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ee9247c3 1GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
26420023 2Copyright (C) 1992-2025 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 2.43
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10Major new features:
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0f201f4a 12* The ISO C23 memset_explicit function has been added.
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14* The ISO C23 memalignment function has been added.
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16* As specified in ISO C23, the assert macro is defined to take variable
17 arguments to support expressions with a comma inside a compound
18 literal initializer not surrounded by parentheses.
19
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20* For ISO C23, the functions bsearch, memchr, strchr, strpbrk, strrchr,
21 strstr, wcschr, wcspbrk, wcsrchr, wcsstr and wmemchr that return
22 pointers into their input arrays now have definitions as macros that
23 return a pointer to a const-qualified type when the input argument is
24 a pointer to a const-qualified type.
25
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26* The C23 typedef names long_double_t, _Float32_t, _Float64_t, and (on
27 platforms supporting _Float128) _Float128_t, introduced in TS
28 18661-3:2015, have been added to <math.h>.
29
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30* On Linux, the mseal function has been added. It allows for sealing
31 memory mappings to prevent further changes during process execution,
32 such as changes to protection permissions, unmapping, relocation to
33 another location, or shrinking the size.
34
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35* The ISO C23 functions free_sized and free_aligned_sized are now
36 supported in <stdlib.h>.
37
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38* Additional optimized and correctly rounded mathematical functions have
39 been imported from the CORE-MATH project, in particular acosh, asinh,
40 atanh, erf, erfc, lgamma, and tgamma.
41
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42* Optimized implementations for fma, fmaf, remainder, remaindef, frexpf,
43 frexp, frexpl (binary128), and frexpl (intel96) have been added.
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45* The SVID handling for acosf, acoshf, asinhf, atan2f, atanhf, coshf,
46 lgammaf/lgammaf_r, log10f, sinhf, sqrtf, tgammaf, y0/j0, y1/j1, and yn/jn
47 were moved to compat symbols, allowing improvements in performance.
48
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49Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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51* Support for dumped heaps has been removed - malloc_set_state() now always
52 returns the error code -1.
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54* The uimaxabs function has been renamed to umaxabs, following a change
55 to the name of that function in ISO C2Y. The old function continues
56 to exist as a compatibility symbol for old binaries.
57
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58* The fromfp, fromfpx, ufromfp and ufromfpx functions, and the
59 corresponding functions for other floating-point types, now return
60 their result in the same type as their floating-point argument, rather
61 than intmax_t or uintmax_t, in accordance with a change to the
62 definition of these functions in ISO C23. Existing binaries that use
63 the versions returning intmax_t or uintmax_t will continue to work.
64
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65* The support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes has been removed on all
66 architectures (powerpc, s390x, x86_64).
67
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68Changes to build and runtime requirements:
69
70 [Add changes to build and runtime requirements here]
71
72Security related changes:
73
74The following CVEs were fixed in this release, details of which can be
75found in the advisories directory of the release tarball:
76
77 [The release manager will add the list generated by
78 scripts/process-advisories.sh just before the release.]
79
80The following bugs were resolved with this release:
81
82 [The release manager will add the list generated by
83 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
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85Version 2.42
86
87Major new features:
88
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89* The following ISO C23 function families (introduced in TS
90 18661-4:2015) are now supported in <math.h>. Each family includes
91 functions for float, double, long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx, and a
92 type-generic macro in <tgmath.h>.
93
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94 - Power and absolute-value functions: compoundn, pown, powr, rootn,
95 rsqrt.
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97* On Linux, the pthread_gettid_np function has been added.
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99* The ISO C2Y family of unsigned abs functions, i.e. uabs, ulabs,
100 ullabs, and uimaxabs, is now supported.
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102* On Linux, the <termios.h> interface now supports arbitrary baud rates;
103 speed_t is redefined to simply be the baud rate specified as an
104 unsigned int, which matches the kernel interface.
105
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106* The thread-local cache in malloc (tcache) now supports caching of
107 large blocks. This feature can be enabled by setting the tunable
108 glibc.malloc.tcache_max to a larger value (max 4194304). Tcache is
109 also significantly faster for small sizes.
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111* A new configure option, "--enable-sframe", can be used to enable
112 SFrame support of the GNU C Libraries. SFrame is a new stack trace
113 information format which can be used by backtrace. It requires
114 binutils with a minimum version of 2.45.
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116* Support for lightweight stack guard pages via madvise and the
117 MADV_GUARD_INSTALL flag has been added to pthread_create.
118
119* Additional optimized and correctly rounded mathematical functions have
120 been imported from the CORE-MATH project, in particular acospif,
121 asinpif, atanpif, atan2pif, cospif, sinpif, tanpif.
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123* The testsuite has been significantly extended, including coverage of
124 the functionality of the printf and scanf function families in many
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125 variants.
126
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127* The manual has been significantly extended and updated, particularly
128 the threads, terminal, filesystem, resource, and math chapters.
129
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130* Code has been added to detect the x86-64 Intel Arrow Lake, Panther
131 Lake, Clearwater Forest, and Diamond Rapids microarchitectures.
132
133* Regarding S390, support for the new z17 platform has been added.
134
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135Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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137* The glibc.rtld.execstack tunable now supports a compatibility mode to
138 allow programs that require an executable stack through dynamically
139 loaded shared libraries.
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141* On Linux, the <termio.h> header and the definition of struct termio
142 in <sys/ioctl.h> have been removed. The termio interface has been
143 obsolete since the very first version of POSIX.1 in 1988, replaced
144 with <termios.h>.
145
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146* The support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes has been deprecated
147 on all architectures and will be removed in the next release.
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149* On AArch64 Linux targets supporting the Scalable Matrix Extension
150 (SME), setjmp and sigsetjmp will disable the ZA state of SME.
30c7cf66 151
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152Changes to build and runtime requirements:
153
8322e93d 154* GCC 12.1 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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156* GNU Binutils 2.39 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
157
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158Security related changes:
159
160The following CVEs were fixed in this release, details of which can be
161found in the advisories directory of the release tarball:
162
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163 GLIBC-SA-2025-0001:
164 assert: Buffer overflow when printing assertion failure message
165 (CVE-2025-0395)
166
167 GLIBC-SA-2025-0003:
168 power10: strcmp fails to save and restore nonvolatile vector
169 registers (CVE-2025-5702)
170
171 GLIBC-SA-2025-0004:
172 power10: strncmp fails to save and restore nonvolatile vector
173 registers (CVE-2025-5745)
174
175 GLIBC-SA-2025-0005:
176 posix: Fix double-free after allocation failure in regcomp
177 (CVE-2025-8058)
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178
179The following bugs were resolved with this release:
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181 [5994] stdio: fflush after ungetc on seekable input stream
182 [12724] stdio: fclose violates POSIX 2008 on seekable input streams
183 [25263] dynamic-link: ldd and ld.so fail to resolve $ORIGIN with cross
184 dir symlink
185 [27880] nptl: Please provide a pthread pid accessor
186 [29190] dynamic-link: Symbols with version hash zero lead to crashes,
187 not matched correctly
188 [29459] stdio: fwrite does not return EPIPE when underlying write
189 fails with EPIPE.
190 [31791] nss: [Regression] nss: memory for >8 elements in nsswitch.conf
191 is not freed
192 [32058] libc: qsort leaks memory if C++ exception is thrown from
193 comparison function
194 [32269] dynamic-link: RISC-V IFUNC resolver cannot access gp pointer
195 [32369] stdio: fflush(NULL) doesn't properly flush files opened in
196 read mode
197 [32411] math: THREEp96 seems wrong
198 [32412] dynamic-link: Initial DTV is reallocated using main realloc in
199 auditing mode
200 [32483] locale: ctype.h macros segfault in multithreaded programs with
201 multiple libc.so
202 [32529] stdio: fseek failure on file opened with "rm" mode after
203 ungetc
204 [32535] stdio: fflush failure on file opened with "rm" mode after
205 ungetc
206 [32541] libc: getenv cannot be overridden in static builds
207 [32574] libc: pthread_attr_getstacksize/pthread_attr_getstack return
208 incorrect main stack size
209 [32612] dynamic-link: [aarch64 PAC] _dl_tlsdesc_dynamic can't be
210 unwound through with _Unwind_Backtrace
211 [32626] math: math: log10p1f is not correctly rounded
212 [32627] math: math: sinhf is not correctly rounded
213 [32630] math: math: tanf is not correctly rounded for all rounding
214 modes
215 [32653] dynamic-link: Review options for improving both security and
216 backwards compatibility of glibc 2.41 dlopen / execstack handling
217 [32694] math: wrong clang version 3.4 prereq checks in bits/floatn.h
218 for __float128 support, should be 3.9
219 [32708] libc: Inclusion of sys/mount.h triggers many gcc warnings
220 using -Wshift-overflow=2 -Wsystem-headers
221 [32711] math: math: remainder incorrect sign of zero result
222 [32717] libc: glibc tests fail when bfd is built with --enable-error-
223 execstack=yes
224 [32723] math: [2.41 Regression] /usr/include/bits/floatn.h doesn't
225 work with Intel SYCL compiler
226 [32763] dynamic-link: Static PIE with more than one PT_LOAD segments
227 at offset 0 segfault
228 [32777] crypt: The performance of the rand() function degradation
229 [32781] libc: Inccorect attribute access for sched_getattr
230 [32782] nptl: Race conditions in pthread cancellation causing crash
231 [32786] nptl: pthread_cond_* symbols should probably have had a
232 version bump in 2.41
233 [32795] nptl: aio_suspend_time64 confuses CLOCK_MONOTONIC and
234 CLOCK_REALTIME
235 [32810] dynamic-link: Immediate crash on x86-64 when running with
236 GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.cpu.hwcaps=-XSAVEC
237 [32823] libc: make[2]: *** [../Rules:248:
238 /home/dave/gnu/glibc/objdir/elf/tst-origin] Error 1
239 [32897] dynamic-link: pthread_getattr_np fails when executable stack
240 tunable is set
241 [32918] math: math: atanhf triggers UB
242 [32919] math: math: coshf triggers UB
243 [32920] math: math: logf triggers UB
244 [32921] math: math: sinhf triggers UB
245 [32922] math: math: cbrtf triggers UB
246 [32923] math: math: cospif triggers UB
247 [32924] math: math: erfcf triggers UB
248 [32925] math: math: sinpif triggers UB
249 [32932] libc: riscv: __riscv_hwprobe function attributes are incorrect
250 [32947] libc: stdlib: wrong iovec array size on __libc_message_impl
251 [32980] manual: getopt_long_only does not check long options first, as
252 the manual claims
253 [32981] ports: elf/tst-execstack-prog-static-tunable fails on
254 sparc64-linux-gnu
255 [32987] libc: New tst-dlopen-sgid test FAILs
256 [32996] malloc: i386 TLS helper functions don't preserve XMM registers
257 [33035] libc: [2.27 regression] Linux: __close_nocancel_nostatus
258 clobbers errno
259 [33056] string: Power 10 strcmp clobbers nonvolatile vector registers
260 (CVE-2025-5702)
261 [33059] string: Power 10 memchr clobbers v20
262 [33060] string: Power 10 strncmp clobbers nonvolatile vector registers
263 (CVE-2025-5745)
264 [33088] dynamic-link: __ehdr_start may need run-time relocation
265 [33089] build: [2.42 Regression] GCC 14.2.1 failed to build glibc
266 [33134] libc: mcount_internal shouldn't use vector/r16-r31 registers
267 nor call memcpy/memset
268 [33139] stdio: %n after static dlopen is unreliable if file
269 descriptors are exhausted
270 [33165] build: [2.42 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
271 [33173] math: Wrong IFUNC selector is used for modf/modff
272 [33185] regex: Double-free after memory allocation failure in regcomp
273 bracket expression parsing (CVE-2025-8058)
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274 [33224] dynamic-link: _dl_debug_state hook no longer works (since
275 8329939a37f483a16013dd8af8303cbcb86d92cb)
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277Version 2.41
278
279Major new features:
280
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281* Support for testing a glibc build with a set of C and C++ compilers
282 different from the C and C++ compilers used to build glibc has been
dc650eb7 283 added:
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285
dc650eb7 286 This includes support for testing the glibc build with Clang, e.g.,
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287 $ ../configure TEST_CC="clang" TEST_CXX="clang++"
288
289 Some run-time failures with Clang are expected.
290
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291* The glibc test suite has been extended again significantly, with now
292 6232 separate tests compared to 5408 in glibc-2.40.
293
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294* In /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_OPTIONS environment variable, option
295 flags can now be prefixed with “-” to clear previously set flags.
296 For example, if /etc/resolv.conf contains “options no-aaaa”, a
297 process running with the RES_OPTIONS=-no-aaaa environment variable
298 performs AAAA DNS queries when the glibc DNS stub resolver is used.
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300* The DNS stub resolver now supports the strict-error option. If
301 activated, getaddrinfo for the AF_UNSPEC address family (with dual
302 A/AAAA DNS lookups) attemps to obtain an A/AAAA response pair from
303 another DNS server if one of the responses indicates failure. Without
304 the strict-error option, getaddrinfo returns the A record data it has
305 obtained even if the AAAA query failed. The new strict error mode is
306 incompatible with some DNS environments which do not follow the RFCs,
307 which is why this mode is not enabled by default. A future version
308 of the library may turn it on by default, however.
309
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310* On Linux, the sched_setattr and sched_getattr functions have been
311 added, for supporting parameterized scheduling policies such as
312 SCHED_DEADLINE.
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314* The iconv program now supports converting files in place. The program
315 automatically uses a temporary file if required.
316
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317* Character encoding, character type info, and transliteration tables
318 have been updated to Unicode 16.0.0.
319
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320* The following ISO C23 function families (introduced in TS
321 18661-4:2015) are now supported in <math.h>. Each family includes
322 functions for float, double, long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx, and a
323 type-generic macro in <tgmath.h>.
324
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325 - Trigonometric functions: acospi, asinpi, atan2pi, atanpi, cospi,
326 sinpi, tanpi.
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e442e837 328* The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2Y_SOURCE to
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329 enable features from the draft ISO C2Y standard. Only some features
330 from this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as
331 the draft is under active development, the set of features enabled by
332 this macro is liable to change. Features from C2Y are also enabled
333 by _GNU_SOURCE, or by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2y".
334
335* Optimized and correctly rounded exp10m1f, exp2m1f, expm1f, log10f,
336 log2p1f, log1pf, log10p1f, cbrtf, erff, erfcf, lgammaf, tgammaf,
337 tanf, acosf, acoshf, asinf, asinhf, atanf, atan2f, atanhf, coshf,
338 sinhf, and tanhf functions have been added from the CORE-MATH
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339 project <https://core-math.gitlabpages.inria.fr/>.
340
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341* A benchtest framework is now in place to track the performance of many
342 (mostly numerical) functions.
343
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344* A new tunable, glibc.rtld.execstack, can be used to control whether an
345 executable stack is allowed from the main program, either implicitly
346 due to a mising GNU_STACK ELF header or explicit explicitly because
347 of the executable bit in GNU_STACK. The default is to allow
348 executable stacks.
349
350* Support for the extensible rseq ABI introduced in the Linux kernel
351 version 6.3 has been added. The size and alignment of the rseq area
352 is now determined by auxiliary vector entries when provided by the
353 running kernel. This results in __rseq_size now exposing features
354 past the original ABI which currently include 'node_id' and 'mm_cid'
355 and will also allow exposing new features as they get added to future
356 Linux kernels.
357
358* The GNU C Library now supports the Guarded Control Stack extension
359 that allows to use shadow stacks on AArch64 systems that support this
360 extension. Building the library with standard branch protection
361 enabled while using a toolchain that supports GCS (binutils 2.44 and
362 GCC 15 or later) will enable GCS support in glibc. There is no
363 special configuration flag. GCS-enabled glibc is compatible with all
364 existing executables and shared libraries and will run with and
365 without GCS support in the system. GCS is opt-in and can be
366 controlled at runtime via the glibc.cpu.aarch64_gcs tunable. By
367 default GCS is disabled. Linux kernel supports this since 6.13.
368
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369* Significant effort has been put into improving the code generation
370 and speed of mathematical functions in the vector mathematics library
371 on AArch64, with regard to the Scalable Vector Extension (SVE) and
372 Advanced SIMD (Neon) intrinsics.
373
374* Support for memory protection keys on AArch64 systems with enabled
375 Stage 1 permission overlays feature as introduced in Armv8.9 / 9.4
376 has been added.
377
378* On PowerPC64, support for the return-oriented programming protection
379 instructions added in ISA 3.1 (Power10) has been added, as well as
380 function optimizations for Power10.
381
382* A new architecture type has been introduced internally to better
383 support Hygon x86-64 processors.
384
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385Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting
386compatibility:
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388* abort is now async-signal-safe and its implementation makes longjmp
389 from the SIGABRT handler always abort if set up with setjmp. Use
390 sigsetjmp to keep the old behavior, where the handler does not stop
391 the process execution.
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0ca8785a 393* dlopen and dlmopen no longer make the stack executable if a shared
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394 library requires it, either implicitly because of a missing GNU_STACK
395 ELF header (and default ABI permission having the executable bit set)
396 or explicitly because of the executable bit in GNU_STACK, and the
397 stack is not already executable. Instead, loading such objects will
398 fail.
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400* The nios2*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
401
402* The big-endian ARC port (arceb-linux-gnu) has been removed.
403
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404Changes to build and runtime requirements:
405
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406* On recent Linux kernels with vDSO getrandom support, getrandom does
407 not act as a "shall occur" cancellation point, in which case it might
461cab1d 408 not issue a syscall or trigger a deferred cancellation event.
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410* Testing the GNU C Library requires GNU awk to be compiled with support
411 for high precision arithmetic via the MPFR library.
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413Security related changes:
414
415The following CVEs were fixed in this release, details of which can be
416found in the advisories directory of the release tarball:
417
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418 GLIBC-SA-2025-0001:
419 assert: Buffer overflow when printing assertion failure message
420 (CVE-2025-0395)
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421
422The following bugs were resolved with this release:
423
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424 [6050] locale: iconv(1) buffers all of stdin in memory
425 [10460] locale: iconv does not support in-place conversion
426 [12683] nptl: Race conditions in pthread cancellation
427 [14147] nptl: Async cancellation left active after longjmp out of
428 signal handler
429 [14799] network: RES_OPTIONS cannot disable options enabled in
430 /etc/resolv.conf
431 [17703] locale: iconv(1) EFAULTs reading the second non-mmapable input
432 [20632] stdio: Buffer overflow in wchar IO (_IO_wfile_overflow)
433 [23675] stdio: freopen() with "ccs=<charset>" leaves the stream
434 unoriented
435 [25847] nptl: pthread_cond_signal failed to wake up pthread_cond_wait
436 due to a bug in undoing stealing
437 [26275] libc: abort(3) is not signal-safe
438 [27543] ports: Inconsistent behavior when handling FPSCR on SH
439 [27821] stdio: double call to ungetc causes uninitialized memory
440 reading. (also: ungetc causes memory leak)
441 [29437] libc: arc4random is too slow
442 [30009] build: unterminated options list in benchtest
443 [30081] network: libresolv: timeout when running in single-request
444 mode
445 [30220] math: String to double returns incorrectly rounded value for
446 hexadecimal subnormal
447 [30584] libc: initstate and initstate_r crash when the state argument
448 is unaligned
449 [30647] stdio: scanf functions wrong on nan()
450 [31394] libc: clone on sparc might fail with -EFAULT for no valid
451 reason
452 [31717] dynamic-link: TLS for library gets reallocated when loaded in
453 two contexts.
454 [31799] dynamic-link: -static-pie -Wl,-Ttext-segment=0x50000 doesn't
455 work
456 [31859] locale: Transliteration rules with two input characters like
457 "ḌḌ" "DDH" do not work.
458 [31890] network: DNS stub resolver ignores header-only error responses
459 [31928] build: glibc doesn't compile if the compiler already define
460 _FORTIFY_SOURCE
461 [31968] libc: mremap implementation in C does not handle arguments
462 correctly
463 [31985] dynamic-link: la_objopen not called when ld.so is imported
464 into a private namespace. However, la_objclose is called with an
465 unknown cookie.
466 [31997] libc: exit is not thread-safe, even when all atexit handlers
467 are thread-safe
468 [32026] libc: strerror, strsignal TLS not handled correctly for
469 secondary namespaces (dlmopen, LD_AUDIT)
470 [32033] locale: iconv (the program) does not truncate output file if
471 input is empty
472 [32040] nptl: CPU affinity test skeleton for sched_setaffinity and
473 pthread_setaffinity_np can fail to report failure.
474 [32042] build: Compilation issue for tst-resolv-short-response.c with
475 older GCC
476 [32045] math: nan() / strtod() incorrectly set errno for overflowing
477 nan payload
478 [32046] locale: iconv -c fails to report input encoding errors if
479 output buffer is full
480 [32047] libc: Tunables may incorrectly set Prefer_PMINUB_for_stringop
481 [32050] locale: iconv - - < /dev/null fails with Bad file descriptor
482 [32052] libc: stdlib.h's use of 'sz' identifier causes libstdc++ test
483 failure
484 [32065] dynamic-link: _dl_fini does not call la_objclose for proxy
485 link maps
486 [32066] dynamic-link: dlclose signals la_activity (LA_ACT_DELETE)
487 after la_objclose calls
488 [32078] string: Random __strchrnul_evex512 failures
489 [32124] libc: readdir_r does not relay errors reported by the kernel
490 [32125] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in __syscall_cancel_arch for
491 powerpc64le-linux-gnu
492 [32126] libc: readdir64_r: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
493 [32128] libc: Compat readdir64_r (__old_readdir64_r) does not enforce
494 NAME_MAX limit
495 [32134] stdio: freopen does not clear flags2 (FD_CLOEXEC etc)
496 [32137] libc: libio/tst-stderr-compat, libio/tst-bz24228, math/test-
497 matherr-2, nptl/tst-pthread_kill-exited fails on powerpc-unknown-
498 linux-gnu
499 [32140] stdio: freopen leaks memory on failure
500 [32145] libc: New stdlib/tst-strtod1i, stdlib/tst-strtod3, stdlib/tst-
501 strtod4, stdlib/tst-strtod5i failures on powerpc64le-linux-gnu
502 [32148] stdio: Memory corruption with ancient i386 binaries using
503 stdio
504 [32168] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 16.0.0
505 [32173] libc: sparc: restartable syscalls are broken
506 [32192] build: s390: utf16-utf32-z9.c fails to build w/ -fomit-frame-
507 pointer
508 [32197] locale: FAIL: iconv/tst-iconv_prog-buffer failures
509 [32212] string: x86_64/strcmp caused 25% performance drop by commit
510 84e7c46df
511 [32214] libc: random_bits always returns the same value if getrandom
512 fails
513 [32215] libc: Signal handlers after fork may encounter missing robust
514 mutex list
515 [32228] libc: .preinit_array in /lib/riscv64-linux-gnu/Scrt1.o is not
516 properly aligned
517 [32231] dynamic-link: ldconfig auxcache format change in 2.36
518 [32233] libc: error calls va_end twice.
519 [32234] hurd: missing va_end call in fcntl.c
520 [32245] build: glibc -Wstringop-overflow= build failure on hppa
521 [32280] localedata: Enable transliteration rules with two input
522 characters in scn_IT
523 [32283] libc: Compilation issue for tst-syscall-restart.c with GCC
524 10.2.1
525 [32323] localedata: eo: Incorrect first day of week and first week of
526 year
527 [32344] string: Assembler warnings when building strcpy-evex.S and
528 strncpy-evex.S
529 [32350] hurd: function __xpg_strerror_r crashes for specific arguments
530 [32360] stdio: Compilation issue for tst-printf-format-skeleton.c with
531 GCC 10.2.1
532 [32366] malloc: malloc test failures with GCC 15
533 [32380] locale: dcigettext can cause SIGSEGV when domain name is too
534 long
535 [32414] libc: [x86_64 regression] tst-strtod5i.c:124:(.text+0x47c):
536 undefined reference to `__copysignf128'
537 [32418] math: __XXX math functions are declared, but not provided
538 [32420] build: GCC 6 can't build glibc 2.41
539 [32440] libc: getrandom() in glibc 2.41 (development) returns EINVAL
540 as retcode instead of errno on powerpc64le
541 [32448] libc: iconv reports failure with successful transliteration
542 [32450] libc: system() does not return -1 if a child process can't be
543 created
544 [32465] nss: ./getaddrinfo.c:1884:11: error: variable 'endp' is used
545 uninitialized whenever '||' condition is true [-Werror,-Wsometimes-
546 uninitialized]
547 [32470] dynamic-link: Integer truncation during x86-64 cache size
548 computation
549 [32488] libc: Glibc failed to build with CET enabled
550 [32492] libc: New test failures
551 [32494] build: Compilation issue with GCC 14.2.1
552 [32508] dynamic-link: ldd: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: cannot execute binary
553 file: Exec format error
554 [32512] dynamic-link: failure to build on loong, undefined reference
555 to `stpcpy'
556 [32543] build: x32 glibc is miscompiled
557 [32588] libc: [2.41 regression] bash crashes with 'realloc(): invalid
558 pointer' with `env -i PATH=`
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561
562Major new features:
563
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564* The <stdbit.h> header type-generic macros have been changed when using
565 GCC 14.1 or later to use __builtin_stdc_bit_ceil etc. built-in functions
566 in order to support unsigned __int128 and/or unsigned _BitInt(N) operands
567 with arbitrary precisions when supported by the target.
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570 enable features from the ISO C23 standard. Only some features from
571 this standard are supported by the GNU C Library. The older name
572 _ISOC2X_SOURCE is still supported. Features from C23 are also enabled
573 by _GNU_SOURCE, or by compiling with the GCC options -std=c23,
574 -std=gnu23, -std=c2x or -std=gnu2x.
575
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577 18661-4:2015) are now supported in <math.h>. Each family includes
578 functions for float, double, long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx, and a
579 type-generic macro in <tgmath.h>.
580
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582
55eb99e9 583 - Logarithmic functions: log2p1, log10p1, logp1.
79c52daf 584
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586 as if it were a setuid process. This is currently a testing tool to allow
587 more extensive verification tests for AT_SECURE programs and not meant to
588 be a security feature.
589
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590* On Linux, the epoll header was updated to include epoll ioctl definitions
591 and the related structure added in Linux kernel 6.9.
592
593* The fortify functionality has been significantly enhanced for building
594 programs with clang against the GNU C Library.
