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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.
15
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16Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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18* Support for dumped heaps has been removed - malloc_set_state() now always
19 returns the error code -1.
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21Changes to build and runtime requirements:
22
23 [Add changes to build and runtime requirements here]
24
25Security related changes:
26
27The following CVEs were fixed in this release, details of which can be
28found in the advisories directory of the release tarball:
29
30 [The release manager will add the list generated by
31 scripts/process-advisories.sh just before the release.]
32
33The following bugs were resolved with this release:
34
35 [The release manager will add the list generated by
36 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
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38Version 2.42
39
40Major new features:
41
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42* The following ISO C23 function families (introduced in TS
43 18661-4:2015) are now supported in <math.h>. Each family includes
44 functions for float, double, long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx, and a
45 type-generic macro in <tgmath.h>.
46
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47 - Power and absolute-value functions: compoundn, pown, powr, rootn,
48 rsqrt.
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50* On Linux, the pthread_gettid_np function has been added.
51
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52* The ISO C2Y family of unsigned abs functions, i.e. uabs, ulabs,
53 ullabs, and uimaxabs, is now supported.
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55* On Linux, the <termios.h> interface now supports arbitrary baud rates;
56 speed_t is redefined to simply be the baud rate specified as an
57 unsigned int, which matches the kernel interface.
58
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59* The thread-local cache in malloc (tcache) now supports caching of
60 large blocks. This feature can be enabled by setting the tunable
61 glibc.malloc.tcache_max to a larger value (max 4194304). Tcache is
62 also significantly faster for small sizes.
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64* A new configure option, "--enable-sframe", can be used to enable
65 SFrame support of the GNU C Libraries. SFrame is a new stack trace
66 information format which can be used by backtrace. It requires
67 binutils with a minimum version of 2.45.
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69* Support for lightweight stack guard pages via madvise and the
70 MADV_GUARD_INSTALL flag has been added to pthread_create.
71
72* Additional optimized and correctly rounded mathematical functions have
73 been imported from the CORE-MATH project, in particular acospif,
74 asinpif, atanpif, atan2pif, cospif, sinpif, tanpif.
75
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76* The testsuite has been significantly extended, including coverage of
77 the functionality of the printf and scanf function families in many
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78 variants.
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80* The manual has been significantly extended and updated, particularly
81 the threads, terminal, filesystem, resource, and math chapters.
82
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83* Code has been added to detect the x86-64 Intel Arrow Lake, Panther
84 Lake, Clearwater Forest, and Diamond Rapids microarchitectures.
85
86* Regarding S390, support for the new z17 platform has been added.
87
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88Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
89
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90* The glibc.rtld.execstack tunable now supports a compatibility mode to
91 allow programs that require an executable stack through dynamically
92 loaded shared libraries.
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94* On Linux, the <termio.h> header and the definition of struct termio
95 in <sys/ioctl.h> have been removed. The termio interface has been
96 obsolete since the very first version of POSIX.1 in 1988, replaced
97 with <termios.h>.
98
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99* The support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes has been deprecated
100 on all architectures and will be removed in the next release.
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102* On AArch64 Linux targets supporting the Scalable Matrix Extension
103 (SME), setjmp and sigsetjmp will disable the ZA state of SME.
30c7cf66 104
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105Changes to build and runtime requirements:
106
8322e93d 107* GCC 12.1 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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109* GNU Binutils 2.39 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
110
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111Security related changes:
112
113The following CVEs were fixed in this release, details of which can be
114found in the advisories directory of the release tarball:
115
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116 GLIBC-SA-2025-0001:
117 assert: Buffer overflow when printing assertion failure message
118 (CVE-2025-0395)
119
120 GLIBC-SA-2025-0003:
121 power10: strcmp fails to save and restore nonvolatile vector
122 registers (CVE-2025-5702)
123
124 GLIBC-SA-2025-0004:
125 power10: strncmp fails to save and restore nonvolatile vector
126 registers (CVE-2025-5745)
127
128 GLIBC-SA-2025-0005:
129 posix: Fix double-free after allocation failure in regcomp
130 (CVE-2025-8058)
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131
132The following bugs were resolved with this release:
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134 [5994] stdio: fflush after ungetc on seekable input stream
135 [12724] stdio: fclose violates POSIX 2008 on seekable input streams
136 [25263] dynamic-link: ldd and ld.so fail to resolve $ORIGIN with cross
137 dir symlink
138 [27880] nptl: Please provide a pthread pid accessor
139 [29190] dynamic-link: Symbols with version hash zero lead to crashes,
140 not matched correctly
141 [29459] stdio: fwrite does not return EPIPE when underlying write
142 fails with EPIPE.
