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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.
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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.
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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.
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34* On powerpc64*, glibc can now be compiled without scv support using the
35 --disable-scv configure option.
36
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37* Add support for 64-bit time_t on configurations like x86 where time_t
38 is traditionally 32-bit. Although time_t still defaults to 32-bit on
39 these configurations, this default may change in future versions.
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40 This is enabled with the _TIME_BITS preprocessor set to 64 and only
41 supported when LFS (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) is also enabled. It is only
42 enabled for Linux and the full support requires a minimum version of 5.1.
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44* The main gconv-modules file in glibc now contains only a small set of
45 essential converter modules and the rest have been moved into a supplementary
46 configuration file gconv-modules-extra.conf in the gconv-modules.d directory
47 in the same GCONV_PATH. Similarly, external converter modules directories
48 may have supplementary configuration files in a gconv-modules.d directory
49 with names ending with .conf to logically classify the converter modules in
50 that directory.
51
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52* On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.pthread.stack_cache_size, can be used
53 to configure the size of the thread stack cache.
54
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55Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
56
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57* The function pthread_mutex_consistent_np has been deprecated; programs
58 should use the equivalent standard function pthread_mutex_consistent
59 instead.
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61* The function pthread_mutexattr_getrobust_np has been deprecated;
62 programs should use the equivalent standard function
63 pthread_mutexattr_getrobust instead.
64
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65* The function pthread_mutexattr_setrobust_np has been deprecated;
66 programs should use the equivalent standard function
67 pthread_mutexattr_setrobust instead.
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69* The function pthread_yield has been deprecated; programs should use
70 the equivalent standard function sched_yield instead.
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72* The pthread cancellation handler is now installed with SA_RESTART and
73 pthread_cancel will always send the internal SIGCANCEL on a cancellation
74 request. It should not be visible to application since the cancellation
75 handler should either act upon cancellation (if asynchronous cancellation
76 is enabled) or ignore the cancellation internal signal. However there are
77 buggy kernel interfaces (for instance some CIFS version) that could still
78 see spurious EINTR error when cancellation interrupts a blocking syscall.
79
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80* Previously, glibc installed its various shared objects under versioned
81 file names such as libc-2.33.so. The ABI sonames (e.g., libc.so.6)
82 were provided as symbolic links. Starting with glibc 2.34, the shared
83 objects are installed under their ABI sonames directly, without
84 symbolic links. This increases compatibility with distribution
85 package managers that delete removed files late during the package
86 upgrade or downgrade process.
87
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88Changes to build and runtime requirements:
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90* On Linux, the shm_open, sem_open, and related functions now expect the
91 file shared memory file system to be mounted at /dev/shm. These functions
92 no longer search among the system's mount points for a suitable
93 replacement if /dev/shm is not available.
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95Security related changes:
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97 CVE-2021-27645: The nameserver caching daemon (nscd), when processing
98 a request for netgroup lookup, may crash due to a double-free,
99 potentially resulting in degraded service or Denial of Service on the
100 local system. Reported by Chris Schanzle.
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102 CVE-2021-33574: The mq_notify function has a potential use-after-free
103 issue when using a notification type of SIGEV_THREAD and a thread
104 attribute with a non-default affinity mask.
105
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106The following bugs are resolved with this release:
107
108 [The release manager will add the list generated by
109 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
110
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112Version 2.33
113
114Major new features:
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116* The dynamic linker accepts the --list-tunables argument which prints
117 all the supported tunables. This option is disable if glibc is
118 configured with tunables disabled (--enable-tunables=no).
119
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120* The dynamic linker accepts the --argv0 argument and provides opportunity
121 to change argv[0] string.
122
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123* The dynamic linker loads optimized implementations of shared objects
124 from subdirectories under the glibc-hwcaps directory on the library
125 search path if the system's capabilities meet the requirements for
126 that subdirectory. Initially supported subdirectories include
127 "power9" and "power10" for the powerpc64le-linux-gnu architecture,
128 "z13", "z14", "z15" for s390x-linux-gnu, and "x86-64-v2", "x86-64-v3",
129 "x86-64-v4" for x86_64-linux-gnu. In the x86_64-linux-gnu case, the
130 subdirectory names correspond to the vendor-independent x86-64
131 microarchitecture levels defined in the x86-64 psABI supplement.
132
133* The new --help option of the dynamic linker provides usage and
134 information and library search path diagnostics.
135
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136* The mallinfo2 function is added to report statistics as per mallinfo,
137 but with larger field widths to accurately report values that are
138 larger than fit in an integer.
139
96203980 140* Add <sys/platform/x86.h> to provide query macros for x86 CPU features.
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142* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been expanded to run on
143 32-bit hardware. This is supported for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
144
145 - rv32imac ilp32
146 - rv32imafdc ilp32
147 - rv32imafdc ilp32d
148
149 The 32-bit RISC-V port requires at least Linux 5.4, GCC 7.1 and binutils
150 2.28.
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152* A new fortification level _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 is available. At this level,
153 glibc may use additional checks that may have an additional performance
154 overhead. At present these checks are available only on LLVM 9 and later.
155 The latest GCC available at this time (10.2) does not support this level of
156 fortification.
157
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158Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
159
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160* The mallinfo function is marked deprecated. Callers should call
161 mallinfo2 instead.
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163* When dlopen is used in statically linked programs, alternative library
164 implementations from HWCAP subdirectories are no longer loaded.
165 Instead, the default implementation is used.
166
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167* The deprecated <sys/vtimes.h> header and the function vtimes have been
168 removed. To support old binaries, the vtimes function continues to exist
169 as a compatibility symbol. Applications should use the getrlimit or
170 prlimit.
171
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172* Following a change in the tzdata 2018a release upstream, the zdump
173 program is now installed in the /usr/bin subdirectory. Previously,
174 the /usr/sbin subdirectory was used.
175
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176* On s390(x), the type float_t is now derived from the macro
177 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ that is defined by the compiler, instead of being
178 hardcoded to double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
179 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
180 libraries that use this type in their interfaces. The new definition
181 improves consistency with compiler behavior in many scenarios.
182
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183* A future version of glibc will stop loading shared objects from the
184 "tls" subdirectories on the library search path, the subdirectory that
185 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, and also stop employing
186 the legacy AT_HWCAP search mechanism. Applications should switch to
187 the new glibc-hwcaps mechanism instead; if they do not do that, only
188 the baseline version (directly from the search path directory) will be
189 loaded.
190
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191Changes to build and runtime requirements:
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193* On Linux, the system administrator needs to configure /dev/pts with
194 the intended access modes for pseudo-terminals. glibc no longer
195 attemps to adjust permissions of terminal devices. The previous glibc
196 defaults ("tty" group, user read/write and group write) already
197 corresponded to what most systems used, so that grantpt did not
198 perform any adjustments.
199
200* On Linux, the posix_openpt and getpt functions no longer attempt to
201 use legacy (BSD) pseudo-terminals and assume that if /dev/ptmx exists
202 (and pseudo-terminals are supported), a devpts file system is mounted
203 on /dev/pts. Current systems already meet these requirements.
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205* s390x requires GCC 7.1 or newer. See gcc Bug 98269.
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207Security related changes:
208
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934c48a0 210 ISO-20220-JP-3 character set using the iconv function has been fixed.
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211 This assertion was triggered by certain valid inputs in which the
212 converted output contains a combined sequence of two wide characters
213 crossing a buffer boundary. Reported by Tavis Ormandy.
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215 CVE-2020-27618: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
216 invoked with input containing redundant shift sequences in the IBM1364,
217 IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, or IBM1399 character sets.
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219 CVE-2020-29562: An assertion failure has been fixed in the iconv function
220 when invoked with UCS4 input containing an invalid character.
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222 CVE-2019-25013: A buffer overflow has been fixed in the iconv function when
223 invoked with EUC-KR input containing invalid multibyte input sequences.
224
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225The following bugs are resolved with this release:
226
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227 [10635] libc: realpath portability patches
228 [16124] dynamic-link: ld.so should allow to change argv[0]
229 [17924] malloc: 'free' should not set errno
230 [18683] libc: Linux faccessat implementation can incorrectly ignore
231 AT_EACCESS
232 [22899] libc: Use 64-bit readdir() in generic POSIX getcwd()
597d0267 233 [23091] hurd: missing waitid support
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234 [23249] libc: Epyc and other current AMD CPUs do not select the
235 "haswell" platform subdirectory
236 [24080] dynamic-link: Definition of "haswell" platform is inconsistent
237 with GCC
238 [24202] libc: m68k setjmp() saves incorrect 'a5' register in --enable-
239 stack-protector=all
240 [24941] libc: Make grantpt usable after multi-threaded fork in more
241 cases
242 [24970] libc: realpath mishandles EOVERFLOW; stat not needed anyway
243 [24973] locale: iconv encounters segmentation fault when converting
244 0x00 0xfe in EUC-KR to UTF-8 (CVE-2019-25013)
245 [25399] string: undefined reference to `__warn_memset_zero_len' when
246 changing gnuc version
247 [25859] libc: glibc parser for /sys/devices/system/cpu/online is
248 incorrect
249 [25938] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should store meaning of hwcap mask
250 bits
251 [25971] libc: s390 bits/hwcap.h out of sync with kernel
252 [26053] libc: unlockpt fails with ENOTTY for non-ptmx descriptors
253 [26100] libc: Race in syslog(3) with regards to tag printing.
254 [26124] libc: Export <cpu-features.h>
255 [26130] nscd: Inconsistent nscd cache during pruning
256 [26203] libc: GLRO(dl_x86_cpu_features) may not be intialized
257 [26224] locale: iconv hangs when converting some invalid inputs from
258 several IBM character sets (CVE-2020-27618)
259 [26341] libc: realpath cyclically call __alloca(path_max) to consume
260 too much stack space
261 [26343] manual: invalid documented return type for strerrorname_np(),
262 strerrordesc_np(), sigdescr_np(), sigabbrev_np()
263 [26376] libc: Namespace violation in stdio.h and sys/stat.h if build
264 with optimization.
265 [26383] locale: bind_textdomain_codeset doesn't accept //TRANSLIT
266 anymore
267 [26394] time: [2.33 Regression] FAIL: nptl/tst-join14
268 [26534] math: libm.so 2.32 SIGILL in pow() due to FMA4 instruction on
269 non-FMA4 system
270 [26552] dynamic-link: CPU_FEATURE_USABLE_P should be more conservative
271 [26553] libc: mtx_init allows type set to "mtx_recursive" only
272 [26555] string: strerrorname_np does not return the documented value
273 [26592] libc: pointer arithmetic overflows in realpath
274 [26600] network: Transaction ID collisions cause slow DNS lookups in
275 getaddrinfo
276 [26606] libc: [2.33 Regression] pselect is broken on x32
277 [26615] libc: powerpc: libc segfaults when LD_PRELOADed with libgcc
278 [26620] glob: fnmatch with collating symbols results in segmentation
279 fault
280 [26625] libc: [2.33 Regression] CET is disabled
281 [26636] libc: 32-bit shmctl(IPC_INFO) crashes when shminfo struct is
282 at the end of a memory mapping
283 [26637] libc: semctl SEM_STAT_ANY fails to pass the buffer specified
284 by the caller to the kernel
285 [26639] libc: msgctl IPC_INFO and MSG_INFO return garbage
286 [26647] build: [-Werror=array-parameter=] due to different
287 declarations for __sigsetjmp
288 [26648] libc: mkstemp is likely to fail on systems with non-stricly-
289 monotonic clocks
290 [26649] stdio: printf should handle non-normal x86 long double numbers
291 gracefully (CVE-2020-29573)
292 [26686] build: -Warray-parameter instances building with GCC 11
293 [26687] build: -Warray-bounds instances building with GCC 11
294 [26690] stdio: Aliasing violation in __vfscanf_internal
295 [26691] nptl: Use a minimum guard size of 64 KiB on aarch64
296 [26726] build: GCC warning calling new_composite_name with an array of
297 one element
298 [26736] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-sysvshm-linux
299 [26737] libc: Random FAIL: rt/tst-shm
300 [26791] libc: Missing O_CLOEXEC in sysconf.c
301 [26798] dynamic-link: aarch64: variant PCS symbols may be incorrectly
302 lazy bound
303 [26801] nptl: pthread_mutex_clocklock with CLOCK_MONOTONIC can fail on
304 PI mutexes
305 [26818] string: aarch64: string tests may run ifunc variants that are
306 not safe
307 [26821] libc: Memory leak test failures on Fedora 33
308 [26824] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-cpu-features-supports with recent trunk:
309 FSGSBASE/LM/RDRAND check failure
310 [26833] time: adjtime() with delta == NULL segfaults on armv7 32bit
311 platform
312 [26853] libc: aarch64: Missing unwind information in statically linked
313 startup code
314 [26923] locale: Assertion failure in iconv when converting invalid
315 UCS4 (CVE-2020-29562)
316 [26926] dynamic-link: aarch64: library dependencies are not bti
317 protected
318 [26932] libc: sh: Multiple floating point functions defined as stubs
319 only since 2.31
320 [26964] nptl: pthread_mutex_timedlock returning EAGAIN after futex is
321 locked
322 [26988] dynamic-link: aarch64: BTI mprotect address is not page
323 aligned
324 [27002] build: libc_freeres_fn build failure with GCC 11
325 [27004] dynamic-link: ld.so is miscompiled by GCC 11
326 [27008] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should have endianness markup
327 [27042] libc: [alpha] anonymous union in struct stat confuses
328 detection logic
329 [27053] libc: Conformance regression in system(3) (and probably also
330 pclose(3))
331 [27072] dynamic-link: static pie ifunc resolvers run before hwcap is
332 setup
333 [27077] network: Do not reload /etc/nsswitch.conf from chroot
334 [27083] libc: Unsafe unbounded alloca in addmntent
335 [27104] dynamic-link: The COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_MAX handshake does not
336 work
337 [27130] string: "rep movsb" performance issue
338 [27150] libc: alpha: wait4() is unavailable in static linking
339 [27177] dynamic-link:
340 GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.cpu.x86_ibt=on:glibc.cpu.x86_shstk=on doesn't
341 work
342 [27222] dynamic-link: Incorrect sysdeps/x86/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo.c
343 [27237] malloc: deadlock in malloc/tst-malloc-stats-cancellation
344 [27256] locale: Assertion failure in ISO-2022-JP-3 gconv module
345 related to combining characters (CVE-2021-3326)
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348Version 2.32
349
350Major new features:
351
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352* Unicode 13.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
353 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 13.0.0, using
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354 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
355
356* New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq)
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358* Support for Synopsys ARC HS cores (ARCv2 ISA) running Linux has been
359 added. This port requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-8.3 and Linux-5.1.
