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8 Version 2.41
9
10 Major new features:
11
12 * In /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_OPTIONS, option flags can now be
13 prefixed with “-” to clear previously set flags. For example, if
14 /etc/resolv.conf contains “options no-aaaa”, a process running with
15 the RES_OPTIONS=-no-aaaa environment variable performs AAAA DNS
16 queries when the glibc DNS stub resolver is used.
17
18 * The DNS stub resolver now supports the strict-error option. If
19 activated, getaddrinfo for the AF_UNSPEC address family (with dual
20 A/AAAA DNS lookups) attemps to obtain an A/AAAA response pair from
21 another DNS server if one of the responses indicates failure. Without
22 the strict-error option, getaddrinfo returns the A record data it has
23 obtained even if the AAAA query failed. The new strict error mode is
24 incompatible with some DNS environments which do not follow the RFCs,
25 which is why this mode is not enabled by default. A future version
26 of the library may turn it on by default, however.
27
28 * On Linux, the sched_setattr and sched_getattr have been added, for
29 supporting parameterized scheduling policies such as SCHED_DEADLINE.
30
31 * The iconv program now supports converting files in place. The program
32 automatically uses a temporary file if required.
33
34 * The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2Y_SOURCE to
35 enable features from the draft ISO C2Y standard. Only some features from
36 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
37 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
38 liable to change. Features from C2Y are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
39 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2y".
40
41 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
42
43 * The big-endian ARC port (arceb-linux-gnu) has been removed.
44
45 * The abort is now async-signal-safe and its implementation makes longjmp
46 from the SIGABRT handler always abort if set up with setjmp. Use sigsetjmp
47 to keep the old behavior, where the handler does not stop the process
48 execution.
49
50 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
51
52 [Add changes to build and runtime requirements here]
53
54 Security related changes:
55
56 The following CVEs were fixed in this release, details of which can be
57 found in the advisories directory of the release tarball:
58
59 [The release manager will add the list generated by
60 scripts/process-advisories.sh just before the release.]
61
62 The following bugs were resolved with this release:
63
64 [The release manager will add the list generated by
65 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
66 \f
67 Version 2.40
68
69 Major new features:
70
71 * The <stdbit.h> header type-generic macros have been changed when using
72 GCC 14.1 or later to use __builtin_stdc_bit_ceil etc. built-in functions
73 in order to support unsigned __int128 and/or unsigned _BitInt(N) operands
74 with arbitrary precisions when supported by the target.
75
76 * The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC23_SOURCE to
77 enable features from the ISO C23 standard. Only some features from
78 this standard are supported by the GNU C Library. The older name
79 _ISOC2X_SOURCE is still supported. Features from C23 are also enabled
80 by _GNU_SOURCE, or by compiling with the GCC options -std=c23,
81 -std=gnu23, -std=c2x or -std=gnu2x.
82
83 * The following ISO C23 function families (introduced in TS
84 18661-4:2015) are now supported in <math.h>. Each family includes
85 functions for float, double, long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx, and a
86 type-generic macro in <tgmath.h>.
87
88 - Exponential functions: exp2m1, exp10m1.
89
90 - Logarithmic functions: log2p1, log10p1, logp1.
91
92 * A new tunable, glibc.rtld.enable_secure, can be used to run a program
93 as if it were a setuid process. This is currently a testing tool to allow
94 more extensive verification tests for AT_SECURE programs and not meant to
95 be a security feature.
96
97 * On Linux, the epoll header was updated to include epoll ioctl definitions
98 and the related structure added in Linux kernel 6.9.
99
100 * The fortify functionality has been significantly enhanced for building
101 programs with clang against the GNU C Library.
102
103 * Many functions have been added to the vector library for aarch64:
104 acosh, asinh, atanh, cbrt, cosh, erf, erfc, hypot, pow, sinh, tanh
105
106 * On x86, memset can now use non-temporal stores to improve the performance
107 of large writes. This behaviour is controlled by a new tunable
108 x86_memset_non_temporal_threshold.
109
110 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
111
112 * Architectures which use a 32-bit seconds-since-epoch field in struct
113 lastlog, struct utmp, struct utmpx (such as i386, powerpc64le, rv32,
114 rv64, x86-64) switched from a signed to an unsigned type for that
115 field. This allows these fields to store timestamps beyond the year
116 2038, until the year 2106. Please note that applications are still
117 expected to migrate off the interfaces declared in <utmp.h> and
118 <utmpx.h> (except for login_tty) due to locking and session management
119 problems.
120
121 * __rseq_size now denotes the size of the active rseq area (20 bytes
122 initially), not the size of struct rseq (32 bytes initially).
123
124 Security related changes:
125
126 The following CVEs were fixed in this release, details of which can be
127 found in the advisories directory of the release tarball:
128
129 GLIBC-SA-2024-0004:
130 ISO-2022-CN-EXT: fix out-of-bound writes when writing escape
131 sequence (CVE-2024-2961)
132
133 GLIBC-SA-2024-0005:
134 nscd: Stack-based buffer overflow in netgroup cache (CVE-2024-33599)
135
136 GLIBC-SA-2024-0006:
137 nscd: Null pointer crash after notfound response (CVE-2024-33600)
138
139 GLIBC-SA-2024-0007:
140 nscd: netgroup cache may terminate daemon on memory allocation
141 failure (CVE-2024-33601)
142
143 GLIBC-SA-2024-0008:
144 nscd: netgroup cache assumes NSS callback uses in-buffer strings
145 (CVE-2024-33602)
146
147 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
148
149 [19622] network: Support aliasing with struct sockaddr
150 [21271] localedata: cv_RU: update translations
151 [23774] localedata: lv_LV collates Y/y incorrectly
152 [23865] string: wcsstr is quadratic-time
153 [25119] localedata: Change Czech weekday names to lowercase
154 [27777] stdio: fclose does a linear search, takes ages when many FILE*
155 are opened
156 [29770] libc: prctl does not match manual page ABI on powerpc64le-
157 linux-gnu
158 [29845] localedata: Update hr_HR locale currency to €
159 [30701] time: getutxent misbehaves on 32-bit x86 when _TIME_BITS=64
160 [31316] build: Fails test misc/tst-dirname "Didn't expect signal from
161 child: got `Illegal instruction'" on non SSE CPUs
162 [31317] dynamic-link: [RISCV] static PIE crashes during self
163 relocation
164 [31325] libc: mips: clone3 is wrong for o32
165 [31335] math: Compile glibc with -march=x86-64-v3 should disable FMA4
166 multi-arch version
167 [31339] libc: arm32 loader crash after cleanup in 2.36
168 [31340] manual: A bad sentence in section 22.3.5 (resource.texi)
169 [31357] dynamic-link: $(objpfx)tst-rtld-list-diagnostics.out rule
170 doesn't work with test wrapper
171 [31370] localedata: wcwidth() does not treat
172 DEFAULT_IGNORABLE_CODE_POINTs as zero-width
173 [31371] dynamic-link: x86-64: APX and Tile registers aren't preserved
174 in ld.so trampoline
175 [31372] dynamic-link: _dl_tlsdesc_dynamic doesn't preserve all caller-
176 saved registers
177 [31383] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 and __fortified_attr_access vs size of
178 0 and zero size types
179 [31385] build: sort-makefile-lines.py doesn't check variable with _
180 nor with "^# variable"
181 [31402] libc: clone (NULL, NULL, ...) clobbers %r7 register on
182 s390{,x}
183 [31405] libc: Improve dl_iterate_phdr using _dl_find_object
184 [31411] localedata: Add Latgalian locale
185 [31412] build: GCC 6 failed to build i386 glibc on Fedora 39
186 [31429] build: Glibc failed to build with -march=x86-64-v3
187 [31468] libc: sigisemptyset returns true when the set contains signals
188 larger than 34
189 [31476] network: Automatic activation of single-request options break
190 resolv.conf reloading
191 [31479] libc: Missing #include <sys/rseq.h> in sched_getcpu.c may
192 result in a loss of rseq acceleration
193 [31501] dynamic-link: _dl_tlsdesc_dynamic_xsavec may clobber %rbx
194 [31518] manual: documentation: FLT_MAX_10_EXP questionable text, evtl.
195 wrong,
196 [31530] localedata: Locale file for Moksha - mdf_RU
197 [31553] malloc: elf/tst-decorate-maps fails on ppc64el
198 [31596] libc: On the llvm-arm32 platform, dlopen("not_exist.so", -1)
199 triggers segmentation fault
200 [31600] math: math: x86 ceill traps when FE_INEXACT is enabled
201 [31601] math: math: x86 floor traps when FE_INEXACT is enabled
202 [31603] math: math: x86 trunc traps when FE_INEXACT is enabled
203 [31612] libc: arc4random fails to fallback to /dev/urandom if
204 getrandom is not present
205 [31629] build: powerpc64: Configuring with "--with-cpu=power10" and
206 'CFLAGS=-O2 -mcpu=power9' fails to build glibc
207 [31640] dynamic-link: POWER10 ld.so crashes in
208 elf_machine_load_address with GCC 14
209 [31661] libc: NPROCESSORS_CONF and NPROCESSORS_ONLN not available in
210 getconf
211 [31676] dynamic-link: Configuring with CC="gcc -march=x86-64-v3"
212 --with-rtld-early-cflags=-march=x86-64 results in linker failure
213 [31677] nscd: nscd: netgroup cache: invalid memcpy under low
214 memory/storage conditions
215 [31678] nscd: nscd: Null pointer dereferences after failed netgroup
216 cache insertion
217 [31679] nscd: nscd: netgroup cache may terminate daemon on memory
218 allocation failure
219 [31680] nscd: nscd: netgroup cache assumes NSS callback uses in-buffer
220 strings
221 [31682] math: [PowerPC] Floating point exception error for math test
222 test-ceil-except-2 test-floor-except-2 test-trunc-except-2
223 [31686] dynamic-link: Stack-based buffer overflow in
224 parse_tunables_string
225 [31695] libc: pidfd_spawn/pidfd_spawnp leak an fd if clone3 succeeds
226 but execve fails
227 [31719] dynamic-link: --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests doesn't work
228 with -Wl,--enable-new-dtags
229 [31730] libc: backtrace_symbols_fd prints different strings than
230 backtrace_symbols returns
231 [31753] build: FAIL: link-static-libc with GCC 6/7/8
232 [31755] libc: procutils_read_file doesn't start with a leading
233 underscore
234 [31756] libc: write_profiling is only in libc.a
235 [31757] build: Should XXXf128_do_not_use functions be excluded?
236 [31759] math: Extra nearbyint symbols in libm.a
237 [31760] math: Missing math functions
238 [31764] build: _res_opcodes should be a compat symbol only
239 [31765] dynamic-link: _dl_mcount_wrapper is exported without prototype
240 [31766] stdio: _IO_stderr_ _IO_stdin_ _IO_stdout should be compat
241 symbols
242 [31768] string: Extra stpncpy symbol in libc.a
243 [31770] libc: clone3 is in libc.a
244 [31774] libc: Missing __isnanf128 in libc.a
245 [31775] math: Missing exp10 exp10f32x exp10f64 fmod fmodf fmodf32
246 fmodf32x fmodf64 in libm.a
247 [31777] string: Extra memchr strlen symbols in libc.a
248 [31781] math: Missing math functions in libm.a
249 [31782] build: Test build failure with recent GCC trunk (x86/tst-cpu-
250 features-supports.c:69:3: error: parameter to builtin not valid:
251 avx5124fmaps)
252 [31785] string: loongarch: Extra strnlen symbols in libc.a
253 [31786] string: powerpc: Extra strchrnul and strncasecmp_l symbols in
254 libc.a
255 [31787] math: powerpc: Extra llrintf, llrintf, llrintf32, and
256 llrintf32 symbols in libc.a
257 [31788] libc: microblaze: Extra cacheflush symbol in libc.a
258 [31789] libc: powerpc: Extra versionsort symbol in libc.a
259 [31790] libc: s390: Extra getutent32, getutent32_r, getutid32,
260 getutid32_r, getutline32, getutline32_r, getutmp32, getutmpx32,
261 getutxent32, getutxid32, getutxline32, pututline32, pututxline32,
262 updwtmp32, updwtmpx32 in libc.a
263 [31797] build: g++ -static requirement should be able to opt-out
264 [31798] libc: pidfd_getpid.c is miscompiled by GCC 6.4
265 [31802] time: difftime is pure not const
266 [31808] time: The supported time_t range is not documented.
267 [31840] stdio: Memory leak in _IO_new_fdopen (fdopen) on seek failure
268 [31867] build: "CPU ISA level is lower than required" on SSE2-free
269 CPUs
270 [31876] time: "Date and time" documentation fixes for POSIX.1-2024 etc
271 [31883] build: ISA level support configure check relies on bashism /
272 is otherwise broken for arithmetic
273 [31892] build: Always install mtrace.
274 [31917] libc: clang mq_open fortify wrapper does not handle 4 argument
275 correctly
276 [31927] libc: clang open fortify wrapper does not handle argument
277 correctly
278 [31931] time: tzset may fault on very short TZ string
279 [31934] string: wcsncmp crash on s390x on vlbb instruction
280 [31963] stdio: Crash in _IO_link_in within __gcov_exit
281 [31965] dynamic-link: rseq extension mechanism does not work as
282 intended
283 [31980] build: elf/tst-tunables-enable_secure-env fails on ppc
284 \f
285 Version 2.39
286
287 Major new features:
288
289 * A new tunable, glibc.cpu.plt_rewrite, can be used to enable PLT
290 rewrite on x86-64. When enabled with non-lazy binding, the dynamic
291 linker will rewrite indirect branches in PLT with direct branches.
292
293 * Sync with Linux kernel 6.6 shadow stack interface. The --enable-cet
294 configure option is only supported on x86-64.
295
296 * struct statvfs now has an f_type member, equal to the f_type statfs member;
297 on the Hurd this was always available under a reserved name,
298 and under Linux a spare has been allocated: it was always zero
299 in previous versions of glibc, and zero is not a valid result.
300
301 * On Linux, the functions posix_spawnattr_getcgroup_np and
302 posix_spawnattr_setcgroup_np have been added, along with the
303 POSIX_SPAWN_SETCGROUP flag. They allow posix_spawn and posix_spawnp
304 to set the cgroupv2 in the new process in a race-free manner. These
305 functions are GNU extensions and require a kernel with clone3 support.
306
307 * On Linux, the pidfd_spawn and pidfd_spawp functions have been added.
308 They have a similar prototype and semantic as posix_spawn, but instead of
309 returning a process ID, they return a file descriptor that can be used
310 along other pidfd functions (like pidfd_send_signal, poll, or waitid).
311 The pidfd functionality avoids the issue of PID reuse with the traditional
312 posix_spawn interface.
313
314 * On Linux, the pidfd_getpid function has been added. It allows retrieving
315 the process ID associated with the process file descriptor created by
316 pid_spawn, fork_np, or pidfd_open.
317
318 * scanf-family functions now support the wN format length modifiers for
319 arguments pointing to types intN_t, int_leastN_t, uintN_t or
320 uint_leastN_t (for example, %w32d to read int32_t or int_least32_t in
321 decimal, or %w32x to read uint32_t or uint_least32_t in hexadecimal)
322 and the wfN format length modifiers for arguments pointing to types
323 int_fastN_t or uint_fastN_t, as specified in draft ISO C2X.
324
325 * A new tunable, glibc.mem.decorate_maps, can be used to add additional
326 information on underlying memory allocated by the glibc (for instance,
327 on thread stack created by pthread_create or memory allocated by
328 malloc).
329
330 * The <stdbit.h> header has been added from ISO C2X, with
331 stdc_leading_zeros, stdc_leading_ones, stdc_trailing_zeros,
332 stdc_trailing_ones, stdc_first_leading_zero, stdc_first_leading_one,
333 stdc_first_trailing_zero, stdc_first_trailing_one, stdc_count_zeros,
334 stdc_count_ones, stdc_has_single_bit, stdc_bit_width, stdc_bit_floor
335 and stdc_bit_ceil function families, each having functions for
336 unsigned char, unsigned short, unsigned int, unsigned long int and
337 unsigned long long int, and a type-generic macro.
338
339 * On AArch64 new symbols were added to libmvec and now math.h has
340 annotations to allow GCC 9 or newer to auto-vectorize calls to the
341 following scalar math functions when -ffast-math is specified:
342 acos, acosf, asin, asinf, atan, atanf, atan2, atan2f, cos, cosf,
343 exp, expf, exp10, exp10f, exp2, exp2f, expm1, expm1f, log, logf,
344 log10, log10f, log1p, log1pf, log2, log2f, sin, sinf, tan, tanf.
345
346 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
347
348 * The ldconfig program now skips file names containing ';' or ending in
349 ".dpkg.tmp" or ".dpkg.new", to avoid examining temporary files created
350 by the RPM and dpkg package managers.
351
352 * libcrypt has been removed from the GNU C Library. The configure
353 options "--enable-crypt" and "--enable-nss-crypt" are no longer
354 available. <crypt.h>, libcrypt.a, and libcrypt.so.1 will not be
355 installed. For now <unistd.h> continues to declare the crypt
356 function by default, to avoid introducing vulnerabilities into
357 existing applications due to a missing prototype. This declaration
358 is deprecated and may be removed in a future glibc release.
359
360 The replacement for libcrypt is libxcrypt, maintained separately from
361 GNU libc, but available under compatible licensing terms, and providing
362 binary backward compatibility with the former libcrypt. It is currently
363 distributed from <https://github.com/besser82/libxcrypt/>.
364
365 As a consequence of this removal, GNU libc no longer makes any use of
366 the NSS cryptography library (Network Security Services; not to be
367 confused with Name Service Switch). Distributors of binary packages
368 of GNU libc are advised to check whether their build processes can be
369 simplified.
370
371 * The dynamic linker calls the malloc and free functions in more cases
372 during TLS access if a shared object with dynamic TLS is loaded and
373 unloaded. This can result in an infinite recursion if a malloc
374 replacement library or its dependencies use dynamic TLS instead of
375 initial-exec TLS.
376
377 * The ia64*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
378
379 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
380
381 * Building on LoongArch requires at a minimum binutils 2.41 for vector
382 instructions.
383
384 Security related changes:
385
386 The following CVEs were fixed in this release, details of which can be
387 found in the advisories directory of the release tarball:
388
389 GLIBC-SA-2023-0002:
390 getaddrinfo: Stack read overflow in no-aaaa mode (CVE-2023-4527)
391
392 GLIBC-SA-2023-0003:
393 getaddrinfo: Potential use-after-free (CVE-2023-4806)
394
395 GLIBC-SA-2023-0004:
396 tunables: local privilege escalation through buffer overflow
397 (CVE-2023-4911)
398
399 GLIBC-SA-2024-0001:
400 syslog: Heap buffer overflow in __vsyslog_internal (CVE-2023-6246)
401
402 GLIBC-SA-2024-0002:
403 syslog: Heap buffer overflow in __vsyslog_internal (CVE-2023-6779)
404
405 GLIBC-SA-2024-0003:
406 syslog: Integer overflow in __vsyslog_internal (CVE-2023-6780)
407
408 GLIBC-SA-2024-0004:
409 ISO-2022-CN-EXT: fix out-of-bound writes when writing escape
410 sequence (CVE-2024-2961)
411
412 GLIBC-SA-2024-0005:
413 nscd: Stack-based buffer overflow in netgroup cache (CVE-2024-33599)
414
415 GLIBC-SA-2024-0006:
416 nscd: Null pointer crashes after notfound response
417 (CVE-2024-33600)
418
419 GLIBC-SA-2024-0007:
420 nscd: netgroup cache may terminate daemon on memory allocation
421 failure (CVE-2024-33601)
422
423 GLIBC-SA-2024-0008:
424 nscd: netgroup cache assumes NSS callback uses in-buffer strings
425 (CVE-2024-33602)
426
427 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
428
429 [14522] localedata: fy_DE: LC_IDENTIFICATION data looks weird
430 [19305] libc: qsort() should return early if (nmemb <= 1)
431 [19479] localedata: gbm_IN: new Garhwali Locale
432 [19924] dynamic-link: TLS performance degradation after dlopen
433 [19956] localedata: ssy_ER: rename from aa_ER@saaho
434 [21719] libc: stdlib/msort : optimizing merge sort
435 [22526] localedata: th_TH LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
436 [23012] localedata: el_GR: Greece now uses the 24h format for time
437 [23172] localedata: miq_NI: Provide actually abbreviated month names
438 [24006] localedata: Cyclic dependencies via copy in locales
439 [24013] localedata: am_pm definitions for es_ES
440 [24386] localedata: crh_RU: new locale
441 [24877] localedata: [Redundant Data] Remove redundant data between
442 en_NZ and en_AU
443 [25868] localedata: Incorrect trailing spaces in weekday names for
444 nn_NO
445 [26752] localedata: Please add the new locale zgh_MA
446 [27069] dynamic-link: Need a way to tell if a tunable is set by user
447 [27163] localedata: Error on test glk_IR with localedef
448 [27312] localedata: su_ID: new Sundanese locale
449 [27547] manual: "Summary of malloc-Related Functions" shows wrong
450 argument order for `aligned_alloc` and `memalign`
451 [27574] libc: glibc should probably not define __WORDSIZE=64 for
452 __sparcv9
453 [27601] localedata: License information update in
454 localedata/locales/ast_ES
455 [28558] localedata: it_IT LC_MONETARY outdated p_cs_precedes and
456 n_cs_precedes
457 [28787] localedata: Add information for Occitan
458 [29039] dynamic-link: Corrupt DTV after reuse of a TLS module ID
459 following dlclose with unused TLS
460 [29486] localedata: New Zealand locales (en_NZ & mi_NZ) first day of
461 week should be Monday
462 [29504] localedata: Incorrect/misleading Time Format For ms_MY (AM/PM)
463 [29506] localedata: UTF-8 HANGUL SYLLABLE bugs
464 [30349] libc: Support returning a pidfd from posix_spawn()
465 [30412] localedata: d_t_fmt in id_ID uses %r placeholder but am_pm and
466 t_fmt_ampm are undefined
467 [30605] localedata: New locale for Komi language
468 [30649] localedata: [PATCH] Add transliteration of common emojis to
469 smileys
470 [30694] locale: The iconv program no longer tells the user which given
471 encoding name was wrong
472 [30709] nscd: nscd fails to build with cleanup handler if built with
473 -fexceptions
474 [30737] libc: fdopendir() is not robust - returns bogus DIR* instead
475 of flagging an error
476 [30740] build: [m68k] undefined reference to
477 `_wordcopy_fwd_dest_aligned'
478 [30745] libc: Slight bug in cache info codes for x86
479 [30750] network: Unaligned accesses in resolver
480 [30773] math: [m68k] busybox awk is broken (lshift.S related)
481 [30789] libc: [2.38 Regression] sem_open will fail on multithreaded
482 scenarios when semaphore file doesn't exist (O_CREAT)
483 [30800] nscd: Improper assert in prune_cache triggers if clock jumps
484 backwards
485 [30804] libc: F_GETLK, F_SETLK, and F_SETLKW value change for
486 powerpc64 with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
487 [30842] network: Stack read overflow in getaddrinfo in no-aaaa mode
488 (CVE-2023-4527)
489 [30843] network: potential use-after-free in getcanonname
490 (CVE-2023-4806)
491 [30854] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 15.1.0
492 [30884] network: Memory leak in getaddrinfo after fix for bug 30843
493 (CVE-2023-5156)
494 [30932] libc: Fortify Source has false-positives when too many files
495 are open
496 [30945] malloc: Core affinity setting incurs lock contentions between
497 threads
498 [30960] math: signed integer overflow in
499 glibc/sysdeps/s390/fpu/feenablxcpt.c
500 [30964] locale: Number grouping check mishandles multibyte thousands
501 separator
502 [30981] dynamic-link: dlclose does not properly implement force-first
503 handling
504 [30988] math: fesetexcept raises floating-point exception traps on
505 ppc, ppc64, ppc64le
506 [30989] math: fesetexcept raises floating-point exception traps on
507 i386
508 [30990] libc: fesetexceptflag raises floating-point exception traps on
509 i386, x86_64
510 [30998] math: fesetexceptflag clears too many floating-point exception
511 flags on alpha
512 [31019] manual: The documentation of feenableexcept is incomplete
513 [31022] math: feupdateenv (FE_DFL_ENV) crashes on riscv
514 [31035] libc: Library search path terminates on relative non-directory
515 name
516 [31042] libc: [s390x] .init and .fini padding
517 [31068] libc: sysdeps: sparc: invalid data access in memset due to
518 regression
519 [31078] manual: Code example in "Noncanonical Mode Example" has unused
520 'char *name;'
521 [31086] localedata: Errors in Tibetan, Dzongkha data
522 [31113] string: Wrong unwind information for rawmemchr on aarch64
523 [31151] libc: [RISC-V] missing support for profile/audit PLT setup
524 [31163] nss: getaddrinfo returns EAI_NONAME in oom situation
525 [31183] stdio: Wide stream buffer size reduced MB_LEN_MAX bytes after
526 bug 17522 fix
527 [31184] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-tlsgap
528 [31185] dynamic-link: Incorrect thread point access in
529 _dl_tlsdesc_undefweak and _dl_tlsdesc_dynamic
530 [31187] dynamic-link: Some CET tests fail with GCC 14
531 [31204] localedata: Fix decimal point and thousands separator for
532 uz_UZ
533 [31205] localedata: Inconsistent (mon_)grouping formats
534 [31218] dynamic-link: PLT rewrite overflows large displacement on x32
535 [31221] localedata: Add localedata for ISO code "tok" (Toki Pona)
536 [31230] dynamic-link: PLT rewrite failed without SELinux
537 [31239] localedata: anp_IN locale: abbreviated month names are the
538 same as the full month names
539 [31244] nptl: pthread_cancel hangs on sparc32
540 [31257] localedata: Sync with CLDR: “Turkey” -> “Türkiye”
541 [31266] string: sparc: string/tst-memmove-overflow fails on 32-bit
542 sparcv9
543 [31276] libc: Wrong condition for heap allocation in qsort_r
544 \f
545 Version 2.38
546
547 Major new features:
548
549 * When C2X features are enabled and the base argument is 0 or 2, the
550 following functions support binary integers prefixed by 0b or 0B as
551 input: strtol, strtoll, strtoul, strtoull, strtol_l, strtoll_l,
552 strtoul_l, strtoull_l, strtoimax, strtoumax, strtoq, strtouq, wcstol,
553 wcstoll, wcstoul, wcstoull, wcstol_l, wcstoll_l, wcstoul_l,
554 wcstoull_l, wcstoimax, wcstoumax, wcstoq, wcstouq. Similarly, the
555 following functions support binary integers prefixed by 0b or 0B as
556 input to the %i format: fscanf, scanf, sscanf, vscanf, vsscanf,
557 vfscanf, fwscanf, wscanf, swscanf, vfwscanf, vwscanf, vswscanf; those
558 functions also support the %b format for binary integers, with or
559 without such a prefix and independent of standards mode.