143 [31791] nss: [Regression] nss: memory for >8 elements in nsswitch.conf
144 is not freed
145 [32058] libc: qsort leaks memory if C++ exception is thrown from
146 comparison function
147 [32269] dynamic-link: RISC-V IFUNC resolver cannot access gp pointer
148 [32369] stdio: fflush(NULL) doesn't properly flush files opened in
149 read mode
150 [32411] math: THREEp96 seems wrong
151 [32412] dynamic-link: Initial DTV is reallocated using main realloc in
152 auditing mode
153 [32483] locale: ctype.h macros segfault in multithreaded programs with
154 multiple libc.so
155 [32529] stdio: fseek failure on file opened with "rm" mode after
156 ungetc
157 [32535] stdio: fflush failure on file opened with "rm" mode after
158 ungetc
159 [32541] libc: getenv cannot be overridden in static builds
160 [32574] libc: pthread_attr_getstacksize/pthread_attr_getstack return
161 incorrect main stack size
162 [32612] dynamic-link: [aarch64 PAC] _dl_tlsdesc_dynamic can't be
163 unwound through with _Unwind_Backtrace
164 [32626] math: math: log10p1f is not correctly rounded
165 [32627] math: math: sinhf is not correctly rounded
166 [32630] math: math: tanf is not correctly rounded for all rounding
167 modes
168 [32653] dynamic-link: Review options for improving both security and
169 backwards compatibility of glibc 2.41 dlopen / execstack handling
170 [32694] math: wrong clang version 3.4 prereq checks in bits/floatn.h
171 for __float128 support, should be 3.9
172 [32708] libc: Inclusion of sys/mount.h triggers many gcc warnings
173 using -Wshift-overflow=2 -Wsystem-headers
174 [32711] math: math: remainder incorrect sign of zero result
175 [32717] libc: glibc tests fail when bfd is built with --enable-error-
176 execstack=yes
177 [32723] math: [2.41 Regression] /usr/include/bits/floatn.h doesn't
178 work with Intel SYCL compiler
179 [32763] dynamic-link: Static PIE with more than one PT_LOAD segments
180 at offset 0 segfault
181 [32777] crypt: The performance of the rand() function degradation
182 [32781] libc: Inccorect attribute access for sched_getattr
183 [32782] nptl: Race conditions in pthread cancellation causing crash
184 [32786] nptl: pthread_cond_* symbols should probably have had a
185 version bump in 2.41
186 [32795] nptl: aio_suspend_time64 confuses CLOCK_MONOTONIC and
187 CLOCK_REALTIME
188 [32810] dynamic-link: Immediate crash on x86-64 when running with
189 GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.cpu.hwcaps=-XSAVEC
190 [32823] libc: make[2]: *** [../Rules:248:
191 /home/dave/gnu/glibc/objdir/elf/tst-origin] Error 1
192 [32897] dynamic-link: pthread_getattr_np fails when executable stack
193 tunable is set
194 [32918] math: math: atanhf triggers UB
195 [32919] math: math: coshf triggers UB
196 [32920] math: math: logf triggers UB
197 [32921] math: math: sinhf triggers UB
198 [32922] math: math: cbrtf triggers UB
199 [32923] math: math: cospif triggers UB
200 [32924] math: math: erfcf triggers UB
201 [32925] math: math: sinpif triggers UB
202 [32932] libc: riscv: __riscv_hwprobe function attributes are incorrect
203 [32947] libc: stdlib: wrong iovec array size on __libc_message_impl
204 [32980] manual: getopt_long_only does not check long options first, as
205 the manual claims
206 [32981] ports: elf/tst-execstack-prog-static-tunable fails on
207 sparc64-linux-gnu
208 [32987] libc: New tst-dlopen-sgid test FAILs
209 [32996] malloc: i386 TLS helper functions don't preserve XMM registers
210 [33035] libc: [2.27 regression] Linux: __close_nocancel_nostatus
211 clobbers errno
212 [33056] string: Power 10 strcmp clobbers nonvolatile vector registers
213 (CVE-2025-5702)
214 [33059] string: Power 10 memchr clobbers v20
215 [33060] string: Power 10 strncmp clobbers nonvolatile vector registers
216 (CVE-2025-5745)
217 [33088] dynamic-link: __ehdr_start may need run-time relocation
218 [33089] build: [2.42 Regression] GCC 14.2.1 failed to build glibc
219 [33134] libc: mcount_internal shouldn't use vector/r16-r31 registers
220 nor call memcpy/memset
221 [33139] stdio: %n after static dlopen is unreliable if file
