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ee9247c3 1GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
d614a753 2Copyright (C) 1992-2020 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 2.32
9
10Major new features:
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12* Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
13 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
14 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
15
16* New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq)
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18* The GNU C Library now loads audit modules listed in the DT_AUDIT and
19 DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
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21* powerpc64le supports IEEE128 long double libm/libc redirects when
22 using the -mabi=ieeelongdouble to compile C code on supported GCC
23 toolchains. It is recommended to use GCC 8 or newer when testing
24 this option.
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26* To help detect buffer overflows and other out-of-bounds accesses
27 several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This
28 should help GCC 10 issue better warnings.
29
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30* On Linux, functions the pthread_attr_setsigmask_np and
31 pthread_attr_getsigmask_np have been added. They allow applications
32 to specify the signal mask of a thread created with pthread_create.
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34* Support for automatically registering threads with the Linux rseq
35 system call has been added. This system call is implemented starting
36 from Linux 4.18. The Restartable Sequences ABI accelerates user-space
37 operations on per-cpu data. It allows user-space to perform updates
38 on per-cpu data without requiring heavy-weight atomic operations.
39 Automatically registering threads allows all libraries, including libc,
40 to make immediate use of the rseq support by using the documented ABI.
41 The GNU C Library manual has details on integration of Restartable
42 Sequences.
43
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44* The GNU C Library now provides the header file <sys/single_threaded.h>
45 which declares the variable __libc_single_threaded. Applications are
46 encouraged to use this variable for single-thread optimizations,
47 instead of weak references to symbols historically defined in
48 libpthread.
49
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50Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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52* The deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
53 removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
54 exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
55 but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system
56 call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5.
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58* The sstk function is no longer available to newly linked binaries.
59 Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function
60 was not declared in any header file.
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62* The legacy signal handling functions siginterrupt, sigpause, sighold,
63 sigrelse, sigignore and sigset, and the sigmask macro have been
64 deprecated. Applications should use the sigsuspend, sigprocmask and
65 sigaction functions instead.
66
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67* ldconfig now defaults to the new format for ld.so.cache. glibc has
68 already supported this format for almost 20 years.
69
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70Changes to build and runtime requirements:
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72* powerpc64le requires GCC 7.4 or newer. This is required for supporting
73 long double redirects.
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75Security related changes:
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77 CVE-2020-10029: Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack
78 corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido
79 Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
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81 CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an
82 out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context.
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84 CVE-2020-1752: A use-after-free vulnerability in the glob function when
85 expanding ~user has been fixed.
86
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87The following bugs are resolved with this release:
88
89 [The release manager will add the list generated by
90 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
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92Version 2.31
93
94Major new features:
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96* The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
97 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
98 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
99 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
100 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
101 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
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103* The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
104 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
105 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
106 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
107
69ca4b54 108* The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
3ef5e118 109 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
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110 CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME. This function is a GNU extension.
111
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112* New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar).
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114* The DNS stub resolver will optionally send the AD (authenticated data) bit
115 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
116 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
117 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
118 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
119 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
120 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
121 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
122
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123Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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125* The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
126 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
127 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
128 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
129 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
130 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
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12cbde1d 132* The obsolete function stime is no longer available to newly linked
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133 binaries, and its declaration has been removed from <time.h>.
134 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
135
136* We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
137 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
138 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
139 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
140
141* The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
142 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
143 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
144 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
145 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
146 made this no longer practical.
147
148 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
149 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
150 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
151 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
152 release.)
153
154 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
155 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
156 with the current time, use the localtime function.
157
158 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
159 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
160 using clock_gettime instead.
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162* The settimeofday function can still be used to set a system-wide time
163 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
164 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
165 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
166 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
167
168 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
169 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
170 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
171 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
172
173 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
174 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
175 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
176 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
177 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
178 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
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180 settimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. Programs that set
181 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
182 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
183 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
184 offset API.
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186* SPARC ISA v7 is no longer supported. v8 is still supported, but only if
187 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
188 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
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190 As the oldest 64-bit SPARC ISA is v9, this only affects 32-bit
191 configurations.
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193* If a lazy binding failure happens during dlopen, during the execution of
194 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
195 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
196 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
197 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
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199* For MIPS hard-float ABIs, the GNU C Library will be configured to need an
200 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
201 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
202 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
203 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
204 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
205 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
206 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
207
208 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
209 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
210
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211* System call wrappers for time system calls now use the new time64 system
212 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
213 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
214 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
215 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
216 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
217
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218Changes to build and runtime requirements:
219
a1bd5f86 220* It is no longer necessary to have recent Linux kernel headers to build
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221 working (non-stub) system call wrappers on all architectures except 64-bit
222 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
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224* The ChangeLog file is no longer present in the toplevel directory of the
225 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
226 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
227
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228Security related changes:
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230 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
231 environment variable during program execution after a security
232 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
233 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
234 program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
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235
236The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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238 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
239 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
240 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
241 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
242 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
243 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
244 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
245 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
246 linking failure
247 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
248 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
249 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
250 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
251 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
252 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
253 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
254 constructors/destructors is not fatal
255 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
256 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
257 7408-2005
258 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
259 with localedef
260 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
261 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
262 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
263 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
264 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
265 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
266 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
267 utmp entries
268 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
269 ABSOLUTE ABI
270 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
271 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
272 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
273 (stringop-overflow error)
274 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
275 functions other can lead to crashes
276 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
277 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
278 unconditionally
279 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
280 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
281 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
282 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
283 still can fail with an error
284 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
285 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
286 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
287 initialized correctly
288 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
289 -frewrite-includes
290 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
291 value to an unsigned
292 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
293 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
294 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
295 protection
296 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
297 ifunc variant.
298 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
299 al. for Clang++
300 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
301 (Slovenian)
302 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
303 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
304 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
305 with -std=c11
306 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
307 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
308 part
309 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
310 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
311 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
312 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
313 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
314 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
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318
319Major new features:
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321* Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
322 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
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323 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
324
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325* The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
326 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
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328* The twalk_r function has been added. It is similar to the existing
329 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
330 to the callback function.
331
51ea67d5 332* On Linux, the getdents64, gettid, and tgkill functions have been added.
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334* Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
335 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
336 nan_TW, lzh_TW.
337
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338* The entry for the new Japanese era has been added for ja_JP locale.
339
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340* Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
341 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
342 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
343 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
344 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
345
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346* The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
347 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
348 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
349 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
350 link time reference, is gone.
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352* Add new POSIX-proposed pthread_cond_clockwait, pthread_mutex_clocklock,
353 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
354 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
355 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
356 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
357 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
358 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
359 the clock choice at initialization time).
360
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361* On AArch64 the GNU IFUNC resolver call ABI changed: old resolvers still
362 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
363 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
364
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365Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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367* The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
368 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
369 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
370 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
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371 copy_file_range function can no longer rely on glibc to provide a fallback
372 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
373 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
374 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
375 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
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377* The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime,
378 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
379 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
380 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
381 since glibc 2.17.
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383* The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
384 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
385
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386* Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
387 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
388
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389* The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
390 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
391
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392* With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
393 BIND_NOW flag.
394
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395* Support for the PowerPC SPE ISA extension (powerpc-*-*gnuspe*
396 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
397 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
398
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399* On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
400 header have been removed.
401
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402* The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
403 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
404 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
405 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
406
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407Changes to build and runtime requirements:
408
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409* GCC 6.2 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
410
411 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
412 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
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414Security related changes:
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416 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
417 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
418 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
419 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
420 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
421 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
422 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
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424 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
425 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
426 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
427
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430 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
431 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
432 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
433 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
434 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
435 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
436 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
437 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
438 invalid input drops valid char
439 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
440 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
441 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
442 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
443 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
444 malloc.h.
445 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
446 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
447 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
448 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
449 functions
450 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
451 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
452 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
453 for long double = double
454 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
455 long double = double
456 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
457 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
458 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
459 long timeouts
460 [24051] stdio: puts and putchar ouput to _IO_stdout instead of stdout
461 [24059] nss: nss_files: get_next_alias calls fgets_unlocked without
462 checking for NULL.
463 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
464 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
465 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
466 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
467 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
468 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
469 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
470 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
471 not the default "nor"
472 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
473 false positives, change to modern flexible array
474 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
475 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
476 compiler barriers.
477 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
478 unnecessary librt dependencies
479 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
480 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
481 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
482 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
483 unsorted chunk
484 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
485 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
486 to R_SPARC_H44
487 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
488 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
489 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
490 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
491 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
492 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
493 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
494 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
495 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
496 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
497 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
498 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
499 was not used
500 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
501 tests
502 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
503 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
504 time_t changes
505 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
506 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
507 kernels and break testing
508 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
509 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
510 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
511 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
512 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
513 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
514 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
515 -O3 -march=skylake
516 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
517 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
518 crash
519 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
520 linked glibc
521 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
522 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
523 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
524 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
525 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
526 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
527 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
528 always implemented in the same library
529 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
530 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
531 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
532 testroot
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537Major new features:
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540 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
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543 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
544 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
545 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
546 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
547 configured location.
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552 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
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555 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
556 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
557 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
558 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
559 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
560 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
561 process actually does not use HTM).
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564 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
565 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
566 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
567 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
568 of the same name.
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571 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
572 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
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577 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
578 supported:
579 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
580 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
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583 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
584 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
585 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
586 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
587 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
588 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
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591 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
592 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
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597 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
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600 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
601 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
602 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
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605 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
606 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
607 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
608 structures.
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611 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
612 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
613 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
614 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
615 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
616
617 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
618 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
619 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
620 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
621 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
622
623 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
624 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
625 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
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628
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632 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
633
634 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
635 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
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640 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
641 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
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644 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
645 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
646 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
647 Reported by H.J. Lu.
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649 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
650 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
651 or command injection issues in applications.
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655 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
656 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
657 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
658 thousands
659 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
660 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
661 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
662 --param options)
663 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
664 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
665 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
666 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
667 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
668 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
669 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
670 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
671 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
672 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
673 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
674 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
675 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
676 pointer argument is non-NULL
677 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
678 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
679 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
680 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
681 multithreads call popen
682 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
683 and pthread_create fails.