595
596* Many functions have been added to the vector library for aarch64:
597 acosh, asinh, atanh, cbrt, cosh, erf, erfc, hypot, pow, sinh, tanh
598
599* On x86, memset can now use non-temporal stores to improve the performance
600 of large writes. This behaviour is controlled by a new tunable
601 x86_memset_non_temporal_threshold.
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604
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606 lastlog, struct utmp, struct utmpx (such as i386, powerpc64le, rv32,
607 rv64, x86-64) switched from a signed to an unsigned type for that
608 field. This allows these fields to store timestamps beyond the year
609 2038, until the year 2106. Please note that applications are still
610 expected to migrate off the interfaces declared in <utmp.h> and
611 <utmpx.h> (except for login_tty) due to locking and session management
612 problems.
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615 initially), not the size of struct rseq (32 bytes initially).
616
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617Security related changes:
618
619The following CVEs were fixed in this release, details of which can be
620found in the advisories directory of the release tarball:
621
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622 GLIBC-SA-2024-0004:
623 ISO-2022-CN-EXT: fix out-of-bound writes when writing escape
624 sequence (CVE-2024-2961)
625
626 GLIBC-SA-2024-0005:
627 nscd: Stack-based buffer overflow in netgroup cache (CVE-2024-33599)
628
629 GLIBC-SA-2024-0006:
630 nscd: Null pointer crash after notfound response (CVE-2024-33600)
631
632 GLIBC-SA-2024-0007:
633 nscd: netgroup cache may terminate daemon on memory allocation
634 failure (CVE-2024-33601)
635
636 GLIBC-SA-2024-0008:
637 nscd: netgroup cache assumes NSS callback uses in-buffer strings
638 (CVE-2024-33602)
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640The following bugs are resolved with this release:
641
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642 [19622] network: Support aliasing with struct sockaddr
643 [21271] localedata: cv_RU: update translations
644 [23774] localedata: lv_LV collates Y/y incorrectly
645 [23865] string: wcsstr is quadratic-time
646 [25119] localedata: Change Czech weekday names to lowercase
647 [27777] stdio: fclose does a linear search, takes ages when many FILE*
648 are opened
649 [29770] libc: prctl does not match manual page ABI on powerpc64le-
650 linux-gnu
651 [29845] localedata: Update hr_HR locale currency to €
652 [30701] time: getutxent misbehaves on 32-bit x86 when _TIME_BITS=64
653 [31316] build: Fails test misc/tst-dirname "Didn't expect signal from
654 child: got `Illegal instruction'" on non SSE CPUs
655 [31317] dynamic-link: [RISCV] static PIE crashes during self
656 relocation
657 [31325] libc: mips: clone3 is wrong for o32
658 [31335] math: Compile glibc with -march=x86-64-v3 should disable FMA4
659 multi-arch version
660 [31339] libc: arm32 loader crash after cleanup in 2.36
661 [31340] manual: A bad sentence in section 22.3.5 (resource.texi)
662 [31357] dynamic-link: $(objpfx)tst-rtld-list-diagnostics.out rule
663 doesn't work with test wrapper
664 [31370] localedata: wcwidth() does not treat
665 DEFAULT_IGNORABLE_CODE_POINTs as zero-width
666 [31371] dynamic-link: x86-64: APX and Tile registers aren't preserved
667 in ld.so trampoline
668 [31372] dynamic-link: _dl_tlsdesc_dynamic doesn't preserve all caller-
669 saved registers
670 [31383] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 and __fortified_attr_access vs size of
671 0 and zero size types
672 [31385] build: sort-makefile-lines.py doesn't check variable with _
673 nor with "^# variable"
674 [31402] libc: clone (NULL, NULL, ...) clobbers %r7 register on
675 s390{,x}
676 [31405] libc: Improve dl_iterate_phdr using _dl_find_object
677 [31411] localedata: Add Latgalian locale
678 [31412] build: GCC 6 failed to build i386 glibc on Fedora 39
679 [31429] build: Glibc failed to build with -march=x86-64-v3
680 [31468] libc: sigisemptyset returns true when the set contains signals
681 larger than 34
682 [31476] network: Automatic activation of single-request options break
683 resolv.conf reloading
684 [31479] libc: Missing #include <sys/rseq.h> in sched_getcpu.c may
685 result in a loss of rseq acceleration
686 [31501] dynamic-link: _dl_tlsdesc_dynamic_xsavec may clobber %rbx
687 [31518] manual: documentation: FLT_MAX_10_EXP questionable text, evtl.
688 wrong,
689 [31530] localedata: Locale file for Moksha - mdf_RU
690 [31553] malloc: elf/tst-decorate-maps fails on ppc64el
691 [31596] libc: On the llvm-arm32 platform, dlopen("not_exist.so", -1)
692 triggers segmentation fault
693 [31600] math: math: x86 ceill traps when FE_INEXACT is enabled
694 [31601] math: math: x86 floor traps when FE_INEXACT is enabled
695 [31603] math: math: x86 trunc traps when FE_INEXACT is enabled
696 [31612] libc: arc4random fails to fallback to /dev/urandom if
697 getrandom is not present
698 [31629] build: powerpc64: Configuring with "--with-cpu=power10" and
699 'CFLAGS=-O2 -mcpu=power9' fails to build glibc
700 [31640] dynamic-link: POWER10 ld.so crashes in
701 elf_machine_load_address with GCC 14
702 [31661] libc: NPROCESSORS_CONF and NPROCESSORS_ONLN not available in
703 getconf
704 [31676] dynamic-link: Configuring with CC="gcc -march=x86-64-v3"
705 --with-rtld-early-cflags=-march=x86-64 results in linker failure
706 [31677] nscd: nscd: netgroup cache: invalid memcpy under low
707 memory/storage conditions
708 [31678] nscd: nscd: Null pointer dereferences after failed netgroup
709 cache insertion
710 [31679] nscd: nscd: netgroup cache may terminate daemon on memory
711 allocation failure
712 [31680] nscd: nscd: netgroup cache assumes NSS callback uses in-buffer
713 strings
714 [31682] math: [PowerPC] Floating point exception error for math test
715 test-ceil-except-2 test-floor-except-2 test-trunc-except-2
716 [31686] dynamic-link: Stack-based buffer overflow in
717 parse_tunables_string
718 [31695] libc: pidfd_spawn/pidfd_spawnp leak an fd if clone3 succeeds
719 but execve fails
720 [31719] dynamic-link: --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests doesn't work
721 with -Wl,--enable-new-dtags
722 [31730] libc: backtrace_symbols_fd prints different strings than
723 backtrace_symbols returns
724 [31753] build: FAIL: link-static-libc with GCC 6/7/8
725 [31755] libc: procutils_read_file doesn't start with a leading
726 underscore
727 [31756] libc: write_profiling is only in libc.a
728 [31757] build: Should XXXf128_do_not_use functions be excluded?
729 [31759] math: Extra nearbyint symbols in libm.a
730 [31760] math: Missing math functions
731 [31764] build: _res_opcodes should be a compat symbol only
732 [31765] dynamic-link: _dl_mcount_wrapper is exported without prototype
733 [31766] stdio: _IO_stderr_ _IO_stdin_ _IO_stdout should be compat
734 symbols
735 [31768] string: Extra stpncpy symbol in libc.a
736 [31770] libc: clone3 is in libc.a
737 [31774] libc: Missing __isnanf128 in libc.a
738 [31775] math: Missing exp10 exp10f32x exp10f64 fmod fmodf fmodf32
739 fmodf32x fmodf64 in libm.a
740 [31777] string: Extra memchr strlen symbols in libc.a
741 [31781] math: Missing math functions in libm.a
742 [31782] build: Test build failure with recent GCC trunk (x86/tst-cpu-
743 features-supports.c:69:3: error: parameter to builtin not valid:
744 avx5124fmaps)
745 [31785] string: loongarch: Extra strnlen symbols in libc.a
746 [31786] string: powerpc: Extra strchrnul and strncasecmp_l symbols in
747 libc.a
748 [31787] math: powerpc: Extra llrintf, llrintf, llrintf32, and
749 llrintf32 symbols in libc.a
750 [31788] libc: microblaze: Extra cacheflush symbol in libc.a
751 [31789] libc: powerpc: Extra versionsort symbol in libc.a
752 [31790] libc: s390: Extra getutent32, getutent32_r, getutid32,
753 getutid32_r, getutline32, getutline32_r, getutmp32, getutmpx32,
754 getutxent32, getutxid32, getutxline32, pututline32, pututxline32,
755 updwtmp32, updwtmpx32 in libc.a
756 [31797] build: g++ -static requirement should be able to opt-out
757 [31798] libc: pidfd_getpid.c is miscompiled by GCC 6.4
758 [31802] time: difftime is pure not const
759 [31808] time: The supported time_t range is not documented.
760 [31840] stdio: Memory leak in _IO_new_fdopen (fdopen) on seek failure
761 [31867] build: "CPU ISA level is lower than required" on SSE2-free
762 CPUs
763 [31876] time: "Date and time" documentation fixes for POSIX.1-2024 etc
764 [31883] build: ISA level support configure check relies on bashism /
765 is otherwise broken for arithmetic
766 [31892] build: Always install mtrace.
767 [31917] libc: clang mq_open fortify wrapper does not handle 4 argument
768 correctly
769 [31927] libc: clang open fortify wrapper does not handle argument
770 correctly
771 [31931] time: tzset may fault on very short TZ string
772 [31934] string: wcsncmp crash on s390x on vlbb instruction
773 [31963] stdio: Crash in _IO_link_in within __gcov_exit
774 [31965] dynamic-link: rseq extension mechanism does not work as
775 intended
776 [31980] build: elf/tst-tunables-enable_secure-env fails on ppc
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779
780Major new features:
781
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783 rewrite on x86-64. When enabled with non-lazy binding, the dynamic
784 linker will rewrite indirect branches in PLT with direct branches.
785
a0cfc48e 786* Sync with Linux kernel 6.6 shadow stack interface. The --enable-cet
feeb7297 787 configure option is only supported on x86-64.
bbfb5493 788
92861d93 789* struct statvfs now has an f_type member, equal to the f_type statfs member;
790 on the Hurd this was always available under a reserved name,
791 and under Linux a spare has been allocated: it was always zero
792 in previous versions of glibc, and zero is not a valid result.
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795 posix_spawnattr_setcgroup_np have been added, along with the
796 POSIX_SPAWN_SETCGROUP flag. They allow posix_spawn and posix_spawnp
797 to set the cgroupv2 in the new process in a race-free manner. These
798 functions are GNU extensions and require a kernel with clone3 support.
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801 They have a similar prototype and semantic as posix_spawn, but instead of
802 returning a process ID, they return a file descriptor that can be used
803 along other pidfd functions (like pidfd_send_signal, poll, or waitid).
804 The pidfd functionality avoids the issue of PID reuse with the traditional
805 posix_spawn interface.
806
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808 the process ID associated with the process file descriptor created by
809 pid_spawn, fork_np, or pidfd_open.
810
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812 arguments pointing to types intN_t, int_leastN_t, uintN_t or
813 uint_leastN_t (for example, %w32d to read int32_t or int_least32_t in
814 decimal, or %w32x to read uint32_t or uint_least32_t in hexadecimal)
815 and the wfN format length modifiers for arguments pointing to types
816 int_fastN_t or uint_fastN_t, as specified in draft ISO C2X.
817
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819 information on underlying memory allocated by the glibc (for instance,
820 on thread stack created by pthread_create or memory allocated by
821 malloc).
822
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824 stdc_leading_zeros, stdc_leading_ones, stdc_trailing_zeros,
825 stdc_trailing_ones, stdc_first_leading_zero, stdc_first_leading_one,
826 stdc_first_trailing_zero, stdc_first_trailing_one, stdc_count_zeros,
827 stdc_count_ones, stdc_has_single_bit, stdc_bit_width, stdc_bit_floor
828 and stdc_bit_ceil function families, each having functions for
829 unsigned char, unsigned short, unsigned int, unsigned long int and
830 unsigned long long int, and a type-generic macro.
831
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833 annotations to allow GCC 9 or newer to auto-vectorize calls to the
834 following scalar math functions when -ffast-math is specified:
835 acos, acosf, asin, asinf, atan, atanf, atan2, atan2f, cos, cosf,
836 exp, expf, exp10, exp10f, exp2, exp2f, expm1, expm1f, log, logf,
837 log10, log10f, log1p, log1pf, log2, log2f, sin, sinf, tan, tanf.
838
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840
2aa0974d 841* The ldconfig program now skips file names containing ';' or ending in
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842 ".dpkg.tmp" or ".dpkg.new", to avoid examining temporary files created
843 by the RPM and dpkg package managers.
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846 options "--enable-crypt" and "--enable-nss-crypt" are no longer
847 available. <crypt.h>, libcrypt.a, and libcrypt.so.1 will not be
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848 installed. For now <unistd.h> continues to declare the crypt
849 function by default, to avoid introducing vulnerabilities into
850 existing applications due to a missing prototype. This declaration
851 is deprecated and may be removed in a future glibc release.
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853 The replacement for libcrypt is libxcrypt, maintained separately from
854 GNU libc, but available under compatible licensing terms, and providing
855 binary backward compatibility with the former libcrypt. It is currently
856 distributed from <https://github.com/besser82/libxcrypt/>.
857
858 As a consequence of this removal, GNU libc no longer makes any use of
859 the NSS cryptography library (Network Security Services; not to be
860 confused with Name Service Switch). Distributors of binary packages
861 of GNU libc are advised to check whether their build processes can be
862 simplified.
863
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865 during TLS access if a shared object with dynamic TLS is loaded and
866 unloaded. This can result in an infinite recursion if a malloc
867 replacement library or its dependencies use dynamic TLS instead of
868 initial-exec TLS.
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871
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872Changes to build and runtime requirements:
873
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875 instructions.
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877Security related changes:
878
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880found in the advisories directory of the release tarball:
881
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882 GLIBC-SA-2023-0002:
883 getaddrinfo: Stack read overflow in no-aaaa mode (CVE-2023-4527)
884
885 GLIBC-SA-2023-0003:
886 getaddrinfo: Potential use-after-free (CVE-2023-4806)
887
888 GLIBC-SA-2023-0004:
889 tunables: local privilege escalation through buffer overflow
890 (CVE-2023-4911)
891
892 GLIBC-SA-2024-0001:
893 syslog: Heap buffer overflow in __vsyslog_internal (CVE-2023-6246)
894
895 GLIBC-SA-2024-0002:
896 syslog: Heap buffer overflow in __vsyslog_internal (CVE-2023-6779)
897
898 GLIBC-SA-2024-0003:
899 syslog: Integer overflow in __vsyslog_internal (CVE-2023-6780)
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902 ISO-2022-CN-EXT: fix out-of-bound writes when writing escape
903 sequence (CVE-2024-2961)
904
905 GLIBC-SA-2024-0005:
906 nscd: Stack-based buffer overflow in netgroup cache (CVE-2024-33599)
907
908 GLIBC-SA-2024-0006:
909 nscd: Null pointer crashes after notfound response
910 (CVE-2024-33600)
911
912 GLIBC-SA-2024-0007:
913 nscd: netgroup cache may terminate daemon on memory allocation
914 failure (CVE-2024-33601)
915
916 GLIBC-SA-2024-0008:
917 nscd: netgroup cache assumes NSS callback uses in-buffer strings
918 (CVE-2024-33602)
919
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921
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922 [14522] localedata: fy_DE: LC_IDENTIFICATION data looks weird
923 [19305] libc: qsort() should return early if (nmemb <= 1)
924 [19479] localedata: gbm_IN: new Garhwali Locale
925 [19924] dynamic-link: TLS performance degradation after dlopen
926 [19956] localedata: ssy_ER: rename from aa_ER@saaho
927 [21719] libc: stdlib/msort : optimizing merge sort
928 [22526] localedata: th_TH LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
929 [23012] localedata: el_GR: Greece now uses the 24h format for time
930 [23172] localedata: miq_NI: Provide actually abbreviated month names
931 [24006] localedata: Cyclic dependencies via copy in locales
932 [24013] localedata: am_pm definitions for es_ES
933 [24386] localedata: crh_RU: new locale
934 [24877] localedata: [Redundant Data] Remove redundant data between
935 en_NZ and en_AU
936 [25868] localedata: Incorrect trailing spaces in weekday names for
937 nn_NO
938 [26752] localedata: Please add the new locale zgh_MA
939 [27069] dynamic-link: Need a way to tell if a tunable is set by user
940 [27163] localedata: Error on test glk_IR with localedef
941 [27312] localedata: su_ID: new Sundanese locale
942 [27547] manual: "Summary of malloc-Related Functions" shows wrong
943 argument order for `aligned_alloc` and `memalign`
944 [27574] libc: glibc should probably not define __WORDSIZE=64 for
945 __sparcv9
946 [27601] localedata: License information update in
947 localedata/locales/ast_ES
948 [28558] localedata: it_IT LC_MONETARY outdated p_cs_precedes and
949 n_cs_precedes
950 [28787] localedata: Add information for Occitan
951 [29039] dynamic-link: Corrupt DTV after reuse of a TLS module ID
952 following dlclose with unused TLS
953 [29486] localedata: New Zealand locales (en_NZ & mi_NZ) first day of
954 week should be Monday
955 [29504] localedata: Incorrect/misleading Time Format For ms_MY (AM/PM)
956 [29506] localedata: UTF-8 HANGUL SYLLABLE bugs
957 [30349] libc: Support returning a pidfd from posix_spawn()
958 [30412] localedata: d_t_fmt in id_ID uses %r placeholder but am_pm and
959 t_fmt_ampm are undefined
960 [30605] localedata: New locale for Komi language
961 [30649] localedata: [PATCH] Add transliteration of common emojis to
962 smileys
963 [30694] locale: The iconv program no longer tells the user which given
964 encoding name was wrong
965 [30709] nscd: nscd fails to build with cleanup handler if built with
966 -fexceptions
967 [30737] libc: fdopendir() is not robust - returns bogus DIR* instead
968 of flagging an error
969 [30740] build: [m68k] undefined reference to
970 `_wordcopy_fwd_dest_aligned'
971 [30745] libc: Slight bug in cache info codes for x86
972 [30750] network: Unaligned accesses in resolver
973 [30773] math: [m68k] busybox awk is broken (lshift.S related)
974 [30789] libc: [2.38 Regression] sem_open will fail on multithreaded
975 scenarios when semaphore file doesn't exist (O_CREAT)
976 [30800] nscd: Improper assert in prune_cache triggers if clock jumps
977 backwards
978 [30804] libc: F_GETLK, F_SETLK, and F_SETLKW value change for
979 powerpc64 with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
980 [30842] network: Stack read overflow in getaddrinfo in no-aaaa mode
981 (CVE-2023-4527)
982 [30843] network: potential use-after-free in getcanonname
983 (CVE-2023-4806)
984 [30854] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 15.1.0
985 [30884] network: Memory leak in getaddrinfo after fix for bug 30843
986 (CVE-2023-5156)
987 [30932] libc: Fortify Source has false-positives when too many files
988 are open
989 [30945] malloc: Core affinity setting incurs lock contentions between
990 threads
991 [30960] math: signed integer overflow in
992 glibc/sysdeps/s390/fpu/feenablxcpt.c
993 [30964] locale: Number grouping check mishandles multibyte thousands
994 separator
995 [30981] dynamic-link: dlclose does not properly implement force-first
996 handling
997 [30988] math: fesetexcept raises floating-point exception traps on
998 ppc, ppc64, ppc64le
999 [30989] math: fesetexcept raises floating-point exception traps on
1000 i386
1001 [30990] libc: fesetexceptflag raises floating-point exception traps on
1002 i386, x86_64
1003 [30998] math: fesetexceptflag clears too many floating-point exception
1004 flags on alpha
1005 [31019] manual: The documentation of feenableexcept is incomplete
1006 [31022] math: feupdateenv (FE_DFL_ENV) crashes on riscv
1007 [31035] libc: Library search path terminates on relative non-directory
1008 name
1009 [31042] libc: [s390x] .init and .fini padding
1010 [31068] libc: sysdeps: sparc: invalid data access in memset due to
1011 regression
1012 [31078] manual: Code example in "Noncanonical Mode Example" has unused
1013 'char *name;'
1014 [31086] localedata: Errors in Tibetan, Dzongkha data
1015 [31113] string: Wrong unwind information for rawmemchr on aarch64
1016 [31151] libc: [RISC-V] missing support for profile/audit PLT setup
1017 [31163] nss: getaddrinfo returns EAI_NONAME in oom situation
1018 [31183] stdio: Wide stream buffer size reduced MB_LEN_MAX bytes after
1019 bug 17522 fix
1020 [31184] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-tlsgap
1021 [31185] dynamic-link: Incorrect thread point access in
1022 _dl_tlsdesc_undefweak and _dl_tlsdesc_dynamic
1023 [31187] dynamic-link: Some CET tests fail with GCC 14
1024 [31204] localedata: Fix decimal point and thousands separator for
1025 uz_UZ
1026 [31205] localedata: Inconsistent (mon_)grouping formats
1027 [31218] dynamic-link: PLT rewrite overflows large displacement on x32
1028 [31221] localedata: Add localedata for ISO code "tok" (Toki Pona)
1029 [31230] dynamic-link: PLT rewrite failed without SELinux
1030 [31239] localedata: anp_IN locale: abbreviated month names are the
1031 same as the full month names
1032 [31244] nptl: pthread_cancel hangs on sparc32
1033 [31257] localedata: Sync with CLDR: “Turkey” -> “Türkiye”
1034 [31266] string: sparc: string/tst-memmove-overflow fails on 32-bit
1035 sparcv9
1036 [31276] libc: Wrong condition for heap allocation in qsort_r
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1043 following functions support binary integers prefixed by 0b or 0B as
1044 input: strtol, strtoll, strtoul, strtoull, strtol_l, strtoll_l,
1045 strtoul_l, strtoull_l, strtoimax, strtoumax, strtoq, strtouq, wcstol,
1046 wcstoll, wcstoul, wcstoull, wcstol_l, wcstoll_l, wcstoul_l,
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1048 following functions support binary integers prefixed by 0b or 0B as
1049 input to the %i format: fscanf, scanf, sscanf, vscanf, vsscanf,
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1051 functions also support the %b format for binary integers, with or
1052 without such a prefix and independent of standards mode.
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1055 <inttypes.h>.
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1058 arguments of type intN_t, int_leastN_t, uintN_t or uint_leastN_t (for
1059 example, %w32d to print int32_t or int_least32_t in decimal, or %w32x
1060 to print uint32_t or uint_least32_t in hexadecimal) and the wfN format
1061 length modifiers for arguments of type int_fastN_t or uint_fastN_t, as
1062 specified in draft ISO C2X.
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1065 Transparent Huge Pages (THP) in stack allocation at pthread_create.
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1068 as least binutils 2.40 and GCC 13:
1069
1070 - x86_64-gnu
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1073 requires GCC version >= 10.1.0. It can be disabled via
1074 "--disable-mathvec", however that is not a supported configuration as
1075 it changes the ABI. The symbol names follow the AArch64 vector ABI,
1076 they are declared in math.h and have to be called manually at this point.
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1079 from OpenBSD, and are expected to be added to a future POSIX version.
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1082 GNU C Library with _FORTIFY_SOURCE. The level of fortification can either be
1083 provided, or is set to the highest value supported by the compiler. If not
1084 explicitly enabled, then fortify source is forcibly disabled so to keep
1085 original behavior unchanged.
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1088
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1091 GNU C Library in a future release, so it is recommended that
1092 applications port away from it to an alternative such as libxcrypt.
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1095 MADV_XXX constants were changed to have the same values as the other
1096 architectures. New programs compiled with this glibc version and which
1097 use the madvise call will require at least Linux kernel version 6.2,
1098 alternatively stable kernels from versions 6.1.6, 5.15.87, 5.10.163,
1099 5.4.228, 4.19.270 or 4.14.303.
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1116 format specifier that uses an <apostrophe> (enable grouping) and a
1117 minimum width specifier, the resulting output could be larger than
1118 reasonably expected by a caller that computed a tight bound on the
1119 buffer size. The resulting larger than expected output could result
1120 in a buffer overflow in the printf family of functions.
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1122The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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1125 [14697] nptl: Behavior of exit is nonconformant with respect to
1126 threads and stdio
1127 [15142] stdio: Missing locking in _IO_cleanup
1128 [18096] glob: null deref in wordexp/parse_dollars/parse_arith
1129 [18906] stdio: fopen: ccs value may affect open mode
1130 [24466] stdio: Feature request: provide special printf formats for
1131 intXX_t
1132 [25457] nss: hosts lookup fails for ipv4mapped ipv6 addresses
1133 [28519] libc: system and popen should pass "--" between /bin/sh and
1134 argument
1135 [29016] stdio: popen() sets errno to ENOMEM when shell does not exist
1136 [29591] string: wcsnlen length can overflow in page cross case.
1137 [30053] time: strftime %s returns -1 after 2038 on 32 bits systems
1138 [30068] stdio: incorrect printf output for integers with thousands
1139 separator and width field (CVE-2023-25139)
1140 [30111] time: support_descriptors_list fails after 2038 on 32 bits
1141 systems
1142 [30125] dynamic-link: [regression, bisected] glibc-2.37 creates new
1143 symlink for libraries without soname
1144 [30130] math: [s390] The _FPU_SETCW macro yields compile error with
1145 Clang
1146 [30156] time: Potential ntp_gettime abi break
1147 [30235] libc: Missing fallback in getlogin if loginuid is unset
1148 [30258] dynamic-link: sprof cannot read and display shared object
1149 profiling data correctly
1150 [30263] libc: Add test coverage for abs(), labs(), and llabs().
1151 [30305] math: Incorrect asm constraint in feraiseexcept on x86-64
1152 [30402] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-glibcelf
1153 [30425] dynamic-link: Symbol lookup during dlclose may fail
1154 unnecessarily
1155 [30435] dynamic-link: Root dir wrongly marked as nonexist in open_path
1156 [30477] libc: [RISCV]: time64 does not work on riscv32
1157 [30515] dynamic-link: _dl_find_object incorrectly returns 1 during
1158 early startup
1159 [30527] network: resolv_conf lock not unlocked on allocation failure
1160 [30550] math: powerpc64le: GCC-specific code for isinf() is being used
1161 on clang
1162 [30555] string: strerror can incorrectly return NULL
1163 [30579] malloc: trim_threshold in realloc lead to high memory usage
1164 [30662] nscd: Group and password cache use errno in place of errval
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1168Major new features:
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1171 getent with --no-addrconfig may contain addresses of families not
1172 configured on the current host i.e. as-if you had not passed
1173 AI_ADDRCONFIG to getaddrinfo calls.
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1175Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1176
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1179 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, or employs the legacy AT_HWCAP
1180 search mechanism, which was deprecated in version 2.33.
