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7\f
8Version 2.41
9
10Major new features:
11
12* In /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_OPTIONS, option flags can now be
13 prefixed with “-” to clear previously set flags. For example, if
14 /etc/resolv.conf contains “options no-aaaa”, a process running with
15 the RES_OPTIONS=-no-aaaa environment variable performs AAAA DNS
16 queries when the glibc DNS stub resolver is used.
17
18* The DNS stub resolver now supports the strict-error option. If
19 activated, getaddrinfo for the AF_UNSPEC address family (with dual
20 A/AAAA DNS lookups) attemps to obtain an A/AAAA response pair from
21 another DNS server if one of the responses indicates failure. Without
22 the strict-error option, getaddrinfo returns the A record data it has
23 obtained even if the AAAA query failed. The new strict error mode is
24 incompatible with some DNS environments which do not follow the RFCs,
25 which is why this mode is not enabled by default. A future version
26 of the library may turn it on by default, however.
27
28* On Linux, the sched_setattr and sched_getattr have been added, for
29 supporting parameterized scheduling policies such as SCHED_DEADLINE.
30
31* The iconv program now supports converting files in place. The program
32 automatically uses a temporary file if required.
33
34Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
35
36* The big-endian ARC port (arceb-linux-gnu) has been removed.
37
38Changes to build and runtime requirements:
39
40 [Add changes to build and runtime requirements here]
41
42Security related changes:
43
44The following CVEs were fixed in this release, details of which can be
45found in the advisories directory of the release tarball:
46
47 [The release manager will add the list generated by
48 scripts/process-advisories.sh just before the release.]
49
50The following bugs were resolved with this release:
51
52 [The release manager will add the list generated by
53 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
54\f
55Version 2.40
56
57Major new features:
58
59* The <stdbit.h> header type-generic macros have been changed when using
60 GCC 14.1 or later to use __builtin_stdc_bit_ceil etc. built-in functions
61 in order to support unsigned __int128 and/or unsigned _BitInt(N) operands
62 with arbitrary precisions when supported by the target.
63
64* The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC23_SOURCE to
65 enable features from the ISO C23 standard. Only some features from
66 this standard are supported by the GNU C Library. The older name
67 _ISOC2X_SOURCE is still supported. Features from C23 are also enabled
68 by _GNU_SOURCE, or by compiling with the GCC options -std=c23,
69 -std=gnu23, -std=c2x or -std=gnu2x.
70
71* The following ISO C23 function families (introduced in TS
72 18661-4:2015) are now supported in <math.h>. Each family includes
73 functions for float, double, long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx, and a
74 type-generic macro in <tgmath.h>.
75
76 - Exponential functions: exp2m1, exp10m1.
77
78 - Logarithmic functions: log2p1, log10p1, logp1.
79
80* A new tunable, glibc.rtld.enable_secure, can be used to run a program
81 as if it were a setuid process. This is currently a testing tool to allow
82 more extensive verification tests for AT_SECURE programs and not meant to
83 be a security feature.
84
85* On Linux, the epoll header was updated to include epoll ioctl definitions
86 and the related structure added in Linux kernel 6.9.
87
88* The fortify functionality has been significantly enhanced for building
89 programs with clang against the GNU C Library.
90
91* Many functions have been added to the vector library for aarch64:
92 acosh, asinh, atanh, cbrt, cosh, erf, erfc, hypot, pow, sinh, tanh
93
94* On x86, memset can now use non-temporal stores to improve the performance
95 of large writes. This behaviour is controlled by a new tunable
96 x86_memset_non_temporal_threshold.
97
98Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
99
100* Architectures which use a 32-bit seconds-since-epoch field in struct
101 lastlog, struct utmp, struct utmpx (such as i386, powerpc64le, rv32,
102 rv64, x86-64) switched from a signed to an unsigned type for that
103 field. This allows these fields to store timestamps beyond the year
104 2038, until the year 2106. Please note that applications are still
105 expected to migrate off the interfaces declared in <utmp.h> and
106 <utmpx.h> (except for login_tty) due to locking and session management
107 problems.
108
109* __rseq_size now denotes the size of the active rseq area (20 bytes
110 initially), not the size of struct rseq (32 bytes initially).
111
112Security related changes:
113
114The following CVEs were fixed in this release, details of which can be
115found in the advisories directory of the release tarball:
116
117 GLIBC-SA-2024-0004:
118 ISO-2022-CN-EXT: fix out-of-bound writes when writing escape
119 sequence (CVE-2024-2961)
120
121 GLIBC-SA-2024-0005:
122 nscd: Stack-based buffer overflow in netgroup cache (CVE-2024-33599)
123
124 GLIBC-SA-2024-0006:
125 nscd: Null pointer crash after notfound response (CVE-2024-33600)
126
127 GLIBC-SA-2024-0007:
128 nscd: netgroup cache may terminate daemon on memory allocation
129 failure (CVE-2024-33601)
130
131 GLIBC-SA-2024-0008:
132 nscd: netgroup cache assumes NSS callback uses in-buffer strings
133 (CVE-2024-33602)
134
135The following bugs are resolved with this release:
136
137 [19622] network: Support aliasing with struct sockaddr
138 [21271] localedata: cv_RU: update translations
139 [23774] localedata: lv_LV collates Y/y incorrectly
140 [23865] string: wcsstr is quadratic-time
141 [25119] localedata: Change Czech weekday names to lowercase
142 [27777] stdio: fclose does a linear search, takes ages when many FILE*
143 are opened
144 [29770] libc: prctl does not match manual page ABI on powerpc64le-
145 linux-gnu
146 [29845] localedata: Update hr_HR locale currency to €
147 [30701] time: getutxent misbehaves on 32-bit x86 when _TIME_BITS=64
148 [31316] build: Fails test misc/tst-dirname "Didn't expect signal from
149 child: got `Illegal instruction'" on non SSE CPUs
150 [31317] dynamic-link: [RISCV] static PIE crashes during self
151 relocation
152 [31325] libc: mips: clone3 is wrong for o32
153 [31335] math: Compile glibc with -march=x86-64-v3 should disable FMA4
154 multi-arch version
155 [31339] libc: arm32 loader crash after cleanup in 2.36
156 [31340] manual: A bad sentence in section 22.3.5 (resource.texi)
157 [31357] dynamic-link: $(objpfx)tst-rtld-list-diagnostics.out rule
158 doesn't work with test wrapper
159 [31370] localedata: wcwidth() does not treat
160 DEFAULT_IGNORABLE_CODE_POINTs as zero-width
161 [31371] dynamic-link: x86-64: APX and Tile registers aren't preserved
162 in ld.so trampoline
163 [31372] dynamic-link: _dl_tlsdesc_dynamic doesn't preserve all caller-
164 saved registers
165 [31383] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 and __fortified_attr_access vs size of
166 0 and zero size types
167 [31385] build: sort-makefile-lines.py doesn't check variable with _
168 nor with "^# variable"
169 [31402] libc: clone (NULL, NULL, ...) clobbers %r7 register on
170 s390{,x}
171 [31405] libc: Improve dl_iterate_phdr using _dl_find_object
172 [31411] localedata: Add Latgalian locale
173 [31412] build: GCC 6 failed to build i386 glibc on Fedora 39
174 [31429] build: Glibc failed to build with -march=x86-64-v3
175 [31468] libc: sigisemptyset returns true when the set contains signals
176 larger than 34
177 [31476] network: Automatic activation of single-request options break
178 resolv.conf reloading
179 [31479] libc: Missing #include <sys/rseq.h> in sched_getcpu.c may
180 result in a loss of rseq acceleration
181 [31501] dynamic-link: _dl_tlsdesc_dynamic_xsavec may clobber %rbx
182 [31518] manual: documentation: FLT_MAX_10_EXP questionable text, evtl.
183 wrong,
184 [31530] localedata: Locale file for Moksha - mdf_RU
185 [31553] malloc: elf/tst-decorate-maps fails on ppc64el
186 [31596] libc: On the llvm-arm32 platform, dlopen("not_exist.so", -1)
187 triggers segmentation fault
188 [31600] math: math: x86 ceill traps when FE_INEXACT is enabled
189 [31601] math: math: x86 floor traps when FE_INEXACT is enabled
190 [31603] math: math: x86 trunc traps when FE_INEXACT is enabled
191 [31612] libc: arc4random fails to fallback to /dev/urandom if
192 getrandom is not present
193 [31629] build: powerpc64: Configuring with "--with-cpu=power10" and
194 'CFLAGS=-O2 -mcpu=power9' fails to build glibc
195 [31640] dynamic-link: POWER10 ld.so crashes in
196 elf_machine_load_address with GCC 14
197 [31661] libc: NPROCESSORS_CONF and NPROCESSORS_ONLN not available in
198 getconf
199 [31676] dynamic-link: Configuring with CC="gcc -march=x86-64-v3"
200 --with-rtld-early-cflags=-march=x86-64 results in linker failure
201 [31677] nscd: nscd: netgroup cache: invalid memcpy under low
202 memory/storage conditions
203 [31678] nscd: nscd: Null pointer dereferences after failed netgroup
204 cache insertion
205 [31679] nscd: nscd: netgroup cache may terminate daemon on memory
206 allocation failure
207 [31680] nscd: nscd: netgroup cache assumes NSS callback uses in-buffer
208 strings
209 [31682] math: [PowerPC] Floating point exception error for math test
210 test-ceil-except-2 test-floor-except-2 test-trunc-except-2
211 [31686] dynamic-link: Stack-based buffer overflow in
212 parse_tunables_string
213 [31695] libc: pidfd_spawn/pidfd_spawnp leak an fd if clone3 succeeds
214 but execve fails
215 [31719] dynamic-link: --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests doesn't work
216 with -Wl,--enable-new-dtags
217 [31730] libc: backtrace_symbols_fd prints different strings than
218 backtrace_symbols returns
219 [31753] build: FAIL: link-static-libc with GCC 6/7/8
220 [31755] libc: procutils_read_file doesn't start with a leading
221 underscore
222 [31756] libc: write_profiling is only in libc.a
223 [31757] build: Should XXXf128_do_not_use functions be excluded?
224 [31759] math: Extra nearbyint symbols in libm.a
225 [31760] math: Missing math functions
226 [31764] build: _res_opcodes should be a compat symbol only
227 [31765] dynamic-link: _dl_mcount_wrapper is exported without prototype
228 [31766] stdio: _IO_stderr_ _IO_stdin_ _IO_stdout should be compat
229 symbols
230 [31768] string: Extra stpncpy symbol in libc.a
231 [31770] libc: clone3 is in libc.a
232 [31774] libc: Missing __isnanf128 in libc.a
233 [31775] math: Missing exp10 exp10f32x exp10f64 fmod fmodf fmodf32
234 fmodf32x fmodf64 in libm.a
235 [31777] string: Extra memchr strlen symbols in libc.a
236 [31781] math: Missing math functions in libm.a
237 [31782] build: Test build failure with recent GCC trunk (x86/tst-cpu-
238 features-supports.c:69:3: error: parameter to builtin not valid:
239 avx5124fmaps)
240 [31785] string: loongarch: Extra strnlen symbols in libc.a
241 [31786] string: powerpc: Extra strchrnul and strncasecmp_l symbols in
242 libc.a
243 [31787] math: powerpc: Extra llrintf, llrintf, llrintf32, and
244 llrintf32 symbols in libc.a
245 [31788] libc: microblaze: Extra cacheflush symbol in libc.a
246 [31789] libc: powerpc: Extra versionsort symbol in libc.a
247 [31790] libc: s390: Extra getutent32, getutent32_r, getutid32,
248 getutid32_r, getutline32, getutline32_r, getutmp32, getutmpx32,
249 getutxent32, getutxid32, getutxline32, pututline32, pututxline32,
250 updwtmp32, updwtmpx32 in libc.a
251 [31797] build: g++ -static requirement should be able to opt-out
252 [31798] libc: pidfd_getpid.c is miscompiled by GCC 6.4
253 [31802] time: difftime is pure not const
254 [31808] time: The supported time_t range is not documented.
255 [31840] stdio: Memory leak in _IO_new_fdopen (fdopen) on seek failure
256 [31867] build: "CPU ISA level is lower than required" on SSE2-free
257 CPUs
258 [31876] time: "Date and time" documentation fixes for POSIX.1-2024 etc
259 [31883] build: ISA level support configure check relies on bashism /
260 is otherwise broken for arithmetic
261 [31892] build: Always install mtrace.
262 [31917] libc: clang mq_open fortify wrapper does not handle 4 argument
263 correctly
264 [31927] libc: clang open fortify wrapper does not handle argument
265 correctly
266 [31931] time: tzset may fault on very short TZ string
267 [31934] string: wcsncmp crash on s390x on vlbb instruction
268 [31963] stdio: Crash in _IO_link_in within __gcov_exit
269 [31965] dynamic-link: rseq extension mechanism does not work as
270 intended
271 [31980] build: elf/tst-tunables-enable_secure-env fails on ppc
272\f
273Version 2.39
274
275Major new features:
276
277* A new tunable, glibc.cpu.plt_rewrite, can be used to enable PLT
278 rewrite on x86-64. When enabled with non-lazy binding, the dynamic
279 linker will rewrite indirect branches in PLT with direct branches.
280
281* Sync with Linux kernel 6.6 shadow stack interface. The --enable-cet
282 configure option is only supported on x86-64.
283
284* struct statvfs now has an f_type member, equal to the f_type statfs member;
285 on the Hurd this was always available under a reserved name,
286 and under Linux a spare has been allocated: it was always zero
287 in previous versions of glibc, and zero is not a valid result.
288
289* On Linux, the functions posix_spawnattr_getcgroup_np and
290 posix_spawnattr_setcgroup_np have been added, along with the
291 POSIX_SPAWN_SETCGROUP flag. They allow posix_spawn and posix_spawnp
292 to set the cgroupv2 in the new process in a race-free manner. These
293 functions are GNU extensions and require a kernel with clone3 support.
294
295* On Linux, the pidfd_spawn and pidfd_spawp functions have been added.
296 They have a similar prototype and semantic as posix_spawn, but instead of
297 returning a process ID, they return a file descriptor that can be used
298 along other pidfd functions (like pidfd_send_signal, poll, or waitid).
299 The pidfd functionality avoids the issue of PID reuse with the traditional
300 posix_spawn interface.
301
302* On Linux, the pidfd_getpid function has been added. It allows retrieving
303 the process ID associated with the process file descriptor created by
304 pid_spawn, fork_np, or pidfd_open.
305
306* scanf-family functions now support the wN format length modifiers for
307 arguments pointing to types intN_t, int_leastN_t, uintN_t or
308 uint_leastN_t (for example, %w32d to read int32_t or int_least32_t in
309 decimal, or %w32x to read uint32_t or uint_least32_t in hexadecimal)
310 and the wfN format length modifiers for arguments pointing to types
311 int_fastN_t or uint_fastN_t, as specified in draft ISO C2X.
312
313* A new tunable, glibc.mem.decorate_maps, can be used to add additional
314 information on underlying memory allocated by the glibc (for instance,
315 on thread stack created by pthread_create or memory allocated by
316 malloc).
317
318* The <stdbit.h> header has been added from ISO C2X, with
319 stdc_leading_zeros, stdc_leading_ones, stdc_trailing_zeros,
320 stdc_trailing_ones, stdc_first_leading_zero, stdc_first_leading_one,
321 stdc_first_trailing_zero, stdc_first_trailing_one, stdc_count_zeros,
322 stdc_count_ones, stdc_has_single_bit, stdc_bit_width, stdc_bit_floor
323 and stdc_bit_ceil function families, each having functions for
324 unsigned char, unsigned short, unsigned int, unsigned long int and
325 unsigned long long int, and a type-generic macro.
326
327* On AArch64 new symbols were added to libmvec and now math.h has
328 annotations to allow GCC 9 or newer to auto-vectorize calls to the
329 following scalar math functions when -ffast-math is specified:
330 acos, acosf, asin, asinf, atan, atanf, atan2, atan2f, cos, cosf,
331 exp, expf, exp10, exp10f, exp2, exp2f, expm1, expm1f, log, logf,
332 log10, log10f, log1p, log1pf, log2, log2f, sin, sinf, tan, tanf.
333
334Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
335
336* The ldconfig program now skips file names containing ';' or ending in
337 ".dpkg.tmp" or ".dpkg.new", to avoid examining temporary files created
338 by the RPM and dpkg package managers.
339
340* libcrypt has been removed from the GNU C Library. The configure
341 options "--enable-crypt" and "--enable-nss-crypt" are no longer
342 available. <crypt.h>, libcrypt.a, and libcrypt.so.1 will not be
343 installed. For now <unistd.h> continues to declare the crypt
344 function by default, to avoid introducing vulnerabilities into
345 existing applications due to a missing prototype. This declaration
346 is deprecated and may be removed in a future glibc release.
347
348 The replacement for libcrypt is libxcrypt, maintained separately from
349 GNU libc, but available under compatible licensing terms, and providing
350 binary backward compatibility with the former libcrypt. It is currently
351 distributed from <https://github.com/besser82/libxcrypt/>.
352
353 As a consequence of this removal, GNU libc no longer makes any use of
354 the NSS cryptography library (Network Security Services; not to be
355 confused with Name Service Switch). Distributors of binary packages
356 of GNU libc are advised to check whether their build processes can be
357 simplified.
358
359* The dynamic linker calls the malloc and free functions in more cases
360 during TLS access if a shared object with dynamic TLS is loaded and
361 unloaded. This can result in an infinite recursion if a malloc
362 replacement library or its dependencies use dynamic TLS instead of
363 initial-exec TLS.
364
365* The ia64*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
366
367Changes to build and runtime requirements:
368
369* Building on LoongArch requires at a minimum binutils 2.41 for vector
370 instructions.
371
372Security related changes:
373
374The following CVEs were fixed in this release, details of which can be
375found in the advisories directory of the release tarball:
376
377 GLIBC-SA-2023-0002:
378 getaddrinfo: Stack read overflow in no-aaaa mode (CVE-2023-4527)
379
380 GLIBC-SA-2023-0003:
381 getaddrinfo: Potential use-after-free (CVE-2023-4806)
382
383 GLIBC-SA-2023-0004:
384 tunables: local privilege escalation through buffer overflow
385 (CVE-2023-4911)
386
387 GLIBC-SA-2024-0001:
388 syslog: Heap buffer overflow in __vsyslog_internal (CVE-2023-6246)
389
390 GLIBC-SA-2024-0002:
391 syslog: Heap buffer overflow in __vsyslog_internal (CVE-2023-6779)
392
393 GLIBC-SA-2024-0003:
394 syslog: Integer overflow in __vsyslog_internal (CVE-2023-6780)
395
396 GLIBC-SA-2024-0004:
397 ISO-2022-CN-EXT: fix out-of-bound writes when writing escape
398 sequence (CVE-2024-2961)
399
400 GLIBC-SA-2024-0005:
401 nscd: Stack-based buffer overflow in netgroup cache (CVE-2024-33599)
402
403 GLIBC-SA-2024-0006:
404 nscd: Null pointer crashes after notfound response
405 (CVE-2024-33600)
406
407 GLIBC-SA-2024-0007:
408 nscd: netgroup cache may terminate daemon on memory allocation
409 failure (CVE-2024-33601)
410
411 GLIBC-SA-2024-0008:
412 nscd: netgroup cache assumes NSS callback uses in-buffer strings
413 (CVE-2024-33602)
414
415The following bugs are resolved with this release:
416
417 [14522] localedata: fy_DE: LC_IDENTIFICATION data looks weird
418 [19305] libc: qsort() should return early if (nmemb <= 1)
419 [19479] localedata: gbm_IN: new Garhwali Locale
420 [19924] dynamic-link: TLS performance degradation after dlopen
421 [19956] localedata: ssy_ER: rename from aa_ER@saaho
422 [21719] libc: stdlib/msort : optimizing merge sort
423 [22526] localedata: th_TH LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
424 [23012] localedata: el_GR: Greece now uses the 24h format for time
425 [23172] localedata: miq_NI: Provide actually abbreviated month names
426 [24006] localedata: Cyclic dependencies via copy in locales
427 [24013] localedata: am_pm definitions for es_ES
428 [24386] localedata: crh_RU: new locale
429 [24877] localedata: [Redundant Data] Remove redundant data between
430 en_NZ and en_AU
431 [25868] localedata: Incorrect trailing spaces in weekday names for
432 nn_NO
433 [26752] localedata: Please add the new locale zgh_MA
434 [27069] dynamic-link: Need a way to tell if a tunable is set by user
435 [27163] localedata: Error on test glk_IR with localedef
436 [27312] localedata: su_ID: new Sundanese locale
437 [27547] manual: "Summary of malloc-Related Functions" shows wrong
438 argument order for `aligned_alloc` and `memalign`
439 [27574] libc: glibc should probably not define __WORDSIZE=64 for
440 __sparcv9
441 [27601] localedata: License information update in
442 localedata/locales/ast_ES
443 [28558] localedata: it_IT LC_MONETARY outdated p_cs_precedes and
444 n_cs_precedes
445 [28787] localedata: Add information for Occitan
446 [29039] dynamic-link: Corrupt DTV after reuse of a TLS module ID
447 following dlclose with unused TLS
448 [29486] localedata: New Zealand locales (en_NZ & mi_NZ) first day of
449 week should be Monday
450 [29504] localedata: Incorrect/misleading Time Format For ms_MY (AM/PM)
451 [29506] localedata: UTF-8 HANGUL SYLLABLE bugs
452 [30349] libc: Support returning a pidfd from posix_spawn()
453 [30412] localedata: d_t_fmt in id_ID uses %r placeholder but am_pm and
454 t_fmt_ampm are undefined
455 [30605] localedata: New locale for Komi language
456 [30649] localedata: [PATCH] Add transliteration of common emojis to
457 smileys
458 [30694] locale: The iconv program no longer tells the user which given
459 encoding name was wrong
460 [30709] nscd: nscd fails to build with cleanup handler if built with
461 -fexceptions
462 [30737] libc: fdopendir() is not robust - returns bogus DIR* instead
463 of flagging an error
464 [30740] build: [m68k] undefined reference to
465 `_wordcopy_fwd_dest_aligned'
466 [30745] libc: Slight bug in cache info codes for x86
467 [30750] network: Unaligned accesses in resolver
468 [30773] math: [m68k] busybox awk is broken (lshift.S related)
469 [30789] libc: [2.38 Regression] sem_open will fail on multithreaded
470 scenarios when semaphore file doesn't exist (O_CREAT)
471 [30800] nscd: Improper assert in prune_cache triggers if clock jumps
472 backwards
473 [30804] libc: F_GETLK, F_SETLK, and F_SETLKW value change for
474 powerpc64 with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
475 [30842] network: Stack read overflow in getaddrinfo in no-aaaa mode
476 (CVE-2023-4527)
477 [30843] network: potential use-after-free in getcanonname
478 (CVE-2023-4806)
479 [30854] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 15.1.0
480 [30884] network: Memory leak in getaddrinfo after fix for bug 30843
481 (CVE-2023-5156)
482 [30932] libc: Fortify Source has false-positives when too many files
483 are open
484 [30945] malloc: Core affinity setting incurs lock contentions between
485 threads
486 [30960] math: signed integer overflow in
487 glibc/sysdeps/s390/fpu/feenablxcpt.c
488 [30964] locale: Number grouping check mishandles multibyte thousands
489 separator
490 [30981] dynamic-link: dlclose does not properly implement force-first
491 handling
492 [30988] math: fesetexcept raises floating-point exception traps on
493 ppc, ppc64, ppc64le
494 [30989] math: fesetexcept raises floating-point exception traps on
495 i386
496 [30990] libc: fesetexceptflag raises floating-point exception traps on
497 i386, x86_64
498 [30998] math: fesetexceptflag clears too many floating-point exception
499 flags on alpha
500 [31019] manual: The documentation of feenableexcept is incomplete
501 [31022] math: feupdateenv (FE_DFL_ENV) crashes on riscv
502 [31035] libc: Library search path terminates on relative non-directory
503 name
504 [31042] libc: [s390x] .init and .fini padding
505 [31068] libc: sysdeps: sparc: invalid data access in memset due to
506 regression
507 [31078] manual: Code example in "Noncanonical Mode Example" has unused
508 'char *name;'
509 [31086] localedata: Errors in Tibetan, Dzongkha data
510 [31113] string: Wrong unwind information for rawmemchr on aarch64
511 [31151] libc: [RISC-V] missing support for profile/audit PLT setup
512 [31163] nss: getaddrinfo returns EAI_NONAME in oom situation
513 [31183] stdio: Wide stream buffer size reduced MB_LEN_MAX bytes after
514 bug 17522 fix
515 [31184] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-tlsgap
516 [31185] dynamic-link: Incorrect thread point access in
517 _dl_tlsdesc_undefweak and _dl_tlsdesc_dynamic
518 [31187] dynamic-link: Some CET tests fail with GCC 14
519 [31204] localedata: Fix decimal point and thousands separator for
520 uz_UZ
521 [31205] localedata: Inconsistent (mon_)grouping formats
522 [31218] dynamic-link: PLT rewrite overflows large displacement on x32
523 [31221] localedata: Add localedata for ISO code "tok" (Toki Pona)
524 [31230] dynamic-link: PLT rewrite failed without SELinux
525 [31239] localedata: anp_IN locale: abbreviated month names are the
526 same as the full month names
527 [31244] nptl: pthread_cancel hangs on sparc32
528 [31257] localedata: Sync with CLDR: “Turkey” -> “Türkiye”
529 [31266] string: sparc: string/tst-memmove-overflow fails on 32-bit
530 sparcv9
531 [31276] libc: Wrong condition for heap allocation in qsort_r
532\f
533Version 2.38
534
535Major new features:
536
537* When C2X features are enabled and the base argument is 0 or 2, the
538 following functions support binary integers prefixed by 0b or 0B as
539 input: strtol, strtoll, strtoul, strtoull, strtol_l, strtoll_l,
540 strtoul_l, strtoull_l, strtoimax, strtoumax, strtoq, strtouq, wcstol,
541 wcstoll, wcstoul, wcstoull, wcstol_l, wcstoll_l, wcstoul_l,
542 wcstoull_l, wcstoimax, wcstoumax, wcstoq, wcstouq. Similarly, the
543 following functions support binary integers prefixed by 0b or 0B as
544 input to the %i format: fscanf, scanf, sscanf, vscanf, vsscanf,
545 vfscanf, fwscanf, wscanf, swscanf, vfwscanf, vwscanf, vswscanf; those
546 functions also support the %b format for binary integers, with or
547 without such a prefix and independent of standards mode.