684 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
685 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
686 constructor
687 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
688 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
689 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
690 source tree
691 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
692 float
693 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
694 one error
695 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
696 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
697 linker
698 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
699 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
700 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
701 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
702 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
703 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
704 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
705 filesystems
706 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
707 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
708 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
709 functions
710 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
711 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
712 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
713 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
714 have wrong type
715 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
716 wrong type
717 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
718 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
719 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
720 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
721 threads
722 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
723 start.S
724 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
725 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
726 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
727 powerpc64le
728 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
729 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
730 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
731 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
732 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
733 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
734 strftime
735 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
736 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
737 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
738 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
739 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
740 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
741 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
742 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
743 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
744 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
745 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
746 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
747 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
748 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
749 tcache size
750 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
751 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
752 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
753 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
754 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
755 (CVE-2018-19591)
756 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
757 nearest rounding mode
758 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
759 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
760 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
761 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
762 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
763 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
764 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
765 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
766 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
767 error
768 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
769 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
770 using GCC 8
771 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
772 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
773 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
774 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
775 ppc64le
776 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
777 expected result
778 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
779 x32 (CVE-2019-6488)
780 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
781 sigaltstack
782 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
783 answers will be rejected)
784 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
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789Major new features:
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792 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
793 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
794 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
795 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
796 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
797 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
798 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
799 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
800 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
801 archive or binary locales.
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804 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
805 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
806 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
807 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
808 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
809 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
810 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
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812 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
813 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
814 validated for i686.
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817 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
818 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
819 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
820 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
821 field) to indicate such support is required.
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824 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
825 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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828 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
829
830 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
831 fMxaddfNx functions.
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834 fMxsubfNx functions.
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837 fMxmulfNx functions.
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840 fMxdivfNx functions.
841
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df467d22 843 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
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846 and Kashubian.
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e607a352 849 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
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852 patches.
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855 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
856 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
857 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
858 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
859 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
860 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
861 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
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864 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
865 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
866 the fstatat64 function.
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869 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
870 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
871 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
872 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
873 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
874 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
875 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
876 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
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879 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
880 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
881 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
882 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
883 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
884 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
885 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
886 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
887 results in a load failure now.
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890 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
891 <threads.h>:
892
893 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
894 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
895
896 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
897 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
898
899 - call_once for function call synchronization.
900
901 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
902 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
903
904 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
905
906 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
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911 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
912 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
913
914* The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
915 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
916 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
917 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
918 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
919 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
920
921* All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
922 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
923 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
924 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
925 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
926 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
927 (Bug #1190.)
928
929* The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
930 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
931 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
932 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
933 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
934 further explanation.
935
936 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
937 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
938 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
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940* The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
941
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942* The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
943 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
944 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
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946* The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
947 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
948 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
949 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
950
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951* The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
952 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
953 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
954 for this function instead.
955
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956* The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
957 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
958 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
959
960* The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
961 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
962 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
963 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
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965* The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
966 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
967 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
968 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
969 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
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971* The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
972 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
973 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
974 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
975 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
976 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
977 such as libgcrypt.
978
979* Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
980 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
981 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
982 enabled.
983
984* The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
985 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
986 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
987
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988* We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
989 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
990 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
991 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
992 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
993 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
994
995 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
996 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
997 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
998 behavior in a future release.
999
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1001
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1004Security related changes:
1005
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1006 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
1007 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
1008 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
1009 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
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1011 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
1012 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
1013
1014 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
1015 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
1016 Izbyshev.
1017
1018 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
1019 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
1020 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
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1024 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
1025 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
1026 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
1027 when __WORDSIZE != 64
1028 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
1029 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
1030 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
1031 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
1032 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
1033 14651
1034 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
1035 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
1036 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
1037 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
1038 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
1039 conversion is given
1040 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
1041 date
1042 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
1043 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
1044 scope with -O1 and higher
1045 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
1046 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
1047 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
1048 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
1049 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
1050 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
1051 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
1052 horrible machine code)
1053 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
1054 last constant.
1055 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
1056 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
1057 symbols
1058 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
1059 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
1060 defined
1061 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
1062 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
1063 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
1064 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
1065 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
1066 fpscr.c'
1067 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
1068 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
1069 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
1070 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
1071 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
1072 the base address
1073 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
1074 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
1075 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
1076 open_verify
1077 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
1078 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
1079 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
1080 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
1081 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
1082 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
1083 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
1084 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
1085 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
1086 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
1087 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
1088 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
1089 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
1090 dlopen
1091 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
1092 AT_SECURE=1
1093 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
1094 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
1095 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
1096 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
1097 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
1098 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
1099 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
1100 for Spanish with CLDR
1101 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
1102 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
1103 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
1104 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
1105 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
1106 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
1107 es_BO
1108 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
1109 CLOCKS_PER_SECOND
1110 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
1111 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
1112 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
1113 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
1114 dlopen failures
1115 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
1116 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
1117 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
1118 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
1119 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
1120 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
1121 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
1122 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
1123 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
1124 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
1125 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
1126 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
1127 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
1128 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
1129 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
1130 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
1131 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
1132 makecontext
1133 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
1134 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
1135 required
1136 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
1137 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
1138 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
1139 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
1140 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
1141 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
1142 disabled
1143 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
1144 failure
1145 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
1146 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
1147 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
1148 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
1149 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
1150 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
1151 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
1152 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
1153 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
1154 and libc build with -Os)
1155 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
1156 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
1157 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
1158 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
1159 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
1160 that changes /etc/passwd
1161 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
1162 (CVE-2018-11237)
1163 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
1164 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
1165 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
1166 posix/regcomp.c
1167 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
1168 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
1169 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
1170 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
1171 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
1172 AT_SECURE
1173 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
1174 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
1175 parser.c
1176 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
1177 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
1178 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
1179 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
1180 directed rounding
1181 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
1182 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
1183 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
1184 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
1185 lookup
1186 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
1187 interposition
1188 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
1189 DSO boundaries.
1190 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
1191 <linux/time.h>
1192 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
1193 checking
1194 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
1195 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
1196 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
1197 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
1198 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
1199 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
1200 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
1201 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
1202 processors
1203 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
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1206Version 2.27
1207
1208Major new features:
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1210* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
1211 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
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1213 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
1214 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
1215 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
1216 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
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1217 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
1218 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
9d7a3741 1219
ac817e08 1220* Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
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1221 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
1222 H.J. Lu from Intel.
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1225
4cf82d23 1226* Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
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1228* In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
1229 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
1230 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
1231 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
1232 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
1233 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
1234 from a security and performance perspective.
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1236* The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
1237 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
1238 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
1239 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
1240
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1243 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
1244 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
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1246
a23aa5b7 1247* On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
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1250 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
1251 _Float128.
1252
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1253* The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
1254 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
1255 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
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4bab0224 1257* glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
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1259* Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
1260 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
1261 pkey_get.
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1265* Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
1266
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1267* The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
1268 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
1269 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
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1272 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
1273 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
1274 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
1275 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
1276 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
1277 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
1278
1279 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
1280 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
1281 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
1282 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
1283 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
1284 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
1285 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
1286
1287 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
1288 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
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1290 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
1291 respectively.
1292
1293 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
1294 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
1295 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
1296 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
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1298 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
1299 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
1300 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
1301
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1303 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
0a32e219 1304 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
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1307 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
1308 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
1309
1310 - rv64imac lp64
1311 - rv64imafdc lp64
1312 - rv64imafdc lp64d
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1317 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
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1320 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
1321 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
1322 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
1323 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
1324 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
1325 fix this.
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1328 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
1329 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
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1332 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
1333 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
1334 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
1335 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
1336 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
1337 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
1338 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
1339 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
1340 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
1341 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
1342 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
1343 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
1344 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
1345 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
1346 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
1347 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
1348 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
1349 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
1350 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
1351 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
1352 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
1353 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
1354 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
1355 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
1356 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
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1359 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
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1361* libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
1362 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
1363 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
1364 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
1365 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
1366 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
1367 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
1368
5a80d39d
JM
1369* The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
1370 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
1371 exp10l for these functions instead.
1372
4fa9b3bf
JM
1373* The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
1374 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
1375 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1376
644d3857
JM
1377* The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
1378 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
1379 ignored.
1380
8df5d347
JM
1381* The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
1382 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
1383 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
1384 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
1385
c0a25aa9
FW
1386* The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
1387 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
1388
34eb4157
FW
1389* In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
1390 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
1391
754034c4
JM
1392* The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
1393 programs.
1394
ed95f611
AZ
1395* The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
1396
48a8f832
ZW
1397* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
1398 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
1399 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
1400 instead.
1401
1402 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
1403 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
1404 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
1405 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
1406 use, but predates the bits convention.
1407
00cdcf5a
SP
1408Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1409
1faaf703
JB
1410* bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
1411 subdirectory.
00cdcf5a
SP
1412
1413Security related changes:
1414
403143e1
FW
1415 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
1416 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
1417 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
1418 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
1419 script.)
00cdcf5a 1420
822f523b
FW
1421 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
1422 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
1423 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
1424 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
c369d66e 1425
914c9994
FW
1426 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
1427 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
1428 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
1429 of service.
1430
15e84c63
AJ
1431 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
1432 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
a159b53f
PE
1433 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
1434
37ac8e63
FW
1435 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
1436 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
1437 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
1438 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
1439
8a0b17e4
FW
1440 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
1441 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
1442 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
1443 Qualys.
1444
3ff3dfa5
FW
1445 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
1446 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
1447 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
1448 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
1449 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
1450
3e3c904d
AJ
1451 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
1452 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
1453 current directory.
1454
52a713fd
DL
1455 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
1456 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
1457 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
1458
4590634f
FW
1459 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
1460 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
1461 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
1462
71aa429b
FW
1463 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
1464 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
1465 small, instead of NULL.
1466
00cdcf5a
SP
1467The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1468
242cbc90
DL
1469 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
1470 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
1471 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
1472 locale
1473 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
1474 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
1475 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
1476 cases
1477 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
1478 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
1479 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
1480 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
1481 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
1482 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
1483 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
1484 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
1485 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
1486 "Bangla"
1487 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
1488 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
1489 width Latin characters
1490 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
1491 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
1492 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
1493 letters
1494 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
1495 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
1496 (CVE-2009-5064)
1497 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
1498 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
1499 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
1500 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
1501 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
1502 if malloc succeeded
1503 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
1504 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
1505 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
1506 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
1507 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
1508 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
1509 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
1510 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
1511 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
1512 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
1513 U+309A
1514 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
1515 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
1516 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
1517 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
1518 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
1519 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
1520 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
1521 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
1522 for Nicaragua
1523 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
1524 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
1525 are not found.