222 descriptors are exhausted
223 [33165] build: [2.42 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
224 [33173] math: Wrong IFUNC selector is used for modf/modff
225 [33185] regex: Double-free after memory allocation failure in regcomp
226 bracket expression parsing (CVE-2025-8058)
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227 [33224] dynamic-link: _dl_debug_state hook no longer works (since
228 8329939a37f483a16013dd8af8303cbcb86d92cb)
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230Version 2.41
231
232Major new features:
233
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234* Support for testing a glibc build with a set of C and C++ compilers
235 different from the C and C++ compilers used to build glibc has been
dc650eb7 236 added:
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237 $ ../configure TEST_CC="gcc-6.4.1" TEST_CXX="g++-6.4.1"
238
dc650eb7 239 This includes support for testing the glibc build with Clang, e.g.,
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240 $ ../configure TEST_CC="clang" TEST_CXX="clang++"
241
242 Some run-time failures with Clang are expected.
243
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244* The glibc test suite has been extended again significantly, with now
245 6232 separate tests compared to 5408 in glibc-2.40.
246
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247* In /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_OPTIONS environment variable, option
248 flags can now be prefixed with “-” to clear previously set flags.
249 For example, if /etc/resolv.conf contains “options no-aaaa”, a
250 process running with the RES_OPTIONS=-no-aaaa environment variable
251 performs AAAA DNS queries when the glibc DNS stub resolver is used.
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253* The DNS stub resolver now supports the strict-error option. If
254 activated, getaddrinfo for the AF_UNSPEC address family (with dual
255 A/AAAA DNS lookups) attemps to obtain an A/AAAA response pair from
256 another DNS server if one of the responses indicates failure. Without
257 the strict-error option, getaddrinfo returns the A record data it has
258 obtained even if the AAAA query failed. The new strict error mode is
259 incompatible with some DNS environments which do not follow the RFCs,
260 which is why this mode is not enabled by default. A future version
261 of the library may turn it on by default, however.
262
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263* On Linux, the sched_setattr and sched_getattr functions have been
264 added, for supporting parameterized scheduling policies such as
265 SCHED_DEADLINE.
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267* The iconv program now supports converting files in place. The program
268 automatically uses a temporary file if required.
269
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270* Character encoding, character type info, and transliteration tables
271 have been updated to Unicode 16.0.0.
272
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273* The following ISO C23 function families (introduced in TS
274 18661-4:2015) are now supported in <math.h>. Each family includes
275 functions for float, double, long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx, and a
276 type-generic macro in <tgmath.h>.
277
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278 - Trigonometric functions: acospi, asinpi, atan2pi, atanpi, cospi,
279 sinpi, tanpi.
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e442e837 281* The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2Y_SOURCE to
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282 enable features from the draft ISO C2Y standard. Only some features
283 from this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as
284 the draft is under active development, the set of features enabled by
285 this macro is liable to change. Features from C2Y are also enabled
286 by _GNU_SOURCE, or by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2y".