360 Three ABIs are supported:
361
362 - arc-linux-gnu
363 - arc-linux-gnuhf
364 - arceb-linux-gnu
365
4d3a77c7 366 The arc* ABIs are little-endian while arceb is big-endian. All ABIs use
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367 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
368
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369* The GNU C Library now loads audit modules listed in the DT_AUDIT and
370 DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
371
051be01f 372* powerpc64le supports IEEE128 long double libm/libc redirects when
4d3a77c7 373 using -mabi=ieeelongdouble to compile C code on supported GCC
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374 toolchains. It is recommended to use GCC 8 or newer when testing
375 this option.
376
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377* To help detect buffer overflows and other out-of-bounds accesses
378 several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This
379 should help GCC 10 issue better warnings.
380
4d3a77c7 381* On Linux, functions pthread_attr_setsigmask_np and
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382 pthread_attr_getsigmask_np have been added. They allow applications
383 to specify the signal mask of a thread created with pthread_create.
384
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385* The GNU C Library now provides the header file <sys/single_threaded.h>
386 which declares the variable __libc_single_threaded. Applications are
387 encouraged to use this variable for single-thread optimizations,
388 instead of weak references to symbols historically defined in
389 libpthread.
390
bfe05aa2 391* The functions sigabbrev_np and sigdescr_np have been added. The
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392 sigabbrev_np function returns the abbreviated signal name (e.g. "HUP" for
393 SIGHUP) while sigdescr_np returns a string describing the signal number
394 (e.g "Hangup" for SIGHUP). Different than strsignal, sigdescr_np does not
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395 attempt to translate the return description, both functions return
396 NULL for an invalid signal number.
397
398 They should be used instead of sys_siglist or sys_sigabbrev and they
399 are both thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
400
325081b9 401* The functions strerrorname_np and strerrordesc_np have been added. The
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402 strerroname_np function returns error number name (e.g. "EINVAL" for EINVAL)
403 while strerrordesc_np returns a string describing the error number
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404 (e.g "Invalid argument" for EINVAL). Different than strerror,
405 strerrordesc_np does not attempt to translate the return description, both
406 functions return NULL for an invalid error number.
407
408 They should be used instead of sys_errlist and sys_nerr, both are
409 thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
410
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411* AArch64 now supports standard branch protection security hardening
412 in glibc when it is built with a GCC that is configured with
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413 --enable-standard-branch-protection (or if -mbranch-protection=standard
414 flag is passed when building both GCC target libraries and glibc,
415 in either case a custom GCC is needed). This includes branch target
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416 identification (BTI) and pointer authentication for return addresses
417 (PAC-RET). They require armv8.5-a and armv8.3-a architecture
418 extensions respectively for the protection to be effective,
419 otherwise the used instructions are nops. User code can use PAC-RET
420 without libc support, but BTI requires a libc that is built with BTI
421 support, otherwise runtime objects linked into user code will not be
422 BTI compatible.
423
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424Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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426* Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc. Sun RPC is removed
427 from glibc. This includes the rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and the Sun
428 RPC header files. Backward compatibility for old programs is kept
429 only for architectures and ABIs that have been added in or before
430 glibc 2.31. New programs need to use TI-RPC
431 <http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=summary> and
432 rpcsvc-proto <https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto>.
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434* Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-nsl. libnsl is only built
435 as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules "nis"
436 and "nisplus" are not built at all and libnsl's headers aren't
437 installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs
438 that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement
439 implementations based on TI-RPC, which additionally support IPv6, are
440 available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not
4d3a77c7 441 affect the "compat" NSS module, which does not depend on libnsl
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442 since 2.27 and thus can be used without NIS.
443
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444* The deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
445 removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
446 exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
447 but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system
448 call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5.
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450* The sstk function is no longer available to newly linked binaries.
451 Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function
452 was not declared in any header file.
453
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454* The legacy signal handling functions siginterrupt, sigpause, sighold,
455 sigrelse, sigignore and sigset, and the sigmask macro have been
456 deprecated. Applications should use the sigsuspend, sigprocmask and
457 sigaction functions instead.
458
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459* ldconfig now defaults to the new format for ld.so.cache. glibc has
460 already supported this format for almost 20 years.
461
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462* The deprecated arrays sys_siglist, _sys_siglist, and sys_sigabbrev
463 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
464 have been removed from <string.h>. They are exported solely as
465 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
466 strsignal instead.
467
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468* The deprecated symbols sys_errlist, _sys_errlist, sys_nerr, and _sys_nerr
469 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
4d3a77c7 470 have been removed from <stdio.h>. They are exported solely as
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471 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
472 strerror or strerror_r instead.
473
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474* Both strerror and strerror_l now share the same internal buffer in the
475 calling thread, meaning that the returned string pointer may be invalided
476 or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same thread or
477 if the thread is terminated. It makes strerror MT-safe.
478
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479* Using weak references to libpthread functions such as pthread_create
480 or pthread_key_create to detect the singled-threaded nature of a
481 program is an obsolescent feature. Future versions of glibc will
482 define pthread_create within libc.so.6 itself, so such checks will
483 always flag the program as multi-threaded. Applications should check
484 the __libc_single_threaded variable declared in
485 <sys/single_threaded.h> instead.
486
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487* The "files" NSS module no longer supports the "key" database (used for
488 secure RPC). The contents of the /etc/publickey file will be ignored,
489 regardless of the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of
490 storing RPC keys only supported the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES
491 flavor of secure RPC.)
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494 implementation __default_morecore have been deprecated. Applications
495 should use malloc interposition to change malloc behavior, and mmap to
496 allocate anonymous memory. A future version of glibc may require that
497 applications which use the malloc hooks must preload a special shared
498 object, to enable the hooks.
499
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501 future version of glibc. System administrators are encouraged to
502 switch to other approaches for networked account databases, such as
503 LDAP.
504
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506
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508 long double redirects.
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510Security related changes:
511
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512 CVE-2016-10228: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
513 invoked with the -c option and when processing invalid multi-byte input
514 sequences. Reported by Jan Engelhardt.
515
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516 CVE-2020-10029: Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack
517 corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido
518 Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
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520 CVE-2020-1752: A use-after-free vulnerability in the glob function when
521 expanding ~user has been fixed.
522
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523 CVE-2020-6096: A signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy and
524 memmove functions has been fixed. Discovered by Jason Royes and Samual
525 Dytrych of the Cisco Security Assessment and Penetration Team (See
526 TALOS-2020-1019).
527
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530 [9809] localedata: ckb_IQ: new Kurdish Sorani locale
531 [10441] manual: Backtraces code example lacks error checking
532 [10815] librt: [timer_create / SIGEV_THREAD] signalmask of
533 timer_sigev_thread dangerous
534 [14231] stdio: stdio-common tests memory requirements
535 [14578] libc: /proc-based emulation for lchmod, fchmodat
536 [16272] dynamic-link: dlopen()ing a DT_FILTER library crashes if
537 filtee has constructor
538 [19519] locale: iconv(1) with -c option hangs on illegal multi-byte
539 sequences (CVE-2016-10228)
540 [19737] admin: Doc page “20.5.2 Infinity and NaN” has incorrect HTML
541 character entities for infinity & pi
542 [20338] libc: Parsing of /etc/gshadow can return bad pointers causing
543 segfaults in applications
544 [20543] libc: Please move from .gnu.linkonce to comdat
545 [22489] network: gcc warns about implicit convertion in
546 ICMP6_FILTER_SETPASS with -Wsign-conversion
547 [22525] localedata: or_IN LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
548 [23294] math: Complex _FloatN functions are redirected to the wrong
549 function with -mlong-double-64
550 [23296] libc: Data race in setting function descriptor during lazy
551 binding
552 [23668] dynamic-link: ldconfig: Default to the new format for
553 ld.so.cache
554 [23819] hurd: hurd: Add C11 thread support
555 [23990] build: test-container error out on failure to exec child.
556 [23991] build: shell-container typo in run_command_array
557 [24638] manual: Error in example of parsing a template string
558 [24654] manual: Wrong declaration of wcschr in libc manual
559 [24943] dynamic-link: Support DT_AUDIT, DT_DEPAUDIT in the dynamic
560 linker
561 [25051] dynamic-link: aarch64, powerpc64 uses surplus static tls for
562 dynamically loaded dsos
563 [25098] nptl: nptl: ctype classification functions are not AS-Safe
564 [25219] libc: improve out-of-bounds checking with GCC 10 attribute
565 access
566 [25262] libc: getcontext/setcontext/swapcontext unnecessarily save and
567 restore EAX, ECX and EDX
568 [25397] dynamic-link: Legacy bitmap doesn't cover jitted code
569 [25414] glob: 'glob' use-after-free bug (CVE-2020-1752)
570 [25420] network: Race condition in resolv_conf.c can result in caching
571 stale configuration forever
572 [25487] math: sinl() stack corruption from crafted input
573 (CVE-2020-10029)
574 [25506] build: configure: broken detection of STT_GNU_IFUNC when GCC
575 defaults to PIE
576 [25523] libc: MIPS/Linux inline syscall template is miscompiled
577 [25620] libc: Signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy()
578 (CVE-2020-6096)
579 [25623] libc: test-sysvmsg, test-sysvsem, test-sysvshm fail with 2.31
580 on 32 bit and old kernel
581 [25635] libc: arm: Wrong sysdep order selection for soft-fp
582 [25639] localedata: Some names of days and months wrongly spelt in
583 Occitan
584 [25657] libc: sigprocmask() and sigisemptyset() manipulate different
585 amount of sigset_t bytes
586 [25691] stdio: printf: memory leak when printing long multibyte
587 strings
588 [25715] libc: system() returns wrong errors when posix_spawn fails
589 [25733] malloc: mallopt(M_MXFAST) can set global_max_fast to 0
590 [25734] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS fails to reset conversion
591 state for conversions that produce two Unicode code points
592 [25765] nptl: Incorrect futex syscall in __pthread_disable_asynccancel
593 for linux x86_64 leads to livelock
594 [25788] dynamic-link: [i386] -fno-omit-frame-pointer in CFLAGS causes
595 test failures, invalid instruction in ld.so
596 [25790] glob: Typo in tst-fnmatch.input
597 [25810] libc: x32: Incorrect syscall entries with pointer, off_t and
598 size_t
599 [25819] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 13.0.0
600 [25824] libc: Abnormal function of strnlen in aarch64
601 [25887] dynamic-link: Wasted space in _dl_x86_feature_1[1]
602 [25896] libc: Incorrect prctl
603 [25902] libc: Bad LOADARGS_N
604 [25905] dynamic-link: VSX registers are corrupted during PLT
605 resolution when glibc is built with --disable-multi-arch and --with-
606 cpu=power9
607 [25933] string: Off by one error in __strncmp_avx2 when
608 length=VEC_SIZE*4 and strings are at page boundaries can cause a
609 segfault
610 [25942] nptl: Deadlock on stack_cache_lock between __nptl_setxid and
611 exiting detached thread
612 [25966] libc: Incorrect access of __x86_shared_non_temporal_threshold
613 for x32
614 [25976] nss: internal_end*ent in nss_compat may clobber errno, hiding
615 ERANGE
616 [25999] nptl: Use-after-free issue in pthread_getaddr_default_np
617 [26073] math: getpayload() has wrong return value
618 [26076] dynamic-link: dlmopen crashes after failing to load
619 dependencies in audit mode
620 [26120] localedata: column width of of some Korean
621 JUNGSEONG/JONGSEONG characters wrong (should be 0)
622 [26128] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFLUSHOPT
623 [26133] libc: Incorrect need_arch_feature_F16C
624 [26137] libc: strtod() triggers exception FE_INEXACT on reasonable
625 input
626 [26149] libc: PKU is usable only if OSPKE is set
627 [26173] libc: powerpc64*: Add @notoc to calls to functions that do not
628 preserve r2
629 [26208] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFSH
630 [26210] network: Incorrect use of hidden symbols for global sunrpc
631 variables
632 [26211] stdio: printf integer overflow calculating allocation size
633 [26214] stdio: printf_fp double free
634 [26215] stdio: printf_fp memory leak
635 [26232] time: FAIL: support/tst-timespec for 32-bit targets
636 [26258] nss: nss_compat should not read input files with mmap
637 [26332] string: Incorrect cache line size load causes memory
638 corruption in memset
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642
643Major new features:
644
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645* The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
646 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
647 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
648 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
649 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
650 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
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652* The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
653 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
654 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
655 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
656
69ca4b54 657* The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
3ef5e118 658 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
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659 CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME. This function is a GNU extension.
660
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661* New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar).
662
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663* The DNS stub resolver will optionally send the AD (authenticated data) bit
664 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
665 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
666 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
667 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
668 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
669 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
670 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
671
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673
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674* The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
675 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
676 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
677 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
678 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
679 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
0b8c2f95 680
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682 binaries, and its declaration has been removed from <time.h>.
683 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
684
685* We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
686 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
687 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
688 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
689
690* The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
691 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
692 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
693 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
694 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
695 made this no longer practical.
696
697 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
698 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
699 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
700 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
701 release.)
702
703 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
704 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
705 with the current time, use the localtime function.
706
707 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
708 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
709 using clock_gettime instead.
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712 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
713 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
714 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
715 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
716
717 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
718 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
719 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
720 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
721
722 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
723 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
724 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
725 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
726 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
727 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
728
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730 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
731 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
732 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
733 offset API.