1526 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
1527 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
1528 access
1529 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
1530 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
1531 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
1532 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
1533 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
1534 __regcall calling convention
1535 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
1536 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
1537 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
1538 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
1539 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
1540 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
1541 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
1542 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
1543 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
1544 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
1545 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
1546 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
1547 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
1548 locale
1549 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
1550 protector=all
1551 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
1552 wcwidth
1553 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
1554 consistency check failures
1555 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
1556 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
1557 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
1558 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
1559 PIE
1560 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
1561 locales
1562 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
1563 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
1564 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
1565 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
1566 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
1567 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
1568 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
1569 on memory allocation failure
1570 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
1571 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
1572 the suspect)
1573 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
1574 default (i386)
1575 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
1576 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
1577 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
1578 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
1579 instead of EAI_NODATA
1580 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
1581 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
1582 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
1583 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
1584 implementation
1585 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
1586 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
1587 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
1588 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
1589 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
1590 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
1591 allocation in syscall loops)
1592 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
1593 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
1594 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
1595 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
1596 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
1597 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
1598 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
1599 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
1600 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
1601 occur with -O3
1602 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
1603 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
1604 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
1605 amounts)
1606 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
1607 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
1608 niu_NZ
1609 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
1610 checks
1611 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
1612 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
1613 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
1614 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
1615 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
1616 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
1617 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
1618 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
1619 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
1620 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
1621 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
1622 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
1623 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
1624 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
1625 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
1626 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
1627 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
1628 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
1629 parsing after OOM
1630 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
1631 object
1632 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
1633 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
1634 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
1635 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
1636 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
1637 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
1638 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf oupts a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
1639 ppc64le
1640 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
1641 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
1642 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
1643 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
1644 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
1645 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
1646 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
1647 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
1648 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
1649 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
1650 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
1651 math_force_eval
1652 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
1653 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
1654 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
1655 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
1656 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
1657 the svid compat wrapper
1658 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
1659 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
1660 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
1661 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
1662 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
1663 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
1664 --verbose.
1665 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
1666 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
1667 to 2.26
1668 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
1669 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
1670 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
1671 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
1672 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
1673 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
1674 (CVE-2017-15804)
1675 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
1676 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
1677 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
1678 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
1679 failure."
1680 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
1681 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
1682 -m32
1683 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
1684 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
1685 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
1686 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
1687 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
1688 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
1689 inside the ASCII printable range
1690 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
1691 -mlong-double-64
1692 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
1693 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
1694 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
1695 Internet
1696 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
1697 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
1698 backslash
1699 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
1700 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
1701 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
1702 heaps in an arena
1703 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
1704 networking interface
1705 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
1706 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
1707 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
1708 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
1709 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
1710 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
1711 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
1712 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
1713 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
1714 order
1715 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1716 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1717 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1718 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1719 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1720 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
1721 same as for Croatian
1722 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
1723 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
1724 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
1725 for initial thread"
1726 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
1727 SC_SSIZE_MAX
1728 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
1729 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
1730 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1731 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
1732 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
1733 (CVE-2017-1000408)
1734 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
1735 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
1736 modified in case of success
1737 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
1738 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
1739 success
1740 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
1741 stack-protector=all
1742 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
1743 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
1744 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
1745 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
1746 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
1747 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
1748 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
1749 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
1750 adding it on top
1751 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
1752 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
1753 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
1754 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
1755 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
1756 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
1757 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
1758 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
1759 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
1760 (CVE-2018-1000001)
1761 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
1762 elision and tunables
1763 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
1764 "invalid" exception
1765 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
1766 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
1767 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
1768 exception
1769 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
1770 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
1771 power4
1772 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
1773 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
1774 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
1775 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
1776 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
1777 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
1778 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
1779 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
1780 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
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1783Version 2.26
1784
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1785Major new features:
1786
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1787* A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
1788 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
1789 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
1790 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
1791 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
1792 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
1793 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
1794
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1795* Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1796 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
0b38d66a 1797 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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1798 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
1799 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
1800 are rendered with pango, see for example:
1801 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
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1803* Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
1804 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
1805 Egmont Koblinger.
e4e79484 1806
2b2ccd0c 1807* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
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1809 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
1810 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
1811 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
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1813 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
1814 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
1815 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
1816 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
1817 object are still limited to six search domains.
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1819 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
1820 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
1821 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
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1824 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
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1826* New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
1827 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
1828 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
1829 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
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1831* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
1832 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
1833 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
1834 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
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1836* posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
1837 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
1838 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
1839 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
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1841* errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
1842 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
1843 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
12d2dd70 1844
2b2ccd0c 1845* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
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1846 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
1847 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
1848 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
2c0b90ab 1849
2b2ccd0c 1850 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
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1851 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
1852 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
1853 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
1854 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
1855
1856 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
1857 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
1858 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
1859 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
1860 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
1861 interfaces should be used instead.
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1863Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1864
1865* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
1866 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
1867 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
1868 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
1869 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
1870 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
1871 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
1872 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
1873
1874* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
1875 removed.
1876
1877* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
7e368000 1878 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
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1879 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
1880 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
1881
1882* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
1883 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
1884 default.
1885
1886 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
1887 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
1888 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
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1889 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
1890 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
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1892 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
1893 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
1894 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
1895 name service modules, to be built and installed.
1896
1897* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
1898 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
1899 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
1900 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
1901
1902* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
1903 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
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1905* The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
1906 exported by accident.
1907
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1908* <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
1909 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
1910 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
1911
1912* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
1913 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
1914 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
1915 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
1916
1917* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
1918
1919* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
1920
1921* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
1922 free instead.
1923
1924* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
1925 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1926
1927* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
1928 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1929
1930* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
1931 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
1932 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
1933 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
1934 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
1935 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
1936 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
1937 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
1938
1939* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
1940 synced with the kernel:
1941
1942 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
1943 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
1944
1945 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
1946 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
1947 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
1948
1949 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
1950 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
1951
1952Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1953
1954* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
1955 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
1956 x86-32 and x86-64.)
1957
7e368000 1958* GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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1960* On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
1961 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
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1963 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
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1964 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
1965 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
1966 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2b2ccd0c 1967 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
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1970
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1972 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
1973
1974* LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
1975 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
1976
1977* Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
1978 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
1979 (CVE-2010-3192).
1980
1981* A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
1982 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
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1984The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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1986 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
1987 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
1988 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
1989 fields
1990 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
1991 (CVE-2010-3192)
1992 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
1993 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
1994 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
1995 ld.bfd is available
1996 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
1997 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
1998 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
1999 x86 and other generic code
2000 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
2001 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
2002 incorrect
2003 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
2004 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
2005 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
2006 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
2007 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
2008 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
2009 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
2010 resolver
2011 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
2012 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
2013 order of 0D36 and 0D37
2014 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
2015 chillu characters
2016 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
2017 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
2018 receiving data
2019 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
2020 whitespace
2021 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
2022 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
2023 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
2024 for Peru
2025 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
2026 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
2027 failures consistently
2028 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
2029 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
2030 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
2031 frame-pointer on i386
2032 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
2033 register
2034 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
2035 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
2036 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
2037 generic c code is used
2038 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
2039 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
2040 around 4000
2041 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
2042 (CVE-2017-12133)
2043 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
2044 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
2045 with -lieee
2046 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
2047 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
2048 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
2049 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
2050 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
2051 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
2052 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
2053 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
2054 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
2055 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
2056 remove()
2057 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
2058 checked for errors.
2059 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
2060 new posix_spawn implementation
2061 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
2062 leads to lower CPU frequency
2063 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
2064 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
2065 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
2066 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
2067 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
2068 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
2069 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
2070 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
2071 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
2072 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
2073 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
2074 not support gethostbyname4_r
2075 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
2076 switching
2077 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
2078 arenas
2079 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
2080 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
2081 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
2082 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
2083 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
2084 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
2085 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
2086 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
2087 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
2088 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
2089 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
2090 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
2091 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
2092 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
2093 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
2094 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
2095 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
2096 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
2097 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
2098 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
2099 retry value
2100 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
2101 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
2102 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
2103 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
2104 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
2105 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
2106 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
2107 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
2108 [21537] libc:
2109 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
2110 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
2111 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
2112 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
2113 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
2114 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
2115 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
2116 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
2117 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
2118 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
2119 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
2120 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
2121 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
2122 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
2123 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
2124 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
2125 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
2126 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
2127 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
2128 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
2129 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
2130 issue on x86-64
2131 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
2132 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
2133 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
2134 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
2135 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
2136 construction
2137 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
2138 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
2139 between_2_3
2140 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
2141 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
2142 conditions
2143 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
2144 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
2145 Hindi Locale
2146 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
2147 posix/sched_cpucount.c
2148 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
2149 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
2150 locale
2151 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
2152 leading to relocation crash
2153 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
2154 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
2155 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
2156 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
2157 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
2158 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
2159 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
2160 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
2161 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
2162 locale
2163 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
2164 locale
2165 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
2166 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
2167 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
2168 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
2169 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
2170 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
2171 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
2172 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
2173 strings
2174 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
2175 protector=all
2176 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
2177 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
2178 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
2179 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
2180 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
2181 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
2182 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
2183 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
2184 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
2185 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
2186 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
2187 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
2188 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
2189 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
2190 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
2191 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
2192 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
2193 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
2194 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
2195 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
2196 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
2197 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
2198 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
2199 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
2200 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
2201 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
2202 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
2203 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
2204 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
2205 with unicode 9.0
2206 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
2207 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
2208 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
2209 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
2210 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
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2215* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
2216 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
2217 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
2218 Library.
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2220* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
2221 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
a5ac5676 2222 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
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2223 the GNU C Library.
2224
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2225* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
2226 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
2227 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
2228 the GNU C Library.
2229
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2230* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
2231 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
2232 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
2233 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
2234 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
2235 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
2236 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
2237 will not.
2238
2239 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
2240 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
2241 many years.
2242
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2243* The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
2244 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
2245 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
2246
2247 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
2248 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
2249 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
2250 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
2251 problem.
2252
ec94343f 2253* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
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2254 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
2255 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
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2257* Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
2258 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
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2259 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
2260 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
2261 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
2262 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
2263 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
2264 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
2265 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
2266 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
2267 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
2268 WINT_WIDTH.
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2270* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
2271
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2272 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
2273
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2274 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
2275 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
2276 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
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2278 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
2279 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
2280
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2281 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
2282 fminmagf, fminmagl.
2283
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2284 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
2285
29cb9293 2286 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
d942e95c 2287
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2288 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
2289 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
5e9d98a3 2290
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2291 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
2292
eb3c12c7 2293 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
457663a7 2294 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
f8e8b8ed 2295
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2296* The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
2297 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
2298
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2299* Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
2300 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
2301 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
2302
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2303* The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
2304 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
2305 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
2306 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
2307 effects of the memory clear).
2308
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2309* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
2310 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
2311 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
2312 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
2313
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2314* On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
2315 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
2316 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
2317 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
2318 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
2319 if they are compiled or used with those options.
6962682f 2320
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2321* The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
2322 have been added.
2323
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2324* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
2325 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
2326 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
2327 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
2328 as large as several megabytes.
2329
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2330* The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
2331 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
2332 been removed.
2333
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2334* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
2335 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
2336 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
2337 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
2338 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
2339 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
2340 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
2341
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2342* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
2343 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
2344 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
2345 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
2346
099191b1 2347* The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
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2348 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
2349 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
2350 Internet.
2351
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2352* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
2353 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
2354 They were already unimplemented.
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2356* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
2357 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
2358 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
2359 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
2360
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2361* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
2362 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
2363 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
2364 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
2365 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
2366
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2367* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
2368 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
2369 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
2370 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
2371 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
2372
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2373* The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
2374 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
2375 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
2376 did not reflect that.