287
288* Optimized and correctly rounded exp10m1f, exp2m1f, expm1f, log10f,
289 log2p1f, log1pf, log10p1f, cbrtf, erff, erfcf, lgammaf, tgammaf,
290 tanf, acosf, acoshf, asinf, asinhf, atanf, atan2f, atanhf, coshf,
291 sinhf, and tanhf functions have been added from the CORE-MATH
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292 project <https://core-math.gitlabpages.inria.fr/>.
293
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294* A benchtest framework is now in place to track the performance of many
295 (mostly numerical) functions.
296
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297* A new tunable, glibc.rtld.execstack, can be used to control whether an
298 executable stack is allowed from the main program, either implicitly
299 due to a mising GNU_STACK ELF header or explicit explicitly because
300 of the executable bit in GNU_STACK. The default is to allow
301 executable stacks.
302
303* Support for the extensible rseq ABI introduced in the Linux kernel
304 version 6.3 has been added. The size and alignment of the rseq area
305 is now determined by auxiliary vector entries when provided by the
306 running kernel. This results in __rseq_size now exposing features
307 past the original ABI which currently include 'node_id' and 'mm_cid'
308 and will also allow exposing new features as they get added to future
309 Linux kernels.
310
311* The GNU C Library now supports the Guarded Control Stack extension
312 that allows to use shadow stacks on AArch64 systems that support this
313 extension. Building the library with standard branch protection
314 enabled while using a toolchain that supports GCS (binutils 2.44 and
315 GCC 15 or later) will enable GCS support in glibc. There is no
316 special configuration flag. GCS-enabled glibc is compatible with all
317 existing executables and shared libraries and will run with and
318 without GCS support in the system. GCS is opt-in and can be
319 controlled at runtime via the glibc.cpu.aarch64_gcs tunable. By
320 default GCS is disabled. Linux kernel supports this since 6.13.
321
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322* Significant effort has been put into improving the code generation
323 and speed of mathematical functions in the vector mathematics library
324 on AArch64, with regard to the Scalable Vector Extension (SVE) and
325 Advanced SIMD (Neon) intrinsics.
326
327* Support for memory protection keys on AArch64 systems with enabled
328 Stage 1 permission overlays feature as introduced in Armv8.9 / 9.4
329 has been added.
330
331* On PowerPC64, support for the return-oriented programming protection
332 instructions added in ISA 3.1 (Power10) has been added, as well as
333 function optimizations for Power10.
334
335* A new architecture type has been introduced internally to better
336 support Hygon x86-64 processors.
337
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338Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting
339compatibility:
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341* abort is now async-signal-safe and its implementation makes longjmp
342 from the SIGABRT handler always abort if set up with setjmp. Use
343 sigsetjmp to keep the old behavior, where the handler does not stop
344 the process execution.
d40ac01c 345
0ca8785a 346* dlopen and dlmopen no longer make the stack executable if a shared
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347 library requires it, either implicitly because of a missing GNU_STACK
348 ELF header (and default ABI permission having the executable bit set)
349 or explicitly because of the executable bit in GNU_STACK, and the
350 stack is not already executable. Instead, loading such objects will
351 fail.
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353* The nios2*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
354
355* The big-endian ARC port (arceb-linux-gnu) has been removed.
356
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357Changes to build and runtime requirements:
358
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359* On recent Linux kernels with vDSO getrandom support, getrandom does
360 not act as a "shall occur" cancellation point, in which case it might
461cab1d 361 not issue a syscall or trigger a deferred cancellation event.
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363* Testing the GNU C Library requires GNU awk to be compiled with support
364 for high precision arithmetic via the MPFR library.