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735* SPARC ISA v7 is no longer supported. v8 is still supported, but only if
736 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
737 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
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740 configurations.
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742* If a lazy binding failure happens during dlopen, during the execution of
743 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
744 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
745 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
746 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
747
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749 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
750 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
751 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
752 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
753 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
754 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
755 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
756
757 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
758 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
759
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761 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
762 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
763 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
764 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
765 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
766
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768
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771 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
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773* The ChangeLog file is no longer present in the toplevel directory of the
774 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
775 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
776
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778
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779 CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an
780 out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context.
781
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782 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
783 environment variable during program execution after a security
784 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
785 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
786 program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
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788The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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790 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
791 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
792 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
793 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
794 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
795 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
796 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
797 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
798 linking failure
799 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
800 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
801 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
802 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
803 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
804 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
805 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
806 constructors/destructors is not fatal
807 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
808 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
809 7408-2005
810 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
811 with localedef
812 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
813 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
814 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
815 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
816 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
817 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
818 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
819 utmp entries
820 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
821 ABSOLUTE ABI
822 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
823 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
824 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
825 (stringop-overflow error)
826 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
827 functions other can lead to crashes
828 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
829 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
830 unconditionally
831 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
832 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
833 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
834 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
835 still can fail with an error
836 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
837 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
838 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
839 initialized correctly
840 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
841 -frewrite-includes
842 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
843 value to an unsigned
844 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
845 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
846 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
847 protection
848 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
849 ifunc variant.
850 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
851 al. for Clang++
852 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
853 (Slovenian)
854 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
855 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
856 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
857 with -std=c11
858 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
859 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
860 part
861 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
862 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
863 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
864 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
865 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
866 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
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870
871Major new features:
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874 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
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875 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
876
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877* The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
878 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
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881 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
882 to the callback function.
883
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886* Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
887 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
888 nan_TW, lzh_TW.
889
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891
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892* Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
893 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
894 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
895 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
896 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
897
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898* The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
899 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
900 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
901 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
902 link time reference, is gone.
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905 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
906 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
907 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
908 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
909 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
910 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
911 the clock choice at initialization time).
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914 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
915 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
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918
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919* The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
920 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
921 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
922 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
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924 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
925 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
926 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
927 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
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930 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
931 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
932 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
933 since glibc 2.17.
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936 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
937
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938* Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
939 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
940
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941* The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
942 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
943
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944* With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
945 BIND_NOW flag.
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948 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
949 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
950
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951* On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
952 header have been removed.
953
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954* The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
955 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
956 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
957 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
958
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962
963 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
964 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
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969 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
970 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
971 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
972 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
973 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
974 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
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976 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
977 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
978 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
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982 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
983 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
984 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
985 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
986 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
987 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
988 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
989 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
990 invalid input drops valid char
991 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
992 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
993 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
994 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
995 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
996 malloc.h.
997 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
998 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
999 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
1000 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
1001 functions
1002 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
1003 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
1004 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
1005 for long double = double
1006 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
1007 long double = double
1008 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
1009 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
1010 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
1011 long timeouts
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1014 checking for NULL.
1015 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
1016 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
1017 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
1018 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
1019 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
1020 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
1021 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
1022 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
1023 not the default "nor"
1024 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
1025 false positives, change to modern flexible array
1026 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
1027 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
1028 compiler barriers.
1029 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
1030 unnecessary librt dependencies
1031 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
1032 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
1033 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
1034 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
1035 unsorted chunk
1036 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
1037 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
1038 to R_SPARC_H44
1039 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
1040 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
1041 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
1042 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
1043 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
1044 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
1045 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
1046 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
1047 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
1048 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
1049 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
1050 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
1051 was not used
1052 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
1053 tests
1054 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
1055 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
1056 time_t changes
1057 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
1058 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
1059 kernels and break testing
1060 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
1061 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
1062 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
1063 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
1064 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
1065 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
1066 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
1067 -O3 -march=skylake
1068 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
1069 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
1070 crash
1071 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
1072 linked glibc
1073 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
1074 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
1075 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
1076 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
1077 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
1078 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
1079 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
1080 always implemented in the same library
1081 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
1082 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
1083 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
1084 testroot
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1088
1089Major new features:
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1092 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
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1094* A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
1095 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
1096 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
1097 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
1098 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
1099 configured location.
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1104 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
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1106* For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
1107 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
1108 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
1109 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
1110 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
1111 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
1112 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
1113 process actually does not use HTM).
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1116 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
1117 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
1118 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
1119 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
1120 of the same name.
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1122* The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
1123 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
1124 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
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1129 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
1130 supported:
1131 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
1132 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
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1135 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
1136 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
1137 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
1138 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
1139 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
1140 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
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1143 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
1144 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
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1149 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
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1151* The type of the pr_uid and pr_gid members of struct elf_prpsinfo, defined
1152 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
1153 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
1154 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
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1157 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
1158 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
1159 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
1160 structures.
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1163 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
1164 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
1165 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
1166 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
1167 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
1168
1169 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
1170 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
1171 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
1172 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
1173 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
1174
1175 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
1176 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
1177 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
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1180
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1184 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
1185
1186 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
1187 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
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1191 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
1192 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
1193 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
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1196 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
1197 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
1198 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
1199 Reported by H.J. Lu.
1200
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1201 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
1202 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
1203 or command injection issues in applications.
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1207 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
1208 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
1209 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
1210 thousands
1211 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
1212 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
1213 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
1214 --param options)
1215 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
1216 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
1217 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
1218 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
1219 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
1220 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
1221 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
1222 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
1223 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
1224 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
1225 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
1226 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
1227 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
1228 pointer argument is non-NULL
1229 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
1230 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
1231 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
1232 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
1233 multithreads call popen
1234 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
1235 and pthread_create fails.
1236 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
1237 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
1238 constructor
1239 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
1240 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
1241 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
1242 source tree
1243 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
1244 float
1245 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
1246 one error
1247 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
1248 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
1249 linker
1250 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
1251 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
1252 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
1253 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
1254 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
1255 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
1256 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
1257 filesystems
1258 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
1259 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
1260 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
1261 functions
1262 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
1263 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
1264 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
1265 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
1266 have wrong type
1267 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
1268 wrong type
1269 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
1270 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
1271 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
1272 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
1273 threads
1274 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
1275 start.S
1276 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
1277 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
1278 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
1279 powerpc64le
1280 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
1281 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
1282 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
1283 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
1284 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
1285 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
1286 strftime
1287 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
1288 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
1289 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
1290 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
1291 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
1292 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
1293 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
1294 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
1295 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
1296 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
1297 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
1298 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
1299 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
1300 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
1301 tcache size
1302 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
1303 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
1304 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
1305 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
1306 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
1307 (CVE-2018-19591)
1308 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
1309 nearest rounding mode
1310 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
1311 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
1312 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
1313 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
1314 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
1315 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
1316 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
1317 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
1318 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
1319 error
1320 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
1321 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
1322 using GCC 8
1323 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
1324 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
1325 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
1326 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
1327 ppc64le
1328 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
1329 expected result
1330 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
1331 x32 (CVE-2019-6488)
1332 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
1333 sigaltstack
1334 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
1335 answers will be rejected)
1336 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
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1341Major new features:
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1344 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
1345 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
1346 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
1347 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
1348 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
1349 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
1350 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
1351 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
1352 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
1353 archive or binary locales.
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1356 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
1357 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
1358 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
1359 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
1360 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
1361 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
1362 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
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1364 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
1365 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
1366 validated for i686.
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1369 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
1370 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
1371 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
1372 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
1373 field) to indicate such support is required.
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1376 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
1377 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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1379* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
1380 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
1381
1382 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
1383 fMxaddfNx functions.
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1385 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
1386 fMxsubfNx functions.
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1388 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
1389 fMxmulfNx functions.
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1391 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
1392 fMxdivfNx functions.
1393
e607a352 1394* Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
df467d22 1395 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
9145f033 1396 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
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1397 support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
1398 and Kashubian.
c553cd6f 1399
61c4aad7 1400* Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
e607a352 1401 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
a1e0c5fa 1402
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1403* Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
1404 patches.
1405
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1406* The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
1407 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
1408 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
1409 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
1410 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
1411 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
1412 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
1413 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
1414
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1415* The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
1416 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
1417 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
1418 the fstatat64 function.
1419
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1420* IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
1421 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
1422 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
1423 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
1424 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
1425 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
1426 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
1427 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
1428 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
1429
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1430* Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
1431 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
1432 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
1433 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
1434 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
1435 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
1436 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
1437 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
1438 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
1439 results in a load failure now.
1440
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1441* Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The
1442 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
1443 <threads.h>:
1444
1445 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
1446 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
1447
1448 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
1449 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
1450
1451 - call_once for function call synchronization.
1452
1453 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
1454 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
1455
1456 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
1457
1458 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
1459
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1461
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1462* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
1463 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
1464 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
1465
1466* The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
1467 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
1468 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
1469 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
1470 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
1471 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
1472
1473* All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
1474 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
1475 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
1476 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
1477 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
1478 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
1479 (Bug #1190.)
1480
1481* The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
1482 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
1483 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
1484 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
1485 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
1486 further explanation.
1487
1488 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
1489 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
1490 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
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1492* The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
1493
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1494* The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
1495 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
1496 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
1497
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1498* The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
1499 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
1500 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
1501 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
1502
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1503* The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
1504 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
1505 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
1506 for this function instead.
1507
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1508* The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
1509 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
1510 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
1511
1512* The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
1513 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
1514 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
1515 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
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1517* The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
1518 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
1519 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
1520 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
1521 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
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1523* The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
1524 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
1525 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
1526 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
1527 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
1528 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
1529 such as libgcrypt.
1530
1531* Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
1532 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
1533 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
1534 enabled.
1535
1536* The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
1537 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
1538 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
1539
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1540* We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
1541 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
1542 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
1543 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
1544 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
1545 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
1546
1547 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
1548 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
1549 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
1550 behavior in a future release.
1551
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1553
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1556Security related changes:
1557
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1558 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
1559 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
1560 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
1561 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
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1563 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
1564 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
1565
1566 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
1567 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
1568 Izbyshev.
1569
1570 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
1571 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
1572 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
1573
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1574The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1575
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1576 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
1577 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
1578 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
1579 when __WORDSIZE != 64
1580 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
1581 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
1582 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
1583 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
1584 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
1585 14651
1586 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
1587 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
1588 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
1589 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
1590 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
1591 conversion is given
1592 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
1593 date
1594 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
1595 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
1596 scope with -O1 and higher
1597 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
1598 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
1599 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
1600 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
1601 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
1602 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
1603 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
1604 horrible machine code)
1605 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
1606 last constant.
1607 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
1608 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
1609 symbols
1610 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
1611 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
1612 defined
1613 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
1614 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
1615 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
1616 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
1617 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
1618 fpscr.c'
1619 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
1620 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
1621 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
1622 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
1623 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
1624 the base address
1625 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
1626 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
1627 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
1628 open_verify
1629 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
1630 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
1631 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
1632 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
1633 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
1634 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
1635 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
1636 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
1637 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
1638 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
1639 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
1640 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
1641 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
1642 dlopen
1643 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
1644 AT_SECURE=1
1645 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
1646 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
1647 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
1648 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
1649 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
1650 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
1651 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
1652 for Spanish with CLDR
1653 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
1654 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
1655 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
1656 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
1657 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
1658 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
1659 es_BO
1660 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
1661 CLOCKS_PER_SECOND
1662 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
1663 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
1664 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
1665 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
1666 dlopen failures
1667 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
1668 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
1669 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
1670 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
1671 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
1672 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
1673 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
1674 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
1675 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
1676 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
1677 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
1678 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
1679 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
1680 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
1681 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
1682 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
1683 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
1684 makecontext
1685 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
1686 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
1687 required
1688 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
1689 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
1690 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
1691 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
1692 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
1693 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
1694 disabled
1695 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
1696 failure
1697 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
1698 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
1699 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
1700 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
1701 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
1702 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
1703 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
1704 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
1705 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
1706 and libc build with -Os)
1707 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
1708 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
1709 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
1710 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
1711 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
1712 that changes /etc/passwd
1713 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
1714 (CVE-2018-11237)
1715 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
1716 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
1717 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
1718 posix/regcomp.c
1719 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
1720 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
1721 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
1722 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
1723 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
1724 AT_SECURE
1725 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
1726 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
1727 parser.c
1728 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
1729 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
1730 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
1731 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
1732 directed rounding
1733 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
1734 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
1735 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
1736 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
1737 lookup
1738 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
1739 interposition
1740 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
1741 DSO boundaries.
1742 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
1743 <linux/time.h>
1744 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
1745 checking
1746 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
1747 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
1748 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
1749 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
1750 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
1751 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
1752 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
1753 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
1754 processors
1755 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
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1758Version 2.27
1759
1760Major new features:
1761
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1762* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
1763 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
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1765 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
1766 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
1767 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
1768 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
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1769 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
1770 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
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1774 H.J. Lu from Intel.
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1777
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1780* In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
1781 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
1782 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
1783 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
1784 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
1785 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
1786 from a security and performance perspective.
1787
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1788* The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
1789 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
1790 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
1791 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
1792
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1795 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
1796 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
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1798
a23aa5b7 1799* On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
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1802 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
1803 _Float128.
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1806 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
1807 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
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1811* Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
1812 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
1813 pkey_get.
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1815* The copy_file_range function was added.
1816
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1817* Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
1818
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1819* The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
1820 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
1821 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
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1824 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
1825 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
1826 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
1827 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
1828 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
1829 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
1830
1831 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
1832 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
1833 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
1834 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
1835 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
1836 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
1837 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
1838
1839 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
1840 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
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1841 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
1842 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
1843 respectively.
1844
1845 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
1846 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
1847 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
1848 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
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1849
1850 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
1851 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
1852 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
1853
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1854 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
1855 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
0a32e219 1856 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
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1858* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
1859 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
1860 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
1861
1862 - rv64imac lp64
1863 - rv64imafdc lp64
1864 - rv64imafdc lp64d
1865
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1866Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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1868* Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
1869 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
d4ae7827 1870 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
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1871 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
1872 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
1873 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
1874 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
1875 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
1876 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
1877 fix this.