548
549* PRIb*, PRIB* and SCNb* macros from C2X have been added to
550 <inttypes.h>.
551
552* printf-family functions now support the wN format length modifiers for
553 arguments of type intN_t, int_leastN_t, uintN_t or uint_leastN_t (for
554 example, %w32d to print int32_t or int_least32_t in decimal, or %w32x
555 to print uint32_t or uint_least32_t in hexadecimal) and the wfN format
556 length modifiers for arguments of type int_fastN_t or uint_fastN_t, as
557 specified in draft ISO C2X.
558
559* A new tunable, glibc.pthread.stack_hugetlb, can be used to disable
560 Transparent Huge Pages (THP) in stack allocation at pthread_create.
561
562* Support for x86_64 running on Hurd has been added. This port requires
563 as least binutils 2.40 and GCC 13:
564
565 - x86_64-gnu
566
567* Vector math library libmvec support has been added to AArch64. It
568 requires GCC version >= 10.1.0. It can be disabled via
569 "--disable-mathvec", however that is not a supported configuration as
570 it changes the ABI. The symbol names follow the AArch64 vector ABI,
571 they are declared in math.h and have to be called manually at this point.
572
573* The strlcpy and strlcat functions have been added. They are derived
574 from OpenBSD, and are expected to be added to a future POSIX version.
575
576* A new configure option, "--enable-fortify-source", can be used to build the
577 GNU C Library with _FORTIFY_SOURCE. The level of fortification can either be
578 provided, or is set to the highest value supported by the compiler. If not
579 explicitly enabled, then fortify source is forcibly disabled so to keep
580 original behavior unchanged.
581
582Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
583
584* libcrypt is no longer built by default; one may use the "--enable-crypt"
585 option to build libcrypt. libcrypt is likely to be removed from the
586 GNU C Library in a future release, so it is recommended that
587 applications port away from it to an alternative such as libxcrypt.
588
589* In the Linux kernel for the hppa/parisc architecture some of the
590 MADV_XXX constants were changed to have the same values as the other
591 architectures. New programs compiled with this glibc version and which
592 use the madvise call will require at least Linux kernel version 6.2,
593 alternatively stable kernels from versions 6.1.6, 5.15.87, 5.10.163,
594 5.4.228, 4.19.270 or 4.14.303.
595
596* The "--disable-experimental-malloc" option is no longer available. The
597 per-thread cache can still be disabled per-application using tunables
598 (glibc.malloc.tcache_count set to zero).
599
600* The configure option "--enable-tunables" has been removed. The tunable
601 feature is now always enabled.
602
603Changes to build and runtime requirements:
604
605* Building libmvec on AArch64 requires at a minimum GCC 10.1.0 for SVE
606 ACLE.
607
608Security related changes:
609
610 CVE-2023-25139: When the printf family of functions is called with a
611 format specifier that uses an <apostrophe> (enable grouping) and a
612 minimum width specifier, the resulting output could be larger than
613 reasonably expected by a caller that computed a tight bound on the
614 buffer size. The resulting larger than expected output could result
615 in a buffer overflow in the printf family of functions.
616
617The following bugs are resolved with this release:
618
619 [178] string: Please add strlcpy and strlcat (attached)
620 [14697] nptl: Behavior of exit is nonconformant with respect to
621 threads and stdio
622 [15142] stdio: Missing locking in _IO_cleanup
623 [18096] glob: null deref in wordexp/parse_dollars/parse_arith
624 [18906] stdio: fopen: ccs value may affect open mode
625 [24466] stdio: Feature request: provide special printf formats for
626 intXX_t
627 [25457] nss: hosts lookup fails for ipv4mapped ipv6 addresses
628 [28519] libc: system and popen should pass "--" between /bin/sh and
629 argument
630 [29016] stdio: popen() sets errno to ENOMEM when shell does not exist
631 [29591] string: wcsnlen length can overflow in page cross case.
632 [30053] time: strftime %s returns -1 after 2038 on 32 bits systems
633 [30068] stdio: incorrect printf output for integers with thousands
634 separator and width field (CVE-2023-25139)
635 [30111] time: support_descriptors_list fails after 2038 on 32 bits
636 systems
637 [30125] dynamic-link: [regression, bisected] glibc-2.37 creates new
638 symlink for libraries without soname
639 [30130] math: [s390] The _FPU_SETCW macro yields compile error with
640 Clang
641 [30156] time: Potential ntp_gettime abi break
642 [30235] libc: Missing fallback in getlogin if loginuid is unset
643 [30258] dynamic-link: sprof cannot read and display shared object
644 profiling data correctly
645 [30263] libc: Add test coverage for abs(), labs(), and llabs().
646 [30305] math: Incorrect asm constraint in feraiseexcept on x86-64
647 [30402] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-glibcelf
648 [30425] dynamic-link: Symbol lookup during dlclose may fail
649 unnecessarily
650 [30435] dynamic-link: Root dir wrongly marked as nonexist in open_path
651 [30477] libc: [RISCV]: time64 does not work on riscv32
652 [30515] dynamic-link: _dl_find_object incorrectly returns 1 during
653 early startup
654 [30527] network: resolv_conf lock not unlocked on allocation failure
655 [30550] math: powerpc64le: GCC-specific code for isinf() is being used
656 on clang
657 [30555] string: strerror can incorrectly return NULL
658 [30579] malloc: trim_threshold in realloc lead to high memory usage
659 [30662] nscd: Group and password cache use errno in place of errval
660\f
661Version 2.37
662
663Major new features:
664
665* The getent tool now supports the --no-addrconfig option. The output of
666 getent with --no-addrconfig may contain addresses of families not
667 configured on the current host i.e. as-if you had not passed
668 AI_ADDRCONFIG to getaddrinfo calls.
669
670Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
671
672* The dynamic linker no longer loads shared objects from the "tls"
673 subdirectories on the library search path or the subdirectory that
674 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, or employs the legacy AT_HWCAP
675 search mechanism, which was deprecated in version 2.33.
676
677Security related changes:
678
679 CVE-2022-39046: When the syslog function is passed a crafted input
680 string larger than 1024 bytes, it reads uninitialized memory from the
681 heap and prints it to the target log file, potentially revealing a
682 portion of the contents of the heap.
683
684The following bugs are resolved with this release:
685
686 [12154] network: Cannot resolve hosts which have wildcard aliases
687 [12165] libc: readdir: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
688 [19444] build: build failures with -O1 due to -Wmaybe-uninitialized
689 [24774] nptl: pthread_rwlock_timedwrlock stalls on ARM
690 [24816] nss: nss/tst-nss-files-hosts-long fails when no interface has
691 AF_INET6 address (ie docker)
692 [27087] stdio: PowerPC: Redefinition error with Clang from IEEE
693 redirection headers
694 [28846] network: CMSG_NXTHDR may trigger -Wstrict-overflow warning
695 [28937] dynamic-link: New DSO dependency sorter does not put new map
696 first if in a cycle
697 [29249] libc: csu/libc-tls.c:202: undefined reference to
698 `_startup_fatal_not_constant'
699 [29305] network: Inefficient buffer space usage in nss_dns for
700 gethostbyname and other functions
701 [29375] libc: don't hide MAP_ANONYMOUS behind _GNU_SOURCE
702 [29402] nscd: nscd: No such file or directory
703 [29415] nscd: getaddrinfo with AI_ADDRCONFIG returns addresses with
704 wrong family
705 [29427] dynamic-link: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-printf.c:
706 200: _dl_debug_vdprintf: Assertion `! "invalid format specifier"'
707 failed!
708 [29463] math: math/test-float128-y1 fails on x86_64
709 [29485] build: Make hangs when the test misc/tst-pidfile returns
710 FAIL_UNSUPPORTED
711 [29490] dynamic-link: [bisected] new __brk_call causes dynamic loader
712 segfault on alpha
713 [29499] build: Check failed on misc/tst-glibcsyscalls while building
714 for RISCV64 on a unmatched hardware
715 [29501] build: Check failed on stdlib/tst-strfrom while building for
716 RISCV64 on a unmatched hardware
717 [29502] libc: alpha sys/acct.h out of date
718 [29514] build: Need to use -fPIE not -fpie
719 [29528] dynamic-link: __libc_early_init not called after dlmopen that
720 reuses namespace
721 [29536] libc: syslog fail to create large messages (CVE-2022-39046)
722 [29537] libc: [2.34 regression]: Alignment issue on m68k when using
723 futexes on qemu-user
724 [29539] libc: LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS changed how vDSO library are
725 printed
726 [29544] libc: Regression in syslog(3) calls breaks RFC due to extra
727 whitespace
728 [29564] build: Incorrect way to change MAKEFLAGS in Makerules
729 [29576] build: librtld.os: in function `_dl_start_profile':
730 (.text+0x9444): undefined reference to `strcpy'
731 [29578] libc: Definition of SUN_LEN() is wrong
732 [29583] build: iconv failures on 32bit platform due to missing large
733 file support
734 [29600] dynamic-link: dlmopen hangs after loading certain libraries
735 [29604] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 15.0.0
736 [29605] nscd: Regression in NSCD backend of getaddrinfo
737 [29607] nscd: nscd repeatably crashes calling __strlen_avx2 when hosts
738 cache is enabled
739 [29611] string: Optimized AVX2 string functions unconditionally use
740 BMI2 instructions
741 [29624] malloc: errno is not cleared when entering main
742 [29638] libc: stdlib: arc4random fallback is never used
743 [29657] libc: Incorrect struct stat for 64-bit time on linux/generic
744 platforms
745 [29698] build: Configuring for AArch32 on ARMv8+ disables
746 optimizations
747 [29727] locale: __strtol_internal out-of-bounds read when parsing
748 thousands grouping
749 [29730] libc: broken y2038 support in fstatat on MIPS N64
750 [29746] libc: ppoll() does not switch to __ppoll64 when
751 -D_TIME_BITS=64 and -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 is given on 32bit
752 [29771] libc: Restore IPC_64 support in sysvipc *ctl functions
753 [29780] build: possible parallel make issue in glibc-2.36 (siglist-
754 aux.S: No such file or directory)
755 [29864] libc: __libc_start_main() should obtain program headers
756 address (_dl_phdr) from the auxv, not the ELF header.
757 [29951] time: daylight variable not set correctly if last DST change
758 coincides with offset change
759 [30039] stdio: __vsprintf_internal does not handle unspecified buffer
760 length in fortify mode
761\f
762Version 2.36
763
764Major new features:
765
766* Support for DT_RELR relative relocation format has been added to
767 glibc. This is a new ELF dynamic tag that improves the size of
768 relative relocations in shared object files and position independent
769 executables (PIE). DT_RELR generation requires linker support for
770 -z pack-relative-relocs option, which is supported for some targets
771 in recent binutils versions. Lazy binding doesn't apply to DT_RELR.
772
773* On Linux, the pidfd_open, pidfd_getfd, and pidfd_send_signal functions
774 have been added. The pidfd functionality provides access to a process
775 while avoiding the issue of PID reuse on traditional Unix systems.
776
777* On Linux, the process_madvise function has been added. It has the
778 same functionality as madvise but alters the target process identified
779 by the pidfd.
780
781* On Linux, the process_mrelease function has been added. It allows a
782 caller to release the memory of a dying process. The release of the
783 memory is carried out in the context of the caller, using the caller's
784 CPU affinity, and priority with CPU usage accounted to the caller.
785
786* The “no-aaaa” DNS stub resolver option has been added. System
787 administrators can use it to suppress AAAA queries made by the stub
788 resolver, including AAAA lookups triggered by NSS-based interfaces
789 such as getaddrinfo. Only DNS lookups are affected: IPv6 data in
790 /etc/hosts is still used, getaddrinfo with AI_PASSIVE will still
791 produce IPv6 addresses, and configured IPv6 name servers are still
792 used. To produce correct Name Error (NXDOMAIN) results, AAAA queries
793 are translated to A queries. The new resolver option is intended
794 primarily for diagnostic purposes, to rule out that AAAA DNS queries
795 have adverse impact. It is incompatible with EDNS0 usage and DNSSEC
796 validation by applications.
797
798* On Linux, the fsopen, fsmount, move_mount, fsconfig, fspick, open_tree,
799 and mount_setattr have been added. They are part of the new Linux kernel
800 mount APIs that allow applications to more flexibly configure and operate
801 on filesystem mounts. The new mount APIs are specifically designed to work
802 with namespaces.
803
804* localedef now accepts locale definition files encoded in UTF-8.
805 Previously, input bytes not within the ASCII range resulted in
806 unpredictable output.
807
808* Support for the mbrtoc8 and c8rtomb multibyte/UTF-8 character conversion
809 functions has been added per the ISO C2X N2653 and C++20 P0482R6 proposals.
810 Support for the char8_t typedef has been added per the ISO C2X N2653
811 proposal. The functions are declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the
812 _GNU_SOURCE macro or C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro is defined.
813 The char8_t typedef is declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the
814 _GNU_SOURCE macro is defined and the C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro
815 is not defined (if __cpp_char8_t is defined, then char8_t is a builtin type).
816
817* The functions arc4random, arc4random_buf, and arc4random_uniform have been
818 added. The functions wrap getrandom and/or /dev/urandom to return high-
819 quality randomness from the kernel.
820
821* Support for LoongArch running on Linux has been added. This port requires
822 as least binutils 2.38, GCC 12, and Linux 5.19. Currently only hard-float
823 ABI is supported:
824
825 - loongarch64-linux-gnu
826
827 The LoongArch ABI is 64-bit little-endian.
828
829Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
830
831* Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes
832 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
833 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
834
835* The Linux kernel version check has been removed along with the
836 LD_ASSUME_KERNEL environment variable. The minimum kernel used to built
837 glibc is still provided through NT_GNU_ABI_TAG ELF note and also printed
838 when libc.so is issued directly.
839
840* On Linux, The LD_LIBRARY_VERSION environment variable has been removed.
841
842The following bugs are resolved with this release:
843
844 [14932] dynamic-link: dlsym(handle, "foo") and dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "foo")
845 return different result with versioned "foo"
846 [16355] libc: syslog.h's SYSLOG_NAMES namespace violation and utter
847 mess
848 [23293] dynamic-link: aarch64: getauxval is broken when run as ld.so
849 ./exe and ld.so adjusts argv on the stack
850 [24595] nptl: [2.28 Regression]: Deadlock in atfork handler which
851 calls dlclose
852 [25744] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS returns 2 instead of 1 when
853 consuming the second byte of certain double byte characters
854 [25812] stdio: Libio vtable protection is sometimes only partially
855 enforced
856 [27054] libc: pthread_atfork handlers that call pthread_atfork
857 deadlock
858 [27924] dynamic-link: ld.so: Support DT_RELR relative relocation
859 format
860 [28128] build: declare_symbol_alias doesn't work for assembly codes
861 [28566] network: getnameinfo with NI_NOFQDN is not thread safe
862 [28752] nss: Segfault in getpwuid when stat fails
863 [28815] libc: realpath should not copy to resolved buffer on error
864 [28828] stdio: fputwc crashes
865 [28838] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-p_align3
866 [28845] locale: ld-monetary.c should be updated to match ISO C and
867 other standards.
868 [28850] libc: linux: __get_nprocs_sched reads uninitialized memory
869 from the stack
870 [28852] libc: getaddrinfo leaks memory with AI_ALL
871 [28853] libc: tst-spawn6 changes current foreground process group
872 (breaks test isolation)
873 [28857] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-audit24a
874 [28860] build: --enable-kernel=5.1.0 build fails because of missing
875 __convert_scm_timestamps
876 [28865] libc: linux: _SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF and _SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN are
877 inaccurate without /sys and /proc
878 [28868] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader DFS algorithm segfaults on
879 missing libraries
880 [28880] libc: Program crashes if date beyond 2038
881 [28883] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/select.c: __select64
882 !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS && !__ASSUME_PSELECT fails on Microblaze
883 [28896] string: strncmp-avx2-rtm and wcsncmp-avx2-rtm fallback on non-
884 rtm variants when avoiding overflow
885 [28922] build: The .d dependency files aren't always generated
886 [28931] libc: hosts lookup broken for SUCCESS=CONTINUE and
887 SUCCESS=MERGE
888 [28936] build: nm: No such file
889 [28950] localedata: Add locale for ISO code "tok" (Toki Pona)
890 [28953] nss: NSS lookup result can be incorrect if function lookup
891 clobbers errno
892 [28970] math: benchtest: libmvec benchmark doesn't build with make
893 bench.
894 [28991] libc: sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF) should read
895 /sys/devices/system/cpu/possible
896 [28993] libc: closefrom() iterates until max int if no access to
897 /proc/self/fd/
898 [28996] libc: realpath fails to copy partial result to resolved buffer
899 on ENOENT and EACCES
900 [29027] math: [ia64] fabs fails with sNAN input
901 [29029] nptl: poll() spuriously returns EINTR during thread
902 cancellation and with cancellation disabled
903 [29030] string: GLIBC 2.35 regression - Fortify crash on certain valid
904 uses of mbsrtowcs (*** buffer overflow detected ***: terminated)
905 [29062] dynamic-link: Memory leak in _dl_find_object_update if object
906 is promoted to global scope
907 [29069] libc: fstatat64_time64_statx wrapper broken on MIPS N32 with
908 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 and -D_TIME_BITS=64
909 [29071] dynamic-link: m68k: Removal of ELF_DURING_STARTUP optimization
910 broke ld.so
911 [29097] time: fchmodat does not handle 64 bit time_t for
912 AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW
913 [29109] libc: posix_spawn() always returns 1 (EPERM) on clone()
914 failure
915 [29141] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 fail for gcc 12/glibc 2.35
916 [29162] string: [PATCH] string.h syntactic error:
917 include/bits/string_fortified.h:110: error: expected ',' or ';'
918 before '__fortified_attr_access'
919 [29165] libc: [Regression] broken argv adjustment
920 [29187] dynamic-link: [regression] broken argv adjustment for nios2
921 [29193] math: sincos produces a different output than sin/cos
922 [29197] string: __strncpy_power9() uses uninitialised register vs18
923 value for filling after \0
924 [29203] libc: daemon is not y2038 aware
925 [29204] libc: getusershell is not 2038 aware
926 [29207] libc: posix_fallocate fallback implementation is not y2038
927 aware
928 [29208] libc: fpathconf(_PC_ASYNC_IO) is not y2038 aware
929 [29209] libc: isfdtype is not y2038 aware
930 [29210] network: ruserpass is not y2038 aware
931 [29211] libc: __open_catalog is not y2038 aware
932 [29213] libc: gconv_parseconfdir is not y2038 aware
933 [29214] nptl: pthread_setcanceltype fails to set type
934 [29225] network: Mistyped define statement in socket/sys/socket.h in
935 line 184
936 [29274] nptl: __read_chk is not a cancellation point
937 [29279] libc: undefined reference to `mbstowcs_chk' after
938 464d189b9622932a75302290625de84931656ec0
939 [29304] libc: mq_timedreceive does not handle 64 bit syscall return
940 correct for !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS
941 [29403] libc: st_atim, st_mtim, st_ctim stat struct members are
942 missing on microblaze with largefile
943\f
944Version 2.35
945
946Major new features:
947
948* Unicode 14.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
949 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 14.0.0, using
950 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
951
952* Bump r_version in the debugger interface to 2 and add a new field,
953 r_next, support multiple namespaces.
954
955* Support for the C.UTF-8 locale has been added to glibc. The locale
956 supports full code-point sorting for all valid Unicode code points. A
957 limitation in the framework for fnmatch, regexec, and regcomp requires
958 a compromise to save space and only ASCII-based range expressions are
959 supported for now (see bug 28255). The full size of the locale is
960 only ~400KiB, with 346KiB coming from LC_CTYPE information for
961 Unicode. This locale harmonizes downstream C.UTF-8 already shipping
962 in various downstream distributions. The locale is not built into
963 glibc, and must be installed.
