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ee9247c3 1GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
2b778ceb 2Copyright (C) 1992-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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3See the end for copying conditions.
4
a306c790 5Please send GNU C library bug reports via <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
69be6aaf 6using `glibc' in the "product" field.
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8Version 2.35
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10Major new features:
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12* Unicode 14.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
13 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 14.0.0, using
14 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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16* Bump r_version in the debugger interface to 2 and add a new field,
17 r_next, support multiple namespaces.
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19* Support for the C.UTF-8 locale has been added to glibc. The locale
20 supports full code-point sorting for all valid Unicode code points. A
21 limitation in the framework for fnmatch, regexec, and regcomp requires
22 a compromise to save space and only ASCII-based range expressions are
23 supported for now (see bug 28255). The full size of the locale is
24 only ~400KiB, with 346KiB coming from LC_CTYPE information for
25 Unicode. This locale harmonizes downstream C.UTF-8 already shipping
26 in various downstream distributions. The locale is not built into
27 glibc, and must be installed.
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29* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type, and
30 corresponding <tgmath.h> macros, are added from TS 18661-1:2014, TS
31 18661-3:2015 and draft ISO C2X:
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33 - fsqrt, fsqrtl, dsqrtl and corresponding fMsqrtfN, fMsqrtfNx,
34 fMxsqrtfN and fMxsqrtfNx functions.
35
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36 - ffma, ffmal, dfmal and corresponding fMfmafN, fMfmafNx, fMxfmafN and
37 fMxfmafNx functions.
38
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39* <math.h> functions for floating-point maximum and minimum,
40 corresponding to new operations in IEEE 754-2019, and corresponding
41 <tgmath.h> macros, are added from draft ISO C2X: fmaximum,
42 fmaximum_num, fmaximum_mag, fmaximum_mag_num, fminimum, fminimum_num,
43 fminimum_mag, fminimum_mag_num and corresponding functions for float,
44 long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx.
45
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46* The __STDC_IEC_60559_BFP__ and __STDC_IEC_60559_COMPLEX__ macros are
47 predefined as specified in TS 18661-1:2014.
48
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49* The exp10 functions in <math.h> now have a corresponding type-generic
50 macro in <tgmath.h>.
51
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52* The ISO C2X macro _PRINTF_NAN_LEN_MAX has been added to <stdio.h>.
53
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54Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
55
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56* The r_version update in the debugger interface makes the glibc binary
57 incompatible with GDB binaries built without the following commits:
58
59 c0154a4a21a gdb: Don't assume r_ldsomap when r_version > 1 on Linux
60 4eb629d50d4 gdbserver: Check r_version < 1 for Linux debugger interface
61
62 when audit modules or dlmopen are used.
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64* Intel MPX support (lazy PLT, ld.so profile, and LD_AUDIT) has been removed.
65
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66Changes to build and runtime requirements:
67
68 [Add changes to build and runtime requirements here]
69
70Security related changes:
71
72 [Add security related changes here]
73
74The following bugs are resolved with this release:
75
76 [The release manager will add the list generated by
77 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
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80Version 2.34
81
82Major new features:
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84* In order to support smoother in-place-upgrades and to simplify
85 the implementation of the runtime all functionality formerly
86 implemented in the libraries libpthread, libdl, libutil, libanl has
87 been integrated into libc. New applications do not need to link with
88 -lpthread, -ldl, -lutil, -lanl anymore. For backwards compatibility,
89 empty static archives libpthread.a, libdl.a, libutil.a, libanl.a are
90 provided, so that the linker options keep working. Applications which
91 have been linked against glibc 2.33 or earlier continue to load the
92 corresponding shared objects (which are now empty). The integration
93 of those libraries into libc means that additional symbols become
94 available by default. This can cause applications that contain weak
95 references to take unexpected code paths that would only have been
96 used in previous glibc versions when e.g. preloading libpthread.so.0,
97 potentially exposing application bugs.
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99* When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE are defined,
100 PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is no longer constant and is redefined to
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101 sysconf(_SC_THREAD_STACK_MIN). This supports dynamic sized register
102 sets for modern architectural features like Arm SVE.
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104* Add _SC_MINSIGSTKSZ and _SC_SIGSTKSZ. When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE
105 or _GNU_SOURCE are defined, MINSIGSTKSZ and SIGSTKSZ are no longer
57fb02b2 106 constant on Linux. MINSIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf(_SC_MINSIGSTKSZ)
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107 and SIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf (_SC_SIGSTKSZ). This supports
108 dynamic sized register sets for modern architectural features like
109 Arm SVE.
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111* The dynamic linker implements the --list-diagnostics option, printing
112 a dump of information related to IFUNC resolver operation and
113 glibc-hwcaps subdirectory selection.
114
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115* On Linux, the function execveat has been added. It operates similar to
116 execve and it is is already used to implement fexecve without requiring
117 /proc to be mounted. However, different than fexecve, if the syscall is not
118 supported by the kernel an error is returned instead of trying a fallback.
119
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120* The ISO C2X function timespec_getres has been added.
121
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122* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_EXT__, from draft ISO
123 C2X, is supported to enable declarations of functions defined in Annex F
124 of C2X. Those declarations are also enabled when
125 __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, as specified in TS 18661-1, is
126 defined, and when _GNU_SOURCE is defined.
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128* On powerpc64*, glibc can now be compiled without scv support using the
129 --disable-scv configure option.
130
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131* Add support for 64-bit time_t on configurations like x86 where time_t
132 is traditionally 32-bit. Although time_t still defaults to 32-bit on
133 these configurations, this default may change in future versions.
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134 This is enabled with the _TIME_BITS preprocessor macro set to 64 and is
135 only supported when LFS (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) is also enabled. It is
136 only enabled for Linux and the full support requires a minimum kernel
137 version of 5.1.
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139* The main gconv-modules file in glibc now contains only a small set of
140 essential converter modules and the rest have been moved into a supplementary
141 configuration file gconv-modules-extra.conf in the gconv-modules.d directory
142 in the same GCONV_PATH. Similarly, external converter modules directories
143 may have supplementary configuration files in a gconv-modules.d directory
144 with names ending with .conf to logically classify the converter modules in
145 that directory.
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147* On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.pthread.stack_cache_size, can be used
148 to configure the size of the thread stack cache.
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150* The function _Fork has been added as an async-signal-safe fork replacement
151 since Austin Group issue 62 droped the async-signal-safe requirement for
152 fork (and it will be included in the future POSIX standard). The new _Fork
153 function does not run any atfork function neither resets any internal state
154 or lock (such as the malloc one), and only sets up a minimal state required
155 to call async-signal-safe functions (such as raise or execve). This function
156 is currently a GNU extension.
157
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158* On Linux, the close_range function has been added. It allows efficiently
159 closing a range of file descriptors on recent kernels (version 5.9).
160
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162 greater than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
163 although it is also present in other systems.
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165* The posix_spawn_file_actions_addclosefrom_np function has been added,
166 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to close all file descriptors greater
167 than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
168 although Solaris also provides a similar function.
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170Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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172* The function pthread_mutex_consistent_np has been deprecated; programs
173 should use the equivalent standard function pthread_mutex_consistent
174 instead.
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176* The function pthread_mutexattr_getrobust_np has been deprecated;
177 programs should use the equivalent standard function
178 pthread_mutexattr_getrobust instead.
179
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180* The function pthread_mutexattr_setrobust_np has been deprecated;
181 programs should use the equivalent standard function
182 pthread_mutexattr_setrobust instead.
183
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184* The function pthread_yield has been deprecated; programs should use
185 the equivalent standard function sched_yield instead.
186
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187* The function inet_neta declared in <arpa/inet.h> has been deprecated.
188
189* Various rarely-used functions declared in <resolv.h> and
190 <arpa/nameser.h> have been deprecated. Applications are encouraged to
191 use dedicated DNS processing libraries if applicable. For <resolv.h>,
192 this affects the functions dn_count_labels, fp_nquery, fp_query,
193 fp_resstat, hostalias, loc_aton, loc_ntoa, p_cdname, p_cdnname,
194 p_class, p_fqname, p_fqnname, p_option, p_query, p_rcode, p_time,
195 p_type, putlong, putshort, res_hostalias, res_isourserver,
196 res_nameinquery, res_queriesmatch, res_randomid, sym_ntop, sym_ntos,
197 sym_ston. For <arpa/nameser.h>, the functions ns_datetosecs,
198 ns_format_ttl, ns_makecanon, ns_parse_ttl, ns_samedomain, ns_samename,
199 ns_sprintrr, ns_sprintrrf, ns_subdomain have been deprecated.
200
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201* Various symbols previously defined in libresolv have been moved to libc
202 in order to prepare for libresolv moving entirely into libc (see earlier
203 entry for merging libraries into libc). The symbols __dn_comp,
204 __dn_expand, __dn_skipname, __res_dnok, __res_hnok, __res_mailok,
205 __res_mkquery, __res_nmkquery, __res_nquery, __res_nquerydomain,
206 __res_nsearch, __res_nsend, __res_ownok, __res_query, __res_querydomain,
207 __res_search, __res_send formerly in libresolv have been renamed and no
208 longer have a __ prefix. They are now available in libc.
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210* The pthread cancellation handler is now installed with SA_RESTART and
211 pthread_cancel will always send the internal SIGCANCEL on a cancellation
cfdaa29f 212 request. It should not be visible to applications since the cancellation
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213 handler should either act upon cancellation (if asynchronous cancellation
214 is enabled) or ignore the cancellation internal signal. However there are
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215 buggy kernel interfaces (for instance some CIFS versions) that could still
216 see a spurious EINTR error when cancellation interrupts a blocking syscall.
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218* Previously, glibc installed its various shared objects under versioned
219 file names such as libc-2.33.so. The ABI sonames (e.g., libc.so.6)
220 were provided as symbolic links. Starting with glibc 2.34, the shared
221 objects are installed under their ABI sonames directly, without
222 symbolic links. This increases compatibility with distribution
223 package managers that delete removed files late during the package
224 upgrade or downgrade process.
225
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226* The symbols mallwatch and tr_break are now deprecated and no longer used in
227 mtrace. Similar functionality can be achieved by using conditional
228 breakpoints within mtrace functions from within gdb.
229
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230* The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
231 implementation __default_morecore have been removed from the API. Existing
232 applications will continue to link against these symbols but the interfaces
233 no longer have any effect on malloc.
234
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235* Debugging features in malloc such as the MALLOC_CHECK_ environment variable
236 (or the glibc.malloc.check tunable), mtrace() and mcheck() have now been
237 disabled by default in the main C library. Users looking to use these
238 features now need to preload a new debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so to get
239 this functionality back.
240
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241* The deprecated functions malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state have been
242 moved from the core C library into libc_malloc_debug.so. Legacy applications
243 that still use these functions will now need to preload libc_malloc_debug.so
244 in their environment using the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
245
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246* The deprecated memory allocation hooks __malloc_hook, __realloc_hook,
247 __memalign_hook and __free_hook are now removed from the API. Compatibility
248 symbols are present to support legacy programs but new applications can no
249 longer link to these symbols. These hooks no longer have any effect on glibc
250 functionality. The malloc debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so currently
251 supports hooks and can be preloaded to get this functionality back for older
252 programs. However this is a transitional measure and may be removed in a
253 future release of the GNU C Library. Users may port away from these hooks by
254 writing and preloading their own malloc interposition library.
255
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256Changes to build and runtime requirements:
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258* On Linux, the shm_open, sem_open, and related functions now expect the
259 file shared memory file system to be mounted at /dev/shm. These functions
260 no longer search among the system's mount points for a suitable
261 replacement if /dev/shm is not available.
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263Security related changes:
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265 CVE-2021-27645: The nameserver caching daemon (nscd), when processing
266 a request for netgroup lookup, may crash due to a double-free,
267 potentially resulting in degraded service or Denial of Service on the
268 local system. Reported by Chris Schanzle.
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270 CVE-2021-33574: The mq_notify function has a potential use-after-free
271 issue when using a notification type of SIGEV_THREAD and a thread
272 attribute with a non-default affinity mask.
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274 CVE-2021-35942: The wordexp function may overflow the positional
275 parameter number when processing the expansion resulting in a crash.
276 Reported by Philippe Antoine.
277
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278The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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280 [4737] libc: fork is not async-signal-safe
281 [5781] math: Slow dbl-64 sin/cos/sincos for special values
282 [10353] libc: Methods for deleting all file descriptors greater than
283 given integer (closefrom)
284 [14185] glob: fnmatch() fails when '*' wildcard is applied on the file
285 name containing multi-byte character(s)
286 [14469] math: Inaccurate j0f function
287 [14470] math: Inaccurate j1f function
288 [14471] math: Inaccurate y0f function
289 [14472] math: Inaccurate y1f function
290 [14744] nptl: kill -32 $pid or kill -33 $pid on a process cancels a
291 random thread
292 [15271] dynamic-link: dlmopen()ed shared library with LM_ID_NEWLM
293 crashes if it fails dlsym() twice
294 [15648] nptl: multiple definition of `__lll_lock_wait_private'
295 [16063] nptl: Provide a pthread_once variant in libc directly
296 [17144] libc: syslog is not thread-safe if NO_SIGPIPE is not defined
297 [17145] libc: syslog with LOG_CONS leaks console file descriptor
298 [17183] manual: description of ENTRY struct in <search.h> in glibc
299 manual is incorrect
300 [18435] nptl: pthread_once hangs when init routine throws an exception
301 [18524] nptl: Missing calloc error checking in
302 __cxa_thread_atexit_impl
303 [19329] dynamic-link: dl-tls.c assert failure at concurrent
304 pthread_create and dlopen
305 [19366] nptl: returning from a thread should disable cancellation
306 [19511] nptl: 8MB memory leak in pthread_create in case of failure
307 when non-root user changes priority
308 [20802] dynamic-link: getauxval NULL pointer dereference after static
309 dlopen
310 [20813] nptl: pthread_exit is inconsistent between libc and libpthread
311 [22057] malloc: malloc_usable_size is broken with mcheck
312 [22668] locale: LC_COLLATE: the last character of ellipsis is not
313 ordered correctly
314 [23323] libc: [RFE] CSU startup hardening.
315 [23328] malloc: Remove malloc hooks and ensure related APIs return no
316 data.
317 [23462] dynamic-link: Static binary with dynamic string tokens ($LIB,
318 $PLATFORM, $ORIGIN) crashes
319 [23489] libc: "gcc -lmcheck" aborts on free when using posix_memalign
320 [23554] nptl: pthread_getattr_np reports wrong stack size with
321 MULTI_PAGE_ALIASING
322 [24106] libc: Bash interpreter in ldd script is taken from host
323 [24773] dynamic-link: dlerror in an secondary namespace does not use
324 the right free implementation
325 [25036] localedata: Update collation order for Swedish
326 [25383] libc: where_is_shmfs/__shm_directory/SHM_GET_NAME may cause
327 shm_open to pick wrong directory
328 [25680] dynamic-link: ifuncmain9picstatic and ifuncmain9picstatic
329 crash in IFUNC resolver due to stack canary (--enable-stack-
330 protector=all)
331 [26874] build: -Warray-bounds in _IO_wdefault_doallocate
332 [26983] math: [x86_64] x86_64 tgamma has too large ULP error
333 [27111] dynamic-link: pthread_create and tls access use link_map
334 objects that may be concurrently freed by dlclose
335 [27132] malloc: memusagestat is linked to system librt, leading to
336 undefined symbols on major version upgrade
337 [27136] dynamic-link: dtv setup at thread creation may leave an entry
338 uninitialized
339 [27249] libc: libSegFault.so does not output signal number properly
340 [27304] nptl: pthread_cond_destroy does not pass private flag to futex
341 system calls
342 [27318] dynamic-link: glibc fails to load binaries when built with
343 -march=sandybridge: CPU ISA level is lower than required
344 [27343] nss: initgroups() SIGSEGVs when called on a system without
345 nsswich.conf (in a chroot)
346 [27346] dynamic-link: x86: PTWRITE feature check is missing
347 [27389] network: NSS chroot hardening causes regressions in chroot
348 deployments
349 [27403] dynamic-link: aarch64: tlsdesc htab is not freed on dlclose
350 [27444] libc: sysconf reports unsupported option (-1) for
351 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_LINESIZE on X86 since v2.33
352 [27462] nscd: double-free in nscd (CVE-2021-27645)
353 [27468] malloc: aarch64: realloc crash with heap tagging: FAIL:
354 malloc/tst-malloc-thread-fail
355 [27498] dynamic-link: __dl_iterate_phdr lacks unwinding information
356 [27511] libc: S390 memmove assumes Vector Facility when MIE Facility 3
357 is present
358 [27522] glob: glob, glob64 incorrectly marked as __THROW
359 [27555] dynamic-link: Static tests fail with --enable-stack-
360 protector=all
361 [27559] libc: fstat(AT_FDCWD) succeeds (it shouldn't) and returns
362 information for the current directory
363 [27577] dynamic-link: elf/ld.so --help doesn't work
364 [27605] libc: tunables can't control xsave/xsavec selection in
365 dl_runtime_resolve_*
366 [27623] libc: powerpc: Missing registers in sc[v] clobbers list
367 [27645] libc: [linux] sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSOR...) breaks down on
368 containers
369 [27646] dynamic-link: Linker error for non-existing NSS symbols (e.g.
