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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* Add _SC_MINSIGSTKSZ and _SC_SIGSTKSZ. When _SC_SIGSTKSZ_SOURCE or
13 _GNU_SOURCE are defined, MINSIGSTKSZ and SIGSTKSZ are no longer
14 constant on Linux. MINSIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf(_SC_MINSIGSTKSZ)
15 and SIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf (_SC_SIGSTKSZ).
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17* The dynamic linker implements the --list-diagnostics option, printing
18 a dump of information related to IFUNC resolver operation and
19 glibc-hwcaps subdirectory selection.
20
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21Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
22
23 [Add deprecations, removals and changes affecting compatibility here]
24
25Changes to build and runtime requirements:
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27* On Linux, the shm_open, sem_open, and related functions now expect the
28 file shared memory file system to be mounted at /dev/shm. These functions
29 no longer search among the system's mount points for a suitable
30 replacement if /dev/shm is not available.
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32Security related changes:
33
34 [Add security related changes here]
35
36The following bugs are resolved with this release:
37
38 [The release manager will add the list generated by
39 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
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42Version 2.33
43
44Major new features:
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46* The dynamic linker accepts the --list-tunables argument which prints
47 all the supported tunables. This option is disable if glibc is
48 configured with tunables disabled (--enable-tunables=no).
49
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50* The dynamic linker accepts the --argv0 argument and provides opportunity
51 to change argv[0] string.
52
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53* The dynamic linker loads optimized implementations of shared objects
54 from subdirectories under the glibc-hwcaps directory on the library
55 search path if the system's capabilities meet the requirements for
56 that subdirectory. Initially supported subdirectories include
57 "power9" and "power10" for the powerpc64le-linux-gnu architecture,
58 "z13", "z14", "z15" for s390x-linux-gnu, and "x86-64-v2", "x86-64-v3",
59 "x86-64-v4" for x86_64-linux-gnu. In the x86_64-linux-gnu case, the
60 subdirectory names correspond to the vendor-independent x86-64
61 microarchitecture levels defined in the x86-64 psABI supplement.
62
63* The new --help option of the dynamic linker provides usage and
64 information and library search path diagnostics.
65
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66* The mallinfo2 function is added to report statistics as per mallinfo,
67 but with larger field widths to accurately report values that are
68 larger than fit in an integer.
69
96203980 70* Add <sys/platform/x86.h> to provide query macros for x86 CPU features.
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72* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been expanded to run on
73 32-bit hardware. This is supported for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
74
75 - rv32imac ilp32
76 - rv32imafdc ilp32
77 - rv32imafdc ilp32d
78
79 The 32-bit RISC-V port requires at least Linux 5.4, GCC 7.1 and binutils
80 2.28.
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82* A new fortification level _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 is available. At this level,
83 glibc may use additional checks that may have an additional performance
84 overhead. At present these checks are available only on LLVM 9 and later.
85 The latest GCC available at this time (10.2) does not support this level of
86 fortification.
87
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88Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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90* The mallinfo function is marked deprecated. Callers should call
91 mallinfo2 instead.
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93* When dlopen is used in statically linked programs, alternative library
94 implementations from HWCAP subdirectories are no longer loaded.
95 Instead, the default implementation is used.
96
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97* The deprecated <sys/vtimes.h> header and the function vtimes have been
98 removed. To support old binaries, the vtimes function continues to exist
99 as a compatibility symbol. Applications should use the getrlimit or
100 prlimit.
101
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102* Following a change in the tzdata 2018a release upstream, the zdump
103 program is now installed in the /usr/bin subdirectory. Previously,
104 the /usr/sbin subdirectory was used.
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106* On s390(x), the type float_t is now derived from the macro
107 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ that is defined by the compiler, instead of being
108 hardcoded to double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
109 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
110 libraries that use this type in their interfaces. The new definition
111 improves consistency with compiler behavior in many scenarios.
112
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113* A future version of glibc will stop loading shared objects from the
114 "tls" subdirectories on the library search path, the subdirectory that
115 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, and also stop employing
116 the legacy AT_HWCAP search mechanism. Applications should switch to
117 the new glibc-hwcaps mechanism instead; if they do not do that, only
118 the baseline version (directly from the search path directory) will be
119 loaded.
120
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121Changes to build and runtime requirements:
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123* On Linux, the system administrator needs to configure /dev/pts with
124 the intended access modes for pseudo-terminals. glibc no longer
125 attemps to adjust permissions of terminal devices. The previous glibc
126 defaults ("tty" group, user read/write and group write) already
127 corresponded to what most systems used, so that grantpt did not
128 perform any adjustments.
129
130* On Linux, the posix_openpt and getpt functions no longer attempt to
131 use legacy (BSD) pseudo-terminals and assume that if /dev/ptmx exists
132 (and pseudo-terminals are supported), a devpts file system is mounted
133 on /dev/pts. Current systems already meet these requirements.
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135* s390x requires GCC 7.1 or newer. See gcc Bug 98269.
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137Security related changes:
138
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934c48a0 140 ISO-20220-JP-3 character set using the iconv function has been fixed.
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141 This assertion was triggered by certain valid inputs in which the
142 converted output contains a combined sequence of two wide characters
143 crossing a buffer boundary. Reported by Tavis Ormandy.
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145 CVE-2020-27618: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
146 invoked with input containing redundant shift sequences in the IBM1364,
147 IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, or IBM1399 character sets.
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149 CVE-2020-29562: An assertion failure has been fixed in the iconv function
150 when invoked with UCS4 input containing an invalid character.
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152 CVE-2019-25013: A buffer overflow has been fixed in the iconv function when
153 invoked with EUC-KR input containing invalid multibyte input sequences.
154
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155The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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157 [10635] libc: realpath portability patches
158 [16124] dynamic-link: ld.so should allow to change argv[0]
159 [17924] malloc: 'free' should not set errno
160 [18683] libc: Linux faccessat implementation can incorrectly ignore
161 AT_EACCESS
162 [22899] libc: Use 64-bit readdir() in generic POSIX getcwd()
597d0267 163 [23091] hurd: missing waitid support
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164 [23249] libc: Epyc and other current AMD CPUs do not select the
165 "haswell" platform subdirectory
166 [24080] dynamic-link: Definition of "haswell" platform is inconsistent
167 with GCC
168 [24202] libc: m68k setjmp() saves incorrect 'a5' register in --enable-
169 stack-protector=all
170 [24941] libc: Make grantpt usable after multi-threaded fork in more
171 cases
172 [24970] libc: realpath mishandles EOVERFLOW; stat not needed anyway
173 [24973] locale: iconv encounters segmentation fault when converting
174 0x00 0xfe in EUC-KR to UTF-8 (CVE-2019-25013)
175 [25399] string: undefined reference to `__warn_memset_zero_len' when
176 changing gnuc version
177 [25859] libc: glibc parser for /sys/devices/system/cpu/online is
178 incorrect
179 [25938] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should store meaning of hwcap mask
180 bits
181 [25971] libc: s390 bits/hwcap.h out of sync with kernel
182 [26053] libc: unlockpt fails with ENOTTY for non-ptmx descriptors
183 [26100] libc: Race in syslog(3) with regards to tag printing.
184 [26124] libc: Export <cpu-features.h>
185 [26130] nscd: Inconsistent nscd cache during pruning
186 [26203] libc: GLRO(dl_x86_cpu_features) may not be intialized
187 [26224] locale: iconv hangs when converting some invalid inputs from
188 several IBM character sets (CVE-2020-27618)
189 [26341] libc: realpath cyclically call __alloca(path_max) to consume
190 too much stack space
191 [26343] manual: invalid documented return type for strerrorname_np(),
192 strerrordesc_np(), sigdescr_np(), sigabbrev_np()
193 [26376] libc: Namespace violation in stdio.h and sys/stat.h if build
194 with optimization.
195 [26383] locale: bind_textdomain_codeset doesn't accept //TRANSLIT
196 anymore
197 [26394] time: [2.33 Regression] FAIL: nptl/tst-join14
198 [26534] math: libm.so 2.32 SIGILL in pow() due to FMA4 instruction on
199 non-FMA4 system
200 [26552] dynamic-link: CPU_FEATURE_USABLE_P should be more conservative
201 [26553] libc: mtx_init allows type set to "mtx_recursive" only
202 [26555] string: strerrorname_np does not return the documented value
203 [26592] libc: pointer arithmetic overflows in realpath
204 [26600] network: Transaction ID collisions cause slow DNS lookups in
205 getaddrinfo
206 [26606] libc: [2.33 Regression] pselect is broken on x32
207 [26615] libc: powerpc: libc segfaults when LD_PRELOADed with libgcc
208 [26620] glob: fnmatch with collating symbols results in segmentation
209 fault
210 [26625] libc: [2.33 Regression] CET is disabled
211 [26636] libc: 32-bit shmctl(IPC_INFO) crashes when shminfo struct is
212 at the end of a memory mapping
213 [26637] libc: semctl SEM_STAT_ANY fails to pass the buffer specified
214 by the caller to the kernel
215 [26639] libc: msgctl IPC_INFO and MSG_INFO return garbage
216 [26647] build: [-Werror=array-parameter=] due to different
217 declarations for __sigsetjmp
218 [26648] libc: mkstemp is likely to fail on systems with non-stricly-
219 monotonic clocks
220 [26649] stdio: printf should handle non-normal x86 long double numbers
221 gracefully (CVE-2020-29573)
222 [26686] build: -Warray-parameter instances building with GCC 11
223 [26687] build: -Warray-bounds instances building with GCC 11
224 [26690] stdio: Aliasing violation in __vfscanf_internal
225 [26691] nptl: Use a minimum guard size of 64 KiB on aarch64
226 [26726] build: GCC warning calling new_composite_name with an array of
227 one element
228 [26736] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-sysvshm-linux
229 [26737] libc: Random FAIL: rt/tst-shm
230 [26791] libc: Missing O_CLOEXEC in sysconf.c
231 [26798] dynamic-link: aarch64: variant PCS symbols may be incorrectly
232 lazy bound
233 [26801] nptl: pthread_mutex_clocklock with CLOCK_MONOTONIC can fail on
234 PI mutexes
235 [26818] string: aarch64: string tests may run ifunc variants that are
236 not safe
237 [26821] libc: Memory leak test failures on Fedora 33
238 [26824] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-cpu-features-supports with recent trunk:
239 FSGSBASE/LM/RDRAND check failure
240 [26833] time: adjtime() with delta == NULL segfaults on armv7 32bit
241 platform
242 [26853] libc: aarch64: Missing unwind information in statically linked
243 startup code
244 [26923] locale: Assertion failure in iconv when converting invalid
245 UCS4 (CVE-2020-29562)
246 [26926] dynamic-link: aarch64: library dependencies are not bti
247 protected
248 [26932] libc: sh: Multiple floating point functions defined as stubs
249 only since 2.31
250 [26964] nptl: pthread_mutex_timedlock returning EAGAIN after futex is
251 locked
252 [26988] dynamic-link: aarch64: BTI mprotect address is not page
253 aligned
254 [27002] build: libc_freeres_fn build failure with GCC 11
255 [27004] dynamic-link: ld.so is miscompiled by GCC 11
256 [27008] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should have endianness markup
257 [27042] libc: [alpha] anonymous union in struct stat confuses
258 detection logic
259 [27053] libc: Conformance regression in system(3) (and probably also
260 pclose(3))
261 [27072] dynamic-link: static pie ifunc resolvers run before hwcap is
262 setup
263 [27077] network: Do not reload /etc/nsswitch.conf from chroot
264 [27083] libc: Unsafe unbounded alloca in addmntent
265 [27104] dynamic-link: The COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_MAX handshake does not
266 work
267 [27130] string: "rep movsb" performance issue
268 [27150] libc: alpha: wait4() is unavailable in static linking
269 [27177] dynamic-link:
270 GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.cpu.x86_ibt=on:glibc.cpu.x86_shstk=on doesn't
271 work
272 [27222] dynamic-link: Incorrect sysdeps/x86/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo.c
273 [27237] malloc: deadlock in malloc/tst-malloc-stats-cancellation
274 [27256] locale: Assertion failure in ISO-2022-JP-3 gconv module
275 related to combining characters (CVE-2021-3326)
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278Version 2.32
279
280Major new features:
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282* Unicode 13.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
283 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 13.0.0, using
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284 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
285
286* New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq)
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288* Support for Synopsys ARC HS cores (ARCv2 ISA) running Linux has been
289 added. This port requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-8.3 and Linux-5.1.
290 Three ABIs are supported:
291
292 - arc-linux-gnu
293 - arc-linux-gnuhf
294 - arceb-linux-gnu
295
4d3a77c7 296 The arc* ABIs are little-endian while arceb is big-endian. All ABIs use
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297 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
298
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299* The GNU C Library now loads audit modules listed in the DT_AUDIT and
300 DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
301
051be01f 302* powerpc64le supports IEEE128 long double libm/libc redirects when
4d3a77c7 303 using -mabi=ieeelongdouble to compile C code on supported GCC
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304 toolchains. It is recommended to use GCC 8 or newer when testing
305 this option.
306
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307* To help detect buffer overflows and other out-of-bounds accesses
308 several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This
309 should help GCC 10 issue better warnings.
310
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312 pthread_attr_getsigmask_np have been added. They allow applications
313 to specify the signal mask of a thread created with pthread_create.
314
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315* The GNU C Library now provides the header file <sys/single_threaded.h>
316 which declares the variable __libc_single_threaded. Applications are
317 encouraged to use this variable for single-thread optimizations,
318 instead of weak references to symbols historically defined in
319 libpthread.