964
965* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type, and
966 corresponding <tgmath.h> macros, are added from TS 18661-1:2014, TS
967 18661-3:2015 and draft ISO C2X:
968
969 - fsqrt, fsqrtl, dsqrtl and corresponding fMsqrtfN, fMsqrtfNx,
970 fMxsqrtfN and fMxsqrtfNx functions.
971
972 - ffma, ffmal, dfmal and corresponding fMfmafN, fMfmafNx, fMxfmafN and
973 fMxfmafNx functions.
974
975* <math.h> functions for floating-point maximum and minimum,
976 corresponding to new operations in IEEE 754-2019, and corresponding
977 <tgmath.h> macros, are added from draft ISO C2X: fmaximum,
978 fmaximum_num, fmaximum_mag, fmaximum_mag_num, fminimum, fminimum_num,
979 fminimum_mag, fminimum_mag_num and corresponding functions for float,
980 long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx.
981
982* <math.h> macros for single-precision float constants are added as a
983 GNU extension: M_Ef, M_LOG2Ef, M_LOG10Ef, M_LN2f, M_LN10f, M_PIf,
984 M_PI_2f, M_PI_4f, M_1_PIf, M_2_PIf, M_2_SQRTPIf, M_SQRT2f and
985 M_SQRT1_2f.
986
987* The __STDC_IEC_60559_BFP__ and __STDC_IEC_60559_COMPLEX__ macros are
988 predefined as specified in TS 18661-1:2014.
989
990* The exp10 functions in <math.h> now have a corresponding type-generic
991 macro in <tgmath.h>.
992
993* The ISO C2X macro _PRINTF_NAN_LEN_MAX has been added to <stdio.h>.
994
995* printf-family functions now support the %b format for output of
996 integers in binary, as specified in draft ISO C2X, and the %B variant
997 of that format recommended by draft ISO C2X.
998
999* A new DSO sorting algorithm has been added in the dynamic linker that uses
1000 topological sorting by depth-first search (DFS), solving performance issues
1001 of the existing sorting algorithm when encountering particular circular
1002 object dependency cases.
1003
1004* A new tunable, glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort, can be used to select between
1005 the two DSO sorting algorithms. The default setting of '2' uses the
1006 new DFS-based algorithm. The setting '1' switches to the old
1007 algorithm used in glibc 2.33 and earlier.
1008
1009* ABI support for a new function '__memcmpeq'. '__memcmpeq' is meant
1010 to be used by compilers for optimizing usage of 'memcmp' when its
1011 return value is only used for its boolean status.
1012
1013* Support for automatically registering threads with the Linux rseq
1014 system call has been added. This system call is implemented starting
1015 from Linux 4.18. The Restartable Sequences ABI accelerates user-space
1016 operations on per-cpu data. It allows user-space to perform updates
1017 on per-cpu data without requiring heavy-weight atomic operations.
1018 Automatically registering threads allows all libraries, including
1019 libc, to make immediate use of the rseq support by using the
1020 documented ABI, via the __rseq_flags, __rseq_offset, and __rseq_size
1021 variables. The GNU C Library manual has details on integration of
1022 Restartable Sequences.
1023
1024* A symbolic link to the dynamic linker is now installed under
1025 /usr/bin/ld.so (or more precisely, '${bindir}/ld.so').
1026
1027* All programs and the testsuite in glibc are now built as position independent
1028 executables (PIE) by default on toolchains and architectures that support it.
1029 Further, if the toolchain and architecture supports it, even static programs
1030 are built as PIE and the resultant glibc can be used to build static PIE
1031 executables. A new option --disable-default-pie has been added to disable
1032 this behavior and get a non-PIE build. This option replaces
1033 --enable-static-pie, which no longer has any effect on the build
1034 configuration.
1035
1036* On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.malloc.hugetlb, can be used to
1037 either make malloc issue madvise plus MADV_HUGEPAGE on mmap and sbrk
1038 or to use huge pages directly with mmap calls with the MAP_HUGETLB
1039 flags). The former can improve performance when Transparent Huge Pages
1040 is set to 'madvise' mode while the latter uses the system reserved
1041 huge pages.
1042
1043* The printf family of functions now handles the flagged %#m conversion
1044 specifier, printing errno as an error constant (similar to strerrorname_np).
1045
1046* The function _dl_find_object has been added. In-process unwinders
1047 can use it to efficiently locate unwinding information for a code
1048 address.
1049
1050* Support for OpenRISC running on Linux has been added. This port requires
1051 as least binutils 2.35, GCC 11, and Linux 5.4. Currently only soft-float
1052 ABI is supported:
1053
1054 - or1k-linux-gnu
1055
1056 The OpenRISC ABI is 32-bit big-endian and uses 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and
1057 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
1058
1059* A new configure option, --with-rtld-early-cflags, can be used to
1060 specify additional compiler flags for building the early startup code
1061 of the dynamic linker. On targets which have CPU compatibility
1062 checks, this can help to ensure that proper diagnostics are printed if
1063 the dynamic loader runs on an incompatible CPU.
1064
1065* On Linux, the epoll_pwait2 function has been added. It is similar to
1066 epoll_wait with the difference the timeout has nanoseconds resolution.
1067
1068* The function posix_spawn_file_actions_addtcsetpgrp_np has been added,
1069 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to set the controlling terminal in
1070 the new process in a race free manner. This function is a GNU extension.
1071
1072* Source fortification (_FORTIFY_SOURCE) level 3 is now available for
1073 applications compiling with glibc and gcc 12 and later. Level 3 leverages
1074 the __builtin_dynamic_object_size function to deliver additional
1075 fortification balanced against additional runtime cost (checking non-constant
1076 bounds).
1077
1078* The audit libraries will avoid unnecessary slowdown if it is not required
1079 PLT tracking (by not implementing the la_pltenter or la_pltexit callbacks).
1080
1081Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1082
1083* On x86-64, the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC environment variable support
1084 has been removed since the first PT_LOAD segment is no longer executable
1085 due to defaulting to -z separate-code.
1086
1087* The r_version update in the debugger interface makes the glibc binary
1088 incompatible with GDB binaries built without the following commits:
1089
1090 c0154a4a21a gdb: Don't assume r_ldsomap when r_version > 1 on Linux
1091 4eb629d50d4 gdbserver: Check r_version < 1 for Linux debugger interface
1092
1093 when audit modules or dlmopen are used.
1094
1095* Intel MPX support (lazy PLT, ld.so profile, and LD_AUDIT) has been removed.
1096
1097* The --enable-static-pie option is no longer available. The glibc build
1098 configuration script now automatically detects static-pie support in the
1099 toolchain and architecture and enables it if available.
1100
1101* The catchsegv script and associated libSegFault.so shared object have
1102 been removed. There are widely-deployed out-of-process alternatives for
1103 catching coredumps and backtraces.
1104
1105* Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes
1106 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
1107 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
1108
1109* The LD_TRACE_PRELINKING environment variable has been removed. Similar
1110 functionality to obtain the program mapping address can be achieved by
1111 using LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS to value of 2.
1112
1113* The LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS has been removed. The variable was mainly used to
1114 support prelink PIE binaries.
1115
1116Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1117
1118* The audit module interface version LAV_CURRENT is increased to enable
1119 proper bind-now support. The loader now advertises via the la_symbind
1120 flags that PLT trace is not possible. New audit modules require the
1121 new dynamic loader supporting the latest LAV_CURRENT version. Old audit
1122 modules are still loaded for all targets except aarch64.
1123
1124* The audit interface on aarch64 is extended to support both the indirect
1125 result location register (x8) and NEON Q register. Old audit modules are
1126 rejected by the loader. Audit modules must be rebuilt to use the newer
1127 structure sizes and the latest module interface version for LAV_CURRENT.
1128
1129Security related changes:
1130
1131 CVE-2022-23219: Passing an overlong file name to the clnt_create
1132 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow when
1133 using the "unix" protocol. Reported by Martin Sebor.
1134
1135 CVE-2022-23218: Passing an overlong file name to the svcunix_create
1136 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow.
1137
1138 CVE-2021-3998: Passing a path longer than PATH_MAX to the realpath
1139 function could result in a memory leak and potential access of
1140 uninitialized memory. Reported by Qualys.
1141
1142 CVE-2021-3999: Passing a buffer of size exactly 1 byte to the getcwd
1143 function may result in an off-by-one buffer underflow and overflow
1144 when the current working directory is longer than PATH_MAX and also
1145 corresponds to the / directory through an unprivileged mount
1146 namespace. Reported by Qualys.
1147
1148The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1149
1150 [12889] nptl: Race condition in pthread_kill
1151 [14232] nptl: tst-cancel7 and tst-cancelx7 race condition
1152 [14913] libc: [mips] Clean up MIPS 64-bit register-dump.h output
1153 [15310] dynamic-link: _dl_sort_fini is O(n^3) causing slow exit when
1154 many dsos
1155 [15333] libc: Use 64-bit stat functions in installed programs
1156 [15533] dynamic-link: LD_AUDIT introduces an avoidable performance
1157 degradation
1158 [15971] dynamic-link: No interface for debugger access to libraries
1159 loaded with dlmopen
1160 [17318] locale: [RFE] Provide a C.UTF-8 locale by default
1161 [17645] dynamic-link: RFE: Improve performance of dynamic loader for
1162 deeply nested DSO dependencies.
1163 [19193] nptl: pthread_kill, pthread_cancel return ESRCH for a thread
1164 ID whose lifetime has not ended
1165 [22542] network: buffer overflow in sunrpc clnt_create
1166 (CVE-2022-23219)
1167 [22716] malloc: [PATCH] mtrace.pl: use TRACE_PRELINKING instead of
1168 TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS
1169 [25947] malloc: memory leak in muntrace
1170 [26045] math: fmaxf(inf, nan) does not always work
1171 [26108] math: exp10() has problems with <tgmath.h>
1172 [26779] build: benign use after realloc at localealias.c:329
1173 [27609] dynamic-link: [2.32/2.33/2.34 Regression] In elf/dl-open.c
1174 (_dl_open) we might use __LM_ID_CALLER to index GL(dl_ns)[]
1175 [27945] build: build-many-glibcs.py doesn't configure GCC with
1176 --enable-initfini-array
1177 [27991] build: x86: sysdeps/x86/configure.ac breaks when
1178 libc_cv_include_x86_isa_level is loaded from cache
1179 [28036] nptl: Incorrect types for pthread_mutexattr_set/getrobust_np
1180 in __REDIRECT_NTH macro
1181 [28061] dynamic-link: A failing dlmopen called by an auditor crashed
1182 [28062] dynamic-link: Suppress audit calls when a (new) namespace is
1183 empty
1184 [28126] libc: nftw aborts for paths longer than PATH_MAX
1185 [28129] dynamic-link: Unnecessary check DT_DEBUG in ld.so
1186 [28153] libc: [test] gmon/tst-gmon-gprof* may have a f3 line when
1187 built with ld.lld
1188 [28182] libc: _TIME_BITS=64 in C++ has issues with fcntl, ioctl, prctl
1189 [28185] math: Inaccurate j0f function (again)
1190 [28199] locale: iconvconfig prefix flag behaves differently in glibc
1191 2.34
1192 [28203] dynamic-link: aarch64: elf_machine_{load_address,dynamic}
1193 should drop _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_[0] in favor of __ehdr_start for
1194 robustness
1195 [28213] librt: NULL pointer dereference in mq_notify (CVE-2021-38604)
1196 [28223] libc: mips: clone does not align stack
1197 [28253] dynamic-link: Missing colon in LD_SHOW_AUXV output after
1198 AT_MINSIGSTKSZ
1199 [28256] malloc: Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised
1200 value(s) in __GI___tunables_init
1201 [28260] build: io/tst-closefrom, misc/tst-close_range, posix/tst-
1202 spawn5 fail if stray fds are open
1203 [28310] libc: Do not use affinity mask for sysconf
1204 (_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF)
1205 [28338] time: undefined behavior in __tzfile_compute with oddball TZif
1206 file
1207 [28340] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes while loading a DSO with a read-
1208 only dynamic section
1209 [28349] libc: Segfault for ping -R on qemux86 caused by recvmsg()
1210 [28350] libc: ping receives SIGABRT on lib32-qemux86-64 caused by
1211 recvmsg()
1212 [28353] network: Race condition on __opensock
1213 [28357] dynamic-link: deadlock between pthread_create and ctors
1214 [28358] math: f64xdivf128 and f64xmulf128 spurious underflows
1215 [28361] nptl: Fix for bug 12889 causes setxid deadlock
1216 [28368] build: -Waddress instances in stdio-common/vfprintf-internal.c
1217 [28390] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 14.0.0
1218 [28397] math: tgmath.h should not define fmaxmag, fminmag macros for
1219 C2X
1220 [28400] libc: [2.35 Regression] string/test-strncasecmp: cannot set
1221 locale "en_US.UTF-8"
1222 [28407] nptl: pthread_kill assumes that kill (getpid ()) is equivalent
1223 to tgkill (getpid (), gettid())
1224 [28455] dynamic-link: -Wl,--enable-new-dtags doesn't work
1225 [28457] dynamic-link: Missing reldepmod4.so dependency for
1226 globalmod1.so
1227 [28469] time: linux: struct timex is not correctly set for 32-bit
1228 systems with TIMESIZE=64
1229 [28470] regex: Buffer read overrun in regular expression searching
1230 [28475] string: Incorrect access attribute on memfrob
1231 [28524] libc: Conversion from ISO-2022-JP-3 with iconv may emit
1232 spurious NUL character on state reset
1233 [28532] libc: powerpc64[le]: CFI for assembly templated syscalls is
1234 incorrect
1235 [28550] dynamic-link: FAIL: tst-dso-
1236 ordering9_112-ecbda(GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort=1)
1237 execution test
1238 [28554] build: Undefined generate-md5
1239 [28572] libc: Misaligned accesses in test-memcpy and test-mempcpy on
1240 hppa
1241 [28607] nptl: Masked signals are delivered on thread exit
1242 [28624] libc: openjdk 8/9 assume uni processor and gets stuck due to
1243 lack of cpu counting /proc fallback with glibc 2.34
1244 [28646] string: [2.35 Regression] mock -r fedora-36-x86_64
1245 /tmp/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.312.b07-2.fc36.src.rpm& fails to build
1246 [28648] dynamic-link: Running ld.so on statically linked binaries
1247 crashes
1248 [28656] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC no longer works due to
1249 binutils changes
1250 [28676] dynamic-link: p_align on PT_LOAD segment in DSO isn't honored
1251 [28678] nptl: nptl/tst-create1 hangs sporadically
1252 [28688] dynamic-link: PT_LOAD p_align check is too strict
1253 [28700] nss: "dns [!UNAVAIL=return] files" default for hosts database
1254 is not useful
1255 [28707] time: assert in tzfile.c __tzfile_read striking with truncated
1256 timezones generated by tzcode-2021d and later
1257 [28713] math: GCC 12 miscompiles libm
1258 [28732] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-dl_find_object
1259 [28738] build: LIBC_LINKER_FEATURE doesn't work on linker -z option
1260 [28745] dynamic-link: _dl_find_object miscompilation on powerpc64le
1261 [28746] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE does not work for stpcpy
1262 [28749] libc: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: rtld.c: 1632: dl_main:
1263 Assertion `GL(dl_rtld_map).l_libname' failed!
1264 [28755] string: overflow bug in wcsncmp_avx2 and wcsncmp_evex
1265 [28757] nptl: GDB printer tests failed with new GDB
1266 [28765] math: x86_64 libmvec atan2 accuracy
1267 [28766] manual: Document libmvec accuracy
1268 [28768] network: Buffer overflow in svcunix_create with long pathnames
1269 (CVE-2022-23218)
1270 [28769] libc: Off-by-one buffer overflow/underflow in getcwd()
1271 (CVE-2021-3999)
1272 [28770] libc: Unexpected return value from realpath() for too long
1273 results (CVE-2021-3998)
1274 [28771] libc: %ebx optimization macros are incompatible with .altmacro
1275 in Systemtap probes
1276 [28780] build: --disable-default-pie doesn't work on static programs
1277 [28782] libc: x86-64 ISA level for glibc itself is always
1278 x86-64-baseline
1279 [28792] glob: possible wrong behaviour with patterns with double [
1280 with no closing ]
1281 [28837] libc: FAIL: socket/tst-socket-timestamp-compat
1282 [28847] locale: Empty mon_decimal_point in LC_MONETARY results in non-
1283 empty mon_decimal_point_wc
1284
1285\f
1286Version 2.34
1287
1288Major new features:
1289
1290* In order to support smoother in-place-upgrades and to simplify
1291 the implementation of the runtime all functionality formerly
1292 implemented in the libraries libpthread, libdl, libutil, libanl has
1293 been integrated into libc. New applications do not need to link with
1294 -lpthread, -ldl, -lutil, -lanl anymore. For backwards compatibility,
1295 empty static archives libpthread.a, libdl.a, libutil.a, libanl.a are
1296 provided, so that the linker options keep working. Applications which
1297 have been linked against glibc 2.33 or earlier continue to load the
1298 corresponding shared objects (which are now empty). The integration
1299 of those libraries into libc means that additional symbols become
1300 available by default. This can cause applications that contain weak
1301 references to take unexpected code paths that would only have been
1302 used in previous glibc versions when e.g. preloading libpthread.so.0,
1303 potentially exposing application bugs.
1304
1305* When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE are defined,
1306 PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is no longer constant and is redefined to
1307 sysconf(_SC_THREAD_STACK_MIN). This supports dynamic sized register
1308 sets for modern architectural features like Arm SVE.
1309
1310* Add _SC_MINSIGSTKSZ and _SC_SIGSTKSZ. When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE
1311 or _GNU_SOURCE are defined, MINSIGSTKSZ and SIGSTKSZ are no longer
1312 constant on Linux. MINSIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf(_SC_MINSIGSTKSZ)
1313 and SIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf (_SC_SIGSTKSZ). This supports
1314 dynamic sized register sets for modern architectural features like
1315 Arm SVE.
1316
1317* The dynamic linker implements the --list-diagnostics option, printing
1318 a dump of information related to IFUNC resolver operation and
1319 glibc-hwcaps subdirectory selection.
1320
1321* On Linux, the function execveat has been added. It operates similar to
1322 execve and it is is already used to implement fexecve without requiring
1323 /proc to be mounted. However, different than fexecve, if the syscall is not
1324 supported by the kernel an error is returned instead of trying a fallback.
1325
1326* The ISO C2X function timespec_getres has been added.
1327
1328* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_EXT__, from draft ISO
1329 C2X, is supported to enable declarations of functions defined in Annex F
1330 of C2X. Those declarations are also enabled when
1331 __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, as specified in TS 18661-1, is
1332 defined, and when _GNU_SOURCE is defined.
1333
1334* On powerpc64*, glibc can now be compiled without scv support using the
1335 --disable-scv configure option.
1336
1337* Add support for 64-bit time_t on configurations like x86 where time_t
1338 is traditionally 32-bit. Although time_t still defaults to 32-bit on
1339 these configurations, this default may change in future versions.
1340 This is enabled with the _TIME_BITS preprocessor macro set to 64 and is
1341 only supported when LFS (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) is also enabled. It is
1342 only enabled for Linux and the full support requires a minimum kernel
1343 version of 5.1.
1344
1345* The main gconv-modules file in glibc now contains only a small set of
1346 essential converter modules and the rest have been moved into a supplementary
1347 configuration file gconv-modules-extra.conf in the gconv-modules.d directory
1348 in the same GCONV_PATH. Similarly, external converter modules directories
1349 may have supplementary configuration files in a gconv-modules.d directory
1350 with names ending with .conf to logically classify the converter modules in
1351 that directory.
1352
1353* On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.pthread.stack_cache_size, can be used
1354 to configure the size of the thread stack cache.
1355
1356* The function _Fork has been added as an async-signal-safe fork replacement
1357 since Austin Group issue 62 dropped the async-signal-safe requirement for
1358 fork (and it will be included in the future POSIX standard). The new _Fork
1359 function does not run any atfork function neither resets any internal state
1360 or lock (such as the malloc one), and only sets up a minimal state required
1361 to call async-signal-safe functions (such as raise or execve). This function
1362 is currently a GNU extension.
1363
1364* On Linux, the close_range function has been added. It allows efficiently
1365 closing a range of file descriptors on recent kernels (version 5.9).
1366
1367* The function closefrom has been added. It closes all file descriptors
1368 greater than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
1369 although it is also present in other systems.
1370
1371* The posix_spawn_file_actions_addclosefrom_np function has been added,
1372 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to close all file descriptors greater
1373 than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
1374 although Solaris also provides a similar function.
1375
1376* When invoked explicitly, the dynamic linker now uses the kernel to
1377 execute programs that do not have any dynamic dependency (that is,
1378 they are statically linked). This feature is Linux-specific.
1379
1380Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1381
1382* The function pthread_mutex_consistent_np has been deprecated; programs
1383 should use the equivalent standard function pthread_mutex_consistent
1384 instead.
1385
1386* The function pthread_mutexattr_getrobust_np has been deprecated;
1387 programs should use the equivalent standard function
1388 pthread_mutexattr_getrobust instead.
1389
1390* The function pthread_mutexattr_setrobust_np has been deprecated;
1391 programs should use the equivalent standard function
1392 pthread_mutexattr_setrobust instead.
1393
1394* The function pthread_yield has been deprecated; programs should use
1395 the equivalent standard function sched_yield instead.
1396
1397* The function inet_neta declared in <arpa/inet.h> has been deprecated.
1398
1399* Various rarely-used functions declared in <resolv.h> and
1400 <arpa/nameser.h> have been deprecated. Applications are encouraged to
1401 use dedicated DNS processing libraries if applicable. For <resolv.h>,
1402 this affects the functions dn_count_labels, fp_nquery, fp_query,
1403 fp_resstat, hostalias, loc_aton, loc_ntoa, p_cdname, p_cdnname,
1404 p_class, p_fqname, p_fqnname, p_option, p_query, p_rcode, p_time,
1405 p_type, putlong, putshort, res_hostalias, res_isourserver,
1406 res_nameinquery, res_queriesmatch, res_randomid, sym_ntop, sym_ntos,
1407 sym_ston. For <arpa/nameser.h>, the functions ns_datetosecs,
1408 ns_format_ttl, ns_makecanon, ns_parse_ttl, ns_samedomain, ns_samename,
1409 ns_sprintrr, ns_sprintrrf, ns_subdomain have been deprecated.
1410
1411* Various symbols previously defined in libresolv have been moved to libc
1412 in order to prepare for libresolv moving entirely into libc (see earlier
1413 entry for merging libraries into libc). The symbols __dn_comp,
1414 __dn_expand, __dn_skipname, __res_dnok, __res_hnok, __res_mailok,
1415 __res_mkquery, __res_nmkquery, __res_nquery, __res_nquerydomain,
1416 __res_nsearch, __res_nsend, __res_ownok, __res_query, __res_querydomain,
1417 __res_search, __res_send formerly in libresolv have been renamed and no
1418 longer have a __ prefix. They are now available in libc.
1419
1420* The pthread cancellation handler is now installed with SA_RESTART and
1421 pthread_cancel will always send the internal SIGCANCEL on a cancellation
1422 request. It should not be visible to applications since the cancellation
1423 handler should either act upon cancellation (if asynchronous cancellation
1424 is enabled) or ignore the cancellation internal signal. However there are
1425 buggy kernel interfaces (for instance some CIFS versions) that could still
1426 see a spurious EINTR error when cancellation interrupts a blocking syscall.
