.
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38* On powerpc64*, glibc can now be compiled without scv support using the
39 --disable-scv configure option.
40
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41* Add support for 64-bit time_t on configurations like x86 where time_t
42 is traditionally 32-bit. Although time_t still defaults to 32-bit on
43 these configurations, this default may change in future versions.
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44 This is enabled with the _TIME_BITS preprocessor set to 64 and only
45 supported when LFS (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) is also enabled. It is only
46 enabled for Linux and the full support requires a minimum version of 5.1.
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48* The main gconv-modules file in glibc now contains only a small set of
49 essential converter modules and the rest have been moved into a supplementary
50 configuration file gconv-modules-extra.conf in the gconv-modules.d directory
51 in the same GCONV_PATH. Similarly, external converter modules directories
52 may have supplementary configuration files in a gconv-modules.d directory
53 with names ending with .conf to logically classify the converter modules in
54 that directory.
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56* On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.pthread.stack_cache_size, can be used
57 to configure the size of the thread stack cache.
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59* The function _Fork has been added as an async-signal-safe fork replacement
60 since Austin Group issue 62 droped the async-signal-safe requirement for
61 fork (and it will be included in the future POSIX standard). The new _Fork
62 function does not run any atfork function neither resets any internal state
63 or lock (such as the malloc one), and only sets up a minimal state required
64 to call async-signal-safe functions (such as raise or execve). This function
65 is currently a GNU extension.
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67* On Linux, the close_range function has been added. It allows efficiently
68 closing a range of file descriptors on recent kernels (version 5.9).
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70* The function closefrom has been added. It closes all file descriptors
71 greater than given integer. This function is a GNU extension, although it
72 also present in other systems.
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74* The posix_spawn_file_actions_closefrom_np function has been added, enabling
75 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to close all file descriptors great than or
76 equal to a giver integer. This function is a GNU extension, although
77 Solaris also provides a similar function.
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79Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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81* The function pthread_mutex_consistent_np has been deprecated; programs
82 should use the equivalent standard function pthread_mutex_consistent
83 instead.
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85* The function pthread_mutexattr_getrobust_np has been deprecated;
86 programs should use the equivalent standard function
87 pthread_mutexattr_getrobust instead.
88
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89* The function pthread_mutexattr_setrobust_np has been deprecated;
90 programs should use the equivalent standard function
91 pthread_mutexattr_setrobust instead.
92
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93* The function pthread_yield has been deprecated; programs should use
94 the equivalent standard function sched_yield instead.
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96* The function inet_neta declared in <arpa/inet.h> has been deprecated.
97
98* Various rarely-used functions declared in <resolv.h> and
99 <arpa/nameser.h> have been deprecated. Applications are encouraged to
100 use dedicated DNS processing libraries if applicable. For <resolv.h>,
101 this affects the functions dn_count_labels, fp_nquery, fp_query,
102 fp_resstat, hostalias, loc_aton, loc_ntoa, p_cdname, p_cdnname,
103 p_class, p_fqname, p_fqnname, p_option, p_query, p_rcode, p_time,
104 p_type, putlong, putshort, res_hostalias, res_isourserver,
105 res_nameinquery, res_queriesmatch, res_randomid, sym_ntop, sym_ntos,
106 sym_ston. For <arpa/nameser.h>, the functions ns_datetosecs,
107 ns_format_ttl, ns_makecanon, ns_parse_ttl, ns_samedomain, ns_samename,
108 ns_sprintrr, ns_sprintrrf, ns_subdomain have been deprecated.
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110* The pthread cancellation handler is now installed with SA_RESTART and
111 pthread_cancel will always send the internal SIGCANCEL on a cancellation
112 request. It should not be visible to application since the cancellation
113 handler should either act upon cancellation (if asynchronous cancellation
114 is enabled) or ignore the cancellation internal signal. However there are
115 buggy kernel interfaces (for instance some CIFS version) that could still
116 see spurious EINTR error when cancellation interrupts a blocking syscall.
117
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118* Previously, glibc installed its various shared objects under versioned
119 file names such as libc-2.33.so. The ABI sonames (e.g., libc.so.6)
120 were provided as symbolic links. Starting with glibc 2.34, the shared
121 objects are installed under their ABI sonames directly, without
122 symbolic links. This increases compatibility with distribution
123 package managers that delete removed files late during the package
124 upgrade or downgrade process.
125
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126* The symbols mallwatch and tr_break are now deprecated and no longer used in
127 mtrace. Similar functionality can be achieved by using conditional
128 breakpoints within mtrace functions from within gdb.
129
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130* The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
131 implementation __default_morecore have been removed from the API. Existing
132 applications will continue to link against these symbols but the interfaces
133 no longer have any effect on malloc.
134
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135* Debugging features in malloc such as the MALLOC_CHECK_ environment variable
136 (or the glibc.malloc.check tunable), mtrace() and mcheck() have now been
137 disabled by default in the main C library. Users looking to use these
138 features now need to preload a new debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so to get
139 this functionality back.
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141* The deprecated functions malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state have been
142 moved from the core C library into libc_malloc_debug.so. Legacy applications
143 that still use these functions will now need to preload libc_malloc_debug.so
144 in their environment using the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
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146* The deprecated memory allocation hooks __malloc_hook, __realloc_hook,
147 __memalign_hook and __free_hook are now removed from the API. Compatibility
148 symbols are present to support legacy programs but new applications can no
149 longer link to these symbols. These hooks no longer have any effect on glibc
150 functionality. The malloc debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so currently
151 supports hooks and can be preloaded to get this functionality back for older
152 programs. However this is a transitional measure and may be removed in a
153 future release of the GNU C Library. Users may port away from these hooks by
154 writing and preloading their own malloc interposition library.
155
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156Changes to build and runtime requirements:
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158* On Linux, the shm_open, sem_open, and related functions now expect the
159 file shared memory file system to be mounted at /dev/shm. These functions
160 no longer search among the system's mount points for a suitable
161 replacement if /dev/shm is not available.
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162
163Security related changes:
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165 CVE-2021-27645: The nameserver caching daemon (nscd), when processing
166 a request for netgroup lookup, may crash due to a double-free,
167 potentially resulting in degraded service or Denial of Service on the
168 local system. Reported by Chris Schanzle.
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170 CVE-2021-33574: The mq_notify function has a potential use-after-free
171 issue when using a notification type of SIGEV_THREAD and a thread
172 attribute with a non-default affinity mask.
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174The following bugs are resolved with this release:
175
176 [The release manager will add the list generated by
177 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
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180Version 2.33
181
182Major new features:
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184* The dynamic linker accepts the --list-tunables argument which prints
185 all the supported tunables. This option is disable if glibc is
186 configured with tunables disabled (--enable-tunables=no).
187
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188* The dynamic linker accepts the --argv0 argument and provides opportunity
189 to change argv[0] string.
190
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191* The dynamic linker loads optimized implementations of shared objects
192 from subdirectories under the glibc-hwcaps directory on the library
193 search path if the system's capabilities meet the requirements for
194 that subdirectory. Initially supported subdirectories include
195 "power9" and "power10" for the powerpc64le-linux-gnu architecture,
196 "z13", "z14", "z15" for s390x-linux-gnu, and "x86-64-v2", "x86-64-v3",
197 "x86-64-v4" for x86_64-linux-gnu. In the x86_64-linux-gnu case, the
198 subdirectory names correspond to the vendor-independent x86-64
199 microarchitecture levels defined in the x86-64 psABI supplement.
200
201* The new --help option of the dynamic linker provides usage and
202 information and library search path diagnostics.
203
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204* The mallinfo2 function is added to report statistics as per mallinfo,
205 but with larger field widths to accurately report values that are
206 larger than fit in an integer.
207
96203980 208* Add <sys/platform/x86.h> to provide query macros for x86 CPU features.
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210* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been expanded to run on
211 32-bit hardware. This is supported for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
212
213 - rv32imac ilp32
214 - rv32imafdc ilp32
215 - rv32imafdc ilp32d
216
217 The 32-bit RISC-V port requires at least Linux 5.4, GCC 7.1 and binutils
218 2.28.
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220* A new fortification level _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 is available. At this level,
221 glibc may use additional checks that may have an additional performance
222 overhead. At present these checks are available only on LLVM 9 and later.
223 The latest GCC available at this time (10.2) does not support this level of
224 fortification.
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226Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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228* The mallinfo function is marked deprecated. Callers should call
229 mallinfo2 instead.
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231* When dlopen is used in statically linked programs, alternative library
232 implementations from HWCAP subdirectories are no longer loaded.
233 Instead, the default implementation is used.
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235* The deprecated <sys/vtimes.h> header and the function vtimes have been
236 removed. To support old binaries, the vtimes function continues to exist
237 as a compatibility symbol. Applications should use the getrlimit or
238 prlimit.
239
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240* Following a change in the tzdata 2018a release upstream, the zdump
241 program is now installed in the /usr/bin subdirectory. Previously,
242 the /usr/sbin subdirectory was used.
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244* On s390(x), the type float_t is now derived from the macro
245 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ that is defined by the compiler, instead of being
246 hardcoded to double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
247 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
248 libraries that use this type in their interfaces. The new definition
249 improves consistency with compiler behavior in many scenarios.
250
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251* A future version of glibc will stop loading shared objects from the
252 "tls" subdirectories on the library search path, the subdirectory that
253 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, and also stop employing
254 the legacy AT_HWCAP search mechanism. Applications should switch to
255 the new glibc-hwcaps mechanism instead; if they do not do that, only
256 the baseline version (directly from the search path directory) will be
257 loaded.
258
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259Changes to build and runtime requirements:
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261* On Linux, the system administrator needs to configure /dev/pts with
262 the intended access modes for pseudo-terminals. glibc no longer
263 attemps to adjust permissions of terminal devices. The previous glibc
264 defaults ("tty" group, user read/write and group write) already
265 corresponded to what most systems used, so that grantpt did not
266 perform any adjustments.
267
268* On Linux, the posix_openpt and getpt functions no longer attempt to
269 use legacy (BSD) pseudo-terminals and assume that if /dev/ptmx exists
270 (and pseudo-terminals are supported), a devpts file system is mounted
271 on /dev/pts. Current systems already meet these requirements.
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273* s390x requires GCC 7.1 or newer. See gcc Bug 98269.
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275Security related changes:
276
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934c48a0 278 ISO-20220-JP-3 character set using the iconv function has been fixed.
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279 This assertion was triggered by certain valid inputs in which the
280 converted output contains a combined sequence of two wide characters
281 crossing a buffer boundary. Reported by Tavis Ormandy.
282
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283 CVE-2020-27618: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
284 invoked with input containing redundant shift sequences in the IBM1364,
285 IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, or IBM1399 character sets.
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287 CVE-2020-29562: An assertion failure has been fixed in the iconv function
288 when invoked with UCS4 input containing an invalid character.
289
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290 CVE-2019-25013: A buffer overflow has been fixed in the iconv function when
291 invoked with EUC-KR input containing invalid multibyte input sequences.
292
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293The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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295 [10635] libc: realpath portability patches
296 [16124] dynamic-link: ld.so should allow to change argv[0]
297 [17924] malloc: 'free' should not set errno
298 [18683] libc: Linux faccessat implementation can incorrectly ignore
299 AT_EACCESS
300 [22899] libc: Use 64-bit readdir() in generic POSIX getcwd()
597d0267 301 [23091] hurd: missing waitid support
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302 [23249] libc: Epyc and other current AMD CPUs do not select the
303 "haswell" platform subdirectory
304 [24080] dynamic-link: Definition of "haswell" platform is inconsistent
305 with GCC
306 [24202] libc: m68k setjmp() saves incorrect 'a5' register in --enable-
307 stack-protector=all
308 [24941] libc: Make grantpt usable after multi-threaded fork in more
309 cases
310 [24970] libc: realpath mishandles EOVERFLOW; stat not needed anyway
311 [24973] locale: iconv encounters segmentation fault when converting
312 0x00 0xfe in EUC-KR to UTF-8 (CVE-2019-25013)
313 [25399] string: undefined reference to `__warn_memset_zero_len' when
314 changing gnuc version
315 [25859] libc: glibc parser for /sys/devices/system/cpu/online is
316 incorrect
317 [25938] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should store meaning of hwcap mask
318 bits
319 [25971] libc: s390 bits/hwcap.h out of sync with kernel
320 [26053] libc: unlockpt fails with ENOTTY for non-ptmx descriptors
321 [26100] libc: Race in syslog(3) with regards to tag printing.
322 [26124] libc: Export <cpu-features.h>
323 [26130] nscd: Inconsistent nscd cache during pruning
324 [26203] libc: GLRO(dl_x86_cpu_features) may not be intialized
325 [26224] locale: iconv hangs when converting some invalid inputs from
326 several IBM character sets (CVE-2020-27618)
327 [26341] libc: realpath cyclically call __alloca(path_max) to consume
328 too much stack space
329 [26343] manual: invalid documented return type for strerrorname_np(),
330 strerrordesc_np(), sigdescr_np(), sigabbrev_np()
331 [26376] libc: Namespace violation in stdio.h and sys/stat.h if build
332 with optimization.