560
561 * PRIb*, PRIB* and SCNb* macros from C2X have been added to
562 <inttypes.h>.
563
564 * printf-family functions now support the wN format length modifiers for
565 arguments of type intN_t, int_leastN_t, uintN_t or uint_leastN_t (for
566 example, %w32d to print int32_t or int_least32_t in decimal, or %w32x
567 to print uint32_t or uint_least32_t in hexadecimal) and the wfN format
568 length modifiers for arguments of type int_fastN_t or uint_fastN_t, as
569 specified in draft ISO C2X.
570
571 * A new tunable, glibc.pthread.stack_hugetlb, can be used to disable
572 Transparent Huge Pages (THP) in stack allocation at pthread_create.
573
574 * Support for x86_64 running on Hurd has been added. This port requires
575 as least binutils 2.40 and GCC 13:
576
577 - x86_64-gnu
578
579 * Vector math library libmvec support has been added to AArch64. It
580 requires GCC version >= 10.1.0. It can be disabled via
581 "--disable-mathvec", however that is not a supported configuration as
582 it changes the ABI. The symbol names follow the AArch64 vector ABI,
583 they are declared in math.h and have to be called manually at this point.
584
585 * The strlcpy and strlcat functions have been added. They are derived
586 from OpenBSD, and are expected to be added to a future POSIX version.
587
588 * A new configure option, "--enable-fortify-source", can be used to build the
589 GNU C Library with _FORTIFY_SOURCE. The level of fortification can either be
590 provided, or is set to the highest value supported by the compiler. If not
591 explicitly enabled, then fortify source is forcibly disabled so to keep
592 original behavior unchanged.
593
594 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
595
596 * libcrypt is no longer built by default; one may use the "--enable-crypt"
597 option to build libcrypt. libcrypt is likely to be removed from the
598 GNU C Library in a future release, so it is recommended that
599 applications port away from it to an alternative such as libxcrypt.
600
601 * In the Linux kernel for the hppa/parisc architecture some of the
602 MADV_XXX constants were changed to have the same values as the other
603 architectures. New programs compiled with this glibc version and which
604 use the madvise call will require at least Linux kernel version 6.2,
605 alternatively stable kernels from versions 6.1.6, 5.15.87, 5.10.163,
606 5.4.228, 4.19.270 or 4.14.303.
607
608 * The "--disable-experimental-malloc" option is no longer available. The
609 per-thread cache can still be disabled per-application using tunables
610 (glibc.malloc.tcache_count set to zero).
611
612 * The configure option "--enable-tunables" has been removed. The tunable
613 feature is now always enabled.
614
615 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
616
617 * Building libmvec on AArch64 requires at a minimum GCC 10.1.0 for SVE
618 ACLE.
619
620 Security related changes:
621
622 CVE-2023-25139: When the printf family of functions is called with a
623 format specifier that uses an <apostrophe> (enable grouping) and a
624 minimum width specifier, the resulting output could be larger than
625 reasonably expected by a caller that computed a tight bound on the
626 buffer size. The resulting larger than expected output could result
627 in a buffer overflow in the printf family of functions.
628
629 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
630
631 [178] string: Please add strlcpy and strlcat (attached)
632 [14697] nptl: Behavior of exit is nonconformant with respect to
633 threads and stdio
634 [15142] stdio: Missing locking in _IO_cleanup
635 [18096] glob: null deref in wordexp/parse_dollars/parse_arith
636 [18906] stdio: fopen: ccs value may affect open mode
637 [24466] stdio: Feature request: provide special printf formats for
638 intXX_t
639 [25457] nss: hosts lookup fails for ipv4mapped ipv6 addresses
640 [28519] libc: system and popen should pass "--" between /bin/sh and
641 argument
642 [29016] stdio: popen() sets errno to ENOMEM when shell does not exist
643 [29591] string: wcsnlen length can overflow in page cross case.
644 [30053] time: strftime %s returns -1 after 2038 on 32 bits systems
645 [30068] stdio: incorrect printf output for integers with thousands
646 separator and width field (CVE-2023-25139)
647 [30111] time: support_descriptors_list fails after 2038 on 32 bits
648 systems
649 [30125] dynamic-link: [regression, bisected] glibc-2.37 creates new
650 symlink for libraries without soname
651 [30130] math: [s390] The _FPU_SETCW macro yields compile error with
652 Clang
653 [30156] time: Potential ntp_gettime abi break
654 [30235] libc: Missing fallback in getlogin if loginuid is unset
655 [30258] dynamic-link: sprof cannot read and display shared object
656 profiling data correctly
657 [30263] libc: Add test coverage for abs(), labs(), and llabs().
658 [30305] math: Incorrect asm constraint in feraiseexcept on x86-64
659 [30402] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-glibcelf
660 [30425] dynamic-link: Symbol lookup during dlclose may fail
661 unnecessarily
662 [30435] dynamic-link: Root dir wrongly marked as nonexist in open_path
663 [30477] libc: [RISCV]: time64 does not work on riscv32
664 [30515] dynamic-link: _dl_find_object incorrectly returns 1 during
665 early startup
666 [30527] network: resolv_conf lock not unlocked on allocation failure
667 [30550] math: powerpc64le: GCC-specific code for isinf() is being used
668 on clang
669 [30555] string: strerror can incorrectly return NULL
670 [30579] malloc: trim_threshold in realloc lead to high memory usage
671 [30662] nscd: Group and password cache use errno in place of errval
672 \f
673 Version 2.37
674
675 Major new features:
676
677 * The getent tool now supports the --no-addrconfig option. The output of
678 getent with --no-addrconfig may contain addresses of families not
679 configured on the current host i.e. as-if you had not passed
680 AI_ADDRCONFIG to getaddrinfo calls.
681
682 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
683
684 * The dynamic linker no longer loads shared objects from the "tls"
685 subdirectories on the library search path or the subdirectory that
686 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, or employs the legacy AT_HWCAP
687 search mechanism, which was deprecated in version 2.33.
688
689 Security related changes:
690
691 CVE-2022-39046: When the syslog function is passed a crafted input
692 string larger than 1024 bytes, it reads uninitialized memory from the
693 heap and prints it to the target log file, potentially revealing a
694 portion of the contents of the heap.
695
696 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
697
698 [12154] network: Cannot resolve hosts which have wildcard aliases
699 [12165] libc: readdir: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
700 [19444] build: build failures with -O1 due to -Wmaybe-uninitialized
701 [24774] nptl: pthread_rwlock_timedwrlock stalls on ARM
702 [24816] nss: nss/tst-nss-files-hosts-long fails when no interface has
703 AF_INET6 address (ie docker)
704 [27087] stdio: PowerPC: Redefinition error with Clang from IEEE
705 redirection headers
706 [28846] network: CMSG_NXTHDR may trigger -Wstrict-overflow warning
707 [28937] dynamic-link: New DSO dependency sorter does not put new map
708 first if in a cycle
709 [29249] libc: csu/libc-tls.c:202: undefined reference to
710 `_startup_fatal_not_constant'
711 [29305] network: Inefficient buffer space usage in nss_dns for
712 gethostbyname and other functions
713 [29375] libc: don't hide MAP_ANONYMOUS behind _GNU_SOURCE
714 [29402] nscd: nscd: No such file or directory
715 [29415] nscd: getaddrinfo with AI_ADDRCONFIG returns addresses with
716 wrong family
717 [29427] dynamic-link: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-printf.c:
718 200: _dl_debug_vdprintf: Assertion `! "invalid format specifier"'
719 failed!
720 [29463] math: math/test-float128-y1 fails on x86_64
721 [29485] build: Make hangs when the test misc/tst-pidfile returns
722 FAIL_UNSUPPORTED
723 [29490] dynamic-link: [bisected] new __brk_call causes dynamic loader
724 segfault on alpha
725 [29499] build: Check failed on misc/tst-glibcsyscalls while building
726 for RISCV64 on a unmatched hardware
727 [29501] build: Check failed on stdlib/tst-strfrom while building for
728 RISCV64 on a unmatched hardware
729 [29502] libc: alpha sys/acct.h out of date
730 [29514] build: Need to use -fPIE not -fpie
731 [29528] dynamic-link: __libc_early_init not called after dlmopen that
732 reuses namespace
733 [29536] libc: syslog fail to create large messages (CVE-2022-39046)
734 [29537] libc: [2.34 regression]: Alignment issue on m68k when using
735 futexes on qemu-user
736 [29539] libc: LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS changed how vDSO library are
737 printed
738 [29544] libc: Regression in syslog(3) calls breaks RFC due to extra
739 whitespace
740 [29564] build: Incorrect way to change MAKEFLAGS in Makerules
741 [29576] build: librtld.os: in function `_dl_start_profile':
742 (.text+0x9444): undefined reference to `strcpy'
743 [29578] libc: Definition of SUN_LEN() is wrong
744 [29583] build: iconv failures on 32bit platform due to missing large
745 file support
746 [29600] dynamic-link: dlmopen hangs after loading certain libraries
747 [29604] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 15.0.0
748 [29605] nscd: Regression in NSCD backend of getaddrinfo
749 [29607] nscd: nscd repeatably crashes calling __strlen_avx2 when hosts
750 cache is enabled
751 [29611] string: Optimized AVX2 string functions unconditionally use
752 BMI2 instructions
753 [29624] malloc: errno is not cleared when entering main
754 [29638] libc: stdlib: arc4random fallback is never used
755 [29657] libc: Incorrect struct stat for 64-bit time on linux/generic
756 platforms
757 [29698] build: Configuring for AArch32 on ARMv8+ disables
758 optimizations
759 [29727] locale: __strtol_internal out-of-bounds read when parsing
760 thousands grouping
761 [29730] libc: broken y2038 support in fstatat on MIPS N64
762 [29746] libc: ppoll() does not switch to __ppoll64 when
763 -D_TIME_BITS=64 and -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 is given on 32bit
764 [29771] libc: Restore IPC_64 support in sysvipc *ctl functions
765 [29780] build: possible parallel make issue in glibc-2.36 (siglist-
766 aux.S: No such file or directory)
767 [29864] libc: __libc_start_main() should obtain program headers
768 address (_dl_phdr) from the auxv, not the ELF header.
769 [29951] time: daylight variable not set correctly if last DST change
770 coincides with offset change
771 [30039] stdio: __vsprintf_internal does not handle unspecified buffer
772 length in fortify mode
773 \f
774 Version 2.36
775
776 Major new features:
777
778 * Support for DT_RELR relative relocation format has been added to
779 glibc. This is a new ELF dynamic tag that improves the size of
780 relative relocations in shared object files and position independent
781 executables (PIE). DT_RELR generation requires linker support for
782 -z pack-relative-relocs option, which is supported for some targets
783 in recent binutils versions. Lazy binding doesn't apply to DT_RELR.
784
785 * On Linux, the pidfd_open, pidfd_getfd, and pidfd_send_signal functions
786 have been added. The pidfd functionality provides access to a process
787 while avoiding the issue of PID reuse on traditional Unix systems.
788
789 * On Linux, the process_madvise function has been added. It has the
790 same functionality as madvise but alters the target process identified
791 by the pidfd.
792
793 * On Linux, the process_mrelease function has been added. It allows a
794 caller to release the memory of a dying process. The release of the
795 memory is carried out in the context of the caller, using the caller's
796 CPU affinity, and priority with CPU usage accounted to the caller.
797
798 * The “no-aaaa” DNS stub resolver option has been added. System
799 administrators can use it to suppress AAAA queries made by the stub
800 resolver, including AAAA lookups triggered by NSS-based interfaces
801 such as getaddrinfo. Only DNS lookups are affected: IPv6 data in
802 /etc/hosts is still used, getaddrinfo with AI_PASSIVE will still
803 produce IPv6 addresses, and configured IPv6 name servers are still
804 used. To produce correct Name Error (NXDOMAIN) results, AAAA queries
805 are translated to A queries. The new resolver option is intended
806 primarily for diagnostic purposes, to rule out that AAAA DNS queries
807 have adverse impact. It is incompatible with EDNS0 usage and DNSSEC
808 validation by applications.
809
810 * On Linux, the fsopen, fsmount, move_mount, fsconfig, fspick, open_tree,
811 and mount_setattr have been added. They are part of the new Linux kernel
812 mount APIs that allow applications to more flexibly configure and operate
813 on filesystem mounts. The new mount APIs are specifically designed to work
814 with namespaces.
815
816 * localedef now accepts locale definition files encoded in UTF-8.
817 Previously, input bytes not within the ASCII range resulted in
818 unpredictable output.
819
820 * Support for the mbrtoc8 and c8rtomb multibyte/UTF-8 character conversion
821 functions has been added per the ISO C2X N2653 and C++20 P0482R6 proposals.
822 Support for the char8_t typedef has been added per the ISO C2X N2653
823 proposal. The functions are declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the
824 _GNU_SOURCE macro or C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro is defined.
825 The char8_t typedef is declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the
826 _GNU_SOURCE macro is defined and the C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro
827 is not defined (if __cpp_char8_t is defined, then char8_t is a builtin type).
828
829 * The functions arc4random, arc4random_buf, and arc4random_uniform have been
830 added. The functions wrap getrandom and/or /dev/urandom to return high-
831 quality randomness from the kernel.
832
833 * Support for LoongArch running on Linux has been added. This port requires
834 as least binutils 2.38, GCC 12, and Linux 5.19. Currently only hard-float
835 ABI is supported:
836
837 - loongarch64-linux-gnu
838
839 The LoongArch ABI is 64-bit little-endian.
840
841 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
842
843 * Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes
844 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
845 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
846
847 * The Linux kernel version check has been removed along with the
848 LD_ASSUME_KERNEL environment variable. The minimum kernel used to built
849 glibc is still provided through NT_GNU_ABI_TAG ELF note and also printed
850 when libc.so is issued directly.
851
852 * On Linux, The LD_LIBRARY_VERSION environment variable has been removed.
853
854 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
855
856 [14932] dynamic-link: dlsym(handle, "foo") and dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "foo")
857 return different result with versioned "foo"
858 [16355] libc: syslog.h's SYSLOG_NAMES namespace violation and utter
859 mess
860 [23293] dynamic-link: aarch64: getauxval is broken when run as ld.so
861 ./exe and ld.so adjusts argv on the stack
862 [24595] nptl: [2.28 Regression]: Deadlock in atfork handler which
863 calls dlclose
864 [25744] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS returns 2 instead of 1 when
865 consuming the second byte of certain double byte characters
866 [25812] stdio: Libio vtable protection is sometimes only partially
867 enforced
868 [27054] libc: pthread_atfork handlers that call pthread_atfork
869 deadlock
870 [27924] dynamic-link: ld.so: Support DT_RELR relative relocation
871 format
872 [28128] build: declare_symbol_alias doesn't work for assembly codes
873 [28566] network: getnameinfo with NI_NOFQDN is not thread safe
874 [28752] nss: Segfault in getpwuid when stat fails
875 [28815] libc: realpath should not copy to resolved buffer on error
876 [28828] stdio: fputwc crashes
877 [28838] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-p_align3
878 [28845] locale: ld-monetary.c should be updated to match ISO C and
879 other standards.
880 [28850] libc: linux: __get_nprocs_sched reads uninitialized memory
881 from the stack
882 [28852] libc: getaddrinfo leaks memory with AI_ALL
883 [28853] libc: tst-spawn6 changes current foreground process group
884 (breaks test isolation)
885 [28857] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-audit24a
886 [28860] build: --enable-kernel=5.1.0 build fails because of missing
887 __convert_scm_timestamps
888 [28865] libc: linux: _SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF and _SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN are
889 inaccurate without /sys and /proc
890 [28868] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader DFS algorithm segfaults on
891 missing libraries
892 [28880] libc: Program crashes if date beyond 2038
893 [28883] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/select.c: __select64
894 !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS && !__ASSUME_PSELECT fails on Microblaze
895 [28896] string: strncmp-avx2-rtm and wcsncmp-avx2-rtm fallback on non-
896 rtm variants when avoiding overflow
897 [28922] build: The .d dependency files aren't always generated
898 [28931] libc: hosts lookup broken for SUCCESS=CONTINUE and
899 SUCCESS=MERGE
900 [28936] build: nm: No such file
901 [28950] localedata: Add locale for ISO code "tok" (Toki Pona)
902 [28953] nss: NSS lookup result can be incorrect if function lookup
903 clobbers errno
904 [28970] math: benchtest: libmvec benchmark doesn't build with make
905 bench.
906 [28991] libc: sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF) should read
907 /sys/devices/system/cpu/possible
908 [28993] libc: closefrom() iterates until max int if no access to
909 /proc/self/fd/
910 [28996] libc: realpath fails to copy partial result to resolved buffer
911 on ENOENT and EACCES
912 [29027] math: [ia64] fabs fails with sNAN input
913 [29029] nptl: poll() spuriously returns EINTR during thread
914 cancellation and with cancellation disabled
915 [29030] string: GLIBC 2.35 regression - Fortify crash on certain valid
916 uses of mbsrtowcs (*** buffer overflow detected ***: terminated)
917 [29062] dynamic-link: Memory leak in _dl_find_object_update if object
918 is promoted to global scope
919 [29069] libc: fstatat64_time64_statx wrapper broken on MIPS N32 with
920 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 and -D_TIME_BITS=64
921 [29071] dynamic-link: m68k: Removal of ELF_DURING_STARTUP optimization
922 broke ld.so
923 [29097] time: fchmodat does not handle 64 bit time_t for
924 AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW
925 [29109] libc: posix_spawn() always returns 1 (EPERM) on clone()
926 failure
927 [29141] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 fail for gcc 12/glibc 2.35
928 [29162] string: [PATCH] string.h syntactic error:
929 include/bits/string_fortified.h:110: error: expected ',' or ';'
930 before '__fortified_attr_access'
931 [29165] libc: [Regression] broken argv adjustment
932 [29187] dynamic-link: [regression] broken argv adjustment for nios2
933 [29193] math: sincos produces a different output than sin/cos
934 [29197] string: __strncpy_power9() uses uninitialised register vs18
935 value for filling after \0
936 [29203] libc: daemon is not y2038 aware
937 [29204] libc: getusershell is not 2038 aware
938 [29207] libc: posix_fallocate fallback implementation is not y2038
939 aware
940 [29208] libc: fpathconf(_PC_ASYNC_IO) is not y2038 aware
941 [29209] libc: isfdtype is not y2038 aware
942 [29210] network: ruserpass is not y2038 aware
943 [29211] libc: __open_catalog is not y2038 aware
944 [29213] libc: gconv_parseconfdir is not y2038 aware
945 [29214] nptl: pthread_setcanceltype fails to set type
946 [29225] network: Mistyped define statement in socket/sys/socket.h in
947 line 184
948 [29274] nptl: __read_chk is not a cancellation point
949 [29279] libc: undefined reference to `mbstowcs_chk' after
950 464d189b9622932a75302290625de84931656ec0
951 [29304] libc: mq_timedreceive does not handle 64 bit syscall return
952 correct for !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS
953 [29403] libc: st_atim, st_mtim, st_ctim stat struct members are
954 missing on microblaze with largefile
955 \f
956 Version 2.35
957
958 Major new features:
959
960 * Unicode 14.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
961 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 14.0.0, using
962 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
963
964 * Bump r_version in the debugger interface to 2 and add a new field,
965 r_next, support multiple namespaces.
966
967 * Support for the C.UTF-8 locale has been added to glibc. The locale
968 supports full code-point sorting for all valid Unicode code points. A
969 limitation in the framework for fnmatch, regexec, and regcomp requires
970 a compromise to save space and only ASCII-based range expressions are
971 supported for now (see bug 28255). The full size of the locale is
972 only ~400KiB, with 346KiB coming from LC_CTYPE information for
973 Unicode. This locale harmonizes downstream C.UTF-8 already shipping
974 in various downstream distributions. The locale is not built into
975 glibc, and must be installed.
976
977 * <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type, and
978 corresponding <tgmath.h> macros, are added from TS 18661-1:2014, TS
979 18661-3:2015 and draft ISO C2X:
980
981 - fsqrt, fsqrtl, dsqrtl and corresponding fMsqrtfN, fMsqrtfNx,
982 fMxsqrtfN and fMxsqrtfNx functions.
983
984 - ffma, ffmal, dfmal and corresponding fMfmafN, fMfmafNx, fMxfmafN and
985 fMxfmafNx functions.
986
987 * <math.h> functions for floating-point maximum and minimum,
988 corresponding to new operations in IEEE 754-2019, and corresponding
989 <tgmath.h> macros, are added from draft ISO C2X: fmaximum,
990 fmaximum_num, fmaximum_mag, fmaximum_mag_num, fminimum, fminimum_num,
991 fminimum_mag, fminimum_mag_num and corresponding functions for float,
992 long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx.
