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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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21* On Linux, the function execveat has been added. It operates similar to
22 execve and it is is already used to implement fexecve without requiring
23 /proc to be mounted. However, different than fexecve, if the syscall is not
24 supported by the kernel an error is returned instead of trying a fallback.
25
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26* The ISO C2X function timespec_getres has been added.
27
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28* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_EXT__, from draft ISO
29 C2X, is supported to enable declarations of functions defined in Annex F
30 of C2X. Those declarations are also enabled when
31 __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, as specified in TS 18661-1, is
32 defined, and when _GNU_SOURCE is defined.
33
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34Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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36* The function pthread_mutex_consistent_np has been deprecated; programs
37 should use the equivalent standard function pthread_mutex_consistent
38 instead.
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40* The function pthread_mutexattr_getrobust_np has been deprecated;
41 programs should use the equivalent standard function
42 pthread_mutexattr_getrobust instead.
43
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44* The function pthread_mutexattr_setrobust_np has been deprecated;
45 programs should use the equivalent standard function
46 pthread_mutexattr_setrobust instead.
47
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48* The function pthread_yield has been deprecated; programs should use
49 the equivalent standard function sched_yield instead.
50
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51Changes to build and runtime requirements:
52
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53* On Linux, the shm_open, sem_open, and related functions now expect the
54 file shared memory file system to be mounted at /dev/shm. These functions
55 no longer search among the system's mount points for a suitable
56 replacement if /dev/shm is not available.
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58Security related changes:
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60 CVE-2021-27645: The nameserver caching daemon (nscd), when processing
61 a request for netgroup lookup, may crash due to a double-free,
62 potentially resulting in degraded service or Denial of Service on the
63 local system. Reported by Chris Schanzle.
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65The following bugs are resolved with this release:
66
67 [The release manager will add the list generated by
68 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
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71Version 2.33
72
73Major new features:
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75* The dynamic linker accepts the --list-tunables argument which prints
76 all the supported tunables. This option is disable if glibc is
77 configured with tunables disabled (--enable-tunables=no).
78
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79* The dynamic linker accepts the --argv0 argument and provides opportunity
80 to change argv[0] string.
81
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82* The dynamic linker loads optimized implementations of shared objects
83 from subdirectories under the glibc-hwcaps directory on the library
84 search path if the system's capabilities meet the requirements for
85 that subdirectory. Initially supported subdirectories include
86 "power9" and "power10" for the powerpc64le-linux-gnu architecture,
87 "z13", "z14", "z15" for s390x-linux-gnu, and "x86-64-v2", "x86-64-v3",
88 "x86-64-v4" for x86_64-linux-gnu. In the x86_64-linux-gnu case, the
89 subdirectory names correspond to the vendor-independent x86-64
90 microarchitecture levels defined in the x86-64 psABI supplement.
91
92* The new --help option of the dynamic linker provides usage and
93 information and library search path diagnostics.
94
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95* The mallinfo2 function is added to report statistics as per mallinfo,
96 but with larger field widths to accurately report values that are
97 larger than fit in an integer.
98
96203980 99* Add <sys/platform/x86.h> to provide query macros for x86 CPU features.
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101* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been expanded to run on
102 32-bit hardware. This is supported for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
103
104 - rv32imac ilp32
105 - rv32imafdc ilp32
106 - rv32imafdc ilp32d
107
108 The 32-bit RISC-V port requires at least Linux 5.4, GCC 7.1 and binutils
109 2.28.
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111* A new fortification level _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 is available. At this level,
112 glibc may use additional checks that may have an additional performance
113 overhead. At present these checks are available only on LLVM 9 and later.
114 The latest GCC available at this time (10.2) does not support this level of
115 fortification.
116
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117Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
118
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119* The mallinfo function is marked deprecated. Callers should call
120 mallinfo2 instead.
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122* When dlopen is used in statically linked programs, alternative library
123 implementations from HWCAP subdirectories are no longer loaded.
124 Instead, the default implementation is used.
125
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126* The deprecated <sys/vtimes.h> header and the function vtimes have been
127 removed. To support old binaries, the vtimes function continues to exist
128 as a compatibility symbol. Applications should use the getrlimit or
129 prlimit.
130
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131* Following a change in the tzdata 2018a release upstream, the zdump
132 program is now installed in the /usr/bin subdirectory. Previously,
133 the /usr/sbin subdirectory was used.
134
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135* On s390(x), the type float_t is now derived from the macro
136 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ that is defined by the compiler, instead of being
137 hardcoded to double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
138 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
139 libraries that use this type in their interfaces. The new definition
140 improves consistency with compiler behavior in many scenarios.
141
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142* A future version of glibc will stop loading shared objects from the
143 "tls" subdirectories on the library search path, the subdirectory that
144 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, and also stop employing
145 the legacy AT_HWCAP search mechanism. Applications should switch to
146 the new glibc-hwcaps mechanism instead; if they do not do that, only
147 the baseline version (directly from the search path directory) will be
148 loaded.
149
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150Changes to build and runtime requirements:
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152* On Linux, the system administrator needs to configure /dev/pts with
153 the intended access modes for pseudo-terminals. glibc no longer
154 attemps to adjust permissions of terminal devices. The previous glibc
155 defaults ("tty" group, user read/write and group write) already
156 corresponded to what most systems used, so that grantpt did not
157 perform any adjustments.
158
159* On Linux, the posix_openpt and getpt functions no longer attempt to
160 use legacy (BSD) pseudo-terminals and assume that if /dev/ptmx exists
161 (and pseudo-terminals are supported), a devpts file system is mounted
162 on /dev/pts. Current systems already meet these requirements.
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164* s390x requires GCC 7.1 or newer. See gcc Bug 98269.
165
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166Security related changes:
167
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934c48a0 169 ISO-20220-JP-3 character set using the iconv function has been fixed.
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170 This assertion was triggered by certain valid inputs in which the
171 converted output contains a combined sequence of two wide characters
172 crossing a buffer boundary. Reported by Tavis Ormandy.
173
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174 CVE-2020-27618: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
175 invoked with input containing redundant shift sequences in the IBM1364,
176 IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, or IBM1399 character sets.
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178 CVE-2020-29562: An assertion failure has been fixed in the iconv function
179 when invoked with UCS4 input containing an invalid character.
180
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181 CVE-2019-25013: A buffer overflow has been fixed in the iconv function when
182 invoked with EUC-KR input containing invalid multibyte input sequences.
183
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184The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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186 [10635] libc: realpath portability patches
187 [16124] dynamic-link: ld.so should allow to change argv[0]
188 [17924] malloc: 'free' should not set errno
189 [18683] libc: Linux faccessat implementation can incorrectly ignore
190 AT_EACCESS
191 [22899] libc: Use 64-bit readdir() in generic POSIX getcwd()
597d0267 192 [23091] hurd: missing waitid support
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193 [23249] libc: Epyc and other current AMD CPUs do not select the
194 "haswell" platform subdirectory
195 [24080] dynamic-link: Definition of "haswell" platform is inconsistent
196 with GCC
197 [24202] libc: m68k setjmp() saves incorrect 'a5' register in --enable-
198 stack-protector=all
199 [24941] libc: Make grantpt usable after multi-threaded fork in more
200 cases
201 [24970] libc: realpath mishandles EOVERFLOW; stat not needed anyway
202 [24973] locale: iconv encounters segmentation fault when converting
203 0x00 0xfe in EUC-KR to UTF-8 (CVE-2019-25013)
204 [25399] string: undefined reference to `__warn_memset_zero_len' when
205 changing gnuc version
206 [25859] libc: glibc parser for /sys/devices/system/cpu/online is
207 incorrect
208 [25938] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should store meaning of hwcap mask
209 bits
210 [25971] libc: s390 bits/hwcap.h out of sync with kernel
211 [26053] libc: unlockpt fails with ENOTTY for non-ptmx descriptors
212 [26100] libc: Race in syslog(3) with regards to tag printing.
213 [26124] libc: Export <cpu-features.h>
214 [26130] nscd: Inconsistent nscd cache during pruning
215 [26203] libc: GLRO(dl_x86_cpu_features) may not be intialized
216 [26224] locale: iconv hangs when converting some invalid inputs from
217 several IBM character sets (CVE-2020-27618)
218 [26341] libc: realpath cyclically call __alloca(path_max) to consume
219 too much stack space
220 [26343] manual: invalid documented return type for strerrorname_np(),
221 strerrordesc_np(), sigdescr_np(), sigabbrev_np()
222 [26376] libc: Namespace violation in stdio.h and sys/stat.h if build
223 with optimization.
224 [26383] locale: bind_textdomain_codeset doesn't accept //TRANSLIT
225 anymore
226 [26394] time: [2.33 Regression] FAIL: nptl/tst-join14
227 [26534] math: libm.so 2.32 SIGILL in pow() due to FMA4 instruction on
228 non-FMA4 system
229 [26552] dynamic-link: CPU_FEATURE_USABLE_P should be more conservative
230 [26553] libc: mtx_init allows type set to "mtx_recursive" only
231 [26555] string: strerrorname_np does not return the documented value
232 [26592] libc: pointer arithmetic overflows in realpath
233 [26600] network: Transaction ID collisions cause slow DNS lookups in
234 getaddrinfo
235 [26606] libc: [2.33 Regression] pselect is broken on x32
236 [26615] libc: powerpc: libc segfaults when LD_PRELOADed with libgcc
237 [26620] glob: fnmatch with collating symbols results in segmentation
238 fault
239 [26625] libc: [2.33 Regression] CET is disabled
240 [26636] libc: 32-bit shmctl(IPC_INFO) crashes when shminfo struct is
241 at the end of a memory mapping
242 [26637] libc: semctl SEM_STAT_ANY fails to pass the buffer specified
243 by the caller to the kernel
244 [26639] libc: msgctl IPC_INFO and MSG_INFO return garbage
245 [26647] build: [-Werror=array-parameter=] due to different
246 declarations for __sigsetjmp
247 [26648] libc: mkstemp is likely to fail on systems with non-stricly-
248 monotonic clocks
249 [26649] stdio: printf should handle non-normal x86 long double numbers
250 gracefully (CVE-2020-29573)
251 [26686] build: -Warray-parameter instances building with GCC 11
252 [26687] build: -Warray-bounds instances building with GCC 11
253 [26690] stdio: Aliasing violation in __vfscanf_internal
254 [26691] nptl: Use a minimum guard size of 64 KiB on aarch64
255 [26726] build: GCC warning calling new_composite_name with an array of
256 one element
257 [26736] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-sysvshm-linux
258 [26737] libc: Random FAIL: rt/tst-shm
259 [26791] libc: Missing O_CLOEXEC in sysconf.c
260 [26798] dynamic-link: aarch64: variant PCS symbols may be incorrectly
261 lazy bound
262 [26801] nptl: pthread_mutex_clocklock with CLOCK_MONOTONIC can fail on
263 PI mutexes
264 [26818] string: aarch64: string tests may run ifunc variants that are
265 not safe
266 [26821] libc: Memory leak test failures on Fedora 33
267 [26824] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-cpu-features-supports with recent trunk:
268 FSGSBASE/LM/RDRAND check failure
269 [26833] time: adjtime() with delta == NULL segfaults on armv7 32bit
270 platform
271 [26853] libc: aarch64: Missing unwind information in statically linked
272 startup code
273 [26923] locale: Assertion failure in iconv when converting invalid
274 UCS4 (CVE-2020-29562)
275 [26926] dynamic-link: aarch64: library dependencies are not bti
276 protected
277 [26932] libc: sh: Multiple floating point functions defined as stubs
278 only since 2.31
279 [26964] nptl: pthread_mutex_timedlock returning EAGAIN after futex is
280 locked
281 [26988] dynamic-link: aarch64: BTI mprotect address is not page
282 aligned
283 [27002] build: libc_freeres_fn build failure with GCC 11
284 [27004] dynamic-link: ld.so is miscompiled by GCC 11
285 [27008] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should have endianness markup
286 [27042] libc: [alpha] anonymous union in struct stat confuses
287 detection logic
288 [27053] libc: Conformance regression in system(3) (and probably also
289 pclose(3))
290 [27072] dynamic-link: static pie ifunc resolvers run before hwcap is
291 setup
292 [27077] network: Do not reload /etc/nsswitch.conf from chroot
293 [27083] libc: Unsafe unbounded alloca in addmntent
294 [27104] dynamic-link: The COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_MAX handshake does not
295 work
296 [27130] string: "rep movsb" performance issue
297 [27150] libc: alpha: wait4() is unavailable in static linking
298 [27177] dynamic-link:
299 GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.cpu.x86_ibt=on:glibc.cpu.x86_shstk=on doesn't
300 work
301 [27222] dynamic-link: Incorrect sysdeps/x86/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo.c
302 [27237] malloc: deadlock in malloc/tst-malloc-stats-cancellation
303 [27256] locale: Assertion failure in ISO-2022-JP-3 gconv module
304 related to combining characters (CVE-2021-3326)
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307Version 2.32
308
309Major new features:
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311* Unicode 13.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
312 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 13.0.0, using
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313 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
314
315* New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq)
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317* Support for Synopsys ARC HS cores (ARCv2 ISA) running Linux has been
318 added. This port requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-8.3 and Linux-5.1.
319 Three ABIs are supported:
320
321 - arc-linux-gnu
322 - arc-linux-gnuhf
323 - arceb-linux-gnu
324
4d3a77c7 325 The arc* ABIs are little-endian while arceb is big-endian. All ABIs use
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326 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
327
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328* The GNU C Library now loads audit modules listed in the DT_AUDIT and
329 DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
330
051be01f 331* powerpc64le supports IEEE128 long double libm/libc redirects when
4d3a77c7 332 using -mabi=ieeelongdouble to compile C code on supported GCC
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333 toolchains. It is recommended to use GCC 8 or newer when testing
334 this option.