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366Security related changes:
367
368The following CVEs were fixed in this release, details of which can be
369found in the advisories directory of the release tarball:
370
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371 GLIBC-SA-2025-0001:
372 assert: Buffer overflow when printing assertion failure message
373 (CVE-2025-0395)
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374
375The following bugs were resolved with this release:
376
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377 [6050] locale: iconv(1) buffers all of stdin in memory
378 [10460] locale: iconv does not support in-place conversion
379 [12683] nptl: Race conditions in pthread cancellation
380 [14147] nptl: Async cancellation left active after longjmp out of
381 signal handler
382 [14799] network: RES_OPTIONS cannot disable options enabled in
383 /etc/resolv.conf
384 [17703] locale: iconv(1) EFAULTs reading the second non-mmapable input
385 [20632] stdio: Buffer overflow in wchar IO (_IO_wfile_overflow)
386 [23675] stdio: freopen() with "ccs=<charset>" leaves the stream
387 unoriented
388 [25847] nptl: pthread_cond_signal failed to wake up pthread_cond_wait
389 due to a bug in undoing stealing
390 [26275] libc: abort(3) is not signal-safe
391 [27543] ports: Inconsistent behavior when handling FPSCR on SH
392 [27821] stdio: double call to ungetc causes uninitialized memory
393 reading. (also: ungetc causes memory leak)
394 [29437] libc: arc4random is too slow
395 [30009] build: unterminated options list in benchtest
396 [30081] network: libresolv: timeout when running in single-request
397 mode
398 [30220] math: String to double returns incorrectly rounded value for
399 hexadecimal subnormal
400 [30584] libc: initstate and initstate_r crash when the state argument
401 is unaligned
402 [30647] stdio: scanf functions wrong on nan()
403 [31394] libc: clone on sparc might fail with -EFAULT for no valid
404 reason
405 [31717] dynamic-link: TLS for library gets reallocated when loaded in
406 two contexts.
407 [31799] dynamic-link: -static-pie -Wl,-Ttext-segment=0x50000 doesn't
408 work
409 [31859] locale: Transliteration rules with two input characters like
410 "ḌḌ" "DDH" do not work.
411 [31890] network: DNS stub resolver ignores header-only error responses
412 [31928] build: glibc doesn't compile if the compiler already define
413 _FORTIFY_SOURCE
414 [31968] libc: mremap implementation in C does not handle arguments
415 correctly
416 [31985] dynamic-link: la_objopen not called when ld.so is imported
417 into a private namespace. However, la_objclose is called with an
418 unknown cookie.
419 [31997] libc: exit is not thread-safe, even when all atexit handlers
420 are thread-safe
421 [32026] libc: strerror, strsignal TLS not handled correctly for
422 secondary namespaces (dlmopen, LD_AUDIT)
423 [32033] locale: iconv (the program) does not truncate output file if
424 input is empty
425 [32040] nptl: CPU affinity test skeleton for sched_setaffinity and
426 pthread_setaffinity_np can fail to report failure.
427 [32042] build: Compilation issue for tst-resolv-short-response.c with
428 older GCC
429 [32045] math: nan() / strtod() incorrectly set errno for overflowing
430 nan payload
431 [32046] locale: iconv -c fails to report input encoding errors if
432 output buffer is full
433 [32047] libc: Tunables may incorrectly set Prefer_PMINUB_for_stringop
434 [32050] locale: iconv - - < /dev/null fails with Bad file descriptor
435 [32052] libc: stdlib.h's use of 'sz' identifier causes libstdc++ test
436 failure
437 [32065] dynamic-link: _dl_fini does not call la_objclose for proxy
438 link maps
439 [32066] dynamic-link: dlclose signals la_activity (LA_ACT_DELETE)
440 after la_objclose calls
441 [32078] string: Random __strchrnul_evex512 failures
442 [32124] libc: readdir_r does not relay errors reported by the kernel
443 [32125] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in __syscall_cancel_arch for
444 powerpc64le-linux-gnu
445 [32126] libc: readdir64_r: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
446 [32128] libc: Compat readdir64_r (__old_readdir64_r) does not enforce
447 NAME_MAX limit
448 [32134] stdio: freopen does not clear flags2 (FD_CLOEXEC etc)
449 [32137] libc: libio/tst-stderr-compat, libio/tst-bz24228, math/test-
450 matherr-2, nptl/tst-pthread_kill-exited fails on powerpc-unknown-
451 linux-gnu
452 [32140] stdio: freopen leaks memory on failure
453 [32145] libc: New stdlib/tst-strtod1i, stdlib/tst-strtod3, stdlib/tst-
454 strtod4, stdlib/tst-strtod5i failures on powerpc64le-linux-gnu
455 [32148] stdio: Memory corruption with ancient i386 binaries using
456 stdio
457 [32168] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 16.0.0
458 [32173] libc: sparc: restartable syscalls are broken
459 [32192] build: s390: utf16-utf32-z9.c fails to build w/ -fomit-frame-
460 pointer
461 [32197] locale: FAIL: iconv/tst-iconv_prog-buffer failures
462 [32212] string: x86_64/strcmp caused 25% performance drop by commit
463 84e7c46df
464 [32214] libc: random_bits always returns the same value if getrandom
465 fails
466 [32215] libc: Signal handlers after fork may encounter missing robust
467 mutex list
468 [32228] libc: .preinit_array in /lib/riscv64-linux-gnu/Scrt1.o is not
469 properly aligned
470 [32231] dynamic-link: ldconfig auxcache format change in 2.36
471 [32233] libc: error calls va_end twice.