1878
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1879* Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
1880 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
1881 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
1882
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1883* Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
1884 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
1885 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
1886 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
1887 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
1888 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
1889 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
1890 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
1891 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
1892 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
1893 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
1894 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
1895 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
1896 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
1897 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
1898 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
1899 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
1900 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
1901 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
1902 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
1903 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
1904 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
1905 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
1906 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
1907 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
1908 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
1909
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1910* On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
1911 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
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1913* libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
1914 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
1915 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
1916 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
1917 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
1918 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
1919 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
1920
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1921* The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
1922 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
1923 exp10l for these functions instead.
1924
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1925* The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
1926 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
1927 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1928
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1929* The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
1930 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
1931 ignored.
1932
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1933* The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
1934 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
1935 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
1936 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
1937
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1938* The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
1939 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
1940
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1941* In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
1942 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
1943
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1944* The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
1945 programs.
1946
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1947* The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
1948
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1949* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
1950 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
1951 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
1952 instead.
1953
1954 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
1955 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
1956 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
1957 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
1958 use, but predates the bits convention.
1959
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1960Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1961
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1962* bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
1963 subdirectory.
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1964
1965Security related changes:
1966
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1967 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
1968 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
1969 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
1970 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
1971 script.)
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1973 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
1974 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
1975 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
1976 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
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1978 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
1979 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
1980 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
1981 of service.
1982
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1983 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
1984 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
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1985 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
1986
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1987 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
1988 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
1989 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
1990 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
1991
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1992 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
1993 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
1994 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
1995 Qualys.
1996
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1997 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
1998 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
1999 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
2000 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
2001 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
2002
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2003 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
2004 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
2005 current directory.
2006
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2007 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
2008 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
2009 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
2010
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2011 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
2012 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
2013 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
2014
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2015 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
2016 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
2017 small, instead of NULL.
2018
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2019The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2020
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2021 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
2022 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
2023 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
2024 locale
2025 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
2026 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
2027 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
2028 cases
2029 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
2030 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
2031 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
2032 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
2033 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
2034 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
2035 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
2036 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
2037 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
2038 "Bangla"
2039 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
2040 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
2041 width Latin characters
2042 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
2043 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
2044 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
2045 letters
2046 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
2047 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
2048 (CVE-2009-5064)
2049 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
2050 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
2051 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
2052 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
2053 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
2054 if malloc succeeded
2055 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
2056 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
2057 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
2058 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
2059 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
2060 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
2061 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
2062 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
2063 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
2064 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
2065 U+309A
2066 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
2067 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
2068 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
2069 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
2070 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
2071 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
2072 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
2073 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
2074 for Nicaragua
2075 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
2076 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
2077 are not found.
2078 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
2079 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
2080 access
2081 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
2082 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
2083 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
2084 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
2085 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
2086 __regcall calling convention
2087 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
2088 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
2089 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
2090 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
2091 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
2092 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
2093 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
2094 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
2095 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
2096 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
2097 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
2098 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
2099 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
2100 locale
2101 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
2102 protector=all
2103 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
2104 wcwidth
2105 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
2106 consistency check failures
2107 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
2108 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
2109 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
2110 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
2111 PIE
2112 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
2113 locales
2114 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
2115 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
2116 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
2117 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
2118 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
2119 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
2120 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
2121 on memory allocation failure
2122 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
2123 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
2124 the suspect)
2125 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
2126 default (i386)
2127 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
2128 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
2129 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
2130 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
2131 instead of EAI_NODATA
2132 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
2133 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
2134 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
2135 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
2136 implementation
2137 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
2138 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
2139 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
2140 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
2141 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
2142 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
2143 allocation in syscall loops)
2144 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
2145 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
2146 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
2147 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
2148 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
2149 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
2150 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
2151 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
2152 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
2153 occur with -O3
2154 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
2155 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
2156 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
2157 amounts)
2158 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
2159 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
2160 niu_NZ
2161 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
2162 checks
2163 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
2164 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
2165 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
2166 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
2167 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
2168 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
2169 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
2170 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
2171 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
2172 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
2173 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
2174 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
2175 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
2176 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
2177 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
2178 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
2179 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
2180 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
2181 parsing after OOM
2182 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
2183 object
2184 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
2185 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
2186 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
2187 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
2188 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
2189 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
fdb724f9 2190 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf outputs a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
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2191 ppc64le
2192 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
2193 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
2194 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
2195 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
2196 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
2197 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
2198 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
2199 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
2200 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
2201 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
2202 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
2203 math_force_eval
2204 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
2205 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
2206 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
2207 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
2208 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
2209 the svid compat wrapper
2210 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
2211 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
2212 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
2213 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
2214 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
2215 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
2216 --verbose.
2217 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
2218 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
2219 to 2.26
2220 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
2221 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
2222 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
2223 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
2224 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
2225 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
2226 (CVE-2017-15804)
2227 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
2228 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
2229 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
2230 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
2231 failure."
2232 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
2233 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
2234 -m32
2235 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
2236 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
2237 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
2238 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
2239 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
2240 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
2241 inside the ASCII printable range
2242 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
2243 -mlong-double-64
2244 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
2245 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
2246 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
2247 Internet
2248 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
2249 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
2250 backslash
2251 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
2252 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
2253 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
2254 heaps in an arena
2255 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
2256 networking interface
2257 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
2258 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
2259 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
2260 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
2261 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
2262 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
2263 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
2264 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
2265 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
2266 order
2267 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2268 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2269 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2270 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2271 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2272 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
2273 same as for Croatian
2274 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
2275 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
2276 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
2277 for initial thread"
2278 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
2279 SC_SSIZE_MAX
2280 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
2281 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
2282 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2283 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
2284 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
2285 (CVE-2017-1000408)
2286 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
2287 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
2288 modified in case of success
2289 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
2290 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
2291 success
2292 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
2293 stack-protector=all
2294 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
2295 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
2296 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
2297 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
2298 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
2299 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
2300 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
2301 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
2302 adding it on top
2303 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
2304 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
2305 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
2306 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
2307 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
2308 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
2309 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
2310 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
2311 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
2312 (CVE-2018-1000001)
2313 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
2314 elision and tunables
2315 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
2316 "invalid" exception
2317 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
2318 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
2319 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
2320 exception
2321 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2322 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
2323 power4
2324 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
2325 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
2326 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
2327 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
2328 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
2329 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
2330 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
2331 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
2332 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
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2335Version 2.26
2336
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2337Major new features:
2338
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2339* A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
2340 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
2341 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
2342 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
2343 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
2344 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
2345 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
2346
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2347* Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2348 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
0b38d66a 2349 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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2350 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
2351 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
2352 are rendered with pango, see for example:
2353 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
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2355* Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
2356 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
2357 Egmont Koblinger.
e4e79484 2358
2b2ccd0c 2359* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
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2361 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
2362 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
2363 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
daeb1fa2 2364
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2365 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
2366 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
2367 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
2368 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
2369 object are still limited to six search domains.
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2371 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
2372 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
2373 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
cd354a38 2374
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2375* The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
2376 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
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2378* New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
2379 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
2380 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
2381 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
f0be25b6 2382
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2383* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
2384 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
2385 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
2386 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
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2388* posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
2389 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
2390 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
2391 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
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2393* errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
2394 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
2395 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
12d2dd70 2396
2b2ccd0c 2397* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
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2398 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
2399 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
2400 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
2c0b90ab 2401
2b2ccd0c 2402 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
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2403 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
2404 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
2405 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
2406 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
2407
2408 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
2409 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
2410 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
2411 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
2412 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
2413 interfaces should be used instead.
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2415Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2416
2417* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
2418 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
2419 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
2420 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
2421 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
2422 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
2423 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
2424 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
2425
2426* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
2427 removed.
2428
2429* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
7e368000 2430 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
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2431 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
2432 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
2433
2434* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
2435 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
2436 default.
2437
2438 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
2439 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
2440 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
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2441 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
2442 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
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2444 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
2445 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
2446 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
2447 name service modules, to be built and installed.
2448
2449* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
2450 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
2451 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
2452 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
2453
2454* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
2455 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
5b757a51 2456
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2457* The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
2458 exported by accident.
2459
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2460* <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
2461 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
2462 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
2463
2464* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
2465 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
2466 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
2467 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
2468
2469* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
2470
2471* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
2472
2473* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
2474 free instead.
2475
2476* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
2477 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2478
2479* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
2480 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2481
2482* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
2483 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
2484 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
2485 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
2486 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
2487 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
2488 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
2489 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
2490
2491* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
2492 synced with the kernel:
2493
2494 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
2495 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
2496
2497 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
2498 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
2499 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
2500
2501 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
2502 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
2503
2504Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2505
2506* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
2507 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
2508 x86-32 and x86-64.)
2509
7e368000 2510* GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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2512* On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
2513 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
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2514
2515 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
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2516 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
2517 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
2518 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2b2ccd0c 2519 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
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2521Security related changes:
2522
e14a2772 2523* The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
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2524 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
2525
2526* LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
2527 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
2528
2529* Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
2530 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
2531 (CVE-2010-3192).
2532
2533* A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
2534 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
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2536The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2537
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2538 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
2539 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
2540 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
2541 fields
2542 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
2543 (CVE-2010-3192)
2544 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
2545 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
2546 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
2547 ld.bfd is available
2548 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
2549 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
2550 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
2551 x86 and other generic code
2552 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
2553 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
2554 incorrect
2555 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
2556 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
2557 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
2558 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
2559 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
2560 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
2561 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
2562 resolver
2563 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
2564 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
2565 order of 0D36 and 0D37
2566 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
2567 chillu characters
2568 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
2569 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
2570 receiving data
2571 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
2572 whitespace
2573 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
2574 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
2575 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
2576 for Peru
2577 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
2578 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
2579 failures consistently
2580 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
2581 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
2582 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
2583 frame-pointer on i386
2584 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
2585 register
2586 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
2587 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
2588 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
2589 generic c code is used
2590 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
2591 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
2592 around 4000
2593 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
2594 (CVE-2017-12133)
2595 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
2596 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
2597 with -lieee
2598 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
2599 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
2600 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
2601 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
2602 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
2603 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
2604 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
2605 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
2606 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
2607 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
2608 remove()
2609 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
2610 checked for errors.
2611 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
2612 new posix_spawn implementation
2613 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
2614 leads to lower CPU frequency
2615 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
2616 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
2617 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
2618 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
2619 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
2620 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
2621 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
2622 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
2623 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
2624 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
2625 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
2626 not support gethostbyname4_r
2627 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
2628 switching
2629 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
2630 arenas
2631 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
2632 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
2633 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
2634 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
2635 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
2636 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
2637 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
2638 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
2639 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
2640 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
2641 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
2642 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
2643 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
2644 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
2645 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
2646 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
2647 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
2648 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
2649 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
2650 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
2651 retry value
2652 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
2653 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
2654 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
2655 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
2656 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
2657 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
2658 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
2659 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
2660 [21537] libc:
2661 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
2662 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
2663 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
2664 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
2665 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
2666 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
2667 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
2668 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
2669 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
2670 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
2671 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
2672 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
2673 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
2674 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
2675 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
2676 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
2677 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
2678 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
2679 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
2680 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
2681 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
2682 issue on x86-64
2683 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
2684 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
2685 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
2686 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
2687 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
2688 construction
2689 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
2690 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
2691 between_2_3
2692 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
2693 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
2694 conditions
2695 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
2696 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
2697 Hindi Locale
2698 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
2699 posix/sched_cpucount.c
2700 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
2701 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
2702 locale
2703 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
2704 leading to relocation crash
2705 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
2706 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
2707 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
2708 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
2709 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
2710 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
2711 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
2712 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
2713 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
2714 locale
2715 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
2716 locale
2717 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
2718 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
2719 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
2720 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
2721 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
2722 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
2723 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
2724 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
2725 strings
2726 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
2727 protector=all
2728 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
2729 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
2730 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
2731 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
2732 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
2733 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
2734 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
2735 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
2736 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
2737 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
2738 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
2739 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
2740 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
2741 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
2742 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
2743 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
2744 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
2745 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
2746 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
2747 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
2748 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
2749 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
2750 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
2751 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
2752 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
2753 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
2754 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
2755 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
2756 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
2757 with unicode 9.0
2758 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
2759 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
2760 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
2761 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
2762 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
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2765Version 2.25
2766
48789000
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2767* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
2768 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
2769 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
2770 Library.
e720d3d9 2771
bf91be88
JM
2772* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
2773 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
a5ac5676 2774 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
bf91be88
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2775 the GNU C Library.
2776
412cb261
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2777* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
2778 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
2779 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
2780 the GNU C Library.
2781
c0307377
ZW
2782* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
2783 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
2784 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
2785 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
2786 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
2787 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
2788 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
2789 will not.
2790
2791 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
2792 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
2793 many years.
2794
dbab6577
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2795* The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
2796 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
2797 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
2798
2799 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
2800 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
2801 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
2802 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
2803 problem.
2804
ec94343f 2805* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
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2806 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
2807 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
5146356f 2808
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2809* Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
2810 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
5b17fd0d
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2811 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
2812 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
2813 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
2814 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
2815 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
2816 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
2817 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
2818 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
2819 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
2820 WINT_WIDTH.
a292f45a 2821
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2822* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
2823
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2824 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
2825
423c2b9d
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2826 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
2827 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
2828 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
41c67149 2829
55a38f82
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2830 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
2831 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
2832
525f8039
JM
2833 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
2834 fminmagf, fminmagl.
2835
1e7c8fcc
JM
2836 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
2837
29cb9293 2838 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
d942e95c 2839
cc6a8d74
JM
2840 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
2841 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
5e9d98a3 2842
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2843 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
2844
eb3c12c7 2845 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
457663a7 2846 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
f8e8b8ed 2847
f3b904d9
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2848* The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
2849 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
2850
cecbc796
NA
2851* Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
2852 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
2853 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
2854
ea1bd74d
ZW
2855* The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
2856 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
2857 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
2858 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
2859 effects of the memory clear).