2377
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2378* For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
2379 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
2380 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
2381 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
2382 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
2383 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
2384 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
2385 'gcc/config.gcc'.
2386
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2387* GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
2388 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
2389 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
2390 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
2391
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2392* Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
2393 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
2394 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
2395 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
2396
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2397* A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
2398 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
2399 guarantees.
2400
2401* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
2402 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
2403 make state changes.
2404
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2405Security related changes:
2406
fc82b0a2 2407* On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
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2408 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
2409 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
2410 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
056dd72a 2411 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
e720d3d9 2412
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2413* The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
2414 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
2415 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
2416 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
2417 (CVE-2015-5180)
2418
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2419The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2420
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2421 [4099] stdio: Overly agressive caching by stream i/o functions.
2422 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
2423 protector-all
2424 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
2425 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
2426 before it started waiting
2427 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
2428 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
2429 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
2430 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
2431 wrong type
2432 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
2433 library linked with pthread
2434 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
2435 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
2436 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
2437 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
2438 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
2439 after being __libc_memalign()'d
2440 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
2441 when it shouldnt
2442 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
2443 not
2444 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
2445 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
2446 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
2447 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
2448 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
2449 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
2450 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
2451 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
2452 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
2453 termination
2454 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
2455 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
2456 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
2457 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
2458 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
2459 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
2460 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
2461 causes a segmentation fault
2462 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
2463 linking
2464 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
2465 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
2466 uninitialized GOT
2467 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
2468 versions
2469 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
2470 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
2471 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
2472 is always true.
2473 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
2474 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
2475 modes
2476 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
2477 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
2478 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
2479 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
2480 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
2481 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
2482 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
2483 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
2484 libpthread.a
2485 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
2486 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
2487 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
2488 _res_hconf
2489 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
2490 information.
2491 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
2492 penalty
2493 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
2494 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
2495 cause transition penalty
2496 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
2497 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
2498 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
2499 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
2500 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
2501 mcount.oS)
2502 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
2503 Checking
2504 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
2505 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
2506 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
2507 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
2508 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
2509 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
2510 multi-arch
2511 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
2512 (RES_USEBSTRING)
2513 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
2514 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
2515 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
2516 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
2517 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
2518 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
2519 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
2520 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
2521 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
2522 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
2523 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
2524 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
2525 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
2526 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
2527 glibc
2528 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
2529 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
2530 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
2531 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
2532 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
2533 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
2534 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
2535 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
2536 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
2537 U+20AC), not same as GBK
2538 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
2539 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
2540 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
2541 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
2542 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
2543 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
2544 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
2545 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
2546 RES_USE_INET6
2547 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2548 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
2549 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
2550 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
2551 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
2552 wrong condition
2553 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2554 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
2555 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
2556 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
2557 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
2558 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
2559 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
2560 clang
2561 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
2562 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
2563 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
2564 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
2565 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
e720d3d9 2566\f
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2567Version 2.24
2568
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2569* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
2570 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
2571 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
2572 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
2573 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
2574 architectures.
2575
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MF
2576* The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
2577 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
2578 been included in previous releases.
11fca961 2579
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2580* The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
2581 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
2582
b49ab5f4
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2583* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
2584 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
2585 instead of “union wait”.
2586
ced8f893
SG
2587* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
2588 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
2589 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
2590 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
2591 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
2592 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
2593 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
2594
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2595* The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
2596 API.
2597
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2598* The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
2599 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
2600 drop it.
6a54bcda 2601
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2602* nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
2603 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
2604 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
2605 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
2606 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
2607 extensions.
2608
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2609Security related changes:
2610
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2611* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
2612 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
2613 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
2614
4ab2ab03
FW
2615* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
2616 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
2617 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
2618 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
11fca961 2619
5171f307
FW
2620* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
2621 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
2622 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
2623
bc779a1a
FW
2624* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
2625 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
2626 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
2627
fab38231
FW
2628* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
2629 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
2630 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
2631 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
2632
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2633The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2634
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2635 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
2636 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
2637 of MS-DOS.
2638 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
2639 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
2640 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
2641 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
2642 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
2643 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
2644 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
2645 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
2646 CLDR data
2647 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
2648 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
2649 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
2650 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
2651 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
2652 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
2653 romanisation
2654 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
2655 and +/-
2656 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
2657 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
2658 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
2659 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
2660 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
2661 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
2662 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
2663 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
2664 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
2665 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
2666 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
2667 all locales
2668 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
2669 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
2670 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
2671 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
2672 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
2673 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
2674 execute
2675 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
2676 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
2677 -Wsystem-headers
2678 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
2679 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
2680 Romanian locale data
2681 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
2682 symbol
2683 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
2684 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
2685 language
2686 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
2687 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
2688 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
2689 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
2690 machine
2691 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
2692 description
2693 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
2694 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
2695 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
2696 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
2697 when using RTLD_NEXT
2698 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
2699 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
2700 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
2701 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
2702 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
2703 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
2704 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
2705 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
2706 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
2707 Excavator core
2708 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2709 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2710 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2711 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
2712 double range
2713 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
2714 part zero incorrect
2715 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
2716 equality tests
2717 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
2718 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
2719 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
2720 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
2721 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
2722 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
2723 glibc-2.22
2724 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
2725 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
2726 'tst-numeric.c'
2727 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
2728 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
2729 low part
2730 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
2731 result
2732 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
2733 unaligned stack
2734 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
2735 pointers and lengths in error-case.
2736 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
2737 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
2738 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
2739 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
2740 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
2741 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
2742 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
2743 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
2744 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
2745 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
2746 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
2747 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
2748 modes
2749 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
2750 server addresses
2751 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
2752 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
2753 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
2754 response to getaddrinfo
2755 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
2756 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
2757 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
2758 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
2759 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
2760 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
2761 sometimes incorrect
2762 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
2763 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
2764 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
2765 record types
2766 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
2767 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
2768 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
2769 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
2770 (CVE-2016-3075)
2771 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
2772 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
2773 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
2774 resolving symbols
2775 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
2776 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
2777 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
2778 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
2779 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
2780 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
2781 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
2782 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
2783 gethosts
2784 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
2785 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
2786 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
2787 (CVE-2016-3706)
2788 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
2789 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
2790 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
2791 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
2792 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
2793 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
2794 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
2795 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
2796 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
2797 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
2798 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
2799 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
2800 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
2801 executable
2802 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
2803 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
2804 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
2805 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
2806 XPG3
2807 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
2808 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
2809 (CVE-2016-4429)
2810 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
2811 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
2812 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
2813 AS not supporting AVX512
2814 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
2815 sNaN argument
2816 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2817 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
2818 argument
2819 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
2820 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
2821 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
2822 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
2823 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
2824 eax=0x80000001
2825 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
2826 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
2827 subnormals
2828 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
2829 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
2830 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
2831 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2832 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2833 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
2834 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2835 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
2836 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
2837 input
2838 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2839 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2840 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2841 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2842 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2843 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2844 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2845 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
2846 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
2847 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
2848 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
2849 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
2850 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
2851 double rounding
2852 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
2853 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
2854 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
2855 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
2856 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
2857 (Only arm/linux)
2858 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
2859 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
2860 fallbacks
2861 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
2862 "invalid" exceptions
2863 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
2864 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
2865 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
2866 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
2867 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
2868 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
2869 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
2870 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
2871 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
11fca961 2872\f
aeb47bbc
DM
2873Version 2.23
2874
23256f5e
MF
2875* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2876 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
2877 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2878 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
2879 89, 16061, and 18568.
2880
2359035a
FW
2881* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
2882 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
2883 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
2884 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
2885 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
2886 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
2887 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
2888
8b7b7f75
MW
2889* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
2890 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
2891 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
2892
2eecc8af
FW
2893* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
2894 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
2895 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
2896 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
2897 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
2898 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
2899 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
2900
a62719ba
FW
2901* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
2902 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
2903 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
2904 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
2905 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 2906 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
a62719ba
FW
2907 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
2908 Ericsson.)
a014cecd 2909
bc148ca1
MF
2910* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
2911 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
2912 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
2913 independent of the GNU C Library.
2914
1c70b6f1
ZW
2915* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
2916 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
1efad39b 2917
eed3e1eb
JM
2918* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
2919 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
2920 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
2921 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
2922 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
2923 Linux kernel.
2924
1efad39b
SL
2925* Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
2926 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
b08b4218 2927
d709042a
JM
2928* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
2929 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
2930 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
2931 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
2932 defining their own copy.
2933
b08b4218
JM
2934* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
2935 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
2936 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
f268ab5f 2937
8f5e8b01
JM
2938Security related changes:
2939
6400ae6e
FW
2940* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
2941 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
2942
2943* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
2944 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
2945 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
2946 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
2947 (CVE-2015-8777)
2948
2949* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
2950 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
2951
2952* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
2953 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
2954
8f5e8b01
JM
2955* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
2956 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 2957 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
8f5e8b01 2958
e9db92d3
CD
2959* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
2960 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
2961 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
2962 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
2963 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
2964 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
2965 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
2966 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
2967 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
2968 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
2969 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
2970 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
2971 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
2972
ad372e29 2973The following bugs are resolved with this release:
f268ab5f 2974
ad372e29
AZ
2975 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
2976 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
2977 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
2978 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
2979 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
2980 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
2981 use `mkstemp'
2982 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
2983 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
2984 overflow/underflow errors
2985 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
2986 overflow/underflow
2987 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
2988 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
2989 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
2990 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
2991 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
2992 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
2993 are not contiguous
2994 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
2995 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
2996 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
2997 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
2998 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
2999 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
3000 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
3001 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
3002 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
3003 all exceptions
3004 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
3005 arguments
3006 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
3007 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
3008 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
3009 should include
3010 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
3011 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
3012 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
3013 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
3014 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
3015 GNU/Linux
3016 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
3017 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
3018 arguments
3019 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
3020 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
3021 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
3022 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
3023 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
3024 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
3025 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
3026 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
3027 rounding results
3028 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
3029 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
3030 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
3031 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
3032 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
3033 fails
3034 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
3035 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
3036 block boundary
3037 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
3038 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
3039 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
3040 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
3041 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
3042 4.7?
3043 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
3044 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
3045 (related to lock elision)
3046 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
3047 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
3048 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
3049 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
3050 (CVE-2015-8779)
3051 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
3052 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
3053 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
3054 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
3055 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
3056 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
3057 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
3058 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
3059 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
3060 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
3061 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
3062 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
3063 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
3064 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
3065 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
3066 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
3067 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
3068 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
3069 contains a vector instruction exception.
3070 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
3071 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
3072 locales
3073 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
3074 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
3075 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
3076 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
3077 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
3078 missing break ?