320
bfe05aa2 321* The functions sigabbrev_np and sigdescr_np have been added. The
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322 sigabbrev_np function returns the abbreviated signal name (e.g. "HUP" for
323 SIGHUP) while sigdescr_np returns a string describing the signal number
324 (e.g "Hangup" for SIGHUP). Different than strsignal, sigdescr_np does not
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325 attempt to translate the return description, both functions return
326 NULL for an invalid signal number.
327
328 They should be used instead of sys_siglist or sys_sigabbrev and they
329 are both thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
330
325081b9 331* The functions strerrorname_np and strerrordesc_np have been added. The
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332 strerroname_np function returns error number name (e.g. "EINVAL" for EINVAL)
333 while strerrordesc_np returns a string describing the error number
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334 (e.g "Invalid argument" for EINVAL). Different than strerror,
335 strerrordesc_np does not attempt to translate the return description, both
336 functions return NULL for an invalid error number.
337
338 They should be used instead of sys_errlist and sys_nerr, both are
339 thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
340
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341* AArch64 now supports standard branch protection security hardening
342 in glibc when it is built with a GCC that is configured with
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343 --enable-standard-branch-protection (or if -mbranch-protection=standard
344 flag is passed when building both GCC target libraries and glibc,
345 in either case a custom GCC is needed). This includes branch target
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346 identification (BTI) and pointer authentication for return addresses
347 (PAC-RET). They require armv8.5-a and armv8.3-a architecture
348 extensions respectively for the protection to be effective,
349 otherwise the used instructions are nops. User code can use PAC-RET
350 without libc support, but BTI requires a libc that is built with BTI
351 support, otherwise runtime objects linked into user code will not be
352 BTI compatible.
353
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354Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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356* Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc. Sun RPC is removed
357 from glibc. This includes the rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and the Sun
358 RPC header files. Backward compatibility for old programs is kept
359 only for architectures and ABIs that have been added in or before
360 glibc 2.31. New programs need to use TI-RPC
361 <http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=summary> and
362 rpcsvc-proto <https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto>.
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364* Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-nsl. libnsl is only built
365 as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules "nis"
366 and "nisplus" are not built at all and libnsl's headers aren't
367 installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs
368 that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement
369 implementations based on TI-RPC, which additionally support IPv6, are
370 available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not
4d3a77c7 371 affect the "compat" NSS module, which does not depend on libnsl
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372 since 2.27 and thus can be used without NIS.
373
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374* The deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
375 removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
376 exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
377 but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system
378 call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5.
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380* The sstk function is no longer available to newly linked binaries.
381 Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function
382 was not declared in any header file.
383
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384* The legacy signal handling functions siginterrupt, sigpause, sighold,
385 sigrelse, sigignore and sigset, and the sigmask macro have been
386 deprecated. Applications should use the sigsuspend, sigprocmask and
387 sigaction functions instead.
388
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389* ldconfig now defaults to the new format for ld.so.cache. glibc has
390 already supported this format for almost 20 years.
391
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392* The deprecated arrays sys_siglist, _sys_siglist, and sys_sigabbrev
393 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
394 have been removed from <string.h>. They are exported solely as
395 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
396 strsignal instead.
397
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398* The deprecated symbols sys_errlist, _sys_errlist, sys_nerr, and _sys_nerr
399 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
4d3a77c7 400 have been removed from <stdio.h>. They are exported solely as
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401 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
402 strerror or strerror_r instead.
403
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404* Both strerror and strerror_l now share the same internal buffer in the
405 calling thread, meaning that the returned string pointer may be invalided
406 or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same thread or
407 if the thread is terminated. It makes strerror MT-safe.
408
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409* Using weak references to libpthread functions such as pthread_create
410 or pthread_key_create to detect the singled-threaded nature of a
411 program is an obsolescent feature. Future versions of glibc will
412 define pthread_create within libc.so.6 itself, so such checks will
413 always flag the program as multi-threaded. Applications should check
414 the __libc_single_threaded variable declared in
415 <sys/single_threaded.h> instead.
416
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417* The "files" NSS module no longer supports the "key" database (used for
418 secure RPC). The contents of the /etc/publickey file will be ignored,
419 regardless of the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of
420 storing RPC keys only supported the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES
421 flavor of secure RPC.)
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423* The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
424 implementation __default_morecore have been deprecated. Applications
425 should use malloc interposition to change malloc behavior, and mmap to
426 allocate anonymous memory. A future version of glibc may require that
427 applications which use the malloc hooks must preload a special shared
428 object, to enable the hooks.
429
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430* The hesiod NSS module has been deprecated and will be removed in a
431 future version of glibc. System administrators are encouraged to
432 switch to other approaches for networked account databases, such as
433 LDAP.
434
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435Changes to build and runtime requirements:
436
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437* powerpc64le requires GCC 7.4 or newer. This is required for supporting
438 long double redirects.
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440Security related changes:
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442 CVE-2016-10228: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
443 invoked with the -c option and when processing invalid multi-byte input
444 sequences. Reported by Jan Engelhardt.
445
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446 CVE-2020-10029: Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack
447 corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido
448 Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
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450 CVE-2020-1752: A use-after-free vulnerability in the glob function when
451 expanding ~user has been fixed.
452
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453 CVE-2020-6096: A signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy and
454 memmove functions has been fixed. Discovered by Jason Royes and Samual
455 Dytrych of the Cisco Security Assessment and Penetration Team (See
456 TALOS-2020-1019).
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458The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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460 [9809] localedata: ckb_IQ: new Kurdish Sorani locale
461 [10441] manual: Backtraces code example lacks error checking
462 [10815] librt: [timer_create / SIGEV_THREAD] signalmask of
463 timer_sigev_thread dangerous
464 [14231] stdio: stdio-common tests memory requirements
465 [14578] libc: /proc-based emulation for lchmod, fchmodat
466 [16272] dynamic-link: dlopen()ing a DT_FILTER library crashes if
467 filtee has constructor
468 [19519] locale: iconv(1) with -c option hangs on illegal multi-byte
469 sequences (CVE-2016-10228)
470 [19737] admin: Doc page “20.5.2 Infinity and NaN” has incorrect HTML
471 character entities for infinity & pi
472 [20338] libc: Parsing of /etc/gshadow can return bad pointers causing
473 segfaults in applications
474 [20543] libc: Please move from .gnu.linkonce to comdat
475 [22489] network: gcc warns about implicit convertion in
476 ICMP6_FILTER_SETPASS with -Wsign-conversion
477 [22525] localedata: or_IN LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
478 [23294] math: Complex _FloatN functions are redirected to the wrong
479 function with -mlong-double-64
480 [23296] libc: Data race in setting function descriptor during lazy
481 binding
482 [23668] dynamic-link: ldconfig: Default to the new format for
483 ld.so.cache
484 [23819] hurd: hurd: Add C11 thread support
485 [23990] build: test-container error out on failure to exec child.
486 [23991] build: shell-container typo in run_command_array
487 [24638] manual: Error in example of parsing a template string
488 [24654] manual: Wrong declaration of wcschr in libc manual
489 [24943] dynamic-link: Support DT_AUDIT, DT_DEPAUDIT in the dynamic
490 linker
491 [25051] dynamic-link: aarch64, powerpc64 uses surplus static tls for
492 dynamically loaded dsos
493 [25098] nptl: nptl: ctype classification functions are not AS-Safe
494 [25219] libc: improve out-of-bounds checking with GCC 10 attribute
495 access
496 [25262] libc: getcontext/setcontext/swapcontext unnecessarily save and
497 restore EAX, ECX and EDX
498 [25397] dynamic-link: Legacy bitmap doesn't cover jitted code
499 [25414] glob: 'glob' use-after-free bug (CVE-2020-1752)
500 [25420] network: Race condition in resolv_conf.c can result in caching
501 stale configuration forever
502 [25487] math: sinl() stack corruption from crafted input
503 (CVE-2020-10029)
504 [25506] build: configure: broken detection of STT_GNU_IFUNC when GCC
505 defaults to PIE
506 [25523] libc: MIPS/Linux inline syscall template is miscompiled
507 [25620] libc: Signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy()
508 (CVE-2020-6096)
509 [25623] libc: test-sysvmsg, test-sysvsem, test-sysvshm fail with 2.31
510 on 32 bit and old kernel
511 [25635] libc: arm: Wrong sysdep order selection for soft-fp
512 [25639] localedata: Some names of days and months wrongly spelt in
513 Occitan
514 [25657] libc: sigprocmask() and sigisemptyset() manipulate different
515 amount of sigset_t bytes
516 [25691] stdio: printf: memory leak when printing long multibyte
517 strings
518 [25715] libc: system() returns wrong errors when posix_spawn fails
519 [25733] malloc: mallopt(M_MXFAST) can set global_max_fast to 0
520 [25734] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS fails to reset conversion
521 state for conversions that produce two Unicode code points
522 [25765] nptl: Incorrect futex syscall in __pthread_disable_asynccancel
523 for linux x86_64 leads to livelock
524 [25788] dynamic-link: [i386] -fno-omit-frame-pointer in CFLAGS causes
525 test failures, invalid instruction in ld.so
526 [25790] glob: Typo in tst-fnmatch.input
527 [25810] libc: x32: Incorrect syscall entries with pointer, off_t and
528 size_t
529 [25819] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 13.0.0
530 [25824] libc: Abnormal function of strnlen in aarch64
531 [25887] dynamic-link: Wasted space in _dl_x86_feature_1[1]
532 [25896] libc: Incorrect prctl
533 [25902] libc: Bad LOADARGS_N
534 [25905] dynamic-link: VSX registers are corrupted during PLT
535 resolution when glibc is built with --disable-multi-arch and --with-
536 cpu=power9
537 [25933] string: Off by one error in __strncmp_avx2 when
538 length=VEC_SIZE*4 and strings are at page boundaries can cause a
539 segfault
540 [25942] nptl: Deadlock on stack_cache_lock between __nptl_setxid and
541 exiting detached thread
542 [25966] libc: Incorrect access of __x86_shared_non_temporal_threshold
543 for x32
544 [25976] nss: internal_end*ent in nss_compat may clobber errno, hiding
545 ERANGE
546 [25999] nptl: Use-after-free issue in pthread_getaddr_default_np
547 [26073] math: getpayload() has wrong return value
548 [26076] dynamic-link: dlmopen crashes after failing to load
549 dependencies in audit mode
550 [26120] localedata: column width of of some Korean
551 JUNGSEONG/JONGSEONG characters wrong (should be 0)
552 [26128] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFLUSHOPT
553 [26133] libc: Incorrect need_arch_feature_F16C
554 [26137] libc: strtod() triggers exception FE_INEXACT on reasonable
555 input
556 [26149] libc: PKU is usable only if OSPKE is set
557 [26173] libc: powerpc64*: Add @notoc to calls to functions that do not
558 preserve r2
559 [26208] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFSH
560 [26210] network: Incorrect use of hidden symbols for global sunrpc
561 variables
562 [26211] stdio: printf integer overflow calculating allocation size
563 [26214] stdio: printf_fp double free
564 [26215] stdio: printf_fp memory leak
565 [26232] time: FAIL: support/tst-timespec for 32-bit targets
566 [26258] nss: nss_compat should not read input files with mmap
567 [26332] string: Incorrect cache line size load causes memory
568 corruption in memset
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572
573Major new features:
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575* The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
576 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
577 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
578 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
579 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
580 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
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582* The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
583 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
584 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
585 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
586
69ca4b54 587* The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
3ef5e118 588 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
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590
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591* New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar).
592
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593* The DNS stub resolver will optionally send the AD (authenticated data) bit
594 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
595 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
596 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
597 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
598 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
599 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
600 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
601
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603
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604* The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
605 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
606 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
607 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
608 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
609 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
0b8c2f95 610
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613 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
614
615* We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
616 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
617 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
618 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
619
620* The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
621 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
622 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
623 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
624 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
625 made this no longer practical.
626
627 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
628 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
629 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
630 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
631 release.)
632
633 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
634 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
635 with the current time, use the localtime function.
636
637 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
638 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
639 using clock_gettime instead.
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642 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
643 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
644 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
645 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
646
647 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
648 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
649 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
650 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
651
652 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
653 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
654 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
655 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
656 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
657 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
658
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660 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
661 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
662 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
663 offset API.
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665* SPARC ISA v7 is no longer supported. v8 is still supported, but only if
666 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
667 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
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669 As the oldest 64-bit SPARC ISA is v9, this only affects 32-bit
670 configurations.
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673 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
674 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
675 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
676 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
677
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679 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
680 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
681 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
682 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
683 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
684 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
685 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
686
687 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
688 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
689
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691 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
692 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
693 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
694 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
695 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
696
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698
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701 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
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704 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
705 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
706
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708
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709 CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an
710 out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context.
711
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712 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
713 environment variable during program execution after a security
714 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
715 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
716 program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
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718The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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720 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
721 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
722 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
723 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
724 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
725 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
726 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
727 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
728 linking failure
729 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
730 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
731 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
732 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
733 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
734 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
735 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
736 constructors/destructors is not fatal
737 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
738 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
739 7408-2005
740 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
741 with localedef
742 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
743 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
744 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
745 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
746 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
747 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
748 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
749 utmp entries
750 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
751 ABSOLUTE ABI
752 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
753 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
754 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
755 (stringop-overflow error)
756 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
757 functions other can lead to crashes
758 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
759 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
760 unconditionally
761 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
762 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
763 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
764 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
765 still can fail with an error
766 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
767 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
768 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
769 initialized correctly
770 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
771 -frewrite-includes
772 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
773 value to an unsigned
774 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
775 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
776 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
777 protection
778 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
779 ifunc variant.