1427
1428* Previously, glibc installed its various shared objects under versioned
1429 file names such as libc-2.33.so. The ABI sonames (e.g., libc.so.6)
1430 were provided as symbolic links. Starting with glibc 2.34, the shared
1431 objects are installed under their ABI sonames directly, without
1432 symbolic links. This increases compatibility with distribution
1433 package managers that delete removed files late during the package
1434 upgrade or downgrade process.
1435
1436* The symbols mallwatch and tr_break are now deprecated and no longer used in
1437 mtrace. Similar functionality can be achieved by using conditional
1438 breakpoints within mtrace functions from within gdb.
1439
1440* The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
1441 implementation __default_morecore have been removed from the API. Existing
1442 applications will continue to link against these symbols but the interfaces
1443 no longer have any effect on malloc.
1444
1445* Debugging features in malloc such as the MALLOC_CHECK_ environment variable
1446 (or the glibc.malloc.check tunable), mtrace() and mcheck() have now been
1447 disabled by default in the main C library. Users looking to use these
1448 features now need to preload a new debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so to get
1449 this functionality back.
1450
1451* The deprecated functions malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state have been
1452 moved from the core C library into libc_malloc_debug.so. Legacy applications
1453 that still use these functions will now need to preload libc_malloc_debug.so
1454 in their environment using the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
1455
1456* The deprecated memory allocation hooks __malloc_hook, __realloc_hook,
1457 __memalign_hook and __free_hook are now removed from the API. Compatibility
1458 symbols are present to support legacy programs but new applications can no
1459 longer link to these symbols. These hooks no longer have any effect on glibc
1460 functionality. The malloc debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so currently
1461 supports hooks and can be preloaded to get this functionality back for older
1462 programs. However this is a transitional measure and may be removed in a
1463 future release of the GNU C Library. Users may port away from these hooks by
1464 writing and preloading their own malloc interposition library.
1465
1466Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1467
1468* On Linux, the shm_open, sem_open, and related functions now expect the
1469 file shared memory file system to be mounted at /dev/shm. These functions
1470 no longer search among the system's mount points for a suitable
1471 replacement if /dev/shm is not available.
1472
1473Security related changes:
1474
1475 CVE-2021-27645: The nameserver caching daemon (nscd), when processing
1476 a request for netgroup lookup, may crash due to a double-free,
1477 potentially resulting in degraded service or Denial of Service on the
1478 local system. Reported by Chris Schanzle.
1479
1480 CVE-2021-33574: The mq_notify function has a potential use-after-free
1481 issue when using a notification type of SIGEV_THREAD and a thread
1482 attribute with a non-default affinity mask.
1483
1484 CVE-2021-35942: The wordexp function may overflow the positional
1485 parameter number when processing the expansion resulting in a crash.
1486 Reported by Philippe Antoine.
1487
1488The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1489
1490 [4737] libc: fork is not async-signal-safe
1491 [5781] math: Slow dbl-64 sin/cos/sincos for special values
1492 [10353] libc: Methods for deleting all file descriptors greater than
1493 given integer (closefrom)
1494 [14185] glob: fnmatch() fails when '*' wildcard is applied on the file
1495 name containing multi-byte character(s)
1496 [14469] math: Inaccurate j0f function
1497 [14470] math: Inaccurate j1f function
1498 [14471] math: Inaccurate y0f function
1499 [14472] math: Inaccurate y1f function
1500 [14744] nptl: kill -32 $pid or kill -33 $pid on a process cancels a
1501 random thread
1502 [15271] dynamic-link: dlmopen()ed shared library with LM_ID_NEWLM
1503 crashes if it fails dlsym() twice
1504 [15648] nptl: multiple definition of `__lll_lock_wait_private'
1505 [16063] nptl: Provide a pthread_once variant in libc directly
1506 [17144] libc: syslog is not thread-safe if NO_SIGPIPE is not defined
1507 [17145] libc: syslog with LOG_CONS leaks console file descriptor
1508 [17183] manual: description of ENTRY struct in <search.h> in glibc
1509 manual is incorrect
1510 [18435] nptl: pthread_once hangs when init routine throws an exception
1511 [18524] nptl: Missing calloc error checking in
1512 __cxa_thread_atexit_impl
1513 [19329] dynamic-link: dl-tls.c assert failure at concurrent
1514 pthread_create and dlopen
1515 [19366] nptl: returning from a thread should disable cancellation
1516 [19511] nptl: 8MB memory leak in pthread_create in case of failure
1517 when non-root user changes priority
1518 [20802] dynamic-link: getauxval NULL pointer dereference after static
1519 dlopen
1520 [20813] nptl: pthread_exit is inconsistent between libc and libpthread
1521 [22057] malloc: malloc_usable_size is broken with mcheck
1522 [22668] locale: LC_COLLATE: the last character of ellipsis is not
1523 ordered correctly
1524 [23323] libc: [RFE] CSU startup hardening.
1525 [23328] malloc: Remove malloc hooks and ensure related APIs return no
1526 data.
1527 [23462] dynamic-link: Static binary with dynamic string tokens ($LIB,
1528 $PLATFORM, $ORIGIN) crashes
1529 [23489] libc: "gcc -lmcheck" aborts on free when using posix_memalign
1530 [23554] nptl: pthread_getattr_np reports wrong stack size with
1531 MULTI_PAGE_ALIASING
1532 [24106] libc: Bash interpreter in ldd script is taken from host
1533 [24773] dynamic-link: dlerror in an secondary namespace does not use
1534 the right free implementation
1535 [25036] localedata: Update collation order for Swedish
1536 [25383] libc: where_is_shmfs/__shm_directory/SHM_GET_NAME may cause
1537 shm_open to pick wrong directory
1538 [25680] dynamic-link: ifuncmain9picstatic and ifuncmain9picstatic
1539 crash in IFUNC resolver due to stack canary (--enable-stack-
1540 protector=all)
1541 [26874] build: -Warray-bounds in _IO_wdefault_doallocate
1542 [26983] math: [x86_64] x86_64 tgamma has too large ULP error
1543 [27111] dynamic-link: pthread_create and tls access use link_map
1544 objects that may be concurrently freed by dlclose
1545 [27132] malloc: memusagestat is linked to system librt, leading to
1546 undefined symbols on major version upgrade
1547 [27136] dynamic-link: dtv setup at thread creation may leave an entry
1548 uninitialized
1549 [27249] libc: libSegFault.so does not output signal number properly
1550 [27304] nptl: pthread_cond_destroy does not pass private flag to futex
1551 system calls
1552 [27318] dynamic-link: glibc fails to load binaries when built with
1553 -march=sandybridge: CPU ISA level is lower than required
1554 [27343] nss: initgroups() SIGSEGVs when called on a system without
1555 nsswich.conf (in a chroot)
1556 [27346] dynamic-link: x86: PTWRITE feature check is missing
1557 [27389] network: NSS chroot hardening causes regressions in chroot
1558 deployments
1559 [27403] dynamic-link: aarch64: tlsdesc htab is not freed on dlclose
1560 [27444] libc: sysconf reports unsupported option (-1) for
1561 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_LINESIZE on X86 since v2.33
1562 [27462] nscd: double-free in nscd (CVE-2021-27645)
1563 [27468] malloc: aarch64: realloc crash with heap tagging: FAIL:
1564 malloc/tst-malloc-thread-fail
1565 [27498] dynamic-link: __dl_iterate_phdr lacks unwinding information
1566 [27511] libc: S390 memmove assumes Vector Facility when MIE Facility 3
1567 is present
1568 [27522] glob: glob, glob64 incorrectly marked as __THROW
1569 [27555] dynamic-link: Static tests fail with --enable-stack-
1570 protector=all
1571 [27559] libc: fstat(AT_FDCWD) succeeds (it shouldn't) and returns
1572 information for the current directory
1573 [27577] dynamic-link: elf/ld.so --help doesn't work
1574 [27605] libc: tunables can't control xsave/xsavec selection in
1575 dl_runtime_resolve_*
1576 [27623] libc: powerpc: Missing registers in sc[v] clobbers list
1577 [27645] libc: [linux] sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSOR...) breaks down on
1578 containers
1579 [27646] dynamic-link: Linker error for non-existing NSS symbols (e.g.
1580 _nss_files_getcanonname_r) from within a dlmopen namespace.
1581 [27648] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-select
1582 [27650] stdio: vfscanf returns too early if a match is longer than
1583 INT_MAX
1584 [27651] libc: Performance regression after updating to 2.33
1585 [27655] string: Wrong size calculation in string/test-strnlen.c
1586 [27706] libc: select fails to update timeout on error
1587 [27709] libc: arm: FAIL: debug/tst-longjmp_chk2
1588 [27721] dynamic-link: x86: ld_audit ignores bind now for TLSDESC and
1589 tries resolving them lazily
1590 [27744] nptl: Support different libpthread/ld.so load orders in
1591 libthread_db
1592 [27749] libc: Data race __run_exit_handlers
1593 [27761] libc: getconf: Segmentation fault when passing '-vq' as
1594 argument
1595 [27832] nss: makedb.c:797:7: error: 'writev' specified size 4294967295
1596 exceeds maximum object size 2147483647
1597 [27870] malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ causes realloc(valid_ptr, TOO_LARGE) to
1598 not set ENOMEM
1599 [27872] build: Obsolete configure option --enable-stackguard-
1600 randomization
1601 [27873] build: tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo fail when building on AMD cpu
1602 [27882] localedata: Use U+00AF MACRON in more EBCDIC charsets
1603 [27892] libc: powerpc: scv ABI error handling fails to check
1604 IS_ERR_VALUE
1605 [27896] nptl: mq_notify does not handle separately allocated thread
1606 attributes (CVE-2021-33574)
1607 [27901] libc: TEST_STACK_ALIGN doesn't work
1608 [27902] libc: The x86-64 clone wrapper fails to align child stack
1609 [27914] nptl: Install SIGSETXID handler with SA_ONSTACK
1610 [27939] libc: aarch64: clone does not align the stack
1611 [27968] libc: s390x: clone does not align the stack
1612 [28011] libc: Wild read in wordexp (parse_param) (CVE-2021-35942)
1613 [28024] string: s390(31bit): Wrong result of memchr (MEMCHR_Z900_G5)
1614 with n >= 0x80000000
1615 [28028] malloc: malloc: tcache shutdown sequence does not work if the
1616 thread never allocated anything
1617 [28033] libc: Need to check RTM_ALWAYS_ABORT for RTM
1618 [28064] string: x86_64:wcslen implementation list has wcsnlen
1619 [28067] libc: FAIL: posix/tst-spawn5
1620 [28068] malloc: FAIL: malloc/tst-mallocalign1-mcheck
1621 [28071] time: clock_gettime, gettimeofday, time lost vDSO acceleration
1622 on older kernels
1623 [28075] nis: Out-of-bounds static buffer read in nis_local_domain
1624 [28089] build: tst-tls20 fails when linker defaults to --as-needed
1625 [28090] build: elf/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo-static fails on certain
1626 AMD64 cpus
1627 [28091] network: ns_name_skip may return 0 for domain names without
1628 terminator
1629
1630\f
1631Version 2.33
1632
1633Major new features:
1634
1635* The dynamic linker accepts the --list-tunables argument which prints
1636 all the supported tunables. This option is disable if glibc is
1637 configured with tunables disabled (--enable-tunables=no).
1638
1639* The dynamic linker accepts the --argv0 argument and provides opportunity
1640 to change argv[0] string.
1641
1642* The dynamic linker loads optimized implementations of shared objects
1643 from subdirectories under the glibc-hwcaps directory on the library
1644 search path if the system's capabilities meet the requirements for
1645 that subdirectory. Initially supported subdirectories include
1646 "power9" and "power10" for the powerpc64le-linux-gnu architecture,
1647 "z13", "z14", "z15" for s390x-linux-gnu, and "x86-64-v2", "x86-64-v3",
1648 "x86-64-v4" for x86_64-linux-gnu. In the x86_64-linux-gnu case, the
1649 subdirectory names correspond to the vendor-independent x86-64
1650 microarchitecture levels defined in the x86-64 psABI supplement.
1651
1652* The new --help option of the dynamic linker provides usage and
1653 information and library search path diagnostics.
1654
1655* The mallinfo2 function is added to report statistics as per mallinfo,
1656 but with larger field widths to accurately report values that are
1657 larger than fit in an integer.
1658
1659* Add <sys/platform/x86.h> to provide query macros for x86 CPU features.
1660
1661* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been expanded to run on
1662 32-bit hardware. This is supported for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
1663
1664 - rv32imac ilp32
1665 - rv32imafdc ilp32
1666 - rv32imafdc ilp32d
1667
1668 The 32-bit RISC-V port requires at least Linux 5.4, GCC 7.1 and binutils
1669 2.28.
1670
1671* A new fortification level _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 is available. At this level,
1672 glibc may use additional checks that may have an additional performance
1673 overhead. At present these checks are available only on LLVM 9 and later.
1674 The latest GCC available at this time (10.2) does not support this level of
1675 fortification.
1676
1677Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1678
1679* The mallinfo function is marked deprecated. Callers should call
1680 mallinfo2 instead.
1681
1682* When dlopen is used in statically linked programs, alternative library
1683 implementations from HWCAP subdirectories are no longer loaded.
1684 Instead, the default implementation is used.
1685
1686* The deprecated <sys/vtimes.h> header and the function vtimes have been
1687 removed. To support old binaries, the vtimes function continues to exist
1688 as a compatibility symbol. Applications should use the getrlimit or
1689 prlimit.
1690
1691* Following a change in the tzdata 2018a release upstream, the zdump
1692 program is now installed in the /usr/bin subdirectory. Previously,
1693 the /usr/sbin subdirectory was used.
1694
1695* On s390(x), the type float_t is now derived from the macro
1696 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ that is defined by the compiler, instead of being
1697 hardcoded to double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
1698 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
1699 libraries that use this type in their interfaces. The new definition
1700 improves consistency with compiler behavior in many scenarios.
1701
1702* A future version of glibc will stop loading shared objects from the
1703 "tls" subdirectories on the library search path, the subdirectory that
1704 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, and also stop employing
1705 the legacy AT_HWCAP search mechanism. Applications should switch to
1706 the new glibc-hwcaps mechanism instead; if they do not do that, only
1707 the baseline version (directly from the search path directory) will be
1708 loaded.
1709
1710Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1711
1712* On Linux, the system administrator needs to configure /dev/pts with
1713 the intended access modes for pseudo-terminals. glibc no longer
1714 attempts to adjust permissions of terminal devices. The previous glibc
1715 defaults ("tty" group, user read/write and group write) already
1716 corresponded to what most systems used, so that grantpt did not
1717 perform any adjustments.
1718
1719* On Linux, the posix_openpt and getpt functions no longer attempt to
1720 use legacy (BSD) pseudo-terminals and assume that if /dev/ptmx exists
1721 (and pseudo-terminals are supported), a devpts file system is mounted
1722 on /dev/pts. Current systems already meet these requirements.
1723
1724* s390x requires GCC 7.1 or newer. See gcc Bug 98269.
1725
1726Security related changes:
1727
1728 CVE-2021-3326: An assertion failure during conversion from the
1729 ISO-20220-JP-3 character set using the iconv function has been fixed.
1730 This assertion was triggered by certain valid inputs in which the
1731 converted output contains a combined sequence of two wide characters
1732 crossing a buffer boundary. Reported by Tavis Ormandy.
1733
1734 CVE-2020-27618: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
1735 invoked with input containing redundant shift sequences in the IBM1364,
1736 IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, or IBM1399 character sets.
1737
1738 CVE-2020-29562: An assertion failure has been fixed in the iconv function
1739 when invoked with UCS4 input containing an invalid character.
1740
1741 CVE-2019-25013: A buffer overflow has been fixed in the iconv function when
1742 invoked with EUC-KR input containing invalid multibyte input sequences.
1743
1744The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1745
1746 [10635] libc: realpath portability patches
1747 [16124] dynamic-link: ld.so should allow to change argv[0]
1748 [17924] malloc: 'free' should not set errno
1749 [18683] libc: Linux faccessat implementation can incorrectly ignore
1750 AT_EACCESS
1751 [22899] libc: Use 64-bit readdir() in generic POSIX getcwd()
1752 [23091] hurd: missing waitid support
1753 [23249] libc: Epyc and other current AMD CPUs do not select the
1754 "haswell" platform subdirectory
1755 [24080] dynamic-link: Definition of "haswell" platform is inconsistent
1756 with GCC
1757 [24202] libc: m68k setjmp() saves incorrect 'a5' register in --enable-
1758 stack-protector=all
1759 [24941] libc: Make grantpt usable after multi-threaded fork in more
1760 cases
1761 [24970] libc: realpath mishandles EOVERFLOW; stat not needed anyway
1762 [24973] locale: iconv encounters segmentation fault when converting
1763 0x00 0xfe in EUC-KR to UTF-8 (CVE-2019-25013)
1764 [25399] string: undefined reference to `__warn_memset_zero_len' when
1765 changing gnuc version
1766 [25859] libc: glibc parser for /sys/devices/system/cpu/online is
1767 incorrect
1768 [25938] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should store meaning of hwcap mask
1769 bits
1770 [25971] libc: s390 bits/hwcap.h out of sync with kernel
1771 [26053] libc: unlockpt fails with ENOTTY for non-ptmx descriptors
1772 [26100] libc: Race in syslog(3) with regards to tag printing.
1773 [26124] libc: Export <cpu-features.h>
1774 [26130] nscd: Inconsistent nscd cache during pruning
1775 [26203] libc: GLRO(dl_x86_cpu_features) may not be initialized
1776 [26224] locale: iconv hangs when converting some invalid inputs from
1777 several IBM character sets (CVE-2020-27618)
1778 [26341] libc: realpath cyclically call __alloca(path_max) to consume
1779 too much stack space
1780 [26343] manual: invalid documented return type for strerrorname_np(),
1781 strerrordesc_np(), sigdescr_np(), sigabbrev_np()
1782 [26376] libc: Namespace violation in stdio.h and sys/stat.h if build
1783 with optimization.
1784 [26383] locale: bind_textdomain_codeset doesn't accept //TRANSLIT
1785 anymore
1786 [26394] time: [2.33 Regression] FAIL: nptl/tst-join14
1787 [26534] math: libm.so 2.32 SIGILL in pow() due to FMA4 instruction on
1788 non-FMA4 system
1789 [26552] dynamic-link: CPU_FEATURE_USABLE_P should be more conservative
1790 [26553] libc: mtx_init allows type set to "mtx_recursive" only
1791 [26555] string: strerrorname_np does not return the documented value
1792 [26592] libc: pointer arithmetic overflows in realpath
1793 [26600] network: Transaction ID collisions cause slow DNS lookups in
1794 getaddrinfo
1795 [26606] libc: [2.33 Regression] pselect is broken on x32
1796 [26615] libc: powerpc: libc segfaults when LD_PRELOADed with libgcc
1797 [26620] glob: fnmatch with collating symbols results in segmentation
1798 fault
1799 [26625] libc: [2.33 Regression] CET is disabled
1800 [26636] libc: 32-bit shmctl(IPC_INFO) crashes when shminfo struct is
1801 at the end of a memory mapping
1802 [26637] libc: semctl SEM_STAT_ANY fails to pass the buffer specified
1803 by the caller to the kernel
1804 [26639] libc: msgctl IPC_INFO and MSG_INFO return garbage
1805 [26647] build: [-Werror=array-parameter=] due to different
1806 declarations for __sigsetjmp
1807 [26648] libc: mkstemp is likely to fail on systems with non-stricly-
1808 monotonic clocks
1809 [26649] stdio: printf should handle non-normal x86 long double numbers
1810 gracefully (CVE-2020-29573)
1811 [26686] build: -Warray-parameter instances building with GCC 11
1812 [26687] build: -Warray-bounds instances building with GCC 11
1813 [26690] stdio: Aliasing violation in __vfscanf_internal
1814 [26691] nptl: Use a minimum guard size of 64 KiB on aarch64
1815 [26726] build: GCC warning calling new_composite_name with an array of
1816 one element
1817 [26736] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-sysvshm-linux
1818 [26737] libc: Random FAIL: rt/tst-shm
1819 [26791] libc: Missing O_CLOEXEC in sysconf.c
1820 [26798] dynamic-link: aarch64: variant PCS symbols may be incorrectly
1821 lazy bound
1822 [26801] nptl: pthread_mutex_clocklock with CLOCK_MONOTONIC can fail on
1823 PI mutexes
1824 [26818] string: aarch64: string tests may run ifunc variants that are
1825 not safe
1826 [26821] libc: Memory leak test failures on Fedora 33
1827 [26824] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-cpu-features-supports with recent trunk:
1828 FSGSBASE/LM/RDRAND check failure
1829 [26833] time: adjtime() with delta == NULL segfaults on armv7 32bit
1830 platform
1831 [26853] libc: aarch64: Missing unwind information in statically linked
1832 startup code
1833 [26923] locale: Assertion failure in iconv when converting invalid
1834 UCS4 (CVE-2020-29562)
1835 [26926] dynamic-link: aarch64: library dependencies are not bti
1836 protected
1837 [26932] libc: sh: Multiple floating point functions defined as stubs
1838 only since 2.31
1839 [26964] nptl: pthread_mutex_timedlock returning EAGAIN after futex is
1840 locked
1841 [26988] dynamic-link: aarch64: BTI mprotect address is not page
1842 aligned
1843 [27002] build: libc_freeres_fn build failure with GCC 11
1844 [27004] dynamic-link: ld.so is miscompiled by GCC 11
1845 [27008] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should have endianness markup
1846 [27042] libc: [alpha] anonymous union in struct stat confuses
1847 detection logic
1848 [27053] libc: Conformance regression in system(3) (and probably also
1849 pclose(3))
1850 [27072] dynamic-link: static pie ifunc resolvers run before hwcap is
1851 setup
1852 [27077] network: Do not reload /etc/nsswitch.conf from chroot
1853 [27083] libc: Unsafe unbounded alloca in addmntent
1854 [27104] dynamic-link: The COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_MAX handshake does not
1855 work
1856 [27130] string: "rep movsb" performance issue
1857 [27150] libc: alpha: wait4() is unavailable in static linking
1858 [27177] dynamic-link:
1859 GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.cpu.x86_ibt=on:glibc.cpu.x86_shstk=on doesn't
1860 work
1861 [27222] dynamic-link: Incorrect sysdeps/x86/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo.c
1862 [27237] malloc: deadlock in malloc/tst-malloc-stats-cancellation
1863 [27256] locale: Assertion failure in ISO-2022-JP-3 gconv module
1864 related to combining characters (CVE-2021-3326)
1865
1866\f
1867Version 2.32
1868
1869Major new features:
1870
1871* Unicode 13.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1872 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 13.0.0, using
1873 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1874
1875* New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq)
1876
1877* Support for Synopsys ARC HS cores (ARCv2 ISA) running Linux has been
1878 added. This port requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-8.3 and Linux-5.1.