3079 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
3080 32bit processes
3081 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
3082 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
3083 infinity
3084 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
3085 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
3086 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
3087 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
3088 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
3089 be forced unloaded
3090 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
3091 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
3092 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
3093 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
3094 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
3095 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
3096 statically too large
3097 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
3098 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
3099 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
3100 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
3101 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
3102 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
3103 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
3104 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
3105 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
3106 FUTEX_SHARED
3107 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
3108 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
3109 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
3110 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
3111 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
3112 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
3113 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
3114 opendir()
3115 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
3116 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
3117 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
3118 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
3119 signgam
3120 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
3121 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
3122 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
3123 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
3124 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
3125 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
3126 dependencies
3127 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
3128 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
3129 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
3130 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
3131 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
3132 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
3133 (CVE-2015-8776)
3134 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
3135 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
3136 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
3137 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
3138 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
3139 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3140 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
3141 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
3142 contention
3143 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
3144 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
3145 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
3146 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3147 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
3148 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
3149 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
3150 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
3151 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
3152 rounding modes
3153 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
3154 ILP32
3155 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
3156 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
3157 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
3158 threshold
3159 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
3160 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
3161 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
3162 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
3163 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
3164 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
3165 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
3166 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
3167 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
3168 pthread_setaffinity_np
3169 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
3170 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
3171 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
3172 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
3173 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
3174 prelink
3175 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
3176 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
3177 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
3178 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
3179 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3180 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
3181 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
3182 bits/mathcalls.h
3183 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
3184 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
3185 for C99-based standards
3186 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
3187 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
3188 math-only
3189 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
3190 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
3191 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
3192 disabled
3193 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
3194 "inexact" exceptions
3195 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
3196 arguments
3197 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
3198 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
3199 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
3200 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
3201 rules
3202 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
3203 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
3204 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
3205 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
3206 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
3207 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
3208 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
3209 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
3210 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
3211 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
3212 from 32bit
3213 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
3214 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
3215 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
3216 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
3217 subnormals
3218 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
3219 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
3220 error on 32-bit architectures
3221 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
3222 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
3223 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
3224 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
3225 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
3226 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
3227 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
3228 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
3229 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
3230 -Os
3231 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
3232 CPU's.
3233 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
3234 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
3235 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
3236 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
3237 architectures
3238 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
aeb47bbc 3239\f
1c7a4a51
JM
3240Version 2.22
3241
3242* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3243
3df5cd98 3244 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
0e569d30
MF
3245 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
3246 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
3247 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
3248 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
3249 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
3250 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
3251 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
3252 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
3253 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
3254 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
3255 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
3256 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
3257 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
3258 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
3259 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
3260 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
3261 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
6fdd5d65
FW
3262 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
3263 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
2959eda9 3264
f7fba805
SL
3265* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
3266 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
3267
2959eda9
AS
3268* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
3269 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
3270 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
3271 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
3272 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
3273 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4a4839c9 3274
42261ad7
FW
3275* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
3276 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
3277 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
3278 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
3279 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
3280
afcd9480
AM
3281* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
3282 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
3283 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
3284
4a4839c9
AO
3285* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
3286 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
3287 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
3288 17998.
3289
b13b96ca
AS
3290* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
3291 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
3292 condition in some applications.
21933112
AS
3293
3294* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
a6336cc4
AS
3295 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
3296 pow, powf.
21933112
AS
3297 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
3298 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
037e4b99
AS
3299 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
3300 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 3301 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
fdb7d390
AZ
3302
3303* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
3304 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
3305 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
3306 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
7fde904c
MF
3307
3308* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
3309 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
3310 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
7493ab25
RM
3311
3312* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
3313 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
2ec11c2b
ZW
3314
3315* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
3316 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
3317 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
3318
a03ba363 3319 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
2ec11c2b
ZW
3320 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
3321 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
1c7a4a51 3322\f
58b930ae
SP
3323Version 2.21
3324
3325* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3326
042e1521 3327 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
5bd80bfe
PP
3328 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
3329 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
3330 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
3331 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
3332 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
3333 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
3334 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
3335 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
3336 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
3337 17892.
3338
46d54873
FW
3339* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
3340 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
3341 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
3342 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
3343 intended.
042e1521
CD
3344
3345* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
3346 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
3347 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
3348 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
3349 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
3350 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
a39208bd 3351
522e6ee3
CLT
3352* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
3353
d3b00f46
AZ
3354* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
3355 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 3356 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
96d6fd6c 3357
8d2c0a59
AZ
3358* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
3359 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
3360 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
3361 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
3362 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
3363 effects being visible outside transactions.
3364
dc400d7b
RE
3365* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
3366 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
ec582ca0 3367
0f9dfe04
L
3368* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
3369
a39208bd
CD
3370* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
3371 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
ebda2f17 3372 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
a39208bd
CD
3373 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
3374 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
fb89b46d 3375
a5357b7c
JL
3376* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
3377 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
3378
e54db0ea
AM
3379* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
3380 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
3381 format.
11e3417a 3382
4863355a
JM
3383* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
3384 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
3385 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
3386
a4ecc9eb
JM
3387* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
3388 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
3389
0d560bbf 3390* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
0781a777
RM
3391
3392* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
3393 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
3394 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
3395 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
6d248857
WN
3396
3397* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
3398 with newer versions of bison.
28c38448
MF
3399
3400* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
3401 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
3402 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
3403 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
3404 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
3405 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
3406 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
3407 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
3408 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
3409 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
3410 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
3411 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
3412 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
3413
3414 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
3415 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
3416 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
3417 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
3418 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
58b930ae 3419\f
d5b396c1
AM
3420Version 2.20
3421
3422* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3423
6a9350c8
JM
3424 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
3425 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
3426 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
3427 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
3428 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
3429 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
3430 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
3431 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
3432 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
3433 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
3434 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
3435 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
3436 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
3437 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
3438 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
0961f7e1 3439
95ee7fb1
SL
3440* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
3441 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
3442 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
3443 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
3444 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 3445 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
95ee7fb1
SL
3446 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
3447 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
3448 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
3449 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
3450
0961f7e1
JL
3451* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
3452 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
3453 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
3454 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
3455 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
f3d338c9 3456
f940b965
RE
3457* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
3458
d0f5b3f8
JM
3459* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
3460 can be used with is 2.6.32.
3461
d6fe5e58
JM
3462* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
3463 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
3464 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
3465 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
3466 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
3467 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
3468
464263cc
JM
3469* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
3470 from ports.
c941736c
JM
3471
3472* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
3473 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
3474 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
3475 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
3476 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
3477 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
3478 test macros defined.
f63c86fe
WN
3479
3480* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5a414ff7
DV
3481
3482* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
3483 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
3484 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
3485 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
3486 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
3487 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
3488 is not built.
d03efb2f
AM
3489
3490* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
3491 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
3492 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
3493 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
3494 invocation.
cfd2ea50
JM
3495
3496* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
3497 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
3498 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
f083450f
RM
3499
3500* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
3501 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
3502 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
3503 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
4e8f95a0
FW
3504
3505* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
3506 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
3507 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
3508 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
3509 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
3510 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
3511 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
3512 additional checks.
9a8a5720
RM
3513
3514* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
3515 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
3516 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
3517 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
3518 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
3519 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
3520 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
3521 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
3522 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
a1a6a401
FW
3523
3524* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
3525 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
3526 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
3527 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
3528 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 3529 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
41488498
FW
3530
3531* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
3532 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
3533 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
3534 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
6c1fd795
DM
3535\f
3536Version 2.19
3537
3538* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3539
fd2f9486
JM
3540 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
3541 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
3542 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
3543 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
3544 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
3545 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
3546 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
3547 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
3548 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
3549 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
ed27ed83
JM
3550 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
3551 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
3552 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
3553 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
3554 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
798212a0
PP
3555 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
3556 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
3557 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
141f3a77 3558
11520a57
CD
3559* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
3560 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
3561
2fe16229
CD
3562* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
3563 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
3564 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
08d76093
CD
3565 extension which uses __block.
3566
303e567a
SP
3567* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
3568 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
3569 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
3570 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
3571 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
3572
141f3a77
SP
3573* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
3574 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
3575 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
3576 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
3577 if malloc fails.
c61b4d41
CD
3578
3579* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
3580 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
3581 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
3582 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
3583 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
91ce4085
FW
3584
3585* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
3586 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
3587 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
3588
ba0d798c
WN
3589* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
3590 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
3591 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
3592 #15856, #15857).
3593
7cbcdb36
SP
3594* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
3595 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
3596
82bab04b 3597* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 3598 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
ddd9fb8f 3599
c5f840fd
MB
3600* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
3601
3e181dda
CD
3602* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
3603 supported locales.
ddd9fb8f 3604
3e181dda 3605* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
7447ccd9 3606
8a05c252
CL
3607* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
3608
6055173a
JM
3609* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
3610 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
3611 for which the C library was built.
3612
b125d3e5
JM
3613* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
3614 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
3615 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
3616 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
3617 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
3618 in the following circumstances:
3619
3620 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
3621
3622 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
3623 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
3624
d4f66d37
JM
3625* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
3626 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
3627
3e181dda
CD
3628* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
3629 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
e35696c3 3630
ffb89e53
AO
3631* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
3632
5d29ccce
SP
3633* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
3634 transcendental functions have been introduced.
3635
8b7d57cd 3636* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
b125d3e5
JM
3637
3638* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 3639
fd712ef3 3640* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 3641
c688b419
JM
3642* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
3643 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
3644 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
3645 disable some of those declarations.
3646
7011c262 3647* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
029c7b25
JM
3648 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
3649 that did nothing) has also been removed.
0a57b83e
AO
3650
3651* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
3652 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
ee4ec1d7
AK
3653
3654* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
3655 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
3656 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
3657 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
3658 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
3659 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
3660 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
3661 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
3662 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
3663 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
3664 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
3665 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
3666 require recompilation.
2c8bfe7d
DM
3667\f
3668Version 2.18
3669
3670* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3671
17db6e8d 3672 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
0432680e
PY
3673 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
3674 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
8c17cb1f
JM
3675 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
3676 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
3677 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
3678 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
3679 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
3680 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
3681 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
3682 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
3683 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
3684 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
3685 15755, 15759.
e4608715
CD
3686
3687* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
3688 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
3689 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
3690 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
3691 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
3692 understands and accepts the risks.
1cef1b19 3693
5b535ac4
AS
3694* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
3695 #15078).
3696
1cef1b19
AS
3697* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
3698 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
7fffbdff 3699
55e4107b
SP
3700* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
3701 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
3702 destructor calls to glibc.
3703
e5c74c63
SP
3704* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
3705 output.
3706
3707* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
3708 non-x86 architectures.