335
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336* To help detect buffer overflows and other out-of-bounds accesses
337 several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This
338 should help GCC 10 issue better warnings.
339
4d3a77c7 340* On Linux, functions pthread_attr_setsigmask_np and
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341 pthread_attr_getsigmask_np have been added. They allow applications
342 to specify the signal mask of a thread created with pthread_create.
343
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344* The GNU C Library now provides the header file <sys/single_threaded.h>
345 which declares the variable __libc_single_threaded. Applications are
346 encouraged to use this variable for single-thread optimizations,
347 instead of weak references to symbols historically defined in
348 libpthread.
349
bfe05aa2 350* The functions sigabbrev_np and sigdescr_np have been added. The
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351 sigabbrev_np function returns the abbreviated signal name (e.g. "HUP" for
352 SIGHUP) while sigdescr_np returns a string describing the signal number
353 (e.g "Hangup" for SIGHUP). Different than strsignal, sigdescr_np does not
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354 attempt to translate the return description, both functions return
355 NULL for an invalid signal number.
356
357 They should be used instead of sys_siglist or sys_sigabbrev and they
358 are both thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
359
325081b9 360* The functions strerrorname_np and strerrordesc_np have been added. The
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361 strerroname_np function returns error number name (e.g. "EINVAL" for EINVAL)
362 while strerrordesc_np returns a string describing the error number
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363 (e.g "Invalid argument" for EINVAL). Different than strerror,
364 strerrordesc_np does not attempt to translate the return description, both
365 functions return NULL for an invalid error number.
366
367 They should be used instead of sys_errlist and sys_nerr, both are
368 thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
369
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370* AArch64 now supports standard branch protection security hardening
371 in glibc when it is built with a GCC that is configured with
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372 --enable-standard-branch-protection (or if -mbranch-protection=standard
373 flag is passed when building both GCC target libraries and glibc,
374 in either case a custom GCC is needed). This includes branch target
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375 identification (BTI) and pointer authentication for return addresses
376 (PAC-RET). They require armv8.5-a and armv8.3-a architecture
377 extensions respectively for the protection to be effective,
378 otherwise the used instructions are nops. User code can use PAC-RET
379 without libc support, but BTI requires a libc that is built with BTI
380 support, otherwise runtime objects linked into user code will not be
381 BTI compatible.
382
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383Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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385* Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc. Sun RPC is removed
386 from glibc. This includes the rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and the Sun
387 RPC header files. Backward compatibility for old programs is kept
388 only for architectures and ABIs that have been added in or before
389 glibc 2.31. New programs need to use TI-RPC
390 <http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=summary> and
391 rpcsvc-proto <https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto>.
392
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393* Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-nsl. libnsl is only built
394 as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules "nis"
395 and "nisplus" are not built at all and libnsl's headers aren't
396 installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs
397 that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement
398 implementations based on TI-RPC, which additionally support IPv6, are
399 available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not
4d3a77c7 400 affect the "compat" NSS module, which does not depend on libnsl
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401 since 2.27 and thus can be used without NIS.
402
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403* The deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
404 removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
405 exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
406 but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system
407 call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5.
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409* The sstk function is no longer available to newly linked binaries.
410 Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function
411 was not declared in any header file.
412
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413* The legacy signal handling functions siginterrupt, sigpause, sighold,
414 sigrelse, sigignore and sigset, and the sigmask macro have been
415 deprecated. Applications should use the sigsuspend, sigprocmask and
416 sigaction functions instead.
417
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418* ldconfig now defaults to the new format for ld.so.cache. glibc has
419 already supported this format for almost 20 years.
420
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421* The deprecated arrays sys_siglist, _sys_siglist, and sys_sigabbrev
422 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
423 have been removed from <string.h>. They are exported solely as
424 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
425 strsignal instead.
426
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427* The deprecated symbols sys_errlist, _sys_errlist, sys_nerr, and _sys_nerr
428 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
4d3a77c7 429 have been removed from <stdio.h>. They are exported solely as
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430 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
431 strerror or strerror_r instead.
432
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433* Both strerror and strerror_l now share the same internal buffer in the
434 calling thread, meaning that the returned string pointer may be invalided
435 or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same thread or
436 if the thread is terminated. It makes strerror MT-safe.
437
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438* Using weak references to libpthread functions such as pthread_create
439 or pthread_key_create to detect the singled-threaded nature of a
440 program is an obsolescent feature. Future versions of glibc will
441 define pthread_create within libc.so.6 itself, so such checks will
442 always flag the program as multi-threaded. Applications should check
443 the __libc_single_threaded variable declared in
444 <sys/single_threaded.h> instead.
445
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446* The "files" NSS module no longer supports the "key" database (used for
447 secure RPC). The contents of the /etc/publickey file will be ignored,
448 regardless of the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of
449 storing RPC keys only supported the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES
450 flavor of secure RPC.)
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452* The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
453 implementation __default_morecore have been deprecated. Applications
454 should use malloc interposition to change malloc behavior, and mmap to
455 allocate anonymous memory. A future version of glibc may require that
456 applications which use the malloc hooks must preload a special shared
457 object, to enable the hooks.
458
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459* The hesiod NSS module has been deprecated and will be removed in a
460 future version of glibc. System administrators are encouraged to
461 switch to other approaches for networked account databases, such as
462 LDAP.
463
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464Changes to build and runtime requirements:
465
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466* powerpc64le requires GCC 7.4 or newer. This is required for supporting
467 long double redirects.
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469Security related changes:
470
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471 CVE-2016-10228: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
472 invoked with the -c option and when processing invalid multi-byte input
473 sequences. Reported by Jan Engelhardt.
474
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475 CVE-2020-10029: Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack
476 corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido
477 Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
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479 CVE-2020-1752: A use-after-free vulnerability in the glob function when
480 expanding ~user has been fixed.
481
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482 CVE-2020-6096: A signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy and
483 memmove functions has been fixed. Discovered by Jason Royes and Samual
484 Dytrych of the Cisco Security Assessment and Penetration Team (See
485 TALOS-2020-1019).
486
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487The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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489 [9809] localedata: ckb_IQ: new Kurdish Sorani locale
490 [10441] manual: Backtraces code example lacks error checking
491 [10815] librt: [timer_create / SIGEV_THREAD] signalmask of
492 timer_sigev_thread dangerous
493 [14231] stdio: stdio-common tests memory requirements
494 [14578] libc: /proc-based emulation for lchmod, fchmodat
495 [16272] dynamic-link: dlopen()ing a DT_FILTER library crashes if
496 filtee has constructor
497 [19519] locale: iconv(1) with -c option hangs on illegal multi-byte
498 sequences (CVE-2016-10228)
499 [19737] admin: Doc page “20.5.2 Infinity and NaN” has incorrect HTML
500 character entities for infinity & pi
501 [20338] libc: Parsing of /etc/gshadow can return bad pointers causing
502 segfaults in applications
503 [20543] libc: Please move from .gnu.linkonce to comdat
504 [22489] network: gcc warns about implicit convertion in
505 ICMP6_FILTER_SETPASS with -Wsign-conversion
506 [22525] localedata: or_IN LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
507 [23294] math: Complex _FloatN functions are redirected to the wrong
508 function with -mlong-double-64
509 [23296] libc: Data race in setting function descriptor during lazy
510 binding
511 [23668] dynamic-link: ldconfig: Default to the new format for
512 ld.so.cache
513 [23819] hurd: hurd: Add C11 thread support
514 [23990] build: test-container error out on failure to exec child.
515 [23991] build: shell-container typo in run_command_array
516 [24638] manual: Error in example of parsing a template string
517 [24654] manual: Wrong declaration of wcschr in libc manual
518 [24943] dynamic-link: Support DT_AUDIT, DT_DEPAUDIT in the dynamic
519 linker
520 [25051] dynamic-link: aarch64, powerpc64 uses surplus static tls for
521 dynamically loaded dsos
522 [25098] nptl: nptl: ctype classification functions are not AS-Safe
523 [25219] libc: improve out-of-bounds checking with GCC 10 attribute
524 access
525 [25262] libc: getcontext/setcontext/swapcontext unnecessarily save and
526 restore EAX, ECX and EDX
527 [25397] dynamic-link: Legacy bitmap doesn't cover jitted code
528 [25414] glob: 'glob' use-after-free bug (CVE-2020-1752)
529 [25420] network: Race condition in resolv_conf.c can result in caching
530 stale configuration forever
531 [25487] math: sinl() stack corruption from crafted input
532 (CVE-2020-10029)
533 [25506] build: configure: broken detection of STT_GNU_IFUNC when GCC
534 defaults to PIE
535 [25523] libc: MIPS/Linux inline syscall template is miscompiled
536 [25620] libc: Signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy()
537 (CVE-2020-6096)
538 [25623] libc: test-sysvmsg, test-sysvsem, test-sysvshm fail with 2.31
539 on 32 bit and old kernel
540 [25635] libc: arm: Wrong sysdep order selection for soft-fp
541 [25639] localedata: Some names of days and months wrongly spelt in
542 Occitan
543 [25657] libc: sigprocmask() and sigisemptyset() manipulate different
544 amount of sigset_t bytes
545 [25691] stdio: printf: memory leak when printing long multibyte
546 strings
547 [25715] libc: system() returns wrong errors when posix_spawn fails
548 [25733] malloc: mallopt(M_MXFAST) can set global_max_fast to 0
549 [25734] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS fails to reset conversion
550 state for conversions that produce two Unicode code points
551 [25765] nptl: Incorrect futex syscall in __pthread_disable_asynccancel
552 for linux x86_64 leads to livelock
553 [25788] dynamic-link: [i386] -fno-omit-frame-pointer in CFLAGS causes
554 test failures, invalid instruction in ld.so
555 [25790] glob: Typo in tst-fnmatch.input
556 [25810] libc: x32: Incorrect syscall entries with pointer, off_t and
557 size_t
558 [25819] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 13.0.0
559 [25824] libc: Abnormal function of strnlen in aarch64
560 [25887] dynamic-link: Wasted space in _dl_x86_feature_1[1]
561 [25896] libc: Incorrect prctl
562 [25902] libc: Bad LOADARGS_N
563 [25905] dynamic-link: VSX registers are corrupted during PLT
564 resolution when glibc is built with --disable-multi-arch and --with-
565 cpu=power9
566 [25933] string: Off by one error in __strncmp_avx2 when
567 length=VEC_SIZE*4 and strings are at page boundaries can cause a
568 segfault
569 [25942] nptl: Deadlock on stack_cache_lock between __nptl_setxid and
570 exiting detached thread
571 [25966] libc: Incorrect access of __x86_shared_non_temporal_threshold
572 for x32
573 [25976] nss: internal_end*ent in nss_compat may clobber errno, hiding
574 ERANGE
575 [25999] nptl: Use-after-free issue in pthread_getaddr_default_np
576 [26073] math: getpayload() has wrong return value
577 [26076] dynamic-link: dlmopen crashes after failing to load
578 dependencies in audit mode
579 [26120] localedata: column width of of some Korean
580 JUNGSEONG/JONGSEONG characters wrong (should be 0)
581 [26128] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFLUSHOPT
582 [26133] libc: Incorrect need_arch_feature_F16C
583 [26137] libc: strtod() triggers exception FE_INEXACT on reasonable
584 input
585 [26149] libc: PKU is usable only if OSPKE is set
586 [26173] libc: powerpc64*: Add @notoc to calls to functions that do not
587 preserve r2
588 [26208] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFSH
589 [26210] network: Incorrect use of hidden symbols for global sunrpc
590 variables
591 [26211] stdio: printf integer overflow calculating allocation size
592 [26214] stdio: printf_fp double free
593 [26215] stdio: printf_fp memory leak
594 [26232] time: FAIL: support/tst-timespec for 32-bit targets
595 [26258] nss: nss_compat should not read input files with mmap
596 [26332] string: Incorrect cache line size load causes memory
597 corruption in memset
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601
602Major new features:
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604* The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
605 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
606 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
607 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
608 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
609 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
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611* The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
612 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
613 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
614 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
615
69ca4b54 616* The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
3ef5e118 617 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
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619
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620* New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar).
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623 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
624 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
625 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
626 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
627 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
628 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
629 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
630
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633* The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
634 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
635 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
636 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
637 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
638 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
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641 binaries, and its declaration has been removed from <time.h>.
642 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
643
644* We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
645 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
646 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
647 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
648
649* The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
650 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
651 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
652 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
653 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
654 made this no longer practical.
655
656 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
657 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
658 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
659 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
660 release.)
661
662 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
663 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
664 with the current time, use the localtime function.
665
666 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
667 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
668 using clock_gettime instead.
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670* The settimeofday function can still be used to set a system-wide time
671 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
672 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
673 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
674 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
675
676 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
677 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
678 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
679 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
680
681 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
682 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
683 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
684 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
685 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
686 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
687
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689 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
690 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
691 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
692 offset API.
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694* SPARC ISA v7 is no longer supported. v8 is still supported, but only if
695 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
696 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
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698 As the oldest 64-bit SPARC ISA is v9, this only affects 32-bit
699 configurations.
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702 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
703 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
704 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
705 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
706
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708 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
709 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
710 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
711 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
712 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
713 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
714 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
715
716 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
717 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
718
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720 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
721 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
722 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
723 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
724 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
725
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727
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730 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
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732* The ChangeLog file is no longer present in the toplevel directory of the
733 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
734 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
735
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738 CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an
739 out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context.