333 [26383] locale: bind_textdomain_codeset doesn't accept //TRANSLIT
334 anymore
335 [26394] time: [2.33 Regression] FAIL: nptl/tst-join14
336 [26534] math: libm.so 2.32 SIGILL in pow() due to FMA4 instruction on
337 non-FMA4 system
338 [26552] dynamic-link: CPU_FEATURE_USABLE_P should be more conservative
339 [26553] libc: mtx_init allows type set to "mtx_recursive" only
340 [26555] string: strerrorname_np does not return the documented value
341 [26592] libc: pointer arithmetic overflows in realpath
342 [26600] network: Transaction ID collisions cause slow DNS lookups in
343 getaddrinfo
344 [26606] libc: [2.33 Regression] pselect is broken on x32
345 [26615] libc: powerpc: libc segfaults when LD_PRELOADed with libgcc
346 [26620] glob: fnmatch with collating symbols results in segmentation
347 fault
348 [26625] libc: [2.33 Regression] CET is disabled
349 [26636] libc: 32-bit shmctl(IPC_INFO) crashes when shminfo struct is
350 at the end of a memory mapping
351 [26637] libc: semctl SEM_STAT_ANY fails to pass the buffer specified
352 by the caller to the kernel
353 [26639] libc: msgctl IPC_INFO and MSG_INFO return garbage
354 [26647] build: [-Werror=array-parameter=] due to different
355 declarations for __sigsetjmp
356 [26648] libc: mkstemp is likely to fail on systems with non-stricly-
357 monotonic clocks
358 [26649] stdio: printf should handle non-normal x86 long double numbers
359 gracefully (CVE-2020-29573)
360 [26686] build: -Warray-parameter instances building with GCC 11
361 [26687] build: -Warray-bounds instances building with GCC 11
362 [26690] stdio: Aliasing violation in __vfscanf_internal
363 [26691] nptl: Use a minimum guard size of 64 KiB on aarch64
364 [26726] build: GCC warning calling new_composite_name with an array of
365 one element
366 [26736] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-sysvshm-linux
367 [26737] libc: Random FAIL: rt/tst-shm
368 [26791] libc: Missing O_CLOEXEC in sysconf.c
369 [26798] dynamic-link: aarch64: variant PCS symbols may be incorrectly
370 lazy bound
371 [26801] nptl: pthread_mutex_clocklock with CLOCK_MONOTONIC can fail on
372 PI mutexes
373 [26818] string: aarch64: string tests may run ifunc variants that are
374 not safe
375 [26821] libc: Memory leak test failures on Fedora 33
376 [26824] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-cpu-features-supports with recent trunk:
377 FSGSBASE/LM/RDRAND check failure
378 [26833] time: adjtime() with delta == NULL segfaults on armv7 32bit
379 platform
380 [26853] libc: aarch64: Missing unwind information in statically linked
381 startup code
382 [26923] locale: Assertion failure in iconv when converting invalid
383 UCS4 (CVE-2020-29562)
384 [26926] dynamic-link: aarch64: library dependencies are not bti
385 protected
386 [26932] libc: sh: Multiple floating point functions defined as stubs
387 only since 2.31
388 [26964] nptl: pthread_mutex_timedlock returning EAGAIN after futex is
389 locked
390 [26988] dynamic-link: aarch64: BTI mprotect address is not page
391 aligned
392 [27002] build: libc_freeres_fn build failure with GCC 11
393 [27004] dynamic-link: ld.so is miscompiled by GCC 11
394 [27008] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should have endianness markup
395 [27042] libc: [alpha] anonymous union in struct stat confuses
396 detection logic
397 [27053] libc: Conformance regression in system(3) (and probably also
398 pclose(3))
399 [27072] dynamic-link: static pie ifunc resolvers run before hwcap is
400 setup
401 [27077] network: Do not reload /etc/nsswitch.conf from chroot
402 [27083] libc: Unsafe unbounded alloca in addmntent
403 [27104] dynamic-link: The COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_MAX handshake does not
404 work
405 [27130] string: "rep movsb" performance issue
406 [27150] libc: alpha: wait4() is unavailable in static linking
407 [27177] dynamic-link:
408 GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.cpu.x86_ibt=on:glibc.cpu.x86_shstk=on doesn't
409 work
410 [27222] dynamic-link: Incorrect sysdeps/x86/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo.c
411 [27237] malloc: deadlock in malloc/tst-malloc-stats-cancellation
412 [27256] locale: Assertion failure in ISO-2022-JP-3 gconv module
413 related to combining characters (CVE-2021-3326)
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416Version 2.32
417
418Major new features:
419
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420* Unicode 13.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
421 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 13.0.0, using
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422 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
423
424* New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq)
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426* Support for Synopsys ARC HS cores (ARCv2 ISA) running Linux has been
427 added. This port requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-8.3 and Linux-5.1.
428 Three ABIs are supported:
429
430 - arc-linux-gnu
431 - arc-linux-gnuhf
432 - arceb-linux-gnu
433
4d3a77c7 434 The arc* ABIs are little-endian while arceb is big-endian. All ABIs use
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435 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
436
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437* The GNU C Library now loads audit modules listed in the DT_AUDIT and
438 DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
439
051be01f 440* powerpc64le supports IEEE128 long double libm/libc redirects when
4d3a77c7 441 using -mabi=ieeelongdouble to compile C code on supported GCC
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442 toolchains. It is recommended to use GCC 8 or newer when testing
443 this option.
444
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445* To help detect buffer overflows and other out-of-bounds accesses
446 several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This
447 should help GCC 10 issue better warnings.
448
4d3a77c7 449* On Linux, functions pthread_attr_setsigmask_np and
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450 pthread_attr_getsigmask_np have been added. They allow applications
451 to specify the signal mask of a thread created with pthread_create.
452
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453* The GNU C Library now provides the header file <sys/single_threaded.h>
454 which declares the variable __libc_single_threaded. Applications are
455 encouraged to use this variable for single-thread optimizations,
456 instead of weak references to symbols historically defined in
457 libpthread.
458
bfe05aa2 459* The functions sigabbrev_np and sigdescr_np have been added. The
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460 sigabbrev_np function returns the abbreviated signal name (e.g. "HUP" for
461 SIGHUP) while sigdescr_np returns a string describing the signal number
462 (e.g "Hangup" for SIGHUP). Different than strsignal, sigdescr_np does not
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463 attempt to translate the return description, both functions return
464 NULL for an invalid signal number.
465
466 They should be used instead of sys_siglist or sys_sigabbrev and they
467 are both thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
468
325081b9 469* The functions strerrorname_np and strerrordesc_np have been added. The
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470 strerroname_np function returns error number name (e.g. "EINVAL" for EINVAL)
471 while strerrordesc_np returns a string describing the error number
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472 (e.g "Invalid argument" for EINVAL). Different than strerror,
473 strerrordesc_np does not attempt to translate the return description, both
474 functions return NULL for an invalid error number.
475
476 They should be used instead of sys_errlist and sys_nerr, both are
477 thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
478
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479* AArch64 now supports standard branch protection security hardening
480 in glibc when it is built with a GCC that is configured with
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481 --enable-standard-branch-protection (or if -mbranch-protection=standard
482 flag is passed when building both GCC target libraries and glibc,
483 in either case a custom GCC is needed). This includes branch target
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484 identification (BTI) and pointer authentication for return addresses
485 (PAC-RET). They require armv8.5-a and armv8.3-a architecture
486 extensions respectively for the protection to be effective,
487 otherwise the used instructions are nops. User code can use PAC-RET
488 without libc support, but BTI requires a libc that is built with BTI
489 support, otherwise runtime objects linked into user code will not be
490 BTI compatible.
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495 from glibc. This includes the rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and the Sun
496 RPC header files. Backward compatibility for old programs is kept
497 only for architectures and ABIs that have been added in or before
498 glibc 2.31. New programs need to use TI-RPC
499 <http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=summary> and
500 rpcsvc-proto <https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto>.
501
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503 as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules "nis"
504 and "nisplus" are not built at all and libnsl's headers aren't
505 installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs
506 that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement
507 implementations based on TI-RPC, which additionally support IPv6, are
508 available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not
4d3a77c7 509 affect the "compat" NSS module, which does not depend on libnsl
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511
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513 removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
514 exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
515 but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system
516 call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5.
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518* The sstk function is no longer available to newly linked binaries.
519 Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function
520 was not declared in any header file.
521
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522* The legacy signal handling functions siginterrupt, sigpause, sighold,
523 sigrelse, sigignore and sigset, and the sigmask macro have been
524 deprecated. Applications should use the sigsuspend, sigprocmask and
525 sigaction functions instead.
526
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528 already supported this format for almost 20 years.
529
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531 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
532 have been removed from <string.h>. They are exported solely as
533 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
534 strsignal instead.
535
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537 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
4d3a77c7 538 have been removed from <stdio.h>. They are exported solely as
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540 strerror or strerror_r instead.
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543 calling thread, meaning that the returned string pointer may be invalided
544 or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same thread or
545 if the thread is terminated. It makes strerror MT-safe.
546
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547* Using weak references to libpthread functions such as pthread_create
548 or pthread_key_create to detect the singled-threaded nature of a
549 program is an obsolescent feature. Future versions of glibc will
550 define pthread_create within libc.so.6 itself, so such checks will
551 always flag the program as multi-threaded. Applications should check
552 the __libc_single_threaded variable declared in
553 <sys/single_threaded.h> instead.
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556 secure RPC). The contents of the /etc/publickey file will be ignored,
557 regardless of the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of
558 storing RPC keys only supported the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES
559 flavor of secure RPC.)
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561* The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
562 implementation __default_morecore have been deprecated. Applications
563 should use malloc interposition to change malloc behavior, and mmap to
564 allocate anonymous memory. A future version of glibc may require that
565 applications which use the malloc hooks must preload a special shared
566 object, to enable the hooks.
567
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568* The hesiod NSS module has been deprecated and will be removed in a
569 future version of glibc. System administrators are encouraged to
570 switch to other approaches for networked account databases, such as
571 LDAP.
572
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574
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576 long double redirects.
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578Security related changes:
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580 CVE-2016-10228: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
581 invoked with the -c option and when processing invalid multi-byte input
582 sequences. Reported by Jan Engelhardt.
583
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584 CVE-2020-10029: Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack
585 corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido
586 Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
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588 CVE-2020-1752: A use-after-free vulnerability in the glob function when
589 expanding ~user has been fixed.
590
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591 CVE-2020-6096: A signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy and
592 memmove functions has been fixed. Discovered by Jason Royes and Samual
593 Dytrych of the Cisco Security Assessment and Penetration Team (See
594 TALOS-2020-1019).
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598 [9809] localedata: ckb_IQ: new Kurdish Sorani locale
599 [10441] manual: Backtraces code example lacks error checking
600 [10815] librt: [timer_create / SIGEV_THREAD] signalmask of
601 timer_sigev_thread dangerous
602 [14231] stdio: stdio-common tests memory requirements
603 [14578] libc: /proc-based emulation for lchmod, fchmodat
604 [16272] dynamic-link: dlopen()ing a DT_FILTER library crashes if
605 filtee has constructor
606 [19519] locale: iconv(1) with -c option hangs on illegal multi-byte
607 sequences (CVE-2016-10228)
608 [19737] admin: Doc page “20.5.2 Infinity and NaN” has incorrect HTML
609 character entities for infinity & pi
610 [20338] libc: Parsing of /etc/gshadow can return bad pointers causing
611 segfaults in applications
612 [20543] libc: Please move from .gnu.linkonce to comdat
613 [22489] network: gcc warns about implicit convertion in
614 ICMP6_FILTER_SETPASS with -Wsign-conversion
615 [22525] localedata: or_IN LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
616 [23294] math: Complex _FloatN functions are redirected to the wrong
617 function with -mlong-double-64
618 [23296] libc: Data race in setting function descriptor during lazy
619 binding
620 [23668] dynamic-link: ldconfig: Default to the new format for
621 ld.so.cache
622 [23819] hurd: hurd: Add C11 thread support
623 [23990] build: test-container error out on failure to exec child.
624 [23991] build: shell-container typo in run_command_array
625 [24638] manual: Error in example of parsing a template string
626 [24654] manual: Wrong declaration of wcschr in libc manual
627 [24943] dynamic-link: Support DT_AUDIT, DT_DEPAUDIT in the dynamic
628 linker
629 [25051] dynamic-link: aarch64, powerpc64 uses surplus static tls for
630 dynamically loaded dsos
631 [25098] nptl: nptl: ctype classification functions are not AS-Safe
632 [25219] libc: improve out-of-bounds checking with GCC 10 attribute
633 access
634 [25262] libc: getcontext/setcontext/swapcontext unnecessarily save and
635 restore EAX, ECX and EDX
636 [25397] dynamic-link: Legacy bitmap doesn't cover jitted code
637 [25414] glob: 'glob' use-after-free bug (CVE-2020-1752)
638 [25420] network: Race condition in resolv_conf.c can result in caching
639 stale configuration forever
640 [25487] math: sinl() stack corruption from crafted input
641 (CVE-2020-10029)
642 [25506] build: configure: broken detection of STT_GNU_IFUNC when GCC
643 defaults to PIE
644 [25523] libc: MIPS/Linux inline syscall template is miscompiled
645 [25620] libc: Signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy()
646 (CVE-2020-6096)
647 [25623] libc: test-sysvmsg, test-sysvsem, test-sysvshm fail with 2.31
648 on 32 bit and old kernel
649 [25635] libc: arm: Wrong sysdep order selection for soft-fp
650 [25639] localedata: Some names of days and months wrongly spelt in
651 Occitan
652 [25657] libc: sigprocmask() and sigisemptyset() manipulate different
653 amount of sigset_t bytes
654 [25691] stdio: printf: memory leak when printing long multibyte
655 strings
656 [25715] libc: system() returns wrong errors when posix_spawn fails
657 [25733] malloc: mallopt(M_MXFAST) can set global_max_fast to 0
658 [25734] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS fails to reset conversion
659 state for conversions that produce two Unicode code points
660 [25765] nptl: Incorrect futex syscall in __pthread_disable_asynccancel
661 for linux x86_64 leads to livelock
662 [25788] dynamic-link: [i386] -fno-omit-frame-pointer in CFLAGS causes
663 test failures, invalid instruction in ld.so
664 [25790] glob: Typo in tst-fnmatch.input
665 [25810] libc: x32: Incorrect syscall entries with pointer, off_t and
666 size_t
667 [25819] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 13.0.0
668 [25824] libc: Abnormal function of strnlen in aarch64
669 [25887] dynamic-link: Wasted space in _dl_x86_feature_1[1]
670 [25896] libc: Incorrect prctl
671 [25902] libc: Bad LOADARGS_N
672 [25905] dynamic-link: VSX registers are corrupted during PLT
673 resolution when glibc is built with --disable-multi-arch and --with-
674 cpu=power9
675 [25933] string: Off by one error in __strncmp_avx2 when
676 length=VEC_SIZE*4 and strings are at page boundaries can cause a
677 segfault
678 [25942] nptl: Deadlock on stack_cache_lock between __nptl_setxid and
679 exiting detached thread
680 [25966] libc: Incorrect access of __x86_shared_non_temporal_threshold
681 for x32
682 [25976] nss: internal_end*ent in nss_compat may clobber errno, hiding
683 ERANGE
684 [25999] nptl: Use-after-free issue in pthread_getaddr_default_np
685 [26073] math: getpayload() has wrong return value
686 [26076] dynamic-link: dlmopen crashes after failing to load
687 dependencies in audit mode
688 [26120] localedata: column width of of some Korean
689 JUNGSEONG/JONGSEONG characters wrong (should be 0)
690 [26128] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFLUSHOPT
691 [26133] libc: Incorrect need_arch_feature_F16C
692 [26137] libc: strtod() triggers exception FE_INEXACT on reasonable
693 input
694 [26149] libc: PKU is usable only if OSPKE is set
695 [26173] libc: powerpc64*: Add @notoc to calls to functions that do not
696 preserve r2
697 [26208] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFSH
698 [26210] network: Incorrect use of hidden symbols for global sunrpc
699 variables
700 [26211] stdio: printf integer overflow calculating allocation size
701 [26214] stdio: printf_fp double free
702 [26215] stdio: printf_fp memory leak
703 [26232] time: FAIL: support/tst-timespec for 32-bit targets
704 [26258] nss: nss_compat should not read input files with mmap
705 [26332] string: Incorrect cache line size load causes memory
706 corruption in memset
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710
711Major new features:
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713* The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
714 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
715 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
716 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
717 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
718 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
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721 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
722 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
723 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
724
69ca4b54 725* The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
3ef5e118 726 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
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728
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732 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
733 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
734 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
735 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
736 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
737 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
738 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
739
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741
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742* The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
743 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
744 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
745 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
746 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
747 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
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750 binaries, and its declaration has been removed from <time.h>.