780 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
781 al. for Clang++
782 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
783 (Slovenian)
784 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
785 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
786 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
787 with -std=c11
788 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
789 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
790 part
791 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
792 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
793 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
794 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
795 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
796 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
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801Major new features:
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804 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
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805 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
806
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808 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
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811 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
812 to the callback function.
813
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817 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
818 nan_TW, lzh_TW.
819
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821
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823 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
824 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
825 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
826 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
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829 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
830 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
831 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
832 link time reference, is gone.
833
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835 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
836 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
837 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
838 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
839 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
840 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
841 the clock choice at initialization time).
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844 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
845 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
846
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849* The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
850 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
851 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
852 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
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854 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
855 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
856 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
857 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
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860 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
861 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
862 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
863 since glibc 2.17.
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866 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
867
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868* Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
869 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
870
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871* The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
872 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
873
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874* With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
875 BIND_NOW flag.
876
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878 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
879 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
880
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881* On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
882 header have been removed.
883
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884* The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
885 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
886 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
887 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
888
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892
893 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
894 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
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899 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
900 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
901 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
902 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
903 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
904 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
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907 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
908 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
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912 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
913 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
914 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
915 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
916 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
917 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
918 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
919 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
920 invalid input drops valid char
921 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
922 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
923 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
924 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
925 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
926 malloc.h.
927 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
928 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
929 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
930 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
931 functions
932 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
933 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
934 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
935 for long double = double
936 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
937 long double = double
938 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
939 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
940 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
941 long timeouts
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944 checking for NULL.
945 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
946 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
947 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
948 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
949 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
950 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
951 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
952 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
953 not the default "nor"
954 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
955 false positives, change to modern flexible array
956 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
957 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
958 compiler barriers.
959 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
960 unnecessary librt dependencies
961 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
962 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
963 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
964 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
965 unsorted chunk
966 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
967 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
968 to R_SPARC_H44
969 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
970 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
971 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
972 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
973 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
974 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
975 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
976 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
977 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
978 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
979 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
980 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
981 was not used
982 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
983 tests
984 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
985 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
986 time_t changes
987 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
988 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
989 kernels and break testing
990 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
991 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
992 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
993 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
994 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
995 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
996 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
997 -O3 -march=skylake
998 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
999 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
1000 crash
1001 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
1002 linked glibc
1003 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
1004 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
1005 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
1006 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
1007 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
1008 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
1009 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
1010 always implemented in the same library
1011 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
1012 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
1013 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
1014 testroot
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1018
1019Major new features:
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1022 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
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1024* A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
1025 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
1026 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
1027 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
1028 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
1029 configured location.
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1034 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
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1037 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
1038 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
1039 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
1040 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
1041 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
1042 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
1043 process actually does not use HTM).
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1046 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
1047 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
1048 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
1049 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
1050 of the same name.
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1053 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
1054 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
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1058* Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
1059 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
1060 supported:
1061 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
1062 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
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1065 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
1066 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
1067 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
1068 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
1069 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
1070 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
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1073 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
1074 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
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1078* The glibc.tune tunable namespace has been renamed to glibc.cpu and the
1079 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
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1081* The type of the pr_uid and pr_gid members of struct elf_prpsinfo, defined
1082 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
1083 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
1084 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
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1086* For the MIPS n32 ABI, the type of the pr_sigpend and pr_sighold members of
1087 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
1088 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
1089 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
1090 structures.
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1093 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
1094 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
1095 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
1096 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
1097 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
1098
1099 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
1100 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
1101 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
1102 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
1103 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
1104
1105 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
1106 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
1107 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
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1114 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
1115
1116 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
1117 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
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1121 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
1122 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
1123 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
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1126 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
1127 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
1128 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
1129 Reported by H.J. Lu.
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1131 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
1132 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
1133 or command injection issues in applications.
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1137 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
1138 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
1139 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
1140 thousands
1141 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
1142 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
1143 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
1144 --param options)
1145 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
1146 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
1147 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
1148 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
1149 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
1150 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
1151 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
1152 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
1153 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
1154 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
1155 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
1156 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
1157 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
1158 pointer argument is non-NULL
1159 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
1160 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
1161 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
1162 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
1163 multithreads call popen
1164 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
1165 and pthread_create fails.
1166 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
1167 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
1168 constructor
1169 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
1170 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
1171 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
1172 source tree
1173 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
1174 float
1175 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
1176 one error
1177 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
1178 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
1179 linker
1180 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
1181 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
1182 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
1183 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
1184 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
1185 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
1186 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
1187 filesystems
1188 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
1189 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
1190 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
1191 functions
1192 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
1193 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
1194 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
1195 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
1196 have wrong type
1197 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
1198 wrong type
1199 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
1200 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
1201 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
1202 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
1203 threads
1204 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
1205 start.S
1206 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
1207 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
1208 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
1209 powerpc64le
1210 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
1211 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
1212 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
1213 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
1214 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
1215 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
1216 strftime
1217 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
1218 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
1219 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
1220 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
1221 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
1222 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
1223 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
1224 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
1225 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
1226 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
1227 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
1228 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
1229 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
1230 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
1231 tcache size
1232 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
1233 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
1234 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
1235 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
1236 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
1237 (CVE-2018-19591)
1238 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
1239 nearest rounding mode
1240 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
1241 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
1242 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
1243 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
1244 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
1245 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
1246 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
1247 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
1248 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
1249 error
1250 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
1251 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
1252 using GCC 8
1253 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
1254 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
1255 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
1256 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
1257 ppc64le
1258 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
1259 expected result
1260 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
1261 x32 (CVE-2019-6488)
1262 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
1263 sigaltstack
1264 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
1265 answers will be rejected)
1266 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
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1271Major new features:
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1274 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
1275 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
1276 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
1277 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
1278 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
1279 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
1280 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
1281 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
1282 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
1283 archive or binary locales.
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1286 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
1287 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
1288 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
1289 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
1290 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
1291 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
1292 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
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1294 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
1295 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
1296 validated for i686.
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1299 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
1300 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
1301 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
1302 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
1303 field) to indicate such support is required.
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1306 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
1307 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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1310 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
1311
1312 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
1313 fMxaddfNx functions.
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1316 fMxsubfNx functions.
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1319 fMxmulfNx functions.
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1322 fMxdivfNx functions.
1323
e607a352 1324* Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
df467d22 1325 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
9145f033 1326 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
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1328 and Kashubian.
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61c4aad7 1330* Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
e607a352 1331 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
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1337 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
1338 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
1339 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
1340 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
1341 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
1342 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
1343 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
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1346 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
1347 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
1348 the fstatat64 function.
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1350* IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
1351 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
1352 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
1353 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
1354 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
1355 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
1356 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
1357 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
1358 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
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1361 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
1362 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
1363 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
1364 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
1365 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
1366 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
1367 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
1368 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
1369 results in a load failure now.
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1372 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
1373 <threads.h>:
1374
1375 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
1376 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
1377
1378 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
1379 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
1380
1381 - call_once for function call synchronization.
1382
1383 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
1384 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
1385
1386 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
1387
1388 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
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1393 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
1394 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
1395
1396* The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
1397 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
1398 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
1399 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
1400 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
1401 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
1402
1403* All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
1404 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
1405 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
1406 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
1407 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
1408 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
1409 (Bug #1190.)
1410
1411* The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
1412 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
1413 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
1414 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
1415 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
1416 further explanation.
1417
1418 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
1419 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
1420 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
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1422* The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
1423
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1424* The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
1425 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
1426 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
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1428* The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
1429 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
1430 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
1431 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
1432
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1433* The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
1434 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
1435 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
1436 for this function instead.
1437
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1438* The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
1439 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
1440 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
1441
1442* The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
1443 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
1444 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
1445 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
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1447* The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
1448 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
1449 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
1450 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
1451 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
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1453* The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
1454 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
1455 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
1456 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
1457 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
1458 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
1459 such as libgcrypt.
1460
1461* Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
1462 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
1463 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
1464 enabled.
1465
1466* The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
1467 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
1468 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
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1470* We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
1471 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
1472 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
1473 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
1474 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
1475 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
1476
1477 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
1478 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
1479 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
1480 behavior in a future release.
1481
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1483
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1486Security related changes:
1487
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1488 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
1489 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
1490 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
1491 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
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1493 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
1494 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
1495
1496 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
1497 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
1498 Izbyshev.
1499
1500 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
1501 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
1502 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
1503
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1504The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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1506 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
1507 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
1508 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
1509 when __WORDSIZE != 64
1510 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
1511 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
1512 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
1513 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
1514 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
1515 14651
1516 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
1517 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
1518 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
1519 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
1520 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
1521 conversion is given
1522 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
1523 date
1524 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
1525 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
1526 scope with -O1 and higher
1527 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
1528 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
1529 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
1530 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
1531 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
1532 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
1533 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
1534 horrible machine code)
1535 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
1536 last constant.
1537 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
1538 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
1539 symbols
1540 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
1541 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
1542 defined
1543 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
1544 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
1545 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
1546 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
1547 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
1548 fpscr.c'
1549 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
1550 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
1551 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
1552 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
1553 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
1554 the base address
1555 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
1556 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
1557 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
1558 open_verify
1559 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
1560 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
1561 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
1562 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
1563 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
1564 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
1565 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
1566 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
1567 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
1568 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
1569 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
1570 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
1571 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
1572 dlopen
1573 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
1574 AT_SECURE=1
1575 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
1576 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
1577 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
1578 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
1579 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
1580 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
1581 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
1582 for Spanish with CLDR
1583 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
1584 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
1585 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
1586 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
1587 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
1588 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
1589 es_BO
1590 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
1591 CLOCKS_PER_SECOND
1592 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
1593 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
1594 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
1595 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
1596 dlopen failures
1597 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
1598 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
1599 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
1600 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
1601 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
1602 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
1603 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
1604 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
1605 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
1606 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
1607 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
1608 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
1609 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
1610 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
1611 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
1612 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
1613 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
1614 makecontext
1615 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
1616 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
1617 required
1618 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
1619 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
1620 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
1621 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
1622 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
1623 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
1624 disabled
1625 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
1626 failure
1627 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
1628 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
1629 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
1630 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
1631 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
1632 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
1633 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
1634 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
1635 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
1636 and libc build with -Os)
1637 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
1638 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
1639 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
1640 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
1641 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
1642 that changes /etc/passwd
1643 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
1644 (CVE-2018-11237)
1645 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
1646 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
1647 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
1648 posix/regcomp.c
1649 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
1650 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
1651 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
1652 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
1653 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
1654 AT_SECURE
1655 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
1656 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
1657 parser.c
1658 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
1659 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
1660 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
1661 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
1662 directed rounding
1663 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
1664 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
1665 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
1666 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
1667 lookup
1668 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
1669 interposition
1670 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
1671 DSO boundaries.
1672 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
1673 <linux/time.h>
1674 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
1675 checking
1676 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
1677 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
1678 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
1679 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
1680 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
1681 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
1682 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
1683 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
1684 processors
1685 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
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1688Version 2.27
1689
1690Major new features:
1691
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1692* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
1693 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
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1695 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
1696 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
1697 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
1698 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
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1699 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
1700 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
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ac817e08 1702* Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
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1703 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
1704 H.J. Lu from Intel.
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1706* Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
1707
4cf82d23 1708* Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
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1710* In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
1711 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
1712 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
1713 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
1714 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
1715 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
1716 from a security and performance perspective.
1717
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1718* The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
1719 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
1720 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
1721 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
1722
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1725 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
1726 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
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1727 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
1728
a23aa5b7 1729* On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
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1731 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
1732 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
1733 _Float128.
1734
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1735* The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
1736 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
1737 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
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1741* Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
1742 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
1743 pkey_get.
1744
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1745* The copy_file_range function was added.
1746
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1747* Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
1748
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1749* The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
1750 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
1751 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
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1754 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
1755 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
1756 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
1757 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
1758 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
1759 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
1760
1761 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
1762 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
1763 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
1764 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
1765 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
1766 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
1767 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
1768
1769 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
1770 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
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1772 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
1773 respectively.
1774
1775 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
1776 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
1777 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
1778 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
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1780 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
1781 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
1782 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
1783
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1785 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
0a32e219 1786 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
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1789 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
1790 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
1791
1792 - rv64imac lp64
1793 - rv64imafdc lp64
1794 - rv64imafdc lp64d
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1799 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
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1801 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
1802 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
1803 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
1804 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
1805 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
1806 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
1807 fix this.
1808
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1810 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
1811 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
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1814 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
1815 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
1816 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
1817 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
1818 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
1819 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
1820 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
1821 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
1822 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
1823 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
1824 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
1825 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
1826 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
1827 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
1828 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
1829 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
1830 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
1831 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
1832 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
1833 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
1834 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
1835 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
1836 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
1837 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
1838 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
1839
60e2846e
DL
1840* On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
1841 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
00cdcf5a 1842
813378e9
JM
1843* libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
1844 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
1845 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
1846 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
1847 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
1848 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
1849 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
1850
5a80d39d
JM
1851* The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
1852 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
1853 exp10l for these functions instead.
1854
4fa9b3bf
JM
1855* The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
1856 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
1857 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1858
644d3857
JM
1859* The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
1860 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
1861 ignored.
1862
8df5d347
JM
1863* The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
1864 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
1865 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
1866 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
1867
c0a25aa9
FW
1868* The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
1869 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
1870
34eb4157
FW
1871* In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
1872 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
1873
754034c4
JM
1874* The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
1875 programs.
1876
ed95f611
AZ
1877* The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
1878
48a8f832
ZW
1879* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
1880 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
1881 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
1882 instead.