1879 Three ABIs are supported:
1880
1881 - arc-linux-gnu
1882 - arc-linux-gnuhf
1883 - arceb-linux-gnu
1884
1885 The arc* ABIs are little-endian while arceb is big-endian. All ABIs use
1886 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
1887
1888* The GNU C Library now loads audit modules listed in the DT_AUDIT and
1889 DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
1890
1891* powerpc64le supports IEEE128 long double libm/libc redirects when
1892 using -mabi=ieeelongdouble to compile C code on supported GCC
1893 toolchains. It is recommended to use GCC 8 or newer when testing
1894 this option.
1895
1896* To help detect buffer overflows and other out-of-bounds accesses
1897 several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This
1898 should help GCC 10 issue better warnings.
1899
1900* On Linux, functions pthread_attr_setsigmask_np and
1901 pthread_attr_getsigmask_np have been added. They allow applications
1902 to specify the signal mask of a thread created with pthread_create.
1903
1904* The GNU C Library now provides the header file <sys/single_threaded.h>
1905 which declares the variable __libc_single_threaded. Applications are
1906 encouraged to use this variable for single-thread optimizations,
1907 instead of weak references to symbols historically defined in
1908 libpthread.
1909
1910* The functions sigabbrev_np and sigdescr_np have been added. The
1911 sigabbrev_np function returns the abbreviated signal name (e.g. "HUP" for
1912 SIGHUP) while sigdescr_np returns a string describing the signal number
1913 (e.g "Hangup" for SIGHUP). Different than strsignal, sigdescr_np does not
1914 attempt to translate the return description, both functions return
1915 NULL for an invalid signal number.
1916
1917 They should be used instead of sys_siglist or sys_sigabbrev and they
1918 are both thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
1919
1920* The functions strerrorname_np and strerrordesc_np have been added. The
1921 strerroname_np function returns error number name (e.g. "EINVAL" for EINVAL)
1922 while strerrordesc_np returns a string describing the error number
1923 (e.g "Invalid argument" for EINVAL). Different than strerror,
1924 strerrordesc_np does not attempt to translate the return description, both
1925 functions return NULL for an invalid error number.
1926
1927 They should be used instead of sys_errlist and sys_nerr, both are
1928 thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
1929
1930* AArch64 now supports standard branch protection security hardening
1931 in glibc when it is built with a GCC that is configured with
1932 --enable-standard-branch-protection (or if -mbranch-protection=standard
1933 flag is passed when building both GCC target libraries and glibc,
1934 in either case a custom GCC is needed). This includes branch target
1935 identification (BTI) and pointer authentication for return addresses
1936 (PAC-RET). They require armv8.5-a and armv8.3-a architecture
1937 extensions respectively for the protection to be effective,
1938 otherwise the used instructions are nops. User code can use PAC-RET
1939 without libc support, but BTI requires a libc that is built with BTI
1940 support, otherwise runtime objects linked into user code will not be
1941 BTI compatible.
1942
1943Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1944
1945* Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc. Sun RPC is removed
1946 from glibc. This includes the rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and the Sun
1947 RPC header files. Backward compatibility for old programs is kept
1948 only for architectures and ABIs that have been added in or before
1949 glibc 2.31. New programs need to use TI-RPC
1950 <http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=summary> and
1951 rpcsvc-proto <https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto>.
1952
1953* Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-nsl. libnsl is only built
1954 as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules "nis"
1955 and "nisplus" are not built at all and libnsl's headers aren't
1956 installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs
1957 that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement
1958 implementations based on TI-RPC, which additionally support IPv6, are
1959 available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not
1960 affect the "compat" NSS module, which does not depend on libnsl
1961 since 2.27 and thus can be used without NIS.
1962
1963* The deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
1964 removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
1965 exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
1966 but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system
1967 call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5.
1968
1969* The sstk function is no longer available to newly linked binaries.
1970 Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function
1971 was not declared in any header file.
1972
1973* The legacy signal handling functions siginterrupt, sigpause, sighold,
1974 sigrelse, sigignore and sigset, and the sigmask macro have been
1975 deprecated. Applications should use the sigsuspend, sigprocmask and
1976 sigaction functions instead.
1977
1978* ldconfig now defaults to the new format for ld.so.cache. glibc has
1979 already supported this format for almost 20 years.
1980
1981* The deprecated arrays sys_siglist, _sys_siglist, and sys_sigabbrev
1982 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
1983 have been removed from <string.h>. They are exported solely as
1984 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
1985 strsignal instead.
1986
1987* The deprecated symbols sys_errlist, _sys_errlist, sys_nerr, and _sys_nerr
1988 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
1989 have been removed from <stdio.h>. They are exported solely as
1990 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
1991 strerror or strerror_r instead.
1992
1993* Both strerror and strerror_l now share the same internal buffer in the
1994 calling thread, meaning that the returned string pointer may be invalided
1995 or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same thread or
1996 if the thread is terminated. It makes strerror MT-safe.
1997
1998* Using weak references to libpthread functions such as pthread_create
1999 or pthread_key_create to detect the singled-threaded nature of a
2000 program is an obsolescent feature. Future versions of glibc will
2001 define pthread_create within libc.so.6 itself, so such checks will
2002 always flag the program as multi-threaded. Applications should check
2003 the __libc_single_threaded variable declared in
2004 <sys/single_threaded.h> instead.
2005
2006* The "files" NSS module no longer supports the "key" database (used for
2007 secure RPC). The contents of the /etc/publickey file will be ignored,
2008 regardless of the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of
2009 storing RPC keys only supported the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES
2010 flavor of secure RPC.)
2011
2012* The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
2013 implementation __default_morecore have been deprecated. Applications
2014 should use malloc interposition to change malloc behavior, and mmap to
2015 allocate anonymous memory. A future version of glibc may require that
2016 applications which use the malloc hooks must preload a special shared
2017 object, to enable the hooks.
2018
2019* The hesiod NSS module has been deprecated and will be removed in a
2020 future version of glibc. System administrators are encouraged to
2021 switch to other approaches for networked account databases, such as
2022 LDAP.
2023
2024Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2025
2026* powerpc64le requires GCC 7.4 or newer. This is required for supporting
2027 long double redirects.
2028
2029Security related changes:
2030
2031 CVE-2016-10228: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
2032 invoked with the -c option and when processing invalid multi-byte input
2033 sequences. Reported by Jan Engelhardt.
2034
2035 CVE-2020-10029: Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack
2036 corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido
2037 Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
2038
2039 CVE-2020-1752: A use-after-free vulnerability in the glob function when
2040 expanding ~user has been fixed.
2041
2042 CVE-2020-6096: A signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy and
2043 memmove functions has been fixed. Discovered by Jason Royes and Samual
2044 Dytrych of the Cisco Security Assessment and Penetration Team (See
2045 TALOS-2020-1019).
2046
2047The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2048
2049 [9809] localedata: ckb_IQ: new Kurdish Sorani locale
2050 [10441] manual: Backtraces code example lacks error checking
2051 [10815] librt: [timer_create / SIGEV_THREAD] signalmask of
2052 timer_sigev_thread dangerous
2053 [14231] stdio: stdio-common tests memory requirements
2054 [14578] libc: /proc-based emulation for lchmod, fchmodat
2055 [16272] dynamic-link: dlopen()ing a DT_FILTER library crashes if
2056 filtee has constructor
2057 [19519] locale: iconv(1) with -c option hangs on illegal multi-byte
2058 sequences (CVE-2016-10228)
2059 [19737] admin: Doc page “20.5.2 Infinity and NaN” has incorrect HTML
2060 character entities for infinity & pi
2061 [20338] libc: Parsing of /etc/gshadow can return bad pointers causing
2062 segfaults in applications
2063 [20543] libc: Please move from .gnu.linkonce to comdat
2064 [22489] network: gcc warns about implicit conversion in
2065 ICMP6_FILTER_SETPASS with -Wsign-conversion
2066 [22525] localedata: or_IN LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2067 [23294] math: Complex _FloatN functions are redirected to the wrong
2068 function with -mlong-double-64
2069 [23296] libc: Data race in setting function descriptor during lazy
2070 binding
2071 [23668] dynamic-link: ldconfig: Default to the new format for
2072 ld.so.cache
2073 [23819] hurd: hurd: Add C11 thread support
2074 [23990] build: test-container error out on failure to exec child.
2075 [23991] build: shell-container typo in run_command_array
2076 [24638] manual: Error in example of parsing a template string
2077 [24654] manual: Wrong declaration of wcschr in libc manual
2078 [24943] dynamic-link: Support DT_AUDIT, DT_DEPAUDIT in the dynamic
2079 linker
2080 [25051] dynamic-link: aarch64, powerpc64 uses surplus static tls for
2081 dynamically loaded dsos
2082 [25098] nptl: nptl: ctype classification functions are not AS-Safe
2083 [25219] libc: improve out-of-bounds checking with GCC 10 attribute
2084 access
2085 [25262] libc: getcontext/setcontext/swapcontext unnecessarily save and
2086 restore EAX, ECX and EDX
2087 [25397] dynamic-link: Legacy bitmap doesn't cover jitted code
2088 [25414] glob: 'glob' use-after-free bug (CVE-2020-1752)
2089 [25420] network: Race condition in resolv_conf.c can result in caching
2090 stale configuration forever
2091 [25487] math: sinl() stack corruption from crafted input
2092 (CVE-2020-10029)
2093 [25506] build: configure: broken detection of STT_GNU_IFUNC when GCC
2094 defaults to PIE
2095 [25523] libc: MIPS/Linux inline syscall template is miscompiled
2096 [25620] libc: Signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy()
2097 (CVE-2020-6096)
2098 [25623] libc: test-sysvmsg, test-sysvsem, test-sysvshm fail with 2.31
2099 on 32 bit and old kernel
2100 [25635] libc: arm: Wrong sysdep order selection for soft-fp
2101 [25639] localedata: Some names of days and months wrongly spelt in
2102 Occitan
2103 [25657] libc: sigprocmask() and sigisemptyset() manipulate different
2104 amount of sigset_t bytes
2105 [25691] stdio: printf: memory leak when printing long multibyte
2106 strings
2107 [25715] libc: system() returns wrong errors when posix_spawn fails
2108 [25733] malloc: mallopt(M_MXFAST) can set global_max_fast to 0
2109 [25734] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS fails to reset conversion
2110 state for conversions that produce two Unicode code points
2111 [25765] nptl: Incorrect futex syscall in __pthread_disable_asynccancel
2112 for linux x86_64 leads to livelock
2113 [25788] dynamic-link: [i386] -fno-omit-frame-pointer in CFLAGS causes
2114 test failures, invalid instruction in ld.so
2115 [25790] glob: Typo in tst-fnmatch.input
2116 [25810] libc: x32: Incorrect syscall entries with pointer, off_t and
2117 size_t
2118 [25819] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 13.0.0
2119 [25824] libc: Abnormal function of strnlen in aarch64
2120 [25887] dynamic-link: Wasted space in _dl_x86_feature_1[1]
2121 [25896] libc: Incorrect prctl
2122 [25902] libc: Bad LOADARGS_N
2123 [25905] dynamic-link: VSX registers are corrupted during PLT
2124 resolution when glibc is built with --disable-multi-arch and --with-
2125 cpu=power9
2126 [25933] string: Off by one error in __strncmp_avx2 when
2127 length=VEC_SIZE*4 and strings are at page boundaries can cause a
2128 segfault
2129 [25942] nptl: Deadlock on stack_cache_lock between __nptl_setxid and
2130 exiting detached thread
2131 [25966] libc: Incorrect access of __x86_shared_non_temporal_threshold
2132 for x32
2133 [25976] nss: internal_end*ent in nss_compat may clobber errno, hiding
2134 ERANGE
2135 [25999] nptl: Use-after-free issue in pthread_getaddr_default_np
2136 [26073] math: getpayload() has wrong return value
2137 [26076] dynamic-link: dlmopen crashes after failing to load
2138 dependencies in audit mode
2139 [26120] localedata: column width of of some Korean
2140 JUNGSEONG/JONGSEONG characters wrong (should be 0)
2141 [26128] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFLUSHOPT
2142 [26133] libc: Incorrect need_arch_feature_F16C
2143 [26137] libc: strtod() triggers exception FE_INEXACT on reasonable
2144 input
2145 [26149] libc: PKU is usable only if OSPKE is set
2146 [26173] libc: powerpc64*: Add @notoc to calls to functions that do not
2147 preserve r2
2148 [26208] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFSH
2149 [26210] network: Incorrect use of hidden symbols for global sunrpc
2150 variables
2151 [26211] stdio: printf integer overflow calculating allocation size
2152 [26214] stdio: printf_fp double free
2153 [26215] stdio: printf_fp memory leak
2154 [26232] time: FAIL: support/tst-timespec for 32-bit targets
2155 [26258] nss: nss_compat should not read input files with mmap
2156 [26332] string: Incorrect cache line size load causes memory
2157 corruption in memset
2158
2159\f
2160Version 2.31
2161
2162Major new features:
2163
2164* The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
2165 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
2166 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
2167 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
2168 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
2169 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
2170
2171* The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
2172 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
2173 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
2174 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
2175
2176* The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
2177 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
2178 CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME. This function is a GNU extension.
2179
2180* New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar).
2181
2182* The DNS stub resolver will optionally send the AD (authenticated data) bit
2183 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
2184 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
2185 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
2186 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
2187 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
2188 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
2189 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
2190
2191Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2192
2193* The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
2194 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
2195 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
2196 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
2197 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
2198 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
2199
2200* The obsolete function stime is no longer available to newly linked
2201 binaries, and its declaration has been removed from <time.h>.
2202 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
2203
2204* We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
2205 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
2206 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
2207 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
2208
2209* The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
2210 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
2211 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
2212 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
2213 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
2214 made this no longer practical.
2215
2216 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
2217 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
2218 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
2219 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
2220 release.)
2221
2222 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
2223 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
2224 with the current time, use the localtime function.
2225
2226 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
2227 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
2228 using clock_gettime instead.
2229
2230* The settimeofday function can still be used to set a system-wide time
2231 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
2232 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
2233 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
2234 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
2235
2236 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
2237 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
2238 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
2239 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
2240
2241 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
2242 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
2243 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
2244 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
2245 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
2246 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
2247
2248 settimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. Programs that set
2249 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
2250 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
2251 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
2252 offset API.
2253
2254* SPARC ISA v7 is no longer supported. v8 is still supported, but only if
2255 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
2256 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
2257
2258 As the oldest 64-bit SPARC ISA is v9, this only affects 32-bit
2259 configurations.
2260
2261* If a lazy binding failure happens during dlopen, during the execution of
2262 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
2263 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
2264 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
2265 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
2266
2267* For MIPS hard-float ABIs, the GNU C Library will be configured to need an
2268 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
2269 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
2270 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
2271 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
2272 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
2273 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
2274 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
2275
2276 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
2277 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
2278
2279* System call wrappers for time system calls now use the new time64 system
2280 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
2281 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
2282 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
2283 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
2284 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
2285
2286Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2287
2288* It is no longer necessary to have recent Linux kernel headers to build
2289 working (non-stub) system call wrappers on all architectures except 64-bit
2290 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
2291
2292* The ChangeLog file is no longer present in the toplevel directory of the
2293 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
2294 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
2295
2296Security related changes:
2297
2298 CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an
2299 out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context.
2300
2301 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
2302 environment variable during program execution after a security
2303 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
2304 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
2305 program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
2306
2307The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2308
2309 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
2310 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
2311 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
2312 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
2313 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
2314 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
2315 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
2316 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
2317 linking failure
2318 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
2319 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
2320 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
2321 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
2322 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
2323 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
2324 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
2325 constructors/destructors is not fatal
2326 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
2327 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
2328 7408-2005
2329 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
2330 with localedef
2331 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
2332 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
2333 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
2334 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
2335 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
2336 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
2337 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
2338 utmp entries
2339 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
2340 ABSOLUTE ABI
2341 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
2342 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
2343 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
2344 (stringop-overflow error)
2345 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
2346 functions other can lead to crashes
2347 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
2348 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
2349 unconditionally
2350 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
2351 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
2352 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
2353 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
2354 still can fail with an error
2355 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
2356 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
2357 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
2358 initialized correctly
2359 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
2360 -frewrite-includes
2361 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
2362 value to an unsigned
2363 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
2364 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
2365 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
2366 protection
2367 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
2368 ifunc variant.
2369 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
2370 al. for Clang++
2371 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
2372 (Slovenian)
2373 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
2374 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
2375 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
2376 with -std=c11
2377 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
2378 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
2379 part
2380 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
2381 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
2382 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
2383 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
2384 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
2385 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
2386
2387\f
2388Version 2.30
2389
2390Major new features:
2391
2392* Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2393 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
2394 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2395
2396* The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
2397 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
2398
2399* The twalk_r function has been added. It is similar to the existing
2400 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
2401 to the callback function.
2402
2403* On Linux, the getdents64, gettid, and tgkill functions have been added.
2404
2405* Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
2406 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
2407 nan_TW, lzh_TW.
2408
2409* The entry for the new Japanese era has been added for ja_JP locale.
2410
2411* Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
2412 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
2413 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
2414 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
2415 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
2416
2417* The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
2418 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
2419 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
2420 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
2421 link time reference, is gone.
2422
2423* Add new POSIX-proposed pthread_cond_clockwait, pthread_mutex_clocklock,
2424 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
2425 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
2426 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
2427 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
2428 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
2429 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
2430 the clock choice at initialization time).
2431
2432* On AArch64 the GNU IFUNC resolver call ABI changed: old resolvers still
2433 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
2434 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
2435
2436Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2437
2438* The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
2439 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
2440 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
2441 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
2442 copy_file_range function can no longer rely on glibc to provide a fallback
2443 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
2444 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
2445 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
2446 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
2447
2448* The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime,
2449 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
2450 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
2451 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
2452 since glibc 2.17.
2453
2454* The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
2455 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
2456
2457* Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
2458 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
2459
2460* The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
2461 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
2462
2463* With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
2464 BIND_NOW flag.
2465
2466* Support for the PowerPC SPE ISA extension (powerpc-*-*gnuspe*
2467 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
2468 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
2469
2470* On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
2471 header have been removed.
2472
2473* The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
2474 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
2475 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
2476 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
2477
2478Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2479
2480* GCC 6.2 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
2481
2482 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
2483 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
2484
2485Security related changes:
2486
2487 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
2488 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
2489 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
2490 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
2491 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
2492 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
2493 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
2494
2495 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
2496 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
2497 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
2498
2499The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2500
2501 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
2502 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
2503 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
2504 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
2505 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
2506 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
2507 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
2508 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
2509 invalid input drops valid char
2510 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
2511 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
2512 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
2513 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
2514 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
2515 malloc.h.
2516 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
2517 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
2518 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
2519 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
2520 functions
2521 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
2522 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
2523 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
2524 for long double = double
2525 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
2526 long double = double
2527 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
2528 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
2529 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
2530 long timeouts
2531 [24051] stdio: puts and putchar output to _IO_stdout instead of stdout
2532 [24059] nss: nss_files: get_next_alias calls fgets_unlocked without
2533 checking for NULL.
2534 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
2535 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
2536 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
2537 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
2538 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
2539 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
2540 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
2541 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
2542 not the default "nor"
2543 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
2544 false positives, change to modern flexible array
2545 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
2546 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
2547 compiler barriers.
2548 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
2549 unnecessary librt dependencies
2550 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
2551 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
2552 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
2553 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
2554 unsorted chunk
2555 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
2556 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
2557 to R_SPARC_H44
2558 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
2559 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
2560 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
2561 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
2562 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
2563 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
2564 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
2565 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
2566 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
2567 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
2568 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
2569 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
2570 was not used
2571 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
2572 tests
2573 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
2574 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
2575 time_t changes
2576 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
2577 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
2578 kernels and break testing
2579 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
2580 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
2581 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
2582 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
2583 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
2584 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
2585 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
2586 -O3 -march=skylake
2587 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
2588 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
2589 crash
2590 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
2591 linked glibc
2592 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
2593 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
2594 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
2595 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
2596 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
2597 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
2598 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
2599 always implemented in the same library
2600 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
2601 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
2602 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
2603 testroot
2604
2605\f
2606Version 2.29
2607
2608Major new features:
2609
2610* The getcpu wrapper function has been added, which returns the currently
2611 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
2612
2613* A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
2614 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
2615 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
2616 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
2617 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
2618 configured location.
2619
2620* Optimized generic exp, exp2, log, log2, pow, sinf, cosf, sincosf and tanf.
2621
2622* The reallocarray function is now declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE, not just
2623 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
2624
2625* For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
2626 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
2627 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
2628 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
2629 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
2630 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
2631 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
2632 process actually does not use HTM).
2633
2634* The functions posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np and
2635 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
2636 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
2637 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
2638 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
2639 of the same name.
2640
2641* The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
2642 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
2643 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
2644 inconsistent mutex state after a fork call in a multi-threaded process.
2645 In both popen and system there is no direct access to user-defined mutexes.
2646
2647* Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
2648 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
2649 supported:
2650 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
2651 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
2652
2653* strftime's default formatting of a locale's alternative year (%Ey)
2654 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
2655 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
2656 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
2657 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
2658 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
2659 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
2660
2661* As a GNU extension, the '_' and '-' flags can now be applied to
2662 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
2663 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
2664
2665Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2666
2667* The glibc.tune tunable namespace has been renamed to glibc.cpu and the
2668 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
2669
2670* The type of the pr_uid and pr_gid members of struct elf_prpsinfo, defined
2671 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
2672 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
2673 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
2674
2675* For the MIPS n32 ABI, the type of the pr_sigpend and pr_sighold members of
2676 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
2677 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
2678 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
2679 structures.
2680
2681* An archaic GNU extension to scanf, under which '%as', '%aS', and '%a[...]'
2682 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
2683 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
2684 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
2685 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
2686 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
2687
2688 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
2689 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
2690 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
2691 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
2692 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
2693
2694 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
2695 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
2696 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
2697
2698Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2699
2700* Python 3.4 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
2701
2702* On most architectures, GCC 5 or later is required to build the GNU C
2703 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
2704
2705 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
2706 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
2707
2708Security related changes:
2709
2710 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
2711 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
2712 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
2713
2714 CVE-2019-6488: On x32, the size_t parameter may be passed in the lower
2715 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
2716 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
2717 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
2718 Reported by H.J. Lu.
2719
2720 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
2721 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
2722 or command injection issues in applications.
2723
2724The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2725
2726 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
2727 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
2728 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
2729 thousands
2730 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
2731 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
2732 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
2733 --param options)
2734 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
2735 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
2736 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
2737 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
2738 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
2739 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
2740 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
2741 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
2742 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
2743 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
2744 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
2745 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
2746 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
2747 pointer argument is non-NULL
2748 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
2749 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
2750 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
2751 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
2752 multithreads call popen
2753 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
2754 and pthread_create fails.