993
994 * <math.h> macros for single-precision float constants are added as a
995 GNU extension: M_Ef, M_LOG2Ef, M_LOG10Ef, M_LN2f, M_LN10f, M_PIf,
996 M_PI_2f, M_PI_4f, M_1_PIf, M_2_PIf, M_2_SQRTPIf, M_SQRT2f and
997 M_SQRT1_2f.
998
999 * The __STDC_IEC_60559_BFP__ and __STDC_IEC_60559_COMPLEX__ macros are
1000 predefined as specified in TS 18661-1:2014.
1001
1002 * The exp10 functions in <math.h> now have a corresponding type-generic
1003 macro in <tgmath.h>.
1004
1005 * The ISO C2X macro _PRINTF_NAN_LEN_MAX has been added to <stdio.h>.
1006
1007 * printf-family functions now support the %b format for output of
1008 integers in binary, as specified in draft ISO C2X, and the %B variant
1009 of that format recommended by draft ISO C2X.
1010
1011 * A new DSO sorting algorithm has been added in the dynamic linker that uses
1012 topological sorting by depth-first search (DFS), solving performance issues
1013 of the existing sorting algorithm when encountering particular circular
1014 object dependency cases.
1015
1016 * A new tunable, glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort, can be used to select between
1017 the two DSO sorting algorithms. The default setting of '2' uses the
1018 new DFS-based algorithm. The setting '1' switches to the old
1019 algorithm used in glibc 2.33 and earlier.
1020
1021 * ABI support for a new function '__memcmpeq'. '__memcmpeq' is meant
1022 to be used by compilers for optimizing usage of 'memcmp' when its
1023 return value is only used for its boolean status.
1024
1025 * Support for automatically registering threads with the Linux rseq
1026 system call has been added. This system call is implemented starting
1027 from Linux 4.18. The Restartable Sequences ABI accelerates user-space
1028 operations on per-cpu data. It allows user-space to perform updates
1029 on per-cpu data without requiring heavy-weight atomic operations.
1030 Automatically registering threads allows all libraries, including
1031 libc, to make immediate use of the rseq support by using the
1032 documented ABI, via the __rseq_flags, __rseq_offset, and __rseq_size
1033 variables. The GNU C Library manual has details on integration of
1034 Restartable Sequences.
1035
1036 * A symbolic link to the dynamic linker is now installed under
1037 /usr/bin/ld.so (or more precisely, '${bindir}/ld.so').
1038
1039 * All programs and the testsuite in glibc are now built as position independent
1040 executables (PIE) by default on toolchains and architectures that support it.
1041 Further, if the toolchain and architecture supports it, even static programs
1042 are built as PIE and the resultant glibc can be used to build static PIE
1043 executables. A new option --disable-default-pie has been added to disable
1044 this behavior and get a non-PIE build. This option replaces
1045 --enable-static-pie, which no longer has any effect on the build
1046 configuration.
1047
1048 * On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.malloc.hugetlb, can be used to
1049 either make malloc issue madvise plus MADV_HUGEPAGE on mmap and sbrk
1050 or to use huge pages directly with mmap calls with the MAP_HUGETLB
1051 flags). The former can improve performance when Transparent Huge Pages
1052 is set to 'madvise' mode while the latter uses the system reserved
1053 huge pages.
1054
1055 * The printf family of functions now handles the flagged %#m conversion
1056 specifier, printing errno as an error constant (similar to strerrorname_np).
1057
1058 * The function _dl_find_object has been added. In-process unwinders
1059 can use it to efficiently locate unwinding information for a code
1060 address.
1061
1062 * Support for OpenRISC running on Linux has been added. This port requires
1063 as least binutils 2.35, GCC 11, and Linux 5.4. Currently only soft-float
1064 ABI is supported:
1065
1066 - or1k-linux-gnu
1067
1068 The OpenRISC ABI is 32-bit big-endian and uses 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and
1069 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
1070
1071 * A new configure option, --with-rtld-early-cflags, can be used to
1072 specify additional compiler flags for building the early startup code
1073 of the dynamic linker. On targets which have CPU compatibility
1074 checks, this can help to ensure that proper diagnostics are printed if
1075 the dynamic loader runs on an incompatible CPU.
1076
1077 * On Linux, the epoll_pwait2 function has been added. It is similar to
1078 epoll_wait with the difference the timeout has nanoseconds resolution.
1079
1080 * The function posix_spawn_file_actions_addtcsetpgrp_np has been added,
1081 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to set the controlling terminal in
1082 the new process in a race free manner. This function is a GNU extension.
1083
1084 * Source fortification (_FORTIFY_SOURCE) level 3 is now available for
1085 applications compiling with glibc and gcc 12 and later. Level 3 leverages
1086 the __builtin_dynamic_object_size function to deliver additional
1087 fortification balanced against additional runtime cost (checking non-constant
1088 bounds).
1089
1090 * The audit libraries will avoid unnecessary slowdown if it is not required
1091 PLT tracking (by not implementing the la_pltenter or la_pltexit callbacks).
1092
1093 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1094
1095 * On x86-64, the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC environment variable support
1096 has been removed since the first PT_LOAD segment is no longer executable
1097 due to defaulting to -z separate-code.
1098
1099 * The r_version update in the debugger interface makes the glibc binary
1100 incompatible with GDB binaries built without the following commits:
1101
1102 c0154a4a21a gdb: Don't assume r_ldsomap when r_version > 1 on Linux
1103 4eb629d50d4 gdbserver: Check r_version < 1 for Linux debugger interface
1104
1105 when audit modules or dlmopen are used.
1106
1107 * Intel MPX support (lazy PLT, ld.so profile, and LD_AUDIT) has been removed.
1108
1109 * The --enable-static-pie option is no longer available. The glibc build
1110 configuration script now automatically detects static-pie support in the
1111 toolchain and architecture and enables it if available.
1112
1113 * The catchsegv script and associated libSegFault.so shared object have
1114 been removed. There are widely-deployed out-of-process alternatives for
1115 catching coredumps and backtraces.
1116
1117 * Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes
1118 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
1119 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
1120
1121 * The LD_TRACE_PRELINKING environment variable has been removed. Similar
1122 functionality to obtain the program mapping address can be achieved by
1123 using LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS to value of 2.
1124
1125 * The LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS has been removed. The variable was mainly used to
1126 support prelink PIE binaries.
1127
1128 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1129
1130 * The audit module interface version LAV_CURRENT is increased to enable
1131 proper bind-now support. The loader now advertises via the la_symbind
1132 flags that PLT trace is not possible. New audit modules require the
1133 new dynamic loader supporting the latest LAV_CURRENT version. Old audit
1134 modules are still loaded for all targets except aarch64.
1135
1136 * The audit interface on aarch64 is extended to support both the indirect
1137 result location register (x8) and NEON Q register. Old audit modules are
1138 rejected by the loader. Audit modules must be rebuilt to use the newer
1139 structure sizes and the latest module interface version for LAV_CURRENT.
1140
1141 Security related changes:
1142
1143 CVE-2022-23219: Passing an overlong file name to the clnt_create
1144 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow when
1145 using the "unix" protocol. Reported by Martin Sebor.
1146
1147 CVE-2022-23218: Passing an overlong file name to the svcunix_create
1148 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow.
1149
1150 CVE-2021-3998: Passing a path longer than PATH_MAX to the realpath
1151 function could result in a memory leak and potential access of
1152 uninitialized memory. Reported by Qualys.
1153
1154 CVE-2021-3999: Passing a buffer of size exactly 1 byte to the getcwd
1155 function may result in an off-by-one buffer underflow and overflow
1156 when the current working directory is longer than PATH_MAX and also
1157 corresponds to the / directory through an unprivileged mount
1158 namespace. Reported by Qualys.
1159
1160 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1161
1162 [12889] nptl: Race condition in pthread_kill
1163 [14232] nptl: tst-cancel7 and tst-cancelx7 race condition
1164 [14913] libc: [mips] Clean up MIPS 64-bit register-dump.h output
1165 [15310] dynamic-link: _dl_sort_fini is O(n^3) causing slow exit when
1166 many dsos
1167 [15333] libc: Use 64-bit stat functions in installed programs
1168 [15533] dynamic-link: LD_AUDIT introduces an avoidable performance
1169 degradation
1170 [15971] dynamic-link: No interface for debugger access to libraries
1171 loaded with dlmopen
1172 [17318] locale: [RFE] Provide a C.UTF-8 locale by default
1173 [17645] dynamic-link: RFE: Improve performance of dynamic loader for
1174 deeply nested DSO dependencies.
1175 [19193] nptl: pthread_kill, pthread_cancel return ESRCH for a thread
1176 ID whose lifetime has not ended
1177 [22542] network: buffer overflow in sunrpc clnt_create
1178 (CVE-2022-23219)
1179 [22716] malloc: [PATCH] mtrace.pl: use TRACE_PRELINKING instead of
1180 TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS
1181 [25947] malloc: memory leak in muntrace
1182 [26045] math: fmaxf(inf, nan) does not always work
1183 [26108] math: exp10() has problems with <tgmath.h>
1184 [26779] build: benign use after realloc at localealias.c:329
1185 [27609] dynamic-link: [2.32/2.33/2.34 Regression] In elf/dl-open.c
1186 (_dl_open) we might use __LM_ID_CALLER to index GL(dl_ns)[]
1187 [27945] build: build-many-glibcs.py doesn't configure GCC with
1188 --enable-initfini-array
1189 [27991] build: x86: sysdeps/x86/configure.ac breaks when
1190 libc_cv_include_x86_isa_level is loaded from cache
1191 [28036] nptl: Incorrect types for pthread_mutexattr_set/getrobust_np
1192 in __REDIRECT_NTH macro
1193 [28061] dynamic-link: A failing dlmopen called by an auditor crashed
1194 [28062] dynamic-link: Suppress audit calls when a (new) namespace is
1195 empty
1196 [28126] libc: nftw aborts for paths longer than PATH_MAX
1197 [28129] dynamic-link: Unnecessary check DT_DEBUG in ld.so
1198 [28153] libc: [test] gmon/tst-gmon-gprof* may have a f3 line when
1199 built with ld.lld
1200 [28182] libc: _TIME_BITS=64 in C++ has issues with fcntl, ioctl, prctl
1201 [28185] math: Inaccurate j0f function (again)
1202 [28199] locale: iconvconfig prefix flag behaves differently in glibc
1203 2.34
1204 [28203] dynamic-link: aarch64: elf_machine_{load_address,dynamic}
1205 should drop _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_[0] in favor of __ehdr_start for
1206 robustness
1207 [28213] librt: NULL pointer dereference in mq_notify (CVE-2021-38604)
1208 [28223] libc: mips: clone does not align stack
1209 [28253] dynamic-link: Missing colon in LD_SHOW_AUXV output after
1210 AT_MINSIGSTKSZ
1211 [28256] malloc: Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised
1212 value(s) in __GI___tunables_init
1213 [28260] build: io/tst-closefrom, misc/tst-close_range, posix/tst-
1214 spawn5 fail if stray fds are open
1215 [28310] libc: Do not use affinity mask for sysconf
1216 (_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF)
1217 [28338] time: undefined behavior in __tzfile_compute with oddball TZif
1218 file
1219 [28340] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes while loading a DSO with a read-
1220 only dynamic section
1221 [28349] libc: Segfault for ping -R on qemux86 caused by recvmsg()
1222 [28350] libc: ping receives SIGABRT on lib32-qemux86-64 caused by
1223 recvmsg()
1224 [28353] network: Race condition on __opensock
1225 [28357] dynamic-link: deadlock between pthread_create and ctors
1226 [28358] math: f64xdivf128 and f64xmulf128 spurious underflows
1227 [28361] nptl: Fix for bug 12889 causes setxid deadlock
1228 [28368] build: -Waddress instances in stdio-common/vfprintf-internal.c
1229 [28390] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 14.0.0
1230 [28397] math: tgmath.h should not define fmaxmag, fminmag macros for
1231 C2X
1232 [28400] libc: [2.35 Regression] string/test-strncasecmp: cannot set
1233 locale "en_US.UTF-8"
1234 [28407] nptl: pthread_kill assumes that kill (getpid ()) is equivalent
1235 to tgkill (getpid (), gettid())
1236 [28455] dynamic-link: -Wl,--enable-new-dtags doesn't work
1237 [28457] dynamic-link: Missing reldepmod4.so dependency for
1238 globalmod1.so
1239 [28469] time: linux: struct timex is not correctly set for 32-bit
1240 systems with TIMESIZE=64
1241 [28470] regex: Buffer read overrun in regular expression searching
1242 [28475] string: Incorrect access attribute on memfrob
1243 [28524] libc: Conversion from ISO-2022-JP-3 with iconv may emit
1244 spurious NUL character on state reset
1245 [28532] libc: powerpc64[le]: CFI for assembly templated syscalls is
1246 incorrect
1247 [28550] dynamic-link: FAIL: tst-dso-
1248 ordering9_112-ecbda(GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort=1)
1249 execution test
1250 [28554] build: Undefined generate-md5
1251 [28572] libc: Misaligned accesses in test-memcpy and test-mempcpy on
1252 hppa
1253 [28607] nptl: Masked signals are delivered on thread exit
1254 [28624] libc: openjdk 8/9 assume uni processor and gets stuck due to
1255 lack of cpu counting /proc fallback with glibc 2.34
1256 [28646] string: [2.35 Regression] mock -r fedora-36-x86_64
1257 /tmp/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.312.b07-2.fc36.src.rpm& fails to build
1258 [28648] dynamic-link: Running ld.so on statically linked binaries
1259 crashes
1260 [28656] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC no longer works due to
1261 binutils changes
1262 [28676] dynamic-link: p_align on PT_LOAD segment in DSO isn't honored
1263 [28678] nptl: nptl/tst-create1 hangs sporadically
1264 [28688] dynamic-link: PT_LOAD p_align check is too strict
1265 [28700] nss: "dns [!UNAVAIL=return] files" default for hosts database
1266 is not useful
1267 [28707] time: assert in tzfile.c __tzfile_read striking with truncated
1268 timezones generated by tzcode-2021d and later
1269 [28713] math: GCC 12 miscompiles libm
1270 [28732] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-dl_find_object
1271 [28738] build: LIBC_LINKER_FEATURE doesn't work on linker -z option
1272 [28745] dynamic-link: _dl_find_object miscompilation on powerpc64le
1273 [28746] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE does not work for stpcpy
1274 [28749] libc: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: rtld.c: 1632: dl_main:
1275 Assertion `GL(dl_rtld_map).l_libname' failed!
1276 [28755] string: overflow bug in wcsncmp_avx2 and wcsncmp_evex
1277 [28757] nptl: GDB printer tests failed with new GDB
1278 [28765] math: x86_64 libmvec atan2 accuracy
1279 [28766] manual: Document libmvec accuracy
1280 [28768] network: Buffer overflow in svcunix_create with long pathnames
1281 (CVE-2022-23218)
1282 [28769] libc: Off-by-one buffer overflow/underflow in getcwd()
1283 (CVE-2021-3999)
1284 [28770] libc: Unexpected return value from realpath() for too long
1285 results (CVE-2021-3998)
1286 [28771] libc: %ebx optimization macros are incompatible with .altmacro
1287 in Systemtap probes
1288 [28780] build: --disable-default-pie doesn't work on static programs
1289 [28782] libc: x86-64 ISA level for glibc itself is always
1290 x86-64-baseline
1291 [28792] glob: possible wrong behaviour with patterns with double [
1292 with no closing ]
1293 [28837] libc: FAIL: socket/tst-socket-timestamp-compat
1294 [28847] locale: Empty mon_decimal_point in LC_MONETARY results in non-
1295 empty mon_decimal_point_wc
1296
1297 \f
1298 Version 2.34
1299
1300 Major new features:
1301
1302 * In order to support smoother in-place-upgrades and to simplify
1303 the implementation of the runtime all functionality formerly
1304 implemented in the libraries libpthread, libdl, libutil, libanl has
1305 been integrated into libc. New applications do not need to link with
1306 -lpthread, -ldl, -lutil, -lanl anymore. For backwards compatibility,
1307 empty static archives libpthread.a, libdl.a, libutil.a, libanl.a are
1308 provided, so that the linker options keep working. Applications which
1309 have been linked against glibc 2.33 or earlier continue to load the
1310 corresponding shared objects (which are now empty). The integration
1311 of those libraries into libc means that additional symbols become
1312 available by default. This can cause applications that contain weak
1313 references to take unexpected code paths that would only have been
1314 used in previous glibc versions when e.g. preloading libpthread.so.0,
1315 potentially exposing application bugs.
1316
1317 * When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE are defined,
1318 PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is no longer constant and is redefined to
1319 sysconf(_SC_THREAD_STACK_MIN). This supports dynamic sized register
1320 sets for modern architectural features like Arm SVE.
1321
1322 * Add _SC_MINSIGSTKSZ and _SC_SIGSTKSZ. When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE
1323 or _GNU_SOURCE are defined, MINSIGSTKSZ and SIGSTKSZ are no longer
1324 constant on Linux. MINSIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf(_SC_MINSIGSTKSZ)
1325 and SIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf (_SC_SIGSTKSZ). This supports
1326 dynamic sized register sets for modern architectural features like
1327 Arm SVE.
1328
1329 * The dynamic linker implements the --list-diagnostics option, printing
1330 a dump of information related to IFUNC resolver operation and
1331 glibc-hwcaps subdirectory selection.
1332
1333 * On Linux, the function execveat has been added. It operates similar to
1334 execve and it is is already used to implement fexecve without requiring
1335 /proc to be mounted. However, different than fexecve, if the syscall is not
1336 supported by the kernel an error is returned instead of trying a fallback.
1337
1338 * The ISO C2X function timespec_getres has been added.
1339
1340 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_EXT__, from draft ISO
1341 C2X, is supported to enable declarations of functions defined in Annex F
1342 of C2X. Those declarations are also enabled when
1343 __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, as specified in TS 18661-1, is
1344 defined, and when _GNU_SOURCE is defined.
1345
1346 * On powerpc64*, glibc can now be compiled without scv support using the
1347 --disable-scv configure option.
1348
1349 * Add support for 64-bit time_t on configurations like x86 where time_t
1350 is traditionally 32-bit. Although time_t still defaults to 32-bit on
1351 these configurations, this default may change in future versions.
1352 This is enabled with the _TIME_BITS preprocessor macro set to 64 and is
1353 only supported when LFS (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) is also enabled. It is
1354 only enabled for Linux and the full support requires a minimum kernel
1355 version of 5.1.
1356
1357 * The main gconv-modules file in glibc now contains only a small set of
1358 essential converter modules and the rest have been moved into a supplementary
1359 configuration file gconv-modules-extra.conf in the gconv-modules.d directory
1360 in the same GCONV_PATH. Similarly, external converter modules directories
1361 may have supplementary configuration files in a gconv-modules.d directory
1362 with names ending with .conf to logically classify the converter modules in
1363 that directory.
1364
1365 * On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.pthread.stack_cache_size, can be used
1366 to configure the size of the thread stack cache.
1367
1368 * The function _Fork has been added as an async-signal-safe fork replacement
1369 since Austin Group issue 62 dropped the async-signal-safe requirement for
1370 fork (and it will be included in the future POSIX standard). The new _Fork
1371 function does not run any atfork function neither resets any internal state
1372 or lock (such as the malloc one), and only sets up a minimal state required
1373 to call async-signal-safe functions (such as raise or execve). This function
1374 is currently a GNU extension.
1375
1376 * On Linux, the close_range function has been added. It allows efficiently
1377 closing a range of file descriptors on recent kernels (version 5.9).
1378
1379 * The function closefrom has been added. It closes all file descriptors
1380 greater than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
1381 although it is also present in other systems.
1382
1383 * The posix_spawn_file_actions_addclosefrom_np function has been added,
1384 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to close all file descriptors greater
1385 than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
1386 although Solaris also provides a similar function.
1387
1388 * When invoked explicitly, the dynamic linker now uses the kernel to
1389 execute programs that do not have any dynamic dependency (that is,
1390 they are statically linked). This feature is Linux-specific.
1391
1392 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1393
1394 * The function pthread_mutex_consistent_np has been deprecated; programs
1395 should use the equivalent standard function pthread_mutex_consistent
1396 instead.
1397
1398 * The function pthread_mutexattr_getrobust_np has been deprecated;
1399 programs should use the equivalent standard function
1400 pthread_mutexattr_getrobust instead.
1401
1402 * The function pthread_mutexattr_setrobust_np has been deprecated;
1403 programs should use the equivalent standard function
1404 pthread_mutexattr_setrobust instead.
1405
1406 * The function pthread_yield has been deprecated; programs should use
1407 the equivalent standard function sched_yield instead.
1408
1409 * The function inet_neta declared in <arpa/inet.h> has been deprecated.
1410
1411 * Various rarely-used functions declared in <resolv.h> and
1412 <arpa/nameser.h> have been deprecated. Applications are encouraged to
1413 use dedicated DNS processing libraries if applicable. For <resolv.h>,
1414 this affects the functions dn_count_labels, fp_nquery, fp_query,
1415 fp_resstat, hostalias, loc_aton, loc_ntoa, p_cdname, p_cdnname,
1416 p_class, p_fqname, p_fqnname, p_option, p_query, p_rcode, p_time,
1417 p_type, putlong, putshort, res_hostalias, res_isourserver,
1418 res_nameinquery, res_queriesmatch, res_randomid, sym_ntop, sym_ntos,
1419 sym_ston. For <arpa/nameser.h>, the functions ns_datetosecs,
1420 ns_format_ttl, ns_makecanon, ns_parse_ttl, ns_samedomain, ns_samename,
1421 ns_sprintrr, ns_sprintrrf, ns_subdomain have been deprecated.
1422
1423 * Various symbols previously defined in libresolv have been moved to libc
1424 in order to prepare for libresolv moving entirely into libc (see earlier
1425 entry for merging libraries into libc). The symbols __dn_comp,
1426 __dn_expand, __dn_skipname, __res_dnok, __res_hnok, __res_mailok,
1427 __res_mkquery, __res_nmkquery, __res_nquery, __res_nquerydomain,
1428 __res_nsearch, __res_nsend, __res_ownok, __res_query, __res_querydomain,
1429 __res_search, __res_send formerly in libresolv have been renamed and no
1430 longer have a __ prefix. They are now available in libc.
1431
1432 * The pthread cancellation handler is now installed with SA_RESTART and
1433 pthread_cancel will always send the internal SIGCANCEL on a cancellation
1434 request. It should not be visible to applications since the cancellation
1435 handler should either act upon cancellation (if asynchronous cancellation
1436 is enabled) or ignore the cancellation internal signal. However there are
1437 buggy kernel interfaces (for instance some CIFS versions) that could still
1438 see a spurious EINTR error when cancellation interrupts a blocking syscall.
1439
1440 * Previously, glibc installed its various shared objects under versioned
1441 file names such as libc-2.33.so. The ABI sonames (e.g., libc.so.6)
1442 were provided as symbolic links. Starting with glibc 2.34, the shared
1443 objects are installed under their ABI sonames directly, without
1444 symbolic links. This increases compatibility with distribution
1445 package managers that delete removed files late during the package
1446 upgrade or downgrade process.
1447
1448 * The symbols mallwatch and tr_break are now deprecated and no longer used in
1449 mtrace. Similar functionality can be achieved by using conditional
1450 breakpoints within mtrace functions from within gdb.
1451
1452 * The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
1453 implementation __default_morecore have been removed from the API. Existing
1454 applications will continue to link against these symbols but the interfaces
1455 no longer have any effect on malloc.
1456
1457 * Debugging features in malloc such as the MALLOC_CHECK_ environment variable
1458 (or the glibc.malloc.check tunable), mtrace() and mcheck() have now been
1459 disabled by default in the main C library. Users looking to use these
1460 features now need to preload a new debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so to get
1461 this functionality back.