1883
1884 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
1885 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
1886 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
1887 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
1888 use, but predates the bits convention.
1889
00cdcf5a
SP
1890Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1891
1faaf703
JB
1892* bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
1893 subdirectory.
00cdcf5a
SP
1894
1895Security related changes:
1896
403143e1
FW
1897 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
1898 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
1899 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
1900 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
1901 script.)
00cdcf5a 1902
822f523b
FW
1903 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
1904 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
1905 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
1906 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
c369d66e 1907
914c9994
FW
1908 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
1909 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
1910 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
1911 of service.
1912
15e84c63
AJ
1913 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
1914 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
a159b53f
PE
1915 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
1916
37ac8e63
FW
1917 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
1918 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
1919 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
1920 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
1921
8a0b17e4
FW
1922 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
1923 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
1924 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
1925 Qualys.
1926
3ff3dfa5
FW
1927 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
1928 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
1929 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
1930 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
1931 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
1932
3e3c904d
AJ
1933 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
1934 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
1935 current directory.
1936
52a713fd
DL
1937 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
1938 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
1939 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
1940
4590634f
FW
1941 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
1942 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
1943 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
1944
71aa429b
FW
1945 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
1946 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
1947 small, instead of NULL.
1948
00cdcf5a
SP
1949The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1950
242cbc90
DL
1951 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
1952 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
1953 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
1954 locale
1955 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
1956 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
1957 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
1958 cases
1959 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
1960 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
1961 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
1962 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
1963 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
1964 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
1965 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
1966 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
1967 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
1968 "Bangla"
1969 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
1970 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
1971 width Latin characters
1972 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
1973 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
1974 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
1975 letters
1976 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
1977 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
1978 (CVE-2009-5064)
1979 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
1980 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
1981 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
1982 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
1983 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
1984 if malloc succeeded
1985 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
1986 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
1987 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
1988 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
1989 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
1990 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
1991 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
1992 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
1993 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
1994 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
1995 U+309A
1996 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
1997 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
1998 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
1999 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
2000 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
2001 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
2002 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
2003 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
2004 for Nicaragua
2005 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
2006 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
2007 are not found.
2008 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
2009 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
2010 access
2011 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
2012 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
2013 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
2014 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
2015 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
2016 __regcall calling convention
2017 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
2018 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
2019 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
2020 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
2021 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
2022 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
2023 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
2024 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
2025 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
2026 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
2027 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
2028 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
2029 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
2030 locale
2031 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
2032 protector=all
2033 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
2034 wcwidth
2035 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
2036 consistency check failures
2037 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
2038 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
2039 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
2040 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
2041 PIE
2042 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
2043 locales
2044 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
2045 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
2046 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
2047 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
2048 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
2049 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
2050 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
2051 on memory allocation failure
2052 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
2053 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
2054 the suspect)
2055 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
2056 default (i386)
2057 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
2058 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
2059 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
2060 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
2061 instead of EAI_NODATA
2062 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
2063 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
2064 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
2065 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
2066 implementation
2067 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
2068 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
2069 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
2070 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
2071 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
2072 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
2073 allocation in syscall loops)
2074 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
2075 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
2076 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
2077 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
2078 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
2079 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
2080 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
2081 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
2082 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
2083 occur with -O3
2084 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
2085 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
2086 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
2087 amounts)
2088 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
2089 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
2090 niu_NZ
2091 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
2092 checks
2093 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
2094 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
2095 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
2096 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
2097 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
2098 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
2099 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
2100 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
2101 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
2102 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
2103 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
2104 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
2105 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
2106 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
2107 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
2108 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
2109 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
2110 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
2111 parsing after OOM
2112 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
2113 object
2114 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
2115 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
2116 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
2117 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
2118 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
2119 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
fdb724f9 2120 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf outputs a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
242cbc90
DL
2121 ppc64le
2122 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
2123 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
2124 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
2125 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
2126 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
2127 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
2128 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
2129 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
2130 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
2131 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
2132 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
2133 math_force_eval
2134 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
2135 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
2136 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
2137 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
2138 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
2139 the svid compat wrapper
2140 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
2141 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
2142 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
2143 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
2144 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
2145 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
2146 --verbose.
2147 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
2148 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
2149 to 2.26
2150 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
2151 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
2152 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
2153 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
2154 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
2155 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
2156 (CVE-2017-15804)
2157 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
2158 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
2159 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
2160 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
2161 failure."
2162 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
2163 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
2164 -m32
2165 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
2166 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
2167 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
2168 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
2169 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
2170 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
2171 inside the ASCII printable range
2172 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
2173 -mlong-double-64
2174 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
2175 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
2176 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
2177 Internet
2178 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
2179 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
2180 backslash
2181 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
2182 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
2183 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
2184 heaps in an arena
2185 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
2186 networking interface
2187 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
2188 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
2189 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
2190 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
2191 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
2192 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
2193 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
2194 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
2195 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
2196 order
2197 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2198 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2199 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2200 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2201 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2202 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
2203 same as for Croatian
2204 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
2205 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
2206 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
2207 for initial thread"
2208 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
2209 SC_SSIZE_MAX
2210 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
2211 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
2212 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2213 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
2214 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
2215 (CVE-2017-1000408)
2216 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
2217 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
2218 modified in case of success
2219 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
2220 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
2221 success
2222 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
2223 stack-protector=all
2224 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
2225 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
2226 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
2227 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
2228 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
2229 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
2230 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
2231 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
2232 adding it on top
2233 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
2234 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
2235 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
2236 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
2237 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
2238 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
2239 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
2240 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
2241 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
2242 (CVE-2018-1000001)
2243 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
2244 elision and tunables
2245 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
2246 "invalid" exception
2247 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
2248 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
2249 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
2250 exception
2251 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2252 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
2253 power4
2254 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
2255 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
2256 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
2257 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
2258 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
2259 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
2260 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
2261 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
2262 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
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2265Version 2.26
2266
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2267Major new features:
2268
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2269* A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
2270 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
2271 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
2272 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
2273 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
2274 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
2275 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
2276
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2277* Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2278 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
0b38d66a 2279 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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2280 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
2281 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
2282 are rendered with pango, see for example:
2283 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
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2285* Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
2286 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
2287 Egmont Koblinger.
e4e79484 2288
2b2ccd0c 2289* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
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2291 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
2292 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
2293 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
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2295 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
2296 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
2297 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
2298 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
2299 object are still limited to six search domains.
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2301 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
2302 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
2303 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
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2305* The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
2306 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
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2308* New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
2309 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
2310 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
2311 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
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2313* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
2314 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
2315 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
2316 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
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2318* posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
2319 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
2320 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
2321 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
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2323* errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
2324 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
2325 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
12d2dd70 2326
2b2ccd0c 2327* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
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2328 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
2329 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
2330 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
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2b2ccd0c 2332 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
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2333 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
2334 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
2335 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
2336 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
2337
2338 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
2339 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
2340 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
2341 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
2342 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
2343 interfaces should be used instead.
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2345Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2346
2347* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
2348 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
2349 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
2350 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
2351 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
2352 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
2353 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
2354 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
2355
2356* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
2357 removed.
2358
2359* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
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2361 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
2362 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
2363
2364* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
2365 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
2366 default.
2367
2368 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
2369 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
2370 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
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2371 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
2372 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
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2373
2374 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
2375 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
2376 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
2377 name service modules, to be built and installed.
2378
2379* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
2380 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
2381 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
2382 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
2383
2384* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
2385 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
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2387* The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
2388 exported by accident.
2389
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2390* <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
2391 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
2392 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
2393
2394* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
2395 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
2396 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
2397 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
2398
2399* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
2400
2401* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
2402
2403* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
2404 free instead.
2405
2406* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
2407 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2408
2409* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
2410 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2411
2412* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
2413 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
2414 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
2415 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
2416 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
2417 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
2418 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
2419 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
2420
2421* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
2422 synced with the kernel:
2423
2424 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
2425 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
2426
2427 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
2428 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
2429 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
2430
2431 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
2432 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
2433
2434Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2435
2436* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
2437 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
2438 x86-32 and x86-64.)
2439
7e368000 2440* GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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2442* On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
2443 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
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2444
2445 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
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2446 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
2447 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
2448 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2b2ccd0c 2449 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
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2451Security related changes:
2452
e14a2772 2453* The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
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2454 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
2455
2456* LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
2457 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
2458
2459* Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
2460 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
2461 (CVE-2010-3192).
2462
2463* A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
2464 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
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2466The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2467
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2468 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
2469 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
2470 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
2471 fields
2472 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
2473 (CVE-2010-3192)
2474 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
2475 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
2476 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
2477 ld.bfd is available
2478 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
2479 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
2480 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
2481 x86 and other generic code
2482 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
2483 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
2484 incorrect
2485 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
2486 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
2487 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
2488 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
2489 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
2490 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
2491 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
2492 resolver
2493 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
2494 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
2495 order of 0D36 and 0D37
2496 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
2497 chillu characters
2498 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
2499 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
2500 receiving data
2501 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
2502 whitespace
2503 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
2504 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
2505 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
2506 for Peru
2507 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
2508 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
2509 failures consistently
2510 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
2511 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
2512 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
2513 frame-pointer on i386
2514 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
2515 register
2516 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
2517 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
2518 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
2519 generic c code is used
2520 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
2521 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
2522 around 4000
2523 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
2524 (CVE-2017-12133)
2525 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
2526 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
2527 with -lieee
2528 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
2529 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
2530 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
2531 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
2532 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
2533 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
2534 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
2535 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
2536 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
2537 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
2538 remove()
2539 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
2540 checked for errors.
2541 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
2542 new posix_spawn implementation
2543 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
2544 leads to lower CPU frequency
2545 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
2546 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
2547 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
2548 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
2549 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
2550 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
2551 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
2552 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
2553 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
2554 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
2555 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
2556 not support gethostbyname4_r
2557 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
2558 switching
2559 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
2560 arenas
2561 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
2562 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
2563 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
2564 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
2565 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
2566 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
2567 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
2568 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
2569 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
2570 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
2571 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
2572 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
2573 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
2574 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
2575 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
2576 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
2577 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
2578 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
2579 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
2580 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
2581 retry value
2582 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
2583 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
2584 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
2585 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
2586 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
2587 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
2588 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
2589 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
2590 [21537] libc:
2591 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
2592 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
2593 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
2594 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
2595 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
2596 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
2597 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
2598 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
2599 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
2600 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
2601 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
2602 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
2603 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
2604 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
2605 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
2606 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
2607 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
2608 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
2609 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
2610 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
2611 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
2612 issue on x86-64
2613 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
2614 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
2615 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
2616 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
2617 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
2618 construction
2619 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
2620 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
2621 between_2_3
2622 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
2623 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
2624 conditions
2625 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
2626 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
2627 Hindi Locale
2628 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
2629 posix/sched_cpucount.c
2630 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
2631 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
2632 locale
2633 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
2634 leading to relocation crash
2635 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
2636 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
2637 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
2638 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
2639 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
2640 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
2641 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
2642 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
2643 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
2644 locale
2645 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
2646 locale
2647 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
2648 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
2649 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
2650 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
2651 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
2652 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
2653 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
2654 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
2655 strings
2656 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
2657 protector=all
2658 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
2659 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
2660 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
2661 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
2662 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
2663 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
2664 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
2665 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
2666 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
2667 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
2668 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
2669 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
2670 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
2671 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
2672 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
2673 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
2674 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
2675 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
2676 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
2677 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
2678 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
2679 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
2680 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
2681 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
2682 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
2683 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
2684 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
2685 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
2686 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
2687 with unicode 9.0
2688 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
2689 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
2690 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
2691 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
2692 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
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2695Version 2.25
2696
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2697* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
2698 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
2699 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
2700 Library.
e720d3d9 2701
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2702* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
2703 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
a5ac5676 2704 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
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2705 the GNU C Library.
2706
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2707* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
2708 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
2709 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
2710 the GNU C Library.
2711
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2712* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
2713 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
2714 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
2715 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
2716 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
2717 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
2718 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
2719 will not.
2720
2721 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
2722 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
2723 many years.
2724
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2725* The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
2726 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
2727 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
2728
2729 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
2730 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
2731 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
2732 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
2733 problem.
2734
ec94343f 2735* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
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2736 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
2737 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
5146356f 2738
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2739* Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
2740 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
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2741 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
2742 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
2743 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
2744 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
2745 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
2746 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
2747 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
2748 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
2749 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
2750 WINT_WIDTH.
a292f45a 2751
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2752* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
2753
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2754 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
2755
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2756 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
2757 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
2758 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
41c67149 2759
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2760 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
2761 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
2762
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2763 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
2764 fminmagf, fminmagl.
2765
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2766 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
2767
29cb9293 2768 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
d942e95c 2769
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2770 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
2771 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
5e9d98a3 2772
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2773 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
2774
eb3c12c7 2775 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
457663a7 2776 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
f8e8b8ed 2777
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2778* The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
2779 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
2780
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2781* Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
2782 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
2783 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
2784
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2785* The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
2786 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
2787 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
2788 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
2789 effects of the memory clear).
2790
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2791* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
2792 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
2793 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
2794 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
2795
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2796* On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
2797 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
2798 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
2799 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
2800 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
2801 if they are compiled or used with those options.
6962682f 2802
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2803* The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
2804 have been added.
2805
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2806* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
2807 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
2808 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
2809 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
2810 as large as several megabytes.
2811
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2812* The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
2813 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
2814 been removed.