751 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
752
753* We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
754 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
755 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
756 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
757
758* The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
759 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
760 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
761 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
762 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
763 made this no longer practical.
764
765 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
766 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
767 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
768 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
769 release.)
770
771 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
772 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
773 with the current time, use the localtime function.
774
775 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
776 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
777 using clock_gettime instead.
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780 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
781 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
782 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
783 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
784
785 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
786 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
787 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
788 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
789
790 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
791 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
792 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
793 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
794 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
795 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
796
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798 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
799 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
800 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
801 offset API.
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804 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
805 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
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808 configurations.
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811 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
812 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
813 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
814 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
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817 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
818 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
819 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
820 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
821 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
822 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
823 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
824
825 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
826 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
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829 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
830 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
831 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
832 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
833 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
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836
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839 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
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842 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
843 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
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846
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847 CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an
848 out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context.
849
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850 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
851 environment variable during program execution after a security
852 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
853 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
854 program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
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856The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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858 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
859 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
860 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
861 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
862 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
863 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
864 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
865 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
866 linking failure
867 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
868 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
869 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
870 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
871 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
872 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
873 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
874 constructors/destructors is not fatal
875 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
876 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
877 7408-2005
878 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
879 with localedef
880 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
881 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
882 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
883 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
884 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
885 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
886 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
887 utmp entries
888 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
889 ABSOLUTE ABI
890 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
891 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
892 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
893 (stringop-overflow error)
894 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
895 functions other can lead to crashes
896 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
897 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
898 unconditionally
899 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
900 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
901 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
902 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
903 still can fail with an error
904 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
905 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
906 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
907 initialized correctly
908 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
909 -frewrite-includes
910 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
911 value to an unsigned
912 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
913 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
914 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
915 protection
916 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
917 ifunc variant.
918 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
919 al. for Clang++
920 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
921 (Slovenian)
922 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
923 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
924 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
925 with -std=c11
926 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
927 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
928 part
929 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
930 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
931 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
932 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
933 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
934 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
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938
939Major new features:
940
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942 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
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943 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
944
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946 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
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949 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
950 to the callback function.
951
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955 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
956 nan_TW, lzh_TW.
957
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959
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960* Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
961 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
962 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
963 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
964 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
965
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966* The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
967 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
968 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
969 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
970 link time reference, is gone.
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973 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
974 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
975 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
976 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
977 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
978 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
979 the clock choice at initialization time).
980
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982 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
983 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
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986
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987* The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
988 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
989 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
990 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
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992 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
993 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
994 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
995 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
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997* The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime,
998 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
999 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
1000 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
1001 since glibc 2.17.
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1003* The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
1004 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
1005
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1006* Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
1007 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
1008
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1009* The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
1010 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
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1012* With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
1013 BIND_NOW flag.
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1016 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
1017 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
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1019* On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
1020 header have been removed.
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1022* The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
1023 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
1024 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
1025 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
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1030
1031 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
1032 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
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1037 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
1038 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
1039 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
1040 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
1041 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
1042 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
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1044 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
1045 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
1046 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
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1051 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
1052 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
1053 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
1054 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
1055 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
1056 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
1057 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
1058 invalid input drops valid char
1059 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
1060 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
1061 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
1062 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
1063 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
1064 malloc.h.
1065 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
1066 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
1067 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
1068 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
1069 functions
1070 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
1071 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
1072 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
1073 for long double = double
1074 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
1075 long double = double
1076 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
1077 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
1078 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
1079 long timeouts
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1082 checking for NULL.
1083 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
1084 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
1085 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
1086 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
1087 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
1088 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
1089 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
1090 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
1091 not the default "nor"
1092 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
1093 false positives, change to modern flexible array
1094 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
1095 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
1096 compiler barriers.
1097 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
1098 unnecessary librt dependencies
1099 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
1100 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
1101 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
1102 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
1103 unsorted chunk
1104 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
1105 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
1106 to R_SPARC_H44
1107 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
1108 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
1109 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
1110 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
1111 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
1112 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
1113 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
1114 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
1115 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
1116 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
1117 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
1118 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
1119 was not used
1120 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
1121 tests
1122 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
1123 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
1124 time_t changes
1125 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
1126 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
1127 kernels and break testing
1128 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
1129 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
1130 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
1131 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
1132 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
1133 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
1134 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
1135 -O3 -march=skylake
1136 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
1137 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
1138 crash
1139 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
1140 linked glibc
1141 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
1142 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
1143 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
1144 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
1145 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
1146 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
1147 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
1148 always implemented in the same library
1149 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
1150 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
1151 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
1152 testroot
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1155Version 2.29
1156
1157Major new features:
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1160 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
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1162* A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
1163 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
1164 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
1165 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
1166 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
1167 configured location.
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424c4f60 1169* Optimized generic exp, exp2, log, log2, pow, sinf, cosf, sincosf and tanf.
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1171* The reallocarray function is now declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE, not just
1172 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
1173
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1174* For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
1175 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
1176 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
1177 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
1178 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
1179 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
1180 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
1181 process actually does not use HTM).
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1184 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
1185 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
1186 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
1187 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
1188 of the same name.
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1190* The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
1191 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
1192 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
5fc3eca7 1193 inconsistent mutex state after a fork call in a multi-threaded process.
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1195
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1196* Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
1197 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
1198 supported:
1199 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
1200 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
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1202* strftime's default formatting of a locale's alternative year (%Ey)
1203 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
1204 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
1205 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
1206 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
1207 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
1208 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
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1211 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
1212 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
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1217 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
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1220 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
1221 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
1222 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
1223
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1225 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
1226 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
1227 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
1228 structures.
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1231 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
1232 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
1233 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
1234 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
1235 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
1236
1237 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
1238 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
1239 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
1240 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
1241 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
1242
1243 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
1244 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
1245 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
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1248
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1252 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
1253
1254 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
1255 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
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1259 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
1260 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
1261 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
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1263 CVE-2019-6488: On x32, the size_t parameter may be passed in the lower
1264 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
1265 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
1266 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
1267 Reported by H.J. Lu.
1268
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1269 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
1270 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
1271 or command injection issues in applications.
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1275 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
1276 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
1277 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
1278 thousands
1279 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
1280 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
1281 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
1282 --param options)
1283 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
1284 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
1285 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
1286 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
1287 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
1288 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
1289 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
1290 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
1291 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
1292 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
1293 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
1294 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
1295 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
1296 pointer argument is non-NULL
1297 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
1298 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
1299 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
1300 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
1301 multithreads call popen
1302 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
1303 and pthread_create fails.
1304 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
1305 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
1306 constructor
1307 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
1308 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
1309 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
1310 source tree
1311 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
1312 float
1313 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
1314 one error
1315 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
1316 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
1317 linker
1318 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
1319 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
1320 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
1321 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
1322 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
1323 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
1324 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
1325 filesystems
1326 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
1327 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
1328 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
1329 functions
1330 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
1331 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
1332 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
1333 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
1334 have wrong type
1335 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
1336 wrong type
1337 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
1338 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
1339 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
1340 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
1341 threads
1342 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
1343 start.S
1344 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
1345 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
1346 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
1347 powerpc64le
1348 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
1349 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
1350 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
1351 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
1352 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
1353 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
1354 strftime
1355 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
1356 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
1357 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
1358 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
1359 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
1360 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
1361 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
1362 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
1363 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
1364 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
1365 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
1366 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
1367 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
1368 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
1369 tcache size
1370 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
1371 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
1372 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
1373 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
1374 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
1375 (CVE-2018-19591)
1376 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
1377 nearest rounding mode
1378 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
1379 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
1380 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
1381 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
1382 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
1383 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
1384 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
1385 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
1386 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
1387 error
1388 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
1389 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
1390 using GCC 8
1391 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
1392 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
1393 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
1394 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
1395 ppc64le
1396 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
1397 expected result
1398 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
1399 x32 (CVE-2019-6488)
1400 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
1401 sigaltstack
1402 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
1403 answers will be rejected)
1404 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
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1408
1409Major new features:
1410
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1411* The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
1412 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
1413 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
1414 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
1415 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
1416 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
1417 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
1418 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
1419 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
1420 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
1421 archive or binary locales.
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1424 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
1425 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
1426 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
1427 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
1428 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
1429 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
1430 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
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1431 Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
1432 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
1433 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
1434 validated for i686.
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1436* The GNU C Library now has correct support for ABSOLUTE symbols
1437 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
1438 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
1439 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
1440 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
1441 field) to indicate such support is required.
1442
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1443* Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1444 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
1445 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1446
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1447* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
1448 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
1449
1450 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
1451 fMxaddfNx functions.
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1453 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
1454 fMxsubfNx functions.
1455
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1456 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
1457 fMxmulfNx functions.
1458
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1459 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
1460 fMxdivfNx functions.
1461
e607a352 1462* Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
df467d22 1463 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
9145f033 1464 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
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1465 support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
1466 and Kashubian.
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61c4aad7 1468* Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
e607a352 1469 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
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1471* Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
1472 patches.
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1474* The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
1475 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
1476 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
1477 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
1478 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
1479 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
1480 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
1481 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
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1483* The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
1484 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
1485 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
1486 the fstatat64 function.
1487
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1488* IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
1489 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
1490 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
1491 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
1492 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
1493 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
1494 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
1495 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
1496 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
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1498* Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
1499 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
1500 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
1501 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
1502 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
1503 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
1504 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
1505 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
1506 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
1507 results in a load failure now.
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1510 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
1511 <threads.h>:
1512
1513 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
1514 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
1515
1516 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
1517 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
1518
1519 - call_once for function call synchronization.
1520
1521 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
1522 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
1523
1524 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
1525
1526 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
1527
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1529
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1530* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
1531 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
1532 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
1533
1534* The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
1535 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
1536 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
1537 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
1538 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
1539 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
1540
1541* All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
1542 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
1543 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
1544 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
1545 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
1546 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
1547 (Bug #1190.)
1548
1549* The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
1550 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
1551 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
1552 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
1553 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
1554 further explanation.
1555
1556 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
1557 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
1558 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
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1560* The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
1561
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1562* The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
1563 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
1564 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
1565
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1566* The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
1567 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
1568 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
1569 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
1570
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1571* The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
1572 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
1573 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
1574 for this function instead.
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1576* The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
1577 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
1578 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
1579
1580* The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
1581 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
1582 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
1583 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
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1585* The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
1586 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
1587 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
1588 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
1589 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
1590
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1591* The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
1592 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
1593 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
1594 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
1595 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
1596 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
1597 such as libgcrypt.
1598
1599* Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
1600 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
1601 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
1602 enabled.
1603
1604* The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
1605 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
1606 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
1607
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1608* We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
1609 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
1610 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
1611 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
1612 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
1613 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
1614
1615 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
1616 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
1617 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
1618 behavior in a future release.
1619
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1621
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1624Security related changes:
1625
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1626 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
1627 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
1628 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
1629 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
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1631 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
1632 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
1633
1634 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
1635 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
1636 Izbyshev.
1637
1638 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
1639 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
1640 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
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1644 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
1645 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
1646 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
1647 when __WORDSIZE != 64
1648 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
1649 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
1650 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
1651 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
1652 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
1653 14651
1654 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
1655 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
1656 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
1657 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
1658 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
1659 conversion is given
1660 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
1661 date
1662 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
1663 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
1664 scope with -O1 and higher
1665 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
1666 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
1667 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
1668 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
1669 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
1670 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
1671 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
1672 horrible machine code)
1673 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
1674 last constant.
1675 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
1676 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
1677 symbols
1678 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
1679 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
1680 defined
1681 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
1682 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
1683 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
1684 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
1685 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
1686 fpscr.c'
1687 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
1688 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
1689 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
1690 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
1691 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
1692 the base address
1693 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
1694 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
1695 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
1696 open_verify
1697 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
1698 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
1699 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
1700 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
1701 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
1702 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
1703 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
1704 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
1705 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
1706 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
1707 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
1708 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
1709 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
1710 dlopen
1711 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
1712 AT_SECURE=1
1713 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
1714 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
1715 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
1716 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
1717 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
1718 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
1719 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
1720 for Spanish with CLDR
1721 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
1722 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
1723 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
1724 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
1725 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
1726 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
1727 es_BO
1728 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
1729 CLOCKS_PER_SECOND
1730 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
1731 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
1732 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
1733 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
1734 dlopen failures
1735 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
1736 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
1737 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
1738 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
1739 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
1740 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
1741 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
1742 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
1743 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
1744 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
1745 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
1746 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
1747 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
1748 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
1749 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
1750 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
1751 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
1752 makecontext
1753 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
1754 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
1755 required
1756 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
1757 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
1758 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
1759 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
1760 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
1761 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
1762 disabled
1763 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
1764 failure
1765 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
1766 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
1767 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
1768 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
1769 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
1770 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
1771 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
1772 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
1773 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
1774 and libc build with -Os)
1775 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
1776 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
1777 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
1778 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
1779 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
1780 that changes /etc/passwd
1781 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
1782 (CVE-2018-11237)
1783 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
1784 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
1785 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
1786 posix/regcomp.c
1787 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
1788 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
1789 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
1790 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
1791 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
1792 AT_SECURE
1793 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
1794 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
1795 parser.c
1796 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
1797 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
1798 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
1799 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
1800 directed rounding
1801 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
1802 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
1803 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
1804 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
1805 lookup
1806 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
1807 interposition
1808 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
1809 DSO boundaries.
1810 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
1811 <linux/time.h>
1812 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
1813 checking
1814 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
1815 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
1816 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
1817 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
1818 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
1819 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
1820 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
1821 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
1822 processors
1823 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
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1827
1828Major new features:
1829
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1831 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
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1834 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
1835 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
1836 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
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1837 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
1838 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
9d7a3741 1839
ac817e08 1840* Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
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1841 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
1842 H.J. Lu from Intel.
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1844* Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
1845
4cf82d23 1846* Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
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1848* In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
1849 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
1850 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
1851 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
1852 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
1853 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
1854 from a security and performance perspective.