1462
1463 * The deprecated functions malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state have been
1464 moved from the core C library into libc_malloc_debug.so. Legacy applications
1465 that still use these functions will now need to preload libc_malloc_debug.so
1466 in their environment using the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
1467
1468 * The deprecated memory allocation hooks __malloc_hook, __realloc_hook,
1469 __memalign_hook and __free_hook are now removed from the API. Compatibility
1470 symbols are present to support legacy programs but new applications can no
1471 longer link to these symbols. These hooks no longer have any effect on glibc
1472 functionality. The malloc debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so currently
1473 supports hooks and can be preloaded to get this functionality back for older
1474 programs. However this is a transitional measure and may be removed in a
1475 future release of the GNU C Library. Users may port away from these hooks by
1476 writing and preloading their own malloc interposition library.
1477
1478 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1479
1480 * On Linux, the shm_open, sem_open, and related functions now expect the
1481 file shared memory file system to be mounted at /dev/shm. These functions
1482 no longer search among the system's mount points for a suitable
1483 replacement if /dev/shm is not available.
1484
1485 Security related changes:
1486
1487 CVE-2021-27645: The nameserver caching daemon (nscd), when processing
1488 a request for netgroup lookup, may crash due to a double-free,
1489 potentially resulting in degraded service or Denial of Service on the
1490 local system. Reported by Chris Schanzle.
1491
1492 CVE-2021-33574: The mq_notify function has a potential use-after-free
1493 issue when using a notification type of SIGEV_THREAD and a thread
1494 attribute with a non-default affinity mask.
1495
1496 CVE-2021-35942: The wordexp function may overflow the positional
1497 parameter number when processing the expansion resulting in a crash.
1498 Reported by Philippe Antoine.
1499
1500 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1501
1502 [4737] libc: fork is not async-signal-safe
1503 [5781] math: Slow dbl-64 sin/cos/sincos for special values
1504 [10353] libc: Methods for deleting all file descriptors greater than
1505 given integer (closefrom)
1506 [14185] glob: fnmatch() fails when '*' wildcard is applied on the file
1507 name containing multi-byte character(s)
1508 [14469] math: Inaccurate j0f function
1509 [14470] math: Inaccurate j1f function
1510 [14471] math: Inaccurate y0f function
1511 [14472] math: Inaccurate y1f function
1512 [14744] nptl: kill -32 $pid or kill -33 $pid on a process cancels a
1513 random thread
1514 [15271] dynamic-link: dlmopen()ed shared library with LM_ID_NEWLM
1515 crashes if it fails dlsym() twice
1516 [15648] nptl: multiple definition of `__lll_lock_wait_private'
1517 [16063] nptl: Provide a pthread_once variant in libc directly
1518 [17144] libc: syslog is not thread-safe if NO_SIGPIPE is not defined
1519 [17145] libc: syslog with LOG_CONS leaks console file descriptor
1520 [17183] manual: description of ENTRY struct in <search.h> in glibc
1521 manual is incorrect
1522 [18435] nptl: pthread_once hangs when init routine throws an exception
1523 [18524] nptl: Missing calloc error checking in
1524 __cxa_thread_atexit_impl
1525 [19329] dynamic-link: dl-tls.c assert failure at concurrent
1526 pthread_create and dlopen
1527 [19366] nptl: returning from a thread should disable cancellation
1528 [19511] nptl: 8MB memory leak in pthread_create in case of failure
1529 when non-root user changes priority
1530 [20802] dynamic-link: getauxval NULL pointer dereference after static
1531 dlopen
1532 [20813] nptl: pthread_exit is inconsistent between libc and libpthread
1533 [22057] malloc: malloc_usable_size is broken with mcheck
1534 [22668] locale: LC_COLLATE: the last character of ellipsis is not
1535 ordered correctly
1536 [23323] libc: [RFE] CSU startup hardening.
1537 [23328] malloc: Remove malloc hooks and ensure related APIs return no
1538 data.
1539 [23462] dynamic-link: Static binary with dynamic string tokens ($LIB,
1540 $PLATFORM, $ORIGIN) crashes
1541 [23489] libc: "gcc -lmcheck" aborts on free when using posix_memalign
1542 [23554] nptl: pthread_getattr_np reports wrong stack size with
1543 MULTI_PAGE_ALIASING
1544 [24106] libc: Bash interpreter in ldd script is taken from host
1545 [24773] dynamic-link: dlerror in an secondary namespace does not use
1546 the right free implementation
1547 [25036] localedata: Update collation order for Swedish
1548 [25383] libc: where_is_shmfs/__shm_directory/SHM_GET_NAME may cause
1549 shm_open to pick wrong directory
1550 [25680] dynamic-link: ifuncmain9picstatic and ifuncmain9picstatic
1551 crash in IFUNC resolver due to stack canary (--enable-stack-
1552 protector=all)
1553 [26874] build: -Warray-bounds in _IO_wdefault_doallocate
1554 [26983] math: [x86_64] x86_64 tgamma has too large ULP error
1555 [27111] dynamic-link: pthread_create and tls access use link_map
1556 objects that may be concurrently freed by dlclose
1557 [27132] malloc: memusagestat is linked to system librt, leading to
1558 undefined symbols on major version upgrade
1559 [27136] dynamic-link: dtv setup at thread creation may leave an entry
1560 uninitialized
1561 [27249] libc: libSegFault.so does not output signal number properly
1562 [27304] nptl: pthread_cond_destroy does not pass private flag to futex
1563 system calls
1564 [27318] dynamic-link: glibc fails to load binaries when built with
1565 -march=sandybridge: CPU ISA level is lower than required
1566 [27343] nss: initgroups() SIGSEGVs when called on a system without
1567 nsswich.conf (in a chroot)
1568 [27346] dynamic-link: x86: PTWRITE feature check is missing
1569 [27389] network: NSS chroot hardening causes regressions in chroot
1570 deployments
1571 [27403] dynamic-link: aarch64: tlsdesc htab is not freed on dlclose
1572 [27444] libc: sysconf reports unsupported option (-1) for
1573 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_LINESIZE on X86 since v2.33
1574 [27462] nscd: double-free in nscd (CVE-2021-27645)
1575 [27468] malloc: aarch64: realloc crash with heap tagging: FAIL:
1576 malloc/tst-malloc-thread-fail
1577 [27498] dynamic-link: __dl_iterate_phdr lacks unwinding information
1578 [27511] libc: S390 memmove assumes Vector Facility when MIE Facility 3
1579 is present
1580 [27522] glob: glob, glob64 incorrectly marked as __THROW
1581 [27555] dynamic-link: Static tests fail with --enable-stack-
1582 protector=all
1583 [27559] libc: fstat(AT_FDCWD) succeeds (it shouldn't) and returns
1584 information for the current directory
1585 [27577] dynamic-link: elf/ld.so --help doesn't work
1586 [27605] libc: tunables can't control xsave/xsavec selection in
1587 dl_runtime_resolve_*
1588 [27623] libc: powerpc: Missing registers in sc[v] clobbers list
1589 [27645] libc: [linux] sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSOR...) breaks down on
1590 containers
1591 [27646] dynamic-link: Linker error for non-existing NSS symbols (e.g.
1592 _nss_files_getcanonname_r) from within a dlmopen namespace.
1593 [27648] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-select
1594 [27650] stdio: vfscanf returns too early if a match is longer than
1595 INT_MAX
1596 [27651] libc: Performance regression after updating to 2.33
1597 [27655] string: Wrong size calculation in string/test-strnlen.c
1598 [27706] libc: select fails to update timeout on error
1599 [27709] libc: arm: FAIL: debug/tst-longjmp_chk2
1600 [27721] dynamic-link: x86: ld_audit ignores bind now for TLSDESC and
1601 tries resolving them lazily
1602 [27744] nptl: Support different libpthread/ld.so load orders in
1603 libthread_db
1604 [27749] libc: Data race __run_exit_handlers
1605 [27761] libc: getconf: Segmentation fault when passing '-vq' as
1606 argument
1607 [27832] nss: makedb.c:797:7: error: 'writev' specified size 4294967295
1608 exceeds maximum object size 2147483647
1609 [27870] malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ causes realloc(valid_ptr, TOO_LARGE) to
1610 not set ENOMEM
1611 [27872] build: Obsolete configure option --enable-stackguard-
1612 randomization
1613 [27873] build: tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo fail when building on AMD cpu
1614 [27882] localedata: Use U+00AF MACRON in more EBCDIC charsets
1615 [27892] libc: powerpc: scv ABI error handling fails to check
1616 IS_ERR_VALUE
1617 [27896] nptl: mq_notify does not handle separately allocated thread
1618 attributes (CVE-2021-33574)
1619 [27901] libc: TEST_STACK_ALIGN doesn't work
1620 [27902] libc: The x86-64 clone wrapper fails to align child stack
1621 [27914] nptl: Install SIGSETXID handler with SA_ONSTACK
1622 [27939] libc: aarch64: clone does not align the stack
1623 [27968] libc: s390x: clone does not align the stack
1624 [28011] libc: Wild read in wordexp (parse_param) (CVE-2021-35942)
1625 [28024] string: s390(31bit): Wrong result of memchr (MEMCHR_Z900_G5)
1626 with n >= 0x80000000
1627 [28028] malloc: malloc: tcache shutdown sequence does not work if the
1628 thread never allocated anything
1629 [28033] libc: Need to check RTM_ALWAYS_ABORT for RTM
1630 [28064] string: x86_64:wcslen implementation list has wcsnlen
1631 [28067] libc: FAIL: posix/tst-spawn5
1632 [28068] malloc: FAIL: malloc/tst-mallocalign1-mcheck
1633 [28071] time: clock_gettime, gettimeofday, time lost vDSO acceleration
1634 on older kernels
1635 [28075] nis: Out-of-bounds static buffer read in nis_local_domain
1636 [28089] build: tst-tls20 fails when linker defaults to --as-needed
1637 [28090] build: elf/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo-static fails on certain
1638 AMD64 cpus
1639 [28091] network: ns_name_skip may return 0 for domain names without
1640 terminator
1641
1642 \f
1643 Version 2.33
1644
1645 Major new features:
1646
1647 * The dynamic linker accepts the --list-tunables argument which prints
1648 all the supported tunables. This option is disable if glibc is
1649 configured with tunables disabled (--enable-tunables=no).
1650
1651 * The dynamic linker accepts the --argv0 argument and provides opportunity
1652 to change argv[0] string.
1653
1654 * The dynamic linker loads optimized implementations of shared objects
1655 from subdirectories under the glibc-hwcaps directory on the library
1656 search path if the system's capabilities meet the requirements for
1657 that subdirectory. Initially supported subdirectories include
1658 "power9" and "power10" for the powerpc64le-linux-gnu architecture,
1659 "z13", "z14", "z15" for s390x-linux-gnu, and "x86-64-v2", "x86-64-v3",
1660 "x86-64-v4" for x86_64-linux-gnu. In the x86_64-linux-gnu case, the
1661 subdirectory names correspond to the vendor-independent x86-64
1662 microarchitecture levels defined in the x86-64 psABI supplement.
1663
1664 * The new --help option of the dynamic linker provides usage and
1665 information and library search path diagnostics.
1666
1667 * The mallinfo2 function is added to report statistics as per mallinfo,
1668 but with larger field widths to accurately report values that are
1669 larger than fit in an integer.
1670
1671 * Add <sys/platform/x86.h> to provide query macros for x86 CPU features.
1672
1673 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been expanded to run on
1674 32-bit hardware. This is supported for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
1675
1676 - rv32imac ilp32
1677 - rv32imafdc ilp32
1678 - rv32imafdc ilp32d
1679
1680 The 32-bit RISC-V port requires at least Linux 5.4, GCC 7.1 and binutils
1681 2.28.
1682
1683 * A new fortification level _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 is available. At this level,
1684 glibc may use additional checks that may have an additional performance
1685 overhead. At present these checks are available only on LLVM 9 and later.
1686 The latest GCC available at this time (10.2) does not support this level of
1687 fortification.
1688
1689 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1690
1691 * The mallinfo function is marked deprecated. Callers should call
1692 mallinfo2 instead.
1693
1694 * When dlopen is used in statically linked programs, alternative library
1695 implementations from HWCAP subdirectories are no longer loaded.
1696 Instead, the default implementation is used.
1697
1698 * The deprecated <sys/vtimes.h> header and the function vtimes have been
1699 removed. To support old binaries, the vtimes function continues to exist
1700 as a compatibility symbol. Applications should use the getrlimit or
1701 prlimit.
1702
1703 * Following a change in the tzdata 2018a release upstream, the zdump
1704 program is now installed in the /usr/bin subdirectory. Previously,
1705 the /usr/sbin subdirectory was used.
1706
1707 * On s390(x), the type float_t is now derived from the macro
1708 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ that is defined by the compiler, instead of being
1709 hardcoded to double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
1710 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
1711 libraries that use this type in their interfaces. The new definition
1712 improves consistency with compiler behavior in many scenarios.
1713
1714 * A future version of glibc will stop loading shared objects from the
1715 "tls" subdirectories on the library search path, the subdirectory that
1716 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, and also stop employing
1717 the legacy AT_HWCAP search mechanism. Applications should switch to
1718 the new glibc-hwcaps mechanism instead; if they do not do that, only
1719 the baseline version (directly from the search path directory) will be
1720 loaded.
1721
1722 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1723
1724 * On Linux, the system administrator needs to configure /dev/pts with
1725 the intended access modes for pseudo-terminals. glibc no longer
1726 attempts to adjust permissions of terminal devices. The previous glibc
1727 defaults ("tty" group, user read/write and group write) already
1728 corresponded to what most systems used, so that grantpt did not
1729 perform any adjustments.
1730
1731 * On Linux, the posix_openpt and getpt functions no longer attempt to
1732 use legacy (BSD) pseudo-terminals and assume that if /dev/ptmx exists
1733 (and pseudo-terminals are supported), a devpts file system is mounted
1734 on /dev/pts. Current systems already meet these requirements.
1735
1736 * s390x requires GCC 7.1 or newer. See gcc Bug 98269.
1737
1738 Security related changes:
1739
1740 CVE-2021-3326: An assertion failure during conversion from the
1741 ISO-20220-JP-3 character set using the iconv function has been fixed.
1742 This assertion was triggered by certain valid inputs in which the
1743 converted output contains a combined sequence of two wide characters
1744 crossing a buffer boundary. Reported by Tavis Ormandy.
1745
1746 CVE-2020-27618: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
1747 invoked with input containing redundant shift sequences in the IBM1364,
1748 IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, or IBM1399 character sets.
1749
1750 CVE-2020-29562: An assertion failure has been fixed in the iconv function
1751 when invoked with UCS4 input containing an invalid character.
1752
1753 CVE-2019-25013: A buffer overflow has been fixed in the iconv function when
1754 invoked with EUC-KR input containing invalid multibyte input sequences.
1755
1756 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1757
1758 [10635] libc: realpath portability patches
1759 [16124] dynamic-link: ld.so should allow to change argv[0]
1760 [17924] malloc: 'free' should not set errno
1761 [18683] libc: Linux faccessat implementation can incorrectly ignore
1762 AT_EACCESS
1763 [22899] libc: Use 64-bit readdir() in generic POSIX getcwd()
1764 [23091] hurd: missing waitid support
1765 [23249] libc: Epyc and other current AMD CPUs do not select the
1766 "haswell" platform subdirectory
1767 [24080] dynamic-link: Definition of "haswell" platform is inconsistent
1768 with GCC
1769 [24202] libc: m68k setjmp() saves incorrect 'a5' register in --enable-
1770 stack-protector=all
1771 [24941] libc: Make grantpt usable after multi-threaded fork in more
1772 cases
1773 [24970] libc: realpath mishandles EOVERFLOW; stat not needed anyway
1774 [24973] locale: iconv encounters segmentation fault when converting
1775 0x00 0xfe in EUC-KR to UTF-8 (CVE-2019-25013)
1776 [25399] string: undefined reference to `__warn_memset_zero_len' when
1777 changing gnuc version
1778 [25859] libc: glibc parser for /sys/devices/system/cpu/online is
1779 incorrect
1780 [25938] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should store meaning of hwcap mask
1781 bits
1782 [25971] libc: s390 bits/hwcap.h out of sync with kernel
1783 [26053] libc: unlockpt fails with ENOTTY for non-ptmx descriptors
1784 [26100] libc: Race in syslog(3) with regards to tag printing.
1785 [26124] libc: Export <cpu-features.h>
1786 [26130] nscd: Inconsistent nscd cache during pruning
1787 [26203] libc: GLRO(dl_x86_cpu_features) may not be initialized
1788 [26224] locale: iconv hangs when converting some invalid inputs from
1789 several IBM character sets (CVE-2020-27618)
1790 [26341] libc: realpath cyclically call __alloca(path_max) to consume
1791 too much stack space
1792 [26343] manual: invalid documented return type for strerrorname_np(),
1793 strerrordesc_np(), sigdescr_np(), sigabbrev_np()
1794 [26376] libc: Namespace violation in stdio.h and sys/stat.h if build
1795 with optimization.
1796 [26383] locale: bind_textdomain_codeset doesn't accept //TRANSLIT
1797 anymore
1798 [26394] time: [2.33 Regression] FAIL: nptl/tst-join14
1799 [26534] math: libm.so 2.32 SIGILL in pow() due to FMA4 instruction on
1800 non-FMA4 system
1801 [26552] dynamic-link: CPU_FEATURE_USABLE_P should be more conservative
1802 [26553] libc: mtx_init allows type set to "mtx_recursive" only
1803 [26555] string: strerrorname_np does not return the documented value
1804 [26592] libc: pointer arithmetic overflows in realpath
1805 [26600] network: Transaction ID collisions cause slow DNS lookups in
1806 getaddrinfo
1807 [26606] libc: [2.33 Regression] pselect is broken on x32
1808 [26615] libc: powerpc: libc segfaults when LD_PRELOADed with libgcc
1809 [26620] glob: fnmatch with collating symbols results in segmentation
1810 fault
1811 [26625] libc: [2.33 Regression] CET is disabled
1812 [26636] libc: 32-bit shmctl(IPC_INFO) crashes when shminfo struct is
1813 at the end of a memory mapping
1814 [26637] libc: semctl SEM_STAT_ANY fails to pass the buffer specified
1815 by the caller to the kernel
1816 [26639] libc: msgctl IPC_INFO and MSG_INFO return garbage
1817 [26647] build: [-Werror=array-parameter=] due to different
1818 declarations for __sigsetjmp
1819 [26648] libc: mkstemp is likely to fail on systems with non-stricly-
1820 monotonic clocks
1821 [26649] stdio: printf should handle non-normal x86 long double numbers
1822 gracefully (CVE-2020-29573)
1823 [26686] build: -Warray-parameter instances building with GCC 11
1824 [26687] build: -Warray-bounds instances building with GCC 11
1825 [26690] stdio: Aliasing violation in __vfscanf_internal
1826 [26691] nptl: Use a minimum guard size of 64 KiB on aarch64
1827 [26726] build: GCC warning calling new_composite_name with an array of
1828 one element
1829 [26736] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-sysvshm-linux
1830 [26737] libc: Random FAIL: rt/tst-shm
1831 [26791] libc: Missing O_CLOEXEC in sysconf.c
1832 [26798] dynamic-link: aarch64: variant PCS symbols may be incorrectly
1833 lazy bound
1834 [26801] nptl: pthread_mutex_clocklock with CLOCK_MONOTONIC can fail on
1835 PI mutexes
1836 [26818] string: aarch64: string tests may run ifunc variants that are
1837 not safe
1838 [26821] libc: Memory leak test failures on Fedora 33
1839 [26824] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-cpu-features-supports with recent trunk:
1840 FSGSBASE/LM/RDRAND check failure
1841 [26833] time: adjtime() with delta == NULL segfaults on armv7 32bit
1842 platform
1843 [26853] libc: aarch64: Missing unwind information in statically linked
1844 startup code
1845 [26923] locale: Assertion failure in iconv when converting invalid
1846 UCS4 (CVE-2020-29562)
1847 [26926] dynamic-link: aarch64: library dependencies are not bti
1848 protected
1849 [26932] libc: sh: Multiple floating point functions defined as stubs
1850 only since 2.31
1851 [26964] nptl: pthread_mutex_timedlock returning EAGAIN after futex is
1852 locked
1853 [26988] dynamic-link: aarch64: BTI mprotect address is not page
1854 aligned
1855 [27002] build: libc_freeres_fn build failure with GCC 11
1856 [27004] dynamic-link: ld.so is miscompiled by GCC 11
1857 [27008] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should have endianness markup
1858 [27042] libc: [alpha] anonymous union in struct stat confuses
1859 detection logic
1860 [27053] libc: Conformance regression in system(3) (and probably also
1861 pclose(3))
1862 [27072] dynamic-link: static pie ifunc resolvers run before hwcap is
1863 setup
1864 [27077] network: Do not reload /etc/nsswitch.conf from chroot
1865 [27083] libc: Unsafe unbounded alloca in addmntent
1866 [27104] dynamic-link: The COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_MAX handshake does not
1867 work
1868 [27130] string: "rep movsb" performance issue
1869 [27150] libc: alpha: wait4() is unavailable in static linking
1870 [27177] dynamic-link:
1871 GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.cpu.x86_ibt=on:glibc.cpu.x86_shstk=on doesn't
1872 work
1873 [27222] dynamic-link: Incorrect sysdeps/x86/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo.c
1874 [27237] malloc: deadlock in malloc/tst-malloc-stats-cancellation
1875 [27256] locale: Assertion failure in ISO-2022-JP-3 gconv module
1876 related to combining characters (CVE-2021-3326)
1877
1878 \f
1879 Version 2.32
1880
1881 Major new features:
1882
1883 * Unicode 13.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1884 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 13.0.0, using
1885 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1886
1887 * New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq)
1888
1889 * Support for Synopsys ARC HS cores (ARCv2 ISA) running Linux has been
1890 added. This port requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-8.3 and Linux-5.1.
1891 Three ABIs are supported:
1892
1893 - arc-linux-gnu
1894 - arc-linux-gnuhf
1895 - arceb-linux-gnu
1896
1897 The arc* ABIs are little-endian while arceb is big-endian. All ABIs use
1898 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
1899
1900 * The GNU C Library now loads audit modules listed in the DT_AUDIT and
1901 DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
1902
1903 * powerpc64le supports IEEE128 long double libm/libc redirects when
1904 using -mabi=ieeelongdouble to compile C code on supported GCC
1905 toolchains. It is recommended to use GCC 8 or newer when testing
1906 this option.
1907
1908 * To help detect buffer overflows and other out-of-bounds accesses
1909 several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This
1910 should help GCC 10 issue better warnings.
1911
1912 * On Linux, functions pthread_attr_setsigmask_np and
1913 pthread_attr_getsigmask_np have been added. They allow applications
1914 to specify the signal mask of a thread created with pthread_create.
1915
1916 * The GNU C Library now provides the header file <sys/single_threaded.h>
1917 which declares the variable __libc_single_threaded. Applications are
1918 encouraged to use this variable for single-thread optimizations,
1919 instead of weak references to symbols historically defined in
1920 libpthread.
1921
1922 * The functions sigabbrev_np and sigdescr_np have been added. The
1923 sigabbrev_np function returns the abbreviated signal name (e.g. "HUP" for
1924 SIGHUP) while sigdescr_np returns a string describing the signal number
1925 (e.g "Hangup" for SIGHUP). Different than strsignal, sigdescr_np does not
1926 attempt to translate the return description, both functions return
1927 NULL for an invalid signal number.
1928
1929 They should be used instead of sys_siglist or sys_sigabbrev and they
1930 are both thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
1931
1932 * The functions strerrorname_np and strerrordesc_np have been added. The
1933 strerroname_np function returns error number name (e.g. "EINVAL" for EINVAL)
1934 while strerrordesc_np returns a string describing the error number
1935 (e.g "Invalid argument" for EINVAL). Different than strerror,
1936 strerrordesc_np does not attempt to translate the return description, both
1937 functions return NULL for an invalid error number.