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1185 string larger than 1024 bytes, it reads uninitialized memory from the
1186 heap and prints it to the target log file, potentially revealing a
1187 portion of the contents of the heap.
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1189The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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1192 [12165] libc: readdir: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
1193 [19444] build: build failures with -O1 due to -Wmaybe-uninitialized
1194 [24774] nptl: pthread_rwlock_timedwrlock stalls on ARM
1195 [24816] nss: nss/tst-nss-files-hosts-long fails when no interface has
1196 AF_INET6 address (ie docker)
1197 [27087] stdio: PowerPC: Redefinition error with Clang from IEEE
1198 redirection headers
1199 [28846] network: CMSG_NXTHDR may trigger -Wstrict-overflow warning
1200 [28937] dynamic-link: New DSO dependency sorter does not put new map
1201 first if in a cycle
1202 [29249] libc: csu/libc-tls.c:202: undefined reference to
1203 `_startup_fatal_not_constant'
1204 [29305] network: Inefficient buffer space usage in nss_dns for
1205 gethostbyname and other functions
1206 [29375] libc: don't hide MAP_ANONYMOUS behind _GNU_SOURCE
1207 [29402] nscd: nscd: No such file or directory
1208 [29415] nscd: getaddrinfo with AI_ADDRCONFIG returns addresses with
1209 wrong family
1210 [29427] dynamic-link: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-printf.c:
1211 200: _dl_debug_vdprintf: Assertion `! "invalid format specifier"'
1212 failed!
1213 [29463] math: math/test-float128-y1 fails on x86_64
1214 [29485] build: Make hangs when the test misc/tst-pidfile returns
1215 FAIL_UNSUPPORTED
1216 [29490] dynamic-link: [bisected] new __brk_call causes dynamic loader
1217 segfault on alpha
1218 [29499] build: Check failed on misc/tst-glibcsyscalls while building
1219 for RISCV64 on a unmatched hardware
1220 [29501] build: Check failed on stdlib/tst-strfrom while building for
1221 RISCV64 on a unmatched hardware
1222 [29502] libc: alpha sys/acct.h out of date
1223 [29514] build: Need to use -fPIE not -fpie
1224 [29528] dynamic-link: __libc_early_init not called after dlmopen that
1225 reuses namespace
1226 [29536] libc: syslog fail to create large messages (CVE-2022-39046)
1227 [29537] libc: [2.34 regression]: Alignment issue on m68k when using
1228 futexes on qemu-user
1229 [29539] libc: LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS changed how vDSO library are
1230 printed
1231 [29544] libc: Regression in syslog(3) calls breaks RFC due to extra
1232 whitespace
1233 [29564] build: Incorrect way to change MAKEFLAGS in Makerules
1234 [29576] build: librtld.os: in function `_dl_start_profile':
1235 (.text+0x9444): undefined reference to `strcpy'
1236 [29578] libc: Definition of SUN_LEN() is wrong
1237 [29583] build: iconv failures on 32bit platform due to missing large
1238 file support
1239 [29600] dynamic-link: dlmopen hangs after loading certain libraries
1240 [29604] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 15.0.0
1241 [29605] nscd: Regression in NSCD backend of getaddrinfo
1242 [29607] nscd: nscd repeatably crashes calling __strlen_avx2 when hosts
1243 cache is enabled
1244 [29611] string: Optimized AVX2 string functions unconditionally use
1245 BMI2 instructions
1246 [29624] malloc: errno is not cleared when entering main
1247 [29638] libc: stdlib: arc4random fallback is never used
1248 [29657] libc: Incorrect struct stat for 64-bit time on linux/generic
1249 platforms
1250 [29698] build: Configuring for AArch32 on ARMv8+ disables
1251 optimizations
1252 [29727] locale: __strtol_internal out-of-bounds read when parsing
1253 thousands grouping
1254 [29730] libc: broken y2038 support in fstatat on MIPS N64
1255 [29746] libc: ppoll() does not switch to __ppoll64 when
1256 -D_TIME_BITS=64 and -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 is given on 32bit
1257 [29771] libc: Restore IPC_64 support in sysvipc *ctl functions
1258 [29780] build: possible parallel make issue in glibc-2.36 (siglist-
1259 aux.S: No such file or directory)
1260 [29864] libc: __libc_start_main() should obtain program headers
1261 address (_dl_phdr) from the auxv, not the ELF header.
1262 [29951] time: daylight variable not set correctly if last DST change
1263 coincides with offset change
1264 [30039] stdio: __vsprintf_internal does not handle unspecified buffer
1265 length in fortify mode
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1269Major new features:
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1272 glibc. This is a new ELF dynamic tag that improves the size of
1273 relative relocations in shared object files and position independent
1274 executables (PIE). DT_RELR generation requires linker support for
1275 -z pack-relative-relocs option, which is supported for some targets
1276 in recent binutils versions. Lazy binding doesn't apply to DT_RELR.
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1279 have been added. The pidfd functionality provides access to a process
7f0d9e61 1280 while avoiding the issue of PID reuse on traditional Unix systems.
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1283 same functionality as madvise but alters the target process identified
1284 by the pidfd.
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1287 caller to release the memory of a dying process. The release of the
1288 memory is carried out in the context of the caller, using the caller's
1289 CPU affinity, and priority with CPU usage accounted to the caller.
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1292 administrators can use it to suppress AAAA queries made by the stub
1293 resolver, including AAAA lookups triggered by NSS-based interfaces
1294 such as getaddrinfo. Only DNS lookups are affected: IPv6 data in
1295 /etc/hosts is still used, getaddrinfo with AI_PASSIVE will still
1296 produce IPv6 addresses, and configured IPv6 name servers are still
1297 used. To produce correct Name Error (NXDOMAIN) results, AAAA queries
1298 are translated to A queries. The new resolver option is intended
1299 primarily for diagnostic purposes, to rule out that AAAA DNS queries
1300 have adverse impact. It is incompatible with EDNS0 usage and DNSSEC
1301 validation by applications.
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1304 and mount_setattr have been added. They are part of the new Linux kernel
1305 mount APIs that allow applications to more flexibly configure and operate
1306 on filesystem mounts. The new mount APIs are specifically designed to work
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1310 Previously, input bytes not within the ASCII range resulted in
1311 unpredictable output.
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1314 functions has been added per the ISO C2X N2653 and C++20 P0482R6 proposals.
1315 Support for the char8_t typedef has been added per the ISO C2X N2653
1316 proposal. The functions are declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the
1317 _GNU_SOURCE macro or C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro is defined.
1318 The char8_t typedef is declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the
1319 _GNU_SOURCE macro is defined and the C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro
1320 is not defined (if __cpp_char8_t is defined, then char8_t is a builtin type).
1321
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1324 quality randomness from the kernel.
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3a380458 1326* Support for LoongArch running on Linux has been added. This port requires
1327 as least binutils 2.38, GCC 12, and Linux 5.19. Currently only hard-float
1328 ABI is supported:
1329
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1337 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
1338 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
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1341 LD_ASSUME_KERNEL environment variable. The minimum kernel used to built
1342 glibc is still provided through NT_GNU_ABI_TAG ELF note and also printed
1343 when libc.so is issued directly.
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1350 return different result with versioned "foo"
1351 [16355] libc: syslog.h's SYSLOG_NAMES namespace violation and utter
1352 mess
1353 [23293] dynamic-link: aarch64: getauxval is broken when run as ld.so
1354 ./exe and ld.so adjusts argv on the stack
1355 [24595] nptl: [2.28 Regression]: Deadlock in atfork handler which
1356 calls dlclose
1357 [25744] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS returns 2 instead of 1 when
1358 consuming the second byte of certain double byte characters
1359 [25812] stdio: Libio vtable protection is sometimes only partially
1360 enforced
1361 [27054] libc: pthread_atfork handlers that call pthread_atfork
1362 deadlock
1363 [27924] dynamic-link: ld.so: Support DT_RELR relative relocation
1364 format
1365 [28128] build: declare_symbol_alias doesn't work for assembly codes
1366 [28566] network: getnameinfo with NI_NOFQDN is not thread safe
1367 [28752] nss: Segfault in getpwuid when stat fails
1368 [28815] libc: realpath should not copy to resolved buffer on error
1369 [28828] stdio: fputwc crashes
1370 [28838] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-p_align3
1371 [28845] locale: ld-monetary.c should be updated to match ISO C and
1372 other standards.
1373 [28850] libc: linux: __get_nprocs_sched reads uninitialized memory
1374 from the stack
1375 [28852] libc: getaddrinfo leaks memory with AI_ALL
1376 [28853] libc: tst-spawn6 changes current foreground process group
1377 (breaks test isolation)
1378 [28857] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-audit24a
1379 [28860] build: --enable-kernel=5.1.0 build fails because of missing
1380 __convert_scm_timestamps
1381 [28865] libc: linux: _SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF and _SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN are
1382 inaccurate without /sys and /proc
1383 [28868] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader DFS algorithm segfaults on
1384 missing libraries
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1387 !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS && !__ASSUME_PSELECT fails on Microblaze
1388 [28896] string: strncmp-avx2-rtm and wcsncmp-avx2-rtm fallback on non-
1389 rtm variants when avoiding overflow
1390 [28922] build: The .d dependency files aren't always generated
1391 [28931] libc: hosts lookup broken for SUCCESS=CONTINUE and
1392 SUCCESS=MERGE
1393 [28936] build: nm: No such file
1394 [28950] localedata: Add locale for ISO code "tok" (Toki Pona)
1395 [28953] nss: NSS lookup result can be incorrect if function lookup
1396 clobbers errno
1397 [28970] math: benchtest: libmvec benchmark doesn't build with make
1398 bench.
1399 [28991] libc: sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF) should read
1400 /sys/devices/system/cpu/possible
1401 [28993] libc: closefrom() iterates until max int if no access to
1402 /proc/self/fd/
1403 [28996] libc: realpath fails to copy partial result to resolved buffer
1404 on ENOENT and EACCES
1405 [29027] math: [ia64] fabs fails with sNAN input
1406 [29029] nptl: poll() spuriously returns EINTR during thread
1407 cancellation and with cancellation disabled
1408 [29030] string: GLIBC 2.35 regression - Fortify crash on certain valid
1409 uses of mbsrtowcs (*** buffer overflow detected ***: terminated)
1410 [29062] dynamic-link: Memory leak in _dl_find_object_update if object
1411 is promoted to global scope
1412 [29069] libc: fstatat64_time64_statx wrapper broken on MIPS N32 with
1413 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 and -D_TIME_BITS=64
1414 [29071] dynamic-link: m68k: Removal of ELF_DURING_STARTUP optimization
1415 broke ld.so
1416 [29097] time: fchmodat does not handle 64 bit time_t for
1417 AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW
1418 [29109] libc: posix_spawn() always returns 1 (EPERM) on clone()
1419 failure
1420 [29141] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 fail for gcc 12/glibc 2.35
1421 [29162] string: [PATCH] string.h syntactic error:
1422 include/bits/string_fortified.h:110: error: expected ',' or ';'
1423 before '__fortified_attr_access'
1424 [29165] libc: [Regression] broken argv adjustment
1425 [29187] dynamic-link: [regression] broken argv adjustment for nios2
1426 [29193] math: sincos produces a different output than sin/cos
1427 [29197] string: __strncpy_power9() uses uninitialised register vs18
1428 value for filling after \0
1429 [29203] libc: daemon is not y2038 aware
1430 [29204] libc: getusershell is not 2038 aware
1431 [29207] libc: posix_fallocate fallback implementation is not y2038
1432 aware
1433 [29208] libc: fpathconf(_PC_ASYNC_IO) is not y2038 aware
1434 [29209] libc: isfdtype is not y2038 aware
1435 [29210] network: ruserpass is not y2038 aware
1436 [29211] libc: __open_catalog is not y2038 aware
1437 [29213] libc: gconv_parseconfdir is not y2038 aware
1438 [29214] nptl: pthread_setcanceltype fails to set type
1439 [29225] network: Mistyped define statement in socket/sys/socket.h in
1440 line 184
1441 [29274] nptl: __read_chk is not a cancellation point
1442 [29279] libc: undefined reference to `mbstowcs_chk' after
1443 464d189b9622932a75302290625de84931656ec0
1444 [29304] libc: mq_timedreceive does not handle 64 bit syscall return
1445 correct for !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS
1446 [29403] libc: st_atim, st_mtim, st_ctim stat struct members are
1447 missing on microblaze with largefile
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1449Version 2.35
1450
1451Major new features:
1452
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1453* Unicode 14.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1454 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 14.0.0, using
1455 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1456
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1457* Bump r_version in the debugger interface to 2 and add a new field,
1458 r_next, support multiple namespaces.
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1460* Support for the C.UTF-8 locale has been added to glibc. The locale
1461 supports full code-point sorting for all valid Unicode code points. A
1462 limitation in the framework for fnmatch, regexec, and regcomp requires
1463 a compromise to save space and only ASCII-based range expressions are
1464 supported for now (see bug 28255). The full size of the locale is
1465 only ~400KiB, with 346KiB coming from LC_CTYPE information for
1466 Unicode. This locale harmonizes downstream C.UTF-8 already shipping
1467 in various downstream distributions. The locale is not built into
1468 glibc, and must be installed.
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1470* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type, and
1471 corresponding <tgmath.h> macros, are added from TS 18661-1:2014, TS
1472 18661-3:2015 and draft ISO C2X:
1473
1474 - fsqrt, fsqrtl, dsqrtl and corresponding fMsqrtfN, fMsqrtfNx,
1475 fMxsqrtfN and fMxsqrtfNx functions.
1476
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1477 - ffma, ffmal, dfmal and corresponding fMfmafN, fMfmafNx, fMxfmafN and
1478 fMxfmafNx functions.
1479
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1480* <math.h> functions for floating-point maximum and minimum,
1481 corresponding to new operations in IEEE 754-2019, and corresponding
1482 <tgmath.h> macros, are added from draft ISO C2X: fmaximum,
1483 fmaximum_num, fmaximum_mag, fmaximum_mag_num, fminimum, fminimum_num,
1484 fminimum_mag, fminimum_mag_num and corresponding functions for float,
1485 long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx.
1486
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1487* <math.h> macros for single-precision float constants are added as a
1488 GNU extension: M_Ef, M_LOG2Ef, M_LOG10Ef, M_LN2f, M_LN10f, M_PIf,
1489 M_PI_2f, M_PI_4f, M_1_PIf, M_2_PIf, M_2_SQRTPIf, M_SQRT2f and
1490 M_SQRT1_2f.
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1492* The __STDC_IEC_60559_BFP__ and __STDC_IEC_60559_COMPLEX__ macros are
1493 predefined as specified in TS 18661-1:2014.
1494
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1495* The exp10 functions in <math.h> now have a corresponding type-generic
1496 macro in <tgmath.h>.
1497
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1498* The ISO C2X macro _PRINTF_NAN_LEN_MAX has been added to <stdio.h>.
1499
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1500* printf-family functions now support the %b format for output of
1501 integers in binary, as specified in draft ISO C2X, and the %B variant
1502 of that format recommended by draft ISO C2X.
1503
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1504* A new DSO sorting algorithm has been added in the dynamic linker that uses
1505 topological sorting by depth-first search (DFS), solving performance issues
1506 of the existing sorting algorithm when encountering particular circular
1507 object dependency cases.
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1510 the two DSO sorting algorithms. The default setting of '2' uses the
1511 new DFS-based algorithm. The setting '1' switches to the old
1512 algorithm used in glibc 2.33 and earlier.
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1514* ABI support for a new function '__memcmpeq'. '__memcmpeq' is meant
1515 to be used by compilers for optimizing usage of 'memcmp' when its
1516 return value is only used for its boolean status.
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1518* Support for automatically registering threads with the Linux rseq
1519 system call has been added. This system call is implemented starting
1520 from Linux 4.18. The Restartable Sequences ABI accelerates user-space
1521 operations on per-cpu data. It allows user-space to perform updates
1522 on per-cpu data without requiring heavy-weight atomic operations.
1523 Automatically registering threads allows all libraries, including
1524 libc, to make immediate use of the rseq support by using the
1525 documented ABI, via the __rseq_flags, __rseq_offset, and __rseq_size
1526 variables. The GNU C Library manual has details on integration of
1527 Restartable Sequences.
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1529* A symbolic link to the dynamic linker is now installed under
1530 /usr/bin/ld.so (or more precisely, '${bindir}/ld.so').
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1532* All programs and the testsuite in glibc are now built as position independent
1533 executables (PIE) by default on toolchains and architectures that support it.
1534 Further, if the toolchain and architecture supports it, even static programs
1535 are built as PIE and the resultant glibc can be used to build static PIE
1536 executables. A new option --disable-default-pie has been added to disable
1537 this behavior and get a non-PIE build. This option replaces
1538 --enable-static-pie, which no longer has any effect on the build
1539 configuration.
1540
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1543 or to use huge pages directly with mmap calls with the MAP_HUGETLB
1544 flags). The former can improve performance when Transparent Huge Pages
1545 is set to 'madvise' mode while the latter uses the system reserved
1546 huge pages.
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1548* The printf family of functions now handles the flagged %#m conversion
1549 specifier, printing errno as an error constant (similar to strerrorname_np).
1550
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1551* The function _dl_find_object has been added. In-process unwinders
1552 can use it to efficiently locate unwinding information for a code
1553 address.
1554
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1555* Support for OpenRISC running on Linux has been added. This port requires
1556 as least binutils 2.35, GCC 11, and Linux 5.4. Currently only soft-float
1557 ABI is supported:
1558
1559 - or1k-linux-gnu
1560
1561 The OpenRISC ABI is 32-bit big-endian and uses 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and
1562 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
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1564* A new configure option, --with-rtld-early-cflags, can be used to
1565 specify additional compiler flags for building the early startup code
1566 of the dynamic linker. On targets which have CPU compatibility
1567 checks, this can help to ensure that proper diagnostics are printed if
1568 the dynamic loader runs on an incompatible CPU.
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1570* On Linux, the epoll_pwait2 function has been added. It is similar to
1571 epoll_wait with the difference the timeout has nanoseconds resolution.
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1573* The function posix_spawn_file_actions_addtcsetpgrp_np has been added,
1574 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to set the controlling terminal in
1575 the new process in a race free manner. This function is a GNU extension.
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1577* Source fortification (_FORTIFY_SOURCE) level 3 is now available for
1578 applications compiling with glibc and gcc 12 and later. Level 3 leverages
1579 the __builtin_dynamic_object_size function to deliver additional
1580 fortification balanced against additional runtime cost (checking non-constant
1581 bounds).
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1584 PLT tracking (by not implementing the la_pltenter or la_pltexit callbacks).
1585
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1586Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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1588* On x86-64, the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC environment variable support
1589 has been removed since the first PT_LOAD segment is no longer executable
1590 due to defaulting to -z separate-code.
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1592* The r_version update in the debugger interface makes the glibc binary
1593 incompatible with GDB binaries built without the following commits:
1594
1595 c0154a4a21a gdb: Don't assume r_ldsomap when r_version > 1 on Linux
1596 4eb629d50d4 gdbserver: Check r_version < 1 for Linux debugger interface
1597
1598 when audit modules or dlmopen are used.
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1600* Intel MPX support (lazy PLT, ld.so profile, and LD_AUDIT) has been removed.
1601
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1602* The --enable-static-pie option is no longer available. The glibc build
1603 configuration script now automatically detects static-pie support in the
1604 toolchain and architecture and enables it if available.
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1606* The catchsegv script and associated libSegFault.so shared object have
1607 been removed. There are widely-deployed out-of-process alternatives for
1608 catching coredumps and backtraces.
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1610* Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes
1611 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
1612 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
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1614* The LD_TRACE_PRELINKING environment variable has been removed. Similar
1615 functionality to obtain the program mapping address can be achieved by
1616 using LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS to value of 2.
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1618* The LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS has been removed. The variable was mainly used to
1619 support prelink PIE binaries.
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1621Changes to build and runtime requirements:
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1623* The audit module interface version LAV_CURRENT is increased to enable
1624 proper bind-now support. The loader now advertises via the la_symbind
32ffd427 1625 flags that PLT trace is not possible. New audit modules require the
7f0d9e61 1626 new dynamic loader supporting the latest LAV_CURRENT version. Old audit
32ffd427 1627 modules are still loaded for all targets except aarch64.
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1630 result location register (x8) and NEON Q register. Old audit modules are
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1632 structure sizes and the latest module interface version for LAV_CURRENT.
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1633
1634Security related changes:
1635
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1636 CVE-2022-23219: Passing an overlong file name to the clnt_create
1637 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow when
1638 using the "unix" protocol. Reported by Martin Sebor.
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1640 CVE-2022-23218: Passing an overlong file name to the svcunix_create
1641 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow.
1642
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1643 CVE-2021-3998: Passing a path longer than PATH_MAX to the realpath
1644 function could result in a memory leak and potential access of
1645 uninitialized memory. Reported by Qualys.
1646
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1647 CVE-2021-3999: Passing a buffer of size exactly 1 byte to the getcwd
1648 function may result in an off-by-one buffer underflow and overflow
1649 when the current working directory is longer than PATH_MAX and also
1650 corresponds to the / directory through an unprivileged mount
1651 namespace. Reported by Qualys.
1652
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1655 [12889] nptl: Race condition in pthread_kill
1656 [14232] nptl: tst-cancel7 and tst-cancelx7 race condition
1657 [14913] libc: [mips] Clean up MIPS 64-bit register-dump.h output
1658 [15310] dynamic-link: _dl_sort_fini is O(n^3) causing slow exit when
1659 many dsos
1660 [15333] libc: Use 64-bit stat functions in installed programs
1661 [15533] dynamic-link: LD_AUDIT introduces an avoidable performance
1662 degradation
1663 [15971] dynamic-link: No interface for debugger access to libraries
1664 loaded with dlmopen
1665 [17318] locale: [RFE] Provide a C.UTF-8 locale by default
1666 [17645] dynamic-link: RFE: Improve performance of dynamic loader for
1667 deeply nested DSO dependencies.
1668 [19193] nptl: pthread_kill, pthread_cancel return ESRCH for a thread
1669 ID whose lifetime has not ended
1670 [22542] network: buffer overflow in sunrpc clnt_create
1671 (CVE-2022-23219)
1672 [22716] malloc: [PATCH] mtrace.pl: use TRACE_PRELINKING instead of
1673 TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS
1674 [25947] malloc: memory leak in muntrace
1675 [26045] math: fmaxf(inf, nan) does not always work
1676 [26108] math: exp10() has problems with <tgmath.h>
1677 [26779] build: benign use after realloc at localealias.c:329
1678 [27609] dynamic-link: [2.32/2.33/2.34 Regression] In elf/dl-open.c
1679 (_dl_open) we might use __LM_ID_CALLER to index GL(dl_ns)[]
1680 [27945] build: build-many-glibcs.py doesn't configure GCC with
1681 --enable-initfini-array
1682 [27991] build: x86: sysdeps/x86/configure.ac breaks when
1683 libc_cv_include_x86_isa_level is loaded from cache
1684 [28036] nptl: Incorrect types for pthread_mutexattr_set/getrobust_np
1685 in __REDIRECT_NTH macro
1686 [28061] dynamic-link: A failing dlmopen called by an auditor crashed
1687 [28062] dynamic-link: Suppress audit calls when a (new) namespace is
1688 empty
1689 [28126] libc: nftw aborts for paths longer than PATH_MAX
1690 [28129] dynamic-link: Unnecessary check DT_DEBUG in ld.so
1691 [28153] libc: [test] gmon/tst-gmon-gprof* may have a f3 line when
1692 built with ld.lld
1693 [28182] libc: _TIME_BITS=64 in C++ has issues with fcntl, ioctl, prctl
1694 [28185] math: Inaccurate j0f function (again)
1695 [28199] locale: iconvconfig prefix flag behaves differently in glibc
1696 2.34
1697 [28203] dynamic-link: aarch64: elf_machine_{load_address,dynamic}
1698 should drop _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_[0] in favor of __ehdr_start for
1699 robustness
1700 [28213] librt: NULL pointer dereference in mq_notify (CVE-2021-38604)
1701 [28223] libc: mips: clone does not align stack
1702 [28253] dynamic-link: Missing colon in LD_SHOW_AUXV output after
1703 AT_MINSIGSTKSZ
1704 [28256] malloc: Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised
1705 value(s) in __GI___tunables_init
1706 [28260] build: io/tst-closefrom, misc/tst-close_range, posix/tst-
1707 spawn5 fail if stray fds are open
1708 [28310] libc: Do not use affinity mask for sysconf
1709 (_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF)
1710 [28338] time: undefined behavior in __tzfile_compute with oddball TZif
1711 file
1712 [28340] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes while loading a DSO with a read-
1713 only dynamic section
1714 [28349] libc: Segfault for ping -R on qemux86 caused by recvmsg()
1715 [28350] libc: ping receives SIGABRT on lib32-qemux86-64 caused by
1716 recvmsg()
1717 [28353] network: Race condition on __opensock
1718 [28357] dynamic-link: deadlock between pthread_create and ctors
1719 [28358] math: f64xdivf128 and f64xmulf128 spurious underflows
1720 [28361] nptl: Fix for bug 12889 causes setxid deadlock
1721 [28368] build: -Waddress instances in stdio-common/vfprintf-internal.c
1722 [28390] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 14.0.0
1723 [28397] math: tgmath.h should not define fmaxmag, fminmag macros for
1724 C2X
1725 [28400] libc: [2.35 Regression] string/test-strncasecmp: cannot set
1726 locale "en_US.UTF-8"
1727 [28407] nptl: pthread_kill assumes that kill (getpid ()) is equivalent
1728 to tgkill (getpid (), gettid())
1729 [28455] dynamic-link: -Wl,--enable-new-dtags doesn't work
1730 [28457] dynamic-link: Missing reldepmod4.so dependency for
1731 globalmod1.so
1732 [28469] time: linux: struct timex is not correctly set for 32-bit
1733 systems with TIMESIZE=64
1734 [28470] regex: Buffer read overrun in regular expression searching
1735 [28475] string: Incorrect access attribute on memfrob
1736 [28524] libc: Conversion from ISO-2022-JP-3 with iconv may emit
1737 spurious NUL character on state reset
1738 [28532] libc: powerpc64[le]: CFI for assembly templated syscalls is
1739 incorrect
1740 [28550] dynamic-link: FAIL: tst-dso-
1741 ordering9_112-ecbda(GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort=1)
1742 execution test
1743 [28554] build: Undefined generate-md5
1744 [28572] libc: Misaligned accesses in test-memcpy and test-mempcpy on
1745 hppa
1746 [28607] nptl: Masked signals are delivered on thread exit
1747 [28624] libc: openjdk 8/9 assume uni processor and gets stuck due to
1748 lack of cpu counting /proc fallback with glibc 2.34
1749 [28646] string: [2.35 Regression] mock -r fedora-36-x86_64
1750 /tmp/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.312.b07-2.fc36.src.rpm& fails to build
1751 [28648] dynamic-link: Running ld.so on statically linked binaries
1752 crashes
1753 [28656] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC no longer works due to
1754 binutils changes
1755 [28676] dynamic-link: p_align on PT_LOAD segment in DSO isn't honored
1756 [28678] nptl: nptl/tst-create1 hangs sporadically
1757 [28688] dynamic-link: PT_LOAD p_align check is too strict
1758 [28700] nss: "dns [!UNAVAIL=return] files" default for hosts database
1759 is not useful
1760 [28707] time: assert in tzfile.c __tzfile_read striking with truncated
1761 timezones generated by tzcode-2021d and later
1762 [28713] math: GCC 12 miscompiles libm
1763 [28732] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-dl_find_object
1764 [28738] build: LIBC_LINKER_FEATURE doesn't work on linker -z option
1765 [28745] dynamic-link: _dl_find_object miscompilation on powerpc64le
1766 [28746] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE does not work for stpcpy
1767 [28749] libc: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: rtld.c: 1632: dl_main:
1768 Assertion `GL(dl_rtld_map).l_libname' failed!
1769 [28755] string: overflow bug in wcsncmp_avx2 and wcsncmp_evex
1770 [28757] nptl: GDB printer tests failed with new GDB
1771 [28765] math: x86_64 libmvec atan2 accuracy
1772 [28766] manual: Document libmvec accuracy
1773 [28768] network: Buffer overflow in svcunix_create with long pathnames
1774 (CVE-2022-23218)
1775 [28769] libc: Off-by-one buffer overflow/underflow in getcwd()
1776 (CVE-2021-3999)
1777 [28770] libc: Unexpected return value from realpath() for too long
1778 results (CVE-2021-3998)
1779 [28771] libc: %ebx optimization macros are incompatible with .altmacro
1780 in Systemtap probes
1781 [28780] build: --disable-default-pie doesn't work on static programs
1782 [28782] libc: x86-64 ISA level for glibc itself is always
1783 x86-64-baseline
1784 [28792] glob: possible wrong behaviour with patterns with double [
1785 with no closing ]
1786 [28837] libc: FAIL: socket/tst-socket-timestamp-compat
1787 [28847] locale: Empty mon_decimal_point in LC_MONETARY results in non-
1788 empty mon_decimal_point_wc
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1791Version 2.34
1792
1793Major new features:
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1796 the implementation of the runtime all functionality formerly
1797 implemented in the libraries libpthread, libdl, libutil, libanl has
1798 been integrated into libc. New applications do not need to link with
1799 -lpthread, -ldl, -lutil, -lanl anymore. For backwards compatibility,
1800 empty static archives libpthread.a, libdl.a, libutil.a, libanl.a are
1801 provided, so that the linker options keep working. Applications which
1802 have been linked against glibc 2.33 or earlier continue to load the
1803 corresponding shared objects (which are now empty). The integration
1804 of those libraries into libc means that additional symbols become
1805 available by default. This can cause applications that contain weak
1806 references to take unexpected code paths that would only have been
1807 used in previous glibc versions when e.g. preloading libpthread.so.0,
1808 potentially exposing application bugs.