740
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741 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
742 environment variable during program execution after a security
743 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
744 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
745 program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
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747The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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749 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
750 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
751 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
752 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
753 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
754 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
755 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
756 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
757 linking failure
758 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
759 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
760 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
761 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
762 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
763 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
764 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
765 constructors/destructors is not fatal
766 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
767 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
768 7408-2005
769 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
770 with localedef
771 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
772 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
773 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
774 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
775 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
776 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
777 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
778 utmp entries
779 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
780 ABSOLUTE ABI
781 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
782 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
783 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
784 (stringop-overflow error)
785 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
786 functions other can lead to crashes
787 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
788 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
789 unconditionally
790 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
791 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
792 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
793 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
794 still can fail with an error
795 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
796 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
797 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
798 initialized correctly
799 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
800 -frewrite-includes
801 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
802 value to an unsigned
803 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
804 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
805 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
806 protection
807 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
808 ifunc variant.
809 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
810 al. for Clang++
811 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
812 (Slovenian)
813 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
814 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
815 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
816 with -std=c11
817 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
818 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
819 part
820 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
821 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
822 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
823 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
824 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
825 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
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828Version 2.30
829
830Major new features:
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833 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
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834 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
835
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836* The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
837 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
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840 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
841 to the callback function.
842
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845* Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
846 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
847 nan_TW, lzh_TW.
848
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849* The entry for the new Japanese era has been added for ja_JP locale.
850
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851* Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
852 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
853 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
854 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
855 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
856
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857* The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
858 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
859 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
860 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
861 link time reference, is gone.
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864 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
865 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
866 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
867 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
868 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
869 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
870 the clock choice at initialization time).
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873 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
874 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
875
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877
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878* The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
879 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
880 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
881 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
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883 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
884 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
885 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
886 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
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889 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
890 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
891 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
892 since glibc 2.17.
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894* The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
895 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
896
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897* Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
898 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
899
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900* The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
901 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
902
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904 BIND_NOW flag.
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907 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
908 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
909
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910* On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
911 header have been removed.
912
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914 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
915 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
916 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
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921
922 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
923 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
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925Security related changes:
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928 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
929 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
930 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
931 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
932 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
933 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
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936 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
937 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
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941 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
942 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
943 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
944 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
945 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
946 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
947 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
948 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
949 invalid input drops valid char
950 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
951 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
952 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
953 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
954 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
955 malloc.h.
956 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
957 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
958 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
959 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
960 functions
961 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
962 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
963 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
964 for long double = double
965 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
966 long double = double
967 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
968 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
969 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
970 long timeouts
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973 checking for NULL.
974 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
975 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
976 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
977 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
978 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
979 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
980 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
981 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
982 not the default "nor"
983 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
984 false positives, change to modern flexible array
985 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
986 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
987 compiler barriers.
988 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
989 unnecessary librt dependencies
990 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
991 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
992 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
993 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
994 unsorted chunk
995 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
996 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
997 to R_SPARC_H44
998 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
999 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
1000 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
1001 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
1002 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
1003 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
1004 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
1005 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
1006 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
1007 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
1008 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
1009 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
1010 was not used
1011 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
1012 tests
1013 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
1014 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
1015 time_t changes
1016 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
1017 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
1018 kernels and break testing
1019 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
1020 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
1021 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
1022 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
1023 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
1024 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
1025 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
1026 -O3 -march=skylake
1027 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
1028 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
1029 crash
1030 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
1031 linked glibc
1032 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
1033 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
1034 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
1035 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
1036 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
1037 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
1038 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
1039 always implemented in the same library
1040 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
1041 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
1042 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
1043 testroot
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1048Major new features:
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1051 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
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1053* A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
1054 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
1055 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
1056 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
1057 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
1058 configured location.
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1063 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
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1066 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
1067 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
1068 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
1069 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
1070 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
1071 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
1072 process actually does not use HTM).
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1075 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
1076 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
1077 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
1078 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
1079 of the same name.
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1081* The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
1082 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
1083 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
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1087* Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
1088 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
1089 supported:
1090 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
1091 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
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1094 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
1095 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
1096 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
1097 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
1098 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
1099 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
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1102 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
1103 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
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1108 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
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1111 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
1112 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
1113 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
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1116 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
1117 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
1118 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
1119 structures.
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1122 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
1123 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
1124 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
1125 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
1126 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
1127
1128 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
1129 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
1130 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
1131 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
1132 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
1133
1134 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
1135 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
1136 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
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1139
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1143 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
1144
1145 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
1146 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
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1150 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
1151 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
1152 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
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1155 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
1156 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
1157 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
1158 Reported by H.J. Lu.
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1160 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
1161 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
1162 or command injection issues in applications.
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1166 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
1167 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
1168 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
1169 thousands
1170 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
1171 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
1172 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
1173 --param options)
1174 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
1175 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
1176 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
1177 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
1178 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
1179 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
1180 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
1181 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
1182 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
1183 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
1184 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
1185 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
1186 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
1187 pointer argument is non-NULL
1188 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
1189 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
1190 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
1191 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
1192 multithreads call popen
1193 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
1194 and pthread_create fails.
1195 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
1196 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
1197 constructor
1198 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
1199 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
1200 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
1201 source tree
1202 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
1203 float
1204 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
1205 one error
1206 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
1207 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
1208 linker
1209 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
1210 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
1211 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
1212 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
1213 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
1214 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
1215 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
1216 filesystems
1217 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
1218 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
1219 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
1220 functions
1221 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
1222 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
1223 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
1224 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
1225 have wrong type
1226 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
1227 wrong type
1228 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
1229 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
1230 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
1231 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
1232 threads
1233 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
1234 start.S
1235 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
1236 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
1237 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
1238 powerpc64le
1239 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
1240 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
1241 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
1242 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
1243 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
1244 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
1245 strftime
1246 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
1247 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
1248 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
1249 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
1250 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
1251 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
1252 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
1253 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
1254 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
1255 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
1256 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
1257 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
1258 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
1259 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
1260 tcache size
1261 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
1262 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
1263 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
1264 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
1265 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
1266 (CVE-2018-19591)
1267 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
1268 nearest rounding mode
1269 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
1270 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
1271 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
1272 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
1273 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
1274 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
1275 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
1276 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
1277 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
1278 error
1279 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
1280 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
1281 using GCC 8
1282 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
1283 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
1284 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
1285 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
1286 ppc64le
1287 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
1288 expected result
1289 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
1290 x32 (CVE-2019-6488)
1291 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
1292 sigaltstack
1293 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
1294 answers will be rejected)
1295 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
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1300Major new features:
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1303 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
1304 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
1305 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
1306 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
1307 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
1308 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
1309 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
1310 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
1311 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
1312 archive or binary locales.
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1315 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
1316 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
1317 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
1318 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
1319 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
1320 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
1321 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
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1323 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
1324 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
1325 validated for i686.
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1328 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
1329 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
1330 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
1331 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
1332 field) to indicate such support is required.
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1335 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
1336 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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1339 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
1340
1341 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
1342 fMxaddfNx functions.
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1345 fMxsubfNx functions.
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1347 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
1348 fMxmulfNx functions.
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1350 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
1351 fMxdivfNx functions.
1352
e607a352 1353* Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
df467d22 1354 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
9145f033 1355 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
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1357 and Kashubian.
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61c4aad7 1359* Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
e607a352 1360 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
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1363 patches.
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1366 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
1367 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
1368 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
1369 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
1370 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
1371 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
1372 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
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1375 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
1376 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
1377 the fstatat64 function.
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1379* IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
1380 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
1381 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
1382 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
1383 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
1384 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
1385 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
1386 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
1387 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
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1390 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
1391 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
1392 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
1393 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
1394 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
1395 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
1396 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
1397 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
1398 results in a load failure now.
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1401 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
1402 <threads.h>:
1403
1404 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
1405 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
1406
1407 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
1408 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
1409
1410 - call_once for function call synchronization.
1411
1412 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
1413 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
1414
1415 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
1416
1417 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
1418
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1421* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
1422 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
1423 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
1424
1425* The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
1426 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
1427 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
1428 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
1429 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
1430 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
1431
1432* All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
1433 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
1434 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
1435 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
1436 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
1437 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
1438 (Bug #1190.)
1439
1440* The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
1441 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
1442 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
1443 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
1444 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
1445 further explanation.
1446
1447 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
1448 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
1449 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
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1451* The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
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1453* The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
1454 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
1455 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
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1457* The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
1458 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
1459 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
1460 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
1461
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1462* The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
1463 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
1464 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
1465 for this function instead.
1466
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1467* The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
1468 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
1469 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
1470
1471* The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
1472 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
1473 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
1474 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
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1476* The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
1477 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
1478 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
1479 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
1480 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
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1482* The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
1483 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
1484 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
1485 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
1486 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
1487 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
1488 such as libgcrypt.
1489
1490* Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
1491 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
1492 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
1493 enabled.
1494
1495* The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
1496 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
1497 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
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1499* We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
1500 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
1501 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
1502 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
1503 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
1504 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
1505
1506 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
1507 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
1508 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
1509 behavior in a future release.
1510
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1512
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1515Security related changes:
1516
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1517 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
1518 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
1519 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
1520 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
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1522 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
1523 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
1524
1525 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
1526 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
1527 Izbyshev.
1528
1529 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
1530 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
1531 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
1532
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1535 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
1536 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
1537 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
1538 when __WORDSIZE != 64
1539 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
1540 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
1541 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
1542 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
1543 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
1544 14651
1545 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
1546 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
1547 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
1548 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
1549 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
1550 conversion is given
1551 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
1552 date
1553 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
1554 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
1555 scope with -O1 and higher
1556 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
1557 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
1558 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
1559 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
1560 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
1561 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
1562 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
1563 horrible machine code)
1564 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
1565 last constant.
1566 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
1567 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
1568 symbols
1569 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
1570 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
1571 defined
1572 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
1573 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
1574 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
1575 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
1576 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
1577 fpscr.c'
1578 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
1579 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
1580 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
1581 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
1582 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
1583 the base address
1584 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
1585 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
1586 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
1587 open_verify
1588 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
1589 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
1590 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
1591 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
1592 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
1593 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
1594 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
1595 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
1596 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
1597 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
1598 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
1599 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
1600 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
1601 dlopen
1602 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
1603 AT_SECURE=1
1604 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
1605 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
1606 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
1607 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
1608 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
1609 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
1610 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
1611 for Spanish with CLDR
1612 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
1613 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
1614 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
1615 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
1616 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
1617 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
1618 es_BO
1619 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
1620 CLOCKS_PER_SECOND
1621 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
1622 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
1623 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
1624 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
1625 dlopen failures
1626 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
1627 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
1628 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
1629 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
1630 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
1631 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
1632 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
1633 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
1634 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
1635 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
1636 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
1637 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
1638 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
1639 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
1640 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
1641 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
1642 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
1643 makecontext
1644 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
1645 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
1646 required
1647 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
1648 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
1649 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
1650 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
1651 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
1652 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
1653 disabled
1654 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
1655 failure
1656 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
1657 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
1658 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
1659 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
1660 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
1661 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
1662 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
1663 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
1664 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
1665 and libc build with -Os)
1666 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
1667 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
1668 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
1669 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
1670 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
1671 that changes /etc/passwd
1672 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
1673 (CVE-2018-11237)
1674 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
1675 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
1676 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
1677 posix/regcomp.c
1678 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
1679 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
1680 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
1681 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
1682 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
1683 AT_SECURE
1684 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
1685 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
1686 parser.c
1687 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
1688 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
1689 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
1690 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
1691 directed rounding
1692 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
1693 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
1694 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
1695 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
1696 lookup
1697 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
1698 interposition
1699 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
1700 DSO boundaries.
1701 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
1702 <linux/time.h>
1703 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
1704 checking
1705 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
1706 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
1707 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
1708 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
1709 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
1710 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
1711 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
1712 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
1713 processors
1714 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
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1718
1719Major new features:
1720
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1722 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
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1724 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
1725 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
1726 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
1727 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
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1728 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
1729 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
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1733 H.J. Lu from Intel.
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1736
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1739* In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
1740 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
1741 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
1742 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
1743 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
1744 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
1745 from a security and performance perspective.
1746
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1748 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
1749 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
1750 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
1751
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1754 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
1755 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
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1756 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
1757
a23aa5b7 1758* On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
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1761 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
1762 _Float128.
1763
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1765 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
1766 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
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1770* Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
1771 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
1772 pkey_get.
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1776* Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
1777
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1778* The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
1779 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
1780 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
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1783 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
1784 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
1785 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
1786 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
1787 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
1788 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
1789
1790 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
1791 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
1792 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
1793 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
1794 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
1795 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
1796 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
1797
1798 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
1799 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
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1801 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
1802 respectively.
1803
1804 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
1805 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
1806 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
1807 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
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1809 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
1810 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
1811 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
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1814 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
0a32e219 1815 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
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1818 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
1819 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
1820
1821 - rv64imac lp64
1822 - rv64imafdc lp64
1823 - rv64imafdc lp64d
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1828 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
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1831 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
1832 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
1833 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
1834 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
1835 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
1836 fix this.
1837
f1a844ac
FW
1838* Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
1839 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
1840 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
1841
2fc21aaa
FW
1842* Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
1843 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
1844 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
1845 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
1846 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
1847 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
1848 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
1849 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
1850 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
1851 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
1852 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
1853 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
1854 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
1855 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
1856 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
1857 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
1858 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
1859 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
1860 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
1861 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
1862 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
1863 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
1864 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
1865 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
1866 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
1867 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
1868
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1869* On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
1870 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
00cdcf5a 1871
813378e9
JM
1872* libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
1873 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
1874 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
1875 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
1876 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
1877 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
1878 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
1879
5a80d39d
JM
1880* The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
1881 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
1882 exp10l for these functions instead.
1883
4fa9b3bf
JM
1884* The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
1885 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
1886 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1887
644d3857
JM
1888* The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
1889 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
1890 ignored.
1891
8df5d347
JM
1892* The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
1893 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
1894 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
1895 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
1896
c0a25aa9
FW
1897* The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
1898 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
1899
34eb4157
FW
1900* In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
1901 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
1902
754034c4
JM
1903* The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
1904 programs.