1938
1939 They should be used instead of sys_errlist and sys_nerr, both are
1940 thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
1941
1942 * AArch64 now supports standard branch protection security hardening
1943 in glibc when it is built with a GCC that is configured with
1944 --enable-standard-branch-protection (or if -mbranch-protection=standard
1945 flag is passed when building both GCC target libraries and glibc,
1946 in either case a custom GCC is needed). This includes branch target
1947 identification (BTI) and pointer authentication for return addresses
1948 (PAC-RET). They require armv8.5-a and armv8.3-a architecture
1949 extensions respectively for the protection to be effective,
1950 otherwise the used instructions are nops. User code can use PAC-RET
1951 without libc support, but BTI requires a libc that is built with BTI
1952 support, otherwise runtime objects linked into user code will not be
1953 BTI compatible.
1954
1955 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1956
1957 * Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc. Sun RPC is removed
1958 from glibc. This includes the rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and the Sun
1959 RPC header files. Backward compatibility for old programs is kept
1960 only for architectures and ABIs that have been added in or before
1961 glibc 2.31. New programs need to use TI-RPC
1962 <http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=summary> and
1963 rpcsvc-proto <https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto>.
1964
1965 * Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-nsl. libnsl is only built
1966 as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules "nis"
1967 and "nisplus" are not built at all and libnsl's headers aren't
1968 installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs
1969 that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement
1970 implementations based on TI-RPC, which additionally support IPv6, are
1971 available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not
1972 affect the "compat" NSS module, which does not depend on libnsl
1973 since 2.27 and thus can be used without NIS.
1974
1975 * The deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
1976 removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
1977 exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
1978 but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system
1979 call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5.
1980
1981 * The sstk function is no longer available to newly linked binaries.
1982 Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function
1983 was not declared in any header file.
1984
1985 * The legacy signal handling functions siginterrupt, sigpause, sighold,
1986 sigrelse, sigignore and sigset, and the sigmask macro have been
1987 deprecated. Applications should use the sigsuspend, sigprocmask and
1988 sigaction functions instead.
1989
1990 * ldconfig now defaults to the new format for ld.so.cache. glibc has
1991 already supported this format for almost 20 years.
1992
1993 * The deprecated arrays sys_siglist, _sys_siglist, and sys_sigabbrev
1994 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
1995 have been removed from <string.h>. They are exported solely as
1996 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
1997 strsignal instead.
1998
1999 * The deprecated symbols sys_errlist, _sys_errlist, sys_nerr, and _sys_nerr
2000 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
2001 have been removed from <stdio.h>. They are exported solely as
2002 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
2003 strerror or strerror_r instead.
2004
2005 * Both strerror and strerror_l now share the same internal buffer in the
2006 calling thread, meaning that the returned string pointer may be invalided
2007 or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same thread or
2008 if the thread is terminated. It makes strerror MT-safe.
2009
2010 * Using weak references to libpthread functions such as pthread_create
2011 or pthread_key_create to detect the singled-threaded nature of a
2012 program is an obsolescent feature. Future versions of glibc will
2013 define pthread_create within libc.so.6 itself, so such checks will
2014 always flag the program as multi-threaded. Applications should check
2015 the __libc_single_threaded variable declared in
2016 <sys/single_threaded.h> instead.
2017
2018 * The "files" NSS module no longer supports the "key" database (used for
2019 secure RPC). The contents of the /etc/publickey file will be ignored,
2020 regardless of the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of
2021 storing RPC keys only supported the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES
2022 flavor of secure RPC.)
2023
2024 * The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
2025 implementation __default_morecore have been deprecated. Applications
2026 should use malloc interposition to change malloc behavior, and mmap to
2027 allocate anonymous memory. A future version of glibc may require that
2028 applications which use the malloc hooks must preload a special shared
2029 object, to enable the hooks.
2030
2031 * The hesiod NSS module has been deprecated and will be removed in a
2032 future version of glibc. System administrators are encouraged to
2033 switch to other approaches for networked account databases, such as
2034 LDAP.
2035
2036 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2037
2038 * powerpc64le requires GCC 7.4 or newer. This is required for supporting
2039 long double redirects.
2040
2041 Security related changes:
2042
2043 CVE-2016-10228: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
2044 invoked with the -c option and when processing invalid multi-byte input
2045 sequences. Reported by Jan Engelhardt.
2046
2047 CVE-2020-10029: Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack
2048 corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido
2049 Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
2050
2051 CVE-2020-1752: A use-after-free vulnerability in the glob function when
2052 expanding ~user has been fixed.
2053
2054 CVE-2020-6096: A signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy and
2055 memmove functions has been fixed. Discovered by Jason Royes and Samual
2056 Dytrych of the Cisco Security Assessment and Penetration Team (See
2057 TALOS-2020-1019).
2058
2059 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2060
2061 [9809] localedata: ckb_IQ: new Kurdish Sorani locale
2062 [10441] manual: Backtraces code example lacks error checking
2063 [10815] librt: [timer_create / SIGEV_THREAD] signalmask of
2064 timer_sigev_thread dangerous
2065 [14231] stdio: stdio-common tests memory requirements
2066 [14578] libc: /proc-based emulation for lchmod, fchmodat
2067 [16272] dynamic-link: dlopen()ing a DT_FILTER library crashes if
2068 filtee has constructor
2069 [19519] locale: iconv(1) with -c option hangs on illegal multi-byte
2070 sequences (CVE-2016-10228)
2071 [19737] admin: Doc page “20.5.2 Infinity and NaN” has incorrect HTML
2072 character entities for infinity & pi
2073 [20338] libc: Parsing of /etc/gshadow can return bad pointers causing
2074 segfaults in applications
2075 [20543] libc: Please move from .gnu.linkonce to comdat
2076 [22489] network: gcc warns about implicit conversion in
2077 ICMP6_FILTER_SETPASS with -Wsign-conversion
2078 [22525] localedata: or_IN LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2079 [23294] math: Complex _FloatN functions are redirected to the wrong
2080 function with -mlong-double-64
2081 [23296] libc: Data race in setting function descriptor during lazy
2082 binding
2083 [23668] dynamic-link: ldconfig: Default to the new format for
2084 ld.so.cache
2085 [23819] hurd: hurd: Add C11 thread support
2086 [23990] build: test-container error out on failure to exec child.
2087 [23991] build: shell-container typo in run_command_array
2088 [24638] manual: Error in example of parsing a template string
2089 [24654] manual: Wrong declaration of wcschr in libc manual
2090 [24943] dynamic-link: Support DT_AUDIT, DT_DEPAUDIT in the dynamic
2091 linker
2092 [25051] dynamic-link: aarch64, powerpc64 uses surplus static tls for
2093 dynamically loaded dsos
2094 [25098] nptl: nptl: ctype classification functions are not AS-Safe
2095 [25219] libc: improve out-of-bounds checking with GCC 10 attribute
2096 access
2097 [25262] libc: getcontext/setcontext/swapcontext unnecessarily save and
2098 restore EAX, ECX and EDX
2099 [25397] dynamic-link: Legacy bitmap doesn't cover jitted code
2100 [25414] glob: 'glob' use-after-free bug (CVE-2020-1752)
2101 [25420] network: Race condition in resolv_conf.c can result in caching
2102 stale configuration forever
2103 [25487] math: sinl() stack corruption from crafted input
2104 (CVE-2020-10029)
2105 [25506] build: configure: broken detection of STT_GNU_IFUNC when GCC
2106 defaults to PIE
2107 [25523] libc: MIPS/Linux inline syscall template is miscompiled
2108 [25620] libc: Signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy()
2109 (CVE-2020-6096)
2110 [25623] libc: test-sysvmsg, test-sysvsem, test-sysvshm fail with 2.31
2111 on 32 bit and old kernel
2112 [25635] libc: arm: Wrong sysdep order selection for soft-fp
2113 [25639] localedata: Some names of days and months wrongly spelt in
2114 Occitan
2115 [25657] libc: sigprocmask() and sigisemptyset() manipulate different
2116 amount of sigset_t bytes
2117 [25691] stdio: printf: memory leak when printing long multibyte
2118 strings
2119 [25715] libc: system() returns wrong errors when posix_spawn fails
2120 [25733] malloc: mallopt(M_MXFAST) can set global_max_fast to 0
2121 [25734] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS fails to reset conversion
2122 state for conversions that produce two Unicode code points
2123 [25765] nptl: Incorrect futex syscall in __pthread_disable_asynccancel
2124 for linux x86_64 leads to livelock
2125 [25788] dynamic-link: [i386] -fno-omit-frame-pointer in CFLAGS causes
2126 test failures, invalid instruction in ld.so
2127 [25790] glob: Typo in tst-fnmatch.input
2128 [25810] libc: x32: Incorrect syscall entries with pointer, off_t and
2129 size_t
2130 [25819] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 13.0.0
2131 [25824] libc: Abnormal function of strnlen in aarch64
2132 [25887] dynamic-link: Wasted space in _dl_x86_feature_1[1]
2133 [25896] libc: Incorrect prctl
2134 [25902] libc: Bad LOADARGS_N
2135 [25905] dynamic-link: VSX registers are corrupted during PLT
2136 resolution when glibc is built with --disable-multi-arch and --with-
2137 cpu=power9
2138 [25933] string: Off by one error in __strncmp_avx2 when
2139 length=VEC_SIZE*4 and strings are at page boundaries can cause a
2140 segfault
2141 [25942] nptl: Deadlock on stack_cache_lock between __nptl_setxid and
2142 exiting detached thread
2143 [25966] libc: Incorrect access of __x86_shared_non_temporal_threshold
2144 for x32
2145 [25976] nss: internal_end*ent in nss_compat may clobber errno, hiding
2146 ERANGE
2147 [25999] nptl: Use-after-free issue in pthread_getaddr_default_np
2148 [26073] math: getpayload() has wrong return value
2149 [26076] dynamic-link: dlmopen crashes after failing to load
2150 dependencies in audit mode
2151 [26120] localedata: column width of of some Korean
2152 JUNGSEONG/JONGSEONG characters wrong (should be 0)
2153 [26128] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFLUSHOPT
2154 [26133] libc: Incorrect need_arch_feature_F16C
2155 [26137] libc: strtod() triggers exception FE_INEXACT on reasonable
2156 input
2157 [26149] libc: PKU is usable only if OSPKE is set
2158 [26173] libc: powerpc64*: Add @notoc to calls to functions that do not
2159 preserve r2
2160 [26208] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFSH
2161 [26210] network: Incorrect use of hidden symbols for global sunrpc
2162 variables
2163 [26211] stdio: printf integer overflow calculating allocation size
2164 [26214] stdio: printf_fp double free
2165 [26215] stdio: printf_fp memory leak
2166 [26232] time: FAIL: support/tst-timespec for 32-bit targets
2167 [26258] nss: nss_compat should not read input files with mmap
2168 [26332] string: Incorrect cache line size load causes memory
2169 corruption in memset
2170
2171 \f
2172 Version 2.31
2173
2174 Major new features:
2175
2176 * The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
2177 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
2178 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
2179 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
2180 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
2181 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
2182
2183 * The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
2184 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
2185 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
2186 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
2187
2188 * The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
2189 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
2190 CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME. This function is a GNU extension.
2191
2192 * New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar).
2193
2194 * The DNS stub resolver will optionally send the AD (authenticated data) bit
2195 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
2196 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
2197 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
2198 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
2199 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
2200 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
2201 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
2202
2203 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2204
2205 * The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
2206 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
2207 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
2208 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
2209 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
2210 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
2211
2212 * The obsolete function stime is no longer available to newly linked
2213 binaries, and its declaration has been removed from <time.h>.
2214 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
2215
2216 * We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
2217 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
2218 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
2219 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
2220
2221 * The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
2222 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
2223 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
2224 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
2225 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
2226 made this no longer practical.
2227
2228 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
2229 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
2230 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
2231 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
2232 release.)
2233
2234 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
2235 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
2236 with the current time, use the localtime function.
2237
2238 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
2239 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
2240 using clock_gettime instead.
2241
2242 * The settimeofday function can still be used to set a system-wide time
2243 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
2244 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
2245 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
2246 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
2247
2248 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
2249 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
2250 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
2251 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
2252
2253 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
2254 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
2255 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
2256 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
2257 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
2258 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
2259
2260 settimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. Programs that set
2261 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
2262 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
2263 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
2264 offset API.
2265
2266 * SPARC ISA v7 is no longer supported. v8 is still supported, but only if
2267 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
2268 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
2269
2270 As the oldest 64-bit SPARC ISA is v9, this only affects 32-bit
2271 configurations.
2272
2273 * If a lazy binding failure happens during dlopen, during the execution of
2274 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
2275 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
2276 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
2277 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
2278
2279 * For MIPS hard-float ABIs, the GNU C Library will be configured to need an
2280 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
2281 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
2282 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
2283 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
2284 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
2285 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
2286 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
2287
2288 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
2289 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
2290
2291 * System call wrappers for time system calls now use the new time64 system
2292 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
2293 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
2294 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
2295 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
2296 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
2297
2298 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2299
2300 * It is no longer necessary to have recent Linux kernel headers to build
2301 working (non-stub) system call wrappers on all architectures except 64-bit
2302 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
2303
2304 * The ChangeLog file is no longer present in the toplevel directory of the
2305 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
2306 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
2307
2308 Security related changes:
2309
2310 CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an
2311 out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context.
2312
2313 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
2314 environment variable during program execution after a security
2315 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
2316 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
2317 program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
2318
2319 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2320
2321 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
2322 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
2323 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
2324 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
2325 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
2326 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
2327 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
2328 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
2329 linking failure
2330 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
2331 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
2332 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
2333 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
2334 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
2335 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
2336 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
2337 constructors/destructors is not fatal
2338 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
2339 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
2340 7408-2005
2341 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
2342 with localedef
2343 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
2344 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
2345 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
2346 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
2347 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
2348 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
2349 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
2350 utmp entries
2351 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
2352 ABSOLUTE ABI
2353 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
2354 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
2355 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
2356 (stringop-overflow error)
2357 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
2358 functions other can lead to crashes
2359 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
2360 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
2361 unconditionally
2362 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
2363 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
2364 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
2365 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
2366 still can fail with an error
2367 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
2368 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
2369 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
2370 initialized correctly
2371 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
2372 -frewrite-includes
2373 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
2374 value to an unsigned
2375 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
2376 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
2377 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
2378 protection
2379 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
2380 ifunc variant.
2381 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
2382 al. for Clang++
2383 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
2384 (Slovenian)
2385 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
2386 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
2387 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
2388 with -std=c11
2389 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
2390 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
2391 part
2392 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
2393 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
2394 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
2395 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
2396 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
2397 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
2398
2399 \f
2400 Version 2.30
2401
2402 Major new features:
2403
2404 * Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2405 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
2406 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2407
2408 * The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
2409 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
2410
2411 * The twalk_r function has been added. It is similar to the existing
2412 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
2413 to the callback function.
2414
2415 * On Linux, the getdents64, gettid, and tgkill functions have been added.
2416
2417 * Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
2418 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
2419 nan_TW, lzh_TW.
2420
2421 * The entry for the new Japanese era has been added for ja_JP locale.
2422
2423 * Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
2424 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
2425 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
2426 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
2427 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
2428
2429 * The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
2430 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
2431 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
2432 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
2433 link time reference, is gone.
2434
2435 * Add new POSIX-proposed pthread_cond_clockwait, pthread_mutex_clocklock,
2436 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
2437 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
2438 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
2439 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
2440 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
2441 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
2442 the clock choice at initialization time).
2443
2444 * On AArch64 the GNU IFUNC resolver call ABI changed: old resolvers still
2445 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
2446 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
2447
2448 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2449
2450 * The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
2451 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
2452 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
2453 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
2454 copy_file_range function can no longer rely on glibc to provide a fallback
2455 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
2456 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
2457 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
2458 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
2459
2460 * The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime,
2461 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
2462 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
2463 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
2464 since glibc 2.17.
2465
2466 * The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
2467 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
2468
2469 * Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
2470 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
2471
2472 * The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
2473 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
2474
2475 * With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
2476 BIND_NOW flag.
2477
2478 * Support for the PowerPC SPE ISA extension (powerpc-*-*gnuspe*
2479 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
2480 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
2481
2482 * On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
2483 header have been removed.
2484
2485 * The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
2486 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
2487 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
2488 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
2489
2490 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2491
2492 * GCC 6.2 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
2493
2494 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
2495 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
2496
2497 Security related changes:
2498
2499 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
2500 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
2501 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
2502 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
2503 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
2504 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
2505 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
2506
2507 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
2508 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
2509 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
2510
2511 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2512
2513 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
2514 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
2515 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
2516 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
2517 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
2518 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
2519 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
2520 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
2521 invalid input drops valid char
2522 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
2523 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
2524 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
2525 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
2526 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
2527 malloc.h.
2528 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
2529 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
2530 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
2531 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
2532 functions
2533 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
2534 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
2535 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
2536 for long double = double
2537 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
2538 long double = double
2539 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
2540 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
2541 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
2542 long timeouts
2543 [24051] stdio: puts and putchar output to _IO_stdout instead of stdout
2544 [24059] nss: nss_files: get_next_alias calls fgets_unlocked without
2545 checking for NULL.
2546 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
2547 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
2548 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
2549 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
2550 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
2551 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
2552 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
2553 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
2554 not the default "nor"
2555 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
2556 false positives, change to modern flexible array
2557 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
2558 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
2559 compiler barriers.
2560 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
2561 unnecessary librt dependencies
2562 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
2563 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
2564 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
2565 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
2566 unsorted chunk
2567 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
2568 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
2569 to R_SPARC_H44
2570 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
2571 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
2572 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
2573 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
2574 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
2575 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
2576 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
2577 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
2578 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
2579 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
2580 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
2581 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
2582 was not used
2583 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
2584 tests
2585 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
2586 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
2587 time_t changes
2588 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
2589 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
2590 kernels and break testing
2591 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
2592 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
2593 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
2594 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
2595 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
2596 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
2597 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
2598 -O3 -march=skylake
2599 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
2600 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
2601 crash
2602 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
2603 linked glibc
2604 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
2605 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
2606 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
2607 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
2608 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
2609 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
2610 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
2611 always implemented in the same library
2612 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
2613 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
2614 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
2615 testroot
2616
2617 \f
2618 Version 2.29
2619
2620 Major new features:
2621
2622 * The getcpu wrapper function has been added, which returns the currently
2623 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
2624
2625 * A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
2626 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
2627 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
2628 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
2629 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
2630 configured location.
2631
2632 * Optimized generic exp, exp2, log, log2, pow, sinf, cosf, sincosf and tanf.
2633
2634 * The reallocarray function is now declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE, not just
2635 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
2636
2637 * For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
2638 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
2639 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
2640 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
2641 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
2642 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
2643 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
2644 process actually does not use HTM).
2645
2646 * The functions posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np and
2647 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
2648 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
2649 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
2650 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
2651 of the same name.
2652
2653 * The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
2654 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
2655 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
2656 inconsistent mutex state after a fork call in a multi-threaded process.
2657 In both popen and system there is no direct access to user-defined mutexes.
2658
2659 * Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
2660 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
2661 supported:
2662 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
2663 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
2664
2665 * strftime's default formatting of a locale's alternative year (%Ey)
2666 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
2667 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
2668 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
2669 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
2670 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
2671 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
2672
2673 * As a GNU extension, the '_' and '-' flags can now be applied to
2674 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
2675 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
2676
2677 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2678
2679 * The glibc.tune tunable namespace has been renamed to glibc.cpu and the
2680 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
2681
2682 * The type of the pr_uid and pr_gid members of struct elf_prpsinfo, defined
2683 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
2684 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
2685 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
2686
2687 * For the MIPS n32 ABI, the type of the pr_sigpend and pr_sighold members of
2688 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
2689 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
2690 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
2691 structures.
2692
2693 * An archaic GNU extension to scanf, under which '%as', '%aS', and '%a[...]'
2694 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
2695 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
2696 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
2697 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
2698 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
2699
2700 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
2701 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
2702 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
2703 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
2704 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
2705
2706 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
2707 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
2708 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
2709
2710 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2711
2712 * Python 3.4 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
2713
2714 * On most architectures, GCC 5 or later is required to build the GNU C
2715 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
2716
2717 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
2718 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
2719
2720 Security related changes:
2721
2722 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
2723 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
2724 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
2725
2726 CVE-2019-6488: On x32, the size_t parameter may be passed in the lower
2727 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
2728 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
2729 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
2730 Reported by H.J. Lu.
2731
2732 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
2733 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
2734 or command injection issues in applications.
2735
2736 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2737
2738 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
2739 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
2740 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
2741 thousands
2742 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
2743 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
2744 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
2745 --param options)
2746 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
2747 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
2748 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
2749 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
2750 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
2751 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
2752 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
2753 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
2754 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
2755 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
2756 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
2757 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
2758 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
2759 pointer argument is non-NULL
2760 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
2761 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
2762 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
2763 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
2764 multithreads call popen
2765 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
2766 and pthread_create fails.
2767 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
2768 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
2769 constructor
2770 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
2771 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
2772 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
2773 source tree
2774 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
2775 float
2776 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
2777 one error
2778 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
2779 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
2780 linker
2781 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
2782 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
2783 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
2784 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
2785 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
2786 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
2787 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
2788 filesystems
2789 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
2790 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
2791 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
2792 functions
2793 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
2794 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
2795 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
2796 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
2797 have wrong type
2798 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
2799 wrong type
2800 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
2801 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
2802 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
2803 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
2804 threads
2805 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
2806 start.S
2807 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
2808 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
2809 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
2810 powerpc64le
2811 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
2812 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
2813 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
2814 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
2815 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
2816 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
2817 strftime
2818 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
2819 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
2820 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
2821 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
2822 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
2823 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
2824 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
2825 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
2826 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
2827 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
2828 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
2829 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
2830 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
2831 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
2832 tcache size
2833 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
2834 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
2835 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
2836 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
2837 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
2838 (CVE-2018-19591)
2839 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
2840 nearest rounding mode
2841 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
2842 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
2843 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
2844 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
2845 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
2846 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
2847 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
2848 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
2849 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
2850 error
2851 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
2852 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
2853 using GCC 8
2854 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
2855 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
2856 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
2857 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
2858 ppc64le
2859 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
2860 expected result
2861 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
2862 x32 (CVE-2019-6488)
2863 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
2864 sigaltstack
2865 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
2866 answers will be rejected)
2867 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
2868
2869 \f
2870 Version 2.28
2871
2872 Major new features:
2873
2874 * The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
2875 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
2876 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
2877 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
2878 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
2879 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
2880 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
2881 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
2882 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
2883 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
2884 archive or binary locales.
2885
2886 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for Intel CET, AKA
2887 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
2888 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
2889 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
2890 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
2891 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
2892 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
2893 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
2894 Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
2895 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
2896 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
2897 validated for i686.
2898
2899 * The GNU C Library now has correct support for ABSOLUTE symbols
2900 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
2901 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
2902 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
2903 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
2904 field) to indicate such support is required.
2905
2906 * Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2907 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
2908 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2909
2910 * <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
2911 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
2912
2913 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
2914 fMxaddfNx functions.
2915
2916 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
2917 fMxsubfNx functions.
2918
2919 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
2920 fMxmulfNx functions.
2921
2922 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
2923 fMxdivfNx functions.
2924
2925 * Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
2926 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
2927 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
2928 support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
2929 and Kashubian.
2930
2931 * Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
2932 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
2933
2934 * Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
2935 patches.
2936
2937 * The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
2938 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
2939 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
2940 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
2941 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
2942 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
2943 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
2944 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
2945
2946 * The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
2947 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
2948 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
2949 the fstatat64 function.