370 _nss_files_getcanonname_r) from within a dlmopen namespace.
371 [27648] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-select
372 [27650] stdio: vfscanf returns too early if a match is longer than
373 INT_MAX
374 [27651] libc: Performance regression after updating to 2.33
375 [27655] string: Wrong size calculation in string/test-strnlen.c
376 [27706] libc: select fails to update timeout on error
377 [27709] libc: arm: FAIL: debug/tst-longjmp_chk2
378 [27721] dynamic-link: x86: ld_audit ignores bind now for TLSDESC and
379 tries resolving them lazily
380 [27744] nptl: Support different libpthread/ld.so load orders in
381 libthread_db
382 [27749] libc: Data race __run_exit_handlers
383 [27761] libc: getconf: Segmentation fault when passing '-vq' as
384 argument
385 [27832] nss: makedb.c:797:7: error: 'writev' specified size 4294967295
386 exceeds maximum object size 2147483647
387 [27870] malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ causes realloc(valid_ptr, TOO_LARGE) to
388 not set ENOMEM
389 [27872] build: Obsolete configure option --enable-stackguard-
390 randomization
391 [27873] build: tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo fail when building on AMD cpu
392 [27882] localedata: Use U+00AF MACRON in more EBCDIC charsets
393 [27892] libc: powerpc: scv ABI error handling fails to check
394 IS_ERR_VALUE
395 [27896] nptl: mq_notify does not handle separately allocated thread
396 attributes (CVE-2021-33574)
397 [27901] libc: TEST_STACK_ALIGN doesn't work
398 [27902] libc: The x86-64 clone wrapper fails to align child stack
399 [27914] nptl: Install SIGSETXID handler with SA_ONSTACK
400 [27939] libc: aarch64: clone does not align the stack
401 [27968] libc: s390x: clone does not align the stack
402 [28011] libc: Wild read in wordexp (parse_param) (CVE-2021-35942)
403 [28024] string: s390(31bit): Wrong result of memchr (MEMCHR_Z900_G5)
404 with n >= 0x80000000
405 [28028] malloc: malloc: tcache shutdown sequence does not work if the
406 thread never allocated anything
407 [28033] libc: Need to check RTM_ALWAYS_ABORT for RTM
408 [28064] string: x86_64:wcslen implementation list has wcsnlen
409 [28067] libc: FAIL: posix/tst-spawn5
410 [28068] malloc: FAIL: malloc/tst-mallocalign1-mcheck
411 [28071] time: clock_gettime, gettimeofday, time lost vDSO acceleration
412 on older kernels
413 [28075] nis: Out-of-bounds static buffer read in nis_local_domain
414 [28089] build: tst-tls20 fails when linker defaults to --as-needed
415 [28090] build: elf/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo-static fails on certain
416 AMD64 cpus
417 [28091] network: ns_name_skip may return 0 for domain names without
418 terminator
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421Version 2.33
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423Major new features:
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425* The dynamic linker accepts the --list-tunables argument which prints
426 all the supported tunables. This option is disable if glibc is
427 configured with tunables disabled (--enable-tunables=no).
428
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430 to change argv[0] string.
431
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432* The dynamic linker loads optimized implementations of shared objects
433 from subdirectories under the glibc-hwcaps directory on the library
434 search path if the system's capabilities meet the requirements for
435 that subdirectory. Initially supported subdirectories include
436 "power9" and "power10" for the powerpc64le-linux-gnu architecture,
437 "z13", "z14", "z15" for s390x-linux-gnu, and "x86-64-v2", "x86-64-v3",
438 "x86-64-v4" for x86_64-linux-gnu. In the x86_64-linux-gnu case, the
439 subdirectory names correspond to the vendor-independent x86-64
440 microarchitecture levels defined in the x86-64 psABI supplement.
441
442* The new --help option of the dynamic linker provides usage and
443 information and library search path diagnostics.
444
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446 but with larger field widths to accurately report values that are
447 larger than fit in an integer.
448
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451* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been expanded to run on
452 32-bit hardware. This is supported for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
453
454 - rv32imac ilp32
455 - rv32imafdc ilp32
456 - rv32imafdc ilp32d
457
458 The 32-bit RISC-V port requires at least Linux 5.4, GCC 7.1 and binutils
459 2.28.
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462 glibc may use additional checks that may have an additional performance
463 overhead. At present these checks are available only on LLVM 9 and later.
464 The latest GCC available at this time (10.2) does not support this level of
465 fortification.
466
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467Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
468
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470 mallinfo2 instead.
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472* When dlopen is used in statically linked programs, alternative library
473 implementations from HWCAP subdirectories are no longer loaded.
474 Instead, the default implementation is used.
475
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477 removed. To support old binaries, the vtimes function continues to exist
478 as a compatibility symbol. Applications should use the getrlimit or
479 prlimit.
480
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482 program is now installed in the /usr/bin subdirectory. Previously,
483 the /usr/sbin subdirectory was used.
484
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486 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ that is defined by the compiler, instead of being
487 hardcoded to double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
488 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
489 libraries that use this type in their interfaces. The new definition
490 improves consistency with compiler behavior in many scenarios.
491
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493 "tls" subdirectories on the library search path, the subdirectory that
494 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, and also stop employing
495 the legacy AT_HWCAP search mechanism. Applications should switch to
496 the new glibc-hwcaps mechanism instead; if they do not do that, only
497 the baseline version (directly from the search path directory) will be
498 loaded.
499
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503 the intended access modes for pseudo-terminals. glibc no longer
504 attemps to adjust permissions of terminal devices. The previous glibc
505 defaults ("tty" group, user read/write and group write) already
506 corresponded to what most systems used, so that grantpt did not
507 perform any adjustments.
508
509* On Linux, the posix_openpt and getpt functions no longer attempt to
510 use legacy (BSD) pseudo-terminals and assume that if /dev/ptmx exists
511 (and pseudo-terminals are supported), a devpts file system is mounted
512 on /dev/pts. Current systems already meet these requirements.
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515
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516Security related changes:
517
d7f4f3f5 518 CVE-2021-3326: An assertion failure during conversion from the
934c48a0 519 ISO-20220-JP-3 character set using the iconv function has been fixed.
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520 This assertion was triggered by certain valid inputs in which the
521 converted output contains a combined sequence of two wide characters
522 crossing a buffer boundary. Reported by Tavis Ormandy.
523
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524 CVE-2020-27618: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
525 invoked with input containing redundant shift sequences in the IBM1364,
526 IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, or IBM1399 character sets.
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529 when invoked with UCS4 input containing an invalid character.
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532 invoked with EUC-KR input containing invalid multibyte input sequences.
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536 [10635] libc: realpath portability patches
537 [16124] dynamic-link: ld.so should allow to change argv[0]
538 [17924] malloc: 'free' should not set errno
539 [18683] libc: Linux faccessat implementation can incorrectly ignore
540 AT_EACCESS
541 [22899] libc: Use 64-bit readdir() in generic POSIX getcwd()
597d0267 542 [23091] hurd: missing waitid support
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543 [23249] libc: Epyc and other current AMD CPUs do not select the
544 "haswell" platform subdirectory
545 [24080] dynamic-link: Definition of "haswell" platform is inconsistent
546 with GCC
547 [24202] libc: m68k setjmp() saves incorrect 'a5' register in --enable-
548 stack-protector=all
549 [24941] libc: Make grantpt usable after multi-threaded fork in more
550 cases
551 [24970] libc: realpath mishandles EOVERFLOW; stat not needed anyway
552 [24973] locale: iconv encounters segmentation fault when converting
553 0x00 0xfe in EUC-KR to UTF-8 (CVE-2019-25013)
554 [25399] string: undefined reference to `__warn_memset_zero_len' when
555 changing gnuc version
556 [25859] libc: glibc parser for /sys/devices/system/cpu/online is
557 incorrect
558 [25938] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should store meaning of hwcap mask
559 bits
560 [25971] libc: s390 bits/hwcap.h out of sync with kernel
561 [26053] libc: unlockpt fails with ENOTTY for non-ptmx descriptors
562 [26100] libc: Race in syslog(3) with regards to tag printing.
563 [26124] libc: Export <cpu-features.h>
564 [26130] nscd: Inconsistent nscd cache during pruning
565 [26203] libc: GLRO(dl_x86_cpu_features) may not be intialized
566 [26224] locale: iconv hangs when converting some invalid inputs from
567 several IBM character sets (CVE-2020-27618)
568 [26341] libc: realpath cyclically call __alloca(path_max) to consume
569 too much stack space
570 [26343] manual: invalid documented return type for strerrorname_np(),
571 strerrordesc_np(), sigdescr_np(), sigabbrev_np()
572 [26376] libc: Namespace violation in stdio.h and sys/stat.h if build
573 with optimization.
574 [26383] locale: bind_textdomain_codeset doesn't accept //TRANSLIT
575 anymore
576 [26394] time: [2.33 Regression] FAIL: nptl/tst-join14
577 [26534] math: libm.so 2.32 SIGILL in pow() due to FMA4 instruction on
578 non-FMA4 system
579 [26552] dynamic-link: CPU_FEATURE_USABLE_P should be more conservative
580 [26553] libc: mtx_init allows type set to "mtx_recursive" only
581 [26555] string: strerrorname_np does not return the documented value
582 [26592] libc: pointer arithmetic overflows in realpath
583 [26600] network: Transaction ID collisions cause slow DNS lookups in
584 getaddrinfo
585 [26606] libc: [2.33 Regression] pselect is broken on x32
586 [26615] libc: powerpc: libc segfaults when LD_PRELOADed with libgcc
587 [26620] glob: fnmatch with collating symbols results in segmentation
588 fault
589 [26625] libc: [2.33 Regression] CET is disabled
590 [26636] libc: 32-bit shmctl(IPC_INFO) crashes when shminfo struct is
591 at the end of a memory mapping
592 [26637] libc: semctl SEM_STAT_ANY fails to pass the buffer specified
593 by the caller to the kernel
594 [26639] libc: msgctl IPC_INFO and MSG_INFO return garbage
595 [26647] build: [-Werror=array-parameter=] due to different
596 declarations for __sigsetjmp
597 [26648] libc: mkstemp is likely to fail on systems with non-stricly-
598 monotonic clocks
599 [26649] stdio: printf should handle non-normal x86 long double numbers
600 gracefully (CVE-2020-29573)
601 [26686] build: -Warray-parameter instances building with GCC 11
602 [26687] build: -Warray-bounds instances building with GCC 11
603 [26690] stdio: Aliasing violation in __vfscanf_internal
604 [26691] nptl: Use a minimum guard size of 64 KiB on aarch64
605 [26726] build: GCC warning calling new_composite_name with an array of
606 one element
607 [26736] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-sysvshm-linux
608 [26737] libc: Random FAIL: rt/tst-shm
609 [26791] libc: Missing O_CLOEXEC in sysconf.c
610 [26798] dynamic-link: aarch64: variant PCS symbols may be incorrectly
611 lazy bound
612 [26801] nptl: pthread_mutex_clocklock with CLOCK_MONOTONIC can fail on
613 PI mutexes
614 [26818] string: aarch64: string tests may run ifunc variants that are
615 not safe
616 [26821] libc: Memory leak test failures on Fedora 33
617 [26824] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-cpu-features-supports with recent trunk:
618 FSGSBASE/LM/RDRAND check failure
619 [26833] time: adjtime() with delta == NULL segfaults on armv7 32bit
620 platform
621 [26853] libc: aarch64: Missing unwind information in statically linked
622 startup code
623 [26923] locale: Assertion failure in iconv when converting invalid
624 UCS4 (CVE-2020-29562)
625 [26926] dynamic-link: aarch64: library dependencies are not bti
626 protected
627 [26932] libc: sh: Multiple floating point functions defined as stubs
628 only since 2.31
629 [26964] nptl: pthread_mutex_timedlock returning EAGAIN after futex is
630 locked
631 [26988] dynamic-link: aarch64: BTI mprotect address is not page
632 aligned
633 [27002] build: libc_freeres_fn build failure with GCC 11
634 [27004] dynamic-link: ld.so is miscompiled by GCC 11
635 [27008] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should have endianness markup
636 [27042] libc: [alpha] anonymous union in struct stat confuses
637 detection logic
638 [27053] libc: Conformance regression in system(3) (and probably also
639 pclose(3))
640 [27072] dynamic-link: static pie ifunc resolvers run before hwcap is
641 setup
642 [27077] network: Do not reload /etc/nsswitch.conf from chroot
643 [27083] libc: Unsafe unbounded alloca in addmntent
644 [27104] dynamic-link: The COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_MAX handshake does not
645 work
646 [27130] string: "rep movsb" performance issue
647 [27150] libc: alpha: wait4() is unavailable in static linking
648 [27177] dynamic-link:
649 GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.cpu.x86_ibt=on:glibc.cpu.x86_shstk=on doesn't
650 work
651 [27222] dynamic-link: Incorrect sysdeps/x86/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo.c
652 [27237] malloc: deadlock in malloc/tst-malloc-stats-cancellation
653 [27256] locale: Assertion failure in ISO-2022-JP-3 gconv module
654 related to combining characters (CVE-2021-3326)
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658
659Major new features:
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661* Unicode 13.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
662 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 13.0.0, using
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663 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
664
665* New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq)
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668 added. This port requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-8.3 and Linux-5.1.
669 Three ABIs are supported:
670
671 - arc-linux-gnu
672 - arc-linux-gnuhf
673 - arceb-linux-gnu
674
4d3a77c7 675 The arc* ABIs are little-endian while arceb is big-endian. All ABIs use
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676 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
677
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679 DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
680
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4d3a77c7 682 using -mabi=ieeelongdouble to compile C code on supported GCC
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684 this option.
685
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687 several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This
688 should help GCC 10 issue better warnings.
689
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692 to specify the signal mask of a thread created with pthread_create.
693
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695 which declares the variable __libc_single_threaded. Applications are
696 encouraged to use this variable for single-thread optimizations,
697 instead of weak references to symbols historically defined in
698 libpthread.
699
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702 SIGHUP) while sigdescr_np returns a string describing the signal number
703 (e.g "Hangup" for SIGHUP). Different than strsignal, sigdescr_np does not
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705 NULL for an invalid signal number.
706
707 They should be used instead of sys_siglist or sys_sigabbrev and they
708 are both thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
709
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712 while strerrordesc_np returns a string describing the error number
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714 strerrordesc_np does not attempt to translate the return description, both
715 functions return NULL for an invalid error number.