2815
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2816* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
2817 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
2818 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
2819 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
2820 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
2821 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
2822 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
2823
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2824* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
2825 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
2826 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
2827 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
2828
099191b1 2829* The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
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2830 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
2831 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
2832 Internet.
2833
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2834* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
2835 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
2836 They were already unimplemented.
bfbd1de1 2837
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2838* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
2839 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
2840 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
2841 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
2842
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2843* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
2844 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
2845 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
2846 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
2847 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
2848
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2849* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
2850 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
2851 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
2852 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
2853 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
2854
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2855* The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
2856 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
2857 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
2858 did not reflect that.
2859
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2860* For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
2861 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
2862 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
2863 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
2864 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
2865 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
2866 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
2867 'gcc/config.gcc'.
2868
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2869* GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
2870 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
2871 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
2872 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
2873
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2874* Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
2875 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
2876 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
2877 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
2878
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2879* A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
2880 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
2881 guarantees.
2882
2883* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
2884 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
2885 make state changes.
2886
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2887Security related changes:
2888
fc82b0a2 2889* On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
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2890 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
2891 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
2892 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
056dd72a 2893 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
e720d3d9 2894
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2895* The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
2896 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
2897 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
2898 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
2899 (CVE-2015-5180)
2900
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2901The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2902
fdb724f9 2903 [4099] stdio: Overly aggressive caching by stream i/o functions.
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2904 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
2905 protector-all
2906 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
2907 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
2908 before it started waiting
2909 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
2910 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
2911 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
2912 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
2913 wrong type
2914 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
2915 library linked with pthread
2916 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
2917 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
2918 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
2919 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
2920 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
2921 after being __libc_memalign()'d
2922 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
2923 when it shouldnt
2924 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
2925 not
2926 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
2927 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
2928 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
2929 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
2930 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
2931 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
2932 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
2933 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
2934 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
2935 termination
2936 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
2937 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
2938 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
2939 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
2940 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
2941 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
2942 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
2943 causes a segmentation fault
2944 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
2945 linking
2946 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
2947 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
2948 uninitialized GOT
2949 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
2950 versions
2951 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
2952 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
2953 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
2954 is always true.
2955 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
2956 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
2957 modes
2958 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
2959 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
2960 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
2961 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
2962 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
2963 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
2964 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
2965 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
2966 libpthread.a
2967 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
2968 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
2969 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
2970 _res_hconf
2971 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
2972 information.
2973 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
2974 penalty
2975 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
2976 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
2977 cause transition penalty
2978 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
2979 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
2980 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
2981 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
2982 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
2983 mcount.oS)
2984 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
2985 Checking
2986 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
2987 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
2988 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
2989 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
2990 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
2991 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
2992 multi-arch
2993 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
2994 (RES_USEBSTRING)
2995 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
2996 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
2997 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
2998 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
2999 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
3000 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
3001 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
3002 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
3003 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
3004 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
3005 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
3006 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
3007 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
3008 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
3009 glibc
3010 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
3011 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
3012 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
3013 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
3014 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
3015 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
3016 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
3017 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
3018 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
3019 U+20AC), not same as GBK
3020 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
3021 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
3022 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
3023 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
3024 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
3025 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
3026 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
3027 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
3028 RES_USE_INET6
3029 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3030 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
3031 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
3032 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
3033 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
3034 wrong condition
3035 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3036 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
3037 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
3038 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
3039 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
3040 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
3041 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
3042 clang
3043 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
3044 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
3045 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
3046 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
3047 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
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3049Version 2.24
3050
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3051* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
3052 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
3053 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
3054 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
3055 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
3056 architectures.
3057
b6ebba70
MF
3058* The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
3059 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
3060 been included in previous releases.
11fca961 3061
7584a3f9
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3062* The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
3063 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
3064
b49ab5f4
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3065* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
3066 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
3067 instead of “union wait”.
3068
ced8f893
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3069* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
3070 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
3071 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
3072 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
3073 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
3074 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
3075 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
3076
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3077* The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
3078 API.
3079
b7a9b7b0
MF
3080* The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
3081 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
3082 drop it.
6a54bcda 3083
41a359e2
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3084* nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
3085 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
3086 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
3087 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
3088 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
3089 extensions.
3090
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3091Security related changes:
3092
f5b3338d
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3093* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
3094 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
3095 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
3096
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FW
3097* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
3098 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
3099 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
3100 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
11fca961 3101
5171f307
FW
3102* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
3103 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
3104 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
3105
bc779a1a
FW
3106* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
3107 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
3108 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
3109
fab38231
FW
3110* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
3111 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
3112 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
3113 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
3114
11fca961
AZ
3115The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3116
3c4f81ec
CD
3117 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
3118 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
3119 of MS-DOS.
3120 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
3121 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
3122 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
3123 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
3124 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
3125 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
3126 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
3127 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
3128 CLDR data
3129 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
3130 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
3131 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
3132 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
3133 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
3134 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
3135 romanisation
3136 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
3137 and +/-
3138 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
3139 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
3140 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
3141 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
3142 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
3143 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
3144 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
3145 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
3146 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
3147 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
3148 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
3149 all locales
3150 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
3151 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
3152 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
3153 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
3154 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
3155 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
3156 execute
3157 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
3158 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
3159 -Wsystem-headers
3160 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
3161 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
3162 Romanian locale data
3163 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
3164 symbol
3165 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
3166 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
3167 language
3168 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
3169 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
3170 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
3171 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
3172 machine
3173 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
3174 description
3175 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
3176 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
3177 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
3178 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
3179 when using RTLD_NEXT
3180 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
3181 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
3182 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
3183 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
3184 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
3185 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
3186 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
3187 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
3188 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
3189 Excavator core
3190 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3191 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3192 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3193 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
3194 double range
3195 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
3196 part zero incorrect
3197 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
3198 equality tests
3199 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
3200 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
3201 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
3202 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
3203 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
3204 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
3205 glibc-2.22
3206 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
3207 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
3208 'tst-numeric.c'
3209 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
3210 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
3211 low part
3212 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
3213 result
3214 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
3215 unaligned stack
3216 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
3217 pointers and lengths in error-case.
3218 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
3219 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
3220 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
3221 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
3222 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
3223 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
3224 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
3225 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
3226 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
3227 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
3228 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
3229 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
3230 modes
3231 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
3232 server addresses
3233 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
3234 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
3235 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
3236 response to getaddrinfo
3237 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
3238 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
3239 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
3240 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
3241 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
3242 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
3243 sometimes incorrect
3244 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
3245 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
3246 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
3247 record types
3248 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
3249 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
3250 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
3251 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
3252 (CVE-2016-3075)
3253 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
3254 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
3255 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
3256 resolving symbols
3257 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
3258 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
3259 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
3260 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
3261 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
3262 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
3263 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
3264 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
3265 gethosts
3266 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
3267 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
3268 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
3269 (CVE-2016-3706)
3270 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
3271 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
3272 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
3273 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
3274 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
3275 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
3276 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
3277 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
3278 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
3279 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
3280 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
3281 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
3282 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
3283 executable
3284 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
3285 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
3286 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
3287 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
3288 XPG3
3289 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
3290 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
3291 (CVE-2016-4429)
3292 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
3293 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
3294 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
3295 AS not supporting AVX512
3296 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
3297 sNaN argument
3298 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3299 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
3300 argument
3301 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
3302 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
3303 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
3304 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
3305 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
3306 eax=0x80000001
3307 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
3308 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
3309 subnormals
3310 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
3311 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
3312 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
3313 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3314 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3315 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
3316 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3317 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
3318 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
3319 input
3320 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3321 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3322 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3323 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3324 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3325 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3326 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3327 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
3328 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
3329 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
3330 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
3331 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
3332 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
3333 double rounding
3334 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
3335 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
3336 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
3337 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
3338 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
3339 (Only arm/linux)
3340 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
3341 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
3342 fallbacks
3343 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
3344 "invalid" exceptions
3345 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
3346 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
3347 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
3348 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
3349 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
3350 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
3351 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
3352 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
3353 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
11fca961 3354\f
aeb47bbc
DM
3355Version 2.23
3356
23256f5e
MF
3357* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
3358 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
3359 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
3360 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
3361 89, 16061, and 18568.
3362
2359035a
FW
3363* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
3364 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
3365 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
3366 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
3367 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
3368 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
3369 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
3370
8b7b7f75
MW
3371* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
3372 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
3373 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
3374
2eecc8af
FW
3375* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
3376 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
3377 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
3378 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
3379 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
3380 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
3381 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
3382
a62719ba
FW
3383* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
3384 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
3385 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
3386 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
3387 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 3388 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
a62719ba
FW
3389 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
3390 Ericsson.)
a014cecd 3391
bc148ca1
MF
3392* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
3393 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
3394 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
3395 independent of the GNU C Library.
3396
1c70b6f1
ZW
3397* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
3398 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
1efad39b 3399
eed3e1eb
JM
3400* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
3401 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
3402 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
3403 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
3404 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
3405 Linux kernel.
3406
1efad39b
SL
3407* Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
3408 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
b08b4218 3409
d709042a
JM
3410* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
3411 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
3412 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
3413 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
3414 defining their own copy.
3415
b08b4218
JM
3416* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
3417 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
3418 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
f268ab5f 3419
8f5e8b01
JM
3420Security related changes:
3421
6400ae6e
FW
3422* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
3423 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
3424
3425* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
3426 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
3427 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
3428 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
3429 (CVE-2015-8777)
3430
3431* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
3432 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
3433
3434* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
3435 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
3436
8f5e8b01
JM
3437* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
3438 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 3439 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
8f5e8b01 3440
e9db92d3
CD
3441* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
3442 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
3443 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
3444 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
3445 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
3446 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
3447 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
3448 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
3449 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
3450 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
3451 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
3452 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
3453 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
3454
ad372e29 3455The following bugs are resolved with this release:
f268ab5f 3456
ad372e29
AZ
3457 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
3458 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
3459 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
3460 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
3461 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
3462 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
3463 use `mkstemp'
3464 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
3465 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
3466 overflow/underflow errors
3467 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
3468 overflow/underflow
3469 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
3470 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
3471 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
3472 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
3473 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
3474 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
3475 are not contiguous
3476 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
3477 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
3478 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
3479 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
3480 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
3481 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
3482 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
3483 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
3484 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
3485 all exceptions
3486 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
3487 arguments
3488 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
3489 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
3490 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
3491 should include
3492 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
3493 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
3494 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
3495 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
3496 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
3497 GNU/Linux
3498 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
3499 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
3500 arguments
3501 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
3502 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
3503 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
3504 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
3505 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
3506 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
3507 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
3508 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
3509 rounding results
3510 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
3511 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
3512 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
3513 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
3514 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
3515 fails
3516 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
3517 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
3518 block boundary
3519 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
3520 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
3521 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
3522 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
3523 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
3524 4.7?
3525 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
3526 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
3527 (related to lock elision)
3528 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
3529 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
3530 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
3531 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
3532 (CVE-2015-8779)
3533 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
3534 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
3535 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
3536 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
3537 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
3538 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
3539 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
3540 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
3541 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
3542 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
3543 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
3544 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
3545 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
3546 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
3547 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
3548 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
3549 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
3550 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
3551 contains a vector instruction exception.
3552 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
3553 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
3554 locales
3555 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
3556 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
3557 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
3558 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
3559 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
3560 missing break ?
3561 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
3562 32bit processes
3563 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
3564 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
3565 infinity
3566 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
3567 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
3568 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
3569 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
3570 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
3571 be forced unloaded
3572 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
3573 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
3574 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
3575 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
3576 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
3577 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
3578 statically too large
3579 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
3580 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
3581 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
3582 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
3583 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
3584 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
3585 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
3586 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
3587 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
3588 FUTEX_SHARED
3589 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
3590 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
3591 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
3592 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
3593 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
3594 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
3595 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
3596 opendir()
3597 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
3598 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
3599 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
3600 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
3601 signgam
3602 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
3603 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
3604 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
3605 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
3606 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
3607 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
3608 dependencies
3609 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
3610 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
3611 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
3612 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
3613 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
3614 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
3615 (CVE-2015-8776)
3616 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
3617 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
3618 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
3619 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
3620 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
3621 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3622 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
3623 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
3624 contention
3625 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
3626 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
3627 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
3628 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3629 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
3630 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
3631 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
3632 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
3633 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
3634 rounding modes
3635 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
3636 ILP32
3637 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
3638 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
3639 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
3640 threshold
3641 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
3642 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
3643 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
3644 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
3645 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
3646 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
3647 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
3648 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
3649 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
3650 pthread_setaffinity_np
3651 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
3652 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
3653 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
3654 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
3655 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
3656 prelink
3657 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
3658 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
3659 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
3660 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
3661 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3662 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
3663 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
3664 bits/mathcalls.h
3665 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
3666 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
3667 for C99-based standards
3668 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
3669 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
3670 math-only
3671 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
3672 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
3673 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
3674 disabled
3675 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
3676 "inexact" exceptions
3677 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
3678 arguments
3679 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
3680 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
3681 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
3682 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
3683 rules
3684 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
3685 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
3686 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
3687 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
3688 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
3689 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
3690 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
3691 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
3692 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
3693 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
3694 from 32bit
3695 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
3696 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
3697 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
3698 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
3699 subnormals
3700 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
3701 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
3702 error on 32-bit architectures
3703 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
3704 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
3705 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
3706 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
3707 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
3708 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
3709 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
3710 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
3711 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
3712 -Os
3713 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
3714 CPU's.
3715 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
3716 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
3717 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
3718 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
3719 architectures
3720 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
aeb47bbc 3721\f
1c7a4a51
JM
3722Version 2.22
3723
3724* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3725
3df5cd98 3726 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
0e569d30
MF
3727 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
3728 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
3729 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
3730 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
3731 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
3732 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
3733 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
3734 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
3735 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
3736 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
3737 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
3738 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
3739 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
3740 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
3741 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
3742 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
3743 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
6fdd5d65
FW
3744 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
3745 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
2959eda9 3746
f7fba805
SL
3747* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
3748 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
3749
2959eda9
AS
3750* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
3751 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
3752 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
3753 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
3754 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
3755 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4a4839c9 3756
42261ad7
FW
3757* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
3758 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
3759 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
3760 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
3761 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
3762
afcd9480
AM
3763* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
3764 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
3765 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
3766
4a4839c9
AO
3767* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
3768 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
3769 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
3770 17998.