3709
e7521973
JM
3710* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
3711
3712* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
3713
3714* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
3715 Richard Henderson.
3716
3717* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
3718
3719* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
3720 Richard Henderson.
3721
3722* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
3723 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
3724
8cfdb7e0
SP
3725* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
3726
57267616
TS
3727* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
3728 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
58206c68 3729
c204ab28
SP
3730* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
3731 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
61dd6208 3732
0748546f
PE
3733* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
3734 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
3735 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
3736
61dd6208
SP
3737* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
3738 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
3739 attributes of a process.
a7cb9d67
AK
3740
3741* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
3742 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
3743 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
3744 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
3745 mutexes.
be063fa4
RA
3746
3747* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
3748 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
3749
3750* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
370ca3d2
JM
3751\f
3752Version 2.17
3753
3754* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3755
80ceeaee 3756 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
b4180a5e
AJ
3757 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
3758 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
3759 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
3760 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
3761 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
3762 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
3763 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
3764 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
3765 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
3766 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
3767 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
3768 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
3769 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
3770 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
14bc93a9 3771
95b4f1b6
SE
3772* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
3773
14bc93a9
JL
3774* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
3775 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
7a845b2c 3776
b54eb3cb
JM
3777* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
3778 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
3779
7e2bd01f
MS
3780* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
3781
08f43f9b
AK
3782* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
3783 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
3784 zEnterprise z196.
3785 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
3786
84b3fd84
FW
3787* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
3788 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
3789 the internal function __secure_getenv.
3790
815e6fa3
GB
3791* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
3792 Implemented by Gary Benson.
3793
400726de
MK
3794* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
3795 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
3796
7aab07e4 3797* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 3798 can be used with is 2.6.16.
7aab07e4 3799
15d0da8c
WS
3800* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
3801 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
3802
3cc3ef96
RM
3803* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
3804 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
c53d909c
RM
3805 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
3806 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3cc3ef96 3807
b54eb3cb
JM
3808* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
3809 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
3810
85429b1a 3811* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 3812 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
85429b1a
DM
3813 default.
3814
b54eb3cb
JM
3815* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
3816 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
3817 information in --help and --version output.
3818
050af9c4
SP
3819* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
3820 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
3821 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
3822
89a3ad0b
AO
3823* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
3824 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
3825 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
3826 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
3827 when the mode is enabled.
3828
6e6249d0
RM
3829* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
3830 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
3831 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
3832 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
3833 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
3834 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
3835 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5a04f376 3836
d9286582
NK
3837* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
3838 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
8d44e150
UD
3839\f
3840Version 2.16
3841
3842* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3843
a8133e19
JM
3844 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
3845 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
3846 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
3847 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
3848 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
3849 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
3850 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
3851 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
3852 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
3853 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
3854 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
3855 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
3856 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
3857 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
3858 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
3859 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
3860 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
3861 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
3862 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
3863 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
3864 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
3865 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
3866 14277, 14278.
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3869 configuring glibc with:
3870 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
8f7a75d7 3871 Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
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3872 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3873
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3874* ISO C11 support:
3875
3876 + define static_assert
3877
3878 + do not declare gets
3879
3880 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
3881
3882 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
3883 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
3884 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
3885 implementation.
8d44e150 3886
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3889 + uchar.h support added
d75a0a62 3890
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3891 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
3892
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3893 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3894
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3897* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
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3898
3899* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
3900 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3901
3902* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
3903 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3904
3905* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
3906 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
3907 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
3908 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
3909 existing applications.
ffb7875d 3910
21708942 3911* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
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3912 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
3913 before 2.6.
83678f76 3914
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3915* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
3916 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
3917 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
3918
83678f76 3919* New locales: mag_IN
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3920
3921* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
3922 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
3923 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
3924 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
3925 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
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3926
3927* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3928
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3929* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
3930 and Will Schmidt.
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3931
3932* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
3933
3934* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
3935 without a previously built glibc.
3936
3937* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
3938 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
3939
3940* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
3941 now supported for ARM processors.
3942
3943* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
3944 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
3945 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
3946
3947* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
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3948
3949* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
3950 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
3951 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
3952 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
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3953
3954* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
3955 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
3956 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
3957 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
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3959* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
3960 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
3961 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
3962 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
3963 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
3964
3965* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
3966 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
3967 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
3968 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
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e80fab37 3970Version 2.15
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3973
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3974 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
3975 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
3976 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
3977 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
3978 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
3979 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
3980 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
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3982* New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
3983 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3984
3985* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
3986 and support for initgroups lookups.
3987 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3989* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
3990 Contributed by HJ Lu.
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3991
3992* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
3993 Contributed by HJ Lu.
99710781 3994
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3995* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
3996 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 3997 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 3998
d42964a0 3999* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
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4000 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4001
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4002* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
4003 for x86-64 and x86-32.
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4004 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4005
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4006* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
4007 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4008
4009* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
4010 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4011
4012* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
4013 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4014
4015* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
4016 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4017
4018* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
4019 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4020
4021* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
4022 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4023
4024* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
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4025
4026* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
4027 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a1267ba1 4028
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4029* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
4030 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
2655fd5c 4031
6b64057b 4032* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
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9f94d2ea 4035
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4036* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4037
553149f6 4038 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 4039 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 4040 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 4041 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
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4042 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
4043 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
4044 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
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4045 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
4046 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 4047 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
50934221 4048
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4049* The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
4050 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
4051 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 4052 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
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4053
4054 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
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4055 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
4056 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
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4057 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4058
c6489db3 4059* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
f1f929d7 4060 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
83fe108b 4061
72d1dddb 4062* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 4063 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
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4064
4065* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
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4066
4067* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
4068 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4069
4070* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
4071 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
4072 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
4073 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
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4075Version 2.13
4076
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4077* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4078
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4079 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
4080 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
4081 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
4082 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
4083 12378, 12394, 12397
ac2b484c 4084
10b3bedc 4085* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
c08fb0d7 4086
ac2b484c 4087* POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
8d50becc 4088
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4089* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
4090 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 4091 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4093Version 2.12
4094
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4095* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4096
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4097 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
4098 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
4099 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
4100 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
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4101 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
4102 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
4103 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 4104 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
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4105
4106* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
d36b9613 4107
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4108* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
4109
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4110* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
4111
4112* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
4113 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
4114 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4115
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4116* New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
4117 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
4118 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
4119 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
4120 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4121
d36b9613 4122* New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
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4123\f
4124Version 2.11
4125
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4126* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4127
4128 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
4129 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
4130 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
4131 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
4132 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
4133 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
4134
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4135* New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
4136 mkostemps64
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4137 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4138
24ab9c76 4139* Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
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4140 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4141
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4142* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
4143 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4144
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4145* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
4146
0122f28e 4147* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
9d36a6c4 4148 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 4149 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
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4150 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
4151
9d36a6c4 4152 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
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4153 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4154
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4155* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
4156 strstr, strcasestr.
4157 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
4158
4159* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
4160 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
4161
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4162* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
4163 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4164
4165* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
4166 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4167
4168* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
4169 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
4170 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
4171 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
4172 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
4173 necessity is every process again.
4174 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4175
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4176* New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
4177 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
4178
4179* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
4180 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
4181
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4182* Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
4183 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
4184 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4185
9dd5b8a1 4186* New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
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4187\f
4188Version 2.10
4189
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4190* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4191
4192 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
4193 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
4194 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
4195 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
4196 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
4197
bb066545 4198* New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
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4199 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4200
425ce2ed 4201* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
e109c612 4202 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 4203
1fdd89a7 4204* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
735be400 4205 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
1fdd89a7 4206
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4207* XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
4208 now in POSIX.
77db439e 4209
1f04d005 4210* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6cbe890a 4211 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1f04d005 4212
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4213* New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
4214 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4215
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4216* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
4217 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4218
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4219* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
4220 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4221
4222* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
4223 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
4224 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4225
735be400 4226* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
878b72c5 4227
84aa52d7 4228* Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
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4229 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4230
4231* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
4232 and extend existing format specifiers.
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4233 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4234
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4235* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
4236 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4237
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4238* DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
4239 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
4240 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
4241 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
4242 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
4243 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4245Version 2.9
4246
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4247* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4248
4249 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447, 6461,
4250 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712, 6713,
4251 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839, 6843,
4252 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955, 6966,
4253 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
4254
b29899ae 4255* Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
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4256 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4257
4258* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
4259 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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4260
4261* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
4262 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4263
4264* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
4265 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
4266 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4267
4268* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
4269 Implemented by Eric Blake.
e038616f 4270
8ec2550e 4271* New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
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4272
4273* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
ebcc1f4d 4274 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
e038616f 4275
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4276* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
4277 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
4278 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
4279 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4280
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4281* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
4282 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4285 Sinhala)
48b22986 4286 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
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4288* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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4290Version 2.8
4291
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4293
4294 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
4295 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
4296 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
4297 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
4298 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
4299 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
4300 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
4301
e038616f 4302* New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
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4306* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
4307 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
4308
4309* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
4310
4311* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
4312 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4313
4314* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
4315 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4316
4317* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
4318 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
4319 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4320
4321* Faster memset for x86-64.
4322 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
4323
4324* Faster memcpy on x86.
4325 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4326
4327* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
4328 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4330* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
d990b282 4331 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
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4333Version 2.7
4334
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4335* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4336
4337 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
4338 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
4339 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
4340 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
4341 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
4342
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4343* More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
4344 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4345
4346* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4347
4348* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
4349 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
4350 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4351
4352* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
4353 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
4354
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4356 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4357
4358* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4359
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4360* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
4361 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4362
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4363* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
4364 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4365
4366* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
4367 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
4368
4369* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4370
4371* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
4372 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4374* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
4375 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
4376 yo_NG.
4377
4378+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
4379 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4384
4385 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
4386 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
4387 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
4388 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
4389 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
4390 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
4391 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
4392 4702, 4858
4393
bce20b9a 4394* New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
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4397
b21fa963 4398* nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4401
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4402* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4403
4404 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
4405 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
4406 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
4407 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
4408 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
4409 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
4410 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
4411 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
4412 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
4413
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4415 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
4416 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4418* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
4419 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4420
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4423* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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4425* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
4426 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
4427 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
457b559e 4428 site might have problems with the default behavior.
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4429 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4430
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4432 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
4433 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
4434 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4435
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4436* The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
4437 Ulrich Drepper.
4438
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4439* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
4440
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4441* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
4442 Ulrich Drepper.
4443
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4444* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
4445
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4446* New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
4447 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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4449Version 2.4
4450
4451* More overflow detection functions.
4452
4453* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
4454 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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4456 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
4457 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
4458 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
4459 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
4460 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
4461 by Masahide Washizawa.
4462
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4463* It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
4464 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4466* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
4467 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
4468 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
4469 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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4471* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
4472 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
4473
4474* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
4475
4476* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
4477 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
4478 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
4479
4480* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
4481 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
4482
4483* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
4484 for compatibility with some other systems.