716
717 They should be used instead of sys_errlist and sys_nerr, both are
718 thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
719
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721 in glibc when it is built with a GCC that is configured with
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722 --enable-standard-branch-protection (or if -mbranch-protection=standard
723 flag is passed when building both GCC target libraries and glibc,
724 in either case a custom GCC is needed). This includes branch target
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725 identification (BTI) and pointer authentication for return addresses
726 (PAC-RET). They require armv8.5-a and armv8.3-a architecture
727 extensions respectively for the protection to be effective,
728 otherwise the used instructions are nops. User code can use PAC-RET
729 without libc support, but BTI requires a libc that is built with BTI
730 support, otherwise runtime objects linked into user code will not be
731 BTI compatible.
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736 from glibc. This includes the rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and the Sun
737 RPC header files. Backward compatibility for old programs is kept
738 only for architectures and ABIs that have been added in or before
739 glibc 2.31. New programs need to use TI-RPC
740 <http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=summary> and
741 rpcsvc-proto <https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto>.
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744 as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules "nis"
745 and "nisplus" are not built at all and libnsl's headers aren't
746 installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs
747 that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement
748 implementations based on TI-RPC, which additionally support IPv6, are
749 available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not
4d3a77c7 750 affect the "compat" NSS module, which does not depend on libnsl
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752
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754 removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
755 exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
756 but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system
757 call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5.
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760 Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function
761 was not declared in any header file.
762
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764 sigrelse, sigignore and sigset, and the sigmask macro have been
765 deprecated. Applications should use the sigsuspend, sigprocmask and
766 sigaction functions instead.
767
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769 already supported this format for almost 20 years.
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772 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
773 have been removed from <string.h>. They are exported solely as
774 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
775 strsignal instead.
776
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778 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
4d3a77c7 779 have been removed from <stdio.h>. They are exported solely as
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781 strerror or strerror_r instead.
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784 calling thread, meaning that the returned string pointer may be invalided
785 or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same thread or
786 if the thread is terminated. It makes strerror MT-safe.
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789 or pthread_key_create to detect the singled-threaded nature of a
790 program is an obsolescent feature. Future versions of glibc will
791 define pthread_create within libc.so.6 itself, so such checks will
792 always flag the program as multi-threaded. Applications should check
793 the __libc_single_threaded variable declared in
794 <sys/single_threaded.h> instead.
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797 secure RPC). The contents of the /etc/publickey file will be ignored,
798 regardless of the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of
799 storing RPC keys only supported the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES
800 flavor of secure RPC.)
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802* The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
803 implementation __default_morecore have been deprecated. Applications
804 should use malloc interposition to change malloc behavior, and mmap to
805 allocate anonymous memory. A future version of glibc may require that
806 applications which use the malloc hooks must preload a special shared
807 object, to enable the hooks.
808
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810 future version of glibc. System administrators are encouraged to
811 switch to other approaches for networked account databases, such as
812 LDAP.
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817 long double redirects.
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819Security related changes:
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822 invoked with the -c option and when processing invalid multi-byte input
823 sequences. Reported by Jan Engelhardt.
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825 CVE-2020-10029: Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack
826 corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido
827 Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
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830 expanding ~user has been fixed.
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833 memmove functions has been fixed. Discovered by Jason Royes and Samual
834 Dytrych of the Cisco Security Assessment and Penetration Team (See
835 TALOS-2020-1019).
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840 [10441] manual: Backtraces code example lacks error checking
841 [10815] librt: [timer_create / SIGEV_THREAD] signalmask of
842 timer_sigev_thread dangerous
843 [14231] stdio: stdio-common tests memory requirements
844 [14578] libc: /proc-based emulation for lchmod, fchmodat
845 [16272] dynamic-link: dlopen()ing a DT_FILTER library crashes if
846 filtee has constructor
847 [19519] locale: iconv(1) with -c option hangs on illegal multi-byte
848 sequences (CVE-2016-10228)
849 [19737] admin: Doc page “20.5.2 Infinity and NaN” has incorrect HTML
850 character entities for infinity & pi
851 [20338] libc: Parsing of /etc/gshadow can return bad pointers causing
852 segfaults in applications
853 [20543] libc: Please move from .gnu.linkonce to comdat
854 [22489] network: gcc warns about implicit convertion in
855 ICMP6_FILTER_SETPASS with -Wsign-conversion
856 [22525] localedata: or_IN LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
857 [23294] math: Complex _FloatN functions are redirected to the wrong
858 function with -mlong-double-64
859 [23296] libc: Data race in setting function descriptor during lazy
860 binding
861 [23668] dynamic-link: ldconfig: Default to the new format for
862 ld.so.cache
863 [23819] hurd: hurd: Add C11 thread support
864 [23990] build: test-container error out on failure to exec child.
865 [23991] build: shell-container typo in run_command_array
866 [24638] manual: Error in example of parsing a template string
867 [24654] manual: Wrong declaration of wcschr in libc manual
868 [24943] dynamic-link: Support DT_AUDIT, DT_DEPAUDIT in the dynamic
869 linker
870 [25051] dynamic-link: aarch64, powerpc64 uses surplus static tls for
871 dynamically loaded dsos
872 [25098] nptl: nptl: ctype classification functions are not AS-Safe
873 [25219] libc: improve out-of-bounds checking with GCC 10 attribute
874 access
875 [25262] libc: getcontext/setcontext/swapcontext unnecessarily save and
876 restore EAX, ECX and EDX
877 [25397] dynamic-link: Legacy bitmap doesn't cover jitted code
878 [25414] glob: 'glob' use-after-free bug (CVE-2020-1752)
879 [25420] network: Race condition in resolv_conf.c can result in caching
880 stale configuration forever
881 [25487] math: sinl() stack corruption from crafted input
882 (CVE-2020-10029)
883 [25506] build: configure: broken detection of STT_GNU_IFUNC when GCC
884 defaults to PIE
885 [25523] libc: MIPS/Linux inline syscall template is miscompiled
886 [25620] libc: Signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy()
887 (CVE-2020-6096)
888 [25623] libc: test-sysvmsg, test-sysvsem, test-sysvshm fail with 2.31
889 on 32 bit and old kernel
890 [25635] libc: arm: Wrong sysdep order selection for soft-fp
891 [25639] localedata: Some names of days and months wrongly spelt in
892 Occitan
893 [25657] libc: sigprocmask() and sigisemptyset() manipulate different
894 amount of sigset_t bytes
895 [25691] stdio: printf: memory leak when printing long multibyte
896 strings
897 [25715] libc: system() returns wrong errors when posix_spawn fails
898 [25733] malloc: mallopt(M_MXFAST) can set global_max_fast to 0
899 [25734] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS fails to reset conversion
900 state for conversions that produce two Unicode code points
901 [25765] nptl: Incorrect futex syscall in __pthread_disable_asynccancel
902 for linux x86_64 leads to livelock
903 [25788] dynamic-link: [i386] -fno-omit-frame-pointer in CFLAGS causes
904 test failures, invalid instruction in ld.so
905 [25790] glob: Typo in tst-fnmatch.input
906 [25810] libc: x32: Incorrect syscall entries with pointer, off_t and
907 size_t
908 [25819] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 13.0.0
909 [25824] libc: Abnormal function of strnlen in aarch64
910 [25887] dynamic-link: Wasted space in _dl_x86_feature_1[1]
911 [25896] libc: Incorrect prctl
912 [25902] libc: Bad LOADARGS_N
913 [25905] dynamic-link: VSX registers are corrupted during PLT
914 resolution when glibc is built with --disable-multi-arch and --with-
915 cpu=power9
916 [25933] string: Off by one error in __strncmp_avx2 when
917 length=VEC_SIZE*4 and strings are at page boundaries can cause a
918 segfault
919 [25942] nptl: Deadlock on stack_cache_lock between __nptl_setxid and
920 exiting detached thread
921 [25966] libc: Incorrect access of __x86_shared_non_temporal_threshold
922 for x32
923 [25976] nss: internal_end*ent in nss_compat may clobber errno, hiding
924 ERANGE
925 [25999] nptl: Use-after-free issue in pthread_getaddr_default_np
926 [26073] math: getpayload() has wrong return value
927 [26076] dynamic-link: dlmopen crashes after failing to load
928 dependencies in audit mode
929 [26120] localedata: column width of of some Korean
930 JUNGSEONG/JONGSEONG characters wrong (should be 0)
931 [26128] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFLUSHOPT
932 [26133] libc: Incorrect need_arch_feature_F16C
933 [26137] libc: strtod() triggers exception FE_INEXACT on reasonable
934 input
935 [26149] libc: PKU is usable only if OSPKE is set
936 [26173] libc: powerpc64*: Add @notoc to calls to functions that do not
937 preserve r2
938 [26208] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFSH
939 [26210] network: Incorrect use of hidden symbols for global sunrpc
940 variables
941 [26211] stdio: printf integer overflow calculating allocation size
942 [26214] stdio: printf_fp double free
943 [26215] stdio: printf_fp memory leak
944 [26232] time: FAIL: support/tst-timespec for 32-bit targets
945 [26258] nss: nss_compat should not read input files with mmap
946 [26332] string: Incorrect cache line size load causes memory
947 corruption in memset
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954* The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
955 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
956 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
957 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
958 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
959 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
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961* The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
962 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
963 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
964 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
965
69ca4b54 966* The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
3ef5e118 967 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
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969
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970* New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar).
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972* The DNS stub resolver will optionally send the AD (authenticated data) bit
973 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
974 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
975 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
976 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
977 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
978 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
979 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
980
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981Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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983* The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
984 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
985 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
986 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
987 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
988 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
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991 binaries, and its declaration has been removed from <time.h>.
992 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
993
994* We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
995 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
996 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
997 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
998
999* The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
1000 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
1001 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
1002 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
1003 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
1004 made this no longer practical.
1005
1006 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
1007 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
1008 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
1009 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
1010 release.)
1011
1012 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
1013 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
1014 with the current time, use the localtime function.
1015
1016 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
1017 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
1018 using clock_gettime instead.
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1021 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
1022 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
1023 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
1024 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
1025
1026 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
1027 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
1028 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
1029 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
1030
1031 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
1032 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
1033 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
1034 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
1035 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
1036 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
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1038 settimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. Programs that set
1039 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
1040 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
1041 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
1042 offset API.
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1044* SPARC ISA v7 is no longer supported. v8 is still supported, but only if
1045 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
1046 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
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1049 configurations.
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1051* If a lazy binding failure happens during dlopen, during the execution of
1052 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
1053 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
1054 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
1055 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
1056
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1058 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
1059 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
1060 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
1061 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
1062 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
1063 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
1064 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
1065
1066 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
1067 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
1068
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1069* System call wrappers for time system calls now use the new time64 system
1070 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
1071 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
1072 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
1073 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
1074 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
1075
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1077
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1079 working (non-stub) system call wrappers on all architectures except 64-bit
1080 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
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1082* The ChangeLog file is no longer present in the toplevel directory of the
1083 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
1084 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
1085
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1088 CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an
1089 out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context.
1090
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1091 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
1092 environment variable during program execution after a security
1093 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
1094 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
1095 program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
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1097The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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1099 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
1100 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
1101 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
1102 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
1103 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
1104 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
1105 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
1106 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
1107 linking failure
1108 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
1109 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
1110 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
1111 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
1112 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
1113 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
1114 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
1115 constructors/destructors is not fatal
1116 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
1117 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
1118 7408-2005
1119 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
1120 with localedef
1121 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
1122 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
1123 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
1124 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
1125 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
1126 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
1127 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
1128 utmp entries
1129 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
1130 ABSOLUTE ABI
1131 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
1132 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
1133 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
1134 (stringop-overflow error)
1135 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
1136 functions other can lead to crashes
1137 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
1138 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
1139 unconditionally
1140 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
1141 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
1142 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
1143 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
1144 still can fail with an error
1145 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
1146 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
1147 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
1148 initialized correctly
1149 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
1150 -frewrite-includes
1151 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
1152 value to an unsigned
1153 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
1154 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
1155 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
1156 protection
1157 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
1158 ifunc variant.
1159 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
1160 al. for Clang++
1161 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
1162 (Slovenian)
1163 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
1164 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
1165 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
1166 with -std=c11
1167 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
1168 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
1169 part
1170 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
1171 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
1172 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
1173 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
1174 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
1175 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
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1178Version 2.30
1179
1180Major new features:
1181
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1182* Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1183 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
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1184 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1185
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1186* The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
1187 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
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1189* The twalk_r function has been added. It is similar to the existing
1190 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
1191 to the callback function.
1192
51ea67d5 1193* On Linux, the getdents64, gettid, and tgkill functions have been added.
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1195* Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
1196 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
1197 nan_TW, lzh_TW.
1198
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1199* The entry for the new Japanese era has been added for ja_JP locale.
1200
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1201* Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
1202 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
1203 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
1204 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
1205 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
1206
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1207* The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
1208 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
1209 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
1210 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
1211 link time reference, is gone.
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1213* Add new POSIX-proposed pthread_cond_clockwait, pthread_mutex_clocklock,
1214 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
1215 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
1216 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
1217 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
1218 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
1219 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
1220 the clock choice at initialization time).
1221
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1222* On AArch64 the GNU IFUNC resolver call ABI changed: old resolvers still
1223 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
1224 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
1225
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1226Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1227
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1228* The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
1229 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
1230 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
1231 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
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1232 copy_file_range function can no longer rely on glibc to provide a fallback
1233 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
1234 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
1235 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
1236 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
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1238* The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime,
1239 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
1240 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
1241 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
1242 since glibc 2.17.
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1244* The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
1245 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
1246
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1247* Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
1248 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
1249
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1250* The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
1251 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
1252
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1253* With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
1254 BIND_NOW flag.
1255
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1256* Support for the PowerPC SPE ISA extension (powerpc-*-*gnuspe*
1257 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
1258 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
1259
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1260* On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
1261 header have been removed.
1262
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1263* The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
1264 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
1265 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
1266 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
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1271
1272 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
1273 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
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1275Security related changes:
1276
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1277 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
1278 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
1279 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
1280 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
1281 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
1282 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
1283 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
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1285 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
1286 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
1287 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
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1291 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
1292 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
1293 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
1294 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
1295 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
1296 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
1297 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
1298 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
1299 invalid input drops valid char
1300 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
1301 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
1302 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
1303 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
1304 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
1305 malloc.h.
1306 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
1307 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
1308 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
1309 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
1310 functions
1311 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
1312 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
1313 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
1314 for long double = double
1315 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
1316 long double = double
1317 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
1318 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
1319 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
1320 long timeouts
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1322 [24059] nss: nss_files: get_next_alias calls fgets_unlocked without
1323 checking for NULL.
1324 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
1325 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
1326 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
1327 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
1328 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
1329 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
1330 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
1331 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
1332 not the default "nor"
1333 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
1334 false positives, change to modern flexible array
1335 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
1336 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
1337 compiler barriers.
1338 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
1339 unnecessary librt dependencies
1340 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
1341 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
1342 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
1343 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
1344 unsorted chunk
1345 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
1346 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
1347 to R_SPARC_H44
1348 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
1349 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
1350 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
1351 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
1352 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
1353 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
1354 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
1355 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
1356 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
1357 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
1358 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
1359 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
1360 was not used
1361 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
1362 tests
1363 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
1364 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
1365 time_t changes
1366 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
1367 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
1368 kernels and break testing
1369 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
1370 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
1371 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
1372 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
1373 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
1374 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
1375 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
1376 -O3 -march=skylake
1377 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
1378 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
1379 crash
1380 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
1381 linked glibc
1382 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
1383 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
1384 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
1385 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
1386 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
1387 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
1388 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
1389 always implemented in the same library
1390 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
1391 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
1392 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
1393 testroot
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1397
1398Major new features:
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1401 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
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1403* A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
1404 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
1405 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
1406 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
1407 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
1408 configured location.