1905
ed95f611
AZ
1906* The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
1907
48a8f832
ZW
1908* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
1909 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
1910 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
1911 instead.
1912
1913 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
1914 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
1915 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
1916 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
1917 use, but predates the bits convention.
1918
00cdcf5a
SP
1919Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1920
1faaf703
JB
1921* bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
1922 subdirectory.
00cdcf5a
SP
1923
1924Security related changes:
1925
403143e1
FW
1926 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
1927 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
1928 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
1929 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
1930 script.)
00cdcf5a 1931
822f523b
FW
1932 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
1933 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
1934 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
1935 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
c369d66e 1936
914c9994
FW
1937 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
1938 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
1939 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
1940 of service.
1941
15e84c63
AJ
1942 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
1943 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
a159b53f
PE
1944 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
1945
37ac8e63
FW
1946 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
1947 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
1948 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
1949 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
1950
8a0b17e4
FW
1951 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
1952 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
1953 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
1954 Qualys.
1955
3ff3dfa5
FW
1956 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
1957 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
1958 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
1959 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
1960 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
1961
3e3c904d
AJ
1962 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
1963 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
1964 current directory.
1965
52a713fd
DL
1966 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
1967 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
1968 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
1969
4590634f
FW
1970 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
1971 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
1972 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
1973
71aa429b
FW
1974 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
1975 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
1976 small, instead of NULL.
1977
00cdcf5a
SP
1978The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1979
242cbc90
DL
1980 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
1981 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
1982 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
1983 locale
1984 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
1985 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
1986 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
1987 cases
1988 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
1989 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
1990 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
1991 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
1992 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
1993 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
1994 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
1995 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
1996 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
1997 "Bangla"
1998 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
1999 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
2000 width Latin characters
2001 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
2002 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
2003 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
2004 letters
2005 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
2006 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
2007 (CVE-2009-5064)
2008 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
2009 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
2010 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
2011 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
2012 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
2013 if malloc succeeded
2014 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
2015 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
2016 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
2017 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
2018 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
2019 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
2020 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
2021 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
2022 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
2023 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
2024 U+309A
2025 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
2026 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
2027 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
2028 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
2029 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
2030 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
2031 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
2032 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
2033 for Nicaragua
2034 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
2035 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
2036 are not found.
2037 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
2038 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
2039 access
2040 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
2041 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
2042 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
2043 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
2044 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
2045 __regcall calling convention
2046 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
2047 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
2048 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
2049 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
2050 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
2051 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
2052 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
2053 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
2054 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
2055 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
2056 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
2057 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
2058 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
2059 locale
2060 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
2061 protector=all
2062 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
2063 wcwidth
2064 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
2065 consistency check failures
2066 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
2067 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
2068 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
2069 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
2070 PIE
2071 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
2072 locales
2073 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
2074 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
2075 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
2076 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
2077 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
2078 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
2079 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
2080 on memory allocation failure
2081 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
2082 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
2083 the suspect)
2084 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
2085 default (i386)
2086 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
2087 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
2088 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
2089 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
2090 instead of EAI_NODATA
2091 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
2092 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
2093 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
2094 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
2095 implementation
2096 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
2097 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
2098 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
2099 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
2100 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
2101 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
2102 allocation in syscall loops)
2103 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
2104 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
2105 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
2106 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
2107 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
2108 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
2109 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
2110 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
2111 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
2112 occur with -O3
2113 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
2114 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
2115 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
2116 amounts)
2117 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
2118 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
2119 niu_NZ
2120 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
2121 checks
2122 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
2123 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
2124 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
2125 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
2126 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
2127 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
2128 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
2129 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
2130 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
2131 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
2132 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
2133 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
2134 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
2135 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
2136 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
2137 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
2138 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
2139 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
2140 parsing after OOM
2141 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
2142 object
2143 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
2144 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
2145 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
2146 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
2147 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
2148 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
fdb724f9 2149 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf outputs a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
242cbc90
DL
2150 ppc64le
2151 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
2152 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
2153 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
2154 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
2155 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
2156 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
2157 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
2158 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
2159 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
2160 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
2161 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
2162 math_force_eval
2163 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
2164 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
2165 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
2166 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
2167 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
2168 the svid compat wrapper
2169 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
2170 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
2171 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
2172 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
2173 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
2174 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
2175 --verbose.
2176 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
2177 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
2178 to 2.26
2179 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
2180 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
2181 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
2182 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
2183 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
2184 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
2185 (CVE-2017-15804)
2186 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
2187 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
2188 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
2189 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
2190 failure."
2191 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
2192 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
2193 -m32
2194 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
2195 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
2196 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
2197 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
2198 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
2199 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
2200 inside the ASCII printable range
2201 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
2202 -mlong-double-64
2203 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
2204 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
2205 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
2206 Internet
2207 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
2208 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
2209 backslash
2210 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
2211 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
2212 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
2213 heaps in an arena
2214 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
2215 networking interface
2216 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
2217 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
2218 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
2219 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
2220 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
2221 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
2222 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
2223 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
2224 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
2225 order
2226 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2227 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2228 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2229 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2230 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2231 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
2232 same as for Croatian
2233 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
2234 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
2235 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
2236 for initial thread"
2237 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
2238 SC_SSIZE_MAX
2239 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
2240 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
2241 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2242 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
2243 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
2244 (CVE-2017-1000408)
2245 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
2246 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
2247 modified in case of success
2248 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
2249 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
2250 success
2251 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
2252 stack-protector=all
2253 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
2254 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
2255 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
2256 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
2257 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
2258 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
2259 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
2260 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
2261 adding it on top
2262 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
2263 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
2264 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
2265 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
2266 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
2267 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
2268 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
2269 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
2270 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
2271 (CVE-2018-1000001)
2272 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
2273 elision and tunables
2274 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
2275 "invalid" exception
2276 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
2277 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
2278 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
2279 exception
2280 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2281 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
2282 power4
2283 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
2284 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
2285 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
2286 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
2287 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
2288 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
2289 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
2290 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
2291 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
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2294Version 2.26
2295
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2296Major new features:
2297
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2298* A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
2299 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
2300 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
2301 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
2302 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
2303 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
2304 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
2305
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2306* Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2307 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
0b38d66a 2308 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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2309 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
2310 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
2311 are rendered with pango, see for example:
2312 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
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2314* Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
2315 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
2316 Egmont Koblinger.
e4e79484 2317
2b2ccd0c 2318* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
025b33ae 2319
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2320 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
2321 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
2322 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
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2324 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
2325 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
2326 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
2327 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
2328 object are still limited to six search domains.
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2330 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
2331 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
2332 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
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2334* The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
2335 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
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2337* New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
2338 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
2339 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
2340 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
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2342* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
2343 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
2344 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
2345 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
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2347* posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
2348 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
2349 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
2350 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
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2352* errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
2353 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
2354 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
12d2dd70 2355
2b2ccd0c 2356* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
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2357 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
2358 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
2359 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
2c0b90ab 2360
2b2ccd0c 2361 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
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2362 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
2363 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
2364 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
2365 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
2366
2367 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
2368 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
2369 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
2370 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
2371 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
2372 interfaces should be used instead.
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2374Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2375
2376* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
2377 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
2378 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
2379 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
2380 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
2381 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
2382 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
2383 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
2384
2385* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
2386 removed.
2387
2388* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
7e368000 2389 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
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2390 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
2391 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
2392
2393* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
2394 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
2395 default.
2396
2397 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
2398 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
2399 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
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2400 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
2401 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
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2402
2403 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
2404 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
2405 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
2406 name service modules, to be built and installed.
2407
2408* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
2409 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
2410 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
2411 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
2412
2413* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
2414 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
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2416* The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
2417 exported by accident.
2418
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2419* <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
2420 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
2421 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
2422
2423* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
2424 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
2425 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
2426 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
2427
2428* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
2429
2430* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
2431
2432* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
2433 free instead.
2434
2435* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
2436 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2437
2438* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
2439 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2440
2441* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
2442 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
2443 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
2444 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
2445 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
2446 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
2447 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
2448 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
2449
2450* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
2451 synced with the kernel:
2452
2453 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
2454 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
2455
2456 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
2457 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
2458 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
2459
2460 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
2461 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
2462
2463Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2464
2465* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
2466 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
2467 x86-32 and x86-64.)
2468
7e368000 2469* GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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2471* On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
2472 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
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2473
2474 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
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2475 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
2476 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
2477 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2b2ccd0c 2478 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
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2481
e14a2772 2482* The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
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2483 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
2484
2485* LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
2486 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
2487
2488* Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
2489 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
2490 (CVE-2010-3192).
2491
2492* A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
2493 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
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2495The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2496
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2497 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
2498 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
2499 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
2500 fields
2501 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
2502 (CVE-2010-3192)
2503 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
2504 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
2505 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
2506 ld.bfd is available
2507 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
2508 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
2509 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
2510 x86 and other generic code
2511 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
2512 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
2513 incorrect
2514 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
2515 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
2516 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
2517 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
2518 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
2519 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
2520 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
2521 resolver
2522 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
2523 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
2524 order of 0D36 and 0D37
2525 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
2526 chillu characters
2527 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
2528 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
2529 receiving data
2530 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
2531 whitespace
2532 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
2533 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
2534 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
2535 for Peru
2536 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
2537 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
2538 failures consistently
2539 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
2540 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
2541 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
2542 frame-pointer on i386
2543 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
2544 register
2545 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
2546 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
2547 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
2548 generic c code is used
2549 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
2550 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
2551 around 4000
2552 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
2553 (CVE-2017-12133)
2554 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
2555 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
2556 with -lieee
2557 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
2558 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
2559 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
2560 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
2561 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
2562 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
2563 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
2564 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
2565 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
2566 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
2567 remove()
2568 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
2569 checked for errors.
2570 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
2571 new posix_spawn implementation
2572 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
2573 leads to lower CPU frequency
2574 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
2575 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
2576 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
2577 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
2578 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
2579 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
2580 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
2581 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
2582 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
2583 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
2584 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
2585 not support gethostbyname4_r
2586 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
2587 switching
2588 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
2589 arenas
2590 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
2591 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
2592 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
2593 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
2594 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
2595 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
2596 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
2597 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
2598 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
2599 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
2600 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
2601 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
2602 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
2603 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
2604 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
2605 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
2606 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
2607 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
2608 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
2609 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
2610 retry value
2611 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
2612 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
2613 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
2614 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
2615 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
2616 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
2617 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
2618 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
2619 [21537] libc:
2620 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
2621 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
2622 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
2623 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
2624 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
2625 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
2626 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
2627 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
2628 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
2629 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
2630 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
2631 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
2632 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
2633 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
2634 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
2635 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
2636 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
2637 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
2638 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
2639 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
2640 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
2641 issue on x86-64
2642 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
2643 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
2644 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
2645 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
2646 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
2647 construction
2648 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
2649 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
2650 between_2_3
2651 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
2652 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
2653 conditions
2654 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
2655 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
2656 Hindi Locale
2657 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
2658 posix/sched_cpucount.c
2659 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
2660 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
2661 locale
2662 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
2663 leading to relocation crash
2664 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
2665 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
2666 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
2667 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
2668 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
2669 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
2670 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
2671 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
2672 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
2673 locale
2674 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
2675 locale
2676 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
2677 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
2678 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
2679 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
2680 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
2681 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
2682 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
2683 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
2684 strings
2685 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
2686 protector=all
2687 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
2688 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
2689 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
2690 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
2691 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
2692 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
2693 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
2694 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
2695 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
2696 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
2697 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
2698 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
2699 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
2700 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
2701 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
2702 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
2703 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
2704 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
2705 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
2706 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
2707 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
2708 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
2709 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
2710 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
2711 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
2712 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
2713 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
2714 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
2715 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
2716 with unicode 9.0
2717 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
2718 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
2719 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
2720 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
2721 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
58557c22 2722
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2724Version 2.25
2725
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2726* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
2727 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
2728 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
2729 Library.
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2731* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
2732 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
a5ac5676 2733 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
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2734 the GNU C Library.
2735
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2736* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
2737 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
2738 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
2739 the GNU C Library.
2740
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2741* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
2742 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
2743 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
2744 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
2745 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
2746 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
2747 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
2748 will not.
2749
2750 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
2751 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
2752 many years.
2753
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2754* The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
2755 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
2756 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
2757
2758 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
2759 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
2760 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
2761 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
2762 problem.
2763
ec94343f 2764* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
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2765 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
2766 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
5146356f 2767
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2768* Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
2769 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
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2770 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
2771 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
2772 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
2773 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
2774 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
2775 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
2776 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
2777 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
2778 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
2779 WINT_WIDTH.
a292f45a 2780
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2781* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
2782
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2783 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
2784
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2785 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
2786 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
2787 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
41c67149 2788
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2789 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
2790 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
2791
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2792 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
2793 fminmagf, fminmagl.
2794
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2795 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
2796
29cb9293 2797 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
d942e95c 2798
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2799 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
2800 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
5e9d98a3 2801
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2802 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
2803
eb3c12c7 2804 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
457663a7 2805 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
f8e8b8ed 2806
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2807* The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
2808 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
2809
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2810* Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
2811 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
2812 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
2813
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2814* The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
2815 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
2816 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
2817 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
2818 effects of the memory clear).
2819
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2820* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
2821 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
2822 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
2823 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
2824
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2825* On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
2826 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
2827 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
2828 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
2829 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
2830 if they are compiled or used with those options.
6962682f 2831
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2832* The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
2833 have been added.
2834
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2835* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
2836 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
2837 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
2838 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
2839 as large as several megabytes.
2840
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2841* The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
2842 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
2843 been removed.