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1811 PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is no longer constant and is redefined to
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1813 sets for modern architectural features like Arm SVE.
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1815* Add _SC_MINSIGSTKSZ and _SC_SIGSTKSZ. When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE
1816 or _GNU_SOURCE are defined, MINSIGSTKSZ and SIGSTKSZ are no longer
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1819 dynamic sized register sets for modern architectural features like
1820 Arm SVE.
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1822* The dynamic linker implements the --list-diagnostics option, printing
1823 a dump of information related to IFUNC resolver operation and
1824 glibc-hwcaps subdirectory selection.
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1827 execve and it is is already used to implement fexecve without requiring
1828 /proc to be mounted. However, different than fexecve, if the syscall is not
1829 supported by the kernel an error is returned instead of trying a fallback.
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1833* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_EXT__, from draft ISO
1834 C2X, is supported to enable declarations of functions defined in Annex F
1835 of C2X. Those declarations are also enabled when
1836 __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, as specified in TS 18661-1, is
1837 defined, and when _GNU_SOURCE is defined.
1838
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1840 --disable-scv configure option.
1841
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1842* Add support for 64-bit time_t on configurations like x86 where time_t
1843 is traditionally 32-bit. Although time_t still defaults to 32-bit on
1844 these configurations, this default may change in future versions.
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1846 only supported when LFS (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) is also enabled. It is
1847 only enabled for Linux and the full support requires a minimum kernel
1848 version of 5.1.
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1850* The main gconv-modules file in glibc now contains only a small set of
1851 essential converter modules and the rest have been moved into a supplementary
1852 configuration file gconv-modules-extra.conf in the gconv-modules.d directory
1853 in the same GCONV_PATH. Similarly, external converter modules directories
1854 may have supplementary configuration files in a gconv-modules.d directory
1855 with names ending with .conf to logically classify the converter modules in
1856 that directory.
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1859 to configure the size of the thread stack cache.
1860
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1864 function does not run any atfork function neither resets any internal state
1865 or lock (such as the malloc one), and only sets up a minimal state required
1866 to call async-signal-safe functions (such as raise or execve). This function
1867 is currently a GNU extension.
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1870 closing a range of file descriptors on recent kernels (version 5.9).
1871
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1874 although it is also present in other systems.
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1877 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to close all file descriptors greater
1878 than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
1879 although Solaris also provides a similar function.
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1882 execute programs that do not have any dynamic dependency (that is,
1883 they are statically linked). This feature is Linux-specific.
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1888 should use the equivalent standard function pthread_mutex_consistent
1889 instead.
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1891* The function pthread_mutexattr_getrobust_np has been deprecated;
1892 programs should use the equivalent standard function
1893 pthread_mutexattr_getrobust instead.
1894
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1895* The function pthread_mutexattr_setrobust_np has been deprecated;
1896 programs should use the equivalent standard function
1897 pthread_mutexattr_setrobust instead.
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1900 the equivalent standard function sched_yield instead.
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1902* The function inet_neta declared in <arpa/inet.h> has been deprecated.
1903
1904* Various rarely-used functions declared in <resolv.h> and
1905 <arpa/nameser.h> have been deprecated. Applications are encouraged to
1906 use dedicated DNS processing libraries if applicable. For <resolv.h>,
1907 this affects the functions dn_count_labels, fp_nquery, fp_query,
1908 fp_resstat, hostalias, loc_aton, loc_ntoa, p_cdname, p_cdnname,
1909 p_class, p_fqname, p_fqnname, p_option, p_query, p_rcode, p_time,
1910 p_type, putlong, putshort, res_hostalias, res_isourserver,
1911 res_nameinquery, res_queriesmatch, res_randomid, sym_ntop, sym_ntos,
1912 sym_ston. For <arpa/nameser.h>, the functions ns_datetosecs,
1913 ns_format_ttl, ns_makecanon, ns_parse_ttl, ns_samedomain, ns_samename,
1914 ns_sprintrr, ns_sprintrrf, ns_subdomain have been deprecated.
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1917 in order to prepare for libresolv moving entirely into libc (see earlier
1918 entry for merging libraries into libc). The symbols __dn_comp,
1919 __dn_expand, __dn_skipname, __res_dnok, __res_hnok, __res_mailok,
1920 __res_mkquery, __res_nmkquery, __res_nquery, __res_nquerydomain,
1921 __res_nsearch, __res_nsend, __res_ownok, __res_query, __res_querydomain,
1922 __res_search, __res_send formerly in libresolv have been renamed and no
1923 longer have a __ prefix. They are now available in libc.
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1926 pthread_cancel will always send the internal SIGCANCEL on a cancellation
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1929 is enabled) or ignore the cancellation internal signal. However there are
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1931 see a spurious EINTR error when cancellation interrupts a blocking syscall.
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1934 file names such as libc-2.33.so. The ABI sonames (e.g., libc.so.6)
1935 were provided as symbolic links. Starting with glibc 2.34, the shared
1936 objects are installed under their ABI sonames directly, without
1937 symbolic links. This increases compatibility with distribution
1938 package managers that delete removed files late during the package
1939 upgrade or downgrade process.
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1942 mtrace. Similar functionality can be achieved by using conditional
1943 breakpoints within mtrace functions from within gdb.
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1945* The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
1946 implementation __default_morecore have been removed from the API. Existing
1947 applications will continue to link against these symbols but the interfaces
1948 no longer have any effect on malloc.
1949
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1951 (or the glibc.malloc.check tunable), mtrace() and mcheck() have now been
1952 disabled by default in the main C library. Users looking to use these
1953 features now need to preload a new debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so to get
1954 this functionality back.
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1957 moved from the core C library into libc_malloc_debug.so. Legacy applications
1958 that still use these functions will now need to preload libc_malloc_debug.so
1959 in their environment using the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
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1962 __memalign_hook and __free_hook are now removed from the API. Compatibility
1963 symbols are present to support legacy programs but new applications can no
1964 longer link to these symbols. These hooks no longer have any effect on glibc
1965 functionality. The malloc debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so currently
1966 supports hooks and can be preloaded to get this functionality back for older
1967 programs. However this is a transitional measure and may be removed in a
1968 future release of the GNU C Library. Users may port away from these hooks by
1969 writing and preloading their own malloc interposition library.
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1974 file shared memory file system to be mounted at /dev/shm. These functions
1975 no longer search among the system's mount points for a suitable
1976 replacement if /dev/shm is not available.
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1978Security related changes:
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1981 a request for netgroup lookup, may crash due to a double-free,
1982 potentially resulting in degraded service or Denial of Service on the
1983 local system. Reported by Chris Schanzle.
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1986 issue when using a notification type of SIGEV_THREAD and a thread
1987 attribute with a non-default affinity mask.
1988
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1990 parameter number when processing the expansion resulting in a crash.
1991 Reported by Philippe Antoine.
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1995 [4737] libc: fork is not async-signal-safe
1996 [5781] math: Slow dbl-64 sin/cos/sincos for special values
1997 [10353] libc: Methods for deleting all file descriptors greater than
1998 given integer (closefrom)
1999 [14185] glob: fnmatch() fails when '*' wildcard is applied on the file
2000 name containing multi-byte character(s)
2001 [14469] math: Inaccurate j0f function
2002 [14470] math: Inaccurate j1f function
2003 [14471] math: Inaccurate y0f function
2004 [14472] math: Inaccurate y1f function
2005 [14744] nptl: kill -32 $pid or kill -33 $pid on a process cancels a
2006 random thread
2007 [15271] dynamic-link: dlmopen()ed shared library with LM_ID_NEWLM
2008 crashes if it fails dlsym() twice
2009 [15648] nptl: multiple definition of `__lll_lock_wait_private'
2010 [16063] nptl: Provide a pthread_once variant in libc directly
2011 [17144] libc: syslog is not thread-safe if NO_SIGPIPE is not defined
2012 [17145] libc: syslog with LOG_CONS leaks console file descriptor
2013 [17183] manual: description of ENTRY struct in <search.h> in glibc
2014 manual is incorrect
2015 [18435] nptl: pthread_once hangs when init routine throws an exception
2016 [18524] nptl: Missing calloc error checking in
2017 __cxa_thread_atexit_impl
2018 [19329] dynamic-link: dl-tls.c assert failure at concurrent
2019 pthread_create and dlopen
2020 [19366] nptl: returning from a thread should disable cancellation
2021 [19511] nptl: 8MB memory leak in pthread_create in case of failure
2022 when non-root user changes priority
2023 [20802] dynamic-link: getauxval NULL pointer dereference after static
2024 dlopen
2025 [20813] nptl: pthread_exit is inconsistent between libc and libpthread
2026 [22057] malloc: malloc_usable_size is broken with mcheck
2027 [22668] locale: LC_COLLATE: the last character of ellipsis is not
2028 ordered correctly
2029 [23323] libc: [RFE] CSU startup hardening.
2030 [23328] malloc: Remove malloc hooks and ensure related APIs return no
2031 data.
2032 [23462] dynamic-link: Static binary with dynamic string tokens ($LIB,
2033 $PLATFORM, $ORIGIN) crashes
2034 [23489] libc: "gcc -lmcheck" aborts on free when using posix_memalign
2035 [23554] nptl: pthread_getattr_np reports wrong stack size with
2036 MULTI_PAGE_ALIASING
2037 [24106] libc: Bash interpreter in ldd script is taken from host
2038 [24773] dynamic-link: dlerror in an secondary namespace does not use
2039 the right free implementation
2040 [25036] localedata: Update collation order for Swedish
2041 [25383] libc: where_is_shmfs/__shm_directory/SHM_GET_NAME may cause
2042 shm_open to pick wrong directory
2043 [25680] dynamic-link: ifuncmain9picstatic and ifuncmain9picstatic
2044 crash in IFUNC resolver due to stack canary (--enable-stack-
2045 protector=all)
2046 [26874] build: -Warray-bounds in _IO_wdefault_doallocate
2047 [26983] math: [x86_64] x86_64 tgamma has too large ULP error
2048 [27111] dynamic-link: pthread_create and tls access use link_map
2049 objects that may be concurrently freed by dlclose
2050 [27132] malloc: memusagestat is linked to system librt, leading to
2051 undefined symbols on major version upgrade
2052 [27136] dynamic-link: dtv setup at thread creation may leave an entry
2053 uninitialized
2054 [27249] libc: libSegFault.so does not output signal number properly
2055 [27304] nptl: pthread_cond_destroy does not pass private flag to futex
2056 system calls
2057 [27318] dynamic-link: glibc fails to load binaries when built with
2058 -march=sandybridge: CPU ISA level is lower than required
2059 [27343] nss: initgroups() SIGSEGVs when called on a system without
2060 nsswich.conf (in a chroot)
2061 [27346] dynamic-link: x86: PTWRITE feature check is missing
2062 [27389] network: NSS chroot hardening causes regressions in chroot
2063 deployments
2064 [27403] dynamic-link: aarch64: tlsdesc htab is not freed on dlclose
2065 [27444] libc: sysconf reports unsupported option (-1) for
2066 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_LINESIZE on X86 since v2.33
2067 [27462] nscd: double-free in nscd (CVE-2021-27645)
2068 [27468] malloc: aarch64: realloc crash with heap tagging: FAIL:
2069 malloc/tst-malloc-thread-fail
2070 [27498] dynamic-link: __dl_iterate_phdr lacks unwinding information
2071 [27511] libc: S390 memmove assumes Vector Facility when MIE Facility 3
2072 is present
2073 [27522] glob: glob, glob64 incorrectly marked as __THROW
2074 [27555] dynamic-link: Static tests fail with --enable-stack-
2075 protector=all
2076 [27559] libc: fstat(AT_FDCWD) succeeds (it shouldn't) and returns
2077 information for the current directory
2078 [27577] dynamic-link: elf/ld.so --help doesn't work
2079 [27605] libc: tunables can't control xsave/xsavec selection in
2080 dl_runtime_resolve_*
2081 [27623] libc: powerpc: Missing registers in sc[v] clobbers list
2082 [27645] libc: [linux] sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSOR...) breaks down on
2083 containers
2084 [27646] dynamic-link: Linker error for non-existing NSS symbols (e.g.
2085 _nss_files_getcanonname_r) from within a dlmopen namespace.
2086 [27648] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-select
2087 [27650] stdio: vfscanf returns too early if a match is longer than
2088 INT_MAX
2089 [27651] libc: Performance regression after updating to 2.33
2090 [27655] string: Wrong size calculation in string/test-strnlen.c
2091 [27706] libc: select fails to update timeout on error
2092 [27709] libc: arm: FAIL: debug/tst-longjmp_chk2
2093 [27721] dynamic-link: x86: ld_audit ignores bind now for TLSDESC and
2094 tries resolving them lazily
2095 [27744] nptl: Support different libpthread/ld.so load orders in
2096 libthread_db
2097 [27749] libc: Data race __run_exit_handlers
2098 [27761] libc: getconf: Segmentation fault when passing '-vq' as
2099 argument
2100 [27832] nss: makedb.c:797:7: error: 'writev' specified size 4294967295
2101 exceeds maximum object size 2147483647
2102 [27870] malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ causes realloc(valid_ptr, TOO_LARGE) to
2103 not set ENOMEM
2104 [27872] build: Obsolete configure option --enable-stackguard-
2105 randomization
2106 [27873] build: tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo fail when building on AMD cpu
2107 [27882] localedata: Use U+00AF MACRON in more EBCDIC charsets
2108 [27892] libc: powerpc: scv ABI error handling fails to check
2109 IS_ERR_VALUE
2110 [27896] nptl: mq_notify does not handle separately allocated thread
2111 attributes (CVE-2021-33574)
2112 [27901] libc: TEST_STACK_ALIGN doesn't work
2113 [27902] libc: The x86-64 clone wrapper fails to align child stack
2114 [27914] nptl: Install SIGSETXID handler with SA_ONSTACK
2115 [27939] libc: aarch64: clone does not align the stack
2116 [27968] libc: s390x: clone does not align the stack
2117 [28011] libc: Wild read in wordexp (parse_param) (CVE-2021-35942)
2118 [28024] string: s390(31bit): Wrong result of memchr (MEMCHR_Z900_G5)
2119 with n >= 0x80000000
2120 [28028] malloc: malloc: tcache shutdown sequence does not work if the
2121 thread never allocated anything
2122 [28033] libc: Need to check RTM_ALWAYS_ABORT for RTM
2123 [28064] string: x86_64:wcslen implementation list has wcsnlen
2124 [28067] libc: FAIL: posix/tst-spawn5
2125 [28068] malloc: FAIL: malloc/tst-mallocalign1-mcheck
2126 [28071] time: clock_gettime, gettimeofday, time lost vDSO acceleration
2127 on older kernels
2128 [28075] nis: Out-of-bounds static buffer read in nis_local_domain
2129 [28089] build: tst-tls20 fails when linker defaults to --as-needed
2130 [28090] build: elf/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo-static fails on certain
2131 AMD64 cpus
2132 [28091] network: ns_name_skip may return 0 for domain names without
2133 terminator
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2136Version 2.33
2137
2138Major new features:
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2140* The dynamic linker accepts the --list-tunables argument which prints
2141 all the supported tunables. This option is disable if glibc is
2142 configured with tunables disabled (--enable-tunables=no).
2143
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2144* The dynamic linker accepts the --argv0 argument and provides opportunity
2145 to change argv[0] string.
2146
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2147* The dynamic linker loads optimized implementations of shared objects
2148 from subdirectories under the glibc-hwcaps directory on the library
2149 search path if the system's capabilities meet the requirements for
2150 that subdirectory. Initially supported subdirectories include
2151 "power9" and "power10" for the powerpc64le-linux-gnu architecture,
2152 "z13", "z14", "z15" for s390x-linux-gnu, and "x86-64-v2", "x86-64-v3",
2153 "x86-64-v4" for x86_64-linux-gnu. In the x86_64-linux-gnu case, the
2154 subdirectory names correspond to the vendor-independent x86-64
2155 microarchitecture levels defined in the x86-64 psABI supplement.
2156
2157* The new --help option of the dynamic linker provides usage and
2158 information and library search path diagnostics.
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2161 but with larger field widths to accurately report values that are
2162 larger than fit in an integer.
2163
96203980 2164* Add <sys/platform/x86.h> to provide query macros for x86 CPU features.
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2166* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been expanded to run on
2167 32-bit hardware. This is supported for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
2168
2169 - rv32imac ilp32
2170 - rv32imafdc ilp32
2171 - rv32imafdc ilp32d
2172
2173 The 32-bit RISC-V port requires at least Linux 5.4, GCC 7.1 and binutils
2174 2.28.
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2177 glibc may use additional checks that may have an additional performance
2178 overhead. At present these checks are available only on LLVM 9 and later.
2179 The latest GCC available at this time (10.2) does not support this level of
2180 fortification.
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2185 mallinfo2 instead.
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2187* When dlopen is used in statically linked programs, alternative library
2188 implementations from HWCAP subdirectories are no longer loaded.
2189 Instead, the default implementation is used.
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2192 removed. To support old binaries, the vtimes function continues to exist
2193 as a compatibility symbol. Applications should use the getrlimit or
2194 prlimit.
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2197 program is now installed in the /usr/bin subdirectory. Previously,
2198 the /usr/sbin subdirectory was used.
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2201 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ that is defined by the compiler, instead of being
2202 hardcoded to double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
2203 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
2204 libraries that use this type in their interfaces. The new definition
2205 improves consistency with compiler behavior in many scenarios.
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2208 "tls" subdirectories on the library search path, the subdirectory that
2209 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, and also stop employing
2210 the legacy AT_HWCAP search mechanism. Applications should switch to
2211 the new glibc-hwcaps mechanism instead; if they do not do that, only
2212 the baseline version (directly from the search path directory) will be
2213 loaded.
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2218 the intended access modes for pseudo-terminals. glibc no longer
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2221 corresponded to what most systems used, so that grantpt did not
2222 perform any adjustments.
2223
2224* On Linux, the posix_openpt and getpt functions no longer attempt to
2225 use legacy (BSD) pseudo-terminals and assume that if /dev/ptmx exists
2226 (and pseudo-terminals are supported), a devpts file system is mounted
2227 on /dev/pts. Current systems already meet these requirements.
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934c48a0 2234 ISO-20220-JP-3 character set using the iconv function has been fixed.
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2236 converted output contains a combined sequence of two wide characters
2237 crossing a buffer boundary. Reported by Tavis Ormandy.
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2240 invoked with input containing redundant shift sequences in the IBM1364,
2241 IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, or IBM1399 character sets.
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2244 when invoked with UCS4 input containing an invalid character.
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2247 invoked with EUC-KR input containing invalid multibyte input sequences.
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2252 [16124] dynamic-link: ld.so should allow to change argv[0]
2253 [17924] malloc: 'free' should not set errno
2254 [18683] libc: Linux faccessat implementation can incorrectly ignore
2255 AT_EACCESS
2256 [22899] libc: Use 64-bit readdir() in generic POSIX getcwd()
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2259 "haswell" platform subdirectory
2260 [24080] dynamic-link: Definition of "haswell" platform is inconsistent
2261 with GCC
2262 [24202] libc: m68k setjmp() saves incorrect 'a5' register in --enable-
2263 stack-protector=all
2264 [24941] libc: Make grantpt usable after multi-threaded fork in more
2265 cases
2266 [24970] libc: realpath mishandles EOVERFLOW; stat not needed anyway
2267 [24973] locale: iconv encounters segmentation fault when converting
2268 0x00 0xfe in EUC-KR to UTF-8 (CVE-2019-25013)
2269 [25399] string: undefined reference to `__warn_memset_zero_len' when
2270 changing gnuc version
2271 [25859] libc: glibc parser for /sys/devices/system/cpu/online is
2272 incorrect
2273 [25938] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should store meaning of hwcap mask
2274 bits
2275 [25971] libc: s390 bits/hwcap.h out of sync with kernel
2276 [26053] libc: unlockpt fails with ENOTTY for non-ptmx descriptors
2277 [26100] libc: Race in syslog(3) with regards to tag printing.
2278 [26124] libc: Export <cpu-features.h>
2279 [26130] nscd: Inconsistent nscd cache during pruning
7f0d9e61 2280 [26203] libc: GLRO(dl_x86_cpu_features) may not be initialized
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2282 several IBM character sets (CVE-2020-27618)
2283 [26341] libc: realpath cyclically call __alloca(path_max) to consume
2284 too much stack space
2285 [26343] manual: invalid documented return type for strerrorname_np(),
2286 strerrordesc_np(), sigdescr_np(), sigabbrev_np()
2287 [26376] libc: Namespace violation in stdio.h and sys/stat.h if build
2288 with optimization.