1855
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1856* The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
1857 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
1858 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
1859 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
1860
81325b12 1861* On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
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1862 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
1863 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
1864 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
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1865 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
1866
a23aa5b7 1867* On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
40ca951b 1868 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
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1869 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
1870 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
1871 _Float128.
1872
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1873* The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
1874 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
1875 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
0d93b7fd 1876
4bab0224 1877* glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
59d2cbb1 1878
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1879* Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
1880 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
1881 pkey_get.
1882
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1883* The copy_file_range function was added.
1884
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1885* Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
1886
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1887* The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
1888 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
1889 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
1890
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1891* Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
1892 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
1893 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
1894 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
1895 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
1896 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
1897 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
1898
1899 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
1900 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
1901 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
1902 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
1903 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
1904 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
1905 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
1906
1907 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
1908 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
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1909 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
1910 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
1911 respectively.
1912
1913 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
1914 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
1915 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
1916 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
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1917
1918 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
1919 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
1920 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
1921
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1922 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
1923 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
0a32e219 1924 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
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1926* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
1927 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
1928 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
1929
1930 - rv64imac lp64
1931 - rv64imafdc lp64
1932 - rv64imafdc lp64d
1933
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1934Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1935
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1936* Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
1937 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
d4ae7827 1938 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
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1939 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
1940 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
1941 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
1942 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
1943 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
1944 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
1945 fix this.
1946
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1947* Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
1948 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
1949 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
1950
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1951* Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
1952 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
1953 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
1954 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
1955 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
1956 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
1957 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
1958 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
1959 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
1960 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
1961 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
1962 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
1963 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
1964 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
1965 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
1966 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
1967 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
1968 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
1969 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
1970 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
1971 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
1972 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
1973 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
1974 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
1975 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
1976 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
1977
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1978* On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
1979 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
00cdcf5a 1980
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1981* libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
1982 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
1983 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
1984 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
1985 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
1986 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
1987 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
1988
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1989* The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
1990 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
1991 exp10l for these functions instead.
1992
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1993* The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
1994 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
1995 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1996
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1997* The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
1998 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
1999 ignored.
2000
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2001* The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
2002 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
2003 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
2004 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
2005
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2006* The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
2007 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
2008
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2009* In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
2010 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
2011
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2012* The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
2013 programs.
2014
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2015* The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
2016
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2017* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
2018 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
2019 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
2020 instead.
2021
2022 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
2023 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
2024 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
2025 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
2026 use, but predates the bits convention.
2027
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2028Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2029
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2030* bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
2031 subdirectory.
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2032
2033Security related changes:
2034
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2035 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
2036 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
2037 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
2038 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
2039 script.)
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2041 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
2042 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
2043 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
2044 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
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2046 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
2047 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
2048 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
2049 of service.
2050
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2051 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
2052 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
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2053 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
2054
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2055 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
2056 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
2057 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
2058 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
2059
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2060 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
2061 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
2062 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
2063 Qualys.
2064
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2065 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
2066 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
2067 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
2068 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
2069 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
2070
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2071 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
2072 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
2073 current directory.
2074
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2075 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
2076 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
2077 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
2078
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2079 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
2080 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
2081 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
2082
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2083 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
2084 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
2085 small, instead of NULL.
2086
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2087The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2088
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2089 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
2090 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
2091 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
2092 locale
2093 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
2094 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
2095 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
2096 cases
2097 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
2098 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
2099 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
2100 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
2101 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
2102 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
2103 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
2104 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
2105 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
2106 "Bangla"
2107 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
2108 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
2109 width Latin characters
2110 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
2111 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
2112 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
2113 letters
2114 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
2115 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
2116 (CVE-2009-5064)
2117 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
2118 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
2119 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
2120 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
2121 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
2122 if malloc succeeded
2123 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
2124 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
2125 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
2126 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
2127 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
2128 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
2129 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
2130 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
2131 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
2132 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
2133 U+309A
2134 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
2135 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
2136 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
2137 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
2138 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
2139 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
2140 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
2141 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
2142 for Nicaragua
2143 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
2144 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
2145 are not found.
2146 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
2147 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
2148 access
2149 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
2150 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
2151 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
2152 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
2153 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
2154 __regcall calling convention
2155 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
2156 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
2157 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
2158 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
2159 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
2160 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
2161 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
2162 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
2163 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
2164 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
2165 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
2166 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
2167 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
2168 locale
2169 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
2170 protector=all
2171 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
2172 wcwidth
2173 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
2174 consistency check failures
2175 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
2176 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
2177 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
2178 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
2179 PIE
2180 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
2181 locales
2182 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
2183 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
2184 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
2185 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
2186 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
2187 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
2188 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
2189 on memory allocation failure
2190 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
2191 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
2192 the suspect)
2193 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
2194 default (i386)
2195 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
2196 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
2197 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
2198 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
2199 instead of EAI_NODATA
2200 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
2201 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
2202 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
2203 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
2204 implementation
2205 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
2206 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
2207 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
2208 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
2209 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
2210 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
2211 allocation in syscall loops)
2212 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
2213 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
2214 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
2215 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
2216 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
2217 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
2218 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
2219 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
2220 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
2221 occur with -O3
2222 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
2223 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
2224 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
2225 amounts)
2226 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
2227 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
2228 niu_NZ
2229 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
2230 checks
2231 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
2232 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
2233 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
2234 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
2235 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
2236 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
2237 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
2238 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
2239 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
2240 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
2241 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
2242 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
2243 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
2244 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
2245 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
2246 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
2247 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
2248 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
2249 parsing after OOM
2250 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
2251 object
2252 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
2253 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
2254 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
2255 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
2256 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
2257 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
fdb724f9 2258 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf outputs a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
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2259 ppc64le
2260 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
2261 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
2262 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
2263 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
2264 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
2265 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
2266 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
2267 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
2268 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
2269 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
2270 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
2271 math_force_eval
2272 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
2273 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
2274 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
2275 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
2276 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
2277 the svid compat wrapper
2278 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
2279 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
2280 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
2281 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
2282 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
2283 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
2284 --verbose.
2285 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
2286 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
2287 to 2.26
2288 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
2289 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
2290 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
2291 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
2292 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
2293 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
2294 (CVE-2017-15804)
2295 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
2296 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
2297 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
2298 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
2299 failure."
2300 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
2301 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
2302 -m32
2303 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
2304 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
2305 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
2306 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
2307 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
2308 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
2309 inside the ASCII printable range
2310 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
2311 -mlong-double-64
2312 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
2313 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
2314 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
2315 Internet
2316 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
2317 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
2318 backslash
2319 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
2320 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
2321 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
2322 heaps in an arena
2323 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
2324 networking interface
2325 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
2326 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
2327 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
2328 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
2329 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
2330 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
2331 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
2332 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
2333 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
2334 order
2335 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2336 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2337 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2338 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2339 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2340 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
2341 same as for Croatian
2342 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
2343 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
2344 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
2345 for initial thread"
2346 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
2347 SC_SSIZE_MAX
2348 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
2349 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
2350 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2351 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
2352 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
2353 (CVE-2017-1000408)
2354 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
2355 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
2356 modified in case of success
2357 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
2358 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
2359 success
2360 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
2361 stack-protector=all
2362 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
2363 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
2364 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
2365 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
2366 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
2367 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
2368 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
2369 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
2370 adding it on top
2371 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
2372 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
2373 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
2374 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
2375 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
2376 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
2377 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
2378 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
2379 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
2380 (CVE-2018-1000001)
2381 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
2382 elision and tunables
2383 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
2384 "invalid" exception
2385 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
2386 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
2387 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
2388 exception
2389 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2390 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
2391 power4
2392 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
2393 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
2394 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
2395 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
2396 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
2397 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
2398 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
2399 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
2400 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
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2403Version 2.26
2404
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2405Major new features:
2406
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2407* A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
2408 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
2409 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
2410 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
2411 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
2412 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
2413 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
2414
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2415* Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2416 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
0b38d66a 2417 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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2418 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
2419 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
2420 are rendered with pango, see for example:
2421 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
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2423* Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
2424 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
2425 Egmont Koblinger.
e4e79484 2426
2b2ccd0c 2427* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
025b33ae 2428
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2429 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
2430 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
2431 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
daeb1fa2 2432
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2433 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
2434 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
2435 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
2436 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
2437 object are still limited to six search domains.
139ace95 2438
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2439 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
2440 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
2441 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
cd354a38 2442
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2443* The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
2444 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
d8cee557 2445
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2446* New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
2447 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
2448 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
2449 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
f0be25b6 2450
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2451* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
2452 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
2453 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
2454 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
8082d91e 2455
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2456* posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
2457 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
2458 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
2459 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
2e0bbbfb 2460
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2461* errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
2462 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
2463 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
12d2dd70 2464
2b2ccd0c 2465* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
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2466 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
2467 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
2468 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
2c0b90ab 2469
2b2ccd0c 2470 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
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2471 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
2472 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
2473 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
2474 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
2475
2476 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
2477 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
2478 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
2479 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
2480 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
2481 interfaces should be used instead.
f819dbea 2482
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2483Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2484
2485* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
2486 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
2487 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
2488 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
2489 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
2490 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
2491 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
2492 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
2493
2494* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
2495 removed.
2496
2497* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
7e368000 2498 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
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2499 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
2500 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
2501
2502* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
2503 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
2504 default.
2505
2506 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
2507 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
2508 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
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2509 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
2510 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
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2511
2512 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
2513 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
2514 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
2515 name service modules, to be built and installed.
2516
2517* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
2518 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
2519 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
2520 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
2521
2522* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
2523 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
5b757a51 2524
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2525* The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
2526 exported by accident.
2527
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2528* <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
2529 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
2530 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
2531
2532* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
2533 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
2534 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
2535 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
2536
2537* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
2538
2539* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
2540
2541* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
2542 free instead.
2543
2544* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
2545 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2546
2547* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
2548 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2549
2550* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
2551 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
2552 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
2553 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
2554 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
2555 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
2556 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
2557 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
2558
2559* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
2560 synced with the kernel:
2561
2562 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
2563 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
2564
2565 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
2566 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
2567 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
2568
2569 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
2570 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
2571
2572Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2573
2574* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
2575 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
2576 x86-32 and x86-64.)
2577
7e368000 2578* GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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2580* On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
2581 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
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2582
2583 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
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2584 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
2585 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
2586 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2b2ccd0c 2587 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
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2589Security related changes:
2590
e14a2772 2591* The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
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2592 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
2593
2594* LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
2595 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
2596
2597* Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
2598 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
2599 (CVE-2010-3192).
2600
2601* A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
2602 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
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2604The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2605
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2606 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
2607 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
2608 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
2609 fields
2610 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
2611 (CVE-2010-3192)
2612 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
2613 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
2614 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
2615 ld.bfd is available
2616 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
2617 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
2618 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
2619 x86 and other generic code
2620 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
2621 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
2622 incorrect
2623 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
2624 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
2625 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
2626 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
2627 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
2628 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
2629 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
2630 resolver
2631 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
2632 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
2633 order of 0D36 and 0D37
2634 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
2635 chillu characters
2636 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
2637 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
2638 receiving data
2639 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
2640 whitespace
2641 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
2642 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
2643 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
2644 for Peru
2645 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
2646 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
2647 failures consistently
2648 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
2649 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
2650 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
2651 frame-pointer on i386
2652 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
2653 register
2654 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
2655 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
2656 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
2657 generic c code is used
2658 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
2659 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
2660 around 4000
2661 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
2662 (CVE-2017-12133)
2663 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
2664 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
2665 with -lieee
2666 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
2667 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
2668 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
2669 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
2670 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
2671 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
2672 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
2673 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
2674 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
2675 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
2676 remove()
2677 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
2678 checked for errors.
2679 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
2680 new posix_spawn implementation
2681 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
2682 leads to lower CPU frequency
2683 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
2684 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
2685 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
2686 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
2687 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
2688 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
2689 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
2690 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
2691 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
2692 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
2693 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
2694 not support gethostbyname4_r
2695 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
2696 switching
2697 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
2698 arenas
2699 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
2700 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
2701 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
2702 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
2703 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
2704 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
2705 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
2706 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
2707 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
2708 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
2709 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
2710 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
2711 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
2712 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
2713 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
2714 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
2715 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
2716 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
2717 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
2718 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
2719 retry value
2720 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
2721 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
2722 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
2723 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
2724 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
2725 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
2726 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
2727 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
2728 [21537] libc:
2729 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
2730 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
2731 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
2732 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
2733 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
2734 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
2735 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
2736 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
2737 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
2738 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
2739 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
2740 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
2741 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
2742 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
2743 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
2744 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
2745 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
2746 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
2747 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
2748 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
2749 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
2750 issue on x86-64
2751 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
2752 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
2753 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
2754 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
2755 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
2756 construction
2757 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
2758 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
2759 between_2_3
2760 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
2761 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
2762 conditions
2763 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
2764 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
2765 Hindi Locale
2766 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
2767 posix/sched_cpucount.c
2768 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
2769 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
2770 locale
2771 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
2772 leading to relocation crash
2773 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
2774 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
2775 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
2776 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
2777 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
2778 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
2779 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
2780 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
2781 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
2782 locale
2783 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
2784 locale
2785 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
2786 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
2787 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
2788 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
2789 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
2790 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
2791 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
2792 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
2793 strings
2794 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
2795 protector=all
2796 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
2797 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
2798 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
2799 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
2800 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
2801 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
2802 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
2803 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
2804 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
2805 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
2806 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
2807 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
2808 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
2809 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
2810 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
2811 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
2812 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
2813 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
2814 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
2815 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
2816 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
2817 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
2818 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
2819 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
2820 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
2821 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
2822 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
2823 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
2824 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
2825 with unicode 9.0
2826 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
2827 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
2828 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
2829 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
2830 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
58557c22 2831
d5b396c1 2832\f
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2833Version 2.25
2834
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2835* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
2836 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
2837 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
2838 Library.
e720d3d9 2839
bf91be88
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2840* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
2841 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
a5ac5676 2842 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
bf91be88
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2843 the GNU C Library.