472 [32234] hurd: missing va_end call in fcntl.c
473 [32245] build: glibc -Wstringop-overflow= build failure on hppa
474 [32280] localedata: Enable transliteration rules with two input
475 characters in scn_IT
476 [32283] libc: Compilation issue for tst-syscall-restart.c with GCC
477 10.2.1
478 [32323] localedata: eo: Incorrect first day of week and first week of
479 year
480 [32344] string: Assembler warnings when building strcpy-evex.S and
481 strncpy-evex.S
482 [32350] hurd: function __xpg_strerror_r crashes for specific arguments
483 [32360] stdio: Compilation issue for tst-printf-format-skeleton.c with
484 GCC 10.2.1
485 [32366] malloc: malloc test failures with GCC 15
486 [32380] locale: dcigettext can cause SIGSEGV when domain name is too
487 long
488 [32414] libc: [x86_64 regression] tst-strtod5i.c:124:(.text+0x47c):
489 undefined reference to `__copysignf128'
490 [32418] math: __XXX math functions are declared, but not provided
491 [32420] build: GCC 6 can't build glibc 2.41
492 [32440] libc: getrandom() in glibc 2.41 (development) returns EINVAL
493 as retcode instead of errno on powerpc64le
494 [32448] libc: iconv reports failure with successful transliteration
495 [32450] libc: system() does not return -1 if a child process can't be
496 created
497 [32465] nss: ./getaddrinfo.c:1884:11: error: variable 'endp' is used
498 uninitialized whenever '||' condition is true [-Werror,-Wsometimes-
499 uninitialized]
500 [32470] dynamic-link: Integer truncation during x86-64 cache size
501 computation
502 [32488] libc: Glibc failed to build with CET enabled
503 [32492] libc: New test failures
504 [32494] build: Compilation issue with GCC 14.2.1
505 [32508] dynamic-link: ldd: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: cannot execute binary
506 file: Exec format error
507 [32512] dynamic-link: failure to build on loong, undefined reference
508 to `stpcpy'
509 [32543] build: x32 glibc is miscompiled
510 [32588] libc: [2.41 regression] bash crashes with 'realloc(): invalid
511 pointer' with `env -i PATH=`
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514
515Major new features:
516
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518 GCC 14.1 or later to use __builtin_stdc_bit_ceil etc. built-in functions
519 in order to support unsigned __int128 and/or unsigned _BitInt(N) operands
520 with arbitrary precisions when supported by the target.
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523 enable features from the ISO C23 standard. Only some features from
524 this standard are supported by the GNU C Library. The older name
525 _ISOC2X_SOURCE is still supported. Features from C23 are also enabled
526 by _GNU_SOURCE, or by compiling with the GCC options -std=c23,
527 -std=gnu23, -std=c2x or -std=gnu2x.
528
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530 18661-4:2015) are now supported in <math.h>. Each family includes
531 functions for float, double, long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx, and a
532 type-generic macro in <tgmath.h>.
533
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535
55eb99e9 536 - Logarithmic functions: log2p1, log10p1, logp1.
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539 as if it were a setuid process. This is currently a testing tool to allow
540 more extensive verification tests for AT_SECURE programs and not meant to
541 be a security feature.
542
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543* On Linux, the epoll header was updated to include epoll ioctl definitions
544 and the related structure added in Linux kernel 6.9.