4485
4486* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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4488Version 2.3.6
4489
4490* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4491
4492 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
4493 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
4494 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
4495 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
4496 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
4497 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
4498
5a82c748 4499 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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4501* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
4502
4503* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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4505Version 2.3.5
4506
4507* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4508
4509 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
4510 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
4511 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
4512 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
4513
5a82c748 4514 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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4516Version 2.3.4
4517
4518* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
4519 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4521* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
4522 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
4523 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4524
4525* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
4526 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
4527
0325dd20 4528* getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
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4529 efficiently.
4530 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4531
4532* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
4533 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
4534 handling data.
4535
4536* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
4537 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
0325dd20 4538 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4539
4540* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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4541 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4542
4543* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
4544 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
4545 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
4546 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4547
4548* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
4549 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
4550 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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4551 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4552
4553* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
4554 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
4555 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
4556 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
4557 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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4559Version 2.3.3
4560
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4561* New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
4562 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
4563
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4564* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
4565 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
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4568 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
4569
4570* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
4571 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4573* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
4574 by Roland McGrath.
4575
c5af724c 4576* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
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4577 and Ulrich Drepper.
4578
4579* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
4580 RFC 3484.
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4582Version 2.3.2
4583
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4584* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
4585 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
4586 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
4587 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
4588 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
4589 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
4590 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
4591 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
4592 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
4593
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4594* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
4595 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
4596 and are now also available on the Hurd.
4597
4598* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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4599
4600* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
4601 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
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4603* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
4604 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
4605
52a16e58 4606* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
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4608* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
4609 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
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4610
4611* With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
4612 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
4613 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
4614 of weak definition in ld.so.
4615
4616* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
4617 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
4618
4619* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
4620 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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4624* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
4625 charsets.
4626
4627* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
4628 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
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bb0ec5bd 4630* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 4631 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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4633* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
4634 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
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bb0ec5bd 4636* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
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4637 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
4638 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4640* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
4641 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3b0bdc72 4642
bb0ec5bd 4643* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3b0bdc72 4644 implementation of regex.
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4645
4646* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
4647 Unicode 3.2.
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4649* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
4650 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
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4652* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
4653 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
4654 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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4655
4656* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
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4658
4659* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
4660 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
4661 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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4663* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
4664 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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4666* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
4667 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
4668 and Ulrich Drepper.
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4669
4670* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
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4673
4674* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
4675 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
4676
4677* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
4678 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
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4680Version 2.2.5
4681
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4682* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
4683 128-bit long double format.
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4685* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
4686 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
a8ae31c2 4687
ad2e4f18 4688* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
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4690* Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
4691
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4692* libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
4693 as well.
4694
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4695* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
4696 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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4698* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
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4700Version 2.2.4
4701
2995f70e 4702* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 4703 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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4704
4705* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
4706 support Unicode 3.1.
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4708* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
4709 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
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69d5f925 4711* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 4712
69d5f925 4713* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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4715 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
4716
4717* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
4718 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
4719
4720* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
4721 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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4723* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
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4726
1746f2b0 4727* Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
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4728 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
4729 in float, double, and long double format.
4730
f128331c 4731* Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
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4732 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
4733 128-bit long double format.
07f951e4 4734
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4735* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
4736 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
4737 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
4738 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
4739
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4740* An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
4741 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
4742 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4743
4744* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
4745 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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4746
4747* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
4748 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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4749
4750* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
4751 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
4752 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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4753
4754* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
4755 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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4757* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
4758 of functions for Linux/x86.
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4760* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
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4762Version 2.2.2
4763
464d97ec 4764* Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
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4765 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
4766 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
4767 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
4768 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
4769 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
4770 other headers.
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4771
4772* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
4773 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
4774
4775* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
4776 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
4777 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
4778 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
4779
4780* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
4781 locales. While
4782
4783 locale -a
4784
4785 only lists the names of the supported locales
4786
4787 locale -a --verbose
4788
4789 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
4790 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
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4792Version 2.2.1
4793
4794* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
4795 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
4796 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
4797 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
4798 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
4799
4800 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
4801
4802 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
4803
4804 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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4806* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
4807 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
4808 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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4809
4810* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
4811 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
4812
4813* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
4814 changed from the default "C" locale.
4815
4816* The usual bug fixes.
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4818Version 2.2
4819
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4820* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
4821 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
4822 is in progress.
4823
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4824* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
4825
793bd4d9 4826* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
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4828 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
4829 obviously requires a database library being available.
4830
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4831* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4832
abbffdf9 4833* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
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4835* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
4836 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
4837
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4838* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
4839
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4840* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
4841 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
4842 and Mark Kettenis.
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4843
4844 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
4845 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
4846 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 4847
a00c3ca9 4848 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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4849 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
4850
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4851* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
4852 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
4853 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
4854
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4855* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
4856 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
4857 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
4858 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4859
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4860 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
4861 structures for the wide character tables.
4862
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4863* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4864
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4865* The utmp daemon has been removed.
4866
4867* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
4868
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4869* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
4870 and Yutaka Niibe.
4871
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4872* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
4873
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4874* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
4875
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4876* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4877
4878* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
4879
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4880* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
4881
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4882* the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
4883 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
4884 implemented for Linux.
4885
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4886* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
4887 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
4888 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
4889 versions.
4890
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4891* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
4892 Masahide Washizawa.
4893
8f3f1e09 4894* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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4895\f
4896Version 2.1.3
4897
4898* bug fixes
4899
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4901Version 2.1.2
4902
4903* bug fixes
4904
28f540f4 4905\f
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4906Version 2.1.1
4907
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4908* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
4909
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4910* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
4911
407d26b7 4912* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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4913
4914* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
4915
407d26b7 4916* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 4917
407d26b7 4918* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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4919
4920* Update timezone data files.
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4922* lots of charmaps corrections
4923
4924* some new locale definitions and charmaps
4925
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4927Version 2.1
4928
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4929* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
4930 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
4931 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
4932 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
4933 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
4934 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
4935
c84142e8 4936* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 4937 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 4938
1fb05e3d 4939* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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4940 symbol level.
4941
4942* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
4943 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
377a515b 4944
cbdee279 4945* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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4946
4947* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 4948 numbers.
377a515b 4949
cbdee279 4950* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
e61abf83 4951
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4952* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
4953 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
e61abf83 4954
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4955* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
4956 library.
4957
e61abf83 4958* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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4959 functions from ISO C 9X.
4960
4961* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
4962 real valued functions.
e61abf83 4963
a5a0310d 4964* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
e61abf83 4965
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4966* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
4967
4968* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 4969
440d13e2 4970* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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4971
4972* Optimized string functions have been added.
4973
4974* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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4975
4976* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
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4978* Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
4979 daemon for NSS (nscd).
4980
4981 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
4982 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
4983
0dee6738 4984 user system wall
48244d09 4985
0dee6738 4986 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 4987
0dee6738 4988 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 4989
0dee6738 4990 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
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4992 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
4993
4994 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
4995
4996 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
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4998 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
4999 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
0dee6738 5000 horribly slow.
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5002 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
5003 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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5005* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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5007* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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5008
5009* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
5010 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
5011
5012* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
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5014* A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
5015 Bambrough.
5016
5017* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
5018 latest draft standards.
5019
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5020* Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
5021
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5022* Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
5023~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
62595351 5024addseverity NEW: Unix98
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5026argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
5027argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
5028argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
5029argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
5030argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
5031argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
5032argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
5033argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
5034argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
5035argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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5036authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
5037authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
5038authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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5039backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
5040backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
5041backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
5042cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
5043cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
5044cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
5045cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
5046cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
5047cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
5048capget NEW: kernel
5049capset NEW: kernel
5050carg NEW: ISO C 9x
5051cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
5052cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
5053casin NEW: ISO C 9x
5054casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
5055casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
5056casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5057casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5058casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
5059catan NEW: ISO C 9x
5060catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
5061catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
5062catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5063catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5064catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
e980ca92 5065cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
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5066ccos NEW: ISO C 9x
5067ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
5068ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
5069ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
5070ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
5071ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
5072cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
5073cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
5074cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
5075cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
5076cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
5077cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
5078clearerr_locked REMOVED
5079clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
5080clog NEW: ISO C 9x
5081clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
5082clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
5083clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
5084clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
5085clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
5086conj NEW: ISO C 9x
5087conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
5088conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
5089cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
5090cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
5091cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
5092cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
5093cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
5094cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
5095creal NEW: ISO C 9x
5096crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
5097creall NEW: ISO C 9x
5098creat64 NEW: LFS
5099csin NEW: ISO C 9x
5100csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
5101csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
5102csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5103csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5104csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
5105csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
5106csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
5107csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
5108ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
5109ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
5110ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
5111ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5112ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5113ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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5114des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
5115ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 5116endutxent NEW: Unix98
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5117exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x
5118exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
5119exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
5120exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
5121exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
5122exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
5123fattach NEW: STREAMS
5124fdetach NEW: STREAMS
5125fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
5126fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
5127fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
5128feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5129fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5130fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
5131fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
5132feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5133feof_locked REMOVED
5134feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5135ferror_locked REMOVED
5136fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5137fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
5138fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
5139fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5140feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5141fflush_locked REMOVED
5142ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
5143ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
5144fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
5145fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5146fileno_locked REMOVED
5147fma NEW: ISO C 9x
5148fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
5149fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
5150fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
5151fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
5152fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
5153fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
5154fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
5155fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
62595351 5156fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
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5157fopen64 NEW: LFS
5158fputc_locked REMOVED
5159fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5160fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5161freopen64 NEW: LFS
5162fseeko NEW: Unix98
5163fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
5164fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
5165fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
5166fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
5167ftello NEW: Unix98
5168ftello64 NEW: LFS
5169ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
5170ftw64 NEW: LFS
5171fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5172gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
5173gamma_r REMOVED
5174gammaf_r REMOVED
5175gammal_r REMOVED
5176getchar_locked REMOVED
5177getdate NEW: Unix98
5178getdate_err NEW: Unix98
5179getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
5180getmsg NEW: STREAMS
5181getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
e980ca92 5182getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
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5183getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
5184getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
5185getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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5186getutxent NEW: Unix98
5187getutxid NEW: Unix98
5188getutxline NEW: Unix98
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5189glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
5190globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
5191gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
5192gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
5193grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
e980ca92 5194host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
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5195iconv NEW: iconv
5196iconv_close NEW: iconv
5197iconv_open NEW: iconv
5198if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
5199if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
5200if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
5201if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
5202in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
5203in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
5204inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
5205isastream NEW: STREAMS
5206iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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5207key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
5208key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
5209key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
5210key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
5211key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
5212key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
5213key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
5214key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
5215key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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5216llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
5217llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5218llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
5219llround NEW: ISO C 9x
5220llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5221llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5222log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
5223log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
5224log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
5225lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
5226lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5227lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
5228lround NEW: ISO C 9x
5229lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5230lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5231lseek64 NEW: LFS
5232makecontext NEW: Unix98
5233mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
5234mmap64 NEW: LFS
5235moncontrol REMOVED
5236modify_ldt NEW: kernel
5237nan NEW: ISO C 9x
5238nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
5239nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
5240nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
5241nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5242nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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5243netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
5244netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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5245nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
5246nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
5247nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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5248nftw NEW: Unix98
5249nftw64 NEW: LFS
5250open64 NEW: LFS
e980ca92 5251passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
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5252pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
5253pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
5254pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
5255pread NEW: Unix98
5256pread64 NEW: LFS
5257printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
5258printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
5259profil_counter REMOVED
5260pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
5261pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
5262ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
5263ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
5264putc_locked REMOVED
5265putchar_locked REMOVED
5266putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
5267putmsg NEW: STREAMS
5268putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
62595351 5269pututxline NEW: Unix98
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5270pwrite NEW: Unix98
5271pwrite64 NEW: LFS
5272readdir64 NEW: LFS
5273readdir64_r NEW: LFS
5274remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
5275remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
5276remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
5277round NEW: ISO C 9x
5278roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5279roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5280rtime NEW: GNU ext.