2844
412cb261
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2845* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
2846 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
2847 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
2848 the GNU C Library.
2849
c0307377
ZW
2850* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
2851 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
2852 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
2853 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
2854 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
2855 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
2856 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
2857 will not.
2858
2859 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
2860 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
2861 many years.
2862
dbab6577
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2863* The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
2864 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
2865 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
2866
2867 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
2868 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
2869 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
2870 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
2871 problem.
2872
ec94343f 2873* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
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2874 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
2875 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
5146356f 2876
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2877* Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
2878 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
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2879 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
2880 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
2881 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
2882 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
2883 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
2884 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
2885 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
2886 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
2887 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
2888 WINT_WIDTH.
a292f45a 2889
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2890* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
2891
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2892 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
2893
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2894 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
2895 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
2896 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
41c67149 2897
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2898 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
2899 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
2900
525f8039
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2901 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
2902 fminmagf, fminmagl.
2903
1e7c8fcc
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2904 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
2905
29cb9293 2906 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
d942e95c 2907
cc6a8d74
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2908 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
2909 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
5e9d98a3 2910
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2911 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
2912
eb3c12c7 2913 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
457663a7 2914 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
f8e8b8ed 2915
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2916* The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
2917 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
2918
cecbc796
NA
2919* Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
2920 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
2921 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
2922
ea1bd74d
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2923* The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
2924 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
2925 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
2926 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
2927 effects of the memory clear).
2928
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2929* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
2930 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
2931 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
2932 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
2933
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2934* On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
2935 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
2936 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
2937 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
2938 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
2939 if they are compiled or used with those options.
6962682f 2940
92dcaa3e
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2941* The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
2942 have been added.
2943
705a79f8
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2944* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
2945 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
2946 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
2947 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
2948 as large as several megabytes.
2949
4d728087
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2950* The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
2951 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
2952 been removed.
2953
e863cce5
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2954* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
2955 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
2956 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
2957 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
2958 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
2959 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
2960 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
2961
7ec47a85
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2962* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
2963 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
2964 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
2965 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
2966
099191b1 2967* The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
5140d036
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2968 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
2969 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
2970 Internet.
2971
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2972* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
2973 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
2974 They were already unimplemented.
bfbd1de1 2975
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2976* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
2977 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
2978 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
2979 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
2980
3a2a1d2c
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2981* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
2982 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
2983 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
2984 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
2985 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
2986
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2987* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
2988 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
2989 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
2990 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
2991 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
2992
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2993* The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
2994 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
2995 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
2996 did not reflect that.
2997
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2998* For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
2999 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
3000 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
3001 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
3002 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
3003 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
3004 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
3005 'gcc/config.gcc'.
3006
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3007* GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
3008 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
3009 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
3010 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
3011
7715d3ab
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3012* Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
3013 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
3014 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
3015 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
3016
0cea3587
SP
3017* A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
3018 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
3019 guarantees.
3020
3021* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
3022 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
3023 make state changes.
3024
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3025Security related changes:
3026
fc82b0a2 3027* On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
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3028 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
3029 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
3030 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
056dd72a 3031 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
e720d3d9 3032
fc82b0a2
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3033* The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
3034 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
3035 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
3036 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
3037 (CVE-2015-5180)
3038
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3039The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3040
fdb724f9 3041 [4099] stdio: Overly aggressive caching by stream i/o functions.
4e054e6b
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3042 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
3043 protector-all
3044 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
3045 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
3046 before it started waiting
3047 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
3048 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
3049 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
3050 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
3051 wrong type
3052 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
3053 library linked with pthread
3054 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
3055 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
3056 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
3057 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
3058 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
3059 after being __libc_memalign()'d
3060 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
3061 when it shouldnt
3062 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
3063 not
3064 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
3065 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
3066 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
3067 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
3068 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
3069 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
3070 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
3071 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
3072 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
3073 termination
3074 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
3075 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
3076 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
3077 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
3078 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
3079 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
3080 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
3081 causes a segmentation fault
3082 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
3083 linking
3084 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
3085 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
3086 uninitialized GOT
3087 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
3088 versions
3089 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
3090 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
3091 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
3092 is always true.
3093 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
3094 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
3095 modes
3096 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
3097 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
3098 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
3099 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
3100 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
3101 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
3102 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
3103 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
3104 libpthread.a
3105 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
3106 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
3107 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
3108 _res_hconf
3109 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
3110 information.
3111 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
3112 penalty
3113 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
3114 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
3115 cause transition penalty
3116 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
3117 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
3118 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
3119 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
3120 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
3121 mcount.oS)
3122 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
3123 Checking
3124 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
3125 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
3126 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
3127 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
3128 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
3129 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
3130 multi-arch
3131 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
3132 (RES_USEBSTRING)
3133 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
3134 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
3135 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
3136 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
3137 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
3138 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
3139 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
3140 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
3141 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
3142 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
3143 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
3144 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
3145 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
3146 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
3147 glibc
3148 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
3149 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
3150 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
3151 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
3152 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
3153 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
3154 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
3155 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
3156 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
3157 U+20AC), not same as GBK
3158 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
3159 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
3160 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
3161 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
3162 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
3163 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
3164 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
3165 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
3166 RES_USE_INET6
3167 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3168 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
3169 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
3170 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
3171 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
3172 wrong condition
3173 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3174 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
3175 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
3176 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
3177 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
3178 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
3179 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
3180 clang
3181 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
3182 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
3183 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
3184 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
3185 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
e720d3d9 3186\f
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3187Version 2.24
3188
5b4ecd3f
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3189* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
3190 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
3191 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
3192 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
3193 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
3194 architectures.
3195
b6ebba70
MF
3196* The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
3197 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
3198 been included in previous releases.
11fca961 3199
7584a3f9
FW
3200* The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
3201 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
3202
b49ab5f4
FW
3203* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
3204 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
3205 instead of “union wait”.
3206
ced8f893
SG
3207* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
3208 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
3209 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
3210 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
3211 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
3212 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
3213 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
3214
2ba3cfa1
FW
3215* The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
3216 API.
3217
b7a9b7b0
MF
3218* The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
3219 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
3220 drop it.
6a54bcda 3221
41a359e2
RS
3222* nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
3223 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
3224 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
3225 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
3226 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
3227 extensions.
3228
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3229Security related changes:
3230
f5b3338d
FW
3231* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
3232 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
3233 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
3234
4ab2ab03
FW
3235* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
3236 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
3237 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
3238 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
11fca961 3239
5171f307
FW
3240* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
3241 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
3242 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
3243
bc779a1a
FW
3244* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
3245 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
3246 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
3247
fab38231
FW
3248* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
3249 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
3250 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
3251 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
3252
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AZ
3253The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3254
3c4f81ec
CD
3255 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
3256 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
3257 of MS-DOS.
3258 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
3259 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
3260 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
3261 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
3262 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
3263 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
3264 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
3265 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
3266 CLDR data
3267 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
3268 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
3269 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
3270 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
3271 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
3272 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
3273 romanisation
3274 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
3275 and +/-
3276 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
3277 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
3278 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
3279 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
3280 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
3281 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
3282 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
3283 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
3284 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
3285 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
3286 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
3287 all locales
3288 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
3289 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
3290 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
3291 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
3292 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
3293 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
3294 execute
3295 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
3296 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
3297 -Wsystem-headers
3298 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
3299 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
3300 Romanian locale data
3301 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
3302 symbol
3303 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
3304 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
3305 language
3306 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
3307 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
3308 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
3309 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
3310 machine
3311 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
3312 description
3313 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
3314 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
3315 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
3316 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
3317 when using RTLD_NEXT
3318 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
3319 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
3320 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
3321 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
3322 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
3323 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
3324 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
3325 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
3326 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
3327 Excavator core
3328 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3329 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3330 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3331 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
3332 double range
3333 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
3334 part zero incorrect
3335 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
3336 equality tests
3337 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
3338 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
3339 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
3340 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
3341 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
3342 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
3343 glibc-2.22
3344 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
3345 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
3346 'tst-numeric.c'
3347 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
3348 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
3349 low part
3350 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
3351 result
3352 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
3353 unaligned stack
3354 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
3355 pointers and lengths in error-case.
3356 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
3357 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
3358 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
3359 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
3360 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
3361 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
3362 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
3363 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
3364 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
3365 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
3366 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
3367 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
3368 modes
3369 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
3370 server addresses
3371 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
3372 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
3373 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
3374 response to getaddrinfo
3375 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
3376 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
3377 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
3378 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
3379 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
3380 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
3381 sometimes incorrect
3382 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
3383 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
3384 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
3385 record types
3386 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
3387 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
3388 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
3389 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
3390 (CVE-2016-3075)
3391 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
3392 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
3393 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
3394 resolving symbols
3395 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
3396 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
3397 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
3398 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
3399 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
3400 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
3401 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
3402 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
3403 gethosts
3404 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
3405 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
3406 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
3407 (CVE-2016-3706)
3408 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
3409 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
3410 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
3411 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
3412 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
3413 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
3414 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
3415 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
3416 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
3417 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
3418 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
3419 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
3420 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
3421 executable
3422 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
3423 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
3424 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
3425 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
3426 XPG3
3427 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
3428 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
3429 (CVE-2016-4429)
3430 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
3431 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
3432 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
3433 AS not supporting AVX512
3434 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
3435 sNaN argument
3436 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3437 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
3438 argument
3439 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
3440 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
3441 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
3442 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
3443 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
3444 eax=0x80000001
3445 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
3446 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
3447 subnormals
3448 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
3449 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
3450 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
3451 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3452 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3453 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
3454 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3455 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
3456 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
3457 input
3458 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3459 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3460 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3461 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3462 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3463 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3464 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3465 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
3466 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
3467 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
3468 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
3469 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
3470 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
3471 double rounding
3472 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
3473 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
3474 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
3475 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
3476 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
3477 (Only arm/linux)
3478 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
3479 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
3480 fallbacks
3481 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
3482 "invalid" exceptions
3483 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
3484 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
3485 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
3486 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
3487 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
3488 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
3489 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
3490 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
3491 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
11fca961 3492\f
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3493Version 2.23
3494
23256f5e
MF
3495* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
3496 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
3497 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
3498 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
3499 89, 16061, and 18568.
3500
2359035a
FW
3501* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
3502 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
3503 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
3504 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
3505 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
3506 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
3507 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
3508
8b7b7f75
MW
3509* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
3510 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
3511 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
3512
2eecc8af
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3513* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
3514 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
3515 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
3516 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
3517 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
3518 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
3519 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
3520
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FW
3521* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
3522 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
3523 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
3524 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
3525 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 3526 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
a62719ba
FW
3527 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
3528 Ericsson.)
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MF
3530* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
3531 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
3532 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
3533 independent of the GNU C Library.
3534
1c70b6f1
ZW
3535* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
3536 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
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3538* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
3539 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
3540 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
3541 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
3542 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
3543 Linux kernel.
3544
1efad39b
SL
3545* Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
3546 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
b08b4218 3547
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3548* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
3549 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
3550 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
3551 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
3552 defining their own copy.
3553
b08b4218
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3554* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
3555 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
3556 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
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3558Security related changes:
3559
6400ae6e
FW
3560* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
3561 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
3562
3563* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
3564 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
3565 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
3566 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
3567 (CVE-2015-8777)
3568
3569* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
3570 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
3571
3572* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
3573 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
3574
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JM
3575* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
3576 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 3577 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
8f5e8b01 3578
e9db92d3
CD
3579* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
3580 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
3581 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
3582 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
3583 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
3584 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
3585 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
3586 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
3587 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
3588 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
3589 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
3590 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
3591 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
3592
ad372e29 3593The following bugs are resolved with this release:
f268ab5f 3594
ad372e29
AZ
3595 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
3596 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
3597 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
3598 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
3599 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
3600 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
3601 use `mkstemp'
3602 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
3603 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
3604 overflow/underflow errors
3605 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
3606 overflow/underflow
3607 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
3608 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
3609 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
3610 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
3611 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
3612 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
3613 are not contiguous
3614 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
3615 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
3616 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
3617 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
3618 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
3619 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
3620 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
3621 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
3622 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
3623 all exceptions
3624 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
3625 arguments
3626 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
3627 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
3628 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
3629 should include
3630 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
3631 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
3632 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
3633 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
3634 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
3635 GNU/Linux
3636 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
3637 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
3638 arguments
3639 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
3640 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
3641 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
3642 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
3643 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
3644 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
3645 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
3646 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
3647 rounding results
3648 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
3649 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
3650 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
3651 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
3652 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
3653 fails
3654 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
3655 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
3656 block boundary
3657 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
3658 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
3659 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
3660 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
3661 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
3662 4.7?
3663 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
3664 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
3665 (related to lock elision)
3666 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
3667 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
3668 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
3669 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
3670 (CVE-2015-8779)
3671 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
3672 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
3673 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
3674 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
3675 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
3676 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
3677 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
3678 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
3679 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
3680 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
3681 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
3682 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
3683 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
3684 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
3685 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
3686 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
3687 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
3688 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
3689 contains a vector instruction exception.
3690 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
3691 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
3692 locales
3693 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
3694 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
3695 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
3696 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
3697 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
3698 missing break ?