2289 [26383] locale: bind_textdomain_codeset doesn't accept //TRANSLIT
2290 anymore
2291 [26394] time: [2.33 Regression] FAIL: nptl/tst-join14
2292 [26534] math: libm.so 2.32 SIGILL in pow() due to FMA4 instruction on
2293 non-FMA4 system
2294 [26552] dynamic-link: CPU_FEATURE_USABLE_P should be more conservative
2295 [26553] libc: mtx_init allows type set to "mtx_recursive" only
2296 [26555] string: strerrorname_np does not return the documented value
2297 [26592] libc: pointer arithmetic overflows in realpath
2298 [26600] network: Transaction ID collisions cause slow DNS lookups in
2299 getaddrinfo
2300 [26606] libc: [2.33 Regression] pselect is broken on x32
2301 [26615] libc: powerpc: libc segfaults when LD_PRELOADed with libgcc
2302 [26620] glob: fnmatch with collating symbols results in segmentation
2303 fault
2304 [26625] libc: [2.33 Regression] CET is disabled
2305 [26636] libc: 32-bit shmctl(IPC_INFO) crashes when shminfo struct is
2306 at the end of a memory mapping
2307 [26637] libc: semctl SEM_STAT_ANY fails to pass the buffer specified
2308 by the caller to the kernel
2309 [26639] libc: msgctl IPC_INFO and MSG_INFO return garbage
2310 [26647] build: [-Werror=array-parameter=] due to different
2311 declarations for __sigsetjmp
2312 [26648] libc: mkstemp is likely to fail on systems with non-stricly-
2313 monotonic clocks
2314 [26649] stdio: printf should handle non-normal x86 long double numbers
2315 gracefully (CVE-2020-29573)
2316 [26686] build: -Warray-parameter instances building with GCC 11
2317 [26687] build: -Warray-bounds instances building with GCC 11
2318 [26690] stdio: Aliasing violation in __vfscanf_internal
2319 [26691] nptl: Use a minimum guard size of 64 KiB on aarch64
2320 [26726] build: GCC warning calling new_composite_name with an array of
2321 one element
2322 [26736] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-sysvshm-linux
2323 [26737] libc: Random FAIL: rt/tst-shm
2324 [26791] libc: Missing O_CLOEXEC in sysconf.c
2325 [26798] dynamic-link: aarch64: variant PCS symbols may be incorrectly
2326 lazy bound
2327 [26801] nptl: pthread_mutex_clocklock with CLOCK_MONOTONIC can fail on
2328 PI mutexes
2329 [26818] string: aarch64: string tests may run ifunc variants that are
2330 not safe
2331 [26821] libc: Memory leak test failures on Fedora 33
2332 [26824] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-cpu-features-supports with recent trunk:
2333 FSGSBASE/LM/RDRAND check failure
2334 [26833] time: adjtime() with delta == NULL segfaults on armv7 32bit
2335 platform
2336 [26853] libc: aarch64: Missing unwind information in statically linked
2337 startup code
2338 [26923] locale: Assertion failure in iconv when converting invalid
2339 UCS4 (CVE-2020-29562)
2340 [26926] dynamic-link: aarch64: library dependencies are not bti
2341 protected
2342 [26932] libc: sh: Multiple floating point functions defined as stubs
2343 only since 2.31
2344 [26964] nptl: pthread_mutex_timedlock returning EAGAIN after futex is
2345 locked
2346 [26988] dynamic-link: aarch64: BTI mprotect address is not page
2347 aligned
2348 [27002] build: libc_freeres_fn build failure with GCC 11
2349 [27004] dynamic-link: ld.so is miscompiled by GCC 11
2350 [27008] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should have endianness markup
2351 [27042] libc: [alpha] anonymous union in struct stat confuses
2352 detection logic
2353 [27053] libc: Conformance regression in system(3) (and probably also
2354 pclose(3))
2355 [27072] dynamic-link: static pie ifunc resolvers run before hwcap is
2356 setup
2357 [27077] network: Do not reload /etc/nsswitch.conf from chroot
2358 [27083] libc: Unsafe unbounded alloca in addmntent
2359 [27104] dynamic-link: The COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_MAX handshake does not
2360 work
2361 [27130] string: "rep movsb" performance issue
2362 [27150] libc: alpha: wait4() is unavailable in static linking
2363 [27177] dynamic-link:
2364 GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.cpu.x86_ibt=on:glibc.cpu.x86_shstk=on doesn't
2365 work
2366 [27222] dynamic-link: Incorrect sysdeps/x86/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo.c
2367 [27237] malloc: deadlock in malloc/tst-malloc-stats-cancellation
2368 [27256] locale: Assertion failure in ISO-2022-JP-3 gconv module
2369 related to combining characters (CVE-2021-3326)
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2373
2374Major new features:
2375
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2376* Unicode 13.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2377 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 13.0.0, using
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2378 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2379
2380* New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq)
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2382* Support for Synopsys ARC HS cores (ARCv2 ISA) running Linux has been
2383 added. This port requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-8.3 and Linux-5.1.
2384 Three ABIs are supported:
2385
2386 - arc-linux-gnu
2387 - arc-linux-gnuhf
2388 - arceb-linux-gnu
2389
4d3a77c7 2390 The arc* ABIs are little-endian while arceb is big-endian. All ABIs use
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2391 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
2392
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2393* The GNU C Library now loads audit modules listed in the DT_AUDIT and
2394 DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
2395
051be01f 2396* powerpc64le supports IEEE128 long double libm/libc redirects when
4d3a77c7 2397 using -mabi=ieeelongdouble to compile C code on supported GCC
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2398 toolchains. It is recommended to use GCC 8 or newer when testing
2399 this option.
2400
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2401* To help detect buffer overflows and other out-of-bounds accesses
2402 several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This
2403 should help GCC 10 issue better warnings.
2404
4d3a77c7 2405* On Linux, functions pthread_attr_setsigmask_np and
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2406 pthread_attr_getsigmask_np have been added. They allow applications
2407 to specify the signal mask of a thread created with pthread_create.
2408
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2409* The GNU C Library now provides the header file <sys/single_threaded.h>
2410 which declares the variable __libc_single_threaded. Applications are
2411 encouraged to use this variable for single-thread optimizations,
2412 instead of weak references to symbols historically defined in
2413 libpthread.
2414
bfe05aa2 2415* The functions sigabbrev_np and sigdescr_np have been added. The
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2416 sigabbrev_np function returns the abbreviated signal name (e.g. "HUP" for
2417 SIGHUP) while sigdescr_np returns a string describing the signal number
2418 (e.g "Hangup" for SIGHUP). Different than strsignal, sigdescr_np does not
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2419 attempt to translate the return description, both functions return
2420 NULL for an invalid signal number.
2421
2422 They should be used instead of sys_siglist or sys_sigabbrev and they
2423 are both thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
2424
325081b9 2425* The functions strerrorname_np and strerrordesc_np have been added. The
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2426 strerroname_np function returns error number name (e.g. "EINVAL" for EINVAL)
2427 while strerrordesc_np returns a string describing the error number
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2428 (e.g "Invalid argument" for EINVAL). Different than strerror,
2429 strerrordesc_np does not attempt to translate the return description, both
2430 functions return NULL for an invalid error number.
2431
2432 They should be used instead of sys_errlist and sys_nerr, both are
2433 thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
2434
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2435* AArch64 now supports standard branch protection security hardening
2436 in glibc when it is built with a GCC that is configured with
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2437 --enable-standard-branch-protection (or if -mbranch-protection=standard
2438 flag is passed when building both GCC target libraries and glibc,
2439 in either case a custom GCC is needed). This includes branch target
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2440 identification (BTI) and pointer authentication for return addresses
2441 (PAC-RET). They require armv8.5-a and armv8.3-a architecture
2442 extensions respectively for the protection to be effective,
2443 otherwise the used instructions are nops. User code can use PAC-RET
2444 without libc support, but BTI requires a libc that is built with BTI
2445 support, otherwise runtime objects linked into user code will not be
2446 BTI compatible.
2447
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2448Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2449
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2450* Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc. Sun RPC is removed
2451 from glibc. This includes the rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and the Sun
2452 RPC header files. Backward compatibility for old programs is kept
2453 only for architectures and ABIs that have been added in or before
2454 glibc 2.31. New programs need to use TI-RPC
2455 <http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=summary> and
2456 rpcsvc-proto <https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto>.
2457
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2458* Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-nsl. libnsl is only built
2459 as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules "nis"
2460 and "nisplus" are not built at all and libnsl's headers aren't
2461 installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs
2462 that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement
2463 implementations based on TI-RPC, which additionally support IPv6, are
2464 available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not
4d3a77c7 2465 affect the "compat" NSS module, which does not depend on libnsl
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2466 since 2.27 and thus can be used without NIS.
2467
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2468* The deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
2469 removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
2470 exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
2471 but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system
2472 call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5.
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2474* The sstk function is no longer available to newly linked binaries.
2475 Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function
2476 was not declared in any header file.
2477
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2478* The legacy signal handling functions siginterrupt, sigpause, sighold,
2479 sigrelse, sigignore and sigset, and the sigmask macro have been
2480 deprecated. Applications should use the sigsuspend, sigprocmask and
2481 sigaction functions instead.
2482
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2483* ldconfig now defaults to the new format for ld.so.cache. glibc has
2484 already supported this format for almost 20 years.
2485
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2486* The deprecated arrays sys_siglist, _sys_siglist, and sys_sigabbrev
2487 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
2488 have been removed from <string.h>. They are exported solely as
2489 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
2490 strsignal instead.
2491
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2492* The deprecated symbols sys_errlist, _sys_errlist, sys_nerr, and _sys_nerr
2493 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
4d3a77c7 2494 have been removed from <stdio.h>. They are exported solely as
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2495 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
2496 strerror or strerror_r instead.
2497
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2498* Both strerror and strerror_l now share the same internal buffer in the
2499 calling thread, meaning that the returned string pointer may be invalided
2500 or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same thread or
2501 if the thread is terminated. It makes strerror MT-safe.
2502
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2503* Using weak references to libpthread functions such as pthread_create
2504 or pthread_key_create to detect the singled-threaded nature of a
2505 program is an obsolescent feature. Future versions of glibc will
2506 define pthread_create within libc.so.6 itself, so such checks will
2507 always flag the program as multi-threaded. Applications should check
2508 the __libc_single_threaded variable declared in
2509 <sys/single_threaded.h> instead.
2510
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2511* The "files" NSS module no longer supports the "key" database (used for
2512 secure RPC). The contents of the /etc/publickey file will be ignored,
2513 regardless of the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of
2514 storing RPC keys only supported the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES
2515 flavor of secure RPC.)
94d9c76e 2516
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2517* The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
2518 implementation __default_morecore have been deprecated. Applications
2519 should use malloc interposition to change malloc behavior, and mmap to
2520 allocate anonymous memory. A future version of glibc may require that
2521 applications which use the malloc hooks must preload a special shared
2522 object, to enable the hooks.
2523
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2524* The hesiod NSS module has been deprecated and will be removed in a
2525 future version of glibc. System administrators are encouraged to
2526 switch to other approaches for networked account databases, such as
2527 LDAP.
2528
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2529Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2530
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2531* powerpc64le requires GCC 7.4 or newer. This is required for supporting
2532 long double redirects.
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2533
2534Security related changes:
2535
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2536 CVE-2016-10228: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
2537 invoked with the -c option and when processing invalid multi-byte input
2538 sequences. Reported by Jan Engelhardt.
2539
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AJ
2540 CVE-2020-10029: Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack
2541 corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido
2542 Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
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2544 CVE-2020-1752: A use-after-free vulnerability in the glob function when
2545 expanding ~user has been fixed.
2546
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2547 CVE-2020-6096: A signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy and
2548 memmove functions has been fixed. Discovered by Jason Royes and Samual
2549 Dytrych of the Cisco Security Assessment and Penetration Team (See
2550 TALOS-2020-1019).
2551
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2552The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2553
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2554 [9809] localedata: ckb_IQ: new Kurdish Sorani locale
2555 [10441] manual: Backtraces code example lacks error checking
2556 [10815] librt: [timer_create / SIGEV_THREAD] signalmask of
2557 timer_sigev_thread dangerous
2558 [14231] stdio: stdio-common tests memory requirements
2559 [14578] libc: /proc-based emulation for lchmod, fchmodat
2560 [16272] dynamic-link: dlopen()ing a DT_FILTER library crashes if
2561 filtee has constructor
2562 [19519] locale: iconv(1) with -c option hangs on illegal multi-byte
2563 sequences (CVE-2016-10228)
2564 [19737] admin: Doc page “20.5.2 Infinity and NaN” has incorrect HTML
2565 character entities for infinity & pi
2566 [20338] libc: Parsing of /etc/gshadow can return bad pointers causing
2567 segfaults in applications
2568 [20543] libc: Please move from .gnu.linkonce to comdat
7f0d9e61 2569 [22489] network: gcc warns about implicit conversion in
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2570 ICMP6_FILTER_SETPASS with -Wsign-conversion
2571 [22525] localedata: or_IN LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2572 [23294] math: Complex _FloatN functions are redirected to the wrong
2573 function with -mlong-double-64
2574 [23296] libc: Data race in setting function descriptor during lazy
2575 binding
2576 [23668] dynamic-link: ldconfig: Default to the new format for
2577 ld.so.cache
2578 [23819] hurd: hurd: Add C11 thread support
2579 [23990] build: test-container error out on failure to exec child.
2580 [23991] build: shell-container typo in run_command_array
2581 [24638] manual: Error in example of parsing a template string
2582 [24654] manual: Wrong declaration of wcschr in libc manual
2583 [24943] dynamic-link: Support DT_AUDIT, DT_DEPAUDIT in the dynamic
2584 linker
2585 [25051] dynamic-link: aarch64, powerpc64 uses surplus static tls for
2586 dynamically loaded dsos
2587 [25098] nptl: nptl: ctype classification functions are not AS-Safe
2588 [25219] libc: improve out-of-bounds checking with GCC 10 attribute
2589 access
2590 [25262] libc: getcontext/setcontext/swapcontext unnecessarily save and
2591 restore EAX, ECX and EDX
2592 [25397] dynamic-link: Legacy bitmap doesn't cover jitted code
2593 [25414] glob: 'glob' use-after-free bug (CVE-2020-1752)
2594 [25420] network: Race condition in resolv_conf.c can result in caching
2595 stale configuration forever
2596 [25487] math: sinl() stack corruption from crafted input
2597 (CVE-2020-10029)
2598 [25506] build: configure: broken detection of STT_GNU_IFUNC when GCC
2599 defaults to PIE
2600 [25523] libc: MIPS/Linux inline syscall template is miscompiled
2601 [25620] libc: Signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy()
2602 (CVE-2020-6096)
2603 [25623] libc: test-sysvmsg, test-sysvsem, test-sysvshm fail with 2.31
2604 on 32 bit and old kernel
2605 [25635] libc: arm: Wrong sysdep order selection for soft-fp
2606 [25639] localedata: Some names of days and months wrongly spelt in
2607 Occitan
2608 [25657] libc: sigprocmask() and sigisemptyset() manipulate different
2609 amount of sigset_t bytes
2610 [25691] stdio: printf: memory leak when printing long multibyte
2611 strings
2612 [25715] libc: system() returns wrong errors when posix_spawn fails
2613 [25733] malloc: mallopt(M_MXFAST) can set global_max_fast to 0
2614 [25734] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS fails to reset conversion
2615 state for conversions that produce two Unicode code points
2616 [25765] nptl: Incorrect futex syscall in __pthread_disable_asynccancel
2617 for linux x86_64 leads to livelock
2618 [25788] dynamic-link: [i386] -fno-omit-frame-pointer in CFLAGS causes
2619 test failures, invalid instruction in ld.so
2620 [25790] glob: Typo in tst-fnmatch.input
2621 [25810] libc: x32: Incorrect syscall entries with pointer, off_t and
2622 size_t
2623 [25819] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 13.0.0
2624 [25824] libc: Abnormal function of strnlen in aarch64
2625 [25887] dynamic-link: Wasted space in _dl_x86_feature_1[1]
2626 [25896] libc: Incorrect prctl
2627 [25902] libc: Bad LOADARGS_N
2628 [25905] dynamic-link: VSX registers are corrupted during PLT
2629 resolution when glibc is built with --disable-multi-arch and --with-
2630 cpu=power9
2631 [25933] string: Off by one error in __strncmp_avx2 when
2632 length=VEC_SIZE*4 and strings are at page boundaries can cause a
2633 segfault
2634 [25942] nptl: Deadlock on stack_cache_lock between __nptl_setxid and
2635 exiting detached thread
2636 [25966] libc: Incorrect access of __x86_shared_non_temporal_threshold
2637 for x32
2638 [25976] nss: internal_end*ent in nss_compat may clobber errno, hiding
2639 ERANGE
2640 [25999] nptl: Use-after-free issue in pthread_getaddr_default_np
2641 [26073] math: getpayload() has wrong return value
2642 [26076] dynamic-link: dlmopen crashes after failing to load
2643 dependencies in audit mode
2644 [26120] localedata: column width of of some Korean
2645 JUNGSEONG/JONGSEONG characters wrong (should be 0)
2646 [26128] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFLUSHOPT
2647 [26133] libc: Incorrect need_arch_feature_F16C
2648 [26137] libc: strtod() triggers exception FE_INEXACT on reasonable
2649 input
2650 [26149] libc: PKU is usable only if OSPKE is set
2651 [26173] libc: powerpc64*: Add @notoc to calls to functions that do not
2652 preserve r2
2653 [26208] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFSH
2654 [26210] network: Incorrect use of hidden symbols for global sunrpc
2655 variables
2656 [26211] stdio: printf integer overflow calculating allocation size
2657 [26214] stdio: printf_fp double free
2658 [26215] stdio: printf_fp memory leak
2659 [26232] time: FAIL: support/tst-timespec for 32-bit targets
2660 [26258] nss: nss_compat should not read input files with mmap
2661 [26332] string: Incorrect cache line size load causes memory
2662 corruption in memset
2663
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2665Version 2.31
2666
2667Major new features:
2668
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2669* The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
2670 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
2671 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
2672 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
2673 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
2674 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
0b8c2f95 2675
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2676* The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
2677 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
2678 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
2679 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
2680
69ca4b54 2681* The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
3ef5e118 2682 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
69ca4b54
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2683 CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME. This function is a GNU extension.
2684
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2685* New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar).
2686
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2687* The DNS stub resolver will optionally send the AD (authenticated data) bit
2688 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
2689 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
2690 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
2691 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
2692 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
2693 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
2694 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
2695
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2696Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2697
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2698* The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
2699 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
2700 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
2701 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
2702 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
2703 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
0b8c2f95 2704
12cbde1d 2705* The obsolete function stime is no longer available to newly linked
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2706 binaries, and its declaration has been removed from <time.h>.
2707 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
2708
2709* We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
2710 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
2711 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
2712 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
2713
2714* The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
2715 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
2716 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
2717 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
2718 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
2719 made this no longer practical.
2720
2721 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
2722 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
2723 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
2724 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
2725 release.)
2726
2727 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
2728 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
2729 with the current time, use the localtime function.
2730
2731 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
2732 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
2733 using clock_gettime instead.
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2735* The settimeofday function can still be used to set a system-wide time
2736 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
2737 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
2738 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
2739 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
2740
2741 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
2742 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
2743 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
2744 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
2745
2746 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
2747 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
2748 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
2749 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
2750 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
2751 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
2752
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2753 settimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. Programs that set
2754 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
2755 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
2756 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
2757 offset API.
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2759* SPARC ISA v7 is no longer supported. v8 is still supported, but only if
2760 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
2761 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
2b5fea83 2762
521c7fc6
ZW
2763 As the oldest 64-bit SPARC ISA is v9, this only affects 32-bit
2764 configurations.
5d9b7b9f 2765
79e0cd7b
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2766* If a lazy binding failure happens during dlopen, during the execution of
2767 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
2768 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
2769 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
2770 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
2771
ba44e5b5
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2772* For MIPS hard-float ABIs, the GNU C Library will be configured to need an
2773 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
2774 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
2775 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
2776 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
2777 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
2778 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
2779 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
2780
2781 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
2782 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
2783
2cd01a1d
SN
2784* System call wrappers for time system calls now use the new time64 system
2785 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
2786 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
2787 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
2788 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
2789 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
2790
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2791Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2792
a1bd5f86 2793* It is no longer necessary to have recent Linux kernel headers to build
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2794 working (non-stub) system call wrappers on all architectures except 64-bit
2795 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
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97ff54d2
SP
2797* The ChangeLog file is no longer present in the toplevel directory of the
2798 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
2799 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
2800
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2801Security related changes:
2802
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2803 CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an
2804 out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context.
2805
d5dfad43
MK
2806 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
2807 environment variable during program execution after a security
2808 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
2809 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
2810 program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
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2811
2812The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2813
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2814 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
2815 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
2816 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
2817 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
2818 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
2819 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
2820 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
2821 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
2822 linking failure
2823 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
2824 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
2825 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
2826 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
2827 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
2828 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
2829 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
2830 constructors/destructors is not fatal
2831 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
2832 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
2833 7408-2005
2834 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
2835 with localedef
2836 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
2837 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
2838 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
2839 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
2840 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
2841 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
2842 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
2843 utmp entries
2844 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
2845 ABSOLUTE ABI
2846 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
2847 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
2848 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
2849 (stringop-overflow error)
2850 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
2851 functions other can lead to crashes
2852 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
2853 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
2854 unconditionally
2855 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
2856 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
2857 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
2858 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
2859 still can fail with an error
2860 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
2861 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
2862 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
2863 initialized correctly
2864 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
2865 -frewrite-includes
2866 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
2867 value to an unsigned
2868 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
2869 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
2870 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
2871 protection
2872 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
2873 ifunc variant.
2874 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
2875 al. for Clang++
2876 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
2877 (Slovenian)
2878 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
2879 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
2880 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
2881 with -std=c11
2882 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
2883 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
2884 part
2885 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
2886 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
2887 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
2888 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
2889 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
2890 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
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2893Version 2.30
2894
2895Major new features:
2896
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2897* Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2898 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
86bdd49d
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2899 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2900
8692ebdb
DN
2901* The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
2902 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
de44ab67 2903
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2904* The twalk_r function has been added. It is similar to the existing
2905 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
2906 to the callback function.
2907
51ea67d5 2908* On Linux, the getdents64, gettid, and tgkill functions have been added.
1d0fc213 2909
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2910* Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
2911 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
2912 nan_TW, lzh_TW.
2913
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2914* The entry for the new Japanese era has been added for ja_JP locale.
2915
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AZ
2916* Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
2917 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
2918 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
2919 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
2920 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
2921
f0b2132b
FW
2922* The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
2923 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
2924 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
2925 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
2926 link time reference, is gone.
2927
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2928* Add new POSIX-proposed pthread_cond_clockwait, pthread_mutex_clocklock,
2929 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
2930 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
2931 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
2932 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
2933 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
2934 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
2935 the clock choice at initialization time).
2936
dcf36bca
SN
2937* On AArch64 the GNU IFUNC resolver call ABI changed: old resolvers still
2938 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
2939 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
2940
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2941Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2942
5a659ccc
FW
2943* The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
2944 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
2945 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
2946 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
74448103
DD
2947 copy_file_range function can no longer rely on glibc to provide a fallback
2948 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
2949 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
2950 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
2951 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
5a659ccc 2952
f289e656
FW
2953* The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime,
2954 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
2955 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
2956 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
2957 since glibc 2.17.
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a0a0dc83
FW
2959* The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
2960 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
2961
3f8b44be
FW
2962* Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
2963 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
2964
33322186
FW
2965* The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
2966 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
2967
94a4e9e4
FW
2968* With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
2969 BIND_NOW flag.
2970
a053e878
ZW
2971* Support for the PowerPC SPE ISA extension (powerpc-*-*gnuspe*
2972 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
2973 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
2974
6b33f373
FW
2975* On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
2976 header have been removed.
2977
744e8296
FW
2978* The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
2979 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
2980 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
2981 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
2982
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2983Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2984
4dcbbc3b
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2985* GCC 6.2 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
2986
2987 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
2988 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
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2989
2990Security related changes:
2991
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2992 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
2993 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
2994 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
2995 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
2996 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
2997 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
2998 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
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AJ
3000 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
3001 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
3002 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
3003
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3004The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3005
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3006 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
3007 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
3008 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
3009 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
3010 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
3011 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
3012 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
3013 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
3014 invalid input drops valid char
3015 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
3016 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
3017 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
3018 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
3019 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
3020 malloc.h.
3021 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
3022 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
3023 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
3024 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
3025 functions
3026 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
3027 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
3028 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
3029 for long double = double
3030 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
3031 long double = double
3032 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
3033 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
3034 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
3035 long timeouts
fdb724f9 3036 [24051] stdio: puts and putchar output to _IO_stdout instead of stdout
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3037 [24059] nss: nss_files: get_next_alias calls fgets_unlocked without
3038 checking for NULL.
3039 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
3040 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
3041 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
3042 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
3043 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
3044 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
3045 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
3046 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
3047 not the default "nor"
3048 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
3049 false positives, change to modern flexible array
3050 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
3051 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
3052 compiler barriers.
3053 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
3054 unnecessary librt dependencies
3055 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
3056 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
3057 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
3058 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
3059 unsorted chunk
3060 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
3061 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
3062 to R_SPARC_H44
3063 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
3064 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
3065 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
3066 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
3067 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
3068 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
3069 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
3070 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
3071 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
3072 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
3073 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
3074 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
3075 was not used
3076 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
3077 tests
3078 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
3079 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
3080 time_t changes
3081 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
3082 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
3083 kernels and break testing
3084 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
3085 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
3086 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
3087 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
3088 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
3089 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
3090 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
3091 -O3 -march=skylake
3092 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
3093 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
3094 crash
3095 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
3096 linked glibc
3097 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
3098 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
3099 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
3100 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
3101 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
3102 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
3103 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
3104 always implemented in the same library
3105 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
3106 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
3107 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
3108 testroot
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3111Version 2.29
3112
3113Major new features:
3114
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3115* The getcpu wrapper function has been added, which returns the currently
3116 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
3117
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3118* A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
3119 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
3120 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
3121 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
3122 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
3123 configured location.
437faa96 3124
424c4f60 3125* Optimized generic exp, exp2, log, log2, pow, sinf, cosf, sincosf and tanf.
3bded567 3126
2bda273a
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3127* The reallocarray function is now declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE, not just
3128 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
3129
f0458cf4
AZ
3130* For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
3131 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
3132 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
3133 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
3134 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
3135 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
3136 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
3137 process actually does not use HTM).
3138
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3139* The functions posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np and
3140 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
3141 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
3142 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
3143 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
3144 of the same name.
4a938cb2 3145
14d0e87d
AZ
3146* The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
3147 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
3148 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
5fc3eca7 3149 inconsistent mutex state after a fork call in a multi-threaded process.
14d0e87d
AZ
3150 In both popen and system there is no direct access to user-defined mutexes.
3151
5f72b005
MH
3152* Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
3153 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
3154 supported:
3155 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
3156 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
3157
b22eed37
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3158* strftime's default formatting of a locale's alternative year (%Ey)
3159 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
3160 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
3161 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
3162 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
3163 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
3164 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
3165
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3166* As a GNU extension, the '_' and '-' flags can now be applied to
3167 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
3168 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
3169
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3170Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
3171
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3172* The glibc.tune tunable namespace has been renamed to glibc.cpu and the
3173 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
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3175* The type of the pr_uid and pr_gid members of struct elf_prpsinfo, defined
3176 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
3177 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
3178 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
3179
3f7f1d18
JM
3180* For the MIPS n32 ABI, the type of the pr_sigpend and pr_sighold members of
3181 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
3182 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
3183 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
3184 structures.
3185
03992356
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3186* An archaic GNU extension to scanf, under which '%as', '%aS', and '%a[...]'
3187 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
3188 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
3189 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
3190 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
3191 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
3192
3193 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
3194 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
3195 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
3196 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
3197 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
3198
3199 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
3200 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
3201 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
3202
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3203Changes to build and runtime requirements:
3204
c6982f7e 3205* Python 3.4 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
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3207* On most architectures, GCC 5 or later is required to build the GNU C
3208 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
3209
3210 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
3211 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
3212
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3213Security related changes:
3214
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3215 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
3216 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
3217 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
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3219 CVE-2019-6488: On x32, the size_t parameter may be passed in the lower
3220 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
3221 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
3222 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
3223 Reported by H.J. Lu.
3224
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3225 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
3226 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
3227 or command injection issues in applications.