2755 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
2756 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
2757 constructor
2758 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
2759 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
2760 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
2761 source tree
2762 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
2763 float
2764 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
2765 one error
2766 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
2767 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
2768 linker
2769 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
2770 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
2771 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
2772 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
2773 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
2774 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
2775 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
2776 filesystems
2777 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
2778 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
2779 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
2780 functions
2781 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
2782 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
2783 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
2784 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
2785 have wrong type
2786 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
2787 wrong type
2788 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
2789 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
2790 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
2791 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
2792 threads
2793 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
2794 start.S
2795 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
2796 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
2797 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
2798 powerpc64le
2799 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
2800 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
2801 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
2802 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
2803 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
2804 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
2805 strftime
2806 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
2807 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
2808 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
2809 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
2810 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
2811 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
2812 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
2813 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
2814 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
2815 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
2816 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
2817 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
2818 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
2819 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
2820 tcache size
2821 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
2822 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
2823 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
2824 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
2825 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
2826 (CVE-2018-19591)
2827 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
2828 nearest rounding mode
2829 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
2830 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
2831 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
2832 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
2833 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
2834 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
2835 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
2836 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
2837 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
2838 error
2839 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
2840 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
2841 using GCC 8
2842 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
2843 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
2844 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
2845 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
2846 ppc64le
2847 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
2848 expected result
2849 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
2850 x32 (CVE-2019-6488)
2851 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
2852 sigaltstack
2853 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
2854 answers will be rejected)
2855 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
2856
2857\f
2858Version 2.28
2859
2860Major new features:
2861
2862* The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
2863 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
2864 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
2865 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
2866 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
2867 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
2868 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
2869 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
2870 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
2871 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
2872 archive or binary locales.
2873
2874* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for Intel CET, AKA
2875 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
2876 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
2877 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
2878 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
2879 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
2880 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
2881 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
2882 Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
2883 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
2884 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
2885 validated for i686.
2886
2887* The GNU C Library now has correct support for ABSOLUTE symbols
2888 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
2889 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
2890 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
2891 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
2892 field) to indicate such support is required.
2893
2894* Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2895 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
2896 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2897
2898* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
2899 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
2900
2901 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
2902 fMxaddfNx functions.
2903
2904 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
2905 fMxsubfNx functions.
2906
2907 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
2908 fMxmulfNx functions.
2909
2910 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
2911 fMxdivfNx functions.
2912
2913* Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
2914 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
2915 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
2916 support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
2917 and Kashubian.
2918
2919* Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
2920 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
2921
2922* Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
2923 patches.
2924
2925* The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
2926 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
2927 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
2928 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
2929 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
2930 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
2931 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
2932 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
2933
2934* The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
2935 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
2936 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
2937 the fstatat64 function.
2938
2939* IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
2940 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
2941 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
2942 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
2943 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
2944 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
2945 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
2946 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
2947 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
2948
2949* Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
2950 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
2951 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
2952 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
2953 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
2954 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
2955 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
2956 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
2957 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
2958 results in a load failure now.
2959
2960* Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The
2961 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
2962 <threads.h>:
2963
2964 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
2965 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
2966
2967 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
2968 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
2969
2970 - call_once for function call synchronization.
2971
2972 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
2973 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
2974
2975 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
2976
2977 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
2978
2979Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2980
2981* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
2982 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
2983 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
2984
2985* The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
2986 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
2987 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
2988 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
2989 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
2990 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
2991
2992* All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
2993 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
2994 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
2995 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
2996 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
2997 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
2998 (Bug #1190.)
2999
3000* The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
3001 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
3002 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
3003 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
3004 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
3005 further explanation.
3006
3007 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
3008 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
3009 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
3010
3011* The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
3012
3013* The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
3014 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
3015 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
3016
3017* The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
3018 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
3019 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
3020 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
3021
3022* The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
3023 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
3024 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
3025 for this function instead.
3026
3027* The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
3028 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
3029 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
3030
3031* The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
3032 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
3033 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
3034 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
3035
3036* The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
3037 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
3038 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
3039 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
3040 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
3041
3042* The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
3043 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
3044 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
3045 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
3046 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
3047 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
3048 such as libgcrypt.
3049
3050* Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
3051 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
3052 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
3053 enabled.
3054
3055* The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
3056 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
3057 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
3058
3059* We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
3060 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
3061 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
3062 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
3063 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
3064 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
3065
3066 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
3067 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
3068 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
3069 behavior in a future release.
3070
3071Changes to build and runtime requirements:
3072
3073 GNU make 4.0 or later is now required to build glibc.
3074
3075Security related changes:
3076
3077 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
3078 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
3079 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
3080 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
3081
3082 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
3083 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
3084
3085 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
3086 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
3087 Izbyshev.
3088
3089 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
3090 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
3091 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
3092
3093The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3094
3095 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
3096 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
3097 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
3098 when __WORDSIZE != 64
3099 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
3100 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
3101 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
3102 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
3103 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
3104 14651
3105 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
3106 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
3107 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
3108 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
3109 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
3110 conversion is given
3111 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
3112 date
3113 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
3114 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
3115 scope with -O1 and higher
3116 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
3117 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
3118 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
3119 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
3120 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
3121 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
3122 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
3123 horrible machine code)
3124 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
3125 last constant.
3126 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
3127 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
3128 symbols
3129 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
3130 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
3131 defined
3132 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
3133 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
3134 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
3135 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
3136 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
3137 fpscr.c'
3138 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
3139 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
3140 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
3141 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
3142 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
3143 the base address
3144 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
3145 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
3146 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
3147 open_verify
3148 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
3149 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
3150 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
3151 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
3152 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
3153 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
3154 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
3155 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
3156 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
3157 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
3158 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
3159 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
3160 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
3161 dlopen
3162 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
3163 AT_SECURE=1
3164 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
3165 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
3166 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
3167 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
3168 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
3169 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
3170 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
3171 for Spanish with CLDR
3172 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
3173 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
3174 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
3175 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
3176 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
3177 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
3178 es_BO
3179 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
3180 CLOCKS_PER_SECOND
3181 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
3182 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
3183 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
3184 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
3185 dlopen failures
3186 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
3187 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
3188 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
3189 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
3190 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
3191 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
3192 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
3193 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
3194 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
3195 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
3196 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
3197 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
3198 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
3199 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
3200 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
3201 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
3202 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
3203 makecontext
3204 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
3205 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
3206 required
3207 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
3208 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
3209 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
3210 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
3211 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
3212 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
3213 disabled
3214 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
3215 failure
3216 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
3217 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
3218 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
3219 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
3220 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
3221 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
3222 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
3223 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
3224 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
3225 and libc build with -Os)
3226 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
3227 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
3228 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
3229 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
3230 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
3231 that changes /etc/passwd
3232 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
3233 (CVE-2018-11237)
3234 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
3235 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
3236 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
3237 posix/regcomp.c
3238 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
3239 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
3240 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
3241 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
3242 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
3243 AT_SECURE
3244 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
3245 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
3246 parser.c
3247 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
3248 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
3249 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
3250 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
3251 directed rounding
3252 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
3253 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
3254 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
3255 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
3256 lookup
3257 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
3258 interposition
3259 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
3260 DSO boundaries.
3261 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
3262 <linux/time.h>
3263 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
3264 checking
3265 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
3266 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
3267 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
3268 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
3269 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
3270 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
3271 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
3272 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
3273 processors
3274 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
3275
3276\f
3277Version 2.27
3278
3279Major new features:
3280
3281* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
3282 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
3283 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
3284 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
3285 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
3286 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
3287 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
3288 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
3289 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
3290
3291* Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
3292 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
3293 H.J. Lu from Intel.
3294
3295* Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
3296
3297* Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
3298
3299* In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
3300 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
3301 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
3302 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
3303 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
3304 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
3305 from a security and performance perspective.
3306
3307* The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
3308 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
3309 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
3310 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
3311
3312* On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
3313 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
3314 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
3315 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
3316 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
3317
3318* On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
3319 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
3320 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
3321 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
3322 _Float128.
3323
3324* The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
3325 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
3326 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
3327
3328* glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
3329
3330* Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
3331 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
3332 pkey_get.
3333
3334* The copy_file_range function was added.
3335
3336* Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
3337
3338* The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
3339 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
3340 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
3341
3342* Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
3343 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
3344 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
3345 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
3346 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
3347 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
3348 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
3349
3350 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
3351 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
3352 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
3353 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
3354 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
3355 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
3356 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
3357
3358 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
3359 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
3360 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
3361 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
3362 respectively.
3363
3364 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
3365 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
3366 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
3367 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
3368
3369 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
3370 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
3371 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
3372
3373 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
3374 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
3375 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
3376
3377* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
3378 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
3379 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
3380
3381 - rv64imac lp64
3382 - rv64imafdc lp64
3383 - rv64imafdc lp64d
3384
3385Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
3386
3387* Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
3388 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
3389 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
3390 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
3391 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
3392 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
3393 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
3394 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
3395 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
3396 fix this.
3397
3398* Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
3399 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
3400 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
3401
3402* Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
3403 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
3404 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
3405 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
3406 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
3407 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
3408 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
3409 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
3410 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
3411 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
3412 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
3413 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
3414 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
3415 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
3416 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
3417 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
3418 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
3419 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
3420 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
3421 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
3422 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
3423 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
3424 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
3425 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
3426 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
3427 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
3428
3429* On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
3430 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
3431
3432* libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
3433 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
3434 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
3435 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
3436 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
3437 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
3438 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
3439
3440* The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
3441 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
3442 exp10l for these functions instead.
3443
3444* The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
3445 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
3446 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3447
3448* The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
3449 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
3450 ignored.
3451
3452* The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
3453 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
3454 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
3455 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
3456
3457* The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
3458 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
3459
3460* In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
3461 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
3462
3463* The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
3464 programs.
3465
3466* The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
3467
3468* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
3469 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
3470 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
3471 instead.
3472
3473 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
3474 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
3475 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
3476 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
3477 use, but predates the bits convention.
3478
3479Changes to build and runtime requirements:
3480
3481* bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
3482 subdirectory.
3483
3484Security related changes:
3485
3486 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
3487 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
3488 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
3489 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
3490 script.)
3491
3492 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
3493 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
3494 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
3495 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
3496
3497 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
3498 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
3499 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
3500 of service.
3501
3502 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
3503 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
3504 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
3505
3506 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
3507 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
3508 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
3509 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
3510
3511 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
3512 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
3513 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
3514 Qualys.
3515
3516 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
3517 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
3518 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
3519 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
3520 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
3521
3522 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
3523 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
3524 current directory.
3525
3526 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
3527 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
3528 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
3529
3530 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
3531 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
3532 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
3533
3534 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
3535 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
3536 small, instead of NULL.
3537
3538The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3539
3540 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
3541 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
3542 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
3543 locale
3544 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
3545 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
3546 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
3547 cases
3548 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
3549 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
3550 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
3551 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
3552 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
3553 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
3554 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
3555 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
3556 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
3557 "Bangla"
3558 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
3559 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
3560 width Latin characters
3561 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
3562 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
3563 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
3564 letters
3565 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
3566 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
3567 (CVE-2009-5064)
3568 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
3569 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
3570 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
3571 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
3572 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
3573 if malloc succeeded
3574 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
3575 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
3576 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
3577 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
3578 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
3579 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
3580 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
3581 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
3582 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
3583 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
3584 U+309A
3585 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
3586 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
3587 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
3588 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
3589 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
3590 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
3591 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
3592 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
3593 for Nicaragua
3594 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
3595 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
3596 are not found.
3597 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
3598 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
3599 access
3600 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
3601 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
3602 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
3603 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
3604 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
3605 __regcall calling convention
3606 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
3607 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
3608 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
3609 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
3610 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
3611 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
3612 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
3613 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
3614 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
3615 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
3616 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
3617 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
3618 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
3619 locale
3620 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
3621 protector=all
3622 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
3623 wcwidth
3624 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
3625 consistency check failures
3626 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
3627 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
3628 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
3629 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
3630 PIE
3631 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
3632 locales
3633 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
3634 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
3635 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
3636 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
3637 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
3638 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
3639 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
3640 on memory allocation failure
3641 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
3642 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
3643 the suspect)
3644 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
3645 default (i386)
3646 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
3647 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
3648 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
3649 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
3650 instead of EAI_NODATA
3651 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
3652 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
3653 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
3654 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
3655 implementation
3656 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
3657 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
3658 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
3659 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
3660 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
3661 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
3662 allocation in syscall loops)
3663 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
3664 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
3665 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
3666 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
3667 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
3668 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
3669 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
3670 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
3671 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
3672 occur with -O3
3673 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
3674 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
3675 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
3676 amounts)
3677 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
3678 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
3679 niu_NZ
3680 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
3681 checks
3682 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
3683 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
3684 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
3685 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
3686 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
3687 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
3688 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
3689 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
3690 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
3691 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
3692 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
3693 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
3694 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
3695 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
3696 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
3697 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
3698 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
3699 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
3700 parsing after OOM
3701 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
3702 object
3703 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
3704 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
3705 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
3706 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
3707 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
3708 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
3709 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf outputs a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
3710 ppc64le
3711 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
3712 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
3713 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
3714 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
3715 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
3716 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
3717 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
3718 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
3719 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
3720 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
3721 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
3722 math_force_eval
3723 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
3724 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
3725 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
3726 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
3727 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
3728 the svid compat wrapper
3729 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
3730 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
3731 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
3732 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
3733 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
3734 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
3735 --verbose.
3736 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
3737 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
3738 to 2.26
3739 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
3740 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
3741 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
3742 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
3743 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
3744 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
3745 (CVE-2017-15804)
3746 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
3747 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
3748 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
3749 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
3750 failure."
3751 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
3752 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
3753 -m32
3754 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
3755 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
3756 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
3757 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
3758 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
3759 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
3760 inside the ASCII printable range
3761 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
3762 -mlong-double-64
3763 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
3764 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
3765 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
3766 Internet
3767 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
3768 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
3769 backslash
3770 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
3771 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
3772 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
3773 heaps in an arena
3774 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
3775 networking interface
3776 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
3777 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
3778 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
3779 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
3780 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
3781 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
3782 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
3783 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
3784 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
3785 order
3786 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3787 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3788 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3789 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3790 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3791 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
3792 same as for Croatian
3793 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
3794 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
3795 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
3796 for initial thread"
3797 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
3798 SC_SSIZE_MAX
3799 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
3800 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
3801 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3802 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
3803 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
3804 (CVE-2017-1000408)
3805 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
3806 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
3807 modified in case of success
3808 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
3809 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
3810 success
3811 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
3812 stack-protector=all
3813 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
3814 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
3815 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
3816 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
3817 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
3818 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
3819 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
3820 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
3821 adding it on top
3822 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
3823 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
3824 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
3825 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
3826 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
3827 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
3828 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
3829 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
3830 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
3831 (CVE-2018-1000001)
3832 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
3833 elision and tunables
3834 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
3835 "invalid" exception
3836 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
3837 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
3838 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
3839 exception
3840 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3841 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
3842 power4
3843 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
3844 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
3845 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
3846 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
3847 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
3848 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
3849 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
3850 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
3851 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
3852
3853\f
3854Version 2.26
3855
3856Major new features:
3857
3858* A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
3859 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
3860 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
3861 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
3862 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
3863 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
3864 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
3865
3866* Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
3867 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
3868 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
3869 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
3870 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
3871 are rendered with pango, see for example:
3872 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
3873
3874* Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
3875 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
3876 Egmont Koblinger.
3877
3878* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
3879
3880 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
3881 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
3882 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
3883
3884 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
3885 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
3886 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
3887 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
3888 object are still limited to six search domains.
3889
3890 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
3891 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
3892 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
3893
3894* The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
3895 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
3896
3897* New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
3898 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
3899 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
3900 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
3901
3902* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
3903 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
3904 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
3905 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
3906
3907* posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
3908 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
3909 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
3910 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
3911
3912* errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
3913 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
3914 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
3915
3916* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
3917 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
3918 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
3919 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
3920
3921 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
3922 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
3923 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
3924 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
3925 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
3926
3927 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
3928 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
3929 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
3930 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
3931 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
3932 interfaces should be used instead.
3933
3934Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
3935
3936* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
3937 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
3938 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
3939 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
3940 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
3941 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
3942 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
3943 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
3944
3945* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
3946 removed.
3947
3948* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
3949 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
3950 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
3951 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
3952
3953* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
3954 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
3955 default.
3956
3957 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
3958 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
3959 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
3960 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
3961 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
3962
3963 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
3964 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
3965 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
3966 name service modules, to be built and installed.
3967
3968* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
3969 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
3970 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
3971 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
3972
3973* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
3974 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
3975
3976* The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
3977 exported by accident.
3978
3979* <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
3980 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
3981 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
3982
3983* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
3984 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
3985 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
3986 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
3987
3988* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
3989
3990* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
3991
3992* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
3993 free instead.
3994
3995* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
3996 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3997
3998* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
3999 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
4000
4001* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
4002 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
4003 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
4004 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
4005 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
4006 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
4007 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
4008 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
4009
4010* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
4011 synced with the kernel:
4012
4013 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
4014 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
4015
4016 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
4017 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
4018 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
4019
4020 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
4021 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
4022
4023Changes to build and runtime requirements:
4024
4025* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
4026 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
4027 x86-32 and x86-64.)
4028
4029* GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
4030
4031* On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
4032 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
4033
4034 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
4035 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
4036 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
4037 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
4038 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
4039
4040Security related changes:
4041
4042* The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
4043 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
4044
4045* LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
4046 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
4047
4048* Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
4049 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
4050 (CVE-2010-3192).
4051
4052* A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
4053 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
4054
4055The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4056
4057 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
4058 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
4059 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
4060 fields
4061 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
4062 (CVE-2010-3192)
4063 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
4064 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
4065 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
4066 ld.bfd is available
4067 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
4068 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
4069 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
4070 x86 and other generic code
4071 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
4072 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
4073 incorrect
4074 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
4075 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
4076 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
4077 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
4078 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
4079 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
4080 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
4081 resolver
4082 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
4083 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
4084 order of 0D36 and 0D37
4085 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
4086 chillu characters
4087 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
4088 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
4089 receiving data
4090 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
4091 whitespace
4092 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
4093 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
4094 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
4095 for Peru
4096 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
4097 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
4098 failures consistently
4099 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
4100 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
4101 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
4102 frame-pointer on i386
4103 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
4104 register
4105 [21075] libc: unused assignment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
4106 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
4107 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
4108 generic c code is used
4109 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
4110 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
4111 around 4000
4112 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
4113 (CVE-2017-12133)
4114 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
4115 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
4116 with -lieee
4117 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
4118 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
4119 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
4120 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
4121 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
4122 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
4123 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
4124 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
4125 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
4126 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
4127 remove()
4128 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
4129 checked for errors.
4130 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
4131 new posix_spawn implementation
4132 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
4133 leads to lower CPU frequency
4134 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
4135 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
4136 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
4137 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
4138 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
4139 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
4140 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
4141 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
4142 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
4143 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
4144 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
4145 not support gethostbyname4_r
4146 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
4147 switching
4148 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
4149 arenas
4150 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
4151 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
4152 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
4153 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
4154 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
4155 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
4156 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
4157 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
4158 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
4159 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
4160 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
4161 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
4162 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
4163 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
4164 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
4165 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
4166 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
4167 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
4168 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
4169 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
4170 retry value
4171 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
4172 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
4173 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
4174 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
4175 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
4176 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
4177 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
4178 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
4179 [21537] libc:
4180 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
4181 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
4182 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
4183 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
4184 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
4185 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
4186 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
4187 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
4188 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
4189 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
4190 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
4191 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
4192 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
4193 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
4194 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
4195 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
4196 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
4197 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
4198 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
4199 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
4200 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
4201 issue on x86-64
4202 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
4203 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
4204 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
4205 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
4206 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
4207 construction
4208 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
4209 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
4210 between_2_3
4211 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
4212 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
4213 conditions
4214 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
4215 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
4216 Hindi Locale
4217 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
4218 posix/sched_cpucount.c
4219 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
4220 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
4221 locale
4222 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
4223 leading to relocation crash
4224 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
4225 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
4226 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
4227 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
4228 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
4229 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
4230 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
4231 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
4232 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
4233 locale
4234 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
4235 locale
4236 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
4237 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
4238 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
4239 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
4240 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
4241 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
4242 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
4243 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
4244 strings
4245 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
4246 protector=all
4247 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
4248 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
4249 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
4250 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
4251 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
4252 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
4253 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
4254 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
4255 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
4256 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
4257 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
4258 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
4259 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
4260 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
4261 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
4262 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
4263 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
4264 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
4265 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
4266 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
4267 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
4268 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
4269 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
4270 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
4271 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
4272 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
4273 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
4274 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
4275 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
4276 with unicode 9.0
4277 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
4278 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
4279 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
4280 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
4281 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
4282
4283\f
4284Version 2.25
4285
4286* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
4287 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
4288 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
4289 Library.
4290
4291* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
4292 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
4293 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
4294 the GNU C Library.
4295
4296* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
4297 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
4298 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
4299 the GNU C Library.
4300
4301* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
4302 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
4303 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
4304 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
4305 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
4306 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
4307 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
4308 will not.
4309
4310 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
4311 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
4312 many years.
4313
4314* The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
4315 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
4316 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
4317
4318 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
4319 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
4320 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
4321 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
4322 problem.
4323
4324* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
4325 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
4326 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
4327
4328* Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
4329 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
4330 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
4331 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
4332 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
4333 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
4334 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
4335 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
4336 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
4337 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
4338 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
4339 WINT_WIDTH.
4340
4341* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
4342
4343 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
4344
4345 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
4346 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
4347 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
4348
4349 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
4350 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
4351
4352 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
4353 fminmagf, fminmagl.
4354
4355 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
4356
4357 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
4358
4359 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
4360 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
4361
4362 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
4363
4364 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
4365 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
4366
4367* The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
4368 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
4369
4370* Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
4371 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
4372 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
4373
4374* The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
4375 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
4376 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
4377 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
4378 effects of the memory clear).
4379
4380* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
4381 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
4382 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
4383 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
4384
4385* On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
4386 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
4387 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
4388 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
4389 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
4390 if they are compiled or used with those options.
4391
4392* The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
4393 have been added.
4394
4395* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
4396 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
4397 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
4398 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
4399 as large as several megabytes.
4400
4401* The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
4402 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
4403 been removed.
4404
4405* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
4406 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
4407 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
4408 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
4409 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
4410 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
4411 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
4412
4413* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
4414 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
4415 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
4416 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
4417
4418* The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
4419 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
4420 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
4421 Internet.
4422
4423* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
4424 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
4425 They were already unimplemented.
4426
4427* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
4428 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
4429 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
4430 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
4431
4432* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
4433 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
4434 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
4435 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
4436 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
4437
4438* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
4439 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
4440 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
4441 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
4442 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
4443
4444* The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
4445 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
4446 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
4447 did not reflect that.
4448
4449* For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
4450 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
4451 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
4452 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
4453 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
4454 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
4455 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
4456 'gcc/config.gcc'.
4457
4458* GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
4459 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
4460 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
4461 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
4462
4463* Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
4464 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
4465 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
4466 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
4467
4468* A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
4469 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
4470 guarantees.
4471
4472* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
4473 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
4474 make state changes.
4475
4476Security related changes:
4477
4478* On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
4479 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
4480 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
4481 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
4482 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
4483
4484* The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
4485 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
4486 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
4487 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
4488 (CVE-2015-5180)
4489
4490The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4491
4492 [4099] stdio: Overly aggressive caching by stream i/o functions.
4493 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
4494 protector-all
4495 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
4496 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
4497 before it started waiting
4498 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
4499 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
4500 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
4501 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
4502 wrong type
4503 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
4504 library linked with pthread
4505 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
4506 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
4507 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
4508 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
4509 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
4510 after being __libc_memalign()'d
4511 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
4512 when it shouldn't
4513 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
4514 not
4515 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
4516 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
4517 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
4518 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
4519 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
4520 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
4521 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
4522 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
4523 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
4524 termination
4525 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
4526 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
4527 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
4528 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
4529 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
4530 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
4531 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
4532 causes a segmentation fault
4533 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
4534 linking
4535 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
4536 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
4537 uninitialized GOT
4538 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
4539 versions
4540 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
4541 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
4542 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
4543 is always true.