2844
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2845* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
2846 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
2847 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
2848 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
2849 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
2850 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
2851 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
2852
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2853* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
2854 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
2855 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
2856 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
2857
099191b1 2858* The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
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2859 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
2860 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
2861 Internet.
2862
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2863* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
2864 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
2865 They were already unimplemented.
bfbd1de1 2866
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2867* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
2868 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
2869 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
2870 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
2871
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2872* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
2873 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
2874 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
2875 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
2876 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
2877
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2878* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
2879 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
2880 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
2881 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
2882 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
2883
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2884* The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
2885 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
2886 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
2887 did not reflect that.
2888
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2889* For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
2890 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
2891 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
2892 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
2893 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
2894 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
2895 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
2896 'gcc/config.gcc'.
2897
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2898* GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
2899 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
2900 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
2901 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
2902
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2903* Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
2904 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
2905 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
2906 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
2907
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2908* A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
2909 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
2910 guarantees.
2911
2912* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
2913 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
2914 make state changes.
2915
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2916Security related changes:
2917
fc82b0a2 2918* On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
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2919 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
2920 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
2921 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
056dd72a 2922 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
e720d3d9 2923
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2924* The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
2925 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
2926 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
2927 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
2928 (CVE-2015-5180)
2929
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2930The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2931
fdb724f9 2932 [4099] stdio: Overly aggressive caching by stream i/o functions.
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2933 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
2934 protector-all
2935 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
2936 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
2937 before it started waiting
2938 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
2939 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
2940 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
2941 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
2942 wrong type
2943 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
2944 library linked with pthread
2945 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
2946 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
2947 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
2948 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
2949 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
2950 after being __libc_memalign()'d
2951 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
2952 when it shouldnt
2953 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
2954 not
2955 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
2956 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
2957 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
2958 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
2959 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
2960 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
2961 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
2962 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
2963 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
2964 termination
2965 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
2966 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
2967 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
2968 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
2969 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
2970 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
2971 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
2972 causes a segmentation fault
2973 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
2974 linking
2975 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
2976 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
2977 uninitialized GOT
2978 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
2979 versions
2980 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
2981 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
2982 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
2983 is always true.
2984 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
2985 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
2986 modes
2987 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
2988 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
2989 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
2990 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
2991 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
2992 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
2993 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
2994 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
2995 libpthread.a
2996 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
2997 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
2998 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
2999 _res_hconf
3000 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
3001 information.
3002 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
3003 penalty
3004 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
3005 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
3006 cause transition penalty
3007 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
3008 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
3009 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
3010 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
3011 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
3012 mcount.oS)
3013 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
3014 Checking
3015 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
3016 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
3017 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
3018 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
3019 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
3020 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
3021 multi-arch
3022 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
3023 (RES_USEBSTRING)
3024 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
3025 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
3026 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
3027 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
3028 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
3029 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
3030 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
3031 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
3032 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
3033 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
3034 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
3035 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
3036 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
3037 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
3038 glibc
3039 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
3040 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
3041 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
3042 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
3043 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
3044 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
3045 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
3046 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
3047 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
3048 U+20AC), not same as GBK
3049 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
3050 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
3051 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
3052 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
3053 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
3054 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
3055 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
3056 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
3057 RES_USE_INET6
3058 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3059 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
3060 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
3061 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
3062 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
3063 wrong condition
3064 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3065 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
3066 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
3067 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
3068 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
3069 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
3070 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
3071 clang
3072 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
3073 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
3074 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
3075 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
3076 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
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3078Version 2.24
3079
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3080* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
3081 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
3082 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
3083 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
3084 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
3085 architectures.
3086
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3087* The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
3088 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
3089 been included in previous releases.
11fca961 3090
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3091* The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
3092 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
3093
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FW
3094* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
3095 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
3096 instead of “union wait”.
3097
ced8f893
SG
3098* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
3099 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
3100 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
3101 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
3102 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
3103 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
3104 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
3105
2ba3cfa1
FW
3106* The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
3107 API.
3108
b7a9b7b0
MF
3109* The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
3110 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
3111 drop it.
6a54bcda 3112
41a359e2
RS
3113* nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
3114 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
3115 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
3116 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
3117 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
3118 extensions.
3119
11fca961
AZ
3120Security related changes:
3121
f5b3338d
FW
3122* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
3123 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
3124 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
3125
4ab2ab03
FW
3126* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
3127 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
3128 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
3129 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
11fca961 3130
5171f307
FW
3131* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
3132 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
3133 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
3134
bc779a1a
FW
3135* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
3136 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
3137 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
3138
fab38231
FW
3139* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
3140 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
3141 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
3142 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
3143
11fca961
AZ
3144The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3145
3c4f81ec
CD
3146 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
3147 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
3148 of MS-DOS.
3149 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
3150 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
3151 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
3152 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
3153 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
3154 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
3155 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
3156 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
3157 CLDR data
3158 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
3159 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
3160 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
3161 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
3162 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
3163 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
3164 romanisation
3165 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
3166 and +/-
3167 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
3168 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
3169 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
3170 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
3171 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
3172 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
3173 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
3174 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
3175 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
3176 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
3177 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
3178 all locales
3179 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
3180 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
3181 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
3182 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
3183 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
3184 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
3185 execute
3186 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
3187 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
3188 -Wsystem-headers
3189 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
3190 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
3191 Romanian locale data
3192 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
3193 symbol
3194 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
3195 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
3196 language
3197 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
3198 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
3199 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
3200 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
3201 machine
3202 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
3203 description
3204 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
3205 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
3206 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
3207 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
3208 when using RTLD_NEXT
3209 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
3210 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
3211 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
3212 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
3213 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
3214 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
3215 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
3216 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
3217 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
3218 Excavator core
3219 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3220 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3221 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3222 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
3223 double range
3224 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
3225 part zero incorrect
3226 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
3227 equality tests
3228 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
3229 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
3230 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
3231 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
3232 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
3233 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
3234 glibc-2.22
3235 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
3236 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
3237 'tst-numeric.c'
3238 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
3239 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
3240 low part
3241 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
3242 result
3243 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
3244 unaligned stack
3245 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
3246 pointers and lengths in error-case.
3247 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
3248 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
3249 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
3250 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
3251 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
3252 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
3253 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
3254 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
3255 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
3256 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
3257 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
3258 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
3259 modes
3260 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
3261 server addresses
3262 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
3263 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
3264 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
3265 response to getaddrinfo
3266 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
3267 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
3268 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
3269 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
3270 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
3271 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
3272 sometimes incorrect
3273 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
3274 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
3275 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
3276 record types
3277 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
3278 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
3279 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
3280 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
3281 (CVE-2016-3075)
3282 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
3283 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
3284 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
3285 resolving symbols
3286 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
3287 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
3288 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
3289 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
3290 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
3291 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
3292 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
3293 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
3294 gethosts
3295 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
3296 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
3297 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
3298 (CVE-2016-3706)
3299 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
3300 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
3301 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
3302 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
3303 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
3304 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
3305 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
3306 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
3307 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
3308 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
3309 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
3310 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
3311 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
3312 executable
3313 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
3314 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
3315 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
3316 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
3317 XPG3
3318 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
3319 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
3320 (CVE-2016-4429)
3321 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
3322 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
3323 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
3324 AS not supporting AVX512
3325 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
3326 sNaN argument
3327 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3328 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
3329 argument
3330 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
3331 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
3332 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
3333 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
3334 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
3335 eax=0x80000001
3336 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
3337 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
3338 subnormals
3339 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
3340 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
3341 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
3342 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3343 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3344 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
3345 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3346 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
3347 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
3348 input
3349 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3350 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3351 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3352 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3353 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3354 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3355 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3356 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
3357 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
3358 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
3359 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
3360 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
3361 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
3362 double rounding
3363 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
3364 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
3365 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
3366 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
3367 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
3368 (Only arm/linux)
3369 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
3370 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
3371 fallbacks
3372 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
3373 "invalid" exceptions
3374 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
3375 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
3376 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
3377 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
3378 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
3379 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
3380 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
3381 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
3382 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
11fca961 3383\f
aeb47bbc
DM
3384Version 2.23
3385
23256f5e
MF
3386* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
3387 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
3388 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
3389 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
3390 89, 16061, and 18568.
3391
2359035a
FW
3392* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
3393 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
3394 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
3395 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
3396 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
3397 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
3398 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
3399
8b7b7f75
MW
3400* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
3401 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
3402 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
3403
2eecc8af
FW
3404* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
3405 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
3406 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
3407 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
3408 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
3409 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
3410 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
3411
a62719ba
FW
3412* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
3413 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
3414 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
3415 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
3416 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 3417 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
a62719ba
FW
3418 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
3419 Ericsson.)
a014cecd 3420
bc148ca1
MF
3421* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
3422 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
3423 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
3424 independent of the GNU C Library.
3425
1c70b6f1
ZW
3426* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
3427 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
1efad39b 3428
eed3e1eb
JM
3429* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
3430 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
3431 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
3432 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
3433 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
3434 Linux kernel.
3435
1efad39b
SL
3436* Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
3437 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
b08b4218 3438
d709042a
JM
3439* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
3440 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
3441 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
3442 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
3443 defining their own copy.
3444
b08b4218
JM
3445* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
3446 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
3447 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
f268ab5f 3448
8f5e8b01
JM
3449Security related changes:
3450
6400ae6e
FW
3451* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
3452 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
3453
3454* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
3455 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
3456 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
3457 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
3458 (CVE-2015-8777)
3459
3460* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
3461 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
3462
3463* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
3464 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
3465
8f5e8b01
JM
3466* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
3467 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 3468 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
8f5e8b01 3469
e9db92d3
CD
3470* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
3471 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
3472 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
3473 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
3474 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
3475 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
3476 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
3477 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
3478 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
3479 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
3480 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
3481 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
3482 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
3483
ad372e29 3484The following bugs are resolved with this release:
f268ab5f 3485
ad372e29
AZ
3486 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
3487 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
3488 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
3489 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
3490 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
3491 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
3492 use `mkstemp'
3493 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
3494 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
3495 overflow/underflow errors
3496 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
3497 overflow/underflow
3498 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
3499 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
3500 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
3501 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
3502 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
3503 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
3504 are not contiguous
3505 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
3506 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
3507 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
3508 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
3509 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
3510 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
3511 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
3512 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
3513 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
3514 all exceptions
3515 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
3516 arguments
3517 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
3518 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
3519 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
3520 should include
3521 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
3522 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
3523 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
3524 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
3525 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
3526 GNU/Linux
3527 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
3528 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
3529 arguments
3530 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
3531 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
3532 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
3533 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
3534 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
3535 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
3536 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
3537 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
3538 rounding results
3539 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
3540 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
3541 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
3542 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
3543 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
3544 fails
3545 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
3546 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
3547 block boundary
3548 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
3549 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
3550 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
3551 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
3552 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
3553 4.7?
3554 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
3555 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
3556 (related to lock elision)
3557 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
3558 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
3559 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
3560 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
3561 (CVE-2015-8779)
3562 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
3563 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
3564 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
3565 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
3566 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
3567 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
3568 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
3569 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
3570 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
3571 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
3572 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
3573 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
3574 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
3575 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
3576 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
3577 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
3578 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
3579 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
3580 contains a vector instruction exception.
3581 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
3582 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
3583 locales
3584 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
3585 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
3586 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
3587 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
3588 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
3589 missing break ?
3590 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
3591 32bit processes
3592 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
3593 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
3594 infinity
3595 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
3596 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
3597 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
3598 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
3599 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
3600 be forced unloaded
3601 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
3602 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
3603 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
3604 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
3605 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
3606 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
3607 statically too large
3608 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
3609 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
3610 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
3611 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
3612 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
3613 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
3614 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
3615 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
3616 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
3617 FUTEX_SHARED
3618 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
3619 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
3620 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
3621 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
3622 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
3623 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
3624 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
3625 opendir()
3626 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
3627 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
3628 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
3629 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
3630 signgam
3631 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
3632 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
3633 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
3634 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
3635 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
3636 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
3637 dependencies
3638 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
3639 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
3640 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
3641 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
3642 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
3643 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
3644 (CVE-2015-8776)
3645 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
3646 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
3647 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
3648 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
3649 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
3650 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3651 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
3652 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
3653 contention
3654 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
3655 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
3656 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
3657 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3658 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
3659 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
3660 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
3661 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
3662 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
3663 rounding modes
3664 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
3665 ILP32
3666 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
3667 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
3668 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
3669 threshold
3670 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
3671 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
3672 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
3673 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
3674 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
3675 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
3676 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
3677 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
3678 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
3679 pthread_setaffinity_np
3680 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
3681 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
3682 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
3683 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
3684 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
3685 prelink
3686 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
3687 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
3688 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
3689 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
3690 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3691 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
3692 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
3693 bits/mathcalls.h
3694 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
3695 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
3696 for C99-based standards
3697 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
3698 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
3699 math-only
3700 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
3701 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
3702 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
3703 disabled
3704 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
3705 "inexact" exceptions
3706 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
3707 arguments
3708 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
3709 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
3710 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
3711 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
3712 rules
3713 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
3714 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
3715 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
3716 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
3717 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
3718 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
3719 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
3720 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
3721 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
3722 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
3723 from 32bit
3724 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
3725 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
3726 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
3727 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
3728 subnormals
3729 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
3730 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
3731 error on 32-bit architectures
3732 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
3733 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
3734 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
3735 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
3736 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
3737 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
3738 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
3739 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
3740 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
3741 -Os
3742 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
3743 CPU's.
3744 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
3745 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
3746 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
3747 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
3748 architectures
3749 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
aeb47bbc 3750\f
1c7a4a51
JM
3751Version 2.22
3752
3753* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3754
3df5cd98 3755 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
0e569d30
MF
3756 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
3757 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
3758 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
3759 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
3760 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
3761 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
3762 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
3763 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
3764 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
3765 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
3766 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
3767 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
3768 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
3769 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
3770 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
3771 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
3772 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
6fdd5d65
FW
3773 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
3774 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
2959eda9 3775
f7fba805
SL
3776* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
3777 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
3778
2959eda9
AS
3779* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
3780 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
3781 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
3782 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
3783 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
3784 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4a4839c9 3785
42261ad7
FW
3786* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
3787 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
3788 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
3789 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
3790 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
3791
afcd9480
AM
3792* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
3793 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
3794 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
3795
4a4839c9
AO
3796* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
3797 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
3798 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
3799 17998.