2860
b0216d3e
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2861* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
2862 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
2863 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
2864 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
2865
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2866* On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
2867 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
2868 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
2869 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
2870 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
2871 if they are compiled or used with those options.
6962682f 2872
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2873* The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
2874 have been added.
2875
705a79f8
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2876* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
2877 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
2878 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
2879 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
2880 as large as several megabytes.
2881
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2882* The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
2883 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
2884 been removed.
2885
e863cce5
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2886* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
2887 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
2888 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
2889 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
2890 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
2891 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
2892 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
2893
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2894* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
2895 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
2896 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
2897 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
2898
099191b1 2899* The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
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2900 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
2901 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
2902 Internet.
2903
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2904* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
2905 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
2906 They were already unimplemented.
bfbd1de1 2907
b76e0659
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2908* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
2909 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
2910 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
2911 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
2912
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2913* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
2914 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
2915 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
2916 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
2917 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
2918
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2919* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
2920 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
2921 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
2922 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
2923 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
2924
6815a33d
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2925* The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
2926 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
2927 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
2928 did not reflect that.
2929
022dfdce
SL
2930* For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
2931 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
2932 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
2933 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
2934 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
2935 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
2936 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
2937 'gcc/config.gcc'.
2938
23b5cae1
MG
2939* GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
2940 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
2941 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
2942 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
2943
7715d3ab
SP
2944* Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
2945 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
2946 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
2947 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
2948
0cea3587
SP
2949* A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
2950 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
2951 guarantees.
2952
2953* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
2954 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
2955 make state changes.
2956
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2957Security related changes:
2958
fc82b0a2 2959* On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
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2960 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
2961 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
2962 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
056dd72a 2963 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
e720d3d9 2964
fc82b0a2
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2965* The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
2966 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
2967 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
2968 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
2969 (CVE-2015-5180)
2970
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2971The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2972
fdb724f9 2973 [4099] stdio: Overly aggressive caching by stream i/o functions.
4e054e6b
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2974 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
2975 protector-all
2976 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
2977 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
2978 before it started waiting
2979 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
2980 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
2981 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
2982 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
2983 wrong type
2984 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
2985 library linked with pthread
2986 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
2987 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
2988 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
2989 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
2990 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
2991 after being __libc_memalign()'d
2992 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
2993 when it shouldnt
2994 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
2995 not
2996 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
2997 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
2998 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
2999 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
3000 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
3001 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
3002 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
3003 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
3004 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
3005 termination
3006 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
3007 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
3008 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
3009 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
3010 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
3011 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
3012 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
3013 causes a segmentation fault
3014 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
3015 linking
3016 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
3017 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
3018 uninitialized GOT
3019 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
3020 versions
3021 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
3022 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
3023 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
3024 is always true.
3025 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
3026 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
3027 modes
3028 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
3029 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
3030 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
3031 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
3032 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
3033 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
3034 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
3035 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
3036 libpthread.a
3037 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
3038 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
3039 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
3040 _res_hconf
3041 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
3042 information.
3043 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
3044 penalty
3045 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
3046 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
3047 cause transition penalty
3048 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
3049 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
3050 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
3051 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
3052 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
3053 mcount.oS)
3054 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
3055 Checking
3056 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
3057 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
3058 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
3059 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
3060 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
3061 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
3062 multi-arch
3063 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
3064 (RES_USEBSTRING)
3065 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
3066 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
3067 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
3068 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
3069 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
3070 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
3071 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
3072 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
3073 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
3074 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
3075 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
3076 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
3077 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
3078 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
3079 glibc
3080 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
3081 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
3082 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
3083 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
3084 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
3085 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
3086 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
3087 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
3088 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
3089 U+20AC), not same as GBK
3090 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
3091 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
3092 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
3093 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
3094 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
3095 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
3096 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
3097 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
3098 RES_USE_INET6
3099 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3100 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
3101 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
3102 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
3103 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
3104 wrong condition
3105 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3106 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
3107 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
3108 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
3109 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
3110 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
3111 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
3112 clang
3113 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
3114 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
3115 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
3116 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
3117 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
e720d3d9 3118\f
11fca961
AZ
3119Version 2.24
3120
5b4ecd3f
JM
3121* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
3122 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
3123 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
3124 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
3125 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
3126 architectures.
3127
b6ebba70
MF
3128* The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
3129 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
3130 been included in previous releases.
11fca961 3131
7584a3f9
FW
3132* The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
3133 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
3134
b49ab5f4
FW
3135* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
3136 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
3137 instead of “union wait”.
3138
ced8f893
SG
3139* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
3140 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
3141 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
3142 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
3143 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
3144 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
3145 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
3146
2ba3cfa1
FW
3147* The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
3148 API.
3149
b7a9b7b0
MF
3150* The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
3151 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
3152 drop it.
6a54bcda 3153
41a359e2
RS
3154* nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
3155 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
3156 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
3157 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
3158 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
3159 extensions.
3160
11fca961
AZ
3161Security related changes:
3162
f5b3338d
FW
3163* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
3164 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
3165 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
3166
4ab2ab03
FW
3167* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
3168 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
3169 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
3170 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
11fca961 3171
5171f307
FW
3172* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
3173 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
3174 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
3175
bc779a1a
FW
3176* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
3177 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
3178 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
3179
fab38231
FW
3180* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
3181 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
3182 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
3183 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
3184
11fca961
AZ
3185The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3186
3c4f81ec
CD
3187 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
3188 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
3189 of MS-DOS.
3190 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
3191 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
3192 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
3193 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
3194 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
3195 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
3196 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
3197 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
3198 CLDR data
3199 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
3200 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
3201 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
3202 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
3203 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
3204 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
3205 romanisation
3206 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
3207 and +/-
3208 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
3209 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
3210 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
3211 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
3212 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
3213 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
3214 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
3215 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
3216 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
3217 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
3218 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
3219 all locales
3220 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
3221 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
3222 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
3223 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
3224 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
3225 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
3226 execute
3227 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
3228 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
3229 -Wsystem-headers
3230 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
3231 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
3232 Romanian locale data
3233 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
3234 symbol
3235 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
3236 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
3237 language
3238 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
3239 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
3240 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
3241 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
3242 machine
3243 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
3244 description
3245 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
3246 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
3247 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
3248 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
3249 when using RTLD_NEXT
3250 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
3251 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
3252 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
3253 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
3254 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
3255 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
3256 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
3257 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
3258 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
3259 Excavator core
3260 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3261 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3262 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3263 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
3264 double range
3265 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
3266 part zero incorrect
3267 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
3268 equality tests
3269 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
3270 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
3271 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
3272 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
3273 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
3274 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
3275 glibc-2.22
3276 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
3277 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
3278 'tst-numeric.c'
3279 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
3280 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
3281 low part
3282 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
3283 result
3284 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
3285 unaligned stack
3286 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
3287 pointers and lengths in error-case.
3288 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
3289 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
3290 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
3291 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
3292 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
3293 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
3294 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
3295 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
3296 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
3297 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
3298 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
3299 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
3300 modes
3301 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
3302 server addresses
3303 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
3304 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
3305 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
3306 response to getaddrinfo
3307 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
3308 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
3309 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
3310 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
3311 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
3312 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
3313 sometimes incorrect
3314 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
3315 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
3316 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
3317 record types
3318 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
3319 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
3320 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
3321 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
3322 (CVE-2016-3075)
3323 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
3324 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
3325 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
3326 resolving symbols
3327 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
3328 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
3329 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
3330 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
3331 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
3332 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
3333 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
3334 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
3335 gethosts
3336 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
3337 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
3338 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
3339 (CVE-2016-3706)
3340 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
3341 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
3342 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
3343 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
3344 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
3345 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
3346 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
3347 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
3348 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
3349 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
3350 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
3351 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
3352 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
3353 executable
3354 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
3355 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
3356 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
3357 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
3358 XPG3
3359 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
3360 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
3361 (CVE-2016-4429)
3362 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
3363 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
3364 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
3365 AS not supporting AVX512
3366 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
3367 sNaN argument
3368 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3369 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
3370 argument
3371 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
3372 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
3373 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
3374 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
3375 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
3376 eax=0x80000001
3377 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
3378 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
3379 subnormals
3380 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
3381 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
3382 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
3383 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3384 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3385 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
3386 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3387 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
3388 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
3389 input
3390 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3391 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3392 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3393 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3394 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3395 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3396 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3397 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
3398 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
3399 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
3400 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
3401 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
3402 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
3403 double rounding
3404 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
3405 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
3406 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
3407 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
3408 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
3409 (Only arm/linux)
3410 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
3411 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
3412 fallbacks
3413 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
3414 "invalid" exceptions
3415 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
3416 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
3417 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
3418 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
3419 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
3420 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
3421 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
3422 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
3423 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
11fca961 3424\f
aeb47bbc
DM
3425Version 2.23
3426
23256f5e
MF
3427* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
3428 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
3429 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
3430 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
3431 89, 16061, and 18568.
3432
2359035a
FW
3433* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
3434 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
3435 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
3436 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
3437 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
3438 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
3439 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
3440
8b7b7f75
MW
3441* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
3442 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
3443 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
3444
2eecc8af
FW
3445* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
3446 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
3447 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
3448 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
3449 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
3450 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
3451 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
3452
a62719ba
FW
3453* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
3454 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
3455 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
3456 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
3457 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 3458 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
a62719ba
FW
3459 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
3460 Ericsson.)
a014cecd 3461
bc148ca1
MF
3462* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
3463 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
3464 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
3465 independent of the GNU C Library.
3466
1c70b6f1
ZW
3467* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
3468 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
1efad39b 3469
eed3e1eb
JM
3470* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
3471 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
3472 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
3473 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
3474 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
3475 Linux kernel.
3476
1efad39b
SL
3477* Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
3478 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
b08b4218 3479
d709042a
JM
3480* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
3481 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
3482 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
3483 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
3484 defining their own copy.
3485
b08b4218
JM
3486* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
3487 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
3488 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
f268ab5f 3489
8f5e8b01
JM
3490Security related changes:
3491
6400ae6e
FW
3492* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
3493 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
3494
3495* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
3496 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
3497 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
3498 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
3499 (CVE-2015-8777)
3500
3501* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
3502 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
3503
3504* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
3505 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
3506
8f5e8b01
JM
3507* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
3508 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 3509 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
8f5e8b01 3510
e9db92d3
CD
3511* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
3512 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
3513 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
3514 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
3515 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
3516 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
3517 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
3518 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
3519 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
3520 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
3521 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
3522 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
3523 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
3524
ad372e29 3525The following bugs are resolved with this release:
f268ab5f 3526
ad372e29
AZ
3527 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
3528 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
3529 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
3530 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
3531 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
3532 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
3533 use `mkstemp'
3534 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
3535 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
3536 overflow/underflow errors
3537 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
3538 overflow/underflow
3539 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
3540 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
3541 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
3542 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
3543 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
3544 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
3545 are not contiguous
3546 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
3547 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
3548 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
3549 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
3550 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
3551 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
3552 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
3553 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
3554 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
3555 all exceptions
3556 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
3557 arguments
3558 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
3559 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
3560 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
3561 should include
3562 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
3563 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
3564 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
3565 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
3566 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
3567 GNU/Linux
3568 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
3569 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
3570 arguments
3571 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
3572 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
3573 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
3574 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
3575 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
3576 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
3577 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
3578 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
3579 rounding results
3580 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
3581 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
3582 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
3583 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
3584 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
3585 fails
3586 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
3587 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
3588 block boundary
3589 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
3590 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
3591 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
3592 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
3593 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
3594 4.7?
3595 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
3596 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
3597 (related to lock elision)
3598 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
3599 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
3600 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
3601 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
3602 (CVE-2015-8779)
3603 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
3604 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
3605 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
3606 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
3607 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
3608 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
3609 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
3610 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
3611 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
3612 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
3613 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
3614 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
3615 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
3616 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
3617 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
3618 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
3619 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
3620 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
3621 contains a vector instruction exception.
3622 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
3623 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
3624 locales
3625 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
3626 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
3627 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
3628 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
3629 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
3630 missing break ?
3631 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
3632 32bit processes
3633 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
3634 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
3635 infinity
3636 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
3637 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
3638 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
3639 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
3640 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
3641 be forced unloaded
3642 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
3643 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
3644 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
3645 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
3646 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
3647 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
3648 statically too large
3649 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
3650 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
3651 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
3652 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
3653 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
3654 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
3655 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
3656 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
3657 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
3658 FUTEX_SHARED
3659 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
3660 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
3661 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
3662 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
3663 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
3664 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
3665 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
3666 opendir()
3667 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
3668 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
3669 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
3670 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
3671 signgam
3672 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
3673 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
3674 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
3675 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
3676 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
3677 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
3678 dependencies
3679 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
3680 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
3681 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
3682 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
3683 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
3684 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
3685 (CVE-2015-8776)
3686 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
3687 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
3688 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
3689 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
3690 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
3691 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3692 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
3693 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
3694 contention
3695 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
3696 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
3697 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
3698 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3699 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
3700 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
3701 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
3702 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
3703 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
3704 rounding modes
3705 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
3706 ILP32
3707 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
3708 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
3709 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
3710 threshold
3711 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
3712 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
3713 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
3714 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
3715 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
3716 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
3717 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
3718 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
3719 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
3720 pthread_setaffinity_np
3721 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
3722 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
3723 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
3724 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
3725 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
3726 prelink
3727 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
3728 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
3729 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
3730 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
3731 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3732 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
3733 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
3734 bits/mathcalls.h
3735 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
3736 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
3737 for C99-based standards
3738 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
3739 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
3740 math-only
3741 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
3742 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
3743 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
3744 disabled
3745 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
3746 "inexact" exceptions
3747 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
3748 arguments
3749 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
3750 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
3751 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
3752 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
3753 rules
3754 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
3755 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
3756 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
3757 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
3758 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
3759 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
3760 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
3761 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
3762 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
3763 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
3764 from 32bit
3765 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
3766 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
3767 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
3768 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
3769 subnormals
3770 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
3771 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
3772 error on 32-bit architectures
3773 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
3774 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
3775 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
3776 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
3777 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
3778 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
3779 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
3780 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
3781 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
3782 -Os
3783 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
3784 CPU's.
3785 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
3786 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
3787 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
3788 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
3789 architectures
3790 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
aeb47bbc 3791\f
1c7a4a51
JM
3792Version 2.22
3793
3794* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3795
3df5cd98 3796 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
0e569d30
MF
3797 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
3798 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
3799 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
3800 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
3801 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
3802 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
3803 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
3804 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
3805 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
3806 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
3807 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
3808 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
3809 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
3810 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
3811 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
3812 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
3813 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
6fdd5d65
FW
3814 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
3815 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
2959eda9 3816
f7fba805
SL
3817* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
3818 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
3819
2959eda9
AS
3820* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
3821 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
3822 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
3823 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
3824 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
3825 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4a4839c9 3826
42261ad7
FW
3827* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
3828 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
3829 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
3830 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
3831 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
3832
afcd9480
AM
3833* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
3834 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
3835 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
3836
4a4839c9
AO
3837* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
3838 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
3839 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
3840 17998.