3771
b13b96ca
AS
3772* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
3773 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
3774 condition in some applications.
21933112
AS
3775
3776* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
a6336cc4
AS
3777 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
3778 pow, powf.
21933112
AS
3779 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
3780 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
037e4b99
AS
3781 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
3782 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 3783 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
fdb7d390
AZ
3784
3785* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
3786 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
3787 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
3788 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
7fde904c
MF
3789
3790* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
3791 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
3792 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
7493ab25
RM
3793
3794* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
3795 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
2ec11c2b
ZW
3796
3797* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
3798 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
3799 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
3800
a03ba363 3801 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
2ec11c2b
ZW
3802 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
3803 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
1c7a4a51 3804\f
58b930ae
SP
3805Version 2.21
3806
3807* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3808
042e1521 3809 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
5bd80bfe
PP
3810 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
3811 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
3812 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
3813 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
3814 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
3815 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
3816 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
3817 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
3818 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
3819 17892.
3820
46d54873
FW
3821* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
3822 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
3823 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
3824 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
3825 intended.
042e1521
CD
3826
3827* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
3828 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
3829 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
3830 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
3831 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
3832 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
a39208bd 3833
522e6ee3
CLT
3834* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
3835
d3b00f46
AZ
3836* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
3837 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 3838 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
96d6fd6c 3839
8d2c0a59
AZ
3840* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
3841 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
3842 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
3843 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
3844 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
3845 effects being visible outside transactions.
3846
dc400d7b
RE
3847* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
3848 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
ec582ca0 3849
0f9dfe04
L
3850* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
3851
a39208bd
CD
3852* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
3853 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
ebda2f17 3854 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
a39208bd
CD
3855 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
3856 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
fb89b46d 3857
a5357b7c
JL
3858* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
3859 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
3860
e54db0ea
AM
3861* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
3862 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
3863 format.
11e3417a 3864
4863355a
JM
3865* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
3866 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
3867 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
3868
a4ecc9eb
JM
3869* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
3870 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
3871
0d560bbf 3872* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
0781a777
RM
3873
3874* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
3875 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
3876 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
3877 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
6d248857
WN
3878
3879* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
3880 with newer versions of bison.
28c38448
MF
3881
3882* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
3883 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
3884 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
3885 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
3886 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
3887 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
3888 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
3889 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
3890 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
3891 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
3892 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
3893 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
3894 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
3895
3896 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
3897 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
3898 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
3899 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
3900 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
58b930ae 3901\f
d5b396c1
AM
3902Version 2.20
3903
3904* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3905
6a9350c8
JM
3906 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
3907 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
3908 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
3909 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
3910 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
3911 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
3912 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
3913 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
3914 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
3915 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
3916 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
3917 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
3918 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
3919 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
3920 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
0961f7e1 3921
95ee7fb1
SL
3922* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
3923 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
3924 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
3925 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
3926 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 3927 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
95ee7fb1
SL
3928 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
3929 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
3930 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
3931 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
3932
0961f7e1
JL
3933* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
3934 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
3935 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
3936 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
3937 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
f3d338c9 3938
f940b965
RE
3939* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
3940
d0f5b3f8
JM
3941* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
3942 can be used with is 2.6.32.
3943
d6fe5e58
JM
3944* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
3945 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
3946 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
3947 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
3948 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
3949 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
3950
464263cc
JM
3951* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
3952 from ports.
c941736c
JM
3953
3954* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
3955 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
3956 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
3957 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
3958 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
3959 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
3960 test macros defined.
f63c86fe
WN
3961
3962* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5a414ff7
DV
3963
3964* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
3965 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
3966 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
3967 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
3968 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
3969 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
3970 is not built.
d03efb2f
AM
3971
3972* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
3973 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
3974 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
3975 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
3976 invocation.
cfd2ea50
JM
3977
3978* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
3979 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
3980 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
f083450f
RM
3981
3982* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
3983 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
3984 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
3985 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
4e8f95a0
FW
3986
3987* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
3988 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
3989 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
3990 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
3991 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
3992 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
3993 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
3994 additional checks.
9a8a5720
RM
3995
3996* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
3997 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
3998 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
3999 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
4000 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
4001 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
4002 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
4003 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
4004 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
a1a6a401
FW
4005
4006* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
4007 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
4008 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
4009 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
4010 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 4011 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
41488498
FW
4012
4013* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
4014 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
4015 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
4016 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
6c1fd795
DM
4017\f
4018Version 2.19
4019
4020* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4021
fd2f9486
JM
4022 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
4023 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
4024 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
4025 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
4026 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
4027 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
4028 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
4029 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
4030 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
4031 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
ed27ed83
JM
4032 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
4033 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
4034 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
4035 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
4036 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
798212a0
PP
4037 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
4038 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
4039 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
141f3a77 4040
11520a57
CD
4041* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
4042 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
4043
2fe16229
CD
4044* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
4045 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
4046 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
08d76093
CD
4047 extension which uses __block.
4048
303e567a
SP
4049* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
4050 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
4051 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
4052 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
4053 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
4054
141f3a77
SP
4055* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
4056 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
4057 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
4058 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
4059 if malloc fails.
c61b4d41
CD
4060
4061* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
4062 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
4063 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
4064 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
4065 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
91ce4085
FW
4066
4067* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
4068 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
4069 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
4070
ba0d798c
WN
4071* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
4072 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
4073 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
4074 #15856, #15857).
4075
7cbcdb36
SP
4076* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
4077 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
4078
82bab04b 4079* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 4080 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
ddd9fb8f 4081
c5f840fd
MB
4082* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
4083
3e181dda
CD
4084* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
4085 supported locales.
ddd9fb8f 4086
3e181dda 4087* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
7447ccd9 4088
8a05c252
CL
4089* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
4090
6055173a
JM
4091* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
4092 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
4093 for which the C library was built.
4094
b125d3e5
JM
4095* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
4096 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
4097 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
4098 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
4099 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
4100 in the following circumstances:
4101
4102 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
4103
4104 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
4105 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
4106
d4f66d37
JM
4107* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
4108 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
4109
3e181dda
CD
4110* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
4111 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
e35696c3 4112
ffb89e53
AO
4113* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
4114
5d29ccce
SP
4115* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
4116 transcendental functions have been introduced.
4117
8b7d57cd 4118* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
b125d3e5
JM
4119
4120* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 4121
fd712ef3 4122* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 4123
c688b419
JM
4124* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
4125 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
4126 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
4127 disable some of those declarations.
4128
7011c262 4129* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
029c7b25
JM
4130 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
4131 that did nothing) has also been removed.
0a57b83e
AO
4132
4133* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
4134 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
ee4ec1d7
AK
4135
4136* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
4137 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
4138 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
4139 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
4140 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
4141 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
4142 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
4143 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
4144 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
4145 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
4146 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
4147 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
4148 require recompilation.
2c8bfe7d
DM
4149\f
4150Version 2.18
4151
4152* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4153
17db6e8d 4154 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
0432680e
PY
4155 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
4156 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
8c17cb1f
JM
4157 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
4158 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
4159 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
4160 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
4161 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
4162 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
4163 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
4164 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
4165 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
4166 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
4167 15755, 15759.
e4608715
CD
4168
4169* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
4170 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
4171 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
4172 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
4173 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
4174 understands and accepts the risks.
1cef1b19 4175
5b535ac4
AS
4176* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
4177 #15078).
4178
1cef1b19
AS
4179* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
4180 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
7fffbdff 4181
55e4107b
SP
4182* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
4183 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
4184 destructor calls to glibc.
4185
e5c74c63
SP
4186* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
4187 output.
4188
4189* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
4190 non-x86 architectures.
4191
e7521973
JM
4192* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
4193
4194* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
4195
4196* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
4197 Richard Henderson.
4198
4199* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
4200
4201* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
4202 Richard Henderson.
4203
4204* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
4205 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
4206
8cfdb7e0
SP
4207* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
4208
57267616
TS
4209* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
4210 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
58206c68 4211
c204ab28
SP
4212* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
4213 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
61dd6208 4214
0748546f
PE
4215* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
4216 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
4217 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
4218
61dd6208
SP
4219* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
4220 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
4221 attributes of a process.
a7cb9d67
AK
4222
4223* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
4224 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
4225 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
4226 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
4227 mutexes.
be063fa4
RA
4228
4229* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
4230 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
4231
4232* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
370ca3d2
JM
4233\f
4234Version 2.17
4235
4236* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4237
80ceeaee 4238 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
b4180a5e
AJ
4239 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
4240 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
4241 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
4242 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
4243 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
4244 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
4245 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
4246 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
4247 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
4248 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
4249 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
4250 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
4251 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
4252 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
14bc93a9 4253
95b4f1b6
SE
4254* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
4255
14bc93a9
JL
4256* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
4257 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
7a845b2c 4258
b54eb3cb
JM
4259* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
4260 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
4261
7e2bd01f
MS
4262* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
4263
08f43f9b
AK
4264* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
4265 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
4266 zEnterprise z196.
4267 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
4268
84b3fd84
FW
4269* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
4270 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
4271 the internal function __secure_getenv.
4272
815e6fa3
GB
4273* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
4274 Implemented by Gary Benson.
4275
400726de
MK
4276* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
4277 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
4278
7aab07e4 4279* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 4280 can be used with is 2.6.16.
7aab07e4 4281
15d0da8c
WS
4282* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
4283 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
4284
3cc3ef96
RM
4285* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
4286 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
c53d909c
RM
4287 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
4288 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3cc3ef96 4289
b54eb3cb
JM
4290* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
4291 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
4292
85429b1a 4293* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 4294 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
85429b1a
DM
4295 default.
4296
b54eb3cb
JM
4297* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
4298 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
4299 information in --help and --version output.
4300
050af9c4
SP
4301* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
4302 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
4303 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
4304
89a3ad0b
AO
4305* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
4306 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
4307 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
4308 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
4309 when the mode is enabled.
4310
6e6249d0
RM
4311* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
4312 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
4313 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
4314 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
4315 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
4316 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
4317 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5a04f376 4318
d9286582
NK
4319* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
4320 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
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4322Version 2.16
4323
4324* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4325
a8133e19
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4326 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
4327 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
4328 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
4329 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
4330 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
4331 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
4332 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
4333 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
4334 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
4335 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
4336 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
4337 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
4338 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
4339 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
4340 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
4341 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
4342 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
4343 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
4344 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
4345 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
4346 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
4347 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
4348 14277, 14278.
380d7e87 4349
a086b4d6
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4350* Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
4351 configuring glibc with:
4352 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
8f7a75d7 4353 Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
a086b4d6
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4354 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4355
380d7e87
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4356* ISO C11 support:
4357
4358 + define static_assert
4359
4360 + do not declare gets
4361
4362 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
4363
4364 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
4365 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
4366 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
4367 implementation.
8d44e150 4368
74033a25 4369 + timespec_get added
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4370
4371 + uchar.h support added
d75a0a62 4372
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4373 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
4374
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4375 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4376
9dc4e1fb 4377* Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
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4378
4379* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
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4380
4381* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
4382 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4383
4384* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
4385 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4386
4387* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
4388 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
4389 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
4390 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
4391 existing applications.
ffb7875d 4392
21708942 4393* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
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4394 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
4395 before 2.6.
83678f76 4396
edb00e4d
RH
4397* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
4398 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
4399 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
4400
83678f76 4401* New locales: mag_IN
7b44a2df
RM
4402
4403* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
4404 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
4405 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
4406 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
4407 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
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4408
4409* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4410
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
4411* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
4412 and Will Schmidt.
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4413
4414* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
4415
4416* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
4417 without a previously built glibc.
4418
4419* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
4420 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
4421
4422* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
4423 now supported for ARM processors.
4424
4425* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
4426 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
4427 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
4428
4429* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
4430
4431* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
4432 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
4433 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
4434 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
929cc14e
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4435
4436* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
4437 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
4438 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
4439 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
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CD
4440
4441* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
4442 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
4443 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
4444 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
4445 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
4446
4447* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
4448 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
4449 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
4450 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
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e80fab37 4452Version 2.15
11988f8f 4453
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4454* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4455
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4456 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
4457 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
4458 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
4459 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
4460 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
4461 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
4462 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
c0244a9d 4463
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4464* New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
4465 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
9f2da732
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4466
4467* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
4468 and support for initgroups lookups.
4469 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
0b1cbaae
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4470
4471* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
4472 Contributed by HJ Lu.
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4473
4474* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
4475 Contributed by HJ Lu.
99710781 4476
fc2ee42a
LD
4477* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
4478 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 4479 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 4480
d42964a0 4481* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
693fb948
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4482 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4483
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4484* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
4485 for x86-64 and x86-32.