3228
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3229The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3230
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3231 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
3232 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
3233 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
3234 thousands
3235 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
3236 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
3237 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
3238 --param options)
3239 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
3240 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
3241 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
3242 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
3243 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
3244 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
3245 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
3246 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
3247 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
3248 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
3249 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
3250 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
3251 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
3252 pointer argument is non-NULL
3253 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
3254 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
3255 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
3256 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
3257 multithreads call popen
3258 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
3259 and pthread_create fails.
3260 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
3261 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
3262 constructor
3263 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
3264 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
3265 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
3266 source tree
3267 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
3268 float
3269 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
3270 one error
3271 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
3272 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
3273 linker
3274 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
3275 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
3276 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
3277 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
3278 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
3279 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
3280 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
3281 filesystems
3282 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
3283 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
3284 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
3285 functions
3286 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
3287 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
3288 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
3289 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
3290 have wrong type
3291 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
3292 wrong type
3293 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
3294 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
3295 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
3296 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
3297 threads
3298 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
3299 start.S
3300 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
3301 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
3302 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
3303 powerpc64le
3304 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
3305 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
3306 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
3307 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
3308 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
3309 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
3310 strftime
3311 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
3312 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
3313 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
3314 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
3315 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
3316 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
3317 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
3318 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
3319 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
3320 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
3321 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
3322 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
3323 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
3324 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
3325 tcache size
3326 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
3327 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
3328 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
3329 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
3330 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
3331 (CVE-2018-19591)
3332 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
3333 nearest rounding mode
3334 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
3335 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
3336 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
3337 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
3338 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
3339 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
3340 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
3341 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
3342 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
3343 error
3344 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
3345 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
3346 using GCC 8
3347 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
3348 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
3349 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
3350 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
3351 ppc64le
3352 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
3353 expected result
3354 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
3355 x32 (CVE-2019-6488)
3356 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
3357 sigaltstack
3358 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
3359 answers will be rejected)
3360 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
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3363Version 2.28
3364
3365Major new features:
3366
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3367* The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
3368 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
3369 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
3370 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
3371 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
3372 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
3373 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
3374 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
3375 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
3376 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
3377 archive or binary locales.
3378
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3379* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for Intel CET, AKA
3380 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
3381 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
3382 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
3383 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
3384 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
3385 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
3386 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
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3387 Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
3388 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
3389 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
3390 validated for i686.
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3392* The GNU C Library now has correct support for ABSOLUTE symbols
3393 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
3394 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
3395 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
3396 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
3397 field) to indicate such support is required.
3398
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3399* Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
3400 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
3401 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
3402
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3403* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
3404 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
3405
3406 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
3407 fMxaddfNx functions.
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3409 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
3410 fMxsubfNx functions.
3411
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3412 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
3413 fMxmulfNx functions.
3414
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3415 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
3416 fMxdivfNx functions.
3417
e607a352 3418* Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
df467d22 3419 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
9145f033 3420 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
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3421 support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
3422 and Kashubian.
c553cd6f 3423
61c4aad7 3424* Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
e607a352 3425 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
a1e0c5fa 3426
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3427* Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
3428 patches.
3429
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3430* The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
3431 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
3432 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
3433 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
3434 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
3435 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
3436 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
3437 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
3438
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3439* The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
3440 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
3441 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
3442 the fstatat64 function.
3443
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3444* IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
3445 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
3446 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
3447 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
3448 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
3449 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
3450 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
3451 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
3452 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
3453
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3454* Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
3455 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
3456 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
3457 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
3458 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
3459 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
3460 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
3461 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
3462 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
3463 results in a load failure now.
3464
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3465* Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The
3466 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
3467 <threads.h>:
3468
3469 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
3470 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
3471
3472 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
3473 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
3474
3475 - call_once for function call synchronization.
3476
3477 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
3478 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
3479
3480 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
3481
3482 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
3483
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3484Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
3485
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3486* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
3487 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
3488 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
3489
3490* The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
3491 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
3492 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
3493 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
3494 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
3495 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
3496
3497* All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
3498 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
3499 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
3500 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
3501 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
3502 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
3503 (Bug #1190.)
3504
3505* The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
3506 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
3507 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
3508 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
3509 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
3510 further explanation.
3511
3512 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
3513 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
3514 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
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3516* The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
3517
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3518* The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
3519 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
3520 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
3521
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3522* The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
3523 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
3524 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
3525 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
3526
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3527* The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
3528 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
3529 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
3530 for this function instead.
3531
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3532* The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
3533 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
3534 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
3535
3536* The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
3537 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
3538 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
3539 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
3540
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3541* The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
3542 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
3543 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
3544 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
3545 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
3546
b10a0acc
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3547* The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
3548 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
3549 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
3550 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
3551 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
3552 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
3553 such as libgcrypt.
3554
3555* Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
3556 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
3557 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
3558 enabled.
3559
3560* The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
3561 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
3562 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
3563
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3564* We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
3565 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
3566 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
3567 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
3568 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
3569 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
3570
3571 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
3572 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
3573 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
3574 behavior in a future release.
3575
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3576Changes to build and runtime requirements:
3577
f2873d2d 3578 GNU make 4.0 or later is now required to build glibc.
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3579
3580Security related changes:
3581
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3582 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
3583 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
3584 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
3585 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
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3587 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
3588 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
3589
3590 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
3591 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
3592 Izbyshev.
3593
3594 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
3595 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
3596 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
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3598The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3599
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3600 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
3601 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
3602 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
3603 when __WORDSIZE != 64
3604 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
3605 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
3606 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
3607 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
3608 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
3609 14651
3610 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
3611 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
3612 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
3613 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
3614 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
3615 conversion is given
3616 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
3617 date
3618 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
3619 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
3620 scope with -O1 and higher
3621 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
3622 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
3623 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
3624 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
3625 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
3626 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
3627 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
3628 horrible machine code)
3629 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
3630 last constant.
3631 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
3632 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
3633 symbols
3634 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
3635 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
3636 defined
3637 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
3638 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
3639 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
3640 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
3641 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
3642 fpscr.c'
3643 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
3644 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
3645 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
3646 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
3647 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
3648 the base address
3649 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
3650 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
3651 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
3652 open_verify
3653 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
3654 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
3655 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
3656 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
3657 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
3658 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
3659 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
3660 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
3661 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
3662 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
3663 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
3664 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
3665 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
3666 dlopen
3667 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
3668 AT_SECURE=1
3669 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
3670 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
3671 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
3672 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
3673 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
3674 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
3675 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
3676 for Spanish with CLDR
3677 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
3678 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
3679 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
3680 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
3681 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
3682 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
3683 es_BO
3684 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
3685 CLOCKS_PER_SECOND
3686 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
3687 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
3688 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
3689 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
3690 dlopen failures
3691 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
3692 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
3693 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
3694 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
3695 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
3696 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
3697 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
3698 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
3699 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
3700 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
3701 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
3702 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
3703 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
3704 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
3705 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
3706 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
3707 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
3708 makecontext
3709 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
3710 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
3711 required
3712 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
3713 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
3714 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
3715 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
3716 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
3717 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
3718 disabled
3719 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
3720 failure
3721 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
3722 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
3723 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
3724 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
3725 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
3726 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
3727 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
3728 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
3729 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
3730 and libc build with -Os)
3731 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
3732 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
3733 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
3734 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
3735 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
3736 that changes /etc/passwd
3737 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
3738 (CVE-2018-11237)
3739 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
3740 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
3741 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
3742 posix/regcomp.c
3743 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
3744 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
3745 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
3746 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
3747 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
3748 AT_SECURE
3749 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
3750 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
3751 parser.c
3752 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
3753 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
3754 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
3755 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
3756 directed rounding
3757 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
3758 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
3759 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
3760 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
3761 lookup
3762 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
3763 interposition
3764 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
3765 DSO boundaries.
3766 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
3767 <linux/time.h>
3768 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
3769 checking
3770 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
3771 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
3772 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
3773 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
3774 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
3775 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
3776 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
3777 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
3778 processors
3779 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
086ee48e 3780
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3781\f
3782Version 2.27
3783
3784Major new features:
3785
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3786* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
3787 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
bd7bbb26 3788 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
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3789 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
3790 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
3791 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
3792 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
25fb7dd6
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3793 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
3794 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
9d7a3741 3795
ac817e08 3796* Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
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3797 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
3798 H.J. Lu from Intel.
20c7b195 3799
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3800* Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
3801
4cf82d23 3802* Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
72aa6233 3803
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3804* In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
3805 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
3806 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
3807 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
3808 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
3809 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
3810 from a security and performance perspective.
3811
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3812* The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
3813 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
3814 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
3815 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
3816
81325b12 3817* On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
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3818 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
3819 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
3820 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
81325b12
JM
3821 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
3822
a23aa5b7 3823* On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
40ca951b 3824 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
a23aa5b7
JM
3825 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
3826 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
3827 _Float128.
3828
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3829* The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
3830 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
3831 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
0d93b7fd 3832
4bab0224 3833* glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
59d2cbb1 3834
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3835* Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
3836 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
3837 pkey_get.
3838
bad7a0c8
FW
3839* The copy_file_range function was added.
3840
e6a1c5dc
PM
3841* Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
3842
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AJ
3843* The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
3844 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
3845 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
3846
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3847* Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
3848 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
3849 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
3850 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
3851 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
3852 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
3853 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
3854
3855 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
3856 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
3857 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
3858 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
3859 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
3860 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
3861 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
3862
3863 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
3864 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
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3865 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
3866 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
3867 respectively.
3868
3869 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
3870 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
3871 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
3872 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
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3873
3874 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
3875 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
3876 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
3877
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3878 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
3879 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
0a32e219 3880 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
4378b735 3881
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3882* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
3883 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
3884 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
3885
3886 - rv64imac lp64
3887 - rv64imafdc lp64
3888 - rv64imafdc lp64d
3889
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3890Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
3891
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3892* Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
3893 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
d4ae7827 3894 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
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3895 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
3896 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
3897 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
3898 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
3899 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
3900 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
3901 fix this.
3902
f1a844ac
FW
3903* Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
3904 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
3905 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
3906
2fc21aaa
FW
3907* Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
3908 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
3909 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
3910 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
3911 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
3912 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
3913 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
3914 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
3915 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
3916 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
3917 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
3918 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
3919 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
3920 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
3921 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
3922 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
3923 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
3924 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
3925 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
3926 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
3927 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
3928 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
3929 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
3930 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
3931 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
3932 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
3933
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3934* On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
3935 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
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3937* libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
3938 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
3939 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
3940 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
3941 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
3942 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
3943 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
3944
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3945* The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
3946 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
3947 exp10l for these functions instead.
3948
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3949* The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
3950 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
3951 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3952
644d3857
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3953* The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
3954 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
3955 ignored.
3956
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3957* The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
3958 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
3959 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
3960 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
3961
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3962* The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
3963 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
3964
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3965* In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
3966 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
3967
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3968* The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
3969 programs.
3970
ed95f611
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3971* The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
3972
48a8f832
ZW
3973* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
3974 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
3975 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
3976 instead.
3977
3978 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
3979 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
3980 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
3981 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
3982 use, but predates the bits convention.
3983
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3984Changes to build and runtime requirements:
3985
1faaf703
JB
3986* bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
3987 subdirectory.
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3988
3989Security related changes:
3990
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3991 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
3992 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
3993 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
3994 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
3995 script.)
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3997 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
3998 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
3999 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
4000 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
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914c9994
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4002 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
4003 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
4004 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
4005 of service.
4006
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4007 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
4008 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
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4009 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
4010
37ac8e63
FW
4011 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
4012 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
4013 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
4014 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
4015
8a0b17e4
FW
4016 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
4017 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
4018 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
4019 Qualys.
4020
3ff3dfa5
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4021 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
4022 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
4023 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
4024 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
4025 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
4026
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4027 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
4028 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
4029 current directory.
4030
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4031 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
4032 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
4033 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
4034
4590634f
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4035 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
4036 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
4037 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
4038
71aa429b
FW
4039 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
4040 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
4041 small, instead of NULL.
4042
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4043The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4044
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4045 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
4046 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
4047 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
4048 locale
4049 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
4050 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
4051 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
4052 cases
4053 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
4054 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
4055 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
4056 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
4057 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
4058 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
4059 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
4060 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
4061 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
4062 "Bangla"
4063 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
4064 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
4065 width Latin characters
4066 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
4067 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
4068 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
4069 letters
4070 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
4071 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
4072 (CVE-2009-5064)
4073 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
4074 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
4075 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
4076 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
4077 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
4078 if malloc succeeded
4079 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
4080 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
4081 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
4082 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
4083 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
4084 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
4085 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
4086 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
4087 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
4088 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
4089 U+309A
4090 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
4091 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
4092 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
4093 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
4094 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
4095 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
4096 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
4097 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
4098 for Nicaragua
4099 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
4100 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
4101 are not found.
4102 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
4103 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
4104 access
4105 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
4106 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
4107 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
4108 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
4109 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
4110 __regcall calling convention
4111 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
4112 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
4113 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
4114 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
4115 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
4116 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
4117 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
4118 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
4119 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
4120 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
4121 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
4122 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
4123 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
4124 locale
4125 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
4126 protector=all
4127 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
4128 wcwidth
4129 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
4130 consistency check failures
4131 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
4132 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
4133 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
4134 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
4135 PIE
4136 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
4137 locales
4138 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
4139 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
4140 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
4141 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
4142 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
4143 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
4144 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
4145 on memory allocation failure
4146 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
4147 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
4148 the suspect)
4149 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
4150 default (i386)
4151 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
4152 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
4153 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
4154 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
4155 instead of EAI_NODATA
4156 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
4157 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
4158 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
4159 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
4160 implementation
4161 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
4162 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
4163 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
4164 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
4165 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
4166 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
4167 allocation in syscall loops)
4168 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
4169 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
4170 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
4171 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
4172 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
4173 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
4174 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
4175 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
4176 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
4177 occur with -O3
4178 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
4179 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
4180 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
4181 amounts)
4182 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
4183 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
4184 niu_NZ
4185 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
4186 checks
4187 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
4188 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
4189 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
4190 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
4191 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
4192 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
4193 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
4194 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
4195 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
4196 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
4197 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
4198 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
4199 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
4200 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
4201 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
4202 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
4203 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
4204 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
4205 parsing after OOM
4206 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
4207 object
4208 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
4209 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
4210 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
4211 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
4212 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
4213 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
fdb724f9 4214 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf outputs a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
242cbc90
DL
4215 ppc64le
4216 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
4217 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
4218 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
4219 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
4220 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
4221 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
4222 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
4223 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
4224 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
4225 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
4226 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
4227 math_force_eval
4228 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
4229 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
4230 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
4231 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
4232 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
4233 the svid compat wrapper
4234 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
4235 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
4236 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
4237 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
4238 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
4239 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
4240 --verbose.
4241 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
4242 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
4243 to 2.26
4244 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
4245 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
4246 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
4247 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
4248 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
4249 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
4250 (CVE-2017-15804)
4251 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
4252 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
4253 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
4254 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
4255 failure."
4256 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
4257 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
4258 -m32
4259 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
4260 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
4261 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
4262 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
4263 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
4264 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
4265 inside the ASCII printable range
4266 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
4267 -mlong-double-64
4268 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
4269 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
4270 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
4271 Internet
4272 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
4273 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
4274 backslash
4275 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
4276 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
4277 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
4278 heaps in an arena
4279 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
4280 networking interface
4281 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
4282 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
4283 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
4284 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
4285 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
4286 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
4287 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
4288 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
4289 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
4290 order
4291 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
4292 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
4293 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
4294 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
4295 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
4296 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
4297 same as for Croatian
4298 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
4299 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
4300 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
4301 for initial thread"
4302 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
4303 SC_SSIZE_MAX
4304 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
4305 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
4306 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
4307 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
4308 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
4309 (CVE-2017-1000408)
4310 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
4311 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
4312 modified in case of success
4313 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
4314 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
4315 success
4316 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
4317 stack-protector=all
4318 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
4319 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
4320 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
4321 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
4322 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
4323 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
4324 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
4325 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
4326 adding it on top
4327 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
4328 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
4329 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
4330 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
4331 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
4332 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
4333 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
4334 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
4335 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
4336 (CVE-2018-1000001)
4337 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
4338 elision and tunables
4339 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
4340 "invalid" exception
4341 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
4342 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
4343 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
4344 exception
4345 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4346 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
4347 power4
4348 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
4349 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
4350 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
4351 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
4352 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
4353 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
4354 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
4355 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
4356 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
00cdcf5a 4357
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4358\f
4359Version 2.26
4360
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4361Major new features:
4362
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4363* A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
4364 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
4365 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
4366 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
4367 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
4368 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
4369 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
4370
925fac77
MF
4371* Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
4372 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
0b38d66a 4373 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
a0e52598
MF
4374 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
4375 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
4376 are rendered with pango, see for example:
4377 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
58557c22 4378
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4379* Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
4380 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
4381 Egmont Koblinger.
e4e79484 4382
2b2ccd0c 4383* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
025b33ae 4384
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4385 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
4386 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
4387 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
daeb1fa2 4388
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4389 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
4390 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
4391 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
4392 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
4393 object are still limited to six search domains.
139ace95 4394
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4395 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
4396 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
4397 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
cd354a38 4398
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4399* The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
4400 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
d8cee557 4401
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4402* New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
4403 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
4404 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
4405 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
f0be25b6 4406
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4407* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
4408 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
4409 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
4410 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
8082d91e 4411
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4412* posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
4413 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
4414 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
4415 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
2e0bbbfb 4416
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4417* errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
4418 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
4419 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
12d2dd70 4420
2b2ccd0c 4421* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
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4422 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
4423 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
4424 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
2c0b90ab 4425
2b2ccd0c 4426 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
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JM
4427 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
4428 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
4429 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
4430 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
4431
4432 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
4433 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
4434 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
4435 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
4436 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
4437 interfaces should be used instead.
f819dbea 4438
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4439Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
4440
4441* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
4442 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
4443 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
4444 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
4445 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
4446 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
4447 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
4448 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
4449
4450* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
4451 removed.
4452
4453* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
7e368000 4454 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
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4455 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
4456 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
4457
4458* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
4459 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
4460 default.
4461
4462 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
4463 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
4464 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
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4465 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
4466 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
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4467
4468 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
4469 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
4470 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
4471 name service modules, to be built and installed.
4472
4473* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
4474 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
4475 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
4476 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
4477
4478* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
4479 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
5b757a51 4480
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4481* The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
4482 exported by accident.
4483
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4484* <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
4485 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
4486 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
4487
4488* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
4489 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
4490 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
4491 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
4492
4493* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
4494
4495* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
4496
4497* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
4498 free instead.
4499
4500* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
4501 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
4502
4503* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
4504 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
4505
4506* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
4507 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
4508 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
4509 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
4510 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
4511 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
4512 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
4513 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
4514
4515* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
4516 synced with the kernel:
4517
4518 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
4519 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
4520
4521 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
4522 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
4523 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
4524
4525 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
4526 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
4527
4528Changes to build and runtime requirements:
4529
4530* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
4531 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
4532 x86-32 and x86-64.)
4533
7e368000 4534* GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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4536* On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
4537 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
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4538
4539 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
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4540 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
4541 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
4542 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2b2ccd0c 4543 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
aef16cc8 4544
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4545Security related changes:
4546
e14a2772 4547* The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
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4548 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
4549
4550* LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
4551 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
4552
4553* Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
4554 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
4555 (CVE-2010-3192).
4556
4557* A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
4558 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
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4559
4560The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4561
e061bd17
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4562 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
4563 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
4564 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
4565 fields
4566 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
4567 (CVE-2010-3192)
4568 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
4569 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
4570 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
4571 ld.bfd is available
4572 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
4573 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
4574 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
4575 x86 and other generic code
4576 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
4577 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
4578 incorrect
4579 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
4580 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
4581 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
4582 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
4583 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
4584 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
4585 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
4586 resolver
4587 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
4588 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
4589 order of 0D36 and 0D37
4590 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
4591 chillu characters
4592 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
4593 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
4594 receiving data
4595 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
4596 whitespace
4597 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
4598 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
4599 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
4600 for Peru
4601 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
4602 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
4603 failures consistently
4604 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
4605 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
4606 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
4607 frame-pointer on i386
4608 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
4609 register
7f0d9e61 4610 [21075] libc: unused assignment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
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4611 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
4612 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
4613 generic c code is used
4614 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
4615 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
4616 around 4000
4617 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
4618 (CVE-2017-12133)
4619 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
4620 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
4621 with -lieee
4622 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
4623 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
4624 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
4625 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
4626 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
4627 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
4628 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
4629 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
4630 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
4631 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
4632 remove()
4633 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
4634 checked for errors.
4635 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
4636 new posix_spawn implementation
4637 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
4638 leads to lower CPU frequency
4639 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
4640 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
4641 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
4642 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
4643 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
4644 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
4645 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
4646 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
4647 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
4648 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
4649 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
4650 not support gethostbyname4_r
4651 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
4652 switching
4653 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
4654 arenas
4655 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
4656 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
4657 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
4658 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
4659 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
4660 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
4661 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
4662 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
4663 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
4664 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
4665 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
4666 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
4667 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
4668 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
4669 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
4670 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
4671 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
4672 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
4673 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
4674 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
4675 retry value
4676 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
4677 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
4678 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
4679 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
4680 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
4681 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
4682 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
4683 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
4684 [21537] libc:
4685 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
4686 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
4687 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
4688 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
4689 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
4690 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
4691 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
4692 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
4693 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
4694 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
4695 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
4696 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
4697 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
4698 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
4699 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
4700 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
4701 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
4702 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
4703 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
4704 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
4705 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
4706 issue on x86-64
4707 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
4708 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
4709 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
4710 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
4711 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
4712 construction
4713 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
4714 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
4715 between_2_3
4716 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
4717 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
4718 conditions
4719 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
4720 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
4721 Hindi Locale
4722 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
4723 posix/sched_cpucount.c
4724 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
4725 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
4726 locale
4727 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
4728 leading to relocation crash
4729 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
4730 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
4731 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
4732 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
4733 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
4734 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
4735 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
4736 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
4737 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
4738 locale
4739 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
4740 locale
4741 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
4742 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
4743 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
4744 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
4745 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
4746 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
4747 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
4748 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
4749 strings
4750 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
4751 protector=all
4752 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
4753 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
4754 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
4755 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
4756 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
4757 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
4758 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
4759 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
4760 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
4761 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
4762 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
4763 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
4764 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
4765 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
4766 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
4767 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
4768 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
4769 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
4770 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
4771 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
4772 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
4773 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
4774 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
4775 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
4776 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
4777 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
4778 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
4779 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
4780 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
4781 with unicode 9.0
4782 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
4783 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
4784 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
4785 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
4786 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
58557c22 4787
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4789Version 2.25
4790
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4791* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
4792 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
4793 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
4794 Library.
e720d3d9 4795
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4796* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
4797 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
a5ac5676 4798 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
bf91be88
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4799 the GNU C Library.
4800
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4801* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
4802 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
4803 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
4804 the GNU C Library.
4805
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4806* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
4807 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
4808 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
4809 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
4810 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
4811 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
4812 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
4813 will not.
4814
4815 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
4816 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
4817 many years.
4818
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4819* The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
4820 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
4821 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
4822
4823 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
4824 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
4825 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
4826 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
4827 problem.
4828
ec94343f 4829* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
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4830 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
4831 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
5146356f 4832
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4833* Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
4834 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
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4835 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
4836 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
4837 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
4838 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
4839 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
4840 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
4841 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
4842 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
4843 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
4844 WINT_WIDTH.
a292f45a 4845
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4846* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
4847
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4848 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
4849
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4850 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
4851 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
4852 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
41c67149 4853
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4854 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
4855 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
4856
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4857 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
4858 fminmagf, fminmagl.
4859
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4860 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
4861
29cb9293 4862 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
d942e95c 4863
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4864 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
4865 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
5e9d98a3 4866
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4867 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
4868
eb3c12c7 4869 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
457663a7 4870 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
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4872* The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
4873 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
4874
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4875* Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
4876 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
4877 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
4878
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4879* The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
4880 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
4881 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
4882 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
4883 effects of the memory clear).
4884
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4885* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
4886 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
4887 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
4888 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
4889
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4890* On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
4891 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
4892 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
4893 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
4894 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
4895 if they are compiled or used with those options.
6962682f 4896
92dcaa3e
FW
4897* The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
4898 have been added.
4899
705a79f8
FW
4900* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
4901 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
4902 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
4903 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
4904 as large as several megabytes.
4905
4d728087
FW
4906* The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
4907 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
4908 been removed.
4909
e863cce5
FW
4910* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
4911 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
4912 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
4913 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
4914 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
4915 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
4916 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
4917
7ec47a85
FW
4918* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
4919 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
4920 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
4921 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
4922
099191b1 4923* The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
5140d036
FW
4924 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
4925 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
4926 Internet.
4927
bbe989ee
FW
4928* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
4929 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
4930 They were already unimplemented.
bfbd1de1 4931
b76e0659
FW
4932* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
4933 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
4934 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
4935 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
4936
3a2a1d2c
FW
4937* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
4938 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
4939 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
4940 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
4941 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
4942
be728303
FW
4943* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
4944 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
4945 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
4946 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
4947 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
4948
6815a33d
FW
4949* The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
4950 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
4951 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
4952 did not reflect that.
4953
022dfdce
SL
4954* For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
4955 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
4956 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
4957 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
4958 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
4959 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
4960 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
4961 'gcc/config.gcc'.
4962
23b5cae1
MG
4963* GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
4964 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
4965 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
4966 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
4967
7715d3ab
SP
4968* Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
4969 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
4970 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
4971 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
4972
0cea3587
SP
4973* A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
4974 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
4975 guarantees.
4976
4977* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
4978 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
4979 make state changes.
4980
e720d3d9
CD
4981Security related changes:
4982
fc82b0a2 4983* On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
4d047efd
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4984 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
4985 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
4986 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
056dd72a 4987 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
e720d3d9 4988
fc82b0a2
FW
4989* The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
4990 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
4991 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
4992 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
4993 (CVE-2015-5180)
4994
e720d3d9
CD
4995The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4996
fdb724f9 4997 [4099] stdio: Overly aggressive caching by stream i/o functions.
4e054e6b
SP
4998 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
4999 protector-all
5000 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
5001 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
5002 before it started waiting
5003 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
5004 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
5005 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
5006 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
5007 wrong type
5008 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
5009 library linked with pthread
5010 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
5011 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
5012 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
5013 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
5014 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
5015 after being __libc_memalign()'d
5016 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
7f0d9e61 5017 when it shouldn't
4e054e6b
SP
5018 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
5019 not
5020 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
5021 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
5022 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
5023 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
5024 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
5025 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
5026 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
5027 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
5028 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
5029 termination
5030 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
5031 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
5032 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
5033 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
5034 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
5035 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
5036 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
5037 causes a segmentation fault
5038 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
5039 linking
5040 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
5041 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
5042 uninitialized GOT
5043 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
5044 versions
5045 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
5046 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
5047 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
5048 is always true.