3841
b13b96ca
AS
3842* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
3843 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
3844 condition in some applications.
21933112
AS
3845
3846* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
a6336cc4
AS
3847 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
3848 pow, powf.
21933112
AS
3849 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
3850 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
037e4b99
AS
3851 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
3852 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 3853 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
fdb7d390
AZ
3854
3855* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
3856 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
3857 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
3858 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
7fde904c
MF
3859
3860* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
3861 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
3862 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
7493ab25
RM
3863
3864* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
3865 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
2ec11c2b
ZW
3866
3867* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
3868 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
3869 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
3870
a03ba363 3871 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
2ec11c2b
ZW
3872 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
3873 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
1c7a4a51 3874\f
58b930ae
SP
3875Version 2.21
3876
3877* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3878
042e1521 3879 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
5bd80bfe
PP
3880 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
3881 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
3882 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
3883 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
3884 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
3885 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
3886 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
3887 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
3888 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
3889 17892.
3890
46d54873
FW
3891* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
3892 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
3893 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
3894 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
3895 intended.
042e1521
CD
3896
3897* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
3898 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
3899 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
3900 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
3901 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
3902 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
a39208bd 3903
522e6ee3
CLT
3904* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
3905
d3b00f46
AZ
3906* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
3907 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 3908 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
96d6fd6c 3909
8d2c0a59
AZ
3910* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
3911 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
3912 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
3913 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
3914 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
3915 effects being visible outside transactions.
3916
dc400d7b
RE
3917* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
3918 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
ec582ca0 3919
0f9dfe04
L
3920* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
3921
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CD
3922* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
3923 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
ebda2f17 3924 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
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3925 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
3926 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
fb89b46d 3927
a5357b7c
JL
3928* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
3929 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
3930
e54db0ea
AM
3931* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
3932 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
3933 format.
11e3417a 3934
4863355a
JM
3935* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
3936 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
3937 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
3938
a4ecc9eb
JM
3939* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
3940 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
3941
0d560bbf 3942* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
0781a777
RM
3943
3944* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
3945 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
3946 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
3947 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
6d248857
WN
3948
3949* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
3950 with newer versions of bison.
28c38448
MF
3951
3952* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
3953 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
3954 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
3955 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
3956 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
3957 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
3958 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
3959 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
3960 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
3961 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
3962 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
3963 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
3964 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
3965
3966 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
3967 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
3968 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
3969 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
3970 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
58b930ae 3971\f
d5b396c1
AM
3972Version 2.20
3973
3974* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3975
6a9350c8
JM
3976 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
3977 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
3978 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
3979 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
3980 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
3981 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
3982 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
3983 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
3984 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
3985 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
3986 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
3987 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
3988 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
3989 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
3990 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
0961f7e1 3991
95ee7fb1
SL
3992* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
3993 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
3994 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
3995 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
3996 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 3997 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
95ee7fb1
SL
3998 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
3999 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
4000 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
4001 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
4002
0961f7e1
JL
4003* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
4004 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
4005 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
4006 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
4007 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
f3d338c9 4008
f940b965
RE
4009* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
4010
d0f5b3f8
JM
4011* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
4012 can be used with is 2.6.32.
4013
d6fe5e58
JM
4014* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
4015 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
4016 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
4017 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
4018 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
4019 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
4020
464263cc
JM
4021* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
4022 from ports.
c941736c
JM
4023
4024* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
4025 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
4026 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
4027 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
4028 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
4029 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
4030 test macros defined.
f63c86fe
WN
4031
4032* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5a414ff7
DV
4033
4034* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
4035 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
4036 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
4037 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
4038 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
4039 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
4040 is not built.
d03efb2f
AM
4041
4042* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
4043 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
4044 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
4045 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
4046 invocation.
cfd2ea50
JM
4047
4048* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
4049 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
4050 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
f083450f
RM
4051
4052* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
4053 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
4054 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
4055 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
4e8f95a0
FW
4056
4057* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
4058 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
4059 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
4060 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
4061 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
4062 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
4063 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
4064 additional checks.
9a8a5720
RM
4065
4066* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
4067 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
4068 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
4069 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
4070 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
4071 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
4072 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
4073 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
4074 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
a1a6a401
FW
4075
4076* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
4077 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
4078 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
4079 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
4080 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 4081 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
41488498
FW
4082
4083* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
4084 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
4085 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
4086 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
6c1fd795
DM
4087\f
4088Version 2.19
4089
4090* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4091
fd2f9486
JM
4092 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
4093 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
4094 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
4095 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
4096 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
4097 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
4098 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
4099 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
4100 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
4101 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
ed27ed83
JM
4102 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
4103 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
4104 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
4105 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
4106 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
798212a0
PP
4107 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
4108 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
4109 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
141f3a77 4110
11520a57
CD
4111* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
4112 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
4113
2fe16229
CD
4114* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
4115 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
4116 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
08d76093
CD
4117 extension which uses __block.
4118
303e567a
SP
4119* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
4120 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
4121 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
4122 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
4123 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
4124
141f3a77
SP
4125* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
4126 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
4127 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
4128 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
4129 if malloc fails.
c61b4d41
CD
4130
4131* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
4132 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
4133 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
4134 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
4135 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
91ce4085
FW
4136
4137* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
4138 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
4139 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
4140
ba0d798c
WN
4141* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
4142 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
4143 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
4144 #15856, #15857).
4145
7cbcdb36
SP
4146* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
4147 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
4148
82bab04b 4149* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 4150 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
ddd9fb8f 4151
c5f840fd
MB
4152* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
4153
3e181dda
CD
4154* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
4155 supported locales.
ddd9fb8f 4156
3e181dda 4157* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
7447ccd9 4158
8a05c252
CL
4159* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
4160
6055173a
JM
4161* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
4162 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
4163 for which the C library was built.
4164
b125d3e5
JM
4165* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
4166 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
4167 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
4168 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
4169 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
4170 in the following circumstances:
4171
4172 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
4173
4174 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
4175 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
4176
d4f66d37
JM
4177* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
4178 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
4179
3e181dda
CD
4180* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
4181 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
e35696c3 4182
ffb89e53
AO
4183* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
4184
5d29ccce
SP
4185* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
4186 transcendental functions have been introduced.
4187
8b7d57cd 4188* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
b125d3e5
JM
4189
4190* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 4191
fd712ef3 4192* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 4193
c688b419
JM
4194* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
4195 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
4196 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
4197 disable some of those declarations.
4198
7011c262 4199* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
029c7b25
JM
4200 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
4201 that did nothing) has also been removed.
0a57b83e
AO
4202
4203* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
4204 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
ee4ec1d7
AK
4205
4206* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
4207 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
4208 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
4209 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
4210 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
4211 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
4212 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
4213 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
4214 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
4215 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
4216 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
4217 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
4218 require recompilation.
2c8bfe7d
DM
4219\f
4220Version 2.18
4221
4222* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4223
17db6e8d 4224 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
0432680e
PY
4225 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
4226 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
8c17cb1f
JM
4227 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
4228 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
4229 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
4230 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
4231 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
4232 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
4233 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
4234 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
4235 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
4236 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
4237 15755, 15759.
e4608715
CD
4238
4239* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
4240 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
4241 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
4242 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
4243 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
4244 understands and accepts the risks.
1cef1b19 4245
5b535ac4
AS
4246* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
4247 #15078).
4248
1cef1b19
AS
4249* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
4250 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
7fffbdff 4251
55e4107b
SP
4252* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
4253 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
4254 destructor calls to glibc.
4255
e5c74c63
SP
4256* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
4257 output.
4258
4259* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
4260 non-x86 architectures.
4261
e7521973
JM
4262* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
4263
4264* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
4265
4266* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
4267 Richard Henderson.
4268
4269* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
4270
4271* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
4272 Richard Henderson.
4273
4274* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
4275 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
4276
8cfdb7e0
SP
4277* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
4278
57267616
TS
4279* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
4280 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
58206c68 4281
c204ab28
SP
4282* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
4283 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
61dd6208 4284
0748546f
PE
4285* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
4286 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
4287 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
4288
61dd6208
SP
4289* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
4290 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
4291 attributes of a process.
a7cb9d67
AK
4292
4293* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
4294 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
4295 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
4296 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
4297 mutexes.
be063fa4
RA
4298
4299* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
4300 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
4301
4302* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
370ca3d2
JM
4303\f
4304Version 2.17
4305
4306* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4307
80ceeaee 4308 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
b4180a5e
AJ
4309 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
4310 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
4311 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
4312 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
4313 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
4314 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
4315 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
4316 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
4317 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
4318 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
4319 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
4320 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
4321 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
4322 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
14bc93a9 4323
95b4f1b6
SE
4324* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
4325
14bc93a9
JL
4326* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
4327 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
7a845b2c 4328
b54eb3cb
JM
4329* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
4330 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
4331
7e2bd01f
MS
4332* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
4333
08f43f9b
AK
4334* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
4335 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
4336 zEnterprise z196.
4337 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
4338
84b3fd84
FW
4339* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
4340 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
4341 the internal function __secure_getenv.
4342
815e6fa3
GB
4343* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
4344 Implemented by Gary Benson.
4345
400726de
MK
4346* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
4347 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
4348
7aab07e4 4349* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 4350 can be used with is 2.6.16.
7aab07e4 4351
15d0da8c
WS
4352* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
4353 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
4354
3cc3ef96
RM
4355* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
4356 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
c53d909c
RM
4357 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
4358 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3cc3ef96 4359
b54eb3cb
JM
4360* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
4361 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
4362
85429b1a 4363* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 4364 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
85429b1a
DM
4365 default.
4366
b54eb3cb
JM
4367* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
4368 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
4369 information in --help and --version output.
4370
050af9c4
SP
4371* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
4372 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
4373 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
4374
89a3ad0b
AO
4375* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
4376 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
4377 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
4378 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
4379 when the mode is enabled.
4380
6e6249d0
RM
4381* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
4382 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
4383 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
4384 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
4385 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
4386 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
4387 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5a04f376 4388
d9286582
NK
4389* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
4390 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
8d44e150
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4391\f
4392Version 2.16
4393
4394* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4395
a8133e19
JM
4396 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
4397 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
4398 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
4399 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
4400 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
4401 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
4402 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
4403 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
4404 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
4405 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
4406 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
4407 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
4408 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
4409 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
4410 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
4411 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
4412 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
4413 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
4414 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
4415 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
4416 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
4417 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
4418 14277, 14278.
380d7e87 4419
a086b4d6
L
4420* Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
4421 configuring glibc with:
4422 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
8f7a75d7 4423 Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
a086b4d6
L
4424 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4425
380d7e87
UD
4426* ISO C11 support:
4427
4428 + define static_assert
4429
4430 + do not declare gets
4431
4432 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
4433
4434 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
4435 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
4436 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
4437 implementation.
8d44e150 4438
74033a25 4439 + timespec_get added
544563c9
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4440
4441 + uchar.h support added
d75a0a62 4442
ac097f5c
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4443 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
4444
16dd419d
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4445 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4446
9dc4e1fb 4447* Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
33808bf1
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4448
4449* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
d9a216c0
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4450
4451* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
4452 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
daa891c0
UD
4453
4454* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
4455 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
021db4be
AJ
4456
4457* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
4458 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
4459 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
4460 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
4461 existing applications.
ffb7875d 4462
21708942 4463* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
ffb7875d
JM
4464 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
4465 before 2.6.
83678f76 4466
edb00e4d
RH
4467* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
4468 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
4469 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
4470
83678f76 4471* New locales: mag_IN
7b44a2df
RM
4472
4473* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
4474 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
4475 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
4476 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
4477 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
47e452cf
JM
4478
4479* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4480
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
4481* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
4482 and Will Schmidt.
47e452cf
JM
4483
4484* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
4485
4486* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
4487 without a previously built glibc.
4488
4489* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
4490 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
4491
4492* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
4493 now supported for ARM processors.
4494
4495* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
4496 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
4497 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
4498
4499* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
4500
4501* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
4502 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
4503 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
4504 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
929cc14e
AJ
4505
4506* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
4507 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
4508 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
4509 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
ee9247c3
CD
4510
4511* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
4512 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
4513 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
4514 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
4515 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
4516
4517* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
4518 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
4519 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
4520 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
ee1a7fab 4521\f
e80fab37 4522Version 2.15
11988f8f 4523
c0244a9d
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4524* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4525
aebae053
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4526 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
4527 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
4528 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
4529 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
4530 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
4531 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
4532 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
c0244a9d 4533
11988f8f
UD
4534* New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
4535 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
9f2da732
UD
4536
4537* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
4538 and support for initgroups lookups.
4539 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
0b1cbaae
L
4540
4541* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
4542 Contributed by HJ Lu.
8912479f
L
4543
4544* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
4545 Contributed by HJ Lu.
99710781 4546
fc2ee42a
LD
4547* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
4548 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 4549 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 4550
d42964a0 4551* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
693fb948
LD
4552 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4553
1d3e4b61
UD
4554* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
4555 for x86-64 and x86-32.