2950
2951 * IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
2952 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
2953 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
2954 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
2955 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
2956 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
2957 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
2958 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
2959 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
2960
2961 * Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
2962 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
2963 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
2964 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
2965 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
2966 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
2967 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
2968 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
2969 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
2970 results in a load failure now.
2971
2972 * Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The
2973 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
2974 <threads.h>:
2975
2976 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
2977 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
2978
2979 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
2980 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
2981
2982 - call_once for function call synchronization.
2983
2984 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
2985 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
2986
2987 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
2988
2989 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
2990
2991 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2992
2993 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
2994 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
2995 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
2996
2997 * The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
2998 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
2999 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
3000 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
3001 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
3002 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
3003
3004 * All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
3005 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
3006 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
3007 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
3008 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
3009 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
3010 (Bug #1190.)
3011
3012 * The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
3013 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
3014 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
3015 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
3016 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
3017 further explanation.
3018
3019 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
3020 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
3021 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
3022
3023 * The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
3024
3025 * The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
3026 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
3027 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
3028
3029 * The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
3030 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
3031 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
3032 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
3033
3034 * The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
3035 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
3036 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
3037 for this function instead.
3038
3039 * The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
3040 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
3041 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
3042
3043 * The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
3044 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
3045 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
3046 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
3047
3048 * The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
3049 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
3050 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
3051 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
3052 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
3053
3054 * The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
3055 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
3056 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
3057 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
3058 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
3059 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
3060 such as libgcrypt.
3061
3062 * Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
3063 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
3064 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
3065 enabled.
3066
3067 * The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
3068 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
3069 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
3070
3071 * We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
3072 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
3073 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
3074 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
3075 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
3076 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
3077
3078 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
3079 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
3080 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
3081 behavior in a future release.
3082
3083 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
3084
3085 GNU make 4.0 or later is now required to build glibc.
3086
3087 Security related changes:
3088
3089 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
3090 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
3091 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
3092 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
3093
3094 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
3095 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
3096
3097 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
3098 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
3099 Izbyshev.
3100
3101 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
3102 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
3103 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
3104
3105 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3106
3107 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
3108 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
3109 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
3110 when __WORDSIZE != 64
3111 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
3112 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
3113 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
3114 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
3115 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
3116 14651
3117 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
3118 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
3119 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
3120 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
3121 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
3122 conversion is given
3123 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
3124 date
3125 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
3126 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
3127 scope with -O1 and higher
3128 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
3129 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
3130 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
3131 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
3132 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
3133 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
3134 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
3135 horrible machine code)
3136 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
3137 last constant.
3138 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
3139 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
3140 symbols
3141 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
3142 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
3143 defined
3144 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
3145 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
3146 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
3147 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
3148 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
3149 fpscr.c'
3150 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
3151 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
3152 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
3153 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
3154 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
3155 the base address
3156 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
3157 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
3158 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
3159 open_verify
3160 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
3161 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
3162 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
3163 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
3164 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
3165 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
3166 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
3167 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
3168 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
3169 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
3170 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
3171 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
3172 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
3173 dlopen
3174 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
3175 AT_SECURE=1
3176 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
3177 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
3178 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
3179 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
3180 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
3181 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
3182 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
3183 for Spanish with CLDR
3184 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
3185 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
3186 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
3187 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
3188 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
3189 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
3190 es_BO
3191 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
3192 CLOCKS_PER_SECOND
3193 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
3194 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
3195 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
3196 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
3197 dlopen failures
3198 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
3199 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
3200 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
3201 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
3202 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
3203 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
3204 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
3205 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
3206 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
3207 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
3208 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
3209 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
3210 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
3211 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
3212 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
3213 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
3214 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
3215 makecontext
3216 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
3217 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
3218 required
3219 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
3220 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
3221 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
3222 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
3223 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
3224 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
3225 disabled
3226 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
3227 failure
3228 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
3229 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
3230 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
3231 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
3232 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
3233 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
3234 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
3235 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
3236 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
3237 and libc build with -Os)
3238 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
3239 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
3240 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
3241 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
3242 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
3243 that changes /etc/passwd
3244 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
3245 (CVE-2018-11237)
3246 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
3247 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
3248 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
3249 posix/regcomp.c
3250 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
3251 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
3252 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
3253 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
3254 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
3255 AT_SECURE
3256 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
3257 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
3258 parser.c
3259 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
3260 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
3261 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
3262 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
3263 directed rounding
3264 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
3265 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
3266 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
3267 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
3268 lookup
3269 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
3270 interposition
3271 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
3272 DSO boundaries.
3273 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
3274 <linux/time.h>
3275 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
3276 checking
3277 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
3278 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
3279 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
3280 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
3281 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
3282 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
3283 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
3284 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
3285 processors
3286 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
3287
3288 \f
3289 Version 2.27
3290
3291 Major new features:
3292
3293 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
3294 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
3295 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
3296 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
3297 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
3298 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
3299 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
3300 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
3301 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
3302
3303 * Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
3304 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
3305 H.J. Lu from Intel.
3306
3307 * Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
3308
3309 * Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
3310
3311 * In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
3312 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
3313 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
3314 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
3315 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
3316 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
3317 from a security and performance perspective.
3318
3319 * The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
3320 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
3321 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
3322 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
3323
3324 * On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
3325 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
3326 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
3327 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
3328 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
3329
3330 * On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
3331 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
3332 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
3333 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
3334 _Float128.
3335
3336 * The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
3337 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
3338 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
3339
3340 * glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
3341
3342 * Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
3343 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
3344 pkey_get.
3345
3346 * The copy_file_range function was added.
3347
3348 * Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
3349
3350 * The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
3351 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
3352 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
3353
3354 * Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
3355 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
3356 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
3357 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
3358 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
3359 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
3360 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
3361
3362 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
3363 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
3364 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
3365 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
3366 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
3367 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
3368 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
3369
3370 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
3371 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
3372 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
3373 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
3374 respectively.
3375
3376 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
3377 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
3378 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
3379 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
3380
3381 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
3382 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
3383 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
3384
3385 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
3386 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
3387 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
3388
3389 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
3390 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
3391 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
3392
3393 - rv64imac lp64
3394 - rv64imafdc lp64
3395 - rv64imafdc lp64d
3396
3397 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
3398
3399 * Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
3400 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
3401 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
3402 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
3403 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
3404 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
3405 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
3406 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
3407 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
3408 fix this.
3409
3410 * Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
3411 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
3412 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
3413
3414 * Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
3415 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
3416 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
3417 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
3418 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
3419 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
3420 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
3421 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
3422 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
3423 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
3424 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
3425 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
3426 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
3427 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
3428 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
3429 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
3430 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
3431 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
3432 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
3433 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
3434 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
3435 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
3436 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
3437 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
3438 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
3439 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
3440
3441 * On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
3442 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
3443
3444 * libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
3445 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
3446 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
3447 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
3448 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
3449 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
3450 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
3451
3452 * The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
3453 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
3454 exp10l for these functions instead.
3455
3456 * The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
3457 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
3458 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3459
3460 * The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
3461 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
3462 ignored.
3463
3464 * The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
3465 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
3466 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
3467 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
3468
3469 * The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
3470 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
3471
3472 * In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
3473 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
3474
3475 * The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
3476 programs.
3477
3478 * The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
3479
3480 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
3481 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
3482 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
3483 instead.
3484
3485 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
3486 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
3487 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
3488 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
3489 use, but predates the bits convention.
3490
3491 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
3492
3493 * bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
3494 subdirectory.
3495
3496 Security related changes:
3497
3498 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
3499 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
3500 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
3501 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
3502 script.)
3503
3504 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
3505 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
3506 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
3507 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
3508
3509 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
3510 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
3511 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
3512 of service.
3513
3514 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
3515 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
3516 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
3517
3518 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
3519 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
3520 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
3521 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
3522
3523 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
3524 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
3525 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
3526 Qualys.
3527
3528 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
3529 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
3530 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
3531 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
3532 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
3533
3534 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
3535 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
3536 current directory.
3537
3538 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
3539 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
3540 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
3541
3542 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
3543 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
3544 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
3545
3546 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
3547 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
3548 small, instead of NULL.
3549
3550 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3551
3552 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
3553 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
3554 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
3555 locale
3556 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
3557 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
3558 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
3559 cases
3560 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
3561 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
3562 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
3563 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
3564 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
3565 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
3566 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
3567 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
3568 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
3569 "Bangla"
3570 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
3571 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
3572 width Latin characters
3573 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
3574 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
3575 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
3576 letters
3577 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
3578 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
3579 (CVE-2009-5064)
3580 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
3581 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
3582 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
3583 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
3584 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
3585 if malloc succeeded
3586 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
3587 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
3588 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
3589 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
3590 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
3591 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
3592 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
3593 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
3594 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
3595 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
3596 U+309A
3597 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
3598 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
3599 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
3600 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
3601 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
3602 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
3603 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
3604 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
3605 for Nicaragua
3606 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
3607 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
3608 are not found.
3609 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
3610 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
3611 access
3612 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
3613 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
3614 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
3615 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
3616 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
3617 __regcall calling convention
3618 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
3619 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
3620 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
3621 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
3622 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
3623 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
3624 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
3625 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
3626 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
3627 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
3628 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
3629 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
3630 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
3631 locale
3632 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
3633 protector=all
3634 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
3635 wcwidth
3636 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
3637 consistency check failures
3638 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
3639 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
3640 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
3641 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
3642 PIE
3643 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
3644 locales
3645 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
3646 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
3647 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
3648 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
3649 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
3650 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
3651 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
3652 on memory allocation failure
3653 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
3654 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
3655 the suspect)
3656 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
3657 default (i386)
3658 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
3659 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
3660 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
3661 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
3662 instead of EAI_NODATA
3663 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
3664 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
3665 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
3666 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
3667 implementation
3668 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
3669 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
3670 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
3671 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
3672 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
3673 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
3674 allocation in syscall loops)
3675 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
3676 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
3677 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
3678 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
3679 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
3680 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
3681 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
3682 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
3683 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
3684 occur with -O3
3685 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
3686 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
3687 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
3688 amounts)
3689 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
3690 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
3691 niu_NZ
3692 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
3693 checks
3694 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
3695 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
3696 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
3697 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
3698 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
3699 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
3700 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
3701 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
3702 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
3703 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
3704 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
3705 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
3706 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
3707 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
3708 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
3709 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
3710 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
3711 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
3712 parsing after OOM
3713 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
3714 object
3715 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
3716 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
3717 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
3718 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
3719 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
3720 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
3721 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf outputs a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
3722 ppc64le
3723 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
3724 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
3725 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
3726 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
3727 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
3728 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
3729 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
3730 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
3731 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
3732 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
3733 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
3734 math_force_eval
3735 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
3736 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
3737 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
3738 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
3739 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
3740 the svid compat wrapper
3741 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
3742 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
3743 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
3744 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
3745 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
3746 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
3747 --verbose.
3748 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
3749 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
3750 to 2.26
3751 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
3752 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
3753 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
3754 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
3755 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
3756 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
3757 (CVE-2017-15804)
3758 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
3759 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
3760 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
3761 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
3762 failure."
3763 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
3764 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
3765 -m32
3766 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
3767 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
3768 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
3769 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
3770 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
3771 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
3772 inside the ASCII printable range
3773 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
3774 -mlong-double-64
3775 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
3776 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
3777 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
3778 Internet
3779 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
3780 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
3781 backslash
3782 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
3783 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
3784 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
3785 heaps in an arena
3786 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
3787 networking interface
3788 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
3789 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
3790 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
3791 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
3792 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
3793 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
3794 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
3795 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
3796 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
3797 order
3798 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3799 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3800 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3801 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3802 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3803 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
3804 same as for Croatian
3805 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
3806 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
3807 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
3808 for initial thread"
3809 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
3810 SC_SSIZE_MAX
3811 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
3812 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
3813 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3814 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
3815 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
3816 (CVE-2017-1000408)
3817 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
3818 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
3819 modified in case of success
3820 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
3821 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
3822 success
3823 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
3824 stack-protector=all
3825 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
3826 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
3827 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
3828 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
3829 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
3830 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
3831 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
3832 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
3833 adding it on top
3834 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
3835 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
3836 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
3837 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
3838 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
3839 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
3840 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
3841 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
3842 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
3843 (CVE-2018-1000001)
3844 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
3845 elision and tunables
3846 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
3847 "invalid" exception
3848 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
3849 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
3850 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
3851 exception
3852 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3853 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
3854 power4
3855 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
3856 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
3857 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
3858 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
3859 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
3860 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
3861 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
3862 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
3863 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
3864
3865 \f
3866 Version 2.26
3867
3868 Major new features:
3869
3870 * A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
3871 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
3872 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
3873 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
3874 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
3875 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
3876 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
3877
3878 * Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
3879 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
3880 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
3881 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
3882 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
3883 are rendered with pango, see for example:
3884 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
3885
3886 * Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
3887 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
3888 Egmont Koblinger.
3889
3890 * Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
3891
3892 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
3893 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
3894 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
3895
3896 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
3897 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
3898 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
3899 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
3900 object are still limited to six search domains.
3901
3902 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
3903 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
3904 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
3905
3906 * The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
3907 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
3908
3909 * New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
3910 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
3911 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
3912 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
3913
3914 * New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
3915 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
3916 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
3917 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
3918
3919 * posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
3920 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
3921 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
3922 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
3923
3924 * errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
3925 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
3926 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
3927
3928 * On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
3929 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
3930 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
3931 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
3932
3933 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
3934 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
3935 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
3936 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
3937 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
3938
3939 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
3940 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
3941 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
3942 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
3943 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
3944 interfaces should be used instead.
3945
3946 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
3947
3948 * The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
3949 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
3950 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
3951 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
3952 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
3953 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
3954 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
3955 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
3956
3957 * The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
3958 removed.
3959
3960 * Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
3961 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
3962 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
3963 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
3964
3965 * The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
3966 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
3967 default.
3968
3969 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
3970 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
3971 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
3972 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
3973 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
3974
3975 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
3976 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
3977 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
3978 name service modules, to be built and installed.
3979
3980 * The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
3981 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
3982 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
3983 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
3984
3985 * res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
3986 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
3987
3988 * The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
3989 exported by accident.
3990
3991 * <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
3992 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
3993 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
3994
3995 * The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
3996 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
3997 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
3998 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
3999
4000 * The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
4001
4002 * The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
4003
4004 * The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
4005 free instead.
4006
4007 * The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
4008 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
4009
4010 * The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
4011 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
4012
4013 * On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
4014 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
4015 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
4016 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
4017 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
4018 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
4019 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
4020 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
4021
4022 * On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
4023 synced with the kernel:
4024
4025 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
4026 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
4027
4028 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
4029 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
4030 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
4031
4032 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
4033 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
4034
4035 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
4036
4037 * Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
4038 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
4039 x86-32 and x86-64.)
4040
4041 * GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
4042
4043 * On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
4044 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
4045
4046 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
4047 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
4048 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
4049 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
4050 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
4051
4052 Security related changes:
4053
4054 * The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
4055 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
4056
4057 * LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
4058 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
4059
4060 * Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
4061 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
4062 (CVE-2010-3192).
4063
4064 * A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
4065 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
4066
4067 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4068
4069 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
4070 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
4071 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
4072 fields
4073 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
4074 (CVE-2010-3192)
4075 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
4076 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
4077 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
4078 ld.bfd is available
4079 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
4080 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
4081 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
4082 x86 and other generic code
4083 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
4084 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
4085 incorrect
4086 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
4087 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
4088 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
4089 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
4090 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
4091 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
4092 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
4093 resolver
4094 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
4095 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
4096 order of 0D36 and 0D37
4097 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
4098 chillu characters
4099 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
4100 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
4101 receiving data
4102 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
4103 whitespace
4104 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
4105 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
4106 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
4107 for Peru
4108 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
4109 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
4110 failures consistently
4111 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
4112 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
4113 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
4114 frame-pointer on i386
4115 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
4116 register
4117 [21075] libc: unused assignment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
4118 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
4119 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
4120 generic c code is used
4121 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
4122 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
4123 around 4000
4124 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
4125 (CVE-2017-12133)
4126 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
4127 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
4128 with -lieee
4129 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
4130 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
4131 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
4132 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
4133 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
4134 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
4135 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
4136 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
4137 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
4138 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
4139 remove()
4140 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
4141 checked for errors.
4142 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
4143 new posix_spawn implementation
4144 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
4145 leads to lower CPU frequency
4146 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
4147 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
4148 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
4149 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
4150 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
4151 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
4152 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
4153 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
4154 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
4155 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
4156 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
4157 not support gethostbyname4_r
4158 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
4159 switching
4160 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
4161 arenas
4162 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
4163 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
4164 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
4165 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
4166 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
4167 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
4168 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
4169 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
4170 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
4171 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
4172 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
4173 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
4174 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
4175 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
4176 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
4177 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
4178 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
4179 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
4180 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
4181 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
4182 retry value
4183 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
4184 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
4185 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
4186 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
4187 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
4188 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
4189 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
4190 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
4191 [21537] libc:
4192 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
4193 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
4194 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
4195 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
4196 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
4197 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
4198 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
4199 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
4200 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
4201 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
4202 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
4203 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
4204 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
4205 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
4206 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
4207 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
4208 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
4209 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
4210 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
4211 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
4212 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
4213 issue on x86-64
4214 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
4215 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
4216 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
4217 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
4218 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
4219 construction
4220 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
4221 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
4222 between_2_3
4223 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
4224 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
4225 conditions
4226 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
4227 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
4228 Hindi Locale
4229 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
4230 posix/sched_cpucount.c
4231 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
4232 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
4233 locale
4234 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
4235 leading to relocation crash
4236 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
4237 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
4238 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
4239 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
4240 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
4241 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
4242 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
4243 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
4244 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
4245 locale
4246 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
4247 locale
4248 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
4249 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
4250 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
4251 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
4252 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
4253 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
4254 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
4255 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
4256 strings
4257 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
4258 protector=all
4259 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
4260 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
4261 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
4262 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
4263 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
4264 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
4265 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
4266 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
4267 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
4268 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
4269 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
4270 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
4271 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
4272 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
4273 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
4274 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
4275 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
4276 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
4277 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
4278 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
4279 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
4280 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
4281 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
4282 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
4283 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
4284 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
4285 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
4286 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
4287 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
4288 with unicode 9.0
4289 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
4290 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
4291 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
4292 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
4293 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
4294
4295 \f
4296 Version 2.25
4297
4298 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
4299 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
4300 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
4301 Library.
4302
4303 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
4304 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
4305 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
4306 the GNU C Library.
4307
4308 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
4309 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
4310 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
4311 the GNU C Library.
4312
4313 * The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
4314 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
4315 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
4316 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
4317 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
4318 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
4319 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
4320 will not.
4321
4322 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
4323 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
4324 many years.
4325
4326 * The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
4327 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
4328 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
4329
4330 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
4331 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
4332 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
4333 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
4334 problem.
4335
4336 * New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
4337 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
4338 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
4339
4340 * Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
4341 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
4342 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
4343 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
4344 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
4345 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
4346 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
4347 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
4348 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
4349 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
4350 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
4351 WINT_WIDTH.
4352
4353 * New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
4354
4355 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
4356
4357 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
4358 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
4359 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
4360
4361 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
4362 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
4363
4364 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
4365 fminmagf, fminmagl.
4366
4367 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
4368
4369 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
4370
4371 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
4372 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
4373
4374 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
4375
4376 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
4377 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
4378
4379 * The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
4380 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
4381
4382 * Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
4383 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
4384 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
4385
4386 * The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
4387 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
4388 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
4389 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
4390 effects of the memory clear).
4391
4392 * On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
4393 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
4394 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
4395 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
4396
4397 * On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
4398 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
4399 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
4400 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
4401 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
4402 if they are compiled or used with those options.
4403
4404 * The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
4405 have been added.
4406
4407 * The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
4408 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
4409 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
4410 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
4411 as large as several megabytes.
4412
4413 * The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
4414 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
4415 been removed.
4416
4417 * The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
4418 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
4419 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
4420 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
4421 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
4422 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
4423 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
4424
4425 * The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
4426 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
4427 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
4428 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
4429
4430 * The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
4431 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
4432 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
4433 Internet.
4434
4435 * The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
4436 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
4437 They were already unimplemented.
4438
4439 * The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
4440 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
4441 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
4442 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
4443
4444 * DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
4445 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
4446 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
4447 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
4448 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
4449
4450 * The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
4451 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
4452 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
4453 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
4454 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
4455
4456 * The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
4457 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
4458 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
4459 did not reflect that.
4460
4461 * For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
4462 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
4463 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
4464 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
4465 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
4466 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
4467 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
4468 'gcc/config.gcc'.
4469
4470 * GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
4471 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
4472 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
4473 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
4474
4475 * Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
4476 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
4477 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
4478 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
4479
4480 * A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
4481 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
4482 guarantees.
4483
4484 * A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
4485 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
4486 make state changes.
4487
4488 Security related changes:
4489
4490 * On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
4491 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
4492 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
4493 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
4494 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
4495
4496 * The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
4497 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
4498 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
4499 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
4500 (CVE-2015-5180)
4501
4502 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4503
4504 [4099] stdio: Overly aggressive caching by stream i/o functions.
4505 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
4506 protector-all
4507 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
4508 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
4509 before it started waiting
4510 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
4511 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
4512 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
4513 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
4514 wrong type
4515 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
4516 library linked with pthread
4517 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
4518 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
4519 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
4520 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
4521 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
4522 after being __libc_memalign()'d
4523 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
4524 when it shouldn't
4525 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
4526 not
4527 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
4528 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
4529 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
4530 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
4531 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
4532 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
4533 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
4534 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
4535 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
4536 termination
4537 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
4538 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
4539 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
4540 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
4541 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
4542 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
4543 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
4544 causes a segmentation fault
4545 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
4546 linking
4547 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
4548 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
4549 uninitialized GOT
4550 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
4551 versions
4552 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
4553 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
4554 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
4555 is always true.
4556 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
4557 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
4558 modes
4559 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
4560 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
4561 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
4562 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
4563 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
4564 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
4565 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
4566 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
4567 libpthread.a
4568 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
4569 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
4570 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
4571 _res_hconf
4572 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
4573 information.
4574 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
4575 penalty
4576 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
4577 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
4578 cause transition penalty
4579 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
4580 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
4581 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
4582 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
4583 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
4584 mcount.oS)
4585 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
4586 Checking
4587 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
4588 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
4589 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
4590 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
4591 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
4592 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
4593 multi-arch
4594 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
4595 (RES_USEBSTRING)
4596 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
4597 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
4598 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
4599 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
4600 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
4601 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
4602 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
4603 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
4604 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
4605 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
4606 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
4607 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
4608 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
4609 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
4610 glibc
4611 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
4612 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
4613 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
4614 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
4615 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
4616 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
4617 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
4618 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
4619 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
4620 U+20AC), not same as GBK
4621 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
4622 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
4623 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
4624 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
4625 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
4626 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
4627 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
4628 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
4629 RES_USE_INET6
4630 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
4631 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
4632 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
4633 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
4634 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
4635 wrong condition
4636 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
4637 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
4638 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
4639 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
4640 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
4641 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
4642 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
4643 clang
4644 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
4645 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
4646 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
4647 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
4648 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
4649 \f
4650 Version 2.24
4651
4652 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
4653 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
4654 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
4655 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
4656 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
4657 architectures.
4658
4659 * The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
4660 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
4661 been included in previous releases.
4662
4663 * The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
4664 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
4665
4666 * The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
4667 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
4668 instead of “union wait”.
4669
4670 * A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
4671 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
4672 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
4673 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
4674 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
4675 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
4676 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
4677
4678 * The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
4679 API.
4680
4681 * The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
4682 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
4683 drop it.
4684
4685 * nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
4686 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
4687 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
4688 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
4689 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
4690 extensions.