3800
b13b96ca
AS
3801* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
3802 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
3803 condition in some applications.
21933112
AS
3804
3805* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
a6336cc4
AS
3806 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
3807 pow, powf.
21933112
AS
3808 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
3809 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
037e4b99
AS
3810 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
3811 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 3812 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
fdb7d390
AZ
3813
3814* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
3815 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
3816 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
3817 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
7fde904c
MF
3818
3819* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
3820 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
3821 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
7493ab25
RM
3822
3823* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
3824 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
2ec11c2b
ZW
3825
3826* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
3827 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
3828 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
3829
a03ba363 3830 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
2ec11c2b
ZW
3831 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
3832 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
1c7a4a51 3833\f
58b930ae
SP
3834Version 2.21
3835
3836* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3837
042e1521 3838 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
5bd80bfe
PP
3839 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
3840 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
3841 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
3842 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
3843 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
3844 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
3845 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
3846 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
3847 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
3848 17892.
3849
46d54873
FW
3850* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
3851 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
3852 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
3853 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
3854 intended.
042e1521
CD
3855
3856* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
3857 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
3858 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
3859 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
3860 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
3861 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
a39208bd 3862
522e6ee3
CLT
3863* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
3864
d3b00f46
AZ
3865* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
3866 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 3867 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
96d6fd6c 3868
8d2c0a59
AZ
3869* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
3870 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
3871 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
3872 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
3873 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
3874 effects being visible outside transactions.
3875
dc400d7b
RE
3876* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
3877 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
ec582ca0 3878
0f9dfe04
L
3879* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
3880
a39208bd
CD
3881* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
3882 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
ebda2f17 3883 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
a39208bd
CD
3884 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
3885 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
fb89b46d 3886
a5357b7c
JL
3887* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
3888 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
3889
e54db0ea
AM
3890* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
3891 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
3892 format.
11e3417a 3893
4863355a
JM
3894* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
3895 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
3896 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
3897
a4ecc9eb
JM
3898* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
3899 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
3900
0d560bbf 3901* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
0781a777
RM
3902
3903* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
3904 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
3905 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
3906 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
6d248857
WN
3907
3908* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
3909 with newer versions of bison.
28c38448
MF
3910
3911* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
3912 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
3913 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
3914 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
3915 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
3916 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
3917 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
3918 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
3919 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
3920 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
3921 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
3922 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
3923 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
3924
3925 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
3926 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
3927 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
3928 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
3929 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
58b930ae 3930\f
d5b396c1
AM
3931Version 2.20
3932
3933* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3934
6a9350c8
JM
3935 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
3936 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
3937 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
3938 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
3939 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
3940 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
3941 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
3942 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
3943 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
3944 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
3945 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
3946 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
3947 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
3948 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
3949 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
0961f7e1 3950
95ee7fb1
SL
3951* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
3952 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
3953 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
3954 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
3955 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 3956 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
95ee7fb1
SL
3957 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
3958 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
3959 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
3960 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
3961
0961f7e1
JL
3962* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
3963 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
3964 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
3965 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
3966 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
f3d338c9 3967
f940b965
RE
3968* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
3969
d0f5b3f8
JM
3970* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
3971 can be used with is 2.6.32.
3972
d6fe5e58
JM
3973* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
3974 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
3975 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
3976 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
3977 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
3978 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
3979
464263cc
JM
3980* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
3981 from ports.
c941736c
JM
3982
3983* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
3984 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
3985 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
3986 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
3987 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
3988 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
3989 test macros defined.
f63c86fe
WN
3990
3991* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5a414ff7
DV
3992
3993* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
3994 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
3995 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
3996 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
3997 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
3998 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
3999 is not built.
d03efb2f
AM
4000
4001* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
4002 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
4003 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
4004 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
4005 invocation.
cfd2ea50
JM
4006
4007* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
4008 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
4009 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
f083450f
RM
4010
4011* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
4012 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
4013 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
4014 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
4e8f95a0
FW
4015
4016* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
4017 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
4018 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
4019 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
4020 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
4021 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
4022 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
4023 additional checks.
9a8a5720
RM
4024
4025* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
4026 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
4027 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
4028 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
4029 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
4030 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
4031 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
4032 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
4033 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
a1a6a401
FW
4034
4035* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
4036 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
4037 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
4038 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
4039 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 4040 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
41488498
FW
4041
4042* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
4043 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
4044 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
4045 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
6c1fd795
DM
4046\f
4047Version 2.19
4048
4049* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4050
fd2f9486
JM
4051 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
4052 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
4053 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
4054 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
4055 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
4056 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
4057 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
4058 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
4059 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
4060 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
ed27ed83
JM
4061 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
4062 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
4063 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
4064 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
4065 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
798212a0
PP
4066 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
4067 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
4068 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
141f3a77 4069
11520a57
CD
4070* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
4071 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
4072
2fe16229
CD
4073* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
4074 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
4075 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
08d76093
CD
4076 extension which uses __block.
4077
303e567a
SP
4078* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
4079 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
4080 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
4081 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
4082 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
4083
141f3a77
SP
4084* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
4085 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
4086 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
4087 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
4088 if malloc fails.
c61b4d41
CD
4089
4090* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
4091 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
4092 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
4093 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
4094 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
91ce4085
FW
4095
4096* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
4097 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
4098 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
4099
ba0d798c
WN
4100* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
4101 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
4102 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
4103 #15856, #15857).
4104
7cbcdb36
SP
4105* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
4106 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
4107
82bab04b 4108* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 4109 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
ddd9fb8f 4110
c5f840fd
MB
4111* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
4112
3e181dda
CD
4113* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
4114 supported locales.
ddd9fb8f 4115
3e181dda 4116* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
7447ccd9 4117
8a05c252
CL
4118* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
4119
6055173a
JM
4120* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
4121 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
4122 for which the C library was built.
4123
b125d3e5
JM
4124* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
4125 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
4126 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
4127 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
4128 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
4129 in the following circumstances:
4130
4131 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
4132
4133 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
4134 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
4135
d4f66d37
JM
4136* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
4137 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
4138
3e181dda
CD
4139* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
4140 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
e35696c3 4141
ffb89e53
AO
4142* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
4143
5d29ccce
SP
4144* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
4145 transcendental functions have been introduced.
4146
8b7d57cd 4147* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
b125d3e5
JM
4148
4149* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 4150
fd712ef3 4151* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 4152
c688b419
JM
4153* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
4154 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
4155 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
4156 disable some of those declarations.
4157
7011c262 4158* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
029c7b25
JM
4159 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
4160 that did nothing) has also been removed.
0a57b83e
AO
4161
4162* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
4163 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
ee4ec1d7
AK
4164
4165* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
4166 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
4167 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
4168 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
4169 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
4170 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
4171 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
4172 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
4173 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
4174 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
4175 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
4176 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
4177 require recompilation.
2c8bfe7d
DM
4178\f
4179Version 2.18
4180
4181* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4182
17db6e8d 4183 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
0432680e
PY
4184 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
4185 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
8c17cb1f
JM
4186 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
4187 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
4188 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
4189 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
4190 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
4191 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
4192 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
4193 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
4194 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
4195 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
4196 15755, 15759.
e4608715
CD
4197
4198* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
4199 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
4200 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
4201 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
4202 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
4203 understands and accepts the risks.
1cef1b19 4204
5b535ac4
AS
4205* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
4206 #15078).
4207
1cef1b19
AS
4208* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
4209 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
7fffbdff 4210
55e4107b
SP
4211* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
4212 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
4213 destructor calls to glibc.
4214
e5c74c63
SP
4215* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
4216 output.
4217
4218* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
4219 non-x86 architectures.
4220
e7521973
JM
4221* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
4222
4223* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
4224
4225* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
4226 Richard Henderson.
4227
4228* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
4229
4230* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
4231 Richard Henderson.
4232
4233* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
4234 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
4235
8cfdb7e0
SP
4236* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
4237
57267616
TS
4238* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
4239 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
58206c68 4240
c204ab28
SP
4241* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
4242 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
61dd6208 4243
0748546f
PE
4244* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
4245 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
4246 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
4247
61dd6208
SP
4248* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
4249 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
4250 attributes of a process.
a7cb9d67
AK
4251
4252* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
4253 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
4254 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
4255 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
4256 mutexes.
be063fa4
RA
4257
4258* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
4259 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
4260
4261* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
370ca3d2
JM
4262\f
4263Version 2.17
4264
4265* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4266
80ceeaee 4267 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
b4180a5e
AJ
4268 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
4269 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
4270 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
4271 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
4272 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
4273 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
4274 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
4275 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
4276 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
4277 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
4278 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
4279 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
4280 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
4281 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
14bc93a9 4282
95b4f1b6
SE
4283* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
4284
14bc93a9
JL
4285* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
4286 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
7a845b2c 4287
b54eb3cb
JM
4288* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
4289 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
4290
7e2bd01f
MS
4291* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
4292
08f43f9b
AK
4293* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
4294 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
4295 zEnterprise z196.
4296 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
4297
84b3fd84
FW
4298* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
4299 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
4300 the internal function __secure_getenv.
4301
815e6fa3
GB
4302* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
4303 Implemented by Gary Benson.
4304
400726de
MK
4305* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
4306 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
4307
7aab07e4 4308* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 4309 can be used with is 2.6.16.
7aab07e4 4310
15d0da8c
WS
4311* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
4312 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
4313
3cc3ef96
RM
4314* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
4315 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
c53d909c
RM
4316 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
4317 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3cc3ef96 4318
b54eb3cb
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4319* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
4320 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
4321
85429b1a 4322* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 4323 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
85429b1a
DM
4324 default.
4325
b54eb3cb
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4326* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
4327 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
4328 information in --help and --version output.
4329
050af9c4
SP
4330* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
4331 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
4332 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
4333
89a3ad0b
AO
4334* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
4335 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
4336 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
4337 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
4338 when the mode is enabled.
4339
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4340* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
4341 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
4342 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
4343 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
4344 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
4345 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
4346 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5a04f376 4347
d9286582
NK
4348* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
4349 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
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4350\f
4351Version 2.16
4352
4353* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4354
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4355 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
4356 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
4357 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
4358 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
4359 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
4360 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
4361 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
4362 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
4363 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
4364 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
4365 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
4366 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
4367 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
4368 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
4369 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
4370 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
4371 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
4372 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
4373 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
4374 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
4375 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
4376 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
4377 14277, 14278.
380d7e87 4378
a086b4d6
L
4379* Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
4380 configuring glibc with:
4381 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
8f7a75d7 4382 Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
a086b4d6
L
4383 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4384
380d7e87
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4385* ISO C11 support:
4386
4387 + define static_assert
4388
4389 + do not declare gets
4390
4391 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
4392
4393 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
4394 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
4395 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
4396 implementation.
8d44e150 4397
74033a25 4398 + timespec_get added
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4399
4400 + uchar.h support added
d75a0a62 4401
ac097f5c
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4402 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
4403
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4404 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4405
9dc4e1fb 4406* Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
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4407
4408* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
d9a216c0
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4409
4410* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
4411 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4412
4413* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
4414 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
021db4be
AJ
4415
4416* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
4417 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
4418 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
4419 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
4420 existing applications.
ffb7875d 4421
21708942 4422* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
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4423 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
4424 before 2.6.
83678f76 4425
edb00e4d
RH
4426* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
4427 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
4428 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
4429
83678f76 4430* New locales: mag_IN
7b44a2df
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4431
4432* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
4433 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
4434 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
4435 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
4436 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
47e452cf
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4437
4438* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4439
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
4440* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
4441 and Will Schmidt.
47e452cf
JM
4442
4443* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
4444
4445* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
4446 without a previously built glibc.
4447
4448* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
4449 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
4450
4451* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
4452 now supported for ARM processors.
4453
4454* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
4455 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
4456 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
4457
4458* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
4459
4460* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
4461 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
4462 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
4463 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
929cc14e
AJ
4464
4465* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
4466 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
4467 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
4468 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
ee9247c3
CD
4469
4470* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
4471 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
4472 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
4473 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
4474 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
4475
4476* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
4477 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
4478 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
4479 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
ee1a7fab 4480\f
e80fab37 4481Version 2.15
11988f8f 4482
c0244a9d
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4483* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4484
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4485 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
4486 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
4487 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
4488 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
4489 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
4490 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
4491 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
c0244a9d 4492
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4493* New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
4494 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
9f2da732
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4495
4496* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
4497 and support for initgroups lookups.
4498 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
0b1cbaae
L
4499
4500* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
4501 Contributed by HJ Lu.
8912479f
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4502
4503* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
4504 Contributed by HJ Lu.
99710781 4505
fc2ee42a
LD
4506* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
4507 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 4508 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 4509
d42964a0 4510* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
693fb948
LD
4511 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4512
1d3e4b61
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4513* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
4514 for x86-64 and x86-32.