093ecf92
LD
4556 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4557
c55fbd1e
UD
4558* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
4559 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a0f33f99
UD
4560
4561* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
4562 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
684ae515
UD
4563
4564* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
4565 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
0ac5ae23
UD
4566
4567* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
4568 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
d9a4d2ab
UD
4569
4570* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
4571 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4572
4573* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
4574 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
78239589
UD
4575
4576* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
e188ebba
UD
4577
4578* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
4579 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a1267ba1 4580
f0b264f1
AZ
4581* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
4582 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
2655fd5c 4583
6b64057b 4584* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
e80fab37 4585\f
dded88cd 4586Version 2.14
9f94d2ea 4587
50934221
UD
4588* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4589
553149f6 4590 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 4591 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 4592 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 4593 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
4462fad3
UD
4594 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
4595 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
4596 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
4769ae77
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4597 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
4598 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 4599 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
50934221 4600
7b57bfe5
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4601* The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
4602 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
4603 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 4604 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
018b9e36
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4605
4606 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
a0446976
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4607 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
4608 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
7b57bfe5
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4609 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4610
c6489db3 4611* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
f1f929d7 4612 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
83fe108b 4613
72d1dddb 4614* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 4615 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
bc469bea
UD
4616
4617* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
a9171047
UD
4618
4619* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
4620 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7d17596c
UD
4621
4622* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
4623 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
4624 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
4625 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
9f94d2ea 4626\f
4828935d
LM
4627Version 2.13
4628
ac2b484c
UD
4629* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4630
c30b7ee2
UD
4631 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
4632 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
4633 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
4634 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
4635 12378, 12394, 12397
ac2b484c 4636
10b3bedc 4637* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
c08fb0d7 4638
ac2b484c 4639* POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
8d50becc 4640
e9f82e0d
UD
4641* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
4642 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 4643 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4828935d 4644\f
ee1a7fab
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4645Version 2.12
4646
d36b9613
UD
4647* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4648
2e0fb521
DL
4649 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
4650 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
4651 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
4652 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
fc97f36d
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4653 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
4654 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
4655 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 4656 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
86a4c67f
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4657
4658* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
d36b9613 4659
ee1a7fab
UD
4660* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
4661
5e4295fb
UD
4662* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
4663
4664* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
4665 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
4666 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4667
71170aa0
UD
4668* New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
4669 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
4670 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
4671 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
4672 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4673
d36b9613 4674* New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
b50f8e42
UD
4675\f
4676Version 2.11
4677
d36b9613
UD
4678* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4679
4680 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
4681 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
4682 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
4683 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
4684 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
4685 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
4686
3a83202d
UD
4687* New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
4688 mkostemps64
3d5243d4
UD
4689 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4690
24ab9c76 4691* Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
b50f8e42
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4692 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4693
b8706f70
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4694* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
4695 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4696
51a71cf0
UD
4697* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
4698
0122f28e 4699* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
9d36a6c4 4700 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 4701 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
0122f28e
UD
4702 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
4703
9d36a6c4 4704 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
0122f28e
UD
4705 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4706
9d36a6c4
UD
4707* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
4708 strstr, strcasestr.
4709 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
4710
4711* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
4712 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
4713
0122f28e
UD
4714* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
4715 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4716
4717* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
4718 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4719
4720* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
4721 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
4722 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
4723 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
4724 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
4725 necessity is every process again.
4726 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4727
9d36a6c4
UD
4728* New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
4729 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
4730
4731* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
4732 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
4733
4bc1b896
UD
4734* Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
4735 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
4736 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4737
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4741
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4743
4744 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
4745 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
4746 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
4747 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
4748 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
4749
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4752
425ce2ed 4753* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
e109c612 4754 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 4755
1fdd89a7 4756* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
735be400 4757 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
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4759* XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
4760 now in POSIX.
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1f04d005 4762* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6cbe890a 4763 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4766 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4767
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4769 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4770
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4771* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
4772 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4773
4774* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
4775 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
4776 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4777
735be400 4778* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
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84aa52d7 4780* Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
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4782
4783* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
4784 and extend existing format specifiers.
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4785 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4786
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4787* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
4788 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4789
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4790* DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
4791 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
4792 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
4793 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
4794 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
4795 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4800
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4801 2447, 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447,
4802 6461, 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712,
4803 6713, 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839,
4804 6843, 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955,
4805 6966, 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
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4809
4810* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
4811 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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4813* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
4814 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4816* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
4817 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
4818 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4819
4820* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
4821 Implemented by Eric Blake.
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4825* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
ebcc1f4d 4826 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4828* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
4829 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
4830 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
4831 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4832
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4833* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
4834 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4837 Sinhala)
48b22986 4838 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
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4840* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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4843
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4845
4846 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
4847 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
4848 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
4849 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
4850 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
4851 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
4852 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
4853
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b4354cf4 4855
77751669 4856* New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
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4858* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
4859 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
4860
4861* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
4862
4863* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
4864 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4865
4866* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
4867 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4868
4869* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
4870 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
4871 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4872
4873* Faster memset for x86-64.
4874 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
4875
4876* Faster memcpy on x86.
4877 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4878
4879* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
4880 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4882* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
d990b282 4883 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
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4886
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4888
4889 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
4890 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
4891 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
4892 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
4893 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
4894
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4895* More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
4896 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4897
4898* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4899
4900* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
4901 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
4902 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4903
4904* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
4905 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
4906
28919a77 4907* New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
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4908 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4909
4910* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4911
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4912* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
4913 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4914
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4915* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
4916 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4917
4918* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
4919 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
4920
4921* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4922
4923* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
4924 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4926* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
4927 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
4928 yo_NG.
4929
4930+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
4931 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4936
4937 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
4938 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
4939 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
4940 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
4941 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
4942 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
4943 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
4944 4702, 4858
4945
bce20b9a 4946* New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
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4949
b21fa963 4950* nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4953
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4955
4956 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
4957 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
4958 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
4959 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
4960 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
4961 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
4962 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
4963 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
4964 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
4965
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4968 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4970* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
4971 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4972
871b9158 4973* New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
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4975* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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4977* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
4978 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
4979 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
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4981 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4982
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4984 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
4985 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
4986 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4987
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4988* The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
4989 Ulrich Drepper.
4990
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4991* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
4992
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4993* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
4994 Ulrich Drepper.
4995
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4996* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
4997
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4998* New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
4999 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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5002
5003* More overflow detection functions.
5004
5005* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
5006 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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5008 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
5009 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
5010 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
5011 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
5012 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
5013 by Masahide Washizawa.
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5015* It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
5016 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5018* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
5019 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
5020 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
5021 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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5023* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
5024 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
5025
5026* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
5027
5028* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
5029 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
5030 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
5031
5032* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
5033 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
5034
5035* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
5036 for compatibility with some other systems.
5037
5038* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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5040Version 2.3.6
5041
5042* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5043
5044 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
5045 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
5046 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
5047 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
5048 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
5049 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
5050
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5053* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
5054
5055* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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5057Version 2.3.5
5058
5059* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5060
5061 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
5062 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
5063 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
5064 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
5065
5a82c748 5066 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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5068Version 2.3.4
5069
5070* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
5071 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5072
5073* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
5074 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
5075 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5076
5077* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
5078 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
5079
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5081 efficiently.
5082 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5083
5084* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
5085 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
5086 handling data.
5087
5088* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
5089 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
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5091
5092* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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5093 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5094
5095* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
5096 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
5097 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
5098 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5099
5100* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
5101 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
5102 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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5103 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5104
5105* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
5106 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
5107 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
5108 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
5109 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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5111Version 2.3.3
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5114 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
5115
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5116* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
5117 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
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5121
5122* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
5123 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5125* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
5126 by Roland McGrath.
5127
c5af724c 5128* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
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5130
5131* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
5132 RFC 3484.
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5134Version 2.3.2
5135
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5136* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
5137 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
5138 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
5139 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
5140 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
5141 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
5142 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
5143 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
5144 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
5145
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5146* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
5147 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
5148 and are now also available on the Hurd.
5149
5150* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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5152* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
5153 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
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5155* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
5156 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
5157
52a16e58 5158* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
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5160* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
5161 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
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5162
5163* With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
5164 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
5165 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
5166 of weak definition in ld.so.
5167
5168* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
5169 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
5170
5171* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
5172 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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5176* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
5177 charsets.
5178
5179* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
5180 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
47e8b443 5181
bb0ec5bd 5182* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 5183 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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5184
5185* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
5186 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
8e57fc70 5187
bb0ec5bd 5188* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
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5189 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
5190 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5191
5192* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
5193 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3b0bdc72 5194
bb0ec5bd 5195* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3b0bdc72 5196 implementation of regex.
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5197
5198* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
5199 Unicode 3.2.
be45f421 5200
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5201* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
5202 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
be45f421 5203
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5204* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
5205 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
5206 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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5207
5208* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
f87277f2 5209 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
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5210
5211* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
5212 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
5213 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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5214
5215* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
5216 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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5217
5218* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
5219 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
5220 and Ulrich Drepper.
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5221
5222* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
5223\f
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5224Version 2.2.6
5225
5226* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
5227 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
5228
5229* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
5230 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
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5232Version 2.2.5
5233
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5234* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
5235 128-bit long double format.
a8ae31c2 5236
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5237* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
5238 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
a8ae31c2 5239
ad2e4f18 5240* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
a8ae31c2 5241
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5242* Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
5243
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5244* libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
5245 as well.
5246
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5247* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
5248 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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5249
5250* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
7d0c5823 5251\f
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5252Version 2.2.4
5253
2995f70e 5254* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 5255 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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5256
5257* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
5258 support Unicode 3.1.
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5259
5260* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
5261 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
045fcd26 5262
69d5f925 5263* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 5264
69d5f925 5265* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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5266 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
5267 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5268
5269* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
5270 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
5271
5272* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
5273 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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5274
5275* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
33996419 5276\f
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5277Version 2.2.3
5278
1746f2b0 5279* Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
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5280 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
5281 in float, double, and long double format.
5282
f128331c 5283* Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
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5284 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
5285 128-bit long double format.
07f951e4 5286
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5287* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
5288 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
5289 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
5290 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
5291
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5292* An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
5293 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
5294 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5295
5296* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
5297 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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5298
5299* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
5300 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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5301
5302* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
5303 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
5304 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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5305
5306* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
5307 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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5308
5309* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
5310 of functions for Linux/x86.
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5311
5312* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
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5314Version 2.2.2
5315
464d97ec 5316* Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
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5317 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
5318 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
5319 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
5320 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
5321 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
5322 other headers.
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5323
5324* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
5325 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
5326
5327* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
5328 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
5329 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
5330 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5331
5332* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
5333 locales. While
5334
5335 locale -a
5336
5337 only lists the names of the supported locales
5338
5339 locale -a --verbose
5340
5341 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
5342 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
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5344Version 2.2.1
5345
5346* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
5347 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
5348 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
5349 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
5350 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
5351
5352 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
5353
5354 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
5355
5356 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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5357
5358* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
5359 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
5360 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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5361
5362* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
5363 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
5364
5365* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
5366 changed from the default "C" locale.
5367
5368* The usual bug fixes.
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5370Version 2.2
5371
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5372* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
5373 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
5374 is in progress.
5375
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5376* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
5377
793bd4d9 5378* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
2e92188d 5379
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5380 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
5381 obviously requires a database library being available.
5382
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5383* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5384
abbffdf9 5385* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
01c771d0 5386
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5387* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
5388 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
5389
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5390* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
5391
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5392* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
5393 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
5394 and Mark Kettenis.
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5395
5396 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
5397 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
5398 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 5399
a00c3ca9 5400 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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5401 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
5402
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5403* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
5404 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
5405 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
5406
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5407* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
5408 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
5409 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
5410 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5411
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5412 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
5413 structures for the wide character tables.
5414
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5415* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5416
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5417* The utmp daemon has been removed.
5418
5419* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
5420
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5421* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
5422 and Yutaka Niibe.
5423
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5424* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
5425
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5426* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
5427
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5428* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5429
5430* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
5431
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5432* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
5433
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5434* the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
5435 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
5436 implemented for Linux.
5437
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5438* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
5439 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
5440 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
5441 versions.
5442
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5443* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
5444 Masahide Washizawa.
5445
8f3f1e09 5446* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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5447\f
5448Version 2.1.3
5449
5450* bug fixes
5451
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5452\f
5453Version 2.1.2
5454
5455* bug fixes
5456
28f540f4 5457\f
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5458Version 2.1.1
5459
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5460* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
5461
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5462* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
5463
407d26b7 5464* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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5465
5466* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
5467
407d26b7 5468* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 5469
407d26b7 5470* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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5471
5472* Update timezone data files.
27995311 5473
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5474* lots of charmaps corrections
5475
5476* some new locale definitions and charmaps
5477
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5479Version 2.1
5480
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5481* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
5482 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
5483 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
5484 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
5485 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
5486 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
5487
c84142e8 5488* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 5489 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 5490
1fb05e3d 5491* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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5492 symbol level.
5493
5494* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
5495 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
377a515b 5496
cbdee279 5497* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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5498
5499* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 5500 numbers.
377a515b 5501
cbdee279 5502* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
e61abf83 5503
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5504* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
5505 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
e61abf83 5506
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5507* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
5508 library.
5509
e61abf83 5510* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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5511 functions from ISO C 9X.
5512
5513* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
5514 real valued functions.
e61abf83 5515
a5a0310d 5516* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
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5518* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
5519
5520* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 5521
440d13e2 5522* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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5523
5524* Optimized string functions have been added.
5525
5526* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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5527
5528* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
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5530* Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
5531 daemon for NSS (nscd).
5532
5533 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
5534 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
5535
0dee6738 5536 user system wall
48244d09 5537
0dee6738 5538 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 5539
0dee6738 5540 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 5541
0dee6738 5542 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
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5544 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
5545
5546 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
5547
5548 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
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5550 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
5551 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
0dee6738 5552 horribly slow.