093ecf92
LD
4486 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4487
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4488* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
4489 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a0f33f99
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4490
4491* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
4492 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4493
4494* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
4495 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
0ac5ae23
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4496
4497* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
4498 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4499
4500* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
4501 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4502
4503* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
4504 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4505
4506* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
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4507
4508* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
4509 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a1267ba1 4510
f0b264f1
AZ
4511* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
4512 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
2655fd5c 4513
6b64057b 4514* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
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9f94d2ea 4517
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4518* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4519
553149f6 4520 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 4521 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 4522 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 4523 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
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4524 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
4525 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
4526 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
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4527 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
4528 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 4529 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
50934221 4530
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4531* The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
4532 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
4533 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 4534 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
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4535
4536 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
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4537 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
4538 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
7b57bfe5
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4539 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4540
c6489db3 4541* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
f1f929d7 4542 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
83fe108b 4543
72d1dddb 4544* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 4545 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
bc469bea
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4546
4547* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
a9171047
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4548
4549* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
4550 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7d17596c
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4551
4552* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
4553 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
4554 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
4555 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
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4557Version 2.13
4558
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4559* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4560
c30b7ee2
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4561 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
4562 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
4563 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
4564 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
4565 12378, 12394, 12397
ac2b484c 4566
10b3bedc 4567* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
c08fb0d7 4568
ac2b484c 4569* POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
8d50becc 4570
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4571* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
4572 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 4573 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4575Version 2.12
4576
d36b9613
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4577* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4578
2e0fb521
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4579 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
4580 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
4581 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
4582 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
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4583 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
4584 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
4585 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 4586 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
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4587
4588* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
d36b9613 4589
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4590* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
4591
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4592* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
4593
4594* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
4595 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
4596 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4597
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4598* New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
4599 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
4600 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
4601 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
4602 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4603
d36b9613 4604* New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
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4605\f
4606Version 2.11
4607
d36b9613
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4608* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4609
4610 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
4611 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
4612 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
4613 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
4614 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
4615 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
4616
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4617* New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
4618 mkostemps64
3d5243d4
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4619 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4620
24ab9c76 4621* Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
b50f8e42
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4622 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4623
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4624* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
4625 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4626
51a71cf0
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4627* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
4628
0122f28e 4629* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
9d36a6c4 4630 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 4631 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
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4632 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
4633
9d36a6c4 4634 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
0122f28e
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4635 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4636
9d36a6c4
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4637* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
4638 strstr, strcasestr.
4639 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
4640
4641* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
4642 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
4643
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4644* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
4645 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4646
4647* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
4648 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4649
4650* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
4651 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
4652 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
4653 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
4654 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
4655 necessity is every process again.
4656 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4657
9d36a6c4
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4658* New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
4659 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
4660
4661* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
4662 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
4663
4bc1b896
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4664* Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
4665 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
4666 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4667
9dd5b8a1 4668* New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
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4669\f
4670Version 2.10
4671
d36b9613
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4672* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4673
4674 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
4675 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
4676 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
4677 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
4678 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
4679
bb066545 4680* New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
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4681 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4682
425ce2ed 4683* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
e109c612 4684 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 4685
1fdd89a7 4686* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
735be400 4687 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
1fdd89a7 4688
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4689* XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
4690 now in POSIX.
77db439e 4691
1f04d005 4692* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6cbe890a 4693 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1f04d005 4694
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4695* New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
4696 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4697
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4698* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
4699 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4700
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4701* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
4702 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4703
4704* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
4705 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
4706 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4707
735be400 4708* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
878b72c5 4709
84aa52d7 4710* Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
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4711 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4712
4713* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
4714 and extend existing format specifiers.
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4715 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4716
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4717* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
4718 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4719
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4720* DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
4721 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
4722 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
4723 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
4724 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
4725 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4727Version 2.9
4728
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4729* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4730
597d0267
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4731 2447, 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447,
4732 6461, 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712,
4733 6713, 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839,
4734 6843, 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955,
4735 6966, 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
d36b9613 4736
b29899ae 4737* Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
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4738 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4739
4740* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
4741 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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4743* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
4744 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4746* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
4747 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
4748 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4749
4750* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
4751 Implemented by Eric Blake.
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4755* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
ebcc1f4d 4756 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4758* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
4759 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
4760 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
4761 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4762
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4763* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
4764 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4766* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
4767 Sinhala)
48b22986 4768 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
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4770* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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4773
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4775
4776 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
4777 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
4778 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
4779 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
4780 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
4781 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
4782 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
4783
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77751669 4786* New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
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4788* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
4789 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
4790
4791* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
4792
4793* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
4794 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4795
4796* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
4797 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4798
4799* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
4800 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
4801 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4802
4803* Faster memset for x86-64.
4804 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
4805
4806* Faster memcpy on x86.
4807 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4808
4809* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
4810 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4812* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
d990b282 4813 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
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4816
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4817* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4818
4819 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
4820 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
4821 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
4822 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
4823 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
4824
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4825* More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
4826 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4827
4828* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4829
4830* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
4831 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
4832 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4833
4834* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
4835 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
4836
28919a77 4837* New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
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4838 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4839
4840* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4841
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4842* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
4843 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4844
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4845* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
4846 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4847
4848* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
4849 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
4850
4851* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4852
4853* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
4854 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4856* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
4857 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
4858 yo_NG.
4859
4860+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
4861 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4866
4867 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
4868 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
4869 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
4870 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
4871 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
4872 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
4873 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
4874 4702, 4858
4875
bce20b9a 4876* New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
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4879
b21fa963 4880* nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4883
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4885
4886 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
4887 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
4888 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
4889 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
4890 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
4891 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
4892 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
4893 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
4894 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
4895
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4897 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
4898 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4900* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
4901 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4902
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4905* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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4907* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
4908 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
4909 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
457b559e 4910 site might have problems with the default behavior.
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4911 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4912
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4914 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
4915 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
4916 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4917
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4918* The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
4919 Ulrich Drepper.
4920
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4921* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
4922
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4923* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
4924 Ulrich Drepper.
4925
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4926* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
4927
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4928* New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
4929 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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4931Version 2.4
4932
4933* More overflow detection functions.
4934
4935* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
4936 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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4938 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
4939 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
4940 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
4941 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
4942 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
4943 by Masahide Washizawa.
4944
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4945* It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
4946 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4947
4948* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
4949 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
4950 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
4951 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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4953* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
4954 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
4955
4956* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
4957
4958* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
4959 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
4960 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
4961
4962* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
4963 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
4964
4965* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
4966 for compatibility with some other systems.
4967
4968* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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4970Version 2.3.6
4971
4972* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4973
4974 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
4975 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
4976 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
4977 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
4978 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
4979 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
4980
5a82c748 4981 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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4983* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
4984
4985* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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4987Version 2.3.5
4988
4989* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4990
4991 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
4992 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
4993 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
4994 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
4995
5a82c748 4996 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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4998Version 2.3.4
4999
5000* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
5001 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5002
5003* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
5004 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
5005 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5006
5007* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
5008 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
5009
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5011 efficiently.
5012 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5013
5014* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
5015 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
5016 handling data.
5017
5018* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
5019 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
0325dd20 5020 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5021
5022* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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5023 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5024
5025* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
5026 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
5027 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
5028 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5029
5030* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
5031 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
5032 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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5033 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5034
5035* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
5036 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
5037 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
5038 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
5039 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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5041Version 2.3.3
5042
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5043* New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
5044 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
5045
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5046* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
5047 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
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5050 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
5051
5052* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
5053 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5055* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
5056 by Roland McGrath.
5057
c5af724c 5058* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
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5059 and Ulrich Drepper.
5060
5061* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
5062 RFC 3484.
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5064Version 2.3.2
5065
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5066* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
5067 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
5068 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
5069 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
5070 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
5071 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
5072 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
5073 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
5074 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
5075
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5076* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
5077 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
5078 and are now also available on the Hurd.
5079
5080* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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5081
5082* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
5083 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
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5085* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
5086 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
5087
52a16e58 5088* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
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5090* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
5091 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
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5093* With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
5094 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
5095 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
5096 of weak definition in ld.so.
5097
5098* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
5099 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
5100
5101* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
5102 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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5106* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
5107 charsets.
5108
5109* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
5110 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
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bb0ec5bd 5112* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 5113 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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5115* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
5116 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
8e57fc70 5117
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5119 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
5120 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5122* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
5123 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3b0bdc72 5124
bb0ec5bd 5125* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3b0bdc72 5126 implementation of regex.
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5128* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
5129 Unicode 3.2.
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5131* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
5132 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
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5134* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
5135 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
5136 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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5137
5138* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
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5140
5141* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
5142 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
5143 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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5144
5145* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
5146 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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5148* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
5149 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
5150 and Ulrich Drepper.
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5152* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
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5155
5156* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
5157 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
5158
5159* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
5160 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
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5162Version 2.2.5
5163
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5164* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
5165 128-bit long double format.
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5167* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
5168 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
a8ae31c2 5169
ad2e4f18 5170* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
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5172* Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
5173
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5174* libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
5175 as well.
5176
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5177* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
5178 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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5179
5180* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
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5182Version 2.2.4
5183
2995f70e 5184* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 5185 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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5186
5187* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
5188 support Unicode 3.1.
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5189
5190* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
5191 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
045fcd26 5192
69d5f925 5193* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 5194
69d5f925 5195* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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5196 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
5197 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5198
5199* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
5200 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
5201
5202* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
5203 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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5204
5205* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
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5207Version 2.2.3
5208
1746f2b0 5209* Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
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5210 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
5211 in float, double, and long double format.
5212
f128331c 5213* Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
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5214 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
5215 128-bit long double format.
07f951e4 5216
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5217* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
5218 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
5219 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
5220 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
5221
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5222* An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
5223 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
5224 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5225
5226* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
5227 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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5228
5229* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
5230 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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5231
5232* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
5233 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
5234 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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5235
5236* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
5237 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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5238
5239* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
5240 of functions for Linux/x86.
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5241
5242* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
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5244Version 2.2.2
5245
464d97ec 5246* Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
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5247 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
5248 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
5249 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
5250 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
5251 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
5252 other headers.
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5253
5254* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
5255 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
5256
5257* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
5258 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
5259 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
5260 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5261
5262* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
5263 locales. While
5264
5265 locale -a
5266
5267 only lists the names of the supported locales
5268
5269 locale -a --verbose
5270
5271 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
5272 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
306eeae5 5273\f
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5274Version 2.2.1
5275
5276* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
5277 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
5278 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
5279 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
5280 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
5281
5282 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
5283
5284 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
5285
5286 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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5287
5288* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
5289 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
5290 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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5291
5292* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
5293 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
5294
5295* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
5296 changed from the default "C" locale.
5297
5298* The usual bug fixes.
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5300Version 2.2
5301
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5302* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
5303 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
5304 is in progress.
5305
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5306* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
5307
793bd4d9 5308* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
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5310 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
5311 obviously requires a database library being available.
5312
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5313* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5314
abbffdf9 5315* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
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5317* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
5318 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
5319
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5320* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
5321
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5322* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
5323 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
5324 and Mark Kettenis.
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5325
5326 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
5327 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
5328 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 5329
a00c3ca9 5330 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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5331 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
5332
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5333* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
5334 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
5335 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
5336
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5337* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
5338 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
5339 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
5340 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5341
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5342 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
5343 structures for the wide character tables.
5344
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5345* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5346
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5347* The utmp daemon has been removed.
5348
5349* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
5350
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5351* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
5352 and Yutaka Niibe.
5353
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5354* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
5355
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5356* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
5357
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5358* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5359
5360* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
5361
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5362* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
5363
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5364* the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
5365 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
5366 implemented for Linux.
5367
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5368* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
5369 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
5370 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
5371 versions.
5372
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5373* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
5374 Masahide Washizawa.
5375
8f3f1e09 5376* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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5377\f
5378Version 2.1.3
5379
5380* bug fixes
5381
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5382\f
5383Version 2.1.2
5384
5385* bug fixes
5386
28f540f4 5387\f
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5388Version 2.1.1
5389
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5390* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
5391
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5392* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
5393
407d26b7 5394* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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5395
5396* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
5397
407d26b7 5398* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 5399
407d26b7 5400* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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5401
5402* Update timezone data files.
27995311 5403
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5404* lots of charmaps corrections
5405
5406* some new locale definitions and charmaps
5407
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5409Version 2.1
5410
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5411* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
5412 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
5413 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
5414 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
5415 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
5416 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
5417
c84142e8 5418* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 5419 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 5420
1fb05e3d 5421* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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5422 symbol level.
5423
5424* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
5425 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
377a515b 5426
cbdee279 5427* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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5428
5429* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 5430 numbers.
377a515b 5431
cbdee279 5432* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
e61abf83 5433
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5434* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
5435 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
e61abf83 5436
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5437* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
5438 library.
5439
e61abf83 5440* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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5441 functions from ISO C 9X.
5442
5443* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
5444 real valued functions.
e61abf83 5445
a5a0310d 5446* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
e61abf83 5447
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5448* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
5449
5450* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 5451
440d13e2 5452* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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5453
5454* Optimized string functions have been added.
5455
5456* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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5457
5458* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
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5460* Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
5461 daemon for NSS (nscd).
5462
5463 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
5464 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
5465
0dee6738 5466 user system wall
48244d09 5467
0dee6738 5468 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 5469
0dee6738 5470 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 5471
0dee6738 5472 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
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5474 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
5475
5476 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
5477
5478 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
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5480 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
5481 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
0dee6738 5482 horribly slow.
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5484 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
5485 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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5486
5487* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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5488
5489* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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5490
5491* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
5492 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
5493
5494* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
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5496* A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
5497 Bambrough.
5498
5499* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
5500 latest draft standards.