093ecf92
LD
4515 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4516
c55fbd1e
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4517* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
4518 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a0f33f99
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4519
4520* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
4521 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
684ae515
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4522
4523* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
4524 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
0ac5ae23
UD
4525
4526* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
4527 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
d9a4d2ab
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4528
4529* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
4530 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4531
4532* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
4533 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
78239589
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4534
4535* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
e188ebba
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4536
4537* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
4538 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a1267ba1 4539
f0b264f1
AZ
4540* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
4541 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
2655fd5c 4542
6b64057b 4543* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
e80fab37 4544\f
dded88cd 4545Version 2.14
9f94d2ea 4546
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4547* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4548
553149f6 4549 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 4550 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 4551 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 4552 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
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4553 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
4554 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
4555 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
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4556 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
4557 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 4558 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
50934221 4559
7b57bfe5
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4560* The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
4561 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
4562 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 4563 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
018b9e36
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4564
4565 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
a0446976
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4566 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
4567 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
7b57bfe5
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4568 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4569
c6489db3 4570* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
f1f929d7 4571 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
83fe108b 4572
72d1dddb 4573* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 4574 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
bc469bea
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4575
4576* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
a9171047
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4577
4578* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
4579 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7d17596c
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4580
4581* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
4582 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
4583 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
4584 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
9f94d2ea 4585\f
4828935d
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4586Version 2.13
4587
ac2b484c
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4588* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4589
c30b7ee2
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4590 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
4591 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
4592 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
4593 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
4594 12378, 12394, 12397
ac2b484c 4595
10b3bedc 4596* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
c08fb0d7 4597
ac2b484c 4598* POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
8d50becc 4599
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4600* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
4601 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 4602 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4828935d 4603\f
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4604Version 2.12
4605
d36b9613
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4606* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4607
2e0fb521
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4608 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
4609 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
4610 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
4611 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
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4612 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
4613 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
4614 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 4615 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
86a4c67f
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4616
4617* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
d36b9613 4618
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4619* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
4620
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4621* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
4622
4623* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
4624 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
4625 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4626
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4627* New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
4628 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
4629 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
4630 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
4631 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4632
d36b9613 4633* New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
b50f8e42
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4634\f
4635Version 2.11
4636
d36b9613
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4637* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4638
4639 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
4640 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
4641 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
4642 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
4643 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
4644 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
4645
3a83202d
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4646* New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
4647 mkostemps64
3d5243d4
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4648 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4649
24ab9c76 4650* Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
b50f8e42
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4651 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4652
b8706f70
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4653* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
4654 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4655
51a71cf0
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4656* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
4657
0122f28e 4658* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
9d36a6c4 4659 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 4660 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
0122f28e
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4661 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
4662
9d36a6c4 4663 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
0122f28e
UD
4664 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4665
9d36a6c4
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4666* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
4667 strstr, strcasestr.
4668 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
4669
4670* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
4671 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
4672
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4673* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
4674 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4675
4676* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
4677 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4678
4679* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
4680 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
4681 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
4682 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
4683 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
4684 necessity is every process again.
4685 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4686
9d36a6c4
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4687* New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
4688 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
4689
4690* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
4691 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
4692
4bc1b896
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4693* Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
4694 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
4695 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4696
9dd5b8a1 4697* New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
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4698\f
4699Version 2.10
4700
d36b9613
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4701* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4702
4703 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
4704 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
4705 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
4706 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
4707 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
4708
bb066545 4709* New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
e109c612
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4710 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4711
425ce2ed 4712* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
e109c612 4713 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 4714
1fdd89a7 4715* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
735be400 4716 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
1fdd89a7 4717
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4718* XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
4719 now in POSIX.
77db439e 4720
1f04d005 4721* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6cbe890a 4722 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1f04d005 4723
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4724* New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
4725 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4726
878b72c5
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4727* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
4728 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4729
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4730* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
4731 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4732
4733* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
4734 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
4735 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4736
735be400 4737* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
878b72c5 4738
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4741
4742* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
4743 and extend existing format specifiers.
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4744 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4745
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4746* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
4747 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4748
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4750 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
4751 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
4752 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
4753 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
4754 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4759
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4761 6461, 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712,
4762 6713, 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839,
4763 6843, 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955,
4764 6966, 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
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4767 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4768
4769* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
4770 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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4772* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
4773 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4775* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
4776 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
4777 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4778
4779* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
4780 Implemented by Eric Blake.
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4784* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
ebcc1f4d 4785 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4787* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
4788 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
4789 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
4790 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4791
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4792* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
4793 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4795* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
4796 Sinhala)
48b22986 4797 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
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4799* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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4802
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4804
4805 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
4806 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
4807 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
4808 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
4809 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
4810 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
4811 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
4812
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77751669 4815* New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
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4817* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
4818 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
4819
4820* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
4821
4822* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
4823 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4824
4825* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
4826 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4827
4828* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
4829 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
4830 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4831
4832* Faster memset for x86-64.
4833 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
4834
4835* Faster memcpy on x86.
4836 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4837
4838* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
4839 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4841* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
d990b282 4842 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
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4845
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4847
4848 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
4849 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
4850 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
4851 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
4852 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
4853
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4854* More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
4855 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4856
4857* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4858
4859* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
4860 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
4861 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4862
4863* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
4864 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
4865
28919a77 4866* New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
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4867 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4868
4869* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4870
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4871* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
4872 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4873
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4874* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
4875 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4876
4877* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
4878 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
4879
4880* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4881
4882* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
4883 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4885* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
4886 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
4887 yo_NG.
4888
4889+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
4890 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4895
4896 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
4897 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
4898 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
4899 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
4900 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
4901 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
4902 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
4903 4702, 4858
4904
bce20b9a 4905* New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
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4907* New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
4908
b21fa963 4909* nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4912
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4913* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4914
4915 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
4916 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
4917 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
4918 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
4919 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
4920 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
4921 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
4922 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
4923 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
4924
3af48b5b 4925* For Linux, the sorting of addresses returned by getaddrinfo now also
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4926 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
4927 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4929* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
4930 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4931
871b9158 4932* New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
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4934* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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4936* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
4937 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
4938 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
457b559e 4939 site might have problems with the default behavior.
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4940 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4941
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4943 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
4944 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
4945 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4946
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4947* The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
4948 Ulrich Drepper.
4949
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4950* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
4951
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4952* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
4953 Ulrich Drepper.
4954
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4955* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
4956
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4957* New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
4958 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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4960Version 2.4
4961
4962* More overflow detection functions.
4963
4964* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
4965 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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4967 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
4968 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
4969 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
4970 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
4971 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
4972 by Masahide Washizawa.
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4974* It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
4975 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4977* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
4978 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
4979 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
4980 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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4982* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
4983 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
4984
4985* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
4986
4987* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
4988 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
4989 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
4990
4991* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
4992 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
4993
4994* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
4995 for compatibility with some other systems.
4996
4997* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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4999Version 2.3.6
5000
5001* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5002
5003 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
5004 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
5005 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
5006 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
5007 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
5008 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
5009
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5012* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
5013
5014* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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5016Version 2.3.5
5017
5018* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5019
5020 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
5021 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
5022 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
5023 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
5024
5a82c748 5025 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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5028
5029* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
5030 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5032* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
5033 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
5034 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5035
5036* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
5037 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
5038
0325dd20 5039* getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
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5040 efficiently.
5041 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5042
5043* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
5044 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
5045 handling data.
5046
5047* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
5048 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
0325dd20 5049 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5051* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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5052 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5053
5054* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
5055 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
5056 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
5057 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5058
5059* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
5060 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
5061 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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5062 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5063
5064* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
5065 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
5066 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
5067 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
5068 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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5070Version 2.3.3
5071
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5072* New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
5073 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
5074
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5075* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
5076 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
925c3c5c 5077
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5080
5081* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
5082 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5084* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
5085 by Roland McGrath.
5086
c5af724c 5087* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
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5088 and Ulrich Drepper.
5089
5090* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
5091 RFC 3484.
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5093Version 2.3.2
5094
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5095* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
5096 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
5097 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
5098 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
5099 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
5100 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
5101 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
5102 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
5103 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
5104
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5105* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
5106 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
5107 and are now also available on the Hurd.
5108
5109* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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5110
5111* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
5112 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
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5114* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
5115 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
5116
52a16e58 5117* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
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5119* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
5120 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
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5122* With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
5123 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
5124 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
5125 of weak definition in ld.so.
5126
5127* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
5128 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
5129
5130* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
5131 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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5135* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
5136 charsets.
5137
5138* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
5139 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
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bb0ec5bd 5141* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 5142 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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5144* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
5145 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
8e57fc70 5146
bb0ec5bd 5147* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
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5148 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
5149 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5151* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
5152 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3b0bdc72 5153
bb0ec5bd 5154* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3b0bdc72 5155 implementation of regex.
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5157* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
5158 Unicode 3.2.
be45f421 5159
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5160* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
5161 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
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5163* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
5164 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
5165 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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5166
5167* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
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5169
5170* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
5171 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
5172 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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5173
5174* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
5175 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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5176
5177* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
5178 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
5179 and Ulrich Drepper.
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5180
5181* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
5182\f
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5183Version 2.2.6
5184
5185* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
5186 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
5187
5188* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
5189 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
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5191Version 2.2.5
5192
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5193* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
5194 128-bit long double format.
a8ae31c2 5195
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5196* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
5197 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
a8ae31c2 5198
ad2e4f18 5199* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
a8ae31c2 5200
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5201* Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
5202
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5203* libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
5204 as well.
5205
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5206* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
5207 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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5208
5209* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
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5211Version 2.2.4
5212
2995f70e 5213* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 5214 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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5215
5216* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
5217 support Unicode 3.1.
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5218
5219* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
5220 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
045fcd26 5221
69d5f925 5222* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 5223
69d5f925 5224* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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5225 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
5226 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5227
5228* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
5229 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
5230
5231* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
5232 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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5233
5234* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
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5236Version 2.2.3
5237
1746f2b0 5238* Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
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5239 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
5240 in float, double, and long double format.
5241
f128331c 5242* Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
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5243 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
5244 128-bit long double format.
07f951e4 5245
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5246* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
5247 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
5248 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
5249 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
5250
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5251* An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
5252 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
5253 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5254
5255* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
5256 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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5257
5258* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
5259 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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5260
5261* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
5262 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
5263 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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5264
5265* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
5266 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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5267
5268* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
5269 of functions for Linux/x86.
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5270
5271* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
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5273Version 2.2.2
5274
464d97ec 5275* Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
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5276 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
5277 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
5278 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
5279 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
5280 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
5281 other headers.
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5282
5283* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
5284 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
5285
5286* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
5287 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
5288 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
5289 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5290
5291* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
5292 locales. While
5293
5294 locale -a
5295
5296 only lists the names of the supported locales
5297
5298 locale -a --verbose
5299
5300 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
5301 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
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5303Version 2.2.1
5304
5305* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
5306 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
5307 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
5308 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
5309 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
5310
5311 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
5312
5313 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
5314
5315 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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5316
5317* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
5318 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
5319 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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5320
5321* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
5322 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
5323
5324* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
5325 changed from the default "C" locale.
5326
5327* The usual bug fixes.
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5329Version 2.2
5330
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5331* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
5332 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
5333 is in progress.
5334
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5335* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
5336
793bd4d9 5337* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
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5339 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
5340 obviously requires a database library being available.
5341
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5342* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5343
abbffdf9 5344* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
01c771d0 5345
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5346* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
5347 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
5348
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5349* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
5350
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5351* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
5352 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
5353 and Mark Kettenis.
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5354
5355 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
5356 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
5357 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 5358
a00c3ca9 5359 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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5360 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
5361
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5362* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
5363 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
5364 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
5365
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5366* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
5367 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
5368 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
5369 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5370
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5371 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
5372 structures for the wide character tables.
5373
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5374* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5375
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5376* The utmp daemon has been removed.
5377
5378* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
5379
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5380* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
5381 and Yutaka Niibe.
5382
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5383* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
5384
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5385* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
5386
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5387* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5388
5389* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
5390
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5391* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
5392
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5393* the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
5394 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
5395 implemented for Linux.
5396
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5397* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
5398 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
5399 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
5400 versions.
5401
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5402* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
5403 Masahide Washizawa.
5404
8f3f1e09 5405* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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5406\f
5407Version 2.1.3
5408
5409* bug fixes
5410
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5412Version 2.1.2
5413
5414* bug fixes
5415
28f540f4 5416\f
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5417Version 2.1.1
5418
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5419* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
5420
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5421* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
5422
407d26b7 5423* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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5424
5425* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
5426
407d26b7 5427* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 5428
407d26b7 5429* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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5430
5431* Update timezone data files.
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5433* lots of charmaps corrections
5434
5435* some new locale definitions and charmaps
5436
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5438Version 2.1
5439
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5440* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
5441 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
5442 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
5443 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
5444 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
5445 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
5446
c84142e8 5447* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 5448 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 5449
1fb05e3d 5450* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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5451 symbol level.
5452
5453* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
5454 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
377a515b 5455
cbdee279 5456* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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5457
5458* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 5459 numbers.
377a515b 5460
cbdee279 5461* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
e61abf83 5462
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5463* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
5464 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
e61abf83 5465
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5466* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
5467 library.
5468
e61abf83 5469* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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5470 functions from ISO C 9X.
5471
5472* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
5473 real valued functions.
e61abf83 5474
a5a0310d 5475* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
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5477* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
5478
5479* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 5480
440d13e2 5481* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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5482
5483* Optimized string functions have been added.
5484
5485* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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5486
5487* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
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5489* Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
5490 daemon for NSS (nscd).
5491
5492 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
5493 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
5494
0dee6738 5495 user system wall
48244d09 5496
0dee6738 5497 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 5498
0dee6738 5499 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 5500
0dee6738 5501 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
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5503 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
5504
5505 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
5506
5507 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
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5509 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
5510 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
0dee6738 5511 horribly slow.
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5513 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
5514 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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5516* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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5517
5518* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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5519
5520* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
5521 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
5522
5523* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
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5525* A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
5526 Bambrough.
5527
5528* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
5529 latest draft standards.