4691
4692 Security related changes:
4693
4694 * An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
4695 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
4696 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
4697
4698 * Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
4699 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
4700 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
4701 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
4702
4703 * The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
4704 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
4705 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
4706
4707 * The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
4708 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
4709 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
4710
4711 * The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
4712 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
4713 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
4714 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
4715
4716 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4717
4718 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
4719 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
4720 of MS-DOS.
4721 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
4722 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
4723 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
4724 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
4725 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
4726 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
4727 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
4728 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
4729 CLDR data
4730 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
4731 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
4732 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
4733 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
4734 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
4735 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
4736 romanisation
4737 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
4738 and +/-
4739 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
4740 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
4741 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
4742 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
4743 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
4744 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
4745 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
4746 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
4747 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
4748 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
4749 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
4750 all locales
4751 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
4752 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
4753 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
4754 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
4755 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
4756 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
4757 execute
4758 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
4759 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
4760 -Wsystem-headers
4761 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
4762 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
4763 Romanian locale data
4764 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
4765 symbol
4766 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
4767 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
4768 language
4769 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
4770 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
4771 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
4772 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
4773 machine
4774 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
4775 description
4776 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
4777 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
4778 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
4779 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
4780 when using RTLD_NEXT
4781 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
4782 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
4783 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
4784 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
4785 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
4786 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
4787 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
4788 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
4789 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
4790 Excavator core
4791 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4792 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4793 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4794 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
4795 double range
4796 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
4797 part zero incorrect
4798 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
4799 equality tests
4800 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
4801 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
4802 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
4803 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
4804 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
4805 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
4806 glibc-2.22
4807 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
4808 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
4809 'tst-numeric.c'
4810 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
4811 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
4812 low part
4813 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
4814 result
4815 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
4816 unaligned stack
4817 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
4818 pointers and lengths in error-case.
4819 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
4820 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
4821 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
4822 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
4823 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
4824 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
4825 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
4826 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
4827 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
4828 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
4829 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
4830 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
4831 modes
4832 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
4833 server addresses
4834 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
4835 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
4836 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
4837 response to getaddrinfo
4838 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
4839 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
4840 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
4841 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
4842 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
4843 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
4844 sometimes incorrect
4845 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
4846 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
4847 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
4848 record types
4849 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
4850 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
4851 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
4852 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
4853 (CVE-2016-3075)
4854 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
4855 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
4856 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
4857 resolving symbols
4858 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
4859 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
4860 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
4861 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
4862 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
4863 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
4864 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
4865 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
4866 gethosts
4867 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
4868 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
4869 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
4870 (CVE-2016-3706)
4871 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
4872 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
4873 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
4874 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
4875 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
4876 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
4877 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
4878 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
4879 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
4880 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
4881 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
4882 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
4883 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
4884 executable
4885 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
4886 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
4887 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
4888 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
4889 XPG3
4890 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
4891 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
4892 (CVE-2016-4429)
4893 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
4894 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
4895 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
4896 AS not supporting AVX512
4897 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
4898 sNaN argument
4899 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4900 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
4901 argument
4902 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
4903 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
4904 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
4905 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
4906 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
4907 eax=0x80000001
4908 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
4909 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
4910 subnormals
4911 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
4912 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
4913 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
4914 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4915 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4916 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
4917 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4918 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
4919 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
4920 input
4921 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4922 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4923 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4924 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4925 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4926 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4927 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4928 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
4929 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
4930 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
4931 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
4932 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
4933 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
4934 double rounding
4935 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
4936 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
4937 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
4938 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
4939 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
4940 (Only arm/linux)
4941 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
4942 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
4943 fallbacks
4944 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
4945 "invalid" exceptions
4946 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
4947 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
4948 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
4949 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
4950 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
4951 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
4952 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
4953 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
4954 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
4955 \f
4956 Version 2.23
4957
4958 * Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
4959 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
4960 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
4961 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
4962 89, 16061, and 18568.
4963
4964 * sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
4965 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
4966 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
4967 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
4968 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
4969 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
4970 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
4971
4972 * The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
4973 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
4974 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
4975
4976 * getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
4977 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
4978 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
4979 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
4980 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
4981 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
4982 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
4983
4984 * A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
4985 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
4986 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
4987 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
4988 the concurrent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
4989 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
4990 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
4991 Ericsson.)
4992
4993 * There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
4994 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
4995 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
4996 independent of the GNU C Library.
4997
4998 * The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
4999 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
5000
5001 * The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
5002 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
5003 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
5004 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
5005 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
5006 Linux kernel.
5007
5008 * Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
5009 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
5010
5011 * Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
5012 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
5013 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
5014 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
5015 defining their own copy.
5016
5017 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
5018 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
5019 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
5020
5021 Security related changes:
5022
5023 * An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
5024 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
5025
5026 * The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
5027 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
5028 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
5029 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
5030 (CVE-2015-8777)
5031
5032 * An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
5033 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
5034
5035 * The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
5036 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
5037
5038 * The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
5039 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
5040 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
5041
5042 * A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
5043 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
5044 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
5045 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
5046 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
5047 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
5048 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
5049 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
5050 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
5051 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
5052 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
5053 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
5054 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
5055
5056 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5057
5058 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
5059 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
5060 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
5061 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
5062 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
5063 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
5064 use `mkstemp'
5065 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
5066 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doesn't set errno on
5067 overflow/underflow errors
5068 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
5069 overflow/underflow
5070 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
5071 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
5072 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
5073 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
5074 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
5075 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
5076 are not contiguous
5077 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
5078 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
5079 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
5080 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
5081 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
5082 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
5083 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
5084 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
5085 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
5086 all exceptions
5087 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
5088 arguments
5089 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
5090 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
5091 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
5092 should include
5093 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
5094 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
5095 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
5096 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
5097 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
5098 GNU/Linux
5099 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
5100 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
5101 arguments
5102 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
5103 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
5104 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
5105 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
5106 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
5107 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
5108 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
5109 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
5110 rounding results
5111 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
5112 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
5113 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
5114 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
5115 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
5116 fails
5117 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
5118 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
5119 block boundary
5120 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
5121 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
5122 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
5123 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
5124 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
5125 4.7?
5126 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
5127 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
5128 (related to lock elision)
5129 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
5130 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
5131 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
5132 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
5133 (CVE-2015-8779)
5134 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
5135 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
5136 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
5137 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
5138 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
5139 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
5140 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
5141 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
5142 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
5143 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
5144 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
5145 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
5146 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
5147 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
5148 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
5149 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
5150 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
5151 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
5152 contains a vector instruction exception.
5153 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
5154 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
5155 locales
5156 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
5157 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
5158 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
5159 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
5160 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
5161 missing break ?
5162 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
5163 32bit processes
5164 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
5165 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
5166 infinity
5167 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
5168 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
5169 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
5170 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
5171 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
5172 be forced unloaded
5173 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
5174 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
5175 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
5176 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
5177 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
5178 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
5179 statically too large
5180 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
5181 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
5182 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
5183 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
5184 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
5185 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
5186 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
5187 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
5188 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
5189 FUTEX_SHARED
5190 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
5191 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
5192 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
5193 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
5194 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
5195 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
5196 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
5197 opendir()
5198 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
5199 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
5200 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
5201 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
5202 signgam
5203 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
5204 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
5205 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
5206 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
5207 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
5208 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
5209 dependencies
5210 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
5211 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
5212 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
5213 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
5214 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
5215 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
5216 (CVE-2015-8776)
5217 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
5218 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
5219 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
5220 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
5221 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
5222 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
5223 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
5224 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
5225 contention
5226 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
5227 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
5228 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
5229 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
5230 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
5231 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
5232 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
5233 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
5234 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
5235 rounding modes
5236 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
5237 ILP32
5238 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
5239 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
5240 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
5241 threshold
5242 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
5243 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
5244 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
5245 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assembler
5246 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
5247 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
5248 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
5249 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
5250 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
5251 pthread_setaffinity_np
5252 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
5253 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
5254 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
5255 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
5256 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
5257 prelink
5258 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
5259 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
5260 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
5261 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
5262 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
5263 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
5264 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
5265 bits/mathcalls.h
5266 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
5267 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
5268 for C99-based standards
5269 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
5270 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
5271 math-only
5272 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
5273 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
5274 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
5275 disabled
5276 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
5277 "inexact" exceptions
5278 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
5279 arguments
5280 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
5281 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
5282 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
5283 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
5284 rules
5285 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
5286 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
5287 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
5288 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
5289 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
5290 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
5291 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
5292 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
5293 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
5294 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
5295 from 32bit
5296 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
5297 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
5298 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
5299 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
5300 subnormals
5301 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
5302 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
5303 error on 32-bit architectures
5304 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
5305 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
5306 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
5307 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
5308 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
5309 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
5310 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
5311 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
5312 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
5313 -Os
5314 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
5315 CPU's.
5316 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
5317 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
5318 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
5319 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
5320 architectures
5321 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
5322 \f
5323 Version 2.22
5324
5325 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5326
5327 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
5328 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
5329 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
5330 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
5331 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
5332 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
5333 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
5334 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
5335 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
5336 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
5337 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
5338 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
5339 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
5340 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
5341 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
5342 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
5343 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
5344 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
5345 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
5346 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
5347
5348 * Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
5349 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
5350
5351 * A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
5352 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
5353 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
5354 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
5355 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
5356 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
5357
5358 * The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
5359 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
5360 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
5361 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
5362 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
5363
5364 * A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
5365 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
5366 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
5367
5368 * Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
5369 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
5370 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
5371 17998.
5372
5373 * CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
5374 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
5375 condition in some applications.
5376
5377 * Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
5378 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
5379 pow, powf.
5380 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
5381 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
5382 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
5383 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
5384 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
5385
5386 * A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
5387 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
5388 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
5389 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
5390
5391 * The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
5392 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
5393 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
5394
5395 * Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
5396 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
5397
5398 * The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
5399 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
5400 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
5401
5402 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
5403 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
5404 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
5405 \f
5406 Version 2.21
5407
5408 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5409
5410 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
5411 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
5412 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
5413 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
5414 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
5415 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
5416 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
5417 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
5418 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
5419 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
5420 17892.
5421
5422 * CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
5423 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
5424 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
5425 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
5426 intended.
5427
5428 * A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
5429 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
5430 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
5431 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
5432 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
5433 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
5434
5435 * Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
5436
5437 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
5438 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
5439 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
5440
5441 * Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
5442 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
5443 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
5444 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
5445 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
5446 effects being visible outside transactions.
5447
5448 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
5449 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5450
5451 * i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
5452
5453 * CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
5454 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
5455 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
5456 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
5457 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
5458
5459 * CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
5460 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
5461
5462 * CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
5463 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
5464 format.
5465
5466 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
5467 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
5468 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
5469
5470 * The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
5471 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
5472
5473 * New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
5474
5475 * The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
5476 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
5477 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
5478 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
5479
5480 * Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
5481 with newer versions of bison.
5482
5483 * Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
5484 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
5485 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
5486 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
5487 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
5488 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
5489 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
5490 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
5491 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
5492 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
5493 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
5494 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
5495 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
5496
5497 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
5498 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
5499 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
5500 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
5501 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
5502 \f
5503 Version 2.20
5504
5505 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5506
5507 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
5508 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
5509 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
5510 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
5511 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
5512 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
5513 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
5514 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
5515 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
5516 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
5517 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
5518 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
5519 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
5520 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
5521 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
5522
5523 * Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
5524 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
5525 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
5526 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
5527 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
5528 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
5529 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
5530 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
5531 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
5532 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
5533
5534 * Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
5535 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
5536 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
5537 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
5538 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
5539
5540 * Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5541
5542 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
5543 can be used with is 2.6.32.
5544
5545 * Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
5546 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
5547 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
5548 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
5549 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
5550 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
5551
5552 * The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
5553 from ports.
5554
5555 * The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
5556 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
5557 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
5558 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
5559 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
5560 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
5561 test macros defined.
5562
5563 * Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5564
5565 * Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
5566 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
5567 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
5568 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
5569 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
5570 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
5571 is not built.
5572
5573 * CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
5574 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
5575 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
5576 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
5577 invocation.
5578
5579 * All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
5580 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
5581 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
5582
5583 * The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
5584 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
5585 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
5586 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
5587
5588 * Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
5589 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
5590 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
5591 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
5592 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
5593 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
5594 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
5595 additional checks.
5596
5597 * On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
5598 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
5599 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
5600 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
5601 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
5602 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
5603 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
5604 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
5605 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
5606
5607 * Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
5608 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
5609 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
5610 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
5611 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
5612 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
5613
5614 * Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
5615 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
5616 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
5617 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
5618 \f
5619 Version 2.19
5620
5621 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5622
5623 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
5624 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
5625 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
5626 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
5627 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
5628 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
5629 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
5630 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
5631 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
5632 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
5633 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
5634 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
5635 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
5636 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
5637 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
5638 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
5639 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
5640 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
5641
5642 * Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
5643 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
5644
5645 * The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
5646 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
5647 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
5648 extension which uses __block.
5649
5650 * CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
5651 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
5652 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
5653 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
5654 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
5655
5656 * CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
5657 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
5658 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
5659 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
5660 if malloc fails.
5661
5662 * CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
5663 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
5664 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
5665 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
5666 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
5667
5668 * CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
5669 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
5670 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
5671
5672 * CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
5673 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
5674 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
5675 #15856, #15857).
5676
5677 * CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
5678 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
5679
5680 * New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
5681 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
5682
5683 * Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
5684
5685 * The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
5686 supported locales.
5687
5688 * ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
5689
5690 * ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
5691
5692 * The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
5693 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
5694 for which the C library was built.
5695
5696 * Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
5697 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
5698 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
5699 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
5700 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
5701 in the following circumstances:
5702
5703 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
5704
5705 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
5706 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
5707
5708 * The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
5709 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
5710
5711 * ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
5712 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
5713
5714 * SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
5715
5716 * SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
5717 transcendental functions have been introduced.
5718
5719 * Support for powerpc64le has been added.
5720
5721 * The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
5722
5723 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
5724
5725 * A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
5726 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
5727 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
5728 disable some of those declarations.
5729
5730 * The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
5731 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
5732 that did nothing) has also been removed.
5733
5734 * Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
5735 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
5736
5737 * Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
5738 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
5739 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
5740 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
5741 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
5742 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
5743 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
5744 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
5745 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
5746 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
5747 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
5748 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
5749 require recompilation.
5750 \f
5751 Version 2.18
5752
5753 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5754
5755 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
5756 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
5757 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
5758 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
5759 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
5760 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
5761 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
5762 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
5763 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
5764 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
5765 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
5766 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
5767 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
5768 15755, 15759.
5769
5770 * CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
5771 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
5772 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
5773 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
5774 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
5775 understands and accepts the risks.
5776
5777 * CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
5778 #15078).
5779
5780 * CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
5781 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
5782
5783 * Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
5784 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
5785 destructor calls to glibc.
5786
5787 * Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
5788 output.
5789
5790 * Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
5791 non-x86 architectures.
5792
5793 * Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
5794
5795 * Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
5796
5797 * Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
5798 Richard Henderson.
5799
5800 * Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
5801
5802 * Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
5803 Richard Henderson.
5804
5805 * Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
5806 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
5807
5808 * Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
5809
5810 * New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
5811 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
5812
5813 * On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
5814 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
5815
5816 * Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
5817 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
5818 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
5819
5820 * Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
5821 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
5822 attributes of a process.
5823
5824 * Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
5825 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
5826 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
5827 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
5828 mutexes.
5829
5830 * Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
5831 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
5832
5833 * Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
5834 \f
5835 Version 2.17
5836
5837 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5838
5839 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
5840 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
5841 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
5842 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
5843 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
5844 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
5845 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
5846 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
5847 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
5848 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
5849 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
5850 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
5851 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
5852 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
5853 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
5854
5855 * Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
5856
5857 * CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
5858 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
5859
5860 * The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
5861 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
5862
5863 * Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
5864
5865 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
5866 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
5867 zEnterprise z196.
5868 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
5869
5870 * The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
5871 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
5872 the internal function __secure_getenv.
5873
5874 * SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
5875 Implemented by Gary Benson.
5876
5877 * Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
5878 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
5879
5880 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
5881 can be used with is 2.6.16.
5882
5883 * Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
5884 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
5885
5886 * New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
5887 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
5888 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
5889 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
5890
5891 * Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
5892 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
5893
5894 * Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
5895 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
5896 default.
5897
5898 * New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
5899 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
5900 information in --help and --version output.
5901
5902 * The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
5903 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
5904 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
5905
5906 * The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
5907 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
5908 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
5909 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
5910 when the mode is enabled.
5911
5912 * The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
5913 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
5914 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
5915 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
5916 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
5917 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
5918 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5919
5920 * New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
5921 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
5922 \f
5923 Version 2.16
5924
5925 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5926
5927 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
5928 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
5929 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
5930 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
5931 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
5932 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
5933 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
5934 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
5935 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
5936 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
5937 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
5938 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
5939 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
5940 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
5941 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
5942 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
5943 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
5944 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
5945 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
5946 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
5947 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
5948 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
5949 14277, 14278.
5950
5951 * Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
5952 configuring glibc with:
5953 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
5954 Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
5955 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5956
5957 * ISO C11 support:
5958
5959 + define static_assert
5960
5961 + do not declare gets
5962
5963 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
5964
5965 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
5966 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
5967 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
5968 implementation.
5969
5970 + timespec_get added
5971
5972 + uchar.h support added
5973
5974 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
5975
5976 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5977
5978 * Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
5979
5980 * Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
5981
5982 * Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
5983 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5984
5985 * More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
5986 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5987
5988 * New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
5989 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
5990 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
5991 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
5992 existing applications.
5993
5994 * Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
5995 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
5996 before 2.6.
5997
5998 * New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
5999 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
6000 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
6001
6002 * New locales: mag_IN
6003
6004 * New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
6005 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
6006 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
6007 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
6008 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
6009
6010 * Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
6011
6012 * More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
6013 and Will Schmidt.
6014
6015 * More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
6016
6017 * Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
6018 without a previously built glibc.
6019
6020 * Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
6021 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
6022
6023 * Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
6024 now supported for ARM processors.
6025
6026 * The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
6027 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
6028 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
6029
6030 * Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
6031
6032 * A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
6033 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
6034 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
6035 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
6036
6037 * ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
6038 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
6039 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
6040 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
6041
6042 * Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
6043 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
6044 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
6045 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
6046 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
6047
6048 * Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
6049 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
6050 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
6051 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
6052 \f
6053 Version 2.15
6054
6055 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6056
6057 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
6058 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
6059 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
6060 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
6061 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
6062 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
6063 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
6064
6065 * New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
6066 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6067
6068 * Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
6069 and support for initgroups lookups.
6070 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6071
6072 * Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
6073 Contributed by HJ Lu.
6074
6075 * Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
6076 Contributed by HJ Lu.
6077
6078 * Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
6079 on x86-32 and x86-64.
6080 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
6081
6082 * Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
6083 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
6084
6085 * Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
6086 for x86-64 and x86-32.
6087 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
6088
6089 * New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
6090 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6091
6092 * Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
6093 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6094
6095 * nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
6096 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6097
6098 * Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
6099 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6100
6101 * Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
6102 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6103
6104 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
6105 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6106
6107 * New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
6108
6109 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
6110 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6111
6112 * Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
6113 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
6114
6115 * New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
6116 \f
6117 Version 2.14
6118
6119 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6120
6121 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
6122 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
6123 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
6124 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
6125 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
6126 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
6127 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
6128 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
6129 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
6130 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
6131
6132 * The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
6133 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
6134 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6135 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
6136
6137 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
6138 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
6139 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
6140 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6141
6142 * New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
6143 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
6144
6145 * New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
6146 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
6147
6148 * New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
6149
6150 * New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
6151 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6152
6153 * The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
6154 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
6155 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
6156 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
6157 \f
6158 Version 2.13
6159
6160 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6161
6162 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
6163 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
6164 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
6165 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
6166 12378, 12394, 12397
6167
6168 * New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
6169
6170 * POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
6171
6172 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
6173 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
6174 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6175 \f
6176 Version 2.12
6177
6178 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6179
6180 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
6181 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
6182 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
6183 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
6184 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
6185 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
6186 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
6187 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
6188
6189 * New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
6190
6191 * New Linux interface: recvmmsg
6192
6193 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
6194
6195 * The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
6196 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
6197 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6198
6199 * New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
6200 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
6201 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
6202 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
6203 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6204
6205 * New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
6206 \f
6207 Version 2.11
6208
6209 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6210
6211 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
6212 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
6213 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
6214 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
6215 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
6216 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
6217
6218 * New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
6219 mkostemps64
6220 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6221
6222 * Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
6223 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6224
6225 * STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
6226 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
6227
6228 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
6229
6230 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
6231 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
6232 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
6233 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
6234
6235 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
6236 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6237
6238 * New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
6239 strstr, strcasestr.
6240 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
6241
6242 * Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
6243 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
6244
6245 * AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
6246 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
6247
6248 * STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
6249 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6250
6251 * Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
6252 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
6253 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
6254 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
6255 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
6256 necessity is every process again.
6257 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6258
6259 * New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
6260 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
6261
6262 * Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
6263 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
6264
6265 * Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
6266 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
6267 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6268
6269 * New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
6270 \f
6271 Version 2.10
6272
6273 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6274
6275 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
6276 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
6277 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
6278 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
6279 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
6280
6281 * New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
6282 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6283
6284 * New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
6285 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6286
6287 * Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
6288 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
6289
6290 * XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
6291 now in POSIX.
6292
6293 * New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6294 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6295
6296 * New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
6297 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6298
6299 * Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
6300 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6301
6302 * The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
6303 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6304
6305 * The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
6306 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
6307 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6308
6309 * New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
6310
6311 * Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
6312 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6313
6314 * Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
6315 and extend existing format specifiers.
6316 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6317
6318 * Handling for group shadow files has been added.
6319 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6320
6321 * DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
6322 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
6323 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
6324 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
6325 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
6326 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6327 \f
6328 Version 2.9
6329
6330 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6331
6332 2447, 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447,
6333 6461, 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712,
6334 6713, 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839,
6335 6843, 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955,
6336 6966, 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
6337
6338 * Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
6339 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6340
6341 * TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
6342 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
6343
6344 * getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
6345 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6346
6347 * New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
6348 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
6349 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6350
6351 * New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
6352 Implemented by Eric Blake.
6353
6354 * New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
6355
6356 * Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
6357 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6358
6359 * Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
6360 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
6361 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
6362 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6363
6364 * Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
6365 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6366
6367 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
6368 Sinhala)
6369 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
6370
6371 * New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
6372 \f
6373 Version 2.8
6374
6375 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6376
6377 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
6378 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
6379 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
6380 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
6381 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
6382 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
6383 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
6384
6385 * New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
6386
6387 * New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
6388
6389 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
6390 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
6391
6392 * IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
6393
6394 * nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
6395 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6396
6397 * nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
6398 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6399
6400 * More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
6401 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
6402 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
6403
6404 * Faster memset for x86-64.
6405 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
6406
6407 * Faster memcpy on x86.
6408 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6409
6410 * ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
6411 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6412
6413 * Faster sqrt and sqrtf implementation for some PPC variants.
6414 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
6415 \f
6416 Version 2.7
6417
6418 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6419
6420 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
6421 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
6422 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
6423 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
6424 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
6425
6426 * More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
6427 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
6428
6429 * Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
6430
6431 * Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
6432 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
6433 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
6434
6435 * PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
6436 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
6437
6438 * New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
6439 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6440
6441 * More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6442
6443 * New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
6444 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6445
6446 * Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
6447 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
6448
6449 * Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
6450 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
6451
6452 * Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6453
6454 * SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
6455 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6456
6457 * New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
6458 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
6459 yo_NG.