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1413 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
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1416 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
1417 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
1418 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
1419 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
1420 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
1421 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
1422 process actually does not use HTM).
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1425 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
1426 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
1427 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
1428 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
1429 of the same name.
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1431* The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
1432 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
1433 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
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1437* Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
1438 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
1439 supported:
1440 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
1441 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
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1444 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
1445 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
1446 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
1447 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
1448 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
1449 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
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1452 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
1453 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
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1458 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
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1461 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
1462 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
1463 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
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1465* For the MIPS n32 ABI, the type of the pr_sigpend and pr_sighold members of
1466 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
1467 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
1468 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
1469 structures.
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1471* An archaic GNU extension to scanf, under which '%as', '%aS', and '%a[...]'
1472 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
1473 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
1474 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
1475 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
1476 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
1477
1478 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
1479 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
1480 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
1481 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
1482 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
1483
1484 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
1485 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
1486 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
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1489
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1493 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
1494
1495 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
1496 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
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1500 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
1501 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
1502 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
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1505 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
1506 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
1507 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
1508 Reported by H.J. Lu.
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1510 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
1511 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
1512 or command injection issues in applications.
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1516 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
1517 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
1518 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
1519 thousands
1520 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
1521 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
1522 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
1523 --param options)
1524 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
1525 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
1526 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
1527 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
1528 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
1529 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
1530 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
1531 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
1532 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
1533 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
1534 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
1535 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
1536 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
1537 pointer argument is non-NULL
1538 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
1539 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
1540 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
1541 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
1542 multithreads call popen
1543 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
1544 and pthread_create fails.
1545 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
1546 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
1547 constructor
1548 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
1549 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
1550 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
1551 source tree
1552 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
1553 float
1554 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
1555 one error
1556 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
1557 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
1558 linker
1559 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
1560 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
1561 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
1562 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
1563 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
1564 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
1565 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
1566 filesystems
1567 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
1568 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
1569 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
1570 functions
1571 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
1572 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
1573 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
1574 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
1575 have wrong type
1576 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
1577 wrong type
1578 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
1579 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
1580 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
1581 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
1582 threads
1583 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
1584 start.S
1585 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
1586 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
1587 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
1588 powerpc64le
1589 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
1590 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
1591 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
1592 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
1593 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
1594 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
1595 strftime
1596 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
1597 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
1598 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
1599 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
1600 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
1601 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
1602 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
1603 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
1604 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
1605 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
1606 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
1607 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
1608 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
1609 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
1610 tcache size
1611 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
1612 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
1613 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
1614 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
1615 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
1616 (CVE-2018-19591)
1617 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
1618 nearest rounding mode
1619 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
1620 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
1621 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
1622 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
1623 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
1624 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
1625 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
1626 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
1627 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
1628 error
1629 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
1630 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
1631 using GCC 8
1632 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
1633 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
1634 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
1635 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
1636 ppc64le
1637 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
1638 expected result
1639 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
1640 x32 (CVE-2019-6488)
1641 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
1642 sigaltstack
1643 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
1644 answers will be rejected)
1645 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
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1649
1650Major new features:
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1652* The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
1653 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
1654 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
1655 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
1656 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
1657 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
1658 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
1659 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
1660 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
1661 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
1662 archive or binary locales.
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1665 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
1666 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
1667 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
1668 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
1669 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
1670 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
1671 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
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1673 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
1674 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
1675 validated for i686.
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1678 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
1679 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
1680 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
1681 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
1682 field) to indicate such support is required.
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1685 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
1686 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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1688* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
1689 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
1690
1691 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
1692 fMxaddfNx functions.
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1694 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
1695 fMxsubfNx functions.
1696
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1697 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
1698 fMxmulfNx functions.
1699
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1700 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
1701 fMxdivfNx functions.
1702
e607a352 1703* Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
df467d22 1704 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
9145f033 1705 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
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1707 and Kashubian.
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61c4aad7 1709* Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
e607a352 1710 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
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1712* Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
1713 patches.
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1716 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
1717 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
1718 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
1719 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
1720 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
1721 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
1722 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
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1725 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
1726 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
1727 the fstatat64 function.
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1729* IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
1730 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
1731 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
1732 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
1733 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
1734 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
1735 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
1736 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
1737 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
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1740 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
1741 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
1742 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
1743 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
1744 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
1745 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
1746 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
1747 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
1748 results in a load failure now.
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1750* Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The
1751 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
1752 <threads.h>:
1753
1754 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
1755 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
1756
1757 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
1758 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
1759
1760 - call_once for function call synchronization.
1761
1762 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
1763 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
1764
1765 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
1766
1767 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
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1771* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
1772 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
1773 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
1774
1775* The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
1776 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
1777 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
1778 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
1779 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
1780 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
1781
1782* All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
1783 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
1784 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
1785 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
1786 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
1787 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
1788 (Bug #1190.)
1789
1790* The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
1791 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
1792 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
1793 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
1794 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
1795 further explanation.
1796
1797 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
1798 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
1799 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
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1801* The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
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1803* The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
1804 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
1805 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
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1807* The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
1808 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
1809 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
1810 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
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1812* The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
1813 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
1814 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
1815 for this function instead.
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1817* The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
1818 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
1819 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
1820
1821* The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
1822 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
1823 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
1824 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
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1826* The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
1827 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
1828 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
1829 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
1830 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
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1833 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
1834 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
1835 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
1836 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
1837 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
1838 such as libgcrypt.
1839
1840* Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
1841 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
1842 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
1843 enabled.
1844
1845* The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
1846 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
1847 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
1848
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1850 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
1851 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
1852 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
1853 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
1854 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
1855
1856 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
1857 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
1858 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
1859 behavior in a future release.
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1862
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1865Security related changes:
1866
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1867 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
1868 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
1869 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
1870 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
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1872 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
1873 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
1874
1875 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
1876 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
1877 Izbyshev.
1878
1879 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
1880 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
1881 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
1882
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1885 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
1886 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
1887 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
1888 when __WORDSIZE != 64
1889 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
1890 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
1891 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
1892 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
1893 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
1894 14651
1895 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
1896 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
1897 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
1898 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
1899 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
1900 conversion is given
1901 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
1902 date
1903 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
1904 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
1905 scope with -O1 and higher
1906 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
1907 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
1908 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
1909 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
1910 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
1911 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
1912 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
1913 horrible machine code)
1914 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
1915 last constant.
1916 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
1917 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
1918 symbols
1919 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
1920 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
1921 defined
1922 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
1923 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
1924 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
1925 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
1926 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
1927 fpscr.c'
1928 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
1929 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
1930 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
1931 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
1932 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
1933 the base address
1934 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
1935 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
1936 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
1937 open_verify
1938 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
1939 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
1940 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
1941 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
1942 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
1943 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
1944 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
1945 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
1946 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
1947 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
1948 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
1949 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
1950 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
1951 dlopen
1952 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
1953 AT_SECURE=1
1954 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
1955 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
1956 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
1957 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
1958 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
1959 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
1960 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
1961 for Spanish with CLDR
1962 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
1963 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
1964 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
1965 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
1966 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
1967 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
1968 es_BO
1969 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
1970 CLOCKS_PER_SECOND
1971 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
1972 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
1973 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
1974 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
1975 dlopen failures
1976 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
1977 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
1978 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
1979 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
1980 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
1981 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
1982 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
1983 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
1984 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
1985 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
1986 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
1987 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
1988 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
1989 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
1990 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
1991 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
1992 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
1993 makecontext
1994 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
1995 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
1996 required
1997 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
1998 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
1999 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
2000 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
2001 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
2002 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
2003 disabled
2004 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
2005 failure
2006 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
2007 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
2008 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
2009 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
2010 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
2011 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
2012 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
2013 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
2014 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
2015 and libc build with -Os)
2016 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
2017 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
2018 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
2019 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
2020 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
2021 that changes /etc/passwd
2022 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
2023 (CVE-2018-11237)
2024 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
2025 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
2026 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
2027 posix/regcomp.c
2028 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
2029 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
2030 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
2031 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
2032 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
2033 AT_SECURE
2034 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
2035 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
2036 parser.c
2037 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
2038 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
2039 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
2040 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
2041 directed rounding
2042 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
2043 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
2044 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
2045 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
2046 lookup
2047 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
2048 interposition
2049 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
2050 DSO boundaries.
2051 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
2052 <linux/time.h>
2053 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
2054 checking
2055 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
2056 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
2057 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
2058 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
2059 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
2060 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
2061 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
2062 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
2063 processors
2064 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
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2067Version 2.27
2068
2069Major new features:
2070
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2071* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
2072 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
bd7bbb26 2073 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
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2074 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
2075 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
2076 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
2077 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
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2078 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
2079 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
9d7a3741 2080
ac817e08 2081* Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
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2082 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
2083 H.J. Lu from Intel.
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2085* Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
2086
4cf82d23 2087* Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
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2089* In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
2090 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
2091 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
2092 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
2093 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
2094 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
2095 from a security and performance perspective.
2096
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2097* The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
2098 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
2099 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
2100 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
2101
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2103 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
2104 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
2105 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
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2106 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
2107
a23aa5b7 2108* On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
40ca951b 2109 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
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2110 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
2111 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
2112 _Float128.
2113
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2114* The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
2115 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
2116 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
0d93b7fd 2117
4bab0224 2118* glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
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2120* Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
2121 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
2122 pkey_get.
2123
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2124* The copy_file_range function was added.
2125
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2126* Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
2127
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2128* The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
2129 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
2130 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
2131
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2132* Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
2133 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
2134 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
2135 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
2136 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
2137 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
2138 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
2139
2140 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
2141 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
2142 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
2143 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
2144 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
2145 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
2146 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
2147
2148 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
2149 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
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2150 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
2151 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
2152 respectively.
2153
2154 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
2155 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
2156 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
2157 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
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2159 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
2160 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
2161 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
2162
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2164 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
0a32e219 2165 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
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2168 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
2169 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
2170
2171 - rv64imac lp64
2172 - rv64imafdc lp64
2173 - rv64imafdc lp64d
2174
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2176
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2177* Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
2178 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
d4ae7827 2179 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
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2180 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
2181 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
2182 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
2183 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
2184 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
2185 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
2186 fix this.
2187
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2188* Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
2189 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
2190 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
2191
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2192* Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
2193 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
2194 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
2195 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
2196 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
2197 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
2198 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
2199 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
2200 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
2201 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
2202 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
2203 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
2204 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
2205 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
2206 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
2207 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
2208 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
2209 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
2210 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
2211 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
2212 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
2213 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
2214 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
2215 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
2216 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
2217 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
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2220 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
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2223 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
2224 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
2225 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
2226 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
2227 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
2228 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
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2231 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
2232 exp10l for these functions instead.
2233
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2234* The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
2235 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
2236 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2237
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2239 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
2240 ignored.
2241
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2242* The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
2243 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
2244 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
2245 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
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2247* The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
2248 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
2249
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2250* In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
2251 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
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2253* The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
2254 programs.
2255
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2256* The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
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2258* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
2259 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
2260 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
2261 instead.
2262
2263 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
2264 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
2265 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
2266 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
2267 use, but predates the bits convention.
2268
00cdcf5a
SP
2269Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2270
1faaf703
JB
2271* bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
2272 subdirectory.
00cdcf5a
SP
2273
2274Security related changes:
2275
403143e1
FW
2276 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
2277 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
2278 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
2279 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
2280 script.)
00cdcf5a 2281
822f523b
FW
2282 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
2283 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
2284 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
2285 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
c369d66e 2286
914c9994
FW
2287 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
2288 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
2289 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
2290 of service.
2291
15e84c63
AJ
2292 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
2293 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
a159b53f
PE
2294 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
2295
37ac8e63
FW
2296 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
2297 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
2298 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
2299 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
2300
8a0b17e4
FW
2301 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
2302 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
2303 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
2304 Qualys.
2305
3ff3dfa5
FW
2306 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
2307 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
2308 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
2309 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
2310 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
2311
3e3c904d
AJ
2312 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
2313 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
2314 current directory.
2315
52a713fd
DL
2316 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
2317 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
2318 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
2319
4590634f
FW
2320 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
2321 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
2322 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
2323
71aa429b
FW
2324 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
2325 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
2326 small, instead of NULL.
2327
00cdcf5a
SP
2328The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2329
242cbc90
DL
2330 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
2331 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
2332 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
2333 locale
2334 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
2335 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
2336 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
2337 cases
2338 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
2339 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
2340 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
2341 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
2342 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
2343 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
2344 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
2345 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
2346 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
2347 "Bangla"
2348 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
2349 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
2350 width Latin characters
2351 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
2352 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
2353 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
2354 letters
2355 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
2356 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
2357 (CVE-2009-5064)
2358 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
2359 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
2360 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
2361 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
2362 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
2363 if malloc succeeded
2364 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
2365 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
2366 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
2367 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
2368 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
2369 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
2370 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
2371 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
2372 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
2373 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
2374 U+309A
2375 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
2376 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
2377 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
2378 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
2379 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
2380 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
2381 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
2382 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
2383 for Nicaragua
2384 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
2385 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
2386 are not found.
2387 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
2388 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
2389 access
2390 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
2391 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
2392 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
2393 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
2394 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
2395 __regcall calling convention
2396 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
2397 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
2398 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
2399 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
2400 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
2401 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
2402 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
2403 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
2404 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
2405 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
2406 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
2407 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
2408 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
2409 locale
2410 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
2411 protector=all
2412 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
2413 wcwidth
2414 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
2415 consistency check failures
2416 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
2417 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
2418 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
2419 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
2420 PIE
2421 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
2422 locales
2423 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
2424 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
2425 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
2426 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
2427 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
2428 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
2429 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
2430 on memory allocation failure
2431 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
2432 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
2433 the suspect)
2434 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
2435 default (i386)
2436 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
2437 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
2438 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
2439 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
2440 instead of EAI_NODATA
2441 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
2442 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
2443 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
2444 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
2445 implementation
2446 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
2447 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
2448 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
2449 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
2450 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
2451 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
2452 allocation in syscall loops)
2453 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
2454 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
2455 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
2456 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
2457 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
2458 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
2459 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
2460 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
2461 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
2462 occur with -O3
2463 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
2464 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
2465 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
2466 amounts)
2467 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
2468 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
2469 niu_NZ
2470 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
2471 checks
2472 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
2473 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
2474 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
2475 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
2476 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
2477 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
2478 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
2479 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
2480 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
2481 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
2482 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
2483 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
2484 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
2485 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
2486 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
2487 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
2488 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
2489 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
2490 parsing after OOM
2491 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
2492 object
2493 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
2494 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
2495 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
2496 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
2497 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
2498 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
fdb724f9 2499 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf outputs a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
242cbc90
DL
2500 ppc64le
2501 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
2502 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
2503 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
2504 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
2505 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
2506 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
2507 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
2508 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
2509 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
2510 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
2511 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
2512 math_force_eval
2513 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
2514 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
2515 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
2516 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
2517 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
2518 the svid compat wrapper
2519 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
2520 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
2521 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
2522 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
2523 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
2524 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
2525 --verbose.
2526 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
2527 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
2528 to 2.26
2529 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
2530 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
2531 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
2532 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
2533 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
2534 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
2535 (CVE-2017-15804)
2536 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
2537 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
2538 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
2539 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
2540 failure."