545
546* The fortify functionality has been significantly enhanced for building
547 programs with clang against the GNU C Library.
548
549* Many functions have been added to the vector library for aarch64:
550 acosh, asinh, atanh, cbrt, cosh, erf, erfc, hypot, pow, sinh, tanh
551
552* On x86, memset can now use non-temporal stores to improve the performance
553 of large writes. This behaviour is controlled by a new tunable
554 x86_memset_non_temporal_threshold.
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557
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559 lastlog, struct utmp, struct utmpx (such as i386, powerpc64le, rv32,
560 rv64, x86-64) switched from a signed to an unsigned type for that
561 field. This allows these fields to store timestamps beyond the year
562 2038, until the year 2106. Please note that applications are still
563 expected to migrate off the interfaces declared in <utmp.h> and
564 <utmpx.h> (except for login_tty) due to locking and session management
565 problems.
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568 initially), not the size of struct rseq (32 bytes initially).
569
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570Security related changes:
571
572The following CVEs were fixed in this release, details of which can be
573found in the advisories directory of the release tarball:
574
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575 GLIBC-SA-2024-0004:
576 ISO-2022-CN-EXT: fix out-of-bound writes when writing escape
577 sequence (CVE-2024-2961)
578
579 GLIBC-SA-2024-0005:
580 nscd: Stack-based buffer overflow in netgroup cache (CVE-2024-33599)
581
582 GLIBC-SA-2024-0006:
583 nscd: Null pointer crash after notfound response (CVE-2024-33600)
584
585 GLIBC-SA-2024-0007:
586 nscd: netgroup cache may terminate daemon on memory allocation
587 failure (CVE-2024-33601)
588
589 GLIBC-SA-2024-0008:
590 nscd: netgroup cache assumes NSS callback uses in-buffer strings
591 (CVE-2024-33602)
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593The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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595 [19622] network: Support aliasing with struct sockaddr
596 [21271] localedata: cv_RU: update translations
597 [23774] localedata: lv_LV collates Y/y incorrectly
598 [23865] string: wcsstr is quadratic-time
599 [25119] localedata: Change Czech weekday names to lowercase
600 [27777] stdio: fclose does a linear search, takes ages when many FILE*
601 are opened
602 [29770] libc: prctl does not match manual page ABI on powerpc64le-
603 linux-gnu
604 [29845] localedata: Update hr_HR locale currency to €
605 [30701] time: getutxent misbehaves on 32-bit x86 when _TIME_BITS=64
606 [31316] build: Fails test misc/tst-dirname "Didn't expect signal from
607 child: got `Illegal instruction'" on non SSE CPUs
608 [31317] dynamic-link: [RISCV] static PIE crashes during self
609 relocation
610 [31325] libc: mips: clone3 is wrong for o32
611 [31335] math: Compile glibc with -march=x86-64-v3 should disable FMA4
612 multi-arch version
613 [31339] libc: arm32 loader crash after cleanup in 2.36
614 [31340] manual: A bad sentence in section 22.3.5 (resource.texi)
615 [31357] dynamic-link: $(objpfx)tst-rtld-list-diagnostics.out rule
616 doesn't work with test wrapper
617 [31370] localedata: wcwidth() does not treat
618 DEFAULT_IGNORABLE_CODE_POINTs as zero-width
619 [31371] dynamic-link: x86-64: APX and Tile registers aren't preserved
620 in ld.so trampoline
621 [31372] dynamic-link: _dl_tlsdesc_dynamic doesn't preserve all caller-
622 saved registers
623 [31383] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 and __fortified_attr_access vs size of
624 0 and zero size types
625 [31385] build: sort-makefile-lines.py doesn't check variable with _
626 nor with "^# variable"
627 [31402] libc: clone (NULL, NULL, ...) clobbers %r7 register on
628 s390{,x}
629 [31405] libc: Improve dl_iterate_phdr using _dl_find_object
630 [31411] localedata: Add Latgalian locale
631 [31412] build: GCC 6 failed to build i386 glibc on Fedora 39
632 [31429] build: Glibc failed to build with -march=x86-64-v3
633 [31468] libc: sigisemptyset returns true when the set contains signals
634 larger than 34
635 [31476] network: Automatic activation of single-request options break
636 resolv.conf reloading
637 [31479] libc: Missing #include <sys/rseq.h> in sched_getcpu.c may
638 result in a loss of rseq acceleration
639 [31501] dynamic-link: _dl_tlsdesc_dynamic_xsavec may clobber %rbx
640 [31518] manual: documentation: FLT_MAX_10_EXP questionable text, evtl.