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5554 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
5555 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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5556
5557* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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5558
5559* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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5560
5561* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
5562 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
5563
5564* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
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5566* A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
5567 Bambrough.
5568
5569* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
5570 latest draft standards.
5571
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5572* Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
5573
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5574* Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
5575~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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5578argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
5579argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
5580argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
5581argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
5582argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
5583argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
5584argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
5585argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
5586argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
5587argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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5588authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
5589authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
5590authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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5591backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
5592backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
5593backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
5594cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
5595cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
5596cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
5597cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
5598cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
5599cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
5600capget NEW: kernel
5601capset NEW: kernel
5602carg NEW: ISO C 9x
5603cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
5604cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
5605casin NEW: ISO C 9x
5606casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
5607casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
5608casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5609casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5610casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
5611catan NEW: ISO C 9x
5612catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
5613catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
5614catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5615catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5616catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
e980ca92 5617cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
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5619ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
5620ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
5621ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
5622ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
5623ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
5624cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
5625cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
5626cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
5627cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
5628cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
5629cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
5630clearerr_locked REMOVED
5631clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
5632clog NEW: ISO C 9x
5633clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
5634clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
5635clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
5636clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
5637clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
5638conj NEW: ISO C 9x
5639conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
5640conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
5641cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
5642cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
5643cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
5644cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
5645cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
5646cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
5647creal NEW: ISO C 9x
5648crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
5649creall NEW: ISO C 9x
5650creat64 NEW: LFS
5651csin NEW: ISO C 9x
5652csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
5653csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
5654csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5655csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5656csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
5657csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
5658csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
5659csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
5660ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
5661ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
5662ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
5663ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5664ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5665ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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5666des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
5667ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 5668endutxent NEW: Unix98
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5669exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x
5670exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
5671exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
5672exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
5673exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
5674exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
5675fattach NEW: STREAMS
5676fdetach NEW: STREAMS
5677fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
5678fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
5679fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
5680feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5681fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5682fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
5683fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
5684feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5685feof_locked REMOVED
5686feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5687ferror_locked REMOVED
5688fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5689fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
5690fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
5691fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5692feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5693fflush_locked REMOVED
5694ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
5695ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
5696fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
5697fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5698fileno_locked REMOVED
5699fma NEW: ISO C 9x
5700fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
5701fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
5702fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
5703fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
5704fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
5705fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
5706fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
5707fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
62595351 5708fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
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5709fopen64 NEW: LFS
5710fputc_locked REMOVED
5711fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5712fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5713freopen64 NEW: LFS
5714fseeko NEW: Unix98
5715fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
5716fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
5717fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
5718fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
5719ftello NEW: Unix98
5720ftello64 NEW: LFS
5721ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
5722ftw64 NEW: LFS
5723fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5724gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
5725gamma_r REMOVED
5726gammaf_r REMOVED
5727gammal_r REMOVED
5728getchar_locked REMOVED
5729getdate NEW: Unix98
5730getdate_err NEW: Unix98
5731getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
5732getmsg NEW: STREAMS
5733getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
e980ca92 5734getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
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5736getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
5737getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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5738getutxent NEW: Unix98
5739getutxid NEW: Unix98
5740getutxline NEW: Unix98
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5741glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
5742globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
5743gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
5744gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
5745grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
e980ca92 5746host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
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5747iconv NEW: iconv
5748iconv_close NEW: iconv
5749iconv_open NEW: iconv
5750if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
5751if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
5752if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
5753if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
5754in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
5755in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
5756inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
5757isastream NEW: STREAMS
5758iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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5759key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
5760key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
5761key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
5762key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
5763key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
5764key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
5765key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
5766key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
5767key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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5768llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
5769llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5770llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
5771llround NEW: ISO C 9x
5772llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5773llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5774log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
5775log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
5776log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
5777lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
5778lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5779lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
5780lround NEW: ISO C 9x
5781lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5782lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5783lseek64 NEW: LFS
5784makecontext NEW: Unix98
5785mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
5786mmap64 NEW: LFS
5787moncontrol REMOVED
5788modify_ldt NEW: kernel
5789nan NEW: ISO C 9x
5790nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
5791nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
5792nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
5793nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5794nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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5795netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
5796netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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5797nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
5798nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
5799nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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5801nftw64 NEW: LFS
5802open64 NEW: LFS
e980ca92 5803passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
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5804pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
5805pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
5806pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
5807pread NEW: Unix98
5808pread64 NEW: LFS
5809printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
5810printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
5811profil_counter REMOVED
5812pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
5813pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
5814ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
5815ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
5816putc_locked REMOVED
5817putchar_locked REMOVED
5818putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
5819putmsg NEW: STREAMS
5820putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
62595351 5821pututxline NEW: Unix98
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5822pwrite NEW: Unix98
5823pwrite64 NEW: LFS
5824readdir64 NEW: LFS
5825readdir64_r NEW: LFS
5826remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
5827remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
5828remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
5829round NEW: ISO C 9x
5830roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5831roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5832rtime NEW: GNU ext.
5833scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
5834scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
5835scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
5836scandir64 NEW: LFS
5837sendfile NEW: kernel
5838setcontext NEW: Unix98
5839setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 5840setutxent NEW: Unix98
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5841sighold NEW: Unix98
5842sigignore NEW: Unix98
5843sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
5844sigrelse NEW: Unix98
5845sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
5846sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
5847sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
5848sincos NEW: GNU ext.
5849sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
5850sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
5851statfs64 NEW: LFS
5852statvfs NEW: Unix98
5853statvfs64 NEW: LFS
5854strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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5855strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
5856strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
5857strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
e980ca92 5858svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
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5859svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
5860svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
5861swapcontext NEW: Unix98
5862tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
5863tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
5864tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
5865tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
5866tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
5867tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
5868trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
5869truncate64 NEW: LFS
5870truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
5871truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
5872umount2 NEW: kernel
5873unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 5874updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 5875user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 5876utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 5877versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
3ef4002b 5878versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
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5879waitid NEW: Unix98
5880wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
5881wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
5882wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
5883wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
5884wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
5885wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
5886wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
5887wcswcs NEW: Unix98
5888wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
5889wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
5890write_profiling REMOVED
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5891xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
5892xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
5893xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
5894xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
5895xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
5896xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
5897xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
5898xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
5899xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
5900xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
5901xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
5902xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
5903xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 5904xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
e980ca92 5905xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 5906~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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5908Version 2.0.6
5909
5910* more bug fixes
5911
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5913Version 2.0.5
5914
5915* more bug fixes
5916
5917* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
5918
5919* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
5920
5921* rewrite of cbrt function
5922
5923* update of timezone data
5924\f
5925Version 2.0.4
5926
5927* more bug fixes
5928\f
5929Version 2.0.3
5930
5931* more bug fixes
c84142e8 5932\f
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5933Version 2.0.2
5934
5935* more bug fixes
5936
5937* add atoll function
5938
5939* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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5940
5941* fix math functions
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5942\f
5943Version 2.0.1
5944
5945* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
5946
5947* dynamic loader preserves all registers
5948
5949* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
5950 the ELF dynamic loader.
5951
5952* support for parallel builds is improved
5953\f
40a4b79f 5954Version 2.0
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5956* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
5957 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
5958 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
5959
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5960* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
5961 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
5962 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
5963 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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5964 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
5965 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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5966 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
5967 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
5968 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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5969 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
5970 files in the ELF format.
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5971
5972* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
5973 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
5974
5975* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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5976 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
5977 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
5978 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
5979 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
5980 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
5981 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
5982 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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5983 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
5984 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
5985 about dynamically linked binaries.
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5987* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
5988 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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5989 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
5990 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
5991 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 5992
f7eac6eb 5993* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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5994 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
5995 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
5996 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
5997 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
5998
5999* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
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6001* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
6002 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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6003 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
6004 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
6005 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
6006 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
6007 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
6008 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
6009 NSS services available.
5f0e6fc7 6010
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6011* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
6012 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
6013 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
6014
6015* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
6016 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
6017 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
6018
6019* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
6020 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
6021 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
6022 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
6023
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6024* The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
6025 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
6026 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
6027
6028* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
6029 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
6030 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
6031
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6032* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
6033 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
6034
f7eac6eb 6035* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 6036 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 6037 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
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6038 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
6039
6040* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
6041 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
6042 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 6043
71733723 6044* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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6045 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
6046 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
6047 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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6048 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
6049 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 6050 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 6051 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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6052
6053* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
6054 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
6055 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
6056 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
6057 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
6058 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
6059 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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6060
6061* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
6062 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
6063 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
6064 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
6065 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
6066 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
6067
6068* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
6069 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
6070
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6071* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
6072 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
6073 NSS scheme used in glibc.
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6075* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
6076
6077* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
6078 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
6079 their use is discouraged.
6080
6081* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
6082 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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6084* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
6085 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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6086
6087* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
6088 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
6089
6090* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
6091 see <dirent.h>.
6092
6093* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
6094 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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6095 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
6096 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
6097 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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6098
6099* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
6100 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
6101 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
6102 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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6103
6104* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
6105 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
6106
6107* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
6108 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
6109 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
6110 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
6111 number generator.
6112
6113* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
6114 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
6115
6116* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
6117 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
6118
71733723 6119* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 6120 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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6121 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
6122 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
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6124* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
6125
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6126* David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
6127 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
6128 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
6129
6130* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
6131 for arithmetic and string handling.
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c709e372 6133* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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6134 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
6135 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
6136 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
6137
6138* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
6139 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
6140 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
6141 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
6142 programs already written to use it.)
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6143
6144* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
6145 constants.
6146
6147* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
6148 with 4.4 BSD.
6149
6150* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
6151 a given effective group ID.
6152
6153* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
6154 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
6155 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
6156 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
6157
6158* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 6159 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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6160 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
6161 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
6162 doing the same thing.
6163
6164* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
6165 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
6166
6167* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 6168 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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6169
6170* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
6171
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6172* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
6173 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
6174 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 6175 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 6176 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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6177
6178* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
6179 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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6180
6181* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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6182 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
6183 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
6184 function.
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6185
6186* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
6187
6188* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
6189 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
6190 strings.
6191
6192* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
6193 and writing the utmp file.
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6194
6195* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
6196 Thorsten Kukuk.
6197
6198* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
6199 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
6200 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
6201
6202* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
6203 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
6204
6205* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
6206 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
6207 specification.
6208
6209* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
6210 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
6211 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
6212 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
6213
6214* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
6215 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
6216 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
6217
6218* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
6219 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
6220 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
6221 expression matcher.
6222
6223* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
6224 functionality.
6225
6226* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
6227 by Ulrich Drepper.
6228
6229* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
6230
6231* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
6232 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
6233 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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6235Version 1.09
6236
6237* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
6238
6239* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
6240 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
6241
6242* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
6243 want to put themselves in the background.
6244
6245* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
6246 run without an operating system.
6247
6248* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
6249 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
6250
6251* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
6252 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
6253
6254* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
6255
6256* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
6257 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
6258 have YP (aka NIS).
6259
6260* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
6261 conventions.
6262
6263* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
6264 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
6265\f
6266Version 1.08
6267
6268* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
6269 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
6270 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
6271
6272* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
6273 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
6274
6275* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
6276 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
6277
6278* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
6279
6280* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
6281
6282* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
6283 compatibility.
6284
6285* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
6286 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
6287 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
6288
6289* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
6290
6291* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
6292 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
6293 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
6294
6295* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
6296 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
6297 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
6298 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
6299 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
6300 on a block).
6301
6302* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
6303 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
6304 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
6305 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
6306 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
6307 cross-compiler.
6308
6309* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
6310 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
6311\f
6312Version 1.07
6313
6314* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
6315 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
6316
6317* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
6318 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
6319 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
6320
6321* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
6322 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
6323 address of the last character written.
6324
6325* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
6326 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
6327
6328* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
6329 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
6330
6331* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
6332 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
6333 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
6334 you dereference this pointer.
6335
6336* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
6337 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
6338
6339* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
6340 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
6341 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
6342 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
6343
6344* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
6345 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
6346 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
6347 EAGAIN in every system call function.
6348\f
6349Version 1.06
6350
6351* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
6352 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
6353 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
6354 in Emacs or the `info' program.
ea278354 6355 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
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6356
6357* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
6358
6359* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
6360
6361* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
6362 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
6363
6364* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
6365 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
6366
6367* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
6368 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
6369
6370* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
6371 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
6372 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
6373 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
6374 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
6375
6376* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
6377 to the error code in `errno'.
6378
6379* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
6380 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
6381 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
6382 malloc'd string.
6383
6384* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
6385 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
6386 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
6387
6388* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
6389 uniquely-named temporary file.
6390\f
6391Version 1.05
6392
6393* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
6394 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
6395 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
6396
6397* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
6398 characters.
6399
6400* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
6401 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
6402
6403* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
6404\f
6405Version 1.04
6406
6407* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
6408 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
6409 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
6410 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
6411
6412* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
6413 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
6414 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
6415
6416* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
6417 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
6418
6419* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
6420 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
6421 made itself into a shared library.
6422
6423* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
6424 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
6425
6426* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
6427 with limited length.
6428
6429* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
6430
6431* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
6432
6433* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
6434
6435* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
6436 function for traversing a directory tree.
6437
6438* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
6439 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
6440 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
6441 formatted output directly to an obstack.
6442
6443* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
6444 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
6445
6446* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
6447
6448* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
6449 things to your strings.
6450
6451* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
6452
6453* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
6454 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
6455 supporting those systems.
6456
6457* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
6458 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
6459 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
6460 configuration files.
6461
6462* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
6463 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
6464
6465* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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6466 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
6467 in <strings.h>.)
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6468
6469* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
6470 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
6471 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
6472 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
6473 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
6474 required storage is not available.
6475
6476* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
6477 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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6478
6479* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
6480 latest files released from Berkeley.
6481\f
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6484
6485 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
6486 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
6487 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
6488 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
6489
6490 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
6491 of this document, or of portions of it,
6492 under the above conditions, provided also that they
6493 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
6494\f
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