5281scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
5282scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
5283scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
5284scandir64 NEW: LFS
5285sendfile NEW: kernel
5286setcontext NEW: Unix98
5287setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 5288setutxent NEW: Unix98
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5289sighold NEW: Unix98
5290sigignore NEW: Unix98
5291sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
5292sigrelse NEW: Unix98
5293sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
5294sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
5295sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
5296sincos NEW: GNU ext.
5297sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
5298sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
5299statfs64 NEW: LFS
5300statvfs NEW: Unix98
5301statvfs64 NEW: LFS
5302strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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5303strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
5304strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
5305strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
e980ca92 5306svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
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5307svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
5308svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
5309swapcontext NEW: Unix98
5310tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
5311tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
5312tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
5313tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
5314tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
5315tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
5316trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
5317truncate64 NEW: LFS
5318truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
5319truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
5320umount2 NEW: kernel
5321unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 5322updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 5323user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 5324utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 5325versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
3ef4002b 5326versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
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5327waitid NEW: Unix98
5328wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
5329wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
5330wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
5331wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
5332wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
5333wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
5334wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
5335wcswcs NEW: Unix98
5336wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
5337wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
5338write_profiling REMOVED
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5339xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
5340xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
5341xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
5342xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
5343xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
5344xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
5345xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
5346xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
5347xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
5348xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
5349xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
5350xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
5351xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 5352xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
e980ca92 5353xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 5354~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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5356Version 2.0.6
5357
5358* more bug fixes
5359
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5361Version 2.0.5
5362
5363* more bug fixes
5364
5365* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
5366
5367* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
5368
5369* rewrite of cbrt function
5370
5371* update of timezone data
5372\f
5373Version 2.0.4
5374
5375* more bug fixes
5376\f
5377Version 2.0.3
5378
5379* more bug fixes
c84142e8 5380\f
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5381Version 2.0.2
5382
5383* more bug fixes
5384
5385* add atoll function
5386
5387* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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5388
5389* fix math functions
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5390\f
5391Version 2.0.1
5392
5393* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
5394
5395* dynamic loader preserves all registers
5396
5397* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
5398 the ELF dynamic loader.
5399
5400* support for parallel builds is improved
5401\f
40a4b79f 5402Version 2.0
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5404* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
5405 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
5406 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
5407
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5408* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
5409 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
5410 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
5411 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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5412 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
5413 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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5414 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
5415 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
5416 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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5417 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
5418 files in the ELF format.
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5419
5420* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
5421 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
5422
5423* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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5424 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
5425 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
5426 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
5427 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
5428 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
5429 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
5430 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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5431 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
5432 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
5433 about dynamically linked binaries.
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5435* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
5436 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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5437 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
5438 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
5439 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 5440
f7eac6eb 5441* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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5442 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
5443 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
5444 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
5445 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
5446
5447* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
f7eac6eb 5448
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5449* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
5450 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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5451 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
5452 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
5453 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
5454 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
5455 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
5456 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
5457 NSS services available.
5f0e6fc7 5458
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5459* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
5460 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
5461 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
5462
5463* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
5464 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
5465 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
5466
5467* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
5468 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
5469 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
5470 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
5471
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5472* The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
5473 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
5474 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
5475
5476* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
5477 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
5478 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
5479
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5480* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
5481 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
5482
f7eac6eb 5483* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 5484 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 5485 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
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5486 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
5487
5488* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
5489 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
5490 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 5491
71733723 5492* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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5493 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
5494 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
5495 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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5496 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
5497 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 5498 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 5499 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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5500
5501* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
5502 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
5503 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
5504 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
5505 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
5506 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
5507 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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5508
5509* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
5510 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
5511 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
5512 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
5513 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
5514 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
5515
5516* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
5517 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
5518
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5519* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
5520 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
5521 NSS scheme used in glibc.
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5523* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
5524
5525* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
5526 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
5527 their use is discouraged.
5528
5529* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
5530 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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5532* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
5533 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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5534
5535* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
5536 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
5537
5538* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
5539 see <dirent.h>.
5540
5541* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
5542 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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5543 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
5544 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
5545 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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5546
5547* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
5548 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
5549 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
5550 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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5551
5552* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
5553 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
5554
5555* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
5556 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
5557 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
5558 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
5559 number generator.
5560
5561* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
5562 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
5563
5564* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
5565 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
5566
71733723 5567* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 5568 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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5569 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
5570 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
c709e372 5571
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5572* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
5573
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5574* David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
5575 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
5576 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
5577
5578* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
5579 for arithmetic and string handling.
d3669add 5580
c709e372 5581* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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5582 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
5583 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
5584 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
5585
5586* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
5587 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
5588 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
5589 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
5590 programs already written to use it.)
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5591
5592* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
5593 constants.
5594
5595* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
5596 with 4.4 BSD.
5597
5598* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
5599 a given effective group ID.
5600
5601* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
5602 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
5603 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
5604 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
5605
5606* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 5607 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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5608 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
5609 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
5610 doing the same thing.
5611
5612* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
5613 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
5614
5615* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 5616 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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5617
5618* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
5619
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5620* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
5621 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
5622 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 5623 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 5624 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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5625
5626* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
5627 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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5628
5629* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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5630 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
5631 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
5632 function.
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5633
5634* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
5635
5636* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
5637 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
5638 strings.
5639
5640* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
5641 and writing the utmp file.
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5642
5643* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
5644 Thorsten Kukuk.
5645
5646* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
5647 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
5648 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
5649
5650* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
5651 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
5652
5653* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
5654 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
5655 specification.
5656
5657* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
5658 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
5659 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
5660 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
5661
5662* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
5663 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
5664 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
5665
5666* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
5667 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
5668 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
5669 expression matcher.
5670
5671* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
5672 functionality.
5673
5674* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
5675 by Ulrich Drepper.
5676
5677* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
5678
5679* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
5680 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
5681 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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5683Version 1.09
5684
5685* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
5686
5687* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
5688 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
5689
5690* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
5691 want to put themselves in the background.
5692
5693* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
5694 run without an operating system.
5695
5696* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
5697 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
5698
5699* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
5700 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
5701
5702* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
5703
5704* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
5705 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
5706 have YP (aka NIS).
5707
5708* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
5709 conventions.
5710
5711* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
5712 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
5713\f
5714Version 1.08
5715
5716* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
5717 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
5718 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
5719
5720* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
5721 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
5722
5723* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
5724 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
5725
5726* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
5727
5728* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
5729
5730* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
5731 compatibility.
5732
5733* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
5734 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
5735 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
5736
5737* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
5738
5739* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
5740 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
5741 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
5742
5743* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
5744 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
5745 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
5746 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
5747 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
5748 on a block).
5749
5750* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
5751 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
5752 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
5753 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
5754 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
5755 cross-compiler.
5756
5757* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
5758 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
5759\f
5760Version 1.07
5761
5762* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
5763 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
5764
5765* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
5766 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
5767 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
5768
5769* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
5770 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
5771 address of the last character written.
5772
5773* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
5774 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
5775
5776* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
5777 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
5778
5779* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
5780 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
5781 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
5782 you dereference this pointer.
5783
5784* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
5785 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
5786
5787* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
5788 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
5789 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
5790 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
5791
5792* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
5793 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
5794 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
5795 EAGAIN in every system call function.
5796\f
5797Version 1.06
5798
5799* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
5800 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
5801 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
5802 in Emacs or the `info' program.
ea278354 5803 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
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5804
5805* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
5806
5807* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
5808
5809* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
5810 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
5811
5812* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
5813 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
5814
5815* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
5816 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
5817
5818* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
5819 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
5820 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
5821 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
5822 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
5823
5824* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
5825 to the error code in `errno'.
5826
5827* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
5828 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
5829 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
5830 malloc'd string.
5831
5832* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
5833 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
5834 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
5835
5836* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
5837 uniquely-named temporary file.
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5839Version 1.05
5840
5841* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
5842 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
5843 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
5844
5845* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
5846 characters.
5847
5848* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
5849 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
5850
5851* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
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5853Version 1.04
5854
5855* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
5856 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
5857 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
5858 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
5859
5860* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
5861 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
5862 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
5863
5864* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
5865 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
5866
5867* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
5868 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
5869 made itself into a shared library.
5870
5871* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
5872 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
5873
5874* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
5875 with limited length.
5876
5877* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
5878
5879* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
5880
5881* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
5882
5883* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
5884 function for traversing a directory tree.
5885
5886* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
5887 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
5888 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
5889 formatted output directly to an obstack.
5890
5891* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
5892 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
5893
5894* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
5895
5896* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
5897 things to your strings.
5898
5899* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
5900
5901* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
5902 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
5903 supporting those systems.
5904
5905* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
5906 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
5907 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
5908 configuration files.
5909
5910* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
5911 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
5912
5913* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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5914 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
5915 in <strings.h>.)
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5916
5917* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
5918 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
5919 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
5920 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
5921 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
5922 required storage is not available.
5923
5924* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
5925 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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5926
5927* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
5928 latest files released from Berkeley.
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5930----------------------------------------------------------------------
5931Copyright information:
5932
5f72f980 5933Copyright (C) 1992-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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5934
5935 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
5936 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
5937 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
5938 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
5939
5940 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
5941 of this document, or of portions of it,
5942 under the above conditions, provided also that they
5943 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
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