4544 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
4545 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
4546 modes
4547 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
4548 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
4549 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
4550 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
4551 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
4552 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
4553 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
4554 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
4555 libpthread.a
4556 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
4557 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
4558 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
4559 _res_hconf
4560 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
4561 information.
4562 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
4563 penalty
4564 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
4565 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
4566 cause transition penalty
4567 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
4568 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
4569 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
4570 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
4571 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
4572 mcount.oS)
4573 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
4574 Checking
4575 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
4576 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
4577 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
4578 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
4579 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
4580 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
4581 multi-arch
4582 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
4583 (RES_USEBSTRING)
4584 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
4585 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
4586 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
4587 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
4588 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
4589 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
4590 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
4591 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
4592 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
4593 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
4594 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
4595 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
4596 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
4597 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
4598 glibc
4599 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
4600 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
4601 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
4602 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
4603 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
4604 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
4605 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
4606 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
4607 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
4608 U+20AC), not same as GBK
4609 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
4610 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
4611 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
4612 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
4613 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
4614 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
4615 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
4616 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
4617 RES_USE_INET6
4618 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
4619 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
4620 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
4621 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
4622 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
4623 wrong condition
4624 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
4625 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
4626 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
4627 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
4628 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
4629 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
4630 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
4631 clang
4632 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
4633 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
4634 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
4635 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
4636 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
4637\f
4638Version 2.24
4639
4640* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
4641 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
4642 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
4643 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
4644 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
4645 architectures.
4646
4647* The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
4648 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
4649 been included in previous releases.
4650
4651* The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
4652 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
4653
4654* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
4655 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
4656 instead of “union wait”.
4657
4658* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
4659 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
4660 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
4661 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
4662 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
4663 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
4664 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
4665
4666* The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
4667 API.
4668
4669* The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
4670 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
4671 drop it.
4672
4673* nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
4674 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
4675 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
4676 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
4677 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
4678 extensions.
4679
4680Security related changes:
4681
4682* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
4683 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
4684 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
4685
4686* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
4687 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
4688 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
4689 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
4690
4691* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
4692 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
4693 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
4694
4695* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
4696 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
4697 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
4698
4699* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
4700 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
4701 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
4702 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
4703
4704The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4705
4706 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
4707 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
4708 of MS-DOS.
4709 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
4710 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
4711 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
4712 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
4713 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
4714 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
4715 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
4716 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
4717 CLDR data
4718 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
4719 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
4720 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
4721 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
4722 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
4723 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
4724 romanisation
4725 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
4726 and +/-
4727 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
4728 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
4729 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
4730 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
4731 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
4732 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
4733 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
4734 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
4735 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
4736 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
4737 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
4738 all locales
4739 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
4740 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
4741 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
4742 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
4743 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
4744 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
4745 execute
4746 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
4747 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
4748 -Wsystem-headers
4749 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
4750 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
4751 Romanian locale data
4752 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
4753 symbol
4754 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
4755 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
4756 language
4757 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
4758 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
4759 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
4760 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
4761 machine
4762 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
4763 description
4764 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
4765 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
4766 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
4767 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
4768 when using RTLD_NEXT
4769 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
4770 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
4771 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
4772 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
4773 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
4774 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
4775 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
4776 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
4777 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
4778 Excavator core
4779 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4780 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4781 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4782 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
4783 double range
4784 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
4785 part zero incorrect
4786 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
4787 equality tests
4788 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
4789 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
4790 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
4791 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
4792 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
4793 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
4794 glibc-2.22
4795 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
4796 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
4797 'tst-numeric.c'
4798 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
4799 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
4800 low part
4801 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
4802 result
4803 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
4804 unaligned stack
4805 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
4806 pointers and lengths in error-case.
4807 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
4808 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
4809 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
4810 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
4811 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
4812 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
4813 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
4814 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
4815 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
4816 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
4817 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
4818 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
4819 modes
4820 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
4821 server addresses
4822 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
4823 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
4824 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
4825 response to getaddrinfo
4826 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
4827 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
4828 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
4829 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
4830 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
4831 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
4832 sometimes incorrect
4833 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
4834 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
4835 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
4836 record types
4837 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
4838 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
4839 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
4840 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
4841 (CVE-2016-3075)
4842 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
4843 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
4844 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
4845 resolving symbols
4846 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
4847 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
4848 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
4849 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
4850 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
4851 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
4852 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
4853 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
4854 gethosts
4855 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
4856 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
4857 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
4858 (CVE-2016-3706)
4859 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
4860 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
4861 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
4862 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
4863 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
4864 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
4865 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
4866 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
4867 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
4868 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
4869 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
4870 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
4871 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
4872 executable
4873 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
4874 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
4875 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
4876 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
4877 XPG3
4878 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
4879 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
4880 (CVE-2016-4429)
4881 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
4882 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
4883 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
4884 AS not supporting AVX512
4885 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
4886 sNaN argument
4887 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4888 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
4889 argument
4890 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
4891 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
4892 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
4893 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
4894 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
4895 eax=0x80000001
4896 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
4897 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
4898 subnormals
4899 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
4900 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
4901 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
4902 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4903 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4904 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
4905 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4906 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
4907 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
4908 input
4909 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4910 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4911 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4912 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4913 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4914 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4915 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4916 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
4917 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
4918 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
4919 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
4920 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
4921 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
4922 double rounding
4923 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
4924 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
4925 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
4926 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
4927 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
4928 (Only arm/linux)
4929 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
4930 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
4931 fallbacks
4932 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
4933 "invalid" exceptions
4934 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
4935 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
4936 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
4937 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
4938 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
4939 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
4940 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
4941 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
4942 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
4943\f
4944Version 2.23
4945
4946* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
4947 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
4948 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
4949 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
4950 89, 16061, and 18568.
4951
4952* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
4953 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
4954 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
4955 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
4956 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
4957 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
4958 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
4959
4960* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
4961 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
4962 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
4963
4964* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
4965 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
4966 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
4967 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
4968 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
4969 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
4970 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
4971
4972* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
4973 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
4974 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
4975 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
4976 the concurrent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
4977 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
4978 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
4979 Ericsson.)
4980
4981* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
4982 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
4983 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
4984 independent of the GNU C Library.
4985
4986* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
4987 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
4988
4989* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
4990 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
4991 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
4992 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
4993 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
4994 Linux kernel.
4995
4996* Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
4997 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
4998
4999* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
5000 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
5001 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
5002 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
5003 defining their own copy.
5004
5005* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
5006 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
5007 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
5008
5009Security related changes:
5010
5011* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
5012 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
5013
5014* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
5015 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
5016 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
5017 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
5018 (CVE-2015-8777)
5019
5020* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
5021 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
5022
5023* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
5024 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
5025
5026* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
5027 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
5028 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
5029
5030* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
5031 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
5032 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
5033 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
5034 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
5035 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
5036 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
5037 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
5038 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
5039 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
5040 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
5041 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
5042 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
5043
5044The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5045
5046 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
5047 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
5048 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
5049 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
5050 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
5051 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
5052 use `mkstemp'
5053 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
5054 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doesn't set errno on
5055 overflow/underflow errors
5056 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
5057 overflow/underflow
5058 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
5059 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
5060 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
5061 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
5062 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
5063 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
5064 are not contiguous
5065 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
5066 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
5067 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
5068 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
5069 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
5070 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
5071 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
5072 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
5073 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
5074 all exceptions
5075 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
5076 arguments
5077 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
5078 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
5079 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
5080 should include
5081 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
5082 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
5083 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
5084 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
5085 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
5086 GNU/Linux
5087 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
5088 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
5089 arguments
5090 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
5091 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
5092 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
5093 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
5094 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
5095 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
5096 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
5097 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
5098 rounding results
5099 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
5100 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
5101 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
5102 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
5103 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
5104 fails
5105 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
5106 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
5107 block boundary
5108 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
5109 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
5110 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
5111 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
5112 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
5113 4.7?
5114 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
5115 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
5116 (related to lock elision)
5117 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
5118 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
5119 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
5120 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
5121 (CVE-2015-8779)
5122 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
5123 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
5124 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
5125 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
5126 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
5127 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
5128 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
5129 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
5130 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
5131 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
5132 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
5133 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
5134 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
5135 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
5136 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
5137 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
5138 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
5139 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
5140 contains a vector instruction exception.
5141 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
5142 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
5143 locales
5144 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
5145 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
5146 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
5147 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
5148 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
5149 missing break ?
5150 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
5151 32bit processes
5152 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
5153 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
5154 infinity
5155 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
5156 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
5157 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
5158 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
5159 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
5160 be forced unloaded
5161 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
5162 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
5163 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
5164 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
5165 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
5166 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
5167 statically too large
5168 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
5169 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
5170 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
5171 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
5172 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
5173 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
5174 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
5175 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
5176 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
5177 FUTEX_SHARED
5178 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
5179 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
5180 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
5181 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
5182 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
5183 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
5184 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
5185 opendir()
5186 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
5187 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
5188 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
5189 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
5190 signgam
5191 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
5192 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
5193 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
5194 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
5195 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
5196 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
5197 dependencies
5198 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
5199 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
5200 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
5201 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
5202 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
5203 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
5204 (CVE-2015-8776)
5205 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
5206 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
5207 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
5208 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
5209 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
5210 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
5211 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
5212 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
5213 contention
5214 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
5215 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
5216 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
5217 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
5218 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
5219 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
5220 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
5221 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
5222 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
5223 rounding modes
5224 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
5225 ILP32
5226 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
5227 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
5228 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
5229 threshold
5230 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
5231 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
5232 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
5233 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assembler
5234 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
5235 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
5236 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
5237 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
5238 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
5239 pthread_setaffinity_np
5240 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
5241 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
5242 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
5243 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
5244 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
5245 prelink
5246 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
5247 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
5248 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
5249 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
5250 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
5251 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
5252 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
5253 bits/mathcalls.h
5254 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
5255 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
5256 for C99-based standards
5257 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
5258 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
5259 math-only
5260 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
5261 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
5262 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
5263 disabled
5264 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
5265 "inexact" exceptions
5266 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
5267 arguments
5268 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
5269 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
5270 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
5271 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
5272 rules
5273 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
5274 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
5275 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
5276 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
5277 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
5278 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
5279 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
5280 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
5281 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
5282 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
5283 from 32bit
5284 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
5285 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
5286 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
5287 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
5288 subnormals
5289 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
5290 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
5291 error on 32-bit architectures
5292 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
5293 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
5294 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
5295 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
5296 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
5297 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
5298 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
5299 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
5300 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
5301 -Os
5302 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
5303 CPU's.
5304 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
5305 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
5306 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
5307 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
5308 architectures
5309 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
5310\f
5311Version 2.22
5312
5313* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5314
5315 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
5316 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
5317 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
5318 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
5319 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
5320 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
5321 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
5322 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
5323 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
5324 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
5325 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
5326 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
5327 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
5328 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
5329 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
5330 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
5331 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
5332 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
5333 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
5334 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
5335
5336* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
5337 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
5338
5339* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
5340 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
5341 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
5342 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
5343 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
5344 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
5345
5346* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
5347 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
5348 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
5349 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
5350 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
5351
5352* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
5353 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
5354 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
5355
5356* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
5357 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
5358 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
5359 17998.
5360
5361* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
5362 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
5363 condition in some applications.
5364
5365* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
5366 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
5367 pow, powf.
5368 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
5369 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
5370 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
5371 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
5372 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
5373
5374* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
5375 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
5376 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
5377 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
5378
5379* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
5380 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
5381 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
5382
5383* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
5384 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
5385
5386* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
5387 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
5388 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
5389
5390 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
5391 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
5392 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
5393\f
5394Version 2.21
5395
5396* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5397
5398 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
5399 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
5400 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
5401 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
5402 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
5403 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
5404 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
5405 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
5406 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
5407 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
5408 17892.
5409
5410* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
5411 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
5412 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
5413 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
5414 intended.
5415
5416* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
5417 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
5418 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
5419 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
5420 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
5421 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
5422
5423* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
5424
5425* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
5426 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
5427 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
5428
5429* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
5430 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
5431 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
5432 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
5433 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
5434 effects being visible outside transactions.
5435
5436* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
5437 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5438
5439* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
5440
5441* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
5442 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
5443 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
5444 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
5445 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
5446
5447* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
5448 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
5449
5450* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
5451 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
5452 format.
5453
5454* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
5455 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
5456 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
5457
5458* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
5459 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
5460
5461* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
5462
5463* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
5464 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
5465 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
5466 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
5467
5468* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
5469 with newer versions of bison.
5470
5471* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
5472 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
5473 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
5474 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
5475 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
5476 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
5477 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
5478 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
5479 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
5480 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
5481 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
5482 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
5483 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
5484
5485 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
5486 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
5487 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
5488 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
5489 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
5490\f
5491Version 2.20
5492
5493* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5494
5495 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
5496 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
5497 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
5498 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
5499 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
5500 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
5501 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
5502 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
5503 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
5504 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
5505 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
5506 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
5507 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
5508 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
5509 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
5510
5511* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
5512 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
5513 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
5514 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
5515 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
5516 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
5517 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
5518 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
5519 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
5520 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
5521
5522* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
5523 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
5524 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
5525 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
5526 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
5527
5528* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5529
5530* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
5531 can be used with is 2.6.32.
5532
5533* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
5534 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
5535 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
5536 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
5537 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
5538 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
5539
5540* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
5541 from ports.
5542
5543* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
5544 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
5545 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
5546 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
5547 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
5548 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
5549 test macros defined.
5550
5551* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5552
5553* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
5554 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
5555 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
5556 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
5557 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
5558 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
5559 is not built.
5560
5561* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
5562 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
5563 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
5564 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
5565 invocation.
5566
5567* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
5568 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
5569 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
5570
5571* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
5572 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
5573 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
5574 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
5575
5576* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
5577 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
5578 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
5579 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
5580 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
5581 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
5582 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
5583 additional checks.
5584
5585* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
5586 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
5587 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
5588 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
5589 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
5590 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
5591 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
5592 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
5593 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
5594
5595* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
5596 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
5597 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
5598 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
5599 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
5600 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
5601
5602* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
5603 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
5604 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
5605 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
5606\f
5607Version 2.19
5608
5609* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5610
5611 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
5612 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
5613 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
5614 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
5615 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
5616 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
5617 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
5618 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
5619 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
5620 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
5621 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
5622 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
5623 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
5624 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
5625 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
5626 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
5627 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
5628 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
5629
5630* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
5631 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
5632
5633* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
5634 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
5635 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
5636 extension which uses __block.
5637
5638* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
5639 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
5640 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
5641 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
5642 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
5643
5644* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
5645 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
5646 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
5647 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
5648 if malloc fails.
5649
5650* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
5651 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
5652 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
5653 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
5654 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
5655
5656* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
5657 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
5658 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
5659
5660* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
5661 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
5662 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
5663 #15856, #15857).
5664
5665* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
5666 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
5667
5668* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
5669 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
5670
5671* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
5672
5673* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
5674 supported locales.
5675
5676* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
5677
5678* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
5679
5680* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
5681 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
5682 for which the C library was built.
5683
5684* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
5685 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
5686 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
5687 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
5688 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
5689 in the following circumstances:
5690
5691 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
5692
5693 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
5694 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
5695
5696* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
5697 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
5698
5699* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
5700 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
5701
5702* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
5703
5704* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
5705 transcendental functions have been introduced.
5706
5707* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
5708
5709* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
5710
5711* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
5712
5713* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
5714 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
5715 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
5716 disable some of those declarations.
5717
5718* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
5719 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
5720 that did nothing) has also been removed.
5721
5722* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
5723 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
5724
5725* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
5726 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
5727 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
5728 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
5729 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
5730 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
5731 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
5732 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
5733 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
5734 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
5735 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
5736 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
5737 require recompilation.
5738\f
5739Version 2.18
5740
5741* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5742
5743 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
5744 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
5745 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
5746 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
5747 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
5748 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
5749 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
5750 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
5751 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
5752 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
5753 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
5754 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
5755 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
5756 15755, 15759.
5757
5758* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
5759 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
5760 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
5761 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
5762 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
5763 understands and accepts the risks.
5764
5765* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
5766 #15078).
5767
5768* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
5769 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
5770
5771* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
5772 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
5773 destructor calls to glibc.
5774
5775* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
5776 output.
5777
5778* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
5779 non-x86 architectures.
5780
5781* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
5782
5783* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
5784
5785* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
5786 Richard Henderson.
5787
5788* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
5789
5790* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
5791 Richard Henderson.
5792
5793* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
5794 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
5795
5796* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
5797
5798* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
5799 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
5800
5801* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
5802 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
5803
5804* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
5805 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
5806 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
5807
5808* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
5809 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
5810 attributes of a process.
5811
5812* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
5813 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
5814 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
5815 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
5816 mutexes.
5817
5818* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
5819 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
5820
5821* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
5822\f
5823Version 2.17
5824
5825* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5826
5827 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
5828 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
5829 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
5830 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
5831 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
5832 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
5833 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
5834 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
5835 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
5836 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
5837 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
5838 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
5839 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
5840 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
5841 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
5842
5843* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
5844
5845* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
5846 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
5847
5848* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
5849 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
5850
5851* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
5852
5853* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
5854 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
5855 zEnterprise z196.
5856 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
5857
5858* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
5859 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
5860 the internal function __secure_getenv.
5861
5862* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
5863 Implemented by Gary Benson.
5864
5865* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
5866 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
5867
5868* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
5869 can be used with is 2.6.16.
5870
5871* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
5872 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
5873
5874* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
5875 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
5876 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
5877 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
5878
5879* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
5880 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
5881
5882* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
5883 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
5884 default.
5885
5886* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
5887 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
5888 information in --help and --version output.
5889
5890* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
5891 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
5892 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
5893
5894* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
5895 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
5896 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
5897 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
5898 when the mode is enabled.
5899
5900* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
5901 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
5902 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
5903 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
5904 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
5905 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
5906 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5907
5908* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
5909 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
5910\f
5911Version 2.16
5912
5913* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5914
5915 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
5916 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
5917 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
5918 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
5919 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
5920 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
5921 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
5922 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
5923 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
5924 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
5925 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
5926 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
5927 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
5928 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
5929 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
5930 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
5931 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
5932 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
5933 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
5934 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
5935 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
5936 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
5937 14277, 14278.
5938
5939* Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
5940 configuring glibc with:
5941 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
5942 Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
5943 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5944
5945* ISO C11 support:
5946
5947 + define static_assert
5948
5949 + do not declare gets
5950
5951 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
5952
5953 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
5954 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
5955 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
5956 implementation.
5957
5958 + timespec_get added
5959
5960 + uchar.h support added
5961
5962 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
5963
5964 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5965
5966* Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
5967
5968* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
5969
5970* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
5971 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5972
5973* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
5974 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5975
5976* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
5977 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
5978 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
5979 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
5980 existing applications.
5981
5982* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
5983 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
5984 before 2.6.
5985
5986* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
5987 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
5988 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
5989
5990* New locales: mag_IN
5991
5992* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
5993 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
5994 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
5995 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
5996 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
5997
5998* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5999
6000* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
6001 and Will Schmidt.
6002
6003* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
6004
6005* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
6006 without a previously built glibc.
6007
6008* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
6009 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
6010
6011* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
6012 now supported for ARM processors.
6013
6014* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
6015 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
6016 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
6017
6018* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
6019
6020* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
6021 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
6022 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
6023 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
6024
6025* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
6026 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
6027 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
6028 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
6029
6030* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
6031 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
6032 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
6033 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
6034 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
6035
6036* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
6037 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
6038 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
6039 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
6040\f
6041Version 2.15
6042
6043* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6044
6045 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
6046 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
6047 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
6048 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
6049 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
6050 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
6051 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
6052
6053* New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
6054 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6055
6056* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
6057 and support for initgroups lookups.
6058 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6059
6060* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
6061 Contributed by HJ Lu.
6062
6063* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
6064 Contributed by HJ Lu.
6065
6066* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
6067 on x86-32 and x86-64.
6068 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
6069
6070* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
6071 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
6072
6073* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
6074 for x86-64 and x86-32.
6075 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
6076
6077* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
6078 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6079
6080* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
6081 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6082
6083* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
6084 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6085
6086* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
6087 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6088
6089* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
6090 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6091
6092* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
6093 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6094
6095* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
6096
6097* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
6098 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6099
6100* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
6101 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
6102
6103* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
6104\f
6105Version 2.14
6106
6107* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6108
6109 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
6110 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
6111 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
6112 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
6113 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
6114 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
6115 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
6116 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
6117 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
6118 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
6119
6120* The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
6121 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
6122 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6123 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
6124
6125 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
6126 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
6127 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
6128 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6129
6130* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
6131 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
6132
6133* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
6134 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
6135
6136* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
6137
6138* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
6139 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6140
6141* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
6142 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
6143 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
6144 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
6145\f
6146Version 2.13
6147
6148* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6149
6150 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
6151 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
6152 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
6153 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
6154 12378, 12394, 12397
6155
6156* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
6157
6158* POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
6159
6160* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
6161 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
6162 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6163\f
6164Version 2.12
6165
6166* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6167
6168 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
6169 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
6170 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
6171 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
6172 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
6173 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
6174 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
6175 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
6176
6177* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
6178
6179* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
6180
6181* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
6182
6183* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
6184 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
6185 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6186
6187* New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
6188 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
6189 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
6190 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
6191 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6192
6193* New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
6194\f
6195Version 2.11
6196
6197* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6198
6199 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
6200 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
6201 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
6202 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
6203 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
6204 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
6205
6206* New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
6207 mkostemps64
6208 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6209
6210* Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
6211 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6212
6213* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
6214 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
6215
6216* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
6217
6218* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
6219 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
6220 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
6221 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
6222
6223 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
6224 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6225
6226* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
6227 strstr, strcasestr.
6228 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
6229
6230* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
6231 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
6232
6233* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
6234 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
6235
6236* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
6237 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6238
6239* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
6240 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
6241 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
6242 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
6243 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
6244 necessity is every process again.
6245 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6246
6247* New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
6248 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
6249
6250* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
6251 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
6252
6253* Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
6254 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
6255 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6256
6257* New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
6258\f
6259Version 2.10
6260
6261* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6262
6263 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
6264 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
6265 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
6266 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
6267 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
6268
6269* New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
6270 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6271
6272* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
6273 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6274
6275* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
6276 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
6277
6278* XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
6279 now in POSIX.
6280
6281* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6282 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6283
6284* New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
6285 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6286
6287* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
6288 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6289
6290* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
6291 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6292
6293* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
6294 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
6295 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6296
6297* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
6298
6299* Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
6300 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6301
6302* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
6303 and extend existing format specifiers.