2541 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
2542 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
2543 -m32
2544 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
2545 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
2546 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
2547 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
2548 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
2549 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
2550 inside the ASCII printable range
2551 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
2552 -mlong-double-64
2553 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
2554 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
2555 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
2556 Internet
2557 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
2558 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
2559 backslash
2560 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
2561 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
2562 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
2563 heaps in an arena
2564 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
2565 networking interface
2566 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
2567 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
2568 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
2569 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
2570 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
2571 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
2572 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
2573 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
2574 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
2575 order
2576 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2577 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2578 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2579 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2580 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2581 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
2582 same as for Croatian
2583 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
2584 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
2585 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
2586 for initial thread"
2587 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
2588 SC_SSIZE_MAX
2589 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
2590 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
2591 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2592 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
2593 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
2594 (CVE-2017-1000408)
2595 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
2596 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
2597 modified in case of success
2598 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
2599 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
2600 success
2601 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
2602 stack-protector=all
2603 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
2604 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
2605 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
2606 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
2607 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
2608 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
2609 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
2610 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
2611 adding it on top
2612 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
2613 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
2614 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
2615 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
2616 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
2617 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
2618 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
2619 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
2620 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
2621 (CVE-2018-1000001)
2622 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
2623 elision and tunables
2624 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
2625 "invalid" exception
2626 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
2627 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
2628 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
2629 exception
2630 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2631 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
2632 power4
2633 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
2634 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
2635 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
2636 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
2637 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
2638 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
2639 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
2640 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
2641 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
00cdcf5a 2642
58557c22
SP
2643\f
2644Version 2.26
2645
2b2ccd0c
ZW
2646Major new features:
2647
d5c3fafc
DD
2648* A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
2649 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
2650 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
2651 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
2652 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
2653 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
2654 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
2655
925fac77
MF
2656* Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2657 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
0b38d66a 2658 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
a0e52598
MF
2659 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
2660 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
2661 are rendered with pango, see for example:
2662 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
58557c22 2663
2b2ccd0c
ZW
2664* Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
2665 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
2666 Egmont Koblinger.
e4e79484 2667
2b2ccd0c 2668* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
025b33ae 2669
7e368000
JM
2670 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
2671 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
2672 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
daeb1fa2 2673
7e368000
JM
2674 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
2675 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
2676 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
2677 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
2678 object are still limited to six search domains.
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2680 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
2681 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
2682 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
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2684* The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
2685 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
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2687* New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
2688 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
2689 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
2690 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
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2692* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
2693 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
2694 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
2695 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
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2697* posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
2698 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
2699 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
2700 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
2e0bbbfb 2701
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2702* errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
2703 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
2704 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
12d2dd70 2705
2b2ccd0c 2706* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
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2707 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
2708 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
2709 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
2c0b90ab 2710
2b2ccd0c 2711 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
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2712 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
2713 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
2714 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
2715 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
2716
2717 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
2718 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
2719 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
2720 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
2721 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
2722 interfaces should be used instead.
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2724Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2725
2726* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
2727 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
2728 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
2729 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
2730 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
2731 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
2732 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
2733 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
2734
2735* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
2736 removed.
2737
2738* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
7e368000 2739 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
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2740 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
2741 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
2742
2743* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
2744 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
2745 default.
2746
2747 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
2748 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
2749 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
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2750 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
2751 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
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2752
2753 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
2754 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
2755 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
2756 name service modules, to be built and installed.
2757
2758* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
2759 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
2760 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
2761 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
2762
2763* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
2764 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
5b757a51 2765
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2766* The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
2767 exported by accident.
2768
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2769* <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
2770 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
2771 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
2772
2773* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
2774 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
2775 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
2776 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
2777
2778* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
2779
2780* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
2781
2782* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
2783 free instead.
2784
2785* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
2786 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2787
2788* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
2789 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2790
2791* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
2792 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
2793 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
2794 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
2795 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
2796 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
2797 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
2798 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
2799
2800* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
2801 synced with the kernel:
2802
2803 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
2804 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
2805
2806 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
2807 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
2808 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
2809
2810 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
2811 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
2812
2813Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2814
2815* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
2816 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
2817 x86-32 and x86-64.)
2818
7e368000 2819* GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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2821* On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
2822 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
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2823
2824 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
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2825 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
2826 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
2827 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2b2ccd0c 2828 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
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2830Security related changes:
2831
e14a2772 2832* The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
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2833 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
2834
2835* LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
2836 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
2837
2838* Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
2839 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
2840 (CVE-2010-3192).
2841
2842* A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
2843 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
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2844
2845The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2846
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2847 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
2848 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
2849 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
2850 fields
2851 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
2852 (CVE-2010-3192)
2853 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
2854 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
2855 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
2856 ld.bfd is available
2857 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
2858 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
2859 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
2860 x86 and other generic code
2861 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
2862 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
2863 incorrect
2864 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
2865 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
2866 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
2867 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
2868 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
2869 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
2870 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
2871 resolver
2872 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
2873 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
2874 order of 0D36 and 0D37
2875 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
2876 chillu characters
2877 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
2878 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
2879 receiving data
2880 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
2881 whitespace
2882 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
2883 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
2884 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
2885 for Peru
2886 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
2887 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
2888 failures consistently
2889 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
2890 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
2891 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
2892 frame-pointer on i386
2893 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
2894 register
2895 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
2896 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
2897 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
2898 generic c code is used
2899 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
2900 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
2901 around 4000
2902 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
2903 (CVE-2017-12133)
2904 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
2905 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
2906 with -lieee
2907 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
2908 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
2909 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
2910 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
2911 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
2912 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
2913 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
2914 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
2915 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
2916 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
2917 remove()
2918 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
2919 checked for errors.
2920 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
2921 new posix_spawn implementation
2922 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
2923 leads to lower CPU frequency
2924 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
2925 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
2926 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
2927 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
2928 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
2929 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
2930 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
2931 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
2932 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
2933 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
2934 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
2935 not support gethostbyname4_r
2936 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
2937 switching
2938 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
2939 arenas
2940 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
2941 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
2942 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
2943 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
2944 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
2945 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
2946 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
2947 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
2948 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
2949 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
2950 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
2951 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
2952 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
2953 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
2954 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
2955 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
2956 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
2957 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
2958 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
2959 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
2960 retry value
2961 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
2962 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
2963 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
2964 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
2965 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
2966 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
2967 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
2968 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
2969 [21537] libc:
2970 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
2971 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
2972 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
2973 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
2974 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
2975 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
2976 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
2977 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
2978 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
2979 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
2980 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
2981 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
2982 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
2983 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
2984 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
2985 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
2986 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
2987 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
2988 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
2989 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
2990 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
2991 issue on x86-64
2992 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
2993 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
2994 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
2995 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
2996 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
2997 construction
2998 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
2999 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
3000 between_2_3
3001 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
3002 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
3003 conditions
3004 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
3005 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
3006 Hindi Locale
3007 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
3008 posix/sched_cpucount.c
3009 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
3010 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
3011 locale
3012 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
3013 leading to relocation crash
3014 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
3015 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
3016 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
3017 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
3018 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
3019 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
3020 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
3021 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
3022 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
3023 locale
3024 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
3025 locale
3026 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
3027 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
3028 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
3029 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
3030 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
3031 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
3032 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
3033 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
3034 strings
3035 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
3036 protector=all
3037 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
3038 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
3039 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
3040 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
3041 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
3042 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
3043 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
3044 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
3045 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
3046 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
3047 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
3048 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
3049 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
3050 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
3051 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
3052 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
3053 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
3054 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
3055 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
3056 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
3057 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
3058 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
3059 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
3060 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
3061 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
3062 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
3063 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
3064 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
3065 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
3066 with unicode 9.0
3067 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
3068 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
3069 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
3070 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
3071 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
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3074Version 2.25
3075
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3076* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
3077 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
3078 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
3079 Library.
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3081* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
3082 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
a5ac5676 3083 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
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3084 the GNU C Library.
3085
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3086* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
3087 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
3088 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
3089 the GNU C Library.
3090
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3091* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
3092 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
3093 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
3094 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
3095 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
3096 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
3097 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
3098 will not.
3099
3100 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
3101 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
3102 many years.
3103
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3104* The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
3105 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
3106 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
3107
3108 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
3109 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
3110 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
3111 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
3112 problem.
3113
ec94343f 3114* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
c0b43536
JM
3115 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
3116 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
5146356f 3117
a292f45a
JM
3118* Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
3119 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
5b17fd0d
JM
3120 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
3121 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
3122 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
3123 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
3124 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
3125 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
3126 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
3127 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
3128 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
3129 WINT_WIDTH.
a292f45a 3130
d942e95c
JM
3131* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
3132
f82a4bdb
JM
3133 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
3134
423c2b9d
JM
3135 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
3136 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
3137 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
41c67149 3138
55a38f82
JM
3139 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
3140 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
3141
525f8039
JM
3142 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
3143 fminmagf, fminmagl.
3144
1e7c8fcc
JM
3145 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
3146
29cb9293 3147 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
d942e95c 3148
cc6a8d74
JM
3149 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
3150 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
5e9d98a3 3151
eaf5ad0b
JM
3152 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
3153
eb3c12c7 3154 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
457663a7 3155 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
f8e8b8ed 3156
f3b904d9
JM
3157* The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
3158 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
3159
cecbc796
NA
3160* Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
3161 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
3162 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
3163
ea1bd74d
ZW
3164* The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
3165 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
3166 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
3167 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
3168 effects of the memory clear).
3169
b0216d3e
JM
3170* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
3171 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
3172 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
3173 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
3174
f3b904d9
JM
3175* On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
3176 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
3177 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
3178 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
3179 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
3180 if they are compiled or used with those options.
6962682f 3181
92dcaa3e
FW
3182* The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
3183 have been added.
3184
705a79f8
FW
3185* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
3186 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
3187 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
3188 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
3189 as large as several megabytes.
3190
4d728087
FW
3191* The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
3192 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
3193 been removed.
3194
e863cce5
FW
3195* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
3196 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
3197 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
3198 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
3199 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
3200 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
3201 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
3202
7ec47a85
FW
3203* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
3204 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
3205 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
3206 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
3207
099191b1 3208* The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
5140d036
FW
3209 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
3210 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
3211 Internet.
3212
bbe989ee
FW
3213* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
3214 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
3215 They were already unimplemented.
bfbd1de1 3216
b76e0659
FW
3217* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
3218 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
3219 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
3220 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
3221
3a2a1d2c
FW
3222* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
3223 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
3224 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
3225 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
3226 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
3227
be728303
FW
3228* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
3229 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
3230 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
3231 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
3232 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
3233
6815a33d
FW
3234* The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
3235 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
3236 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
3237 did not reflect that.
3238
022dfdce
SL
3239* For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
3240 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
3241 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
3242 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
3243 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
3244 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
3245 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
3246 'gcc/config.gcc'.
3247
23b5cae1
MG
3248* GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
3249 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
3250 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
3251 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
3252
7715d3ab
SP
3253* Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
3254 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
3255 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
3256 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
3257
0cea3587
SP
3258* A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
3259 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
3260 guarantees.
3261
3262* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
3263 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
3264 make state changes.
3265
e720d3d9
CD
3266Security related changes:
3267
fc82b0a2 3268* On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
4d047efd
FW
3269 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
3270 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
3271 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
056dd72a 3272 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
e720d3d9 3273
fc82b0a2
FW
3274* The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
3275 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
3276 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
3277 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
3278 (CVE-2015-5180)
3279
e720d3d9
CD
3280The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3281
fdb724f9 3282 [4099] stdio: Overly aggressive caching by stream i/o functions.
4e054e6b
SP
3283 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
3284 protector-all
3285 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
3286 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
3287 before it started waiting
3288 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
3289 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
3290 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
3291 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
3292 wrong type
3293 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
3294 library linked with pthread
3295 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
3296 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
3297 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
3298 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
3299 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
3300 after being __libc_memalign()'d
3301 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
3302 when it shouldnt
3303 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
3304 not
3305 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
3306 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
3307 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
3308 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
3309 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
3310 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
3311 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
3312 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
3313 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
3314 termination
3315 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
3316 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
3317 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
3318 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
3319 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
3320 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
3321 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
3322 causes a segmentation fault
3323 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
3324 linking
3325 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
3326 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
3327 uninitialized GOT
3328 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
3329 versions
3330 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
3331 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
3332 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
3333 is always true.
3334 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
3335 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
3336 modes
3337 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
3338 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
3339 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
3340 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
3341 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
3342 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
3343 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
3344 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
3345 libpthread.a
3346 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
3347 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
3348 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
3349 _res_hconf
3350 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
3351 information.
3352 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
3353 penalty
3354 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
3355 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
3356 cause transition penalty
3357 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
3358 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
3359 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
3360 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
3361 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
3362 mcount.oS)
3363 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
3364 Checking
3365 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
3366 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
3367 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
3368 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
3369 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
3370 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
3371 multi-arch
3372 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
3373 (RES_USEBSTRING)
3374 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
3375 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
3376 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
3377 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
3378 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
3379 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
3380 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
3381 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
3382 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
3383 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
3384 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
3385 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
3386 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
3387 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
3388 glibc
3389 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
3390 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
3391 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
3392 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
3393 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
3394 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
3395 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
3396 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
3397 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
3398 U+20AC), not same as GBK
3399 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
3400 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
3401 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
3402 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
3403 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
3404 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
3405 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
3406 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
3407 RES_USE_INET6
3408 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3409 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
3410 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
3411 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
3412 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
3413 wrong condition
3414 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3415 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
3416 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
3417 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
3418 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
3419 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
3420 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
3421 clang
3422 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
3423 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
3424 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
3425 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
3426 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
e720d3d9 3427\f
11fca961
AZ
3428Version 2.24
3429
5b4ecd3f
JM
3430* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
3431 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
3432 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
3433 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
3434 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
3435 architectures.
3436
b6ebba70
MF
3437* The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
3438 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
3439 been included in previous releases.
11fca961 3440
7584a3f9
FW
3441* The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
3442 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
3443
b49ab5f4
FW
3444* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
3445 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
3446 instead of “union wait”.
3447
ced8f893
SG
3448* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
3449 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
3450 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
3451 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
3452 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
3453 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
3454 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
3455
2ba3cfa1
FW
3456* The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
3457 API.
3458
b7a9b7b0
MF
3459* The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
3460 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
3461 drop it.
6a54bcda 3462
41a359e2
RS
3463* nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
3464 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
3465 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
3466 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
3467 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
3468 extensions.
3469
11fca961
AZ
3470Security related changes:
3471
f5b3338d
FW
3472* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
3473 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
3474 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
3475
4ab2ab03
FW
3476* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
3477 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
3478 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
3479 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
11fca961 3480
5171f307
FW
3481* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
3482 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
3483 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
3484
bc779a1a
FW
3485* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
3486 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
3487 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
3488
fab38231
FW
3489* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
3490 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
3491 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
3492 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
3493
11fca961
AZ
3494The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3495
3c4f81ec
CD
3496 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
3497 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
3498 of MS-DOS.
3499 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
3500 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
3501 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
3502 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
3503 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
3504 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
3505 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
3506 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
3507 CLDR data
3508 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
3509 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
3510 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
3511 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
3512 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
3513 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
3514 romanisation
3515 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
3516 and +/-
3517 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
3518 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
3519 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
3520 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
3521 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
3522 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
3523 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
3524 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
3525 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
3526 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
3527 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
3528 all locales
3529 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
3530 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
3531 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
3532 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
3533 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
3534 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
3535 execute
3536 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
3537 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
3538 -Wsystem-headers
3539 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
3540 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
3541 Romanian locale data
3542 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
3543 symbol
3544 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
3545 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
3546 language
3547 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
3548 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
3549 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
3550 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
3551 machine
3552 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
3553 description
3554 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
3555 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
3556 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
3557 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
3558 when using RTLD_NEXT
3559 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
3560 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
3561 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
3562 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
3563 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
3564 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
3565 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
3566 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
3567 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
3568 Excavator core
3569 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3570 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3571 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3572 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
3573 double range
3574 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
3575 part zero incorrect
3576 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
3577 equality tests
3578 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
3579 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
3580 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
3581 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
3582 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
3583 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
3584 glibc-2.22
3585 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
3586 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
3587 'tst-numeric.c'
3588 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
3589 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
3590 low part
3591 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
3592 result
3593 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
3594 unaligned stack
3595 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
3596 pointers and lengths in error-case.
