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