5530
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5531* Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
5532
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5533* Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
5534~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
62595351 5535addseverity NEW: Unix98
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5537argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
5538argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
5539argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
5540argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
5541argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
5542argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
5543argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
5544argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
5545argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
5546argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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5547authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
5548authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
5549authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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5550backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
5551backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
5552backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
5553cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
5554cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
5555cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
5556cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
5557cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
5558cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
5559capget NEW: kernel
5560capset NEW: kernel
5561carg NEW: ISO C 9x
5562cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
5563cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
5564casin NEW: ISO C 9x
5565casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
5566casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
5567casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5568casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5569casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
5570catan NEW: ISO C 9x
5571catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
5572catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
5573catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5574catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5575catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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5578ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
5579ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
5580ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
5581ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
5582ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
5583cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
5584cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
5585cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
5586cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
5587cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
5588cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
5589clearerr_locked REMOVED
5590clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
5591clog NEW: ISO C 9x
5592clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
5593clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
5594clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
5595clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
5596clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
5597conj NEW: ISO C 9x
5598conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
5599conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
5600cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
5601cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
5602cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
5603cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
5604cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
5605cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
5606creal NEW: ISO C 9x
5607crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
5608creall NEW: ISO C 9x
5609creat64 NEW: LFS
5610csin NEW: ISO C 9x
5611csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
5612csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
5613csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5614csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5615csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
5616csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
5617csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
5618csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
5619ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
5620ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
5621ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
5622ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5623ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5624ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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5625des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
5626ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 5627endutxent NEW: Unix98
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5628exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x
5629exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
5630exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
5631exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
5632exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
5633exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
5634fattach NEW: STREAMS
5635fdetach NEW: STREAMS
5636fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
5637fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
5638fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
5639feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5640fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5641fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
5642fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
5643feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5644feof_locked REMOVED
5645feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5646ferror_locked REMOVED
5647fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5648fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
5649fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
5650fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5651feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5652fflush_locked REMOVED
5653ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
5654ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
5655fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
5656fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5657fileno_locked REMOVED
5658fma NEW: ISO C 9x
5659fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
5660fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
5661fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
5662fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
5663fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
5664fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
5665fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
5666fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
62595351 5667fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
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5668fopen64 NEW: LFS
5669fputc_locked REMOVED
5670fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5671fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5672freopen64 NEW: LFS
5673fseeko NEW: Unix98
5674fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
5675fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
5676fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
5677fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
5678ftello NEW: Unix98
5679ftello64 NEW: LFS
5680ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
5681ftw64 NEW: LFS
5682fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5683gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
5684gamma_r REMOVED
5685gammaf_r REMOVED
5686gammal_r REMOVED
5687getchar_locked REMOVED
5688getdate NEW: Unix98
5689getdate_err NEW: Unix98
5690getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
5691getmsg NEW: STREAMS
5692getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
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5695getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
5696getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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5697getutxent NEW: Unix98
5698getutxid NEW: Unix98
5699getutxline NEW: Unix98
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5701globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
5702gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
5703gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
5704grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
e980ca92 5705host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
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5706iconv NEW: iconv
5707iconv_close NEW: iconv
5708iconv_open NEW: iconv
5709if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
5710if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
5711if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
5712if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
5713in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
5714in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
5715inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
5716isastream NEW: STREAMS
5717iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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5719key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
5720key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
5721key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
5722key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
5723key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
5724key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
5725key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
5726key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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5727llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
5728llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5729llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
5730llround NEW: ISO C 9x
5731llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5732llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5733log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
5734log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
5735log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
5736lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
5737lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5738lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
5739lround NEW: ISO C 9x
5740lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5741lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5742lseek64 NEW: LFS
5743makecontext NEW: Unix98
5744mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
5745mmap64 NEW: LFS
5746moncontrol REMOVED
5747modify_ldt NEW: kernel
5748nan NEW: ISO C 9x
5749nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
5750nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
5751nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
5752nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5753nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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5754netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
5755netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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5756nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
5757nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
5758nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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5759nftw NEW: Unix98
5760nftw64 NEW: LFS
5761open64 NEW: LFS
e980ca92 5762passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
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5763pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
5764pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
5765pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
5766pread NEW: Unix98
5767pread64 NEW: LFS
5768printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
5769printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
5770profil_counter REMOVED
5771pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
5772pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
5773ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
5774ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
5775putc_locked REMOVED
5776putchar_locked REMOVED
5777putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
5778putmsg NEW: STREAMS
5779putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
62595351 5780pututxline NEW: Unix98
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5781pwrite NEW: Unix98
5782pwrite64 NEW: LFS
5783readdir64 NEW: LFS
5784readdir64_r NEW: LFS
5785remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
5786remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
5787remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
5788round NEW: ISO C 9x
5789roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5790roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5791rtime NEW: GNU ext.
5792scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
5793scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
5794scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
5795scandir64 NEW: LFS
5796sendfile NEW: kernel
5797setcontext NEW: Unix98
5798setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 5799setutxent NEW: Unix98
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5800sighold NEW: Unix98
5801sigignore NEW: Unix98
5802sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
5803sigrelse NEW: Unix98
5804sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
5805sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
5806sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
5807sincos NEW: GNU ext.
5808sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
5809sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
5810statfs64 NEW: LFS
5811statvfs NEW: Unix98
5812statvfs64 NEW: LFS
5813strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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5814strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
5815strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
5816strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
e980ca92 5817svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
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5818svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
5819svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
5820swapcontext NEW: Unix98
5821tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
5822tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
5823tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
5824tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
5825tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
5826tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
5827trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
5828truncate64 NEW: LFS
5829truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
5830truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
5831umount2 NEW: kernel
5832unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 5833updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 5834user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 5835utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 5836versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
3ef4002b 5837versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
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5838waitid NEW: Unix98
5839wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
5840wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
5841wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
5842wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
5843wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
5844wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
5845wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
5846wcswcs NEW: Unix98
5847wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
5848wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
5849write_profiling REMOVED
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5850xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
5851xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
5852xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
5853xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
5854xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
5855xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
5856xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
5857xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
5858xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
5859xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
5860xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
5861xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
5862xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 5863xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
e980ca92 5864xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 5865~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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5867Version 2.0.6
5868
5869* more bug fixes
5870
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5871\f
5872Version 2.0.5
5873
5874* more bug fixes
5875
5876* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
5877
5878* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
5879
5880* rewrite of cbrt function
5881
5882* update of timezone data
5883\f
5884Version 2.0.4
5885
5886* more bug fixes
5887\f
5888Version 2.0.3
5889
5890* more bug fixes
c84142e8 5891\f
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5892Version 2.0.2
5893
5894* more bug fixes
5895
5896* add atoll function
5897
5898* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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5899
5900* fix math functions
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5901\f
5902Version 2.0.1
5903
5904* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
5905
5906* dynamic loader preserves all registers
5907
5908* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
5909 the ELF dynamic loader.
5910
5911* support for parallel builds is improved
5912\f
40a4b79f 5913Version 2.0
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5915* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
5916 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
5917 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
5918
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5919* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
5920 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
5921 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
5922 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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5923 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
5924 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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5925 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
5926 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
5927 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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5928 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
5929 files in the ELF format.
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5930
5931* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
5932 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
5933
5934* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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5935 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
5936 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
5937 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
5938 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
5939 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
5940 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
5941 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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5942 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
5943 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
5944 about dynamically linked binaries.
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5946* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
5947 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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5948 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
5949 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
5950 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 5951
f7eac6eb 5952* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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5953 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
5954 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
5955 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
5956 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
5957
5958* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
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5960* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
5961 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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5962 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
5963 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
5964 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
5965 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
5966 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
5967 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
5968 NSS services available.
5f0e6fc7 5969
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5970* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
5971 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
5972 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
5973
5974* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
5975 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
5976 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
5977
5978* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
5979 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
5980 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
5981 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
5982
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5983* The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
5984 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
5985 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
5986
5987* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
5988 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
5989 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
5990
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5991* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
5992 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
5993
f7eac6eb 5994* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 5995 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 5996 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
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5997 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
5998
5999* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
6000 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
6001 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 6002
71733723 6003* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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6004 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
6005 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
6006 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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6007 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
6008 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 6009 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 6010 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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6011
6012* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
6013 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
6014 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
6015 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
6016 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
6017 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
6018 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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6019
6020* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
6021 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
6022 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
6023 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
6024 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
6025 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
6026
6027* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
6028 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
6029
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6030* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
6031 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
6032 NSS scheme used in glibc.
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6034* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
6035
6036* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
6037 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
6038 their use is discouraged.
6039
6040* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
6041 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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6043* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
6044 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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6045
6046* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
6047 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
6048
6049* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
6050 see <dirent.h>.
6051
6052* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
6053 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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6054 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
6055 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
6056 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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6057
6058* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
6059 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
6060 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
6061 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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6062
6063* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
6064 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
6065
6066* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
6067 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
6068 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
6069 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
6070 number generator.
6071
6072* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
6073 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
6074
6075* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
6076 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
6077
71733723 6078* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 6079 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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6080 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
6081 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
c709e372 6082
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6083* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
6084
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6085* David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
6086 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
6087 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
6088
6089* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
6090 for arithmetic and string handling.
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c709e372 6092* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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6093 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
6094 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
6095 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
6096
6097* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
6098 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
6099 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
6100 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
6101 programs already written to use it.)
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6102
6103* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
6104 constants.
6105
6106* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
6107 with 4.4 BSD.
6108
6109* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
6110 a given effective group ID.
6111
6112* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
6113 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
6114 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
6115 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
6116
6117* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 6118 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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6119 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
6120 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
6121 doing the same thing.
6122
6123* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
6124 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
6125
6126* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 6127 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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6128
6129* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
6130
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6131* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
6132 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
6133 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 6134 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 6135 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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6136
6137* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
6138 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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6139
6140* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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6141 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
6142 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
6143 function.
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6144
6145* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
6146
6147* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
6148 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
6149 strings.
6150
6151* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
6152 and writing the utmp file.
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6153
6154* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
6155 Thorsten Kukuk.
6156
6157* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
6158 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
6159 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
6160
6161* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
6162 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
6163
6164* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
6165 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
6166 specification.
6167
6168* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
6169 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
6170 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
6171 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
6172
6173* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
6174 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
6175 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
6176
6177* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
6178 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
6179 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
6180 expression matcher.
6181
6182* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
6183 functionality.
6184
6185* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
6186 by Ulrich Drepper.
6187
6188* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
6189
6190* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
6191 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
6192 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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6194Version 1.09
6195
6196* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
6197
6198* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
6199 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
6200
6201* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
6202 want to put themselves in the background.
6203
6204* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
6205 run without an operating system.
6206
6207* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
6208 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
6209
6210* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
6211 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
6212
6213* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
6214
6215* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
6216 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
6217 have YP (aka NIS).
6218
6219* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
6220 conventions.
6221
6222* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
6223 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
6224\f
6225Version 1.08
6226
6227* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
6228 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
6229 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
6230
6231* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
6232 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
6233
6234* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
6235 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
6236
6237* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
6238
6239* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
6240
6241* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
6242 compatibility.
6243
6244* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
6245 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
6246 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
6247
6248* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
6249
6250* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
6251 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
6252 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
6253
6254* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
6255 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
6256 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
6257 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
6258 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
6259 on a block).
6260
6261* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
6262 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
6263 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
6264 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
6265 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
6266 cross-compiler.
6267
6268* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
6269 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
6270\f
6271Version 1.07
6272
6273* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
6274 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
6275
6276* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
6277 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
6278 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
6279
6280* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
6281 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
6282 address of the last character written.
6283
6284* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
6285 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
6286
6287* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
6288 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
6289
6290* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
6291 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
6292 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
6293 you dereference this pointer.
6294
6295* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
6296 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
6297
6298* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
6299 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
6300 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
6301 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
6302
6303* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
6304 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
6305 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
6306 EAGAIN in every system call function.
6307\f
6308Version 1.06
6309
6310* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
6311 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
6312 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
6313 in Emacs or the `info' program.
ea278354 6314 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
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6315
6316* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
6317
6318* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
6319
6320* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
6321 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
6322
6323* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
6324 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
6325
6326* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
6327 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
6328
6329* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
6330 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
6331 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
6332 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
6333 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
6334
6335* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
6336 to the error code in `errno'.
6337
6338* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
6339 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
6340 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
6341 malloc'd string.
6342
6343* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
6344 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
6345 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
6346
6347* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
6348 uniquely-named temporary file.
6349\f
6350Version 1.05
6351
6352* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
6353 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
6354 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
6355
6356* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
6357 characters.
6358
6359* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
6360 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
6361
6362* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
6363\f
6364Version 1.04
6365
6366* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
6367 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
6368 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
6369 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
6370
6371* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
6372 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
6373 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
6374
6375* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
6376 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
6377
6378* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
6379 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
6380 made itself into a shared library.
6381
6382* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
6383 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
6384
6385* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
6386 with limited length.
6387
6388* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
6389
6390* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
6391
6392* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
6393
6394* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
6395 function for traversing a directory tree.
6396
6397* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
6398 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
6399 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
6400 formatted output directly to an obstack.
6401
6402* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
6403 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
6404
6405* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
6406
6407* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
6408 things to your strings.
6409
6410* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
6411
6412* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
6413 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
6414 supporting those systems.
6415
6416* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
6417 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
6418 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
6419 configuration files.
6420
6421* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
6422 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
6423
6424* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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6425 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
6426 in <strings.h>.)
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6427
6428* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
6429 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
6430 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
6431 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
6432 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
6433 required storage is not available.
6434
6435* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
6436 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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6437
6438* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
6439 latest files released from Berkeley.
6440\f
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6443
6444 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
6445 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
6446 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
6447 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
6448
6449 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
6450 of this document, or of portions of it,
6451 under the above conditions, provided also that they
6452 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
6453\f
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