3597 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
3598 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
3599 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
3600 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
3601 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
3602 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
3603 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
3604 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
3605 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
3606 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
3607 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
3608 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
3609 modes
3610 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
3611 server addresses
3612 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
3613 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
3614 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
3615 response to getaddrinfo
3616 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
3617 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
3618 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
3619 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
3620 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
3621 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
3622 sometimes incorrect
3623 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
3624 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
3625 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
3626 record types
3627 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
3628 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
3629 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
3630 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
3631 (CVE-2016-3075)
3632 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
3633 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
3634 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
3635 resolving symbols
3636 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
3637 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
3638 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
3639 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
3640 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
3641 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
3642 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
3643 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
3644 gethosts
3645 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
3646 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
3647 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
3648 (CVE-2016-3706)
3649 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
3650 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
3651 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
3652 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
3653 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
3654 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
3655 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
3656 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
3657 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
3658 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
3659 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
3660 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
3661 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
3662 executable
3663 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
3664 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
3665 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
3666 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
3667 XPG3
3668 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
3669 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
3670 (CVE-2016-4429)
3671 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
3672 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
3673 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
3674 AS not supporting AVX512
3675 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
3676 sNaN argument
3677 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3678 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
3679 argument
3680 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
3681 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
3682 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
3683 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
3684 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
3685 eax=0x80000001
3686 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
3687 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
3688 subnormals
3689 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
3690 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
3691 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
3692 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3693 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3694 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
3695 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3696 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
3697 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
3698 input
3699 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3700 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3701 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3702 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3703 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3704 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3705 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3706 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
3707 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
3708 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
3709 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
3710 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
3711 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
3712 double rounding
3713 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
3714 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
3715 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
3716 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
3717 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
3718 (Only arm/linux)
3719 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
3720 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
3721 fallbacks
3722 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
3723 "invalid" exceptions
3724 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
3725 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
3726 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
3727 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
3728 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
3729 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
3730 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
3731 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
3732 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
11fca961 3733\f
aeb47bbc
DM
3734Version 2.23
3735
23256f5e
MF
3736* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
3737 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
3738 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
3739 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
3740 89, 16061, and 18568.
3741
2359035a
FW
3742* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
3743 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
3744 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
3745 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
3746 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
3747 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
3748 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
3749
8b7b7f75
MW
3750* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
3751 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
3752 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
3753
2eecc8af
FW
3754* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
3755 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
3756 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
3757 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
3758 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
3759 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
3760 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
3761
a62719ba
FW
3762* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
3763 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
3764 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
3765 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
3766 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 3767 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
a62719ba
FW
3768 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
3769 Ericsson.)
a014cecd 3770
bc148ca1
MF
3771* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
3772 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
3773 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
3774 independent of the GNU C Library.
3775
1c70b6f1
ZW
3776* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
3777 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
1efad39b 3778
eed3e1eb
JM
3779* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
3780 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
3781 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
3782 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
3783 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
3784 Linux kernel.
3785
1efad39b
SL
3786* Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
3787 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
b08b4218 3788
d709042a
JM
3789* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
3790 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
3791 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
3792 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
3793 defining their own copy.
3794
b08b4218
JM
3795* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
3796 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
3797 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
f268ab5f 3798
8f5e8b01
JM
3799Security related changes:
3800
6400ae6e
FW
3801* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
3802 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
3803
3804* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
3805 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
3806 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
3807 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
3808 (CVE-2015-8777)
3809
3810* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
3811 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
3812
3813* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
3814 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
3815
8f5e8b01
JM
3816* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
3817 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 3818 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
8f5e8b01 3819
e9db92d3
CD
3820* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
3821 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
3822 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
3823 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
3824 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
3825 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
3826 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
3827 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
3828 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
3829 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
3830 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
3831 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
3832 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
3833
ad372e29 3834The following bugs are resolved with this release:
f268ab5f 3835
ad372e29
AZ
3836 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
3837 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
3838 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
3839 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
3840 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
3841 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
3842 use `mkstemp'
3843 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
3844 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
3845 overflow/underflow errors
3846 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
3847 overflow/underflow
3848 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
3849 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
3850 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
3851 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
3852 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
3853 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
3854 are not contiguous
3855 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
3856 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
3857 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
3858 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
3859 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
3860 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
3861 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
3862 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
3863 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
3864 all exceptions
3865 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
3866 arguments
3867 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
3868 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
3869 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
3870 should include
3871 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
3872 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
3873 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
3874 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
3875 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
3876 GNU/Linux
3877 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
3878 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
3879 arguments
3880 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
3881 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
3882 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
3883 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
3884 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
3885 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
3886 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
3887 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
3888 rounding results
3889 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
3890 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
3891 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
3892 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
3893 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
3894 fails
3895 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
3896 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
3897 block boundary
3898 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
3899 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
3900 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
3901 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
3902 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
3903 4.7?
3904 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
3905 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
3906 (related to lock elision)
3907 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
3908 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
3909 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
3910 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
3911 (CVE-2015-8779)
3912 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
3913 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
3914 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
3915 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
3916 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
3917 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
3918 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
3919 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
3920 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
3921 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
3922 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
3923 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
3924 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
3925 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
3926 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
3927 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
3928 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
3929 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
3930 contains a vector instruction exception.
3931 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
3932 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
3933 locales
3934 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
3935 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
3936 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
3937 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
3938 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
3939 missing break ?
3940 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
3941 32bit processes
3942 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
3943 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
3944 infinity
3945 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
3946 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
3947 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
3948 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
3949 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
3950 be forced unloaded
3951 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
3952 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
3953 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
3954 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
3955 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
3956 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
3957 statically too large
3958 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
3959 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
3960 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
3961 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
3962 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
3963 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
3964 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
3965 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
3966 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
3967 FUTEX_SHARED
3968 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
3969 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
3970 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
3971 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
3972 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
3973 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
3974 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
3975 opendir()
3976 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
3977 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
3978 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
3979 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
3980 signgam
3981 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
3982 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
3983 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
3984 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
3985 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
3986 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
3987 dependencies
3988 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
3989 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
3990 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
3991 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
3992 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
3993 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
3994 (CVE-2015-8776)
3995 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
3996 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
3997 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
3998 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
3999 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
4000 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4001 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
4002 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
4003 contention
4004 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
4005 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
4006 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
4007 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4008 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
4009 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
4010 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
4011 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
4012 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
4013 rounding modes
4014 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
4015 ILP32
4016 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
4017 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
4018 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
4019 threshold
4020 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
4021 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
4022 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
4023 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
4024 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
4025 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
4026 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
4027 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
4028 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
4029 pthread_setaffinity_np
4030 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
4031 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
4032 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
4033 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
4034 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
4035 prelink
4036 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
4037 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
4038 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
4039 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
4040 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4041 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
4042 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
4043 bits/mathcalls.h
4044 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
4045 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
4046 for C99-based standards
4047 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
4048 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
4049 math-only
4050 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
4051 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
4052 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
4053 disabled
4054 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
4055 "inexact" exceptions
4056 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
4057 arguments
4058 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
4059 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
4060 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
4061 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
4062 rules
4063 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
4064 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
4065 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
4066 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
4067 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
4068 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
4069 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
4070 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
4071 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
4072 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
4073 from 32bit
4074 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
4075 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
4076 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
4077 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
4078 subnormals
4079 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
4080 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
4081 error on 32-bit architectures
4082 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
4083 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
4084 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
4085 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
4086 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
4087 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
4088 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
4089 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
4090 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
4091 -Os
4092 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
4093 CPU's.
4094 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
4095 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
4096 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
4097 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
4098 architectures
4099 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
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4101Version 2.22
4102
4103* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4104
3df5cd98 4105 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
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4106 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
4107 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
4108 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
4109 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
4110 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
4111 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
4112 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
4113 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
4114 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
4115 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
4116 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
4117 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
4118 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
4119 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
4120 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
4121 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
4122 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
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4123 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
4124 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
2959eda9 4125
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4126* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
4127 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
4128
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AS
4129* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
4130 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
4131 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
4132 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
4133 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
4134 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4a4839c9 4135
42261ad7
FW
4136* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
4137 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
4138 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
4139 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
4140 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
4141
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4142* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
4143 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
4144 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
4145
4a4839c9
AO
4146* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
4147 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
4148 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
4149 17998.
4150
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4151* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
4152 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
4153 condition in some applications.
21933112
AS
4154
4155* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
a6336cc4
AS
4156 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
4157 pow, powf.
21933112
AS
4158 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
4159 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
037e4b99
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4160 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
4161 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 4162 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
fdb7d390
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4163
4164* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
4165 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
4166 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
4167 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
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4168
4169* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
4170 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
4171 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
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4172
4173* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
4174 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
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4175
4176* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
4177 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
4178 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
4179
a03ba363 4180 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
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4181 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
4182 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
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4184Version 2.21
4185
4186* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4187
042e1521 4188 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
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4189 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
4190 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
4191 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
4192 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
4193 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
4194 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
4195 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
4196 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
4197 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
4198 17892.
4199
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4200* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
4201 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
4202 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
4203 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
4204 intended.
042e1521
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4205
4206* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
4207 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
4208 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
4209 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
4210 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
4211 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
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4213* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
4214
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4215* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
4216 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 4217 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
96d6fd6c 4218
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4219* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
4220 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
4221 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
4222 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
4223 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
4224 effects being visible outside transactions.
4225
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4226* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
4227 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
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4229* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
4230
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CD
4231* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
4232 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
ebda2f17 4233 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
a39208bd
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4234 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
4235 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
fb89b46d 4236
a5357b7c
JL
4237* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
4238 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
4239
e54db0ea
AM
4240* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
4241 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
4242 format.
11e3417a 4243
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JM
4244* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
4245 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
4246 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
4247
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4248* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
4249 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
4250
0d560bbf 4251* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
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RM
4252
4253* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
4254 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
4255 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
4256 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
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4257
4258* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
4259 with newer versions of bison.
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MF
4260
4261* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
4262 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
4263 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
4264 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
4265 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
4266 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
4267 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
4268 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
4269 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
4270 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
4271 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
4272 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
4273 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
4274
4275 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
4276 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
4277 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
4278 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
4279 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
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4281Version 2.20
4282
4283* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4284
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4285 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
4286 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
4287 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
4288 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
4289 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
4290 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
4291 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
4292 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
4293 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
4294 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
4295 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
4296 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
4297 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
4298 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
4299 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
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SL
4301* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
4302 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
4303 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
4304 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
4305 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 4306 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
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SL
4307 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
4308 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
4309 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
4310 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
4311
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JL
4312* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
4313 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
4314 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
4315 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
4316 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
f3d338c9 4317
f940b965
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4318* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
4319
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4320* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
4321 can be used with is 2.6.32.
4322
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JM
4323* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
4324 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
4325 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
4326 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
4327 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
4328 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
4329
464263cc
JM
4330* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
4331 from ports.
c941736c
JM
4332
4333* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
4334 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
4335 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
4336 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
4337 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
4338 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
4339 test macros defined.
f63c86fe
WN
4340
4341* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5a414ff7
DV
4342
4343* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
4344 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
4345 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
4346 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
4347 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
4348 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
4349 is not built.
d03efb2f
AM
4350
4351* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
4352 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
4353 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
4354 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
4355 invocation.
cfd2ea50
JM
4356
4357* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
4358 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
4359 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
f083450f
RM
4360
4361* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
4362 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
4363 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
4364 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
4e8f95a0
FW
4365
4366* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
4367 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
4368 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
4369 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
4370 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
4371 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
4372 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
4373 additional checks.
9a8a5720
RM
4374
4375* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
4376 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
4377 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
4378 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
4379 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
4380 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
4381 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
4382 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
4383 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
a1a6a401
FW
4384
4385* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
4386 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
4387 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
4388 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
4389 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 4390 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
41488498
FW
4391
4392* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
4393 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
4394 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
4395 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
6c1fd795
DM
4396\f
4397Version 2.19
4398
4399* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4400
fd2f9486
JM
4401 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
4402 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
4403 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
4404 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
4405 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
4406 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
4407 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
4408 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
4409 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
4410 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
ed27ed83
JM
4411 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
4412 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
4413 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
4414 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
4415 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
798212a0
PP
4416 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
4417 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
4418 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
141f3a77 4419
11520a57
CD
4420* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
4421 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
4422
2fe16229
CD
4423* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
4424 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
4425 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
08d76093
CD
4426 extension which uses __block.
4427
303e567a
SP
4428* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
4429 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
4430 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
4431 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
4432 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
4433
141f3a77
SP
4434* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
4435 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
4436 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
4437 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
4438 if malloc fails.
c61b4d41
CD
4439
4440* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
4441 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
4442 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
4443 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
4444 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
91ce4085
FW
4445
4446* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
4447 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
4448 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
4449
ba0d798c
WN
4450* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
4451 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
4452 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
4453 #15856, #15857).
4454
7cbcdb36
SP
4455* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
4456 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
4457
82bab04b 4458* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 4459 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
ddd9fb8f 4460
c5f840fd
MB
4461* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
4462
3e181dda
CD
4463* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
4464 supported locales.
ddd9fb8f 4465
3e181dda 4466* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
7447ccd9 4467
8a05c252
CL
4468* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
4469
6055173a
JM
4470* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
4471 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
4472 for which the C library was built.
4473
b125d3e5
JM
4474* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
4475 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
4476 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
4477 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
4478 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
4479 in the following circumstances:
4480
4481 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
4482
4483 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
4484 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
4485
d4f66d37
JM
4486* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
4487 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
4488
3e181dda
CD
4489* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
4490 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
e35696c3 4491
ffb89e53
AO
4492* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
4493
5d29ccce
SP
4494* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
4495 transcendental functions have been introduced.
4496
8b7d57cd 4497* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
b125d3e5
JM
4498
4499* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 4500
fd712ef3 4501* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 4502
c688b419
JM
4503* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
4504 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
4505 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
4506 disable some of those declarations.
4507
7011c262 4508* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
029c7b25
JM
4509 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
4510 that did nothing) has also been removed.
0a57b83e
AO
4511
4512* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
4513 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
ee4ec1d7
AK
4514
4515* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
4516 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
4517 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
4518 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
4519 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
4520 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
4521 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
4522 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
4523 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
4524 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
4525 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
4526 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
4527 require recompilation.
2c8bfe7d
DM
4528\f
4529Version 2.18
4530
4531* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4532
17db6e8d 4533 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
0432680e
PY
4534 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
4535 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
8c17cb1f
JM
4536 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
4537 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
4538 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
4539 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
4540 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
4541 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
4542 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
4543 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
4544 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
4545 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
4546 15755, 15759.
e4608715
CD
4547
4548* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
4549 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
4550 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
4551 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
4552 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
4553 understands and accepts the risks.
1cef1b19 4554
5b535ac4
AS
4555* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
4556 #15078).
4557
1cef1b19
AS
4558* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
4559 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
7fffbdff 4560
55e4107b
SP
4561* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
4562 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
4563 destructor calls to glibc.
4564
e5c74c63
SP
4565* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
4566 output.
4567
4568* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
4569 non-x86 architectures.