6304 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6305
6306* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
6307 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6308
6309* DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
6310 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
6311 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
6312 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
6313 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
6314 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6315\f
6316Version 2.9
6317
6318* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6319
6320 2447, 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447,
6321 6461, 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712,
6322 6713, 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839,
6323 6843, 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955,
6324 6966, 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
6325
6326* Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
6327 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6328
6329* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
6330 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
6331
6332* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
6333 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6334
6335* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
6336 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
6337 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6338
6339* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
6340 Implemented by Eric Blake.
6341
6342* New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
6343
6344* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
6345 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6346
6347* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
6348 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
6349 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
6350 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6351
6352* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
6353 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6354
6355* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
6356 Sinhala)
6357 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
6358
6359* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
6360\f
6361Version 2.8
6362
6363* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6364
6365 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
6366 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
6367 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
6368 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
6369 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
6370 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
6371 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
6372
6373* New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
6374
6375* New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
6376
6377* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
6378 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
6379
6380* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
6381
6382* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
6383 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6384
6385* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
6386 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6387
6388* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
6389 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
6390 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
6391
6392* Faster memset for x86-64.
6393 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
6394
6395* Faster memcpy on x86.
6396 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6397
6398* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
6399 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6400
6401* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implementation for some PPC variants.
6402 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
6403\f
6404Version 2.7
6405
6406* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6407
6408 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
6409 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
6410 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
6411 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
6412 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
6413
6414* More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
6415 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
6416
6417* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
6418
6419* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
6420 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
6421 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
6422
6423* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
6424 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
6425
6426* New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
6427 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6428
6429* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6430
6431* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
6432 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6433
6434* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
6435 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
6436
6437* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
6438 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
6439
6440* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6441
6442* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
6443 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6444
6445* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
6446 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
6447 yo_NG.
6448
6449+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
6450 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6451\f
6452Version 2.6
6453
6454* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6455
6456 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
6457 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
6458 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
6459 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
6460 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
6461 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
6462 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
6463 4702, 4858
6464
6465* New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
6466
6467* New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
6468
6469* nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6470\f
6471Version 2.5
6472
6473* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6474
6475 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
6476 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
6477 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
6478 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
6479 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
6480 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
6481 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
6482 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
6483 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
6484
6485* For Linux, the sorting of addresses returned by getaddrinfo now also
6486 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
6487 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6488
6489* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
6490 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6491
6492* New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
6493
6494* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
6495
6496* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
6497 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
6498 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
6499 site might have problems with the default behavior.
6500 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6501
6502* Iterating over entire database in NIS can be slow. With the
6503 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
6504 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
6505 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6506
6507* The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
6508 Ulrich Drepper.
6509
6510* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
6511
6512* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
6513 Ulrich Drepper.
6514
6515* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
6516
6517* New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
6518 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
6519\f
6520Version 2.4
6521
6522* More overflow detection functions.
6523
6524* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
6525 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
6526
6527 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
6528 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
6529 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
6530 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
6531 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
6532 by Masahide Washizawa.
6533
6534* It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
6535 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6536
6537* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
6538 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
6539 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
6540 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
6541
6542* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
6543 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
6544
6545* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
6546
6547* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
6548 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
6549 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
6550
6551* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
6552 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
6553
6554* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
6555 for compatibility with some other systems.
6556
6557* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
6558\f
6559Version 2.3.6
6560
6561* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6562
6563 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
6564 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
6565 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
6566 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
6567 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
6568 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
6569
6570 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
6571
6572* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
6573
6574* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
6575\f
6576Version 2.3.5
6577
6578* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6579
6580 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
6581 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
6582 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
6583 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
6584
6585 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
6586\f
6587Version 2.3.4
6588
6589* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
6590 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6591
6592* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
6593 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
6594 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6595
6596* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
6597 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
6598
6599* getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
6600 efficiently.
6601 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6602
6603* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
6604 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
6605 handling data.
6606
6607* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
6608 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
6609 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6610
6611* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
6612 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6613
6614* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
6615 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
6616 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
6617 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6618
6619* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
6620 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
6621 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
6622 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
6623
6624* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
6625 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
6626 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
6627 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
6628 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
6629\f
6630Version 2.3.3
6631
6632* New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
6633 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
6634
6635* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
6636 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
6637
6638* getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
6639 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
6640
6641* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
6642 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6643
6644* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
6645 by Roland McGrath.
6646
6647* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
6648 and Ulrich Drepper.
6649
6650* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
6651 RFC 3484.
6652\f
6653Version 2.3.2
6654
6655* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
6656 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
6657 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
6658 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
6659 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
6660 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
6661 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
6662 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
6663 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
6664
6665* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
6666 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
6667 and are now also available on the Hurd.
6668
6669* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
6670
6671* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
6672 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
6673
6674* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
6675 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
6676
6677* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
6678
6679* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
6680 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
6681
6682* With appropriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
6683 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
6684 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
6685 of weak definition in ld.so.
6686
6687* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
6688 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
6689
6690* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
6691 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
6692\f
6693Version 2.3
6694
6695* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
6696 charsets.
6697
6698* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
6699 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
6700
6701* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
6702 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
6703
6704* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
6705 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
6706
6707* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
6708 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
6709 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6710
6711* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
6712 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
6713
6714* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
6715 implementation of regex.
6716
6717* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
6718 Unicode 3.2.
6719
6720* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
6721 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
6722
6723* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
6724 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
6725 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
6726
6727* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
6728 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
6729
6730* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
6731 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
6732 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
6733
6734* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
6735 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
6736
6737* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
6738 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
6739 and Ulrich Drepper.
6740
6741* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
6742\f
6743Version 2.2.6
6744
6745* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
6746 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
6747
6748* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
6749 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
6750\f
6751Version 2.2.5
6752
6753* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
6754 128-bit long double format.
6755
6756* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
6757 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
6758
6759* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
6760
6761* Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
6762
6763* libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
6764 as well.
6765
6766* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
6767 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
6768
6769* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
6770\f
6771Version 2.2.4
6772
6773* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
6774 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
6775
6776* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
6777 support Unicode 3.1.
6778
6779* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
6780 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
6781
6782* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
6783
6784* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
6785 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
6786 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6787
6788* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
6789 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
6790
6791* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
6792 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
6793
6794* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
6795\f
6796Version 2.2.3
6797
6798* Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
6799 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
6800 in float, double, and long double format.
6801
6802* Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
6803 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
6804 128-bit long double format.
6805
6806* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
6807 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
6808 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
6809 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
6810
6811* An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
6812 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
6813 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6814
6815* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
6816 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
6817
6818* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
6819 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
6820
6821* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
6822 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
6823 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
6824
6825* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
6826 family of functions for Linux/S390.
6827
6828* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
6829 of functions for Linux/x86.
6830
6831* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
6832\f
6833Version 2.2.2
6834
6835* Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
6836 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
6837 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
6838 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
6839 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
6840 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
6841 other headers.
6842
6843* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
6844 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
6845
6846* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
6847 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
6848 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
6849 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6850
6851* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
6852 locales. While
6853
6854 locale -a
6855
6856 only lists the names of the supported locales
6857
6858 locale -a --verbose
6859
6860 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
6861 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6862\f
6863Version 2.2.1
6864
6865* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
6866 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
6867 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
6868 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
6869 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
6870
6871 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
6872
6873 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
6874
6875 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
6876
6877* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
6878 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
6879 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
6880
6881* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
6882 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
6883
6884* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
6885 changed from the default "C" locale.
6886
6887* The usual bug fixes.
6888\f
6889Version 2.2
6890
6891* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
6892 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
6893 is in progress.
6894
6895* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
6896
6897* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
6898
6899 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
6900 obviously requires a database library being available.
6901
6902* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6903
6904* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
6905
6906* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
6907 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
6908
6909* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
6910
6911* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
6912 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
6913 and Mark Kettenis.
6914
6915 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
6916 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
6917 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
6918
6919 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
6920 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
6921
6922* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
6923 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
6924 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
6925
6926* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
6927 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
6928 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
6929 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6930
6931 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
6932 structures for the wide character tables.
6933
6934* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6935
6936* The utmp daemon has been removed.
6937
6938* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
6939
6940* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
6941 and Yutaka Niibe.
6942
6943* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
6944
6945* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
6946
6947* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6948
6949* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
6950
6951* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
6952
6953* the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
6954 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
6955 implemented for Linux.
6956
6957* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
6958 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
6959 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
6960 versions.
6961
6962* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
6963 Masahide Washizawa.
6964
6965* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
6966\f
6967Version 2.1.3
6968
6969* bug fixes
6970
6971\f
6972Version 2.1.2
6973
6974* bug fixes
6975
6976\f
6977Version 2.1.1
6978
6979* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
6980
6981* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
6982
6983* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
6984
6985* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
6986
6987* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
6988
6989* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
6990
6991* Update timezone data files.
6992
6993* lots of charmaps corrections
6994
6995* some new locale definitions and charmaps
6996
6997\f
6998Version 2.1
6999
7000* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
7001 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
7002 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
7003 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
7004 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
7005 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
7006
7007* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
7008 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7009
7010* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
7011 symbol level.
7012
7013* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierarchical
7014 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
7015
7016* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
7017
7018* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
7019 numbers.
7020
7021* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
7022
7023* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
7024 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
7025
7026* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
7027 library.
7028
7029* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
7030 functions from ISO C 9X.
7031
7032* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
7033 real valued functions.
7034
7035* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
7036
7037* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
7038
7039* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
7040
7041* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
7042
7043* Optimized string functions have been added.
7044
7045* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
7046
7047* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
7048
7049* Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
7050 daemon for NSS (nscd).
7051
7052 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
7053 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
7054
7055 user system wall
7056
7057 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
7058
7059 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
7060
7061 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
7062
7063 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
7064
7065 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
7066
7067 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
7068
7069 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
7070 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
7071 horribly slow.
7072
7073 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
7074 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
7075
7076* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
7077
7078* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
7079
7080* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
7081 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
7082
7083* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
7084
7085* A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
7086 Bambrough.
7087
7088* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
7089 latest draft standards.
7090
7091* Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
7092
7093* Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
7094~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
7095addseverity NEW: Unix98
7096alphasort64 NEW: LFS
7097argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
7098argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
7099argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
7100argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
7101argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
7102argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
7103argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
7104argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
7105argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
7106argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
7107authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
7108authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
7109authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
7110backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
7111backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
7112backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
7113cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
7114cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
7115cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
7116cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
7117cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
7118cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
7119capget NEW: kernel
7120capset NEW: kernel
7121carg NEW: ISO C 9x
7122cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
7123cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
7124casin NEW: ISO C 9x
7125casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
7126casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
7127casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
7128casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
7129casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
7130catan NEW: ISO C 9x
7131catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
7132catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
7133catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
7134catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
7135catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
7136cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
7137ccos NEW: ISO C 9x
7138ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
7139ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
7140ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
7141ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
7142ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
7143cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
7144cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
7145cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
7146cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
7147cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
7148cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
7149clearerr_locked REMOVED
7150clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
7151clog NEW: ISO C 9x
7152clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
7153clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
7154clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
7155clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
7156clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
7157conj NEW: ISO C 9x
7158conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
7159conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
7160cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
7161cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
7162cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
7163cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
7164cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
7165cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
7166creal NEW: ISO C 9x
7167crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
7168creall NEW: ISO C 9x
7169creat64 NEW: LFS
7170csin NEW: ISO C 9x
7171csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
7172csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
7173csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
7174csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
7175csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
7176csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
7177csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
7178csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
7179ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
7180ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
7181ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
7182ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
7183ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
7184ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
7185des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
7186ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
7187endutxent NEW: Unix98
7188exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x
7189exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
7190exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
7191exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
7192exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
7193exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
7194fattach NEW: STREAMS
7195fdetach NEW: STREAMS
7196fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
7197fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
7198fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
7199feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
7200fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
7201fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
7202fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
7203feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
7204feof_locked REMOVED
7205feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
7206ferror_locked REMOVED
7207fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
7208fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
7209fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
7210fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
7211feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
7212fflush_locked REMOVED
7213ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
7214ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
7215fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
7216fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
7217fileno_locked REMOVED
7218fma NEW: ISO C 9x
7219fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
7220fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
7221fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
7222fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
7223fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
7224fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
7225fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
7226fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
7227fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
7228fopen64 NEW: LFS
7229fputc_locked REMOVED
7230fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
7231fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
7232freopen64 NEW: LFS
7233fseeko NEW: Unix98
7234fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
7235fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
7236fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
7237fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
7238ftello NEW: Unix98
7239ftello64 NEW: LFS
7240ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
7241ftw64 NEW: LFS
7242fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
7243gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
7244gamma_r REMOVED
7245gammaf_r REMOVED
7246gammal_r REMOVED
7247getchar_locked REMOVED
7248getdate NEW: Unix98
7249getdate_err NEW: Unix98
7250getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
7251getmsg NEW: STREAMS
7252getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
7253getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
7254getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
7255getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
7256getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
7257getutxent NEW: Unix98
7258getutxid NEW: Unix98
7259getutxline NEW: Unix98
7260glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
7261globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
7262gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
7263gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
7264grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
7265host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
7266iconv NEW: iconv
7267iconv_close NEW: iconv
7268iconv_open NEW: iconv
7269if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
7270if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
7271if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
7272if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
7273in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
7274in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
7275inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
7276isastream NEW: STREAMS
7277iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
7278key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
7279key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
7280key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
7281key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
7282key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
7283key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
7284key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
7285key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
7286key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
7287llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
7288llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
7289llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
7290llround NEW: ISO C 9x
7291llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
7292llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
7293log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
7294log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
7295log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
7296lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
7297lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
7298lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
7299lround NEW: ISO C 9x
7300lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
7301lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
7302lseek64 NEW: LFS
7303makecontext NEW: Unix98
7304mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
7305mmap64 NEW: LFS
7306moncontrol REMOVED
7307modify_ldt NEW: kernel
7308nan NEW: ISO C 9x
7309nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
7310nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
7311nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
7312nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
7313nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
7314netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
7315netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
7316nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
7317nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
7318nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
7319nftw NEW: Unix98
7320nftw64 NEW: LFS
7321open64 NEW: LFS
7322passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
7323pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
7324pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
7325pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
7326pread NEW: Unix98
7327pread64 NEW: LFS
7328printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
7329printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
7330profil_counter REMOVED
7331pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
7332pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
7333ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
7334ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
7335putc_locked REMOVED
7336putchar_locked REMOVED
7337putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
7338putmsg NEW: STREAMS
7339putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
7340pututxline NEW: Unix98
7341pwrite NEW: Unix98
7342pwrite64 NEW: LFS
7343readdir64 NEW: LFS
7344readdir64_r NEW: LFS
7345remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
7346remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
7347remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
7348round NEW: ISO C 9x
7349roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
7350roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
7351rtime NEW: GNU ext.
7352scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
7353scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
7354scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
7355scandir64 NEW: LFS
7356sendfile NEW: kernel
7357setcontext NEW: Unix98
7358setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
7359setutxent NEW: Unix98
7360sighold NEW: Unix98
7361sigignore NEW: Unix98
7362sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
7363sigrelse NEW: Unix98
7364sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
7365sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
7366sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
7367sincos NEW: GNU ext.
7368sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
7369sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
7370statfs64 NEW: LFS
7371statvfs NEW: Unix98
7372statvfs64 NEW: LFS
7373strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
7374strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
7375strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
7376strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
7377svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
7378svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
7379svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
7380swapcontext NEW: Unix98
7381tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
7382tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
7383tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
7384tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
7385tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
7386tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
7387trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
7388truncate64 NEW: LFS
7389truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
7390truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
7391umount2 NEW: kernel
7392unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
7393updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
7394user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
7395utmpxname NEW: Unix98
7396versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
7397versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
7398waitid NEW: Unix98
7399wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
7400wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
7401wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
7402wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
7403wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
7404wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
7405wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
7406wcswcs NEW: Unix98
7407wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
7408wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
7409write_profiling REMOVED
7410xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
7411xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
7412xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
7413xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
7414xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
7415xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
7416xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
7417xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
7418xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
7419xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
7420xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
7421xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
7422xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
7423xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
7424xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
7425~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
7426\f
7427Version 2.0.6
7428
7429* more bug fixes
7430
7431\f
7432Version 2.0.5
7433
7434* more bug fixes
7435
7436* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
7437
7438* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
7439
7440* rewrite of cbrt function
7441
7442* update of timezone data
7443\f
7444Version 2.0.4
7445
7446* more bug fixes
7447\f
7448Version 2.0.3
7449
7450* more bug fixes
7451\f
7452Version 2.0.2
7453
7454* more bug fixes
7455
7456* add atoll function
7457
7458* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
7459
7460* fix math functions
7461\f
7462Version 2.0.1
7463
7464* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
7465
7466* dynamic loader preserves all registers
7467
7468* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
7469 the ELF dynamic loader.
7470
7471* support for parallel builds is improved
7472\f
7473Version 2.0
7474
7475* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
7476 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
7477 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
7478
7479* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
7480 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
7481 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
7482 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
7483 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
7484 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
7485 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
7486 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
7487 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
7488 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
7489 files in the ELF format.
7490
7491* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
7492 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
7493
7494* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
7495 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
7496 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
7497 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
7498 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
7499 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
7500 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
7501 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
7502 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
7503 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
7504 about dynamically linked binaries.
7505
7506* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
7507 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
7508 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
7509 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
7510 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
7511
7512* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
7513 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
7514 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
7515 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
7516 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
7517
7518* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
7519
7520* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
7521 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
7522 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
7523 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
7524 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
7525 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
7526 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
7527 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
7528 NSS services available.
7529
7530* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
7531 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
7532 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
7533
7534* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
7535 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
7536 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
7537
7538* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
7539 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
7540 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
7541 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
7542
7543* The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
7544 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
7545 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
7546
7547* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
7548 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
7549 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
7550
7551* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
7552 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
7553
7554* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
7555 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
7556 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
7557 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendment 1 specification.
7558
7559* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
7560 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
7561 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
7562
7563* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
7564 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
7565 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
7566 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
7567 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
7568 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
7569 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
7570 the header file <printf.h> for details.
7571
7572* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
7573 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
7574 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
7575 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
7576 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
7577 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
7578 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
7579
7580* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
7581 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
7582 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
7583 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
7584 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
7585 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
7586
7587* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
7588 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
7589
7590* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
7591 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
7592 NSS scheme used in glibc.
7593
7594* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
7595
7596* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
7597 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
7598 their use is discouraged.
7599
7600* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
7601 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
7602
7603* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
7604 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
7605
7606* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
7607 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
7608
7609* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
7610 see <dirent.h>.
7611
7612* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
7613 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
7614 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
7615 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
7616 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
7617
7618* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
7619 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
7620 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
7621 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
7622
7623* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
7624 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
7625
7626* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
7627 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
7628 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
7629 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
7630 number generator.
7631
7632* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
7633 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
7634
7635* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
7636 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
7637
7638* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
7639 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
7640 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
7641 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
7642
7643* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
7644
7645* David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
7646 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
7647 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
7648
7649* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
7650 for arithmetic and string handling.
7651
7652* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
7653 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
7654 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
7655 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
7656
7657* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
7658 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
7659 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
7660 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
7661 programs already written to use it.)
7662
7663* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
7664 constants.
7665
7666* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
7667 with 4.4 BSD.
7668
7669* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
7670 a given effective group ID.
7671
7672* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
7673 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
7674 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
7675 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
7676
7677* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
7678 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
7679 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
7680 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
7681 doing the same thing.
7682
7683* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
7684 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
7685
7686* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
7687 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
7688
7689* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
7690
7691* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
7692 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
7693 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
7694 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
7695 `-ldb' to get these functions.
7696
7697* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
7698 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
7699
7700* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
7701 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
7702 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
7703 function.
7704
7705* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
7706
7707* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
7708 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
7709 strings.
7710
7711* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
7712 and writing the utmp file.
7713
7714* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
7715 Thorsten Kukuk.
7716
7717* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
7718 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
7719 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
7720
7721* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
7722 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
7723
7724* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
7725 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
7726 specification.
7727
7728* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
7729 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
7730 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
7731 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
7732
7733* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
7734 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
7735 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
7736
7737* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
7738 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
7739 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
7740 expression matcher.
7741
7742* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
7743 functionality.
7744
7745* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
7746 by Ulrich Drepper.
7747
7748* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
7749
7750* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
7751 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
7752 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
7753\f
7754Version 1.09
7755
7756* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
7757
7758* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
7759 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
7760
7761* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
7762 want to put themselves in the background.
7763
7764* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
7765 run without an operating system.
7766
7767* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
7768 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
7769
7770* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
7771 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
7772
7773* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
7774
7775* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
7776 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
7777 have YP (aka NIS).
7778
7779* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
7780 conventions.
7781
7782* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
7783 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
7784\f
7785Version 1.08
7786
7787* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
7788 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
7789 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
7790
7791* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
7792 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
7793
7794* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
7795 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
7796
7797* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
7798
7799* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
7800
7801* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
7802 compatibility.
7803
7804* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
7805 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
7806 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
7807
7808* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
7809
7810* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
7811 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
7812 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
7813
7814* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
7815 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
7816 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
7817 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
7818 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
7819 on a block).
7820
7821* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
7822 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
7823 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
7824 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
7825 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
7826 cross-compiler.
7827
7828* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
7829 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
7830\f
7831Version 1.07
7832
7833* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
7834 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
7835
7836* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
7837 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
7838 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
7839
7840* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
7841 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
7842 address of the last character written.
7843
7844* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
7845 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
7846
7847* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
7848 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
7849
7850* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
7851 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
7852 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
7853 you dereference this pointer.
7854
7855* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
7856 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
7857
7858* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
7859 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
7860 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
7861 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
7862
7863* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
7864 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
7865 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
7866 EAGAIN in every system call function.
7867\f
7868Version 1.06
7869
7870* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
7871 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
7872 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
7873 in Emacs or the `info' program.
7874 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
7875
7876* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
7877
7878* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
7879
7880* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
7881 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
7882
7883* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
7884 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
7885
7886* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
7887 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
7888
7889* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
7890 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
7891 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
7892 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
7893 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
7894
7895* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
7896 to the error code in `errno'.
7897
7898* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
7899 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
7900 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
7901 malloc'd string.
7902
7903* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
7904 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
7905 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
7906
7907* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
7908 uniquely-named temporary file.
7909\f
7910Version 1.05
7911
7912* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
7913 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
7914 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
7915
7916* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
7917 characters.
7918
7919* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
7920 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
7921
7922* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
7923\f
7924Version 1.04
7925
7926* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
7927 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
7928 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
7929 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
7930
7931* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
7932 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
7933 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
7934
7935* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
7936 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
7937
7938* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
7939 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
7940 made itself into a shared library.
7941
7942* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
7943 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
7944
7945* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
7946 with limited length.
7947
7948* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
7949
7950* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
7951
7952* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
7953
7954* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
7955 function for traversing a directory tree.
7956
7957* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
7958 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
7959 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
7960 formatted output directly to an obstack.
7961
7962* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
7963 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
7964
7965* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
7966
7967* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
7968 things to your strings.
7969
7970* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
7971
7972* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
7973 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
7974 supporting those systems.
7975
7976* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
7977 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
7978 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
7979 configuration files.
7980
7981* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
7982 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
7983
7984* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
7985 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
7986 in <strings.h>.)
7987
7988* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
7989 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
7990 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
7991 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
7992 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
7993 required storage is not available.
7994
7995* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
7996 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
7997
7998* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
7999 latest files released from Berkeley.
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