5049 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
5050 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
5051 modes
5052 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
5053 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
5054 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
5055 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
5056 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
5057 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
5058 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
5059 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
5060 libpthread.a
5061 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
5062 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
5063 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
5064 _res_hconf
5065 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
5066 information.
5067 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
5068 penalty
5069 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
5070 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
5071 cause transition penalty
5072 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
5073 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
5074 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
5075 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
5076 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
5077 mcount.oS)
5078 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
5079 Checking
5080 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
5081 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
5082 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
5083 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
5084 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
5085 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
5086 multi-arch
5087 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
5088 (RES_USEBSTRING)
5089 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
5090 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
5091 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
5092 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
5093 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
5094 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
5095 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
5096 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
5097 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
5098 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
5099 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
5100 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
5101 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
5102 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
5103 glibc
5104 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
5105 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
5106 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
5107 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
5108 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
5109 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
5110 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
5111 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
5112 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
5113 U+20AC), not same as GBK
5114 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
5115 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
5116 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
5117 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
5118 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
5119 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
5120 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
5121 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
5122 RES_USE_INET6
5123 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
5124 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
5125 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
5126 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
5127 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
5128 wrong condition
5129 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
5130 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
5131 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
5132 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
5133 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
5134 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
5135 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
5136 clang
5137 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
5138 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
5139 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
5140 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
5141 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
e720d3d9 5142\f
11fca961
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5143Version 2.24
5144
5b4ecd3f
JM
5145* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
5146 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
5147 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
5148 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
5149 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
5150 architectures.
5151
b6ebba70
MF
5152* The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
5153 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
5154 been included in previous releases.
11fca961 5155
7584a3f9
FW
5156* The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
5157 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
5158
b49ab5f4
FW
5159* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
5160 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
5161 instead of “union wait”.
5162
ced8f893
SG
5163* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
5164 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
5165 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
5166 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
5167 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
5168 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
5169 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
5170
2ba3cfa1
FW
5171* The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
5172 API.
5173
b7a9b7b0
MF
5174* The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
5175 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
5176 drop it.
6a54bcda 5177
41a359e2
RS
5178* nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
5179 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
5180 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
5181 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
5182 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
5183 extensions.
5184
11fca961
AZ
5185Security related changes:
5186
f5b3338d
FW
5187* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
5188 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
5189 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
5190
4ab2ab03
FW
5191* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
5192 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
5193 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
5194 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
11fca961 5195
5171f307
FW
5196* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
5197 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
5198 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
5199
bc779a1a
FW
5200* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
5201 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
5202 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
5203
fab38231
FW
5204* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
5205 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
5206 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
5207 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
5208
11fca961
AZ
5209The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5210
3c4f81ec
CD
5211 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
5212 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
5213 of MS-DOS.
5214 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
5215 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
5216 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
5217 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
5218 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
5219 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
5220 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
5221 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
5222 CLDR data
5223 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
5224 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
5225 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
5226 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
5227 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
5228 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
5229 romanisation
5230 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
5231 and +/-
5232 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
5233 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
5234 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
5235 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
5236 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
5237 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
5238 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
5239 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
5240 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
5241 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
5242 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
5243 all locales
5244 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
5245 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
5246 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
5247 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
5248 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
5249 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
5250 execute
5251 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
5252 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
5253 -Wsystem-headers
5254 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
5255 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
5256 Romanian locale data
5257 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
5258 symbol
5259 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
5260 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
5261 language
5262 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
5263 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
5264 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
5265 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
5266 machine
5267 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
5268 description
5269 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
5270 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
5271 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
5272 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
5273 when using RTLD_NEXT
5274 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
5275 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
5276 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
5277 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
5278 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
5279 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
5280 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
5281 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
5282 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
5283 Excavator core
5284 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
5285 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
5286 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
5287 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
5288 double range
5289 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
5290 part zero incorrect
5291 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
5292 equality tests
5293 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
5294 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
5295 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
5296 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
5297 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
5298 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
5299 glibc-2.22
5300 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
5301 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
5302 'tst-numeric.c'
5303 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
5304 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
5305 low part
5306 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
5307 result
5308 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
5309 unaligned stack
5310 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
5311 pointers and lengths in error-case.
5312 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
5313 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
5314 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
5315 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
5316 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
5317 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
5318 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
5319 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
5320 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
5321 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
5322 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
5323 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
5324 modes
5325 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
5326 server addresses
5327 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
5328 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
5329 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
5330 response to getaddrinfo
5331 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
5332 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
5333 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
5334 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
5335 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
5336 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
5337 sometimes incorrect
5338 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
5339 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
5340 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
5341 record types
5342 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
5343 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
5344 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
5345 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
5346 (CVE-2016-3075)
5347 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
5348 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
5349 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
5350 resolving symbols
5351 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
5352 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
5353 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
5354 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
5355 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
5356 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
5357 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
5358 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
5359 gethosts
5360 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
5361 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
5362 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
5363 (CVE-2016-3706)
5364 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
5365 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
5366 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
5367 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
5368 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
5369 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
5370 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
5371 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
5372 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
5373 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
5374 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
5375 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
5376 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
5377 executable
5378 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
5379 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
5380 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
5381 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
5382 XPG3
5383 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
5384 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
5385 (CVE-2016-4429)
5386 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
5387 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
5388 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
5389 AS not supporting AVX512
5390 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
5391 sNaN argument
5392 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
5393 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
5394 argument
5395 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
5396 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
5397 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
5398 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
5399 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
5400 eax=0x80000001
5401 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
5402 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
5403 subnormals
5404 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
5405 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
5406 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
5407 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
5408 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
5409 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
5410 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
5411 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
5412 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
5413 input
5414 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
5415 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
5416 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
5417 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
5418 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
5419 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
5420 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
5421 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
5422 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
5423 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
5424 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
5425 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
5426 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
5427 double rounding
5428 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
5429 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
5430 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
5431 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
5432 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
5433 (Only arm/linux)
5434 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
5435 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
5436 fallbacks
5437 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
5438 "invalid" exceptions
5439 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
5440 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
5441 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
5442 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
5443 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
5444 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
5445 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
5446 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
5447 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
11fca961 5448\f
aeb47bbc
DM
5449Version 2.23
5450
23256f5e
MF
5451* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
5452 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
5453 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
5454 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
5455 89, 16061, and 18568.
5456
2359035a
FW
5457* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
5458 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
5459 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
5460 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
5461 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
5462 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
5463 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
5464
8b7b7f75
MW
5465* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
5466 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
5467 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
5468
2eecc8af
FW
5469* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
5470 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
5471 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
5472 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
5473 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
5474 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
5475 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
5476
a62719ba
FW
5477* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
5478 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
5479 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
5480 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
7f0d9e61 5481 the concurrent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 5482 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
a62719ba
FW
5483 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
5484 Ericsson.)
a014cecd 5485
bc148ca1
MF
5486* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
5487 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
5488 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
5489 independent of the GNU C Library.
5490
1c70b6f1
ZW
5491* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
5492 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
1efad39b 5493
eed3e1eb
JM
5494* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
5495 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
5496 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
5497 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
5498 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
5499 Linux kernel.
5500
1efad39b
SL
5501* Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
5502 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
b08b4218 5503
d709042a
JM
5504* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
5505 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
5506 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
5507 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
5508 defining their own copy.
5509
b08b4218
JM
5510* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
5511 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
5512 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
f268ab5f 5513
8f5e8b01
JM
5514Security related changes:
5515
6400ae6e
FW
5516* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
5517 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
5518
5519* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
5520 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
5521 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
5522 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
5523 (CVE-2015-8777)
5524
5525* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
5526 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
5527
5528* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
5529 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
5530
8f5e8b01
JM
5531* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
5532 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 5533 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
8f5e8b01 5534
e9db92d3
CD
5535* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
5536 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
5537 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
5538 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
5539 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
5540 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
5541 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
5542 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
5543 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
5544 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
5545 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
5546 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
5547 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
5548
ad372e29 5549The following bugs are resolved with this release:
f268ab5f 5550
ad372e29
AZ
5551 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
5552 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
5553 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
5554 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
5555 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
5556 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
5557 use `mkstemp'
5558 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
7f0d9e61 5559 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doesn't set errno on
ad372e29
AZ
5560 overflow/underflow errors
5561 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
5562 overflow/underflow
5563 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
5564 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
5565 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
5566 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
5567 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
5568 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
5569 are not contiguous
5570 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
5571 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
5572 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
5573 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
5574 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
5575 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
5576 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
5577 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
5578 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
5579 all exceptions
5580 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
5581 arguments
5582 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
5583 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
5584 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
5585 should include
5586 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
5587 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
5588 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
5589 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
5590 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
5591 GNU/Linux
5592 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
5593 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
5594 arguments
5595 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
5596 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
5597 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
5598 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
5599 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
5600 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
5601 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
5602 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
5603 rounding results
5604 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
5605 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
5606 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
5607 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
5608 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
5609 fails
5610 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
5611 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
5612 block boundary
5613 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
5614 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
5615 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
5616 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
5617 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
5618 4.7?
5619 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
5620 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
5621 (related to lock elision)
5622 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
5623 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
5624 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
5625 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
5626 (CVE-2015-8779)
5627 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
5628 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
5629 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
5630 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
5631 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
5632 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
5633 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
5634 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
5635 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
5636 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
5637 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
5638 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
5639 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
5640 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
5641 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
5642 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
5643 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
5644 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
5645 contains a vector instruction exception.
5646 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
5647 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
5648 locales
5649 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
5650 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
5651 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
5652 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
5653 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
5654 missing break ?
5655 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
5656 32bit processes
5657 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
5658 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
5659 infinity
5660 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
5661 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
5662 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
5663 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
5664 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
5665 be forced unloaded
5666 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
5667 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
5668 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
5669 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
5670 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
5671 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
5672 statically too large
5673 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
5674 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
5675 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
5676 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
5677 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
5678 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
5679 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
5680 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
5681 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
5682 FUTEX_SHARED
5683 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
5684 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
5685 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
5686 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
5687 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
5688 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
5689 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
5690 opendir()
5691 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
5692 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
5693 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
5694 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
5695 signgam
5696 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
5697 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
5698 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
5699 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
5700 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
5701 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
5702 dependencies
5703 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
5704 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
5705 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
5706 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
5707 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
5708 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
5709 (CVE-2015-8776)
5710 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
5711 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
5712 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
5713 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
5714 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
5715 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
5716 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
5717 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
5718 contention
5719 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
5720 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
5721 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
5722 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
5723 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
5724 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
5725 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
5726 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
5727 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
5728 rounding modes
5729 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
5730 ILP32
5731 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
5732 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
5733 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
5734 threshold
5735 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
5736 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
5737 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
7f0d9e61 5738 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assembler
ad372e29
AZ
5739 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
5740 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
5741 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
5742 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
5743 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
5744 pthread_setaffinity_np
5745 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
5746 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
5747 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
5748 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
5749 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
5750 prelink
5751 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
5752 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
5753 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
5754 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
5755 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
5756 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
5757 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
5758 bits/mathcalls.h
5759 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
5760 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
5761 for C99-based standards
5762 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
5763 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
5764 math-only
5765 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
5766 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
5767 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
5768 disabled
5769 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
5770 "inexact" exceptions
5771 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
5772 arguments
5773 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
5774 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
5775 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
5776 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
5777 rules
5778 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
5779 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
5780 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
5781 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
5782 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
5783 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
5784 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
5785 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
5786 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
5787 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
5788 from 32bit
5789 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
5790 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
5791 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
5792 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
5793 subnormals
5794 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
5795 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
5796 error on 32-bit architectures
5797 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
5798 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
5799 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
5800 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
5801 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
5802 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
5803 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
5804 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
5805 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
5806 -Os
5807 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
5808 CPU's.
5809 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
5810 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
5811 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
5812 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
5813 architectures
5814 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
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1c7a4a51
JM
5816Version 2.22
5817
5818* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5819
3df5cd98 5820 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
0e569d30
MF
5821 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
5822 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
5823 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
5824 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
5825 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
5826 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
5827 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
5828 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
5829 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
5830 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
5831 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
5832 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
5833 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
5834 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
5835 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
5836 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
5837 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
6fdd5d65
FW
5838 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
5839 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
2959eda9 5840
f7fba805
SL
5841* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
5842 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
5843
2959eda9
AS
5844* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
5845 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
5846 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
5847 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
5848 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
5849 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4a4839c9 5850
42261ad7
FW
5851* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
5852 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
5853 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
5854 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
5855 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
5856
afcd9480
AM
5857* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
5858 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
5859 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
5860
4a4839c9
AO
5861* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
5862 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
5863 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
5864 17998.
5865
b13b96ca
AS
5866* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
5867 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
5868 condition in some applications.
21933112
AS
5869
5870* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
a6336cc4
AS
5871 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
5872 pow, powf.
21933112
AS
5873 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
5874 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
037e4b99
AS
5875 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
5876 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 5877 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
fdb7d390
AZ
5878
5879* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
5880 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
5881 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
5882 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
7fde904c
MF
5883
5884* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
5885 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
5886 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
7493ab25
RM
5887
5888* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
5889 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
2ec11c2b
ZW
5890
5891* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
5892 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
5893 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
5894
a03ba363 5895 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
2ec11c2b
ZW
5896 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
5897 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
1c7a4a51 5898\f
58b930ae
SP
5899Version 2.21
5900
5901* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5902
042e1521 5903 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
5bd80bfe
PP
5904 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
5905 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
5906 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
5907 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
5908 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
5909 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
5910 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
5911 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
5912 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
5913 17892.
5914
46d54873
FW
5915* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
5916 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
5917 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
5918 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
5919 intended.
042e1521
CD
5920
5921* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
5922 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
5923 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
5924 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
5925 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
5926 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
a39208bd 5927
522e6ee3
CLT
5928* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
5929
d3b00f46
AZ
5930* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
5931 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 5932 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
96d6fd6c 5933
8d2c0a59
AZ
5934* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
5935 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
5936 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
5937 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
5938 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
5939 effects being visible outside transactions.
5940
dc400d7b
RE
5941* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
5942 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
ec582ca0 5943
0f9dfe04
L
5944* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
5945
a39208bd
CD
5946* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
5947 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
ebda2f17 5948 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
a39208bd
CD
5949 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
5950 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
fb89b46d 5951
a5357b7c
JL
5952* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
5953 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
5954
e54db0ea
AM
5955* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
5956 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
5957 format.
11e3417a 5958
4863355a
JM
5959* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
5960 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
5961 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
5962
a4ecc9eb
JM
5963* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
5964 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
5965
0d560bbf 5966* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
0781a777
RM
5967
5968* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
5969 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
5970 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
5971 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
6d248857
WN
5972
5973* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
5974 with newer versions of bison.
28c38448
MF
5975
5976* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
5977 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
5978 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
5979 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
5980 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
5981 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
5982 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
5983 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
5984 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
5985 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
5986 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
5987 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
5988 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
5989
5990 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
5991 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
5992 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
5993 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
5994 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
58b930ae 5995\f
d5b396c1
AM
5996Version 2.20
5997
5998* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5999
6a9350c8
JM
6000 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
6001 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
6002 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
6003 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
6004 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
6005 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
6006 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
6007 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
6008 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
6009 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
6010 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
6011 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
6012 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
6013 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
6014 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
0961f7e1 6015
95ee7fb1
SL
6016* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
6017 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
6018 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
6019 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
6020 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 6021 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
95ee7fb1
SL
6022 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
6023 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
6024 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
6025 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
6026
0961f7e1
JL
6027* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
6028 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
6029 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
6030 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
6031 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
f3d338c9 6032
f940b965
RE
6033* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
6034
d0f5b3f8
JM
6035* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6036 can be used with is 2.6.32.
6037
d6fe5e58
JM
6038* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
6039 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
6040 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
6041 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
6042 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
6043 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
6044
464263cc
JM
6045* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
6046 from ports.
c941736c
JM
6047
6048* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
6049 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
6050 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
6051 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
6052 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
6053 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
6054 test macros defined.
f63c86fe
WN
6055
6056* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5a414ff7
DV
6057
6058* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
6059 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
6060 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
6061 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
6062 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
6063 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
6064 is not built.
d03efb2f
AM
6065
6066* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
6067 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
6068 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
6069 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
6070 invocation.
cfd2ea50
JM
6071
6072* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
6073 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
6074 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
f083450f
RM
6075
6076* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
6077 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
6078 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
6079 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
4e8f95a0
FW
6080
6081* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
6082 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
6083 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
6084 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
6085 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
6086 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
6087 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
6088 additional checks.
9a8a5720
RM
6089
6090* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
6091 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
6092 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
6093 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
6094 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
6095 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
6096 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
6097 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
6098 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
a1a6a401
FW
6099
6100* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
6101 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
6102 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
6103 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
6104 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 6105 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
41488498
FW
6106
6107* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
6108 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
6109 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
6110 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
6c1fd795
DM
6111\f
6112Version 2.19
6113
6114* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6115
fd2f9486
JM
6116 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
6117 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
6118 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
6119 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
6120 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
6121 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
6122 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
6123 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
6124 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
6125 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
ed27ed83
JM
6126 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
6127 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
6128 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
6129 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
6130 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
798212a0
PP
6131 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
6132 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
6133 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
141f3a77 6134
11520a57
CD
6135* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
6136 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
6137
2fe16229
CD
6138* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
6139 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
6140 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
08d76093
CD
6141 extension which uses __block.
6142
303e567a
SP
6143* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
6144 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
6145 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
6146 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
6147 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
6148
141f3a77
SP
6149* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
6150 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
6151 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
6152 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
6153 if malloc fails.
c61b4d41
CD
6154
6155* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
6156 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
6157 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
6158 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
6159 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
91ce4085
FW
6160
6161* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
6162 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
6163 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
6164
ba0d798c
WN
6165* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
6166 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
6167 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
6168 #15856, #15857).
6169
7cbcdb36
SP
6170* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
6171 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
6172
82bab04b 6173* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 6174 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
ddd9fb8f 6175
c5f840fd
MB
6176* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
6177
3e181dda
CD
6178* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
6179 supported locales.
ddd9fb8f 6180
3e181dda 6181* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
7447ccd9 6182
8a05c252
CL
6183* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
6184
6055173a
JM
6185* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
6186 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
6187 for which the C library was built.
6188
b125d3e5
JM
6189* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
6190 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
6191 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
6192 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
6193 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
6194 in the following circumstances:
6195
6196 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
6197
6198 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
6199 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
6200
d4f66d37
JM
6201* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
6202 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
6203
3e181dda
CD
6204* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
6205 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
e35696c3 6206
ffb89e53
AO
6207* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
6208
5d29ccce
SP
6209* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
6210 transcendental functions have been introduced.
6211
8b7d57cd 6212* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
b125d3e5
JM
6213
6214* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 6215
fd712ef3 6216* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 6217
c688b419
JM
6218* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
6219 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
6220 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
6221 disable some of those declarations.
6222
7011c262 6223* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
029c7b25
JM
6224 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
6225 that did nothing) has also been removed.
0a57b83e
AO
6226
6227* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
6228 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
ee4ec1d7
AK
6229
6230* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
6231 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
6232 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
6233 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
6234 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
6235 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
6236 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
6237 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
6238 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
6239 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
6240 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
6241 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
6242 require recompilation.
2c8bfe7d
DM
6243\f
6244Version 2.18
6245
6246* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6247
17db6e8d 6248 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
0432680e
PY
6249 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
6250 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
8c17cb1f
JM
6251 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
6252 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
6253 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
6254 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
6255 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
6256 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
6257 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
6258 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
6259 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
6260 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
6261 15755, 15759.
e4608715
CD
6262
6263* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
6264 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
6265 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
6266 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
6267 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
6268 understands and accepts the risks.
1cef1b19 6269
5b535ac4
AS
6270* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
6271 #15078).
6272
1cef1b19
AS
6273* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
6274 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
7fffbdff 6275
55e4107b
SP
6276* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
6277 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
6278 destructor calls to glibc.
6279
e5c74c63
SP
6280* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
6281 output.
6282
6283* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
6284 non-x86 architectures.
6285
e7521973
JM
6286* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
6287
6288* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
6289
6290* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
6291 Richard Henderson.
6292
6293* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
6294
6295* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
6296 Richard Henderson.
6297
6298* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
6299 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
6300
8cfdb7e0
SP
6301* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
6302
57267616
TS
6303* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
6304 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
58206c68 6305
c204ab28
SP
6306* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
6307 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
61dd6208 6308
0748546f
PE
6309* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
6310 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
6311 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
6312
61dd6208
SP
6313* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
6314 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
6315 attributes of a process.
a7cb9d67
AK
6316
6317* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
6318 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
6319 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
6320 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
6321 mutexes.
be063fa4
RA
6322
6323* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
6324 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
6325
6326* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
370ca3d2
JM
6327\f
6328Version 2.17
6329
6330* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6331
80ceeaee 6332 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
b4180a5e
AJ
6333 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
6334 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
6335 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
6336 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
6337 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
6338 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
6339 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
6340 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
6341 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
6342 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
6343 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
6344 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
6345 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
6346 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
14bc93a9 6347
95b4f1b6
SE
6348* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
6349
14bc93a9
JL
6350* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
6351 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
7a845b2c 6352
b54eb3cb
JM
6353* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
6354 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
6355
7e2bd01f
MS
6356* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
6357
08f43f9b
AK
6358* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
6359 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
6360 zEnterprise z196.
6361 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
6362
84b3fd84
FW
6363* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
6364 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
6365 the internal function __secure_getenv.
6366
815e6fa3
GB
6367* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
6368 Implemented by Gary Benson.
6369
400726de
MK
6370* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
6371 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
6372
7aab07e4 6373* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 6374 can be used with is 2.6.16.
7aab07e4 6375
15d0da8c
WS
6376* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
6377 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
6378
3cc3ef96
RM
6379* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
6380 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
c53d909c
RM
6381 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
6382 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3cc3ef96 6383
b54eb3cb
JM
6384* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
6385 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
6386
85429b1a 6387* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 6388 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
85429b1a
DM
6389 default.
6390
b54eb3cb
JM
6391* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
6392 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
6393 information in --help and --version output.
6394
050af9c4
SP
6395* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
6396 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
6397 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
6398
89a3ad0b
AO
6399* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
6400 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
6401 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
6402 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
6403 when the mode is enabled.
6404
6e6249d0
RM
6405* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
6406 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
6407 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
6408 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
6409 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
6410 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
6411 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5a04f376 6412
d9286582
NK
6413* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
6414 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
8d44e150
UD
6415\f
6416Version 2.16
6417
6418* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6419
a8133e19
JM
6420 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
6421 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
6422 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
6423 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
6424 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
6425 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
6426 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
6427 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
6428 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
6429 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
6430 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
6431 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
6432 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
6433 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
6434 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
6435 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
6436 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
6437 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
6438 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
6439 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
6440 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
6441 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
6442 14277, 14278.
380d7e87 6443
a086b4d6
L
6444* Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
6445 configuring glibc with:
6446 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
8f7a75d7 6447 Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
a086b4d6
L
6448 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
6449
380d7e87
UD
6450* ISO C11 support:
6451
6452 + define static_assert
6453
6454 + do not declare gets
6455
6456 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
6457
6458 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
6459 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
6460 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
6461 implementation.
8d44e150 6462
74033a25 6463 + timespec_get added
544563c9
UD
6464
6465 + uchar.h support added
d75a0a62 6466
ac097f5c
UD
6467 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
6468
16dd419d
UD
6469 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6470
9dc4e1fb 6471* Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
33808bf1
UD
6472
6473* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
d9a216c0
UD
6474
6475* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
6476 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
daa891c0
UD
6477
6478* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
6479 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
021db4be
AJ
6480
6481* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
6482 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
6483 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
6484 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
6485 existing applications.
ffb7875d 6486
21708942 6487* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
ffb7875d
JM
6488 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
6489 before 2.6.
83678f76 6490
edb00e4d
RH
6491* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
6492 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
6493 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
6494
83678f76 6495* New locales: mag_IN
7b44a2df
RM
6496
6497* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
6498 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
6499 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
6500 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
6501 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
47e452cf
JM
6502
6503* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
6504
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
6505* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
6506 and Will Schmidt.
47e452cf
JM
6507
6508* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
6509
6510* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
6511 without a previously built glibc.
6512
6513* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
6514 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
6515
6516* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
6517 now supported for ARM processors.
6518
6519* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
6520 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
6521 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
6522
6523* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
6524
6525* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
6526 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
6527 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
6528 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
929cc14e
AJ
6529
6530* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
6531 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
6532 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
6533 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
ee9247c3
CD
6534
6535* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
6536 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
6537 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
6538 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
6539 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
6540
6541* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
6542 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
6543 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
6544 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
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6549
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6550 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
6551 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
6552 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
6553 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
6554 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
6555 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
6556 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
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6559 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6561* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
6562 and support for initgroups lookups.
6563 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6565* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
6566 Contributed by HJ Lu.
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6567
6568* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
6569 Contributed by HJ Lu.
99710781 6570
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6571* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
6572 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 6573 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 6574
d42964a0 6575* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
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6576 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
6577
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6578* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
6579 for x86-64 and x86-32.
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6580 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
6581
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6582* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
6583 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6584
6585* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
6586 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6588* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
6589 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6590
6591* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
6592 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6594* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
6595 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6596
6597* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
6598 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6600* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
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6601
6602* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
6603 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a1267ba1 6604
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6605* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
6606 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
2655fd5c 6607
6b64057b 6608* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
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6612* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6613
553149f6 6614 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 6615 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 6616 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 6617 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
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6619 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
6620 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
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6621 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
6622 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 6623 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
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6625* The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
6626 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
6627 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 6628 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
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6629
6630 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
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6631 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
6632 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
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6633 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6634
c6489db3 6635* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
f1f929d7 6636 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
83fe108b 6637
72d1dddb 6638* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 6639 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
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6641* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
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6643* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
6644 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6645
6646* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
6647 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
6648 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
6649 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
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6652
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6653* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6654
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6655 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
6656 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
6657 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
6658 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
6659 12378, 12394, 12397
ac2b484c 6660
10b3bedc 6661* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
c08fb0d7 6662
ac2b484c 6663* POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
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6665* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
6666 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 6667 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6669Version 2.12
6670
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6671* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6672
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6673 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
6674 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
6675 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
6676 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
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6677 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
6678 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
6679 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 6680 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
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6681
6682* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
d36b9613 6683
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6684* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
6685
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6686* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
6687
6688* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
6689 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
6690 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6691
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6692* New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
6693 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
6694 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
6695 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
6696 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6697
d36b9613 6698* New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
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6700Version 2.11
6701
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6702* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6703
6704 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
6705 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
6706 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
6707 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
6708 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
6709 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
6710
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6711* New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
6712 mkostemps64
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6713 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6714
24ab9c76 6715* Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
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6716 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6717
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6718* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
6719 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
6720
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6721* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
6722
0122f28e 6723* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
9d36a6c4 6724 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 6725 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
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6726 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
6727
9d36a6c4 6728 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
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6729 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6730
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6731* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
6732 strstr, strcasestr.