4570
e7521973
JM
4571* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
4572
4573* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
4574
4575* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
4576 Richard Henderson.
4577
4578* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
4579
4580* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
4581 Richard Henderson.
4582
4583* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
4584 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
4585
8cfdb7e0
SP
4586* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
4587
57267616
TS
4588* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
4589 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
58206c68 4590
c204ab28
SP
4591* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
4592 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
61dd6208 4593
0748546f
PE
4594* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
4595 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
4596 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
4597
61dd6208
SP
4598* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
4599 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
4600 attributes of a process.
a7cb9d67
AK
4601
4602* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
4603 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
4604 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
4605 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
4606 mutexes.
be063fa4
RA
4607
4608* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
4609 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
4610
4611* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
370ca3d2
JM
4612\f
4613Version 2.17
4614
4615* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4616
80ceeaee 4617 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
b4180a5e
AJ
4618 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
4619 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
4620 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
4621 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
4622 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
4623 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
4624 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
4625 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
4626 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
4627 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
4628 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
4629 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
4630 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
4631 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
14bc93a9 4632
95b4f1b6
SE
4633* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
4634
14bc93a9
JL
4635* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
4636 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
7a845b2c 4637
b54eb3cb
JM
4638* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
4639 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
4640
7e2bd01f
MS
4641* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
4642
08f43f9b
AK
4643* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
4644 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
4645 zEnterprise z196.
4646 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
4647
84b3fd84
FW
4648* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
4649 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
4650 the internal function __secure_getenv.
4651
815e6fa3
GB
4652* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
4653 Implemented by Gary Benson.
4654
400726de
MK
4655* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
4656 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
4657
7aab07e4 4658* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 4659 can be used with is 2.6.16.
7aab07e4 4660
15d0da8c
WS
4661* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
4662 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
4663
3cc3ef96
RM
4664* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
4665 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
c53d909c
RM
4666 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
4667 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3cc3ef96 4668
b54eb3cb
JM
4669* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
4670 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
4671
85429b1a 4672* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 4673 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
85429b1a
DM
4674 default.
4675
b54eb3cb
JM
4676* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
4677 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
4678 information in --help and --version output.
4679
050af9c4
SP
4680* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
4681 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
4682 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
4683
89a3ad0b
AO
4684* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
4685 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
4686 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
4687 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
4688 when the mode is enabled.
4689
6e6249d0
RM
4690* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
4691 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
4692 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
4693 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
4694 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
4695 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
4696 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5a04f376 4697
d9286582
NK
4698* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
4699 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
8d44e150
UD
4700\f
4701Version 2.16
4702
4703* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4704
a8133e19
JM
4705 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
4706 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
4707 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
4708 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
4709 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
4710 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
4711 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
4712 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
4713 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
4714 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
4715 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
4716 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
4717 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
4718 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
4719 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
4720 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
4721 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
4722 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
4723 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
4724 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
4725 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
4726 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
4727 14277, 14278.
380d7e87 4728
a086b4d6
L
4729* Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
4730 configuring glibc with:
4731 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
8f7a75d7 4732 Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
a086b4d6
L
4733 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4734
380d7e87
UD
4735* ISO C11 support:
4736
4737 + define static_assert
4738
4739 + do not declare gets
4740
4741 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
4742
4743 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
4744 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
4745 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
4746 implementation.
8d44e150 4747
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4750 + uchar.h support added
d75a0a62 4751
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4752 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
4753
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4754 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4755
9dc4e1fb 4756* Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
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4758* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
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4759
4760* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
4761 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4762
4763* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
4764 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4765
4766* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
4767 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
4768 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
4769 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
4770 existing applications.
ffb7875d 4771
21708942 4772* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
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4773 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
4774 before 2.6.
83678f76 4775
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4776* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
4777 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
4778 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
4779
83678f76 4780* New locales: mag_IN
7b44a2df
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4781
4782* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
4783 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
4784 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
4785 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
4786 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
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4787
4788* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4789
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4790* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
4791 and Will Schmidt.
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4792
4793* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
4794
4795* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
4796 without a previously built glibc.
4797
4798* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
4799 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
4800
4801* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
4802 now supported for ARM processors.
4803
4804* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
4805 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
4806 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
4807
4808* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
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4809
4810* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
4811 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
4812 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
4813 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
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4814
4815* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
4816 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
4817 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
4818 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
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4819
4820* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
4821 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
4822 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
4823 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
4824 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
4825
4826* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
4827 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
4828 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
4829 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
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e80fab37 4831Version 2.15
11988f8f 4832
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4833* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4834
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4835 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
4836 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
4837 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
4838 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
4839 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
4840 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
4841 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
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4843* New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
4844 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4845
4846* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
4847 and support for initgroups lookups.
4848 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4849
4850* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
4851 Contributed by HJ Lu.
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4852
4853* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
4854 Contributed by HJ Lu.
99710781 4855
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4856* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
4857 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 4858 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 4859
d42964a0 4860* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
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4861 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4862
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4863* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
4864 for x86-64 and x86-32.
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4865 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4866
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4867* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
4868 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4869
4870* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
4871 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4872
4873* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
4874 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4875
4876* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
4877 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4878
4879* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
4880 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4881
4882* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
4883 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4885* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
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4886
4887* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
4888 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a1267ba1 4889
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4890* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
4891 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
2655fd5c 4892
6b64057b 4893* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
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9f94d2ea 4896
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4897* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4898
553149f6 4899 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 4900 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 4901 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 4902 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
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4903 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
4904 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
4905 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
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4906 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
4907 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 4908 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
50934221 4909
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4910* The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
4911 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
4912 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 4913 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
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4914
4915 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
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4916 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
4917 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
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4918 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4919
c6489db3 4920* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
f1f929d7 4921 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
83fe108b 4922
72d1dddb 4923* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 4924 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
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4925
4926* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
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4927
4928* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
4929 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4930
4931* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
4932 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
4933 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
4934 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
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4936Version 2.13
4937
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4938* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4939
c30b7ee2
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4940 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
4941 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
4942 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
4943 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
4944 12378, 12394, 12397
ac2b484c 4945
10b3bedc 4946* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
c08fb0d7 4947
ac2b484c 4948* POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
8d50becc 4949
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4950* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
4951 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 4952 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4954Version 2.12
4955
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4956* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4957
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4958 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
4959 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
4960 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
4961 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
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4962 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
4963 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
4964 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 4965 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
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4966
4967* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
d36b9613 4968
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4969* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
4970
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4971* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
4972
4973* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
4974 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
4975 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4976
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4977* New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
4978 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
4979 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
4980 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
4981 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4982
d36b9613 4983* New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
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4984\f
4985Version 2.11
4986
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4987* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4988
4989 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
4990 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
4991 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
4992 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
4993 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
4994 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
4995
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4996* New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
4997 mkostemps64
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4998 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4999
24ab9c76 5000* Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
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5001 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5002
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5003* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
5004 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5005
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5006* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
5007
0122f28e 5008* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
9d36a6c4 5009 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 5010 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
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5011 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5012
9d36a6c4 5013 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
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5014 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5015
9d36a6c4
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5016* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
5017 strstr, strcasestr.
5018 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5019
5020* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
5021 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
5022
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5023* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
5024 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5025
5026* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
5027 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5028
5029* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
5030 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
5031 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
5032 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
5033 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
5034 necessity is every process again.
5035 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5036
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5037* New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
5038 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
5039
5040* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
5041 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
5042
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5043* Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
5044 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
5045 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5046
9dd5b8a1 5047* New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
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5048\f
5049Version 2.10
5050
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5051* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5052
5053 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
5054 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
5055 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
5056 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
5057 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
5058
bb066545 5059* New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
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5060 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5061
425ce2ed 5062* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
e109c612 5063 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 5064
1fdd89a7 5065* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
735be400 5066 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
1fdd89a7 5067
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5068* XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
5069 now in POSIX.
77db439e 5070
1f04d005 5071* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6cbe890a 5072 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1f04d005 5073
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5074* New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
5075 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5076
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5077* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
5078 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5079
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5080* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
5081 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5082
5083* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
5084 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
5085 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5086
735be400 5087* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
878b72c5 5088
84aa52d7 5089* Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
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5090 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5091
5092* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
5093 and extend existing format specifiers.
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5094 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5095
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5096* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
5097 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5098
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5099* DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
5100 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
5101 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
5102 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
5103 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
5104 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5106Version 2.9
5107
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5109
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5110 2447, 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447,
5111 6461, 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712,
5112 6713, 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839,
5113 6843, 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955,
5114 6966, 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
d36b9613 5115
b29899ae 5116* Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
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5117 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5118
5119* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
5120 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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5121
5122* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
5123 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5125* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
5126 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
5127 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5128
5129* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
5130 Implemented by Eric Blake.
e038616f 5131
8ec2550e 5132* New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
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5133
5134* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
ebcc1f4d 5135 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
e038616f 5136
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5137* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
5138 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
5139 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
5140 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5141
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5142* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
5143 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
48b22986 5144
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5145* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
5146 Sinhala)
48b22986 5147 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
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5148
5149* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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5152
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5153* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5154
5155 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
5156 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
5157 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
5158 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
5159 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
5160 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
5161 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
5162
e038616f 5163* New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
b4354cf4 5164
77751669 5165* New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
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5166
5167* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
5168 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
5169
5170* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
5171
5172* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
5173 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5174
5175* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
5176 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5177
5178* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
5179 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
5180 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5181
5182* Faster memset for x86-64.
5183 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
5184
5185* Faster memcpy on x86.
5186 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5187
5188* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
5189 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5191* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
d990b282 5192 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
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5194Version 2.7
5195
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5196* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5197
5198 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
5199 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
5200 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
5201 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
5202 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
5203
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5204* More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
5205 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5206
5207* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5208
5209* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
5210 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
5211 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5212
5213* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
5214 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
5215
28919a77 5216* New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
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5217 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5218
5219* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5220
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5221* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
5222 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5223
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5224* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
5225 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5226
5227* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
5228 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
5229
5230* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5231
5232* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
5233 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5235* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
5236 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
5237 yo_NG.
5238
5239+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
5240 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5245
5246 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
5247 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
5248 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
5249 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
5250 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
5251 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
5252 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
5253 4702, 4858
5254
bce20b9a 5255* New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
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5258
b21fa963 5259* nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5262
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5263* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5264
5265 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
5266 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
5267 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
5268 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
5269 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
5270 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
5271 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
5272 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
5273 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
5274
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5276 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
5277 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5279* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
5280 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5281
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5283
5284* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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5286* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
5287 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
5288 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
457b559e 5289 site might have problems with the default behavior.
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5290 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5291
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5293 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
5294 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
5295 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5296
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5297* The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
5298 Ulrich Drepper.
5299
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5300* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
5301
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5302* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
5303 Ulrich Drepper.
5304
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5305* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
5306
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5307* New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
5308 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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5311
5312* More overflow detection functions.
5313
5314* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
5315 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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5317 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
5318 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
5319 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
5320 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
5321 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
5322 by Masahide Washizawa.
5323
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5324* It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
5325 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5326
5327* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
5328 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
5329 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
5330 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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5332* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
5333 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
5334
5335* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
5336
5337* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
5338 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
5339 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
5340
5341* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
5342 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
5343
5344* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
5345 for compatibility with some other systems.
5346
5347* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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5349Version 2.3.6
5350
5351* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5352
5353 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
5354 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
5355 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
5356 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
5357 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
5358 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
5359
5a82c748 5360 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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5361
5362* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
5363
5364* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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5366Version 2.3.5
5367
5368* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5369
5370 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
5371 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
5372 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
5373 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
5374
5a82c748 5375 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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5377Version 2.3.4
5378
5379* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
5380 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5381
5382* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
5383 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
5384 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5385
5386* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
5387 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
5388
0325dd20 5389* getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
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5390 efficiently.
5391 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5392
5393* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
5394 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
5395 handling data.
5396
5397* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
5398 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
0325dd20 5399 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5400
5401* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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5402 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5403
5404* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
5405 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
5406 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
5407 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5408
5409* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
5410 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
5411 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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5412 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5413
5414* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
5415 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
5416 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
5417 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
5418 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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5420Version 2.3.3
5421
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5422* New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
5423 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
5424
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5425* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
5426 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
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5429 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
5430
5431* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
5432 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5433
5434* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
5435 by Roland McGrath.
5436
c5af724c 5437* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
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5438 and Ulrich Drepper.
5439
5440* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
5441 RFC 3484.
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5443Version 2.3.2
5444
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5445* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
5446 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
5447 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
5448 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
5449 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
5450 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
5451 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
5452 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
5453 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
5454
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5455* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
5456 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
5457 and are now also available on the Hurd.
5458
5459* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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5460
5461* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
5462 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
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5464* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
5465 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
5466
52a16e58 5467* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
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5469* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
5470 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
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5471
5472* With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
5473 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
5474 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
5475 of weak definition in ld.so.
5476
5477* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
5478 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
5479
5480* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
5481 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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37fb1084 5484
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5485* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
5486 charsets.
5487
5488* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
5489 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
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bb0ec5bd 5491* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 5492 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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5494* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
5495 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
8e57fc70 5496
bb0ec5bd 5497* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
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5498 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
5499 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5500
5501* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
5502 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3b0bdc72 5503
bb0ec5bd 5504* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3b0bdc72 5505 implementation of regex.
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5506
5507* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
5508 Unicode 3.2.
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5510* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
5511 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
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5513* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
5514 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
5515 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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5516
5517* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
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5519
5520* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
5521 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
5522 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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5523
5524* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
5525 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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5526
5527* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
5528 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
5529 and Ulrich Drepper.
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5530
5531* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
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5533Version 2.2.6
5534
5535* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
5536 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
5537
5538* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
5539 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
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5541Version 2.2.5
5542
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5543* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
5544 128-bit long double format.
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5546* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
5547 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
a8ae31c2 5548
ad2e4f18 5549* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
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5551* Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
5552
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5553* libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
5554 as well.
5555
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5556* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
5557 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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5558
5559* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
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5561Version 2.2.4
5562
2995f70e 5563* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 5564 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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5565
5566* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
5567 support Unicode 3.1.
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5569* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
5570 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
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69d5f925 5572* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 5573
69d5f925 5574* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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5575 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
5576 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5577
5578* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
5579 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
5580
5581* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
5582 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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5584* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
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5586Version 2.2.3
5587
1746f2b0 5588* Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
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5589 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
5590 in float, double, and long double format.
5591
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5593 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
5594 128-bit long double format.
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5596* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
5597 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
5598 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
5599 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
5600
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5601* An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
5602 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
5603 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5605* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
5606 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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5607
5608* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
5609 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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5611* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
5612 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
5613 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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5614
5615* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
5616 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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5618* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
5619 of functions for Linux/x86.
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5621* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
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5623Version 2.2.2
5624
464d97ec 5625* Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
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5626 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
5627 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
5628 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
5629 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
5630 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
5631 other headers.
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5633* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
5634 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
5635
5636* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
5637 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
5638 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
5639 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5640
5641* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
5642 locales. While
5643
5644 locale -a
5645
5646 only lists the names of the supported locales
5647
5648 locale -a --verbose
5649
5650 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
5651 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
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5653Version 2.2.1
5654
5655* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
5656 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
5657 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
5658 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
5659 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
5660
5661 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
5662
5663 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
5664
5665 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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5666
5667* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
5668 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
5669 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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5671* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
5672 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
5673
5674* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
5675 changed from the default "C" locale.
5676
5677* The usual bug fixes.
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5679Version 2.2
5680
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5681* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
5682 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
5683 is in progress.
5684
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5685* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
5686
793bd4d9 5687* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
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5689 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
5690 obviously requires a database library being available.
5691
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5692* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5693
abbffdf9 5694* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
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5696* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
5697 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
5698
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5699* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
5700
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5701* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
5702 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
5703 and Mark Kettenis.
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5704
5705 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
5706 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
5707 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 5708
a00c3ca9 5709 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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5710 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
5711
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5712* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
5713 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
5714 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
5715
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5717 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
5718 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
5719 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5720
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5721 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
5722 structures for the wide character tables.
5723
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5724* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5725
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5726* The utmp daemon has been removed.
5727
5728* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
5729
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5730* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
5731 and Yutaka Niibe.
5732
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5733* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
5734
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5735* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
5736
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5737* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5738
5739* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
5740
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5741* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
5742
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5743* the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
5744 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
5745 implemented for Linux.
5746
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5747* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
5748 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
5749 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
5750 versions.