5501
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5502* Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
5503
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5504* Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
5505~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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5508argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
5509argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
5510argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
5511argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
5512argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
5513argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
5514argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
5515argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
5516argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
5517argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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5518authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
5519authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
5520authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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5521backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
5522backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
5523backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
5524cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
5525cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
5526cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
5527cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
5528cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
5529cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
5530capget NEW: kernel
5531capset NEW: kernel
5532carg NEW: ISO C 9x
5533cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
5534cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
5535casin NEW: ISO C 9x
5536casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
5537casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
5538casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5539casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5540casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
5541catan NEW: ISO C 9x
5542catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
5543catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
5544catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5545catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5546catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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5548ccos NEW: ISO C 9x
5549ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
5550ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
5551ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
5552ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
5553ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
5554cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
5555cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
5556cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
5557cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
5558cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
5559cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
5560clearerr_locked REMOVED
5561clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
5562clog NEW: ISO C 9x
5563clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
5564clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
5565clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
5566clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
5567clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
5568conj NEW: ISO C 9x
5569conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
5570conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
5571cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
5572cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
5573cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
5574cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
5575cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
5576cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
5577creal NEW: ISO C 9x
5578crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
5579creall NEW: ISO C 9x
5580creat64 NEW: LFS
5581csin NEW: ISO C 9x
5582csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
5583csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
5584csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5585csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5586csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
5587csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
5588csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
5589csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
5590ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
5591ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
5592ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
5593ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5594ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5595ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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5596des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
5597ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 5598endutxent NEW: Unix98
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5599exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x
5600exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
5601exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
5602exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
5603exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
5604exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
5605fattach NEW: STREAMS
5606fdetach NEW: STREAMS
5607fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
5608fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
5609fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
5610feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5611fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5612fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
5613fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
5614feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5615feof_locked REMOVED
5616feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5617ferror_locked REMOVED
5618fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5619fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
5620fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
5621fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5622feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5623fflush_locked REMOVED
5624ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
5625ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
5626fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
5627fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5628fileno_locked REMOVED
5629fma NEW: ISO C 9x
5630fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
5631fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
5632fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
5633fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
5634fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
5635fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
5636fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
5637fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
62595351 5638fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
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5639fopen64 NEW: LFS
5640fputc_locked REMOVED
5641fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5642fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5643freopen64 NEW: LFS
5644fseeko NEW: Unix98
5645fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
5646fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
5647fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
5648fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
5649ftello NEW: Unix98
5650ftello64 NEW: LFS
5651ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
5652ftw64 NEW: LFS
5653fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5654gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
5655gamma_r REMOVED
5656gammaf_r REMOVED
5657gammal_r REMOVED
5658getchar_locked REMOVED
5659getdate NEW: Unix98
5660getdate_err NEW: Unix98
5661getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
5662getmsg NEW: STREAMS
5663getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
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5666getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
5667getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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5668getutxent NEW: Unix98
5669getutxid NEW: Unix98
5670getutxline NEW: Unix98
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5671glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
5672globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
5673gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
5674gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
5675grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
e980ca92 5676host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
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5677iconv NEW: iconv
5678iconv_close NEW: iconv
5679iconv_open NEW: iconv
5680if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
5681if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
5682if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
5683if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
5684in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
5685in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
5686inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
5687isastream NEW: STREAMS
5688iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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5689key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
5690key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
5691key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
5692key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
5693key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
5694key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
5695key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
5696key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
5697key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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5698llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
5699llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5700llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
5701llround NEW: ISO C 9x
5702llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5703llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5704log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
5705log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
5706log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
5707lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
5708lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5709lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
5710lround NEW: ISO C 9x
5711lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5712lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5713lseek64 NEW: LFS
5714makecontext NEW: Unix98
5715mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
5716mmap64 NEW: LFS
5717moncontrol REMOVED
5718modify_ldt NEW: kernel
5719nan NEW: ISO C 9x
5720nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
5721nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
5722nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
5723nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5724nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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5725netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
5726netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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5727nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
5728nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
5729nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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5730nftw NEW: Unix98
5731nftw64 NEW: LFS
5732open64 NEW: LFS
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5734pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
5735pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
5736pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
5737pread NEW: Unix98
5738pread64 NEW: LFS
5739printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
5740printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
5741profil_counter REMOVED
5742pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
5743pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
5744ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
5745ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
5746putc_locked REMOVED
5747putchar_locked REMOVED
5748putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
5749putmsg NEW: STREAMS
5750putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
62595351 5751pututxline NEW: Unix98
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5752pwrite NEW: Unix98
5753pwrite64 NEW: LFS
5754readdir64 NEW: LFS
5755readdir64_r NEW: LFS
5756remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
5757remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
5758remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
5759round NEW: ISO C 9x
5760roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5761roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5762rtime NEW: GNU ext.
5763scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
5764scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
5765scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
5766scandir64 NEW: LFS
5767sendfile NEW: kernel
5768setcontext NEW: Unix98
5769setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 5770setutxent NEW: Unix98
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5771sighold NEW: Unix98
5772sigignore NEW: Unix98
5773sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
5774sigrelse NEW: Unix98
5775sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
5776sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
5777sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
5778sincos NEW: GNU ext.
5779sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
5780sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
5781statfs64 NEW: LFS
5782statvfs NEW: Unix98
5783statvfs64 NEW: LFS
5784strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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5785strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
5786strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
5787strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
e980ca92 5788svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
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5789svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
5790svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
5791swapcontext NEW: Unix98
5792tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
5793tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
5794tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
5795tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
5796tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
5797tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
5798trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
5799truncate64 NEW: LFS
5800truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
5801truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
5802umount2 NEW: kernel
5803unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 5804updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 5805user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 5806utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 5807versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
3ef4002b 5808versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
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5809waitid NEW: Unix98
5810wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
5811wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
5812wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
5813wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
5814wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
5815wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
5816wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
5817wcswcs NEW: Unix98
5818wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
5819wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
5820write_profiling REMOVED
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5821xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
5822xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
5823xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
5824xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
5825xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
5826xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
5827xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
5828xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
5829xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
5830xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
5831xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
5832xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
5833xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 5834xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
e980ca92 5835xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 5836~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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5838Version 2.0.6
5839
5840* more bug fixes
5841
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5843Version 2.0.5
5844
5845* more bug fixes
5846
5847* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
5848
5849* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
5850
5851* rewrite of cbrt function
5852
5853* update of timezone data
5854\f
5855Version 2.0.4
5856
5857* more bug fixes
5858\f
5859Version 2.0.3
5860
5861* more bug fixes
c84142e8 5862\f
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5863Version 2.0.2
5864
5865* more bug fixes
5866
5867* add atoll function
5868
5869* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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5870
5871* fix math functions
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5873Version 2.0.1
5874
5875* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
5876
5877* dynamic loader preserves all registers
5878
5879* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
5880 the ELF dynamic loader.
5881
5882* support for parallel builds is improved
5883\f
40a4b79f 5884Version 2.0
28f540f4 5885
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5886* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
5887 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
5888 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
5889
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5890* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
5891 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
5892 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
5893 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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5894 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
5895 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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5896 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
5897 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
5898 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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5899 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
5900 files in the ELF format.
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5901
5902* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
5903 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
5904
5905* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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5906 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
5907 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
5908 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
5909 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
5910 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
5911 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
5912 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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5913 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
5914 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
5915 about dynamically linked binaries.
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5917* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
5918 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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5919 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
5920 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
5921 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 5922
f7eac6eb 5923* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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5924 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
5925 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
5926 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
5927 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
5928
5929* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
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5931* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
5932 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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5933 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
5934 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
5935 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
5936 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
5937 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
5938 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
5939 NSS services available.
5f0e6fc7 5940
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5941* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
5942 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
5943 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
5944
5945* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
5946 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
5947 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
5948
5949* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
5950 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
5951 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
5952 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
5953
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5954* The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
5955 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
5956 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
5957
5958* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
5959 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
5960 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
5961
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5962* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
5963 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
5964
f7eac6eb 5965* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 5966 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 5967 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
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5968 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
5969
5970* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
5971 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
5972 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 5973
71733723 5974* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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5975 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
5976 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
5977 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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5978 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
5979 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 5980 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 5981 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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5982
5983* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
5984 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
5985 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
5986 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
5987 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
5988 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
5989 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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5990
5991* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
5992 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
5993 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
5994 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
5995 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
5996 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
5997
5998* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
5999 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
6000
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6001* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
6002 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
6003 NSS scheme used in glibc.
28f540f4 6004
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6005* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
6006
6007* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
6008 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
6009 their use is discouraged.
6010
6011* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
6012 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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6014* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
6015 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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6016
6017* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
6018 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
6019
6020* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
6021 see <dirent.h>.
6022
6023* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
6024 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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6025 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
6026 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
6027 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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6028
6029* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
6030 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
6031 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
6032 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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6033
6034* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
6035 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
6036
6037* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
6038 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
6039 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
6040 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
6041 number generator.
6042
6043* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
6044 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
6045
6046* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
6047 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
6048
71733723 6049* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 6050 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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6051 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
6052 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
c709e372 6053
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6054* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
6055
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6056* David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
6057 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
6058 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
6059
6060* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
6061 for arithmetic and string handling.
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c709e372 6063* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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6064 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
6065 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
6066 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
6067
6068* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
6069 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
6070 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
6071 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
6072 programs already written to use it.)
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6073
6074* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
6075 constants.
6076
6077* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
6078 with 4.4 BSD.
6079
6080* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
6081 a given effective group ID.
6082
6083* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
6084 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
6085 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
6086 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
6087
6088* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 6089 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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6090 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
6091 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
6092 doing the same thing.
6093
6094* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
6095 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
6096
6097* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 6098 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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6099
6100* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
6101
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6102* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
6103 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
6104 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 6105 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 6106 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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6107
6108* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
6109 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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6110
6111* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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6112 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
6113 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
6114 function.
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6115
6116* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
6117
6118* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
6119 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
6120 strings.
6121
6122* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
6123 and writing the utmp file.
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6124
6125* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
6126 Thorsten Kukuk.
6127
6128* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
6129 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
6130 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
6131
6132* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
6133 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
6134
6135* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
6136 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
6137 specification.
6138
6139* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
6140 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
6141 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
6142 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
6143
6144* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
6145 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
6146 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
6147
6148* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
6149 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
6150 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
6151 expression matcher.
6152
6153* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
6154 functionality.
6155
6156* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
6157 by Ulrich Drepper.
6158
6159* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
6160
6161* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
6162 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
6163 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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6165Version 1.09
6166
6167* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
6168
6169* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
6170 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
6171
6172* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
6173 want to put themselves in the background.
6174
6175* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
6176 run without an operating system.
6177
6178* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
6179 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
6180
6181* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
6182 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
6183
6184* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
6185
6186* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
6187 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
6188 have YP (aka NIS).
6189
6190* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
6191 conventions.
6192
6193* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
6194 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
6195\f
6196Version 1.08
6197
6198* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
6199 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
6200 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
6201
6202* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
6203 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
6204
6205* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
6206 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
6207
6208* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
6209
6210* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
6211
6212* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
6213 compatibility.
6214
6215* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
6216 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
6217 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
6218
6219* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
6220
6221* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
6222 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
6223 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
6224
6225* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
6226 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
6227 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
6228 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
6229 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
6230 on a block).
6231
6232* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
6233 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
6234 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
6235 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
6236 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
6237 cross-compiler.
6238
6239* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
6240 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
6241\f
6242Version 1.07
6243
6244* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
6245 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
6246
6247* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
6248 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
6249 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
6250
6251* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
6252 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
6253 address of the last character written.
6254
6255* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
6256 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
6257
6258* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
6259 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
6260
6261* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
6262 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
6263 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
6264 you dereference this pointer.
6265
6266* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
6267 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
6268
6269* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
6270 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
6271 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
6272 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
6273
6274* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
6275 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
6276 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
6277 EAGAIN in every system call function.
6278\f
6279Version 1.06
6280
6281* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
6282 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
6283 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
6284 in Emacs or the `info' program.
ea278354 6285 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
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6286
6287* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
6288
6289* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
6290
6291* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
6292 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
6293
6294* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
6295 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
6296
6297* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
6298 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
6299
6300* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
6301 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
6302 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
6303 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
6304 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
6305
6306* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
6307 to the error code in `errno'.
6308
6309* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
6310 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
6311 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
6312 malloc'd string.
6313
6314* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
6315 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
6316 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
6317
6318* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
6319 uniquely-named temporary file.
6320\f
6321Version 1.05
6322
6323* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
6324 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
6325 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
6326
6327* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
6328 characters.
6329
6330* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
6331 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
6332
6333* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
6334\f
6335Version 1.04
6336
6337* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
6338 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
6339 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
6340 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
6341
6342* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
6343 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
6344 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
6345
6346* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
6347 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
6348
6349* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
6350 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
6351 made itself into a shared library.
6352
6353* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
6354 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
6355
6356* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
6357 with limited length.
6358
6359* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
6360
6361* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
6362
6363* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
6364
6365* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
6366 function for traversing a directory tree.
6367
6368* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
6369 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
6370 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
6371 formatted output directly to an obstack.
6372
6373* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
6374 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
6375
6376* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
6377
6378* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
6379 things to your strings.
6380
6381* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
6382
6383* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
6384 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
6385 supporting those systems.
6386
6387* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
6388 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
6389 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
6390 configuration files.
6391
6392* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
6393 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
6394
6395* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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6396 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
6397 in <strings.h>.)
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6398
6399* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
6400 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
6401 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
6402 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
6403 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
6404 required storage is not available.
6405
6406* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
6407 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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6408
6409* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
6410 latest files released from Berkeley.
6411\f
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6415 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
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6417 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
6418 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
6419
6420 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
6421 of this document, or of portions of it,
6422 under the above conditions, provided also that they
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