3699 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
3700 32bit processes
3701 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
3702 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
3703 infinity
3704 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
3705 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
3706 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
3707 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
3708 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
3709 be forced unloaded
3710 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
3711 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
3712 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
3713 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
3714 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
3715 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
3716 statically too large
3717 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
3718 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
3719 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
3720 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
3721 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
3722 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
3723 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
3724 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
3725 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
3726 FUTEX_SHARED
3727 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
3728 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
3729 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
3730 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
3731 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
3732 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
3733 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
3734 opendir()
3735 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
3736 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
3737 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
3738 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
3739 signgam
3740 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
3741 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
3742 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
3743 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
3744 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
3745 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
3746 dependencies
3747 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
3748 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
3749 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
3750 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
3751 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
3752 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
3753 (CVE-2015-8776)
3754 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
3755 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
3756 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
3757 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
3758 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
3759 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3760 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
3761 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
3762 contention
3763 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
3764 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
3765 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
3766 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3767 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
3768 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
3769 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
3770 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
3771 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
3772 rounding modes
3773 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
3774 ILP32
3775 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
3776 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
3777 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
3778 threshold
3779 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
3780 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
3781 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
3782 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
3783 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
3784 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
3785 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
3786 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
3787 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
3788 pthread_setaffinity_np
3789 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
3790 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
3791 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
3792 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
3793 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
3794 prelink
3795 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
3796 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
3797 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
3798 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
3799 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3800 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
3801 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
3802 bits/mathcalls.h
3803 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
3804 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
3805 for C99-based standards
3806 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
3807 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
3808 math-only
3809 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
3810 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
3811 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
3812 disabled
3813 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
3814 "inexact" exceptions
3815 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
3816 arguments
3817 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
3818 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
3819 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
3820 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
3821 rules
3822 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
3823 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
3824 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
3825 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
3826 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
3827 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
3828 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
3829 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
3830 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
3831 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
3832 from 32bit
3833 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
3834 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
3835 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
3836 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
3837 subnormals
3838 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
3839 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
3840 error on 32-bit architectures
3841 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
3842 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
3843 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
3844 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
3845 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
3846 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
3847 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
3848 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
3849 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
3850 -Os
3851 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
3852 CPU's.
3853 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
3854 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
3855 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
3856 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
3857 architectures
3858 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
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1c7a4a51
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3860Version 2.22
3861
3862* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3863
3df5cd98 3864 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
0e569d30
MF
3865 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
3866 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
3867 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
3868 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
3869 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
3870 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
3871 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
3872 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
3873 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
3874 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
3875 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
3876 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
3877 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
3878 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
3879 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
3880 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
3881 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
6fdd5d65
FW
3882 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
3883 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
2959eda9 3884
f7fba805
SL
3885* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
3886 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
3887
2959eda9
AS
3888* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
3889 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
3890 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
3891 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
3892 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
3893 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4a4839c9 3894
42261ad7
FW
3895* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
3896 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
3897 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
3898 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
3899 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
3900
afcd9480
AM
3901* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
3902 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
3903 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
3904
4a4839c9
AO
3905* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
3906 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
3907 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
3908 17998.
3909
b13b96ca
AS
3910* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
3911 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
3912 condition in some applications.
21933112
AS
3913
3914* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
a6336cc4
AS
3915 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
3916 pow, powf.
21933112
AS
3917 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
3918 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
037e4b99
AS
3919 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
3920 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 3921 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
fdb7d390
AZ
3922
3923* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
3924 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
3925 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
3926 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
7fde904c
MF
3927
3928* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
3929 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
3930 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
7493ab25
RM
3931
3932* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
3933 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
2ec11c2b
ZW
3934
3935* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
3936 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
3937 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
3938
a03ba363 3939 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
2ec11c2b
ZW
3940 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
3941 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
1c7a4a51 3942\f
58b930ae
SP
3943Version 2.21
3944
3945* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3946
042e1521 3947 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
5bd80bfe
PP
3948 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
3949 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
3950 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
3951 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
3952 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
3953 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
3954 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
3955 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
3956 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
3957 17892.
3958
46d54873
FW
3959* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
3960 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
3961 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
3962 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
3963 intended.
042e1521
CD
3964
3965* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
3966 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
3967 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
3968 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
3969 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
3970 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
a39208bd 3971
522e6ee3
CLT
3972* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
3973
d3b00f46
AZ
3974* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
3975 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 3976 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
96d6fd6c 3977
8d2c0a59
AZ
3978* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
3979 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
3980 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
3981 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
3982 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
3983 effects being visible outside transactions.
3984
dc400d7b
RE
3985* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
3986 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
ec582ca0 3987
0f9dfe04
L
3988* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
3989
a39208bd
CD
3990* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
3991 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
ebda2f17 3992 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
a39208bd
CD
3993 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
3994 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
fb89b46d 3995
a5357b7c
JL
3996* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
3997 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
3998
e54db0ea
AM
3999* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
4000 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
4001 format.
11e3417a 4002
4863355a
JM
4003* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
4004 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
4005 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
4006
a4ecc9eb
JM
4007* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
4008 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
4009
0d560bbf 4010* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
0781a777
RM
4011
4012* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
4013 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
4014 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
4015 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
6d248857
WN
4016
4017* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
4018 with newer versions of bison.
28c38448
MF
4019
4020* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
4021 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
4022 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
4023 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
4024 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
4025 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
4026 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
4027 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
4028 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
4029 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
4030 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
4031 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
4032 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
4033
4034 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
4035 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
4036 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
4037 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
4038 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
58b930ae 4039\f
d5b396c1
AM
4040Version 2.20
4041
4042* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4043
6a9350c8
JM
4044 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
4045 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
4046 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
4047 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
4048 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
4049 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
4050 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
4051 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
4052 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
4053 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
4054 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
4055 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
4056 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
4057 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
4058 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
0961f7e1 4059
95ee7fb1
SL
4060* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
4061 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
4062 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
4063 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
4064 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 4065 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
95ee7fb1
SL
4066 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
4067 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
4068 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
4069 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
4070
0961f7e1
JL
4071* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
4072 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
4073 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
4074 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
4075 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
f3d338c9 4076
f940b965
RE
4077* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
4078
d0f5b3f8
JM
4079* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
4080 can be used with is 2.6.32.
4081
d6fe5e58
JM
4082* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
4083 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
4084 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
4085 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
4086 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
4087 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
4088
464263cc
JM
4089* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
4090 from ports.
c941736c
JM
4091
4092* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
4093 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
4094 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
4095 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
4096 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
4097 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
4098 test macros defined.
f63c86fe
WN
4099
4100* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5a414ff7
DV
4101
4102* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
4103 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
4104 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
4105 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
4106 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
4107 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
4108 is not built.
d03efb2f
AM
4109
4110* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
4111 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
4112 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
4113 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
4114 invocation.
cfd2ea50
JM
4115
4116* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
4117 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
4118 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
f083450f
RM
4119
4120* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
4121 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
4122 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
4123 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
4e8f95a0
FW
4124
4125* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
4126 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
4127 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
4128 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
4129 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
4130 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
4131 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
4132 additional checks.
9a8a5720
RM
4133
4134* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
4135 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
4136 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
4137 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
4138 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
4139 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
4140 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
4141 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
4142 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
a1a6a401
FW
4143
4144* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
4145 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
4146 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
4147 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
4148 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 4149 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
41488498
FW
4150
4151* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
4152 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
4153 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
4154 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
6c1fd795
DM
4155\f
4156Version 2.19
4157
4158* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4159
fd2f9486
JM
4160 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
4161 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
4162 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
4163 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
4164 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
4165 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
4166 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
4167 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
4168 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
4169 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
ed27ed83
JM
4170 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
4171 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
4172 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
4173 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
4174 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
798212a0
PP
4175 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
4176 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
4177 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
141f3a77 4178
11520a57
CD
4179* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
4180 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
4181
2fe16229
CD
4182* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
4183 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
4184 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
08d76093
CD
4185 extension which uses __block.
4186
303e567a
SP
4187* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
4188 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
4189 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
4190 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
4191 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
4192
141f3a77
SP
4193* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
4194 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
4195 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
4196 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
4197 if malloc fails.
c61b4d41
CD
4198
4199* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
4200 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
4201 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
4202 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
4203 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
91ce4085
FW
4204
4205* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
4206 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
4207 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
4208
ba0d798c
WN
4209* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
4210 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
4211 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
4212 #15856, #15857).
4213
7cbcdb36
SP
4214* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
4215 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
4216
82bab04b 4217* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 4218 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
ddd9fb8f 4219
c5f840fd
MB
4220* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
4221
3e181dda
CD
4222* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
4223 supported locales.
ddd9fb8f 4224
3e181dda 4225* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
7447ccd9 4226
8a05c252
CL
4227* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
4228
6055173a
JM
4229* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
4230 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
4231 for which the C library was built.
4232
b125d3e5
JM
4233* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
4234 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
4235 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
4236 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
4237 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
4238 in the following circumstances:
4239
4240 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
4241
4242 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
4243 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
4244
d4f66d37
JM
4245* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
4246 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
4247
3e181dda
CD
4248* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
4249 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
e35696c3 4250
ffb89e53
AO
4251* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
4252
5d29ccce
SP
4253* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
4254 transcendental functions have been introduced.
4255
8b7d57cd 4256* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
b125d3e5
JM
4257
4258* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 4259
fd712ef3 4260* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 4261
c688b419
JM
4262* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
4263 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
4264 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
4265 disable some of those declarations.
4266
7011c262 4267* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
029c7b25
JM
4268 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
4269 that did nothing) has also been removed.
0a57b83e
AO
4270
4271* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
4272 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
ee4ec1d7
AK
4273
4274* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
4275 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
4276 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
4277 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
4278 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
4279 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
4280 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
4281 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
4282 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
4283 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
4284 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
4285 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
4286 require recompilation.
2c8bfe7d
DM
4287\f
4288Version 2.18
4289
4290* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4291
17db6e8d 4292 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
0432680e
PY
4293 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
4294 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
8c17cb1f
JM
4295 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
4296 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
4297 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
4298 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
4299 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
4300 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
4301 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
4302 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
4303 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
4304 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
4305 15755, 15759.
e4608715
CD
4306
4307* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
4308 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
4309 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
4310 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
4311 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
4312 understands and accepts the risks.
1cef1b19 4313
5b535ac4
AS
4314* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
4315 #15078).
4316
1cef1b19
AS
4317* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
4318 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
7fffbdff 4319
55e4107b
SP
4320* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
4321 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
4322 destructor calls to glibc.
4323
e5c74c63
SP
4324* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
4325 output.
4326
4327* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
4328 non-x86 architectures.
4329
e7521973
JM
4330* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
4331
4332* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
4333
4334* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
4335 Richard Henderson.
4336
4337* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
4338
4339* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
4340 Richard Henderson.
4341
4342* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
4343 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
4344
8cfdb7e0
SP
4345* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
4346
57267616
TS
4347* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
4348 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
58206c68 4349
c204ab28
SP
4350* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
4351 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
61dd6208 4352
0748546f
PE
4353* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
4354 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
4355 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
4356
61dd6208
SP
4357* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
4358 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
4359 attributes of a process.
a7cb9d67
AK
4360
4361* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
4362 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
4363 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
4364 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
4365 mutexes.
be063fa4
RA
4366
4367* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
4368 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
4369
4370* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
370ca3d2
JM
4371\f
4372Version 2.17
4373
4374* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4375
80ceeaee 4376 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
b4180a5e
AJ
4377 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
4378 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
4379 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
4380 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
4381 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
4382 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
4383 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
4384 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
4385 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
4386 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
4387 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
4388 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
4389 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
4390 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
14bc93a9 4391
95b4f1b6
SE
4392* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
4393
14bc93a9
JL
4394* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
4395 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
7a845b2c 4396
b54eb3cb
JM
4397* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
4398 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
4399
7e2bd01f
MS
4400* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
4401
08f43f9b
AK
4402* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
4403 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
4404 zEnterprise z196.
4405 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
4406
84b3fd84
FW
4407* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
4408 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
4409 the internal function __secure_getenv.
4410
815e6fa3
GB
4411* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
4412 Implemented by Gary Benson.
4413
400726de
MK
4414* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
4415 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
4416
7aab07e4 4417* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 4418 can be used with is 2.6.16.
7aab07e4 4419
15d0da8c
WS
4420* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
4421 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
4422
3cc3ef96
RM
4423* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
4424 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
c53d909c
RM
4425 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
4426 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3cc3ef96 4427
b54eb3cb
JM
4428* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
4429 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
4430
85429b1a 4431* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 4432 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
85429b1a
DM
4433 default.
4434
b54eb3cb
JM
4435* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
4436 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
4437 information in --help and --version output.
4438
050af9c4
SP
4439* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
4440 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
4441 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
4442
89a3ad0b
AO
4443* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
4444 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
4445 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
4446 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
4447 when the mode is enabled.
4448
6e6249d0
RM
4449* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
4450 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
4451 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
4452 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
4453 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
4454 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
4455 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5a04f376 4456
d9286582
NK
4457* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
4458 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
8d44e150
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4459\f
4460Version 2.16
4461
4462* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4463
a8133e19
JM
4464 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
4465 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
4466 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
4467 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
4468 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
4469 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
4470 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
4471 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
4472 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
4473 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
4474 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
4475 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
4476 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
4477 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
4478 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
4479 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
4480 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
4481 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
4482 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
4483 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
4484 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
4485 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
4486 14277, 14278.
380d7e87 4487
a086b4d6
L
4488* Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
4489 configuring glibc with:
4490 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
8f7a75d7 4491 Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
a086b4d6
L
4492 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4493
380d7e87
UD
4494* ISO C11 support:
4495
4496 + define static_assert
4497
4498 + do not declare gets
4499
4500 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
4501
4502 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
4503 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
4504 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
4505 implementation.
8d44e150 4506
74033a25 4507 + timespec_get added
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4508
4509 + uchar.h support added
d75a0a62 4510
ac097f5c
UD
4511 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
4512
16dd419d
UD
4513 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4514
9dc4e1fb 4515* Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
33808bf1
UD
4516
4517* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
d9a216c0
UD
4518
4519* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
4520 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
daa891c0
UD
4521
4522* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
4523 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
021db4be
AJ
4524
4525* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
4526 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
4527 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
4528 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
4529 existing applications.
ffb7875d 4530
21708942 4531* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
ffb7875d
JM
4532 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
4533 before 2.6.
83678f76 4534
edb00e4d
RH
4535* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
4536 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
4537 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
4538
83678f76 4539* New locales: mag_IN
7b44a2df
RM
4540
4541* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
4542 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
4543 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
4544 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
4545 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
47e452cf
JM
4546
4547* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4548
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
4549* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
4550 and Will Schmidt.
47e452cf
JM
4551
4552* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
4553
4554* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
4555 without a previously built glibc.