5751
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5752* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
5753 Masahide Washizawa.
5754
8f3f1e09 5755* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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5756\f
5757Version 2.1.3
5758
5759* bug fixes
5760
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5762Version 2.1.2
5763
5764* bug fixes
5765
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5767Version 2.1.1
5768
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5769* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
5770
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5771* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
5772
407d26b7 5773* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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5774
5775* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
5776
407d26b7 5777* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 5778
407d26b7 5779* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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5780
5781* Update timezone data files.
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5783* lots of charmaps corrections
5784
5785* some new locale definitions and charmaps
5786
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5788Version 2.1
5789
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5790* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
5791 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
5792 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
5793 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
5794 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
5795 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
5796
c84142e8 5797* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 5798 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 5799
1fb05e3d 5800* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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5801 symbol level.
5802
5803* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
5804 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
377a515b 5805
cbdee279 5806* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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5807
5808* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 5809 numbers.
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cbdee279 5811* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
e61abf83 5812
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5813* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
5814 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
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5816* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
5817 library.
5818
e61abf83 5819* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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5820 functions from ISO C 9X.
5821
5822* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
5823 real valued functions.
e61abf83 5824
a5a0310d 5825* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
e61abf83 5826
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5827* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
5828
5829* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 5830
440d13e2 5831* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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5832
5833* Optimized string functions have been added.
5834
5835* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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5836
5837* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
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5839* Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
5840 daemon for NSS (nscd).
5841
5842 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
5843 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
5844
0dee6738 5845 user system wall
48244d09 5846
0dee6738 5847 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 5848
0dee6738 5849 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 5850
0dee6738 5851 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
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5853 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
5854
5855 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
5856
5857 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
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5859 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
5860 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
0dee6738 5861 horribly slow.
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5863 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
5864 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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5866* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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5867
5868* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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5869
5870* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
5871 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
5872
5873* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
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5875* A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
5876 Bambrough.
5877
5878* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
5879 latest draft standards.
5880
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5881* Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
5882
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5883* Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
5884~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
62595351 5885addseverity NEW: Unix98
48244d09 5886alphasort64 NEW: LFS
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5887argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
5888argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
5889argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
5890argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
5891argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
5892argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
5893argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
5894argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
5895argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
5896argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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5897authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
5898authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
5899authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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5900backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
5901backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
5902backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
5903cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
5904cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
5905cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
5906cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
5907cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
5908cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
5909capget NEW: kernel
5910capset NEW: kernel
5911carg NEW: ISO C 9x
5912cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
5913cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
5914casin NEW: ISO C 9x
5915casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
5916casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
5917casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5918casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5919casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
5920catan NEW: ISO C 9x
5921catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
5922catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
5923catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5924catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5925catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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5927ccos NEW: ISO C 9x
5928ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
5929ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
5930ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
5931ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
5932ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
5933cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
5934cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
5935cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
5936cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
5937cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
5938cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
5939clearerr_locked REMOVED
5940clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
5941clog NEW: ISO C 9x
5942clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
5943clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
5944clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
5945clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
5946clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
5947conj NEW: ISO C 9x
5948conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
5949conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
5950cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
5951cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
5952cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
5953cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
5954cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
5955cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
5956creal NEW: ISO C 9x
5957crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
5958creall NEW: ISO C 9x
5959creat64 NEW: LFS
5960csin NEW: ISO C 9x
5961csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
5962csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
5963csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5964csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5965csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
5966csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
5967csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
5968csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
5969ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
5970ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
5971ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
5972ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5973ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5974ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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5975des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
5976ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 5977endutxent NEW: Unix98
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5978exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x
5979exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
5980exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
5981exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
5982exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
5983exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
5984fattach NEW: STREAMS
5985fdetach NEW: STREAMS
5986fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
5987fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
5988fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
5989feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5990fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5991fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
5992fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
5993feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5994feof_locked REMOVED
5995feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5996ferror_locked REMOVED
5997fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5998fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
5999fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
6000fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6001feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6002fflush_locked REMOVED
6003ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
6004ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
6005fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
6006fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6007fileno_locked REMOVED
6008fma NEW: ISO C 9x
6009fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
6010fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
6011fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
6012fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
6013fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
6014fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
6015fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
6016fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
62595351 6017fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
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6018fopen64 NEW: LFS
6019fputc_locked REMOVED
6020fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6021fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6022freopen64 NEW: LFS
6023fseeko NEW: Unix98
6024fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
6025fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
6026fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
6027fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
6028ftello NEW: Unix98
6029ftello64 NEW: LFS
6030ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
6031ftw64 NEW: LFS
6032fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6033gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
6034gamma_r REMOVED
6035gammaf_r REMOVED
6036gammal_r REMOVED
6037getchar_locked REMOVED
6038getdate NEW: Unix98
6039getdate_err NEW: Unix98
6040getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
6041getmsg NEW: STREAMS
6042getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
e980ca92 6043getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
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6045getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
6046getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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6047getutxent NEW: Unix98
6048getutxid NEW: Unix98
6049getutxline NEW: Unix98
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6050glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
6051globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
6052gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
6053gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
6054grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
e980ca92 6055host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
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6056iconv NEW: iconv
6057iconv_close NEW: iconv
6058iconv_open NEW: iconv
6059if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
6060if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
6061if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
6062if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
6063in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
6064in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
6065inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
6066isastream NEW: STREAMS
6067iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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6068key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
6069key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
6070key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
6071key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
6072key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
6073key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
6074key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
6075key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
6076key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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6077llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
6078llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6079llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6080llround NEW: ISO C 9x
6081llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6082llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6083log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
6084log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
6085log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
6086lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
6087lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6088lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6089lround NEW: ISO C 9x
6090lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6091lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6092lseek64 NEW: LFS
6093makecontext NEW: Unix98
6094mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
6095mmap64 NEW: LFS
6096moncontrol REMOVED
6097modify_ldt NEW: kernel
6098nan NEW: ISO C 9x
6099nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6100nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
6101nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
6102nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6103nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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6104netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
6105netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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6106nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
6107nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
6108nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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6109nftw NEW: Unix98
6110nftw64 NEW: LFS
6111open64 NEW: LFS
e980ca92 6112passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
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6113pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
6114pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
6115pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
6116pread NEW: Unix98
6117pread64 NEW: LFS
6118printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
6119printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
6120profil_counter REMOVED
6121pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
6122pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
6123ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
6124ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
6125putc_locked REMOVED
6126putchar_locked REMOVED
6127putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
6128putmsg NEW: STREAMS
6129putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
62595351 6130pututxline NEW: Unix98
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6131pwrite NEW: Unix98
6132pwrite64 NEW: LFS
6133readdir64 NEW: LFS
6134readdir64_r NEW: LFS
6135remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
6136remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
6137remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
6138round NEW: ISO C 9x
6139roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6140roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6141rtime NEW: GNU ext.
6142scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
6143scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
6144scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
6145scandir64 NEW: LFS
6146sendfile NEW: kernel
6147setcontext NEW: Unix98
6148setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 6149setutxent NEW: Unix98
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6150sighold NEW: Unix98
6151sigignore NEW: Unix98
6152sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
6153sigrelse NEW: Unix98
6154sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
6155sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
6156sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
6157sincos NEW: GNU ext.
6158sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
6159sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
6160statfs64 NEW: LFS
6161statvfs NEW: Unix98
6162statvfs64 NEW: LFS
6163strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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6164strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
6165strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
6166strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
e980ca92 6167svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
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6168svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
6169svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
6170swapcontext NEW: Unix98
6171tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
6172tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
6173tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
6174tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
6175tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
6176tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
6177trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
6178truncate64 NEW: LFS
6179truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
6180truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
6181umount2 NEW: kernel
6182unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 6183updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 6184user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 6185utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 6186versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
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6188waitid NEW: Unix98
6189wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
6190wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
6191wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
6192wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
6193wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
6194wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
6195wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
6196wcswcs NEW: Unix98
6197wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
6198wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
6199write_profiling REMOVED
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6201xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
6202xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
6203xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
6204xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
6205xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
6206xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
6207xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
6208xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
6209xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
6210xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
6211xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
6212xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 6213xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
e980ca92 6214xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 6215~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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6217Version 2.0.6
6218
6219* more bug fixes
6220
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6222Version 2.0.5
6223
6224* more bug fixes
6225
6226* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
6227
6228* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
6229
6230* rewrite of cbrt function
6231
6232* update of timezone data
6233\f
6234Version 2.0.4
6235
6236* more bug fixes
6237\f
6238Version 2.0.3
6239
6240* more bug fixes
c84142e8 6241\f
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6242Version 2.0.2
6243
6244* more bug fixes
6245
6246* add atoll function
6247
6248* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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6249
6250* fix math functions
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6252Version 2.0.1
6253
6254* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
6255
6256* dynamic loader preserves all registers
6257
6258* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
6259 the ELF dynamic loader.
6260
6261* support for parallel builds is improved
6262\f
40a4b79f 6263Version 2.0
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6265* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
6266 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
6267 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
6268
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6269* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
6270 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
6271 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
6272 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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6273 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
6274 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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6275 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
6276 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
6277 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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6278 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
6279 files in the ELF format.
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6280
6281* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
6282 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
6283
6284* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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6285 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
6286 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
6287 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
6288 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
6289 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
6290 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
6291 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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6292 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
6293 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
6294 about dynamically linked binaries.
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6296* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
6297 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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6298 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
6299 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
6300 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 6301
f7eac6eb 6302* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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6303 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
6304 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
6305 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
6306 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
6307
6308* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
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6310* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
6311 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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6312 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
6313 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
6314 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
6315 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
6316 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
6317 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
6318 NSS services available.
5f0e6fc7 6319
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6320* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
6321 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
6322 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
6323
6324* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
6325 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
6326 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
6327
6328* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
6329 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
6330 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
6331 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
6332
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6333* The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
6334 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
6335 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
6336
6337* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
6338 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
6339 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
6340
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6341* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
6342 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
6343
f7eac6eb 6344* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 6345 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 6346 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
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6347 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
6348
6349* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
6350 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
6351 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 6352
71733723 6353* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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6354 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
6355 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
6356 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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6357 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
6358 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 6359 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 6360 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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6361
6362* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
6363 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
6364 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
6365 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
6366 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
6367 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
6368 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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6369
6370* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
6371 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
6372 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
6373 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
6374 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
6375 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
6376
6377* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
6378 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
6379
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6380* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
6381 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
6382 NSS scheme used in glibc.
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6384* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
6385
6386* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
6387 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
6388 their use is discouraged.
6389
6390* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
6391 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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6393* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
6394 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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6395
6396* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
6397 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
6398
6399* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
6400 see <dirent.h>.
6401
6402* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
6403 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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6404 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
6405 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
6406 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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6407
6408* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
6409 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
6410 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
6411 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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6412
6413* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
6414 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
6415
6416* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
6417 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
6418 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
6419 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
6420 number generator.
6421
6422* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
6423 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
6424
6425* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
6426 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
6427
71733723 6428* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 6429 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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6430 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
6431 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
c709e372 6432
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6433* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
6434
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6435* David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
6436 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
6437 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
6438
6439* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
6440 for arithmetic and string handling.
d3669add 6441
c709e372 6442* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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6443 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
6444 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
6445 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
6446
6447* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
6448 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
6449 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
6450 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
6451 programs already written to use it.)
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6452
6453* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
6454 constants.
6455
6456* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
6457 with 4.4 BSD.
6458
6459* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
6460 a given effective group ID.
6461
6462* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
6463 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
6464 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
6465 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
6466
6467* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 6468 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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6469 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
6470 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
6471 doing the same thing.
6472
6473* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
6474 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
6475
6476* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 6477 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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6478
6479* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
6480
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6481* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
6482 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
6483 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 6484 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 6485 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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6486
6487* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
6488 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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6489
6490* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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6491 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
6492 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
6493 function.
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6494
6495* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
6496
6497* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
6498 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
6499 strings.
6500
6501* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
6502 and writing the utmp file.
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6503
6504* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
6505 Thorsten Kukuk.
6506
6507* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
6508 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
6509 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
6510
6511* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
6512 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
6513
6514* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
6515 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
6516 specification.
6517
6518* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
6519 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
6520 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
6521 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
6522
6523* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
6524 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
6525 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
6526
6527* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
6528 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
6529 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
6530 expression matcher.
6531
6532* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
6533 functionality.
6534
6535* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
6536 by Ulrich Drepper.
6537
6538* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
6539
6540* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
6541 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
6542 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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6544Version 1.09
6545
6546* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
6547
6548* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
6549 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
6550
6551* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
6552 want to put themselves in the background.
6553
6554* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
6555 run without an operating system.
6556
6557* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
6558 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
6559
6560* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
6561 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
6562
6563* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
6564
6565* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
6566 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
6567 have YP (aka NIS).
6568
6569* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
6570 conventions.
6571
6572* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
6573 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
6574\f
6575Version 1.08
6576
6577* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
6578 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
6579 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
6580
6581* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
6582 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
6583
6584* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
6585 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
6586
6587* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
6588
6589* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
6590
6591* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
6592 compatibility.
6593
6594* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
6595 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
6596 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
6597
6598* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
6599
6600* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
6601 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
6602 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
6603
6604* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
6605 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
6606 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
6607 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
6608 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
6609 on a block).
6610
6611* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
6612 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
6613 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
6614 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
6615 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
6616 cross-compiler.
6617
6618* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
6619 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
6620\f
6621Version 1.07
6622
6623* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
6624 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
6625
6626* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
6627 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
6628 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
6629
6630* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
6631 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
6632 address of the last character written.
6633
6634* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
6635 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
6636
6637* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
6638 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
6639
6640* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
6641 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
6642 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
6643 you dereference this pointer.
6644
6645* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
6646 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
6647
6648* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
6649 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
6650 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
6651 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
6652
6653* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
6654 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
6655 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
6656 EAGAIN in every system call function.
6657\f
6658Version 1.06
6659
6660* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
6661 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
6662 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
6663 in Emacs or the `info' program.
ea278354 6664 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
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6665
6666* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
6667
6668* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
6669
6670* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
6671 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
6672
6673* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
6674 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
6675
6676* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
6677 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
6678
6679* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
6680 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
6681 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
6682 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
6683 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
6684
6685* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
6686 to the error code in `errno'.
6687
6688* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
6689 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
6690 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
6691 malloc'd string.
6692
6693* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
6694 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
6695 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
6696
6697* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
6698 uniquely-named temporary file.
6699\f
6700Version 1.05
6701
6702* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
6703 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
6704 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
6705
6706* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
6707 characters.
6708
6709* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
6710 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
6711
6712* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
6713\f
6714Version 1.04
6715
6716* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
6717 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
6718 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
6719 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
6720
6721* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
6722 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
6723 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
6724
6725* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
6726 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
6727
6728* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
6729 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
6730 made itself into a shared library.
6731
6732* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
6733 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
6734
6735* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
6736 with limited length.
6737
6738* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
6739
6740* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
6741
6742* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
6743
6744* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
6745 function for traversing a directory tree.
6746
6747* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
6748 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
6749 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
6750 formatted output directly to an obstack.
6751
6752* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
6753 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
6754
6755* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
6756
6757* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
6758 things to your strings.
6759
6760* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
6761
6762* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
6763 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
6764 supporting those systems.
6765
6766* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
6767 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
6768 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
6769 configuration files.
6770
6771* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
6772 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
6773
6774* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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6775 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
6776 in <strings.h>.)
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6777
6778* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
6779 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
6780 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
6781 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
6782 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
6783 required storage is not available.
6784
6785* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
6786 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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6787
6788* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
6789 latest files released from Berkeley.
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6793
6794 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
6795 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
6796 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
6797 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
6798
6799 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
6800 of this document, or of portions of it,
6801 under the above conditions, provided also that they
6802 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
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