6460
6461 + New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
6462 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6463 \f
6464 Version 2.6
6465
6466 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6467
6468 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
6469 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
6470 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
6471 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
6472 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
6473 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
6474 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
6475 4702, 4858
6476
6477 * New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
6478
6479 * New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
6480
6481 * nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6482 \f
6483 Version 2.5
6484
6485 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6486
6487 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
6488 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
6489 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
6490 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
6491 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
6492 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
6493 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
6494 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
6495 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
6496
6497 * For Linux, the sorting of addresses returned by getaddrinfo now also
6498 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
6499 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6500
6501 * Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
6502 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6503
6504 * New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
6505
6506 * New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
6507
6508 * For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
6509 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
6510 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
6511 site might have problems with the default behavior.
6512 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6513
6514 * Iterating over entire database in NIS can be slow. With the
6515 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
6516 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
6517 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6518
6519 * The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
6520 Ulrich Drepper.
6521
6522 * Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
6523
6524 * Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
6525 Ulrich Drepper.
6526
6527 * Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
6528
6529 * New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
6530 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
6531 \f
6532 Version 2.4
6533
6534 * More overflow detection functions.
6535
6536 * New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
6537 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
6538
6539 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
6540 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
6541 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
6542 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
6543 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
6544 by Masahide Washizawa.
6545
6546 * It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
6547 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6548
6549 * The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
6550 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
6551 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
6552 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
6553
6554 * The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
6555 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
6556
6557 * The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
6558
6559 * New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
6560 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
6561 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
6562
6563 * New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
6564 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
6565
6566 * The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
6567 for compatibility with some other systems.
6568
6569 * Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
6570 \f
6571 Version 2.3.6
6572
6573 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6574
6575 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
6576 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
6577 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
6578 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
6579 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
6580 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
6581
6582 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
6583
6584 * As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
6585
6586 * Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
6587 \f
6588 Version 2.3.5
6589
6590 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6591
6592 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
6593 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
6594 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
6595 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
6596
6597 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
6598 \f
6599 Version 2.3.4
6600
6601 * Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
6602 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6603
6604 * nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
6605 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
6606 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6607
6608 * nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
6609 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
6610
6611 * getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
6612 efficiently.
6613 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6614
6615 * The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
6616 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
6617 handling data.
6618
6619 * The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
6620 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
6621 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6622
6623 * Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
6624 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6625
6626 * Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
6627 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
6628 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
6629 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6630
6631 * Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
6632 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
6633 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
6634 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
6635
6636 * Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
6637 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
6638 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
6639 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
6640 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
6641 \f
6642 Version 2.3.3
6643
6644 * New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
6645 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
6646
6647 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
6648 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
6649
6650 * getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
6651 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
6652
6653 * getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
6654 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6655
6656 * support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
6657 by Roland McGrath.
6658
6659 * regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
6660 and Ulrich Drepper.
6661
6662 * getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
6663 RFC 3484.
6664 \f
6665 Version 2.3.2
6666
6667 * Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
6668 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
6669 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
6670 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
6671 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
6672 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
6673 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
6674 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
6675 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
6676
6677 * The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
6678 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
6679 and are now also available on the Hurd.
6680
6681 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
6682
6683 * The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
6684 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
6685
6686 * Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
6687 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
6688
6689 * fexecve is implemented on Linux.
6690
6691 * The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
6692 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
6693
6694 * With appropriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
6695 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
6696 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
6697 of weak definition in ld.so.
6698
6699 * Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
6700 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
6701
6702 * Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
6703 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
6704 \f
6705 Version 2.3
6706
6707 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
6708 charsets.
6709
6710 * iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
6711 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
6712
6713 * localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
6714 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
6715
6716 * Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
6717 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
6718
6719 * Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
6720 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
6721 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6722
6723 * The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
6724 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
6725
6726 * Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
6727 implementation of regex.
6728
6729 * Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
6730 Unicode 3.2.
6731
6732 * Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
6733 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
6734
6735 * The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
6736 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
6737 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
6738
6739 * Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
6740 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
6741
6742 * New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
6743 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
6744 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
6745
6746 * Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
6747 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
6748
6749 * Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
6750 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
6751 and Ulrich Drepper.
6752
6753 * Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
6754 \f
6755 Version 2.2.6
6756
6757 * The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
6758 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
6759
6760 * The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
6761 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
6762 \f
6763 Version 2.2.5
6764
6765 * Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
6766 128-bit long double format.
6767
6768 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
6769 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
6770
6771 * Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
6772
6773 * Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
6774
6775 * libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
6776 as well.
6777
6778 * optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
6779 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
6780
6781 * Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
6782 \f
6783 Version 2.2.4
6784
6785 * Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
6786 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
6787
6788 * Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
6789 support Unicode 3.1.
6790
6791 * Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
6792 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
6793
6794 * Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
6795
6796 * Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
6797 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
6798 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6799
6800 * The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
6801 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
6802
6803 * The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
6804 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
6805
6806 * mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
6807 \f
6808 Version 2.2.3
6809
6810 * Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
6811 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
6812 in float, double, and long double format.
6813
6814 * Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
6815 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
6816 128-bit long double format.
6817
6818 * The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
6819 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
6820 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
6821 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
6822
6823 * An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
6824 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
6825 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6826
6827 * Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
6828 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
6829
6830 * David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
6831 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
6832
6833 * The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
6834 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
6835 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
6836
6837 * Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
6838 family of functions for Linux/S390.
6839
6840 * Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
6841 of functions for Linux/x86.
6842
6843 * Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
6844 \f
6845 Version 2.2.2
6846
6847 * Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
6848 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
6849 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
6850 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
6851 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
6852 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
6853 other headers.
6854
6855 * regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
6856 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
6857
6858 * iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
6859 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
6860 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
6861 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6862
6863 * The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
6864 locales. While
6865
6866 locale -a
6867
6868 only lists the names of the supported locales
6869
6870 locale -a --verbose
6871
6872 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
6873 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6874 \f
6875 Version 2.2.1
6876
6877 * The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
6878 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
6879 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
6880 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
6881 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
6882
6883 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
6884
6885 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
6886
6887 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
6888
6889 * New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
6890 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
6891 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
6892
6893 * Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
6894 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
6895
6896 * The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
6897 changed from the default "C" locale.
6898
6899 * The usual bug fixes.
6900 \f
6901 Version 2.2
6902
6903 * Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
6904 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
6905 is in progress.
6906
6907 * Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
6908
6909 * The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
6910
6911 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
6912 obviously requires a database library being available.
6913
6914 * Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6915
6916 * Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
6917
6918 * Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
6919 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
6920
6921 * ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
6922
6923 * The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
6924 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
6925 and Mark Kettenis.
6926
6927 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
6928 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
6929 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
6930
6931 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
6932 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
6933
6934 * Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
6935 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
6936 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
6937
6938 * Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
6939 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
6940 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
6941 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6942
6943 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
6944 structures for the wide character tables.
6945
6946 * Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6947
6948 * The utmp daemon has been removed.
6949
6950 * The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
6951
6952 * A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
6953 and Yutaka Niibe.
6954
6955 * POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
6956
6957 * POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
6958
6959 * POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6960
6961 * POSIX spinlocks are now available.
6962
6963 * Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
6964
6965 * the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
6966 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
6967 implemented for Linux.
6968
6969 * the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
6970 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
6971 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
6972 versions.
6973
6974 * various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
6975 Masahide Washizawa.
6976
6977 * IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
6978 \f
6979 Version 2.1.3
6980
6981 * bug fixes
6982
6983 \f
6984 Version 2.1.2
6985
6986 * bug fixes
6987
6988 \f
6989 Version 2.1.1
6990
6991 * New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
6992
6993 * New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
6994
6995 * Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
6996
6997 * Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
6998
6999 * New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
7000
7001 * Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
7002
7003 * Update timezone data files.
7004
7005 * lots of charmaps corrections
7006
7007 * some new locale definitions and charmaps
7008
7009 \f
7010 Version 2.1
7011
7012 * Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
7013 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
7014 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
7015 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
7016 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
7017 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
7018
7019 * An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
7020 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7021
7022 * Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
7023 symbol level.
7024
7025 * Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierarchical
7026 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
7027
7028 * strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
7029
7030 * printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
7031 numbers.
7032
7033 * scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
7034
7035 * the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
7036 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
7037
7038 * about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
7039 library.
7040
7041 * the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
7042 functions from ISO C 9X.
7043
7044 * the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
7045 real valued functions.
7046
7047 * Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
7048
7049 * Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
7050
7051 * Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
7052
7053 * Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
7054
7055 * Optimized string functions have been added.
7056
7057 * The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
7058
7059 * An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
7060
7061 * Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
7062 daemon for NSS (nscd).
7063
7064 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
7065 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
7066
7067 user system wall
7068
7069 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
7070
7071 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
7072
7073 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
7074
7075 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
7076
7077 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
7078
7079 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
7080
7081 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
7082 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
7083 horribly slow.
7084
7085 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
7086 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
7087
7088 * Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
7089
7090 * Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
7091
7092 * The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
7093 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
7094
7095 * rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
7096
7097 * A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
7098 Bambrough.
7099
7100 * Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
7101 latest draft standards.
7102
7103 * Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
7104
7105 * Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
7106 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
7107 addseverity NEW: Unix98
7108 alphasort64 NEW: LFS
7109 argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
7110 argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
7111 argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
7112 argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
7113 argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
7114 argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
7115 argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
7116 argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
7117 argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
7118 argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
7119 authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
7120 authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
7121 authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
7122 backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
7123 backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
7124 backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
7125 cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
7126 cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
7127 cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
7128 cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
7129 cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
7130 cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
7131 capget NEW: kernel
7132 capset NEW: kernel
7133 carg NEW: ISO C 9x
7134 cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
7135 cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
7136 casin NEW: ISO C 9x
7137 casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
7138 casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
7139 casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
7140 casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
7141 casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
7142 catan NEW: ISO C 9x
7143 catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
7144 catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
7145 catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
7146 catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
7147 catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
7148 cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
7149 ccos NEW: ISO C 9x
7150 ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
7151 ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
7152 ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
7153 ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
7154 ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
7155 cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
7156 cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
7157 cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
7158 cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
7159 cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
7160 cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
7161 clearerr_locked REMOVED
7162 clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
7163 clog NEW: ISO C 9x
7164 clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
7165 clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
7166 clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
7167 clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
7168 clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
7169 conj NEW: ISO C 9x
7170 conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
7171 conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
7172 cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
7173 cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
7174 cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
7175 cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
7176 cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
7177 cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
7178 creal NEW: ISO C 9x
7179 crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
7180 creall NEW: ISO C 9x
7181 creat64 NEW: LFS
7182 csin NEW: ISO C 9x
7183 csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
7184 csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
7185 csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
7186 csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
7187 csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
7188 csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
7189 csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
7190 csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
7191 ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
7192 ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
7193 ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
7194 ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
7195 ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
7196 ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
7197 des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
7198 ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
7199 endutxent NEW: Unix98
7200 exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x
7201 exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
7202 exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
7203 exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
7204 exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
7205 exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
7206 fattach NEW: STREAMS
7207 fdetach NEW: STREAMS
7208 fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
7209 fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
7210 fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
7211 feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
7212 fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
7213 fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
7214 fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
7215 feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
7216 feof_locked REMOVED
7217 feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
7218 ferror_locked REMOVED
7219 fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
7220 fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
7221 fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
7222 fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
7223 feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
7224 fflush_locked REMOVED
7225 ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
7226 ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
7227 fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
7228 fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
7229 fileno_locked REMOVED
7230 fma NEW: ISO C 9x
7231 fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
7232 fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
7233 fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
7234 fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
7235 fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
7236 fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
7237 fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
7238 fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
7239 fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
7240 fopen64 NEW: LFS
7241 fputc_locked REMOVED
7242 fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
7243 fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
7244 freopen64 NEW: LFS
7245 fseeko NEW: Unix98
7246 fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
7247 fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
7248 fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
7249 fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
7250 ftello NEW: Unix98
7251 ftello64 NEW: LFS
7252 ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
7253 ftw64 NEW: LFS
7254 fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
7255 gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
7256 gamma_r REMOVED
7257 gammaf_r REMOVED
7258 gammal_r REMOVED
7259 getchar_locked REMOVED
7260 getdate NEW: Unix98
7261 getdate_err NEW: Unix98
7262 getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
7263 getmsg NEW: STREAMS
7264 getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
7265 getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
7266 getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
7267 getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
7268 getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
7269 getutxent NEW: Unix98
7270 getutxid NEW: Unix98
7271 getutxline NEW: Unix98
7272 glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
7273 globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
7274 gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
7275 gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
7276 grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
7277 host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
7278 iconv NEW: iconv
7279 iconv_close NEW: iconv
7280 iconv_open NEW: iconv
7281 if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
7282 if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
7283 if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
7284 if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
7285 in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
7286 in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
7287 inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
7288 isastream NEW: STREAMS
7289 iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
7290 key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
7291 key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
7292 key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
7293 key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
7294 key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
7295 key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
7296 key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
7297 key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
7298 key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
7299 llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
7300 llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
7301 llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
7302 llround NEW: ISO C 9x
7303 llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
7304 llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
7305 log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
7306 log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
7307 log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
7308 lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
7309 lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
7310 lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
7311 lround NEW: ISO C 9x
7312 lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
7313 lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
7314 lseek64 NEW: LFS
7315 makecontext NEW: Unix98
7316 mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
7317 mmap64 NEW: LFS
7318 moncontrol REMOVED
7319 modify_ldt NEW: kernel
7320 nan NEW: ISO C 9x
7321 nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
7322 nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
7323 nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
7324 nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
7325 nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
7326 netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
7327 netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
7328 nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
7329 nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
7330 nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
7331 nftw NEW: Unix98
7332 nftw64 NEW: LFS
7333 open64 NEW: LFS
7334 passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
7335 pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
7336 pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
7337 pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
7338 pread NEW: Unix98
7339 pread64 NEW: LFS
7340 printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
7341 printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
7342 profil_counter REMOVED
7343 pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
7344 pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
7345 ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
7346 ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
7347 putc_locked REMOVED
7348 putchar_locked REMOVED
7349 putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
7350 putmsg NEW: STREAMS
7351 putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
7352 pututxline NEW: Unix98
7353 pwrite NEW: Unix98
7354 pwrite64 NEW: LFS
7355 readdir64 NEW: LFS
7356 readdir64_r NEW: LFS
7357 remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
7358 remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
7359 remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
7360 round NEW: ISO C 9x
7361 roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
7362 roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
7363 rtime NEW: GNU ext.
7364 scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
7365 scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
7366 scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
7367 scandir64 NEW: LFS
7368 sendfile NEW: kernel
7369 setcontext NEW: Unix98
7370 setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
7371 setutxent NEW: Unix98
7372 sighold NEW: Unix98
7373 sigignore NEW: Unix98
7374 sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
7375 sigrelse NEW: Unix98
7376 sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
7377 sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
7378 sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
7379 sincos NEW: GNU ext.
7380 sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
7381 sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
7382 statfs64 NEW: LFS
7383 statvfs NEW: Unix98
7384 statvfs64 NEW: LFS
7385 strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
7386 strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
7387 strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
7388 strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
7389 svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
7390 svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
7391 svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
7392 swapcontext NEW: Unix98
7393 tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
7394 tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
7395 tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
7396 tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
7397 tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
7398 tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
7399 trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
7400 truncate64 NEW: LFS
7401 truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
7402 truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
7403 umount2 NEW: kernel
7404 unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
7405 updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
7406 user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
7407 utmpxname NEW: Unix98
7408 versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
7409 versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
7410 waitid NEW: Unix98
7411 wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
7412 wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
7413 wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
7414 wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
7415 wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
7416 wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
7417 wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
7418 wcswcs NEW: Unix98
7419 wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
7420 wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
7421 write_profiling REMOVED
7422 xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
7423 xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
7424 xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
7425 xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
7426 xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
7427 xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
7428 xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
7429 xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
7430 xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
7431 xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
7432 xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
7433 xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
7434 xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
7435 xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
7436 xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
7437 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
7438 \f
7439 Version 2.0.6
7440
7441 * more bug fixes
7442
7443 \f
7444 Version 2.0.5
7445
7446 * more bug fixes
7447
7448 * inet_ntoa is thread-safe
7449
7450 * updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
7451
7452 * rewrite of cbrt function
7453
7454 * update of timezone data
7455 \f
7456 Version 2.0.4
7457
7458 * more bug fixes
7459 \f
7460 Version 2.0.3
7461
7462 * more bug fixes
7463 \f
7464 Version 2.0.2
7465
7466 * more bug fixes
7467
7468 * add atoll function
7469
7470 * fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
7471
7472 * fix math functions
7473 \f
7474 Version 2.0.1
7475
7476 * fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
7477
7478 * dynamic loader preserves all registers
7479
7480 * Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
7481 the ELF dynamic loader.
7482
7483 * support for parallel builds is improved
7484 \f
7485 Version 2.0
7486
7487 * GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
7488 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
7489 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
7490
7491 * The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
7492 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
7493 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
7494 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
7495 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
7496 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
7497 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
7498 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
7499 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
7500 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
7501 files in the ELF format.
7502
7503 * Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
7504 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
7505
7506 * The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
7507 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
7508 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
7509 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
7510 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
7511 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
7512 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
7513 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
7514 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
7515 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
7516 about dynamically linked binaries.
7517
7518 * The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
7519 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
7520 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
7521 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
7522 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
7523
7524 * The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
7525 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
7526 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
7527 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
7528 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
7529
7530 * John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
7531
7532 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
7533 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
7534 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
7535 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
7536 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
7537 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
7538 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
7539 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
7540 NSS services available.
7541
7542 * The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
7543 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
7544 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
7545
7546 * The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
7547 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
7548 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
7549
7550 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
7551 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
7552 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
7553 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
7554
7555 * The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
7556 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
7557 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
7558
7559 * The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
7560 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
7561 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
7562
7563 * The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
7564 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
7565
7566 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
7567 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
7568 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
7569 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendment 1 specification.
7570
7571 * There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
7572 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
7573 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
7574
7575 * You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
7576 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
7577 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
7578 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
7579 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
7580 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
7581 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
7582 the header file <printf.h> for details.
7583
7584 * The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
7585 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
7586 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
7587 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
7588 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
7589 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
7590 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
7591
7592 * The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
7593 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
7594 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
7595 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
7596 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
7597 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
7598
7599 * The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
7600 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
7601
7602 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
7603 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
7604 NSS scheme used in glibc.
7605
7606 * There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
7607
7608 * There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
7609 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
7610 their use is discouraged.
7611
7612 * The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
7613 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
7614
7615 * New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
7616 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
7617
7618 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
7619 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
7620
7621 * The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
7622 see <dirent.h>.
7623
7624 * The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
7625 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
7626 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
7627 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
7628 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
7629
7630 * The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
7631 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
7632 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
7633 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
7634
7635 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
7636 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
7637
7638 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
7639 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
7640 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
7641 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
7642 number generator.
7643
7644 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
7645 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
7646
7647 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
7648 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
7649
7650 * Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
7651 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
7652 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
7653 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
7654
7655 * Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
7656
7657 * David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
7658 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
7659 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
7660
7661 * Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
7662 for arithmetic and string handling.
7663
7664 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
7665 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
7666 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
7667 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
7668
7669 * For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
7670 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
7671 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
7672 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
7673 programs already written to use it.)
7674
7675 * New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
7676 constants.
7677
7678 * Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
7679 with 4.4 BSD.
7680
7681 * New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
7682 a given effective group ID.
7683
7684 * When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
7685 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
7686 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
7687 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
7688
7689 * New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
7690 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
7691 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
7692 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
7693 doing the same thing.
7694
7695 * The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
7696 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
7697
7698 * New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
7699 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
7700
7701 * New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
7702
7703 * We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
7704 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
7705 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
7706 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
7707 `-ldb' to get these functions.
7708
7709 * New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
7710 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
7711
7712 * New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
7713 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
7714 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
7715 function.
7716
7717 * New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
7718
7719 * The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
7720 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
7721 strings.
7722
7723 * A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
7724 and writing the utmp file.
7725
7726 * An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
7727 Thorsten Kukuk.
7728
7729 * Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
7730 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
7731 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
7732
7733 * Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
7734 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
7735
7736 * Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
7737 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
7738 specification.
7739
7740 * The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
7741 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
7742 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
7743 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
7744
7745 * Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
7746 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
7747 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
7748
7749 * Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
7750 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
7751 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
7752 expression matcher.
7753
7754 * the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
7755 functionality.
7756
7757 * The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
7758 by Ulrich Drepper.
7759
7760 * David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
7761
7762 * POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
7763 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
7764 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
7765 \f
7766 Version 1.09
7767
7768 * For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
7769
7770 * New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
7771 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
7772
7773 * The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
7774 want to put themselves in the background.
7775
7776 * Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
7777 run without an operating system.
7778
7779 * `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
7780 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
7781
7782 * All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
7783 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
7784
7785 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
7786
7787 * The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
7788 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
7789 have YP (aka NIS).
7790
7791 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
7792 conventions.
7793
7794 * The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
7795 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
7796 \f
7797 Version 1.08
7798
7799 * The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
7800 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
7801 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
7802
7803 * Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
7804 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
7805
7806 * The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
7807 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
7808
7809 * New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
7810
7811 * New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
7812
7813 * New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
7814 compatibility.
7815
7816 * The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
7817 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
7818 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
7819
7820 * The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
7821
7822 * The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
7823 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
7824 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
7825
7826 * The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
7827 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
7828 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
7829 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
7830 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
7831 on a block).
7832
7833 * It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
7834 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
7835 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
7836 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
7837 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
7838 cross-compiler.
7839
7840 * The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
7841 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
7842 \f
7843 Version 1.07
7844
7845 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
7846 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
7847
7848 * You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
7849 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
7850 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
7851
7852 * The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
7853 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
7854 address of the last character written.
7855
7856 * You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
7857 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
7858
7859 * You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
7860 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
7861
7862 * ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
7863 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
7864 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
7865 you dereference this pointer.
7866
7867 * The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
7868 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
7869
7870 * The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
7871 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
7872 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
7873 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
7874
7875 * The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
7876 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
7877 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
7878 EAGAIN in every system call function.
7879 \f
7880 Version 1.06
7881
7882 * The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
7883 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
7884 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
7885 in Emacs or the `info' program.
7886 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
7887
7888 * The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
7889
7890 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
7891
7892 * Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
7893 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
7894
7895 * The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
7896 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
7897
7898 * New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
7899 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
7900
7901 * The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
7902 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
7903 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
7904 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
7905 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
7906
7907 * There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
7908 to the error code in `errno'.
7909
7910 * In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
7911 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
7912 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
7913 malloc'd string.
7914
7915 * The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
7916 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
7917 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
7918
7919 * `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
7920 uniquely-named temporary file.
7921 \f
7922 Version 1.05
7923
7924 * The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
7925 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
7926 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
7927
7928 * The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
7929 characters.
7930
7931 * `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
7932 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
7933
7934 * New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
7935 \f
7936 Version 1.04
7937
7938 * The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
7939 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
7940 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
7941 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
7942
7943 * The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
7944 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
7945 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
7946
7947 * Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
7948 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
7949
7950 * The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
7951 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
7952 made itself into a shared library.
7953
7954 * Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
7955 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
7956
7957 * New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
7958 with limited length.
7959
7960 * New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
7961
7962 * New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
7963
7964 * New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
7965
7966 * Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
7967 function for traversing a directory tree.
7968
7969 * The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
7970 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
7971 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
7972 formatted output directly to an obstack.
7973
7974 * Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
7975 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
7976
7977 * `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
7978
7979 * The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
7980 things to your strings.
7981
7982 * There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
7983
7984 * Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
7985 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
7986 supporting those systems.
7987
7988 * `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
7989 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
7990 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
7991 configuration files.
7992
7993 * The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
7994 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
7995
7996 * The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
7997 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
7998 in <strings.h>.)
7999
8000 * Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
8001 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
8002 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
8003 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
8004 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
8005 required storage is not available.
8006
8007 * The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
8008 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
8009
8010 * The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
8011 latest files released from Berkeley.
8012 \f
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8021 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
8022 of this document, or of portions of it,
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