4556
4557* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
4558 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
4559
4560* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
4561 now supported for ARM processors.
4562
4563* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
4564 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
4565 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
4566
4567* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
4568
4569* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
4570 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
4571 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
4572 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
929cc14e
AJ
4573
4574* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
4575 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
4576 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
4577 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
ee9247c3
CD
4578
4579* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
4580 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
4581 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
4582 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
4583 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
4584
4585* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
4586 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
4587 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
4588 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
ee1a7fab 4589\f
e80fab37 4590Version 2.15
11988f8f 4591
c0244a9d
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4592* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4593
aebae053
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4594 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
4595 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
4596 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
4597 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
4598 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
4599 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
4600 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
c0244a9d 4601
11988f8f
UD
4602* New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
4603 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
9f2da732
UD
4604
4605* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
4606 and support for initgroups lookups.
4607 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
0b1cbaae
L
4608
4609* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
4610 Contributed by HJ Lu.
8912479f
L
4611
4612* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
4613 Contributed by HJ Lu.
99710781 4614
fc2ee42a
LD
4615* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
4616 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 4617 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 4618
d42964a0 4619* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
693fb948
LD
4620 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4621
1d3e4b61
UD
4622* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
4623 for x86-64 and x86-32.
093ecf92
LD
4624 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4625
c55fbd1e
UD
4626* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
4627 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a0f33f99
UD
4628
4629* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
4630 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
684ae515
UD
4631
4632* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
4633 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
0ac5ae23
UD
4634
4635* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
4636 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
d9a4d2ab
UD
4637
4638* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
4639 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4640
4641* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
4642 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
78239589
UD
4643
4644* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
e188ebba
UD
4645
4646* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
4647 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a1267ba1 4648
f0b264f1
AZ
4649* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
4650 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
2655fd5c 4651
6b64057b 4652* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
e80fab37 4653\f
dded88cd 4654Version 2.14
9f94d2ea 4655
50934221
UD
4656* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4657
553149f6 4658 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 4659 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 4660 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 4661 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
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UD
4662 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
4663 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
4664 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
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4665 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
4666 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 4667 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
50934221 4668
7b57bfe5
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4669* The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
4670 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
4671 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 4672 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
018b9e36
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4673
4674 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
a0446976
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4675 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
4676 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
7b57bfe5
UD
4677 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4678
c6489db3 4679* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
f1f929d7 4680 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
83fe108b 4681
72d1dddb 4682* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 4683 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
bc469bea
UD
4684
4685* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
a9171047
UD
4686
4687* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
4688 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7d17596c
UD
4689
4690* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
4691 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
4692 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
4693 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
9f94d2ea 4694\f
4828935d
LM
4695Version 2.13
4696
ac2b484c
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4697* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4698
c30b7ee2
UD
4699 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
4700 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
4701 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
4702 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
4703 12378, 12394, 12397
ac2b484c 4704
10b3bedc 4705* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
c08fb0d7 4706
ac2b484c 4707* POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
8d50becc 4708
e9f82e0d
UD
4709* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
4710 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 4711 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4828935d 4712\f
ee1a7fab
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4713Version 2.12
4714
d36b9613
UD
4715* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4716
2e0fb521
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4717 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
4718 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
4719 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
4720 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
fc97f36d
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4721 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
4722 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
4723 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 4724 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
86a4c67f
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4725
4726* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
d36b9613 4727
ee1a7fab
UD
4728* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
4729
5e4295fb
UD
4730* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
4731
4732* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
4733 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
4734 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4735
71170aa0
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4736* New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
4737 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
4738 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
4739 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
4740 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4741
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4745
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4747
4748 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
4749 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
4750 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
4751 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
4752 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
4753 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
4754
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4756 mkostemps64
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4758
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4760 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4761
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4762* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
4763 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4764
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4765* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
4766
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9d36a6c4 4768 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 4769 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
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4771
9d36a6c4 4772 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
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4774
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4775* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
4776 strstr, strcasestr.
4777 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
4778
4779* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
4780 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
4781
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4782* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
4783 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4784
4785* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
4786 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4787
4788* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
4789 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
4790 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
4791 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
4792 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
4793 necessity is every process again.
4794 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4795
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4797 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
4798
4799* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
4800 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
4801
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4802* Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
4803 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
4804 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4805
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4809
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4811
4812 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
4813 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
4814 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
4815 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
4816 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
4817
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4820
425ce2ed 4821* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
e109c612 4822 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 4823
1fdd89a7 4824* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
735be400 4825 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
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4828 now in POSIX.
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1f04d005 4830* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6cbe890a 4831 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4833* New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
4834 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4835
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4836* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
4837 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4838
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4839* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
4840 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4841
4842* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
4843 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
4844 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4845
735be400 4846* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
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84aa52d7 4848* Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
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4850
4851* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
4852 and extend existing format specifiers.
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4854
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4855* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
4856 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4857
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4859 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
4860 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
4861 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
4862 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
4863 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4866
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4868
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4870 6461, 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712,
4871 6713, 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839,
4872 6843, 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955,
4873 6966, 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
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4877
4878* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
4879 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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4881* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
4882 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4884* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
4885 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
4886 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4887
4888* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
4889 Implemented by Eric Blake.
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4893* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
ebcc1f4d 4894 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4896* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
4897 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
4898 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
4899 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4900
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4901* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
4902 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4904* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
4905 Sinhala)
48b22986 4906 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
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4908* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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4911
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4913
4914 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
4915 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
4916 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
4917 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
4918 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
4919 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
4920 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
4921
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77751669 4924* New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
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4926* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
4927 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
4928
4929* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
4930
4931* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
4932 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4933
4934* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
4935 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4936
4937* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
4938 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
4939 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4940
4941* Faster memset for x86-64.
4942 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
4943
4944* Faster memcpy on x86.
4945 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4946
4947* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
4948 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4950* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
d990b282 4951 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
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4954
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4956
4957 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
4958 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
4959 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
4960 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
4961 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
4962
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4963* More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
4964 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4965
4966* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4967
4968* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
4969 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
4970 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4971
4972* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
4973 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
4974
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4976 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4977
4978* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4979
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4980* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
4981 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4982
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4983* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
4984 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4985
4986* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
4987 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
4988
4989* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4990
4991* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
4992 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4994* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
4995 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
4996 yo_NG.
4997
4998+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
4999 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5004
5005 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
5006 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
5007 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
5008 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
5009 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
5010 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
5011 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
5012 4702, 4858
5013
bce20b9a 5014* New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
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5017
b21fa963 5018* nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5021
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5023
5024 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
5025 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
5026 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
5027 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
5028 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
5029 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
5030 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
5031 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
5032 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
5033
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5035 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
5036 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5038* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
5039 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5040
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5043* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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5045* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
5046 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
5047 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
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5050
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5053 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
5054 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5055
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5057 Ulrich Drepper.
5058
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5059* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
5060
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5061* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
5062 Ulrich Drepper.
5063
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5064* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
5065
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5067 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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5070
5071* More overflow detection functions.
5072
5073* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
5074 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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5076 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
5077 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
5078 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
5079 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
5080 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
5081 by Masahide Washizawa.
5082
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5084 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5086* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
5087 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
5088 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
5089 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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5091* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
5092 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
5093
5094* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
5095
5096* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
5097 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
5098 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
5099
5100* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
5101 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
5102
5103* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
5104 for compatibility with some other systems.
5105
5106* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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5108Version 2.3.6
5109
5110* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5111
5112 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
5113 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
5114 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
5115 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
5116 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
5117 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
5118
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5121* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
5122
5123* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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5126
5127* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5128
5129 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
5130 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
5131 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
5132 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
5133
5a82c748 5134 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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5137
5138* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
5139 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5141* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
5142 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
5143 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5144
5145* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
5146 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
5147
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5149 efficiently.
5150 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5151
5152* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
5153 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
5154 handling data.
5155
5156* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
5157 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
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5160* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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5162
5163* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
5164 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
5165 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
5166 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5167
5168* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
5169 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
5170 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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5171 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5172
5173* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
5174 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
5175 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
5176 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
5177 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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5179Version 2.3.3
5180
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5181* New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
5182 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
5183
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5184* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
5185 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
925c3c5c 5186
69be6aaf 5187* getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
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5188 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
5189
5190* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
5191 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5192
5193* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
5194 by Roland McGrath.
5195
c5af724c 5196* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
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5197 and Ulrich Drepper.
5198
5199* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
5200 RFC 3484.
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5202Version 2.3.2
5203
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5204* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
5205 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
5206 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
5207 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
5208 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
5209 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
5210 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
5211 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
5212 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
5213
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5214* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
5215 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
5216 and are now also available on the Hurd.
5217
5218* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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5219
5220* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
5221 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
52a16e58 5222
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5223* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
5224 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
5225
52a16e58 5226* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
f9ad060c 5227
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5228* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
5229 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
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5230
5231* With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
5232 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
5233 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
5234 of weak definition in ld.so.
5235
5236* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
5237 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
5238
5239* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
5240 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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03a2c647 5242Version 2.3
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5244* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
5245 charsets.
5246
5247* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
5248 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
47e8b443 5249
bb0ec5bd 5250* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 5251 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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5252
5253* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
5254 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
8e57fc70 5255
bb0ec5bd 5256* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
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5257 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
5258 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5259
5260* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
5261 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3b0bdc72 5262
bb0ec5bd 5263* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3b0bdc72 5264 implementation of regex.
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5265
5266* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
5267 Unicode 3.2.
be45f421 5268
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5269* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
5270 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
be45f421 5271
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5272* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
5273 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
5274 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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5275
5276* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
f87277f2 5277 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
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5278
5279* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
5280 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
5281 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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5282
5283* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
5284 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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5285
5286* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
5287 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
5288 and Ulrich Drepper.
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5289
5290* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
5291\f
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5292Version 2.2.6
5293
5294* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
5295 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
5296
5297* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
5298 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
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5300Version 2.2.5
5301
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5302* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
5303 128-bit long double format.
a8ae31c2 5304
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5305* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
5306 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
a8ae31c2 5307
ad2e4f18 5308* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
a8ae31c2 5309
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5310* Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
5311
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5312* libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
5313 as well.
5314
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5315* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
5316 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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5317
5318* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
7d0c5823 5319\f
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5320Version 2.2.4
5321
2995f70e 5322* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 5323 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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5324
5325* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
5326 support Unicode 3.1.
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5327
5328* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
5329 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
045fcd26 5330
69d5f925 5331* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 5332
69d5f925 5333* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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5334 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
5335 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5336
5337* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
5338 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
5339
5340* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
5341 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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5342
5343* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
33996419 5344\f
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5345Version 2.2.3
5346
1746f2b0 5347* Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
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5348 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
5349 in float, double, and long double format.
5350
f128331c 5351* Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
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5352 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
5353 128-bit long double format.
07f951e4 5354
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5355* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
5356 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
5357 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
5358 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
5359
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5360* An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
5361 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
5362 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5363
5364* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
5365 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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5366
5367* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
5368 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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5369
5370* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
5371 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
5372 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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5373
5374* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
5375 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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5376
5377* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
5378 of functions for Linux/x86.
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5379
5380* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
2ace5721 5381\f
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5382Version 2.2.2
5383
464d97ec 5384* Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
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5385 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
5386 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
5387 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
5388 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
5389 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
5390 other headers.
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5391
5392* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
5393 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
5394
5395* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
5396 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
5397 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
5398 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5399
5400* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
5401 locales. While
5402
5403 locale -a
5404
5405 only lists the names of the supported locales
5406
5407 locale -a --verbose
5408
5409 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
5410 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
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5412Version 2.2.1
5413
5414* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
5415 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
5416 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
5417 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
5418 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
5419
5420 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
5421
5422 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
5423
5424 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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5425
5426* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
5427 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
5428 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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5429
5430* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
5431 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
5432
5433* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
5434 changed from the default "C" locale.
5435
5436* The usual bug fixes.
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5438Version 2.2
5439
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5440* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
5441 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
5442 is in progress.
5443
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5444* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
5445
793bd4d9 5446* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
2e92188d 5447
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5448 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
5449 obviously requires a database library being available.
5450
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5451* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5452
abbffdf9 5453* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
01c771d0 5454
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5455* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
5456 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
5457
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5458* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
5459
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5460* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
5461 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
5462 and Mark Kettenis.
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5463
5464 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
5465 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
5466 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 5467
a00c3ca9 5468 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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5469 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
5470
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5471* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
5472 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
5473 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
5474
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5475* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
5476 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
5477 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
5478 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5479
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5480 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
5481 structures for the wide character tables.
5482
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5483* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5484
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5485* The utmp daemon has been removed.
5486
5487* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
5488
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5489* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
5490 and Yutaka Niibe.
5491
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5492* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
5493
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5494* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
5495
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5496* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5497
5498* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
5499
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5500* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
5501
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5502* the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
5503 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
5504 implemented for Linux.
5505
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5506* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
5507 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
5508 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
5509 versions.
5510
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5511* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
5512 Masahide Washizawa.
5513
8f3f1e09 5514* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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5515\f
5516Version 2.1.3
5517
5518* bug fixes
5519
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5520\f
5521Version 2.1.2
5522
5523* bug fixes
5524
28f540f4 5525\f
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5526Version 2.1.1
5527
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5528* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
5529
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5530* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
5531
407d26b7 5532* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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5533
5534* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
5535
407d26b7 5536* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 5537
407d26b7 5538* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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5539
5540* Update timezone data files.
27995311 5541
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5542* lots of charmaps corrections
5543
5544* some new locale definitions and charmaps
5545
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5547Version 2.1
5548
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5549* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
5550 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
5551 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
5552 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
5553 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
5554 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
5555
c84142e8 5556* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 5557 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 5558
1fb05e3d 5559* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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5560 symbol level.
5561
5562* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
5563 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
377a515b 5564
cbdee279 5565* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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5566
5567* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 5568 numbers.
377a515b 5569
cbdee279 5570* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
e61abf83 5571
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5572* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
5573 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
e61abf83 5574
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5575* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
5576 library.
5577
e61abf83 5578* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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5579 functions from ISO C 9X.
5580
5581* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
5582 real valued functions.
e61abf83 5583
a5a0310d 5584* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
e61abf83 5585
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5586* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
5587
5588* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 5589
440d13e2 5590* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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5591
5592* Optimized string functions have been added.