6733 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
6734
6735* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
6736 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
6737
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6738* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
6739 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
6740
6741* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
6742 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6743
6744* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
6745 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
6746 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
6747 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
6748 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
6749 necessity is every process again.
6750 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6751
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6752* New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
6753 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
6754
6755* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
6756 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
6757
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6758* Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
6759 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
6760 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6761
9dd5b8a1 6762* New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
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6764Version 2.10
6765
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6766* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6767
6768 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
6769 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
6770 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
6771 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
6772 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
6773
bb066545 6774* New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
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6775 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6776
425ce2ed 6777* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
e109c612 6778 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 6779
1fdd89a7 6780* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
735be400 6781 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
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6783* XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
6784 now in POSIX.
77db439e 6785
1f04d005 6786* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6cbe890a 6787 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1f04d005 6788
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6789* New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
6790 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6791
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6792* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
6793 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6794
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6795* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
6796 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6797
6798* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
6799 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
6800 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6801
735be400 6802* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
878b72c5 6803
84aa52d7 6804* Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
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6805 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6806
6807* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
6808 and extend existing format specifiers.
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6809 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6810
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6811* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
6812 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6813
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6814* DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
6815 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
6816 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
6817 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
6818 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
6819 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6821Version 2.9
6822
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6823* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6824
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6825 2447, 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447,
6826 6461, 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712,
6827 6713, 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839,
6828 6843, 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955,
6829 6966, 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
d36b9613 6830
b29899ae 6831* Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
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6832 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6833
6834* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
6835 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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6837* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
6838 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6840* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
6841 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
6842 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6843
6844* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
6845 Implemented by Eric Blake.
e038616f 6846
8ec2550e 6847* New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
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6848
6849* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
ebcc1f4d 6850 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
e038616f 6851
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6852* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
6853 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
6854 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
6855 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6856
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6857* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
6858 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6860* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
6861 Sinhala)
48b22986 6862 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
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6864* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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6867
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6868* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6869
6870 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
6871 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
6872 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
6873 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
6874 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
6875 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
6876 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
6877
e038616f 6878* New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
b4354cf4 6879
77751669 6880* New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
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6882* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
6883 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
6884
6885* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
6886
6887* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
6888 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6889
6890* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
6891 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6892
6893* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
6894 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
6895 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
6896
6897* Faster memset for x86-64.
6898 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
6899
6900* Faster memcpy on x86.
6901 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6902
6903* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
6904 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3b32d8a2 6905
7f0d9e61 6906* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implementation for some PPC variants.
d990b282 6907 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
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6910
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6911* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6912
6913 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
6914 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
6915 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
6916 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
6917 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
6918
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6919* More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
6920 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
6921
6922* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
6923
6924* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
6925 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
6926 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
6927
6928* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
6929 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
6930
28919a77 6931* New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
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6932 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6933
6934* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6935
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6936* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
6937 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6938
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6939* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
6940 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
6941
6942* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
6943 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
6944
6945* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6946
6947* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
6948 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6950* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
6951 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
6952 yo_NG.
6953
6954+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
6955 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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46c38bd7 6958
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6959* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6960
6961 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
6962 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
6963 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
6964 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
6965 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
6966 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
6967 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
6968 4702, 4858
6969
bce20b9a 6970* New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
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6973
b21fa963 6974* nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6977
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6979
6980 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
6981 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
6982 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
6983 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
6984 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
6985 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
6986 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
6987 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
6988 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
6989
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6991 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
6992 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6994* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
6995 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6996
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6999* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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7001* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
7002 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
7003 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
457b559e 7004 site might have problems with the default behavior.
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7005 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7006
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7008 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
7009 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
7010 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7011
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7013 Ulrich Drepper.
7014
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7015* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
7016
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7017* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
7018 Ulrich Drepper.
7019
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7020* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
7021
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7022* New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
7023 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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7026
7027* More overflow detection functions.
7028
7029* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
7030 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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7032 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
7033 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
7034 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
7035 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
7036 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
7037 by Masahide Washizawa.
7038
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7040 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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7042* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
7043 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
7044 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
7045 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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7047* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
7048 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
7049
7050* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
7051
7052* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
7053 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
7054 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
7055
7056* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
7057 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
7058
7059* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
7060 for compatibility with some other systems.
7061
7062* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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7064Version 2.3.6
7065
7066* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
7067
7068 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
7069 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
7070 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
7071 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
7072 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
7073 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
7074
5a82c748 7075 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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7077* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
7078
7079* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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7081Version 2.3.5
7082
7083* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
7084
7085 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
7086 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
7087 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
7088 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
7089
5a82c748 7090 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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7093
7094* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
7095 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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7097* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
7098 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
7099 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7100
7101* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
7102 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
7103
0325dd20 7104* getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
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7105 efficiently.
7106 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7107
7108* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
7109 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
7110 handling data.
7111
7112* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
7113 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
0325dd20 7114 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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7115
7116* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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7117 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7118
7119* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
7120 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
7121 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
7122 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7123
7124* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
7125 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
7126 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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7127 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
7128
7129* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
7130 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
7131 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
7132 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
7133 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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7135Version 2.3.3
7136
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7137* New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
7138 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
7139
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7140* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
7141 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
925c3c5c 7142
69be6aaf 7143* getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
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7144 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
7145
7146* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
7147 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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7149* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
7150 by Roland McGrath.
7151
c5af724c 7152* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
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7153 and Ulrich Drepper.
7154
7155* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
7156 RFC 3484.
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7158Version 2.3.2
7159
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7160* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
7161 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
7162 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
7163 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
7164 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
7165 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
7166 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
7167 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
7168 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
7169
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7170* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
7171 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
7172 and are now also available on the Hurd.
7173
7174* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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7175
7176* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
7177 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
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7179* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
7180 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
7181
52a16e58 7182* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
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7184* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
7185 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
9ef0a840 7186
7f0d9e61 7187* With appropriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
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7188 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
7189 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
7190 of weak definition in ld.so.
7191
7192* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
7193 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
7194
7195* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
7196 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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7200* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
7201 charsets.
7202
7203* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
7204 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
47e8b443 7205
bb0ec5bd 7206* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 7207 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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7209* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
7210 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
8e57fc70 7211
bb0ec5bd 7212* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
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7213 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
7214 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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7215
7216* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
7217 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3b0bdc72 7218
bb0ec5bd 7219* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3b0bdc72 7220 implementation of regex.
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7221
7222* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
7223 Unicode 3.2.
be45f421 7224
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7225* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
7226 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
be45f421 7227
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7228* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
7229 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
7230 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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7231
7232* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
f87277f2 7233 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
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7234
7235* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
7236 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
7237 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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7238
7239* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
7240 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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7241
7242* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
7243 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
7244 and Ulrich Drepper.
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7245
7246* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
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7248Version 2.2.6
7249
7250* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
7251 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
7252
7253* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
7254 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
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7256Version 2.2.5
7257
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7258* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
7259 128-bit long double format.
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7261* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
7262 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
a8ae31c2 7263
ad2e4f18 7264* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
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7266* Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
7267
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7268* libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
7269 as well.
7270
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7271* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
7272 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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7273
7274* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
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7276Version 2.2.4
7277
2995f70e 7278* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 7279 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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7280
7281* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
7282 support Unicode 3.1.
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7283
7284* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
7285 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
045fcd26 7286
69d5f925 7287* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 7288
69d5f925 7289* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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7290 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
7291 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
7292
7293* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
7294 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
7295
7296* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
7297 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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7299* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
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7301Version 2.2.3
7302
1746f2b0 7303* Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
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7304 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
7305 in float, double, and long double format.
7306
f128331c 7307* Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
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7308 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
7309 128-bit long double format.
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7311* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
7312 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
7313 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
7314 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
7315
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7317 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
7318 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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7319
7320* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
7321 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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7322
7323* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
7324 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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7325
7326* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
7327 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
7328 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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7329
7330* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
7331 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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7333* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
7334 of functions for Linux/x86.
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7335
7336* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
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7339
464d97ec 7340* Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
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7341 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
7342 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
7343 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
7344 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
7345 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
7346 other headers.
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7348* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
7349 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
7350
7351* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
7352 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
7353 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
7354 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
7355
7356* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
7357 locales. While
7358
7359 locale -a
7360
7361 only lists the names of the supported locales
7362
7363 locale -a --verbose
7364
7365 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
7366 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
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7369
7370* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
7371 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
7372 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
7373 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
7374 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
7375
7376 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
7377
7378 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
7379
7380 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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7381
7382* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
7383 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
7384 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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7386* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
7387 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
7388
7389* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
7390 changed from the default "C" locale.
7391
7392* The usual bug fixes.
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7394Version 2.2
7395
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7396* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
7397 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
7398 is in progress.
7399
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7400* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
7401
793bd4d9 7402* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
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7404 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
7405 obviously requires a database library being available.
7406
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7407* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7408
abbffdf9 7409* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
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7411* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
7412 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
7413
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7414* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
7415
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7417 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
7418 and Mark Kettenis.
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7419
7420 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
7421 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
7422 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 7423
a00c3ca9 7424 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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7425 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
7426
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7427* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
7428 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
7429 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
7430
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7431* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
7432 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
7433 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
7434 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7435
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7436 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
7437 structures for the wide character tables.
7438
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7439* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7440
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7441* The utmp daemon has been removed.
7442
7443* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
7444
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7445* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
7446 and Yutaka Niibe.
7447
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7448* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
7449
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7450* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
7451
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7452* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7453
7454* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
7455
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7456* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
7457
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7458* the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
7459 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
7460 implemented for Linux.
7461
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7462* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
7463 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
7464 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
7465 versions.
7466
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7467* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
7468 Masahide Washizawa.
7469
8f3f1e09 7470* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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7471\f
7472Version 2.1.3
7473
7474* bug fixes
7475
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7476\f
7477Version 2.1.2
7478
7479* bug fixes
7480
28f540f4 7481\f
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7482Version 2.1.1
7483
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7484* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
7485
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7486* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
7487
407d26b7 7488* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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7489
7490* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
7491
407d26b7 7492* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 7493
407d26b7 7494* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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7495
7496* Update timezone data files.
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7498* lots of charmaps corrections
7499
7500* some new locale definitions and charmaps
7501
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7503Version 2.1
7504
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7505* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
7506 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
7507 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
7508 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
7509 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
7510 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
7511
c84142e8 7512* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 7513 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 7514
1fb05e3d 7515* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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7516 symbol level.
7517
7f0d9e61 7518* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierarchical
c84142e8 7519 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
377a515b 7520
cbdee279 7521* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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7522
7523* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 7524 numbers.
377a515b 7525
cbdee279 7526* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
e61abf83 7527
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7528* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
7529 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
e61abf83 7530
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7531* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
7532 library.
7533
e61abf83 7534* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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7535 functions from ISO C 9X.
7536
7537* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
7538 real valued functions.
e61abf83 7539
a5a0310d 7540* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
e61abf83 7541
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7542* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
7543
7544* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 7545
440d13e2 7546* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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7547
7548* Optimized string functions have been added.
7549
7550* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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7551
7552* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
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7554* Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
7555 daemon for NSS (nscd).
7556
7557 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
7558 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
7559
0dee6738 7560 user system wall
48244d09 7561
0dee6738 7562 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 7563
0dee6738 7564 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 7565
0dee6738 7566 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
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7568 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
7569
7570 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
7571
7572 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
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7574 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
7575 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
0dee6738 7576 horribly slow.
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7578 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
7579 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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7580
7581* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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7582
7583* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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7584
7585* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
7586 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
7587
7588* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
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7590* A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
7591 Bambrough.
7592
7593* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
7594 latest draft standards.
7595
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7596* Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
7597
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7598* Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
7599~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
62595351 7600addseverity NEW: Unix98
48244d09 7601alphasort64 NEW: LFS
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7602argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
7603argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
7604argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
7605argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
7606argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
7607argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
7608argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
7609argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
7610argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
7611argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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7612authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
7613authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
7614authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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7615backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
7616backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
7617backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
7618cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
7619cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
7620cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
7621cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
7622cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
7623cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
7624capget NEW: kernel
7625capset NEW: kernel
7626carg NEW: ISO C 9x
7627cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
7628cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
7629casin NEW: ISO C 9x
7630casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
7631casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
7632casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
7633casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
7634casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
7635catan NEW: ISO C 9x
7636catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
7637catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
7638catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
7639catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
7640catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
e980ca92 7641cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
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7642ccos NEW: ISO C 9x
7643ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
7644ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
7645ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
7646ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
7647ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
7648cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
7649cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
7650cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
7651cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
7652cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
7653cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
7654clearerr_locked REMOVED
7655clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
7656clog NEW: ISO C 9x
7657clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
7658clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
7659clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
7660clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
7661clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
7662conj NEW: ISO C 9x
7663conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
7664conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
7665cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
7666cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
7667cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
7668cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
7669cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
7670cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
7671creal NEW: ISO C 9x
7672crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
7673creall NEW: ISO C 9x
7674creat64 NEW: LFS
7675csin NEW: ISO C 9x
7676csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
7677csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
7678csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
7679csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
7680csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
7681csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
7682csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
7683csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
7684ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
7685ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
7686ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
7687ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
7688ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
7689ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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7690des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
7691ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 7692endutxent NEW: Unix98
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7693exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x
7694exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
7695exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
7696exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
7697exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
7698exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
7699fattach NEW: STREAMS
7700fdetach NEW: STREAMS
7701fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
7702fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
7703fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
7704feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
7705fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
7706fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
7707fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
7708feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
7709feof_locked REMOVED
7710feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
7711ferror_locked REMOVED
7712fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
7713fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
7714fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
7715fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
7716feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
7717fflush_locked REMOVED
7718ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
7719ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
7720fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
7721fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
7722fileno_locked REMOVED
7723fma NEW: ISO C 9x
7724fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
7725fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
7726fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
7727fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
7728fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
7729fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
7730fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
7731fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
62595351 7732fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
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7733fopen64 NEW: LFS
7734fputc_locked REMOVED
7735fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
7736fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
7737freopen64 NEW: LFS
7738fseeko NEW: Unix98
7739fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
7740fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
7741fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
7742fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
7743ftello NEW: Unix98
7744ftello64 NEW: LFS
7745ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
7746ftw64 NEW: LFS
7747fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
7748gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
7749gamma_r REMOVED
7750gammaf_r REMOVED
7751gammal_r REMOVED
7752getchar_locked REMOVED
7753getdate NEW: Unix98
7754getdate_err NEW: Unix98
7755getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
7756getmsg NEW: STREAMS
7757getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
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7759getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
7760getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
7761getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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7762getutxent NEW: Unix98
7763getutxid NEW: Unix98
7764getutxline NEW: Unix98
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7765glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
7766globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
7767gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
7768gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
7769grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
e980ca92 7770host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
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7771iconv NEW: iconv
7772iconv_close NEW: iconv
7773iconv_open NEW: iconv
7774if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
7775if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
7776if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
7777if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
7778in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
7779in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
7780inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
7781isastream NEW: STREAMS
7782iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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7783key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
7784key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
7785key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
7786key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
7787key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
7788key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
7789key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
7790key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
7791key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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7792llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
7793llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
7794llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
7795llround NEW: ISO C 9x
7796llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
7797llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
7798log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
7799log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
7800log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
7801lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
7802lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
7803lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
7804lround NEW: ISO C 9x
7805lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
7806lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
7807lseek64 NEW: LFS
7808makecontext NEW: Unix98
7809mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
7810mmap64 NEW: LFS
7811moncontrol REMOVED
7812modify_ldt NEW: kernel
7813nan NEW: ISO C 9x
7814nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
7815nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
7816nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
7817nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
7818nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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7819netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
7820netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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7821nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
7822nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
7823nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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7824nftw NEW: Unix98
7825nftw64 NEW: LFS
7826open64 NEW: LFS
e980ca92 7827passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
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7828pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
7829pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
7830pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
7831pread NEW: Unix98
7832pread64 NEW: LFS
7833printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
7834printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
7835profil_counter REMOVED
7836pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
7837pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
7838ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
7839ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
7840putc_locked REMOVED
7841putchar_locked REMOVED
7842putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
7843putmsg NEW: STREAMS
7844putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
62595351 7845pututxline NEW: Unix98
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7846pwrite NEW: Unix98
7847pwrite64 NEW: LFS
7848readdir64 NEW: LFS
7849readdir64_r NEW: LFS
7850remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
7851remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
7852remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
7853round NEW: ISO C 9x
7854roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
7855roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
7856rtime NEW: GNU ext.
7857scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
7858scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
7859scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
7860scandir64 NEW: LFS
7861sendfile NEW: kernel
7862setcontext NEW: Unix98
7863setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 7864setutxent NEW: Unix98
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7865sighold NEW: Unix98
7866sigignore NEW: Unix98
7867sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
7868sigrelse NEW: Unix98
7869sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
7870sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
7871sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
7872sincos NEW: GNU ext.
7873sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
7874sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
7875statfs64 NEW: LFS
7876statvfs NEW: Unix98
7877statvfs64 NEW: LFS
7878strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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7879strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
7880strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
7881strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
e980ca92 7882svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
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7883svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
7884svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
7885swapcontext NEW: Unix98
7886tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
7887tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
7888tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
7889tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
7890tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
7891tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
7892trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
7893truncate64 NEW: LFS
7894truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
7895truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
7896umount2 NEW: kernel
7897unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 7898updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 7899user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 7900utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 7901versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
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7903waitid NEW: Unix98
7904wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
7905wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
7906wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
7907wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
7908wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
7909wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
7910wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
7911wcswcs NEW: Unix98
7912wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
7913wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
7914write_profiling REMOVED
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7916xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
7917xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
7918xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
7919xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
7920xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
7921xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
7922xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
7923xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
7924xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
7925xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
7926xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
7927xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 7928xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
e980ca92 7929xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
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7932Version 2.0.6
7933
7934* more bug fixes
7935
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7937Version 2.0.5
7938
7939* more bug fixes
7940
7941* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
7942
7943* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
7944
7945* rewrite of cbrt function
7946
7947* update of timezone data
7948\f
7949Version 2.0.4
7950
7951* more bug fixes
7952\f
7953Version 2.0.3
7954
7955* more bug fixes
c84142e8 7956\f
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7958
7959* more bug fixes
7960
7961* add atoll function
7962
7963* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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7965* fix math functions
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7967Version 2.0.1
7968
7969* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
7970
7971* dynamic loader preserves all registers
7972
7973* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
7974 the ELF dynamic loader.
7975
7976* support for parallel builds is improved
7977\f
40a4b79f 7978Version 2.0
28f540f4 7979
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7980* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
7981 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
7982 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
7983
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7984* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
7985 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
7986 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
7987 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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7988 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
7989 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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7990 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
7991 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
7992 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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7994 files in the ELF format.
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7995
7996* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
7997 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
7998
7999* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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8001 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
8002 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
8003 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
8004 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
8005 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
8006 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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8007 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
8008 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
8009 about dynamically linked binaries.
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8011* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
8012 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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8013 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
8014 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
8015 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 8016
f7eac6eb 8017* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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8018 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
8019 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
8020 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
8021 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
8022
8023* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
f7eac6eb 8024
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8025* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
8026 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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8027 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
8028 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
8029 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
8030 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
8031 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
8032 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
8033 NSS services available.
5f0e6fc7 8034
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8035* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
8036 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
8037 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
8038
8039* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
8040 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
8041 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
8042
8043* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
8044 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
8045 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
8046 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
8047
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8048* The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
8049 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
8050 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
8051
8052* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
8053 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
8054 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
8055
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8056* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
8057 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
8058
f7eac6eb 8059* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 8060 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 8061 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
7f0d9e61 8062 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendment 1 specification.
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8063
8064* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
8065 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
8066 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 8067
71733723 8068* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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8069 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
8070 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
8071 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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8072 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
8073 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 8074 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 8075 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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8076
8077* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
8078 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
8079 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
8080 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
8081 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
8082 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
8083 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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8084
8085* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
8086 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
8087 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
8088 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
8089 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
8090 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
8091
8092* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
8093 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
8094
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8095* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
8096 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
8097 NSS scheme used in glibc.
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8099* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
8100
8101* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
8102 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
8103 their use is discouraged.
8104
8105* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
8106 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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8108* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
8109 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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8110
8111* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
8112 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
8113
8114* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
8115 see <dirent.h>.
8116
8117* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
8118 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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8120 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
8121 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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8122
8123* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
8124 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
8125 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
8126 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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8127
8128* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
8129 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
8130
8131* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
8132 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
8133 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
8134 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
8135 number generator.
8136
8137* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
8138 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
8139
8140* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
8141 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
8142
71733723 8143* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 8144 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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8145 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
8146 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
c709e372 8147
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8148* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
8149
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8150* David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
8151 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
8152 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
8153
8154* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
8155 for arithmetic and string handling.
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c709e372 8157* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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8158 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
8159 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
8160 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
8161
8162* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
8163 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
8164 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
8165 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
8166 programs already written to use it.)
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8167
8168* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
8169 constants.
8170
8171* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
8172 with 4.4 BSD.
8173
8174* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
8175 a given effective group ID.
8176
8177* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
8178 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
8179 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
8180 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
8181
8182* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 8183 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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8184 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
8185 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
8186 doing the same thing.
8187
8188* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
8189 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
8190
8191* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 8192 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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8193
8194* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
8195
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8196* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
8197 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
8198 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 8199 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 8200 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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8201
8202* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
8203 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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8204
8205* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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8206 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
8207 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
8208 function.
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8209
8210* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
8211
8212* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
8213 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
8214 strings.
8215
8216* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
8217 and writing the utmp file.
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8218
8219* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
8220 Thorsten Kukuk.
8221
8222* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
8223 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
8224 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
8225
8226* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
8227 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
8228
8229* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
8230 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
8231 specification.
8232
8233* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
8234 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
8235 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
8236 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
8237
8238* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
8239 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
8240 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
8241
8242* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
8243 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
8244 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
8245 expression matcher.
8246
8247* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
8248 functionality.
8249
8250* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
8251 by Ulrich Drepper.
8252
8253* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
8254
8255* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
8256 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
8257 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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8258\f
8259Version 1.09
8260
8261* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
8262
8263* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
8264 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
8265
8266* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
8267 want to put themselves in the background.
8268
8269* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
8270 run without an operating system.
8271
8272* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
8273 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
8274
8275* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
8276 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
8277
8278* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
8279
8280* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
8281 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
8282 have YP (aka NIS).
8283
8284* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
8285 conventions.
8286
8287* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
8288 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
8289\f
8290Version 1.08
8291
8292* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
8293 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
8294 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
8295
8296* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
8297 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
8298
8299* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
8300 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
8301
8302* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
8303
8304* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
8305
8306* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
8307 compatibility.
8308
8309* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
8310 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
8311 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
8312
8313* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
8314
8315* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
8316 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
8317 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
8318
8319* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
8320 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
8321 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
8322 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
8323 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
8324 on a block).
8325
8326* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
8327 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
8328 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
8329 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
8330 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
8331 cross-compiler.
8332
8333* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
8334 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
8335\f
8336Version 1.07
8337
8338* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
8339 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
8340
8341* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
8342 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
8343 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
8344
8345* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
8346 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
8347 address of the last character written.
8348
8349* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
8350 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
8351
8352* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
8353 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
8354
8355* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
8356 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
8357 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
8358 you dereference this pointer.
8359
8360* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
8361 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
8362
8363* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
8364 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
8365 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
8366 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
8367
8368* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
8369 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
8370 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
8371 EAGAIN in every system call function.
8372\f
8373Version 1.06
8374
8375* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
8376 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
8377 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
8378 in Emacs or the `info' program.
596dc7b6 8379 Please send comments on the manual to libc-alpha@sourceware.org.
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8380
8381* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
8382
8383* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
8384
8385* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
8386 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
8387
8388* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
8389 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
8390
8391* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
8392 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
8393
8394* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
8395 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
8396 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
8397 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
8398 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
8399
8400* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
8401 to the error code in `errno'.
8402
8403* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
8404 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
8405 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
8406 malloc'd string.
8407
8408* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
8409 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
8410 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
8411
8412* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
8413 uniquely-named temporary file.
8414\f
8415Version 1.05
8416
8417* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
8418 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
8419 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
8420
8421* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
8422 characters.
8423
8424* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
8425 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
8426
8427* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
8428\f
8429Version 1.04
8430
8431* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
8432 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
8433 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
8434 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
8435
8436* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
8437 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
8438 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
8439
8440* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
8441 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
8442
8443* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
8444 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
8445 made itself into a shared library.
8446
8447* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
8448 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
8449
8450* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
8451 with limited length.
8452
8453* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
8454
8455* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
8456
8457* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
8458
8459* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
8460 function for traversing a directory tree.
8461
8462* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
8463 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
8464 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
8465 formatted output directly to an obstack.
8466
8467* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
8468 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
8469
8470* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
8471
8472* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
8473 things to your strings.
8474
8475* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
8476
8477* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
8478 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
8479 supporting those systems.
8480
8481* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
8482 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
8483 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
8484 configuration files.
8485
8486* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
8487 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
8488
8489* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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8490 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
8491 in <strings.h>.)
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8492
8493* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
8494 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
8495 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
8496 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
8497 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
8498 required storage is not available.
8499
8500* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
8501 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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8502
8503* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
8504 latest files released from Berkeley.
8505\f
8506----------------------------------------------------------------------
9fcdec73 8507Copying conditions:
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8508
8509 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
8510 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
8511 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
8512 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
8513
8514 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
8515 of this document, or of portions of it,
8516 under the above conditions, provided also that they
8517 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
8518\f
8519Local variables:
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