5593
5594* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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5595
5596* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
ea278354 5597
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5598* Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
5599 daemon for NSS (nscd).
5600
5601 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
5602 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
5603
0dee6738 5604 user system wall
48244d09 5605
0dee6738 5606 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 5607
0dee6738 5608 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 5609
0dee6738 5610 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
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5612 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
5613
5614 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
5615
5616 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
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5618 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
5619 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
0dee6738 5620 horribly slow.
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5622 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
5623 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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5625* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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5626
5627* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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5628
5629* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
5630 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
5631
5632* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
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5634* A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
5635 Bambrough.
5636
5637* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
5638 latest draft standards.
5639
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5640* Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
5641
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5642* Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
5643~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
62595351 5644addseverity NEW: Unix98
48244d09 5645alphasort64 NEW: LFS
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5646argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
5647argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
5648argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
5649argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
5650argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
5651argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
5652argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
5653argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
5654argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
5655argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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5656authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
5657authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
5658authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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5659backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
5660backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
5661backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
5662cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
5663cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
5664cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
5665cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
5666cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
5667cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
5668capget NEW: kernel
5669capset NEW: kernel
5670carg NEW: ISO C 9x
5671cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
5672cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
5673casin NEW: ISO C 9x
5674casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
5675casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
5676casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5677casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5678casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
5679catan NEW: ISO C 9x
5680catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
5681catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
5682catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5683catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5684catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
e980ca92 5685cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
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5687ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
5688ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
5689ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
5690ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
5691ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
5692cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
5693cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
5694cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
5695cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
5696cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
5697cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
5698clearerr_locked REMOVED
5699clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
5700clog NEW: ISO C 9x
5701clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
5702clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
5703clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
5704clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
5705clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
5706conj NEW: ISO C 9x
5707conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
5708conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
5709cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
5710cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
5711cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
5712cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
5713cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
5714cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
5715creal NEW: ISO C 9x
5716crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
5717creall NEW: ISO C 9x
5718creat64 NEW: LFS
5719csin NEW: ISO C 9x
5720csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
5721csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
5722csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5723csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5724csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
5725csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
5726csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
5727csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
5728ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
5729ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
5730ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
5731ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5732ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5733ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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5734des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
5735ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 5736endutxent NEW: Unix98
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5738exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
5739exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
5740exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
5741exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
5742exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
5743fattach NEW: STREAMS
5744fdetach NEW: STREAMS
5745fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
5746fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
5747fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
5748feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5749fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5750fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
5751fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
5752feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5753feof_locked REMOVED
5754feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5755ferror_locked REMOVED
5756fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5757fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
5758fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
5759fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5760feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5761fflush_locked REMOVED
5762ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
5763ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
5764fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
5765fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5766fileno_locked REMOVED
5767fma NEW: ISO C 9x
5768fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
5769fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
5770fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
5771fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
5772fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
5773fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
5774fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
5775fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
62595351 5776fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
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5778fputc_locked REMOVED
5779fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5780fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5781freopen64 NEW: LFS
5782fseeko NEW: Unix98
5783fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
5784fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
5785fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
5786fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
5787ftello NEW: Unix98
5788ftello64 NEW: LFS
5789ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
5790ftw64 NEW: LFS
5791fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5792gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
5793gamma_r REMOVED
5794gammaf_r REMOVED
5795gammal_r REMOVED
5796getchar_locked REMOVED
5797getdate NEW: Unix98
5798getdate_err NEW: Unix98
5799getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
5800getmsg NEW: STREAMS
5801getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
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5804getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
5805getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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5806getutxent NEW: Unix98
5807getutxid NEW: Unix98
5808getutxline NEW: Unix98
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5809glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
5810globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
5811gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
5812gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
5813grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
e980ca92 5814host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
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5815iconv NEW: iconv
5816iconv_close NEW: iconv
5817iconv_open NEW: iconv
5818if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
5819if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
5820if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
5821if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
5822in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
5823in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
5824inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
5825isastream NEW: STREAMS
5826iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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5827key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
5828key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
5829key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
5830key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
5831key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
5832key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
5833key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
5834key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
5835key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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5837llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5838llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
5839llround NEW: ISO C 9x
5840llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5841llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5842log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
5843log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
5844log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
5845lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
5846lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5847lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
5848lround NEW: ISO C 9x
5849lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5850lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5851lseek64 NEW: LFS
5852makecontext NEW: Unix98
5853mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
5854mmap64 NEW: LFS
5855moncontrol REMOVED
5856modify_ldt NEW: kernel
5857nan NEW: ISO C 9x
5858nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
5859nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
5860nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
5861nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5862nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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5863netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
5864netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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5865nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
5866nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
5867nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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5869nftw64 NEW: LFS
5870open64 NEW: LFS
e980ca92 5871passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
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5872pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
5873pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
5874pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
5875pread NEW: Unix98
5876pread64 NEW: LFS
5877printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
5878printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
5879profil_counter REMOVED
5880pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
5881pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
5882ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
5883ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
5884putc_locked REMOVED
5885putchar_locked REMOVED
5886putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
5887putmsg NEW: STREAMS
5888putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
62595351 5889pututxline NEW: Unix98
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5891pwrite64 NEW: LFS
5892readdir64 NEW: LFS
5893readdir64_r NEW: LFS
5894remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
5895remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
5896remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
5897round NEW: ISO C 9x
5898roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5899roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5900rtime NEW: GNU ext.
5901scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
5902scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
5903scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
5904scandir64 NEW: LFS
5905sendfile NEW: kernel
5906setcontext NEW: Unix98
5907setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 5908setutxent NEW: Unix98
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5910sigignore NEW: Unix98
5911sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
5912sigrelse NEW: Unix98
5913sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
5914sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
5915sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
5916sincos NEW: GNU ext.
5917sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
5918sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
5919statfs64 NEW: LFS
5920statvfs NEW: Unix98
5921statvfs64 NEW: LFS
5922strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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5924strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
5925strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
e980ca92 5926svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
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5927svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
5928svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
5929swapcontext NEW: Unix98
5930tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
5931tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
5932tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
5933tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
5934tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
5935tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
5936trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
5937truncate64 NEW: LFS
5938truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
5939truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
5940umount2 NEW: kernel
5941unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 5942updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 5943user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 5944utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 5945versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
3ef4002b 5946versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
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5947waitid NEW: Unix98
5948wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
5949wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
5950wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
5951wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
5952wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
5953wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
5954wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
5955wcswcs NEW: Unix98
5956wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
5957wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
5958write_profiling REMOVED
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5960xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
5961xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
5962xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
5963xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
5964xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
5965xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
5966xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
5967xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
5968xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
5969xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
5970xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
5971xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 5972xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
e980ca92 5973xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
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5976Version 2.0.6
5977
5978* more bug fixes
5979
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5981Version 2.0.5
5982
5983* more bug fixes
5984
5985* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
5986
5987* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
5988
5989* rewrite of cbrt function
5990
5991* update of timezone data
5992\f
5993Version 2.0.4
5994
5995* more bug fixes
5996\f
5997Version 2.0.3
5998
5999* more bug fixes
c84142e8 6000\f
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6002
6003* more bug fixes
6004
6005* add atoll function
6006
6007* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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6009* fix math functions
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6011Version 2.0.1
6012
6013* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
6014
6015* dynamic loader preserves all registers
6016
6017* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
6018 the ELF dynamic loader.
6019
6020* support for parallel builds is improved
6021\f
40a4b79f 6022Version 2.0
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6024* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
6025 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
6026 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
6027
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6028* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
6029 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
6030 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
6031 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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6032 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
6033 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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6034 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
6035 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
6036 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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6037 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
6038 files in the ELF format.
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6039
6040* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
6041 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
6042
6043* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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6044 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
6045 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
6046 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
6047 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
6048 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
6049 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
6050 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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6051 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
6052 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
6053 about dynamically linked binaries.
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6055* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
6056 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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6057 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
6058 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
6059 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 6060
f7eac6eb 6061* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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6062 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
6063 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
6064 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
6065 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
6066
6067* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
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6069* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
6070 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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6071 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
6072 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
6073 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
6074 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
6075 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
6076 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
6077 NSS services available.
5f0e6fc7 6078
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6079* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
6080 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
6081 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
6082
6083* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
6084 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
6085 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
6086
6087* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
6088 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
6089 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
6090 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
6091
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6092* The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
6093 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
6094 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
6095
6096* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
6097 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
6098 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
6099
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6100* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
6101 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
6102
f7eac6eb 6103* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 6104 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 6105 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
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6106 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
6107
6108* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
6109 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
6110 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 6111
71733723 6112* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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6113 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
6114 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
6115 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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6116 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
6117 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 6118 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 6119 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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6120
6121* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
6122 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
6123 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
6124 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
6125 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
6126 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
6127 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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6128
6129* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
6130 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
6131 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
6132 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
6133 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
6134 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
6135
6136* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
6137 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
6138
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6139* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
6140 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
6141 NSS scheme used in glibc.
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6143* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
6144
6145* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
6146 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
6147 their use is discouraged.
6148
6149* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
6150 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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6152* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
6153 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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6154
6155* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
6156 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
6157
6158* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
6159 see <dirent.h>.
6160
6161* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
6162 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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6163 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
6164 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
6165 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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6166
6167* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
6168 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
6169 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
6170 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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6171
6172* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
6173 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
6174
6175* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
6176 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
6177 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
6178 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
6179 number generator.
6180
6181* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
6182 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
6183
6184* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
6185 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
6186
71733723 6187* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 6188 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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6189 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
6190 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
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6192* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
6193
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6194* David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
6195 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
6196 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
6197
6198* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
6199 for arithmetic and string handling.
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c709e372 6201* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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6202 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
6203 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
6204 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
6205
6206* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
6207 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
6208 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
6209 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
6210 programs already written to use it.)
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6211
6212* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
6213 constants.
6214
6215* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
6216 with 4.4 BSD.
6217
6218* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
6219 a given effective group ID.
6220
6221* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
6222 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
6223 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
6224 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
6225
6226* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 6227 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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6228 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
6229 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
6230 doing the same thing.
6231
6232* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
6233 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
6234
6235* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 6236 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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6237
6238* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
6239
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6240* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
6241 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
6242 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 6243 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 6244 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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6245
6246* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
6247 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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6248
6249* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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6250 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
6251 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
6252 function.
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6253
6254* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
6255
6256* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
6257 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
6258 strings.
6259
6260* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
6261 and writing the utmp file.
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6262
6263* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
6264 Thorsten Kukuk.
6265
6266* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
6267 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
6268 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
6269
6270* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
6271 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
6272
6273* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
6274 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
6275 specification.
6276
6277* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
6278 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
6279 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
6280 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
6281
6282* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
6283 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
6284 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
6285
6286* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
6287 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
6288 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
6289 expression matcher.
6290
6291* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
6292 functionality.
6293
6294* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
6295 by Ulrich Drepper.
6296
6297* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
6298
6299* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
6300 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
6301 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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6303Version 1.09
6304
6305* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
6306
6307* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
6308 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
6309
6310* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
6311 want to put themselves in the background.
6312
6313* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
6314 run without an operating system.
6315
6316* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
6317 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
6318
6319* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
6320 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
6321
6322* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
6323
6324* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
6325 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
6326 have YP (aka NIS).
6327
6328* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
6329 conventions.
6330
6331* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
6332 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
6333\f
6334Version 1.08
6335
6336* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
6337 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
6338 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
6339
6340* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
6341 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
6342
6343* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
6344 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
6345
6346* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
6347
6348* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
6349
6350* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
6351 compatibility.
6352
6353* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
6354 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
6355 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
6356
6357* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
6358
6359* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
6360 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
6361 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
6362
6363* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
6364 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
6365 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
6366 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
6367 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
6368 on a block).
6369
6370* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
6371 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
6372 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
6373 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
6374 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
6375 cross-compiler.
6376
6377* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
6378 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
6379\f
6380Version 1.07
6381
6382* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
6383 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
6384
6385* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
6386 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
6387 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
6388
6389* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
6390 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
6391 address of the last character written.
6392
6393* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
6394 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
6395
6396* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
6397 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
6398
6399* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
6400 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
6401 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
6402 you dereference this pointer.
6403
6404* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
6405 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
6406
6407* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
6408 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
6409 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
6410 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
6411
6412* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
6413 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
6414 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
6415 EAGAIN in every system call function.
6416\f
6417Version 1.06
6418
6419* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
6420 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
6421 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
6422 in Emacs or the `info' program.
ea278354 6423 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
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6424
6425* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
6426
6427* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
6428
6429* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
6430 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
6431
6432* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
6433 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
6434
6435* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
6436 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
6437
6438* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
6439 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
6440 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
6441 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
6442 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
6443
6444* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
6445 to the error code in `errno'.
6446
6447* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
6448 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
6449 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
6450 malloc'd string.
6451
6452* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
6453 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
6454 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
6455
6456* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
6457 uniquely-named temporary file.
6458\f
6459Version 1.05
6460
6461* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
6462 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
6463 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
6464
6465* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
6466 characters.
6467
6468* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
6469 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
6470
6471* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
6472\f
6473Version 1.04
6474
6475* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
6476 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
6477 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
6478 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
6479
6480* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
6481 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
6482 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
6483
6484* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
6485 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
6486
6487* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
6488 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
6489 made itself into a shared library.
6490
6491* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
6492 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
6493
6494* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
6495 with limited length.
6496
6497* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
6498
6499* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
6500
6501* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
6502
6503* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
6504 function for traversing a directory tree.
6505
6506* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
6507 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
6508 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
6509 formatted output directly to an obstack.
6510
6511* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
6512 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
6513
6514* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
6515
6516* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
6517 things to your strings.
6518
6519* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
6520
6521* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
6522 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
6523 supporting those systems.
6524
6525* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
6526 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
6527 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
6528 configuration files.
6529
6530* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
6531 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
6532
6533* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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6535 in <strings.h>.)
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6537* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
6538 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
6539 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
6540 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
6541 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
6542 required storage is not available.
6543
6544* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
6545 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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6547* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
6548 latest files released from Berkeley.
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6552
6553 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
6554 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
6555 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
6556 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
6557
6558 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
6559 of this document, or of portions of it,
6560 under the above conditions, provided also that they
6561 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
6562\f
6563Local variables:
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