641 wrong,
642 [31530] localedata: Locale file for Moksha - mdf_RU
643 [31553] malloc: elf/tst-decorate-maps fails on ppc64el
644 [31596] libc: On the llvm-arm32 platform, dlopen("not_exist.so", -1)
645 triggers segmentation fault
646 [31600] math: math: x86 ceill traps when FE_INEXACT is enabled
647 [31601] math: math: x86 floor traps when FE_INEXACT is enabled
648 [31603] math: math: x86 trunc traps when FE_INEXACT is enabled
649 [31612] libc: arc4random fails to fallback to /dev/urandom if
650 getrandom is not present
651 [31629] build: powerpc64: Configuring with "--with-cpu=power10" and
652 'CFLAGS=-O2 -mcpu=power9' fails to build glibc
653 [31640] dynamic-link: POWER10 ld.so crashes in
654 elf_machine_load_address with GCC 14
655 [31661] libc: NPROCESSORS_CONF and NPROCESSORS_ONLN not available in
656 getconf
657 [31676] dynamic-link: Configuring with CC="gcc -march=x86-64-v3"
658 --with-rtld-early-cflags=-march=x86-64 results in linker failure
659 [31677] nscd: nscd: netgroup cache: invalid memcpy under low
660 memory/storage conditions
661 [31678] nscd: nscd: Null pointer dereferences after failed netgroup
662 cache insertion
663 [31679] nscd: nscd: netgroup cache may terminate daemon on memory
664 allocation failure
665 [31680] nscd: nscd: netgroup cache assumes NSS callback uses in-buffer
666 strings
667 [31682] math: [PowerPC] Floating point exception error for math test
668 test-ceil-except-2 test-floor-except-2 test-trunc-except-2
669 [31686] dynamic-link: Stack-based buffer overflow in
670 parse_tunables_string
671 [31695] libc: pidfd_spawn/pidfd_spawnp leak an fd if clone3 succeeds
672 but execve fails
673 [31719] dynamic-link: --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests doesn't work
674 with -Wl,--enable-new-dtags
675 [31730] libc: backtrace_symbols_fd prints different strings than
676 backtrace_symbols returns
677 [31753] build: FAIL: link-static-libc with GCC 6/7/8
678 [31755] libc: procutils_read_file doesn't start with a leading
679 underscore
680 [31756] libc: write_profiling is only in libc.a
681 [31757] build: Should XXXf128_do_not_use functions be excluded?
682 [31759] math: Extra nearbyint symbols in libm.a
683 [31760] math: Missing math functions
684 [31764] build: _res_opcodes should be a compat symbol only
685 [31765] dynamic-link: _dl_mcount_wrapper is exported without prototype
686 [31766] stdio: _IO_stderr_ _IO_stdin_ _IO_stdout should be compat
687 symbols
688 [31768] string: Extra stpncpy symbol in libc.a
689 [31770] libc: clone3 is in libc.a
690 [31774] libc: Missing __isnanf128 in libc.a
691 [31775] math: Missing exp10 exp10f32x exp10f64 fmod fmodf fmodf32
692 fmodf32x fmodf64 in libm.a
693 [31777] string: Extra memchr strlen symbols in libc.a
694 [31781] math: Missing math functions in libm.a
695 [31782] build: Test build failure with recent GCC trunk (x86/tst-cpu-
696 features-supports.c:69:3: error: parameter to builtin not valid:
697 avx5124fmaps)
698 [31785] string: loongarch: Extra strnlen symbols in libc.a
699 [31786] string: powerpc: Extra strchrnul and strncasecmp_l symbols in
700 libc.a
701 [31787] math: powerpc: Extra llrintf, llrintf, llrintf32, and
702 llrintf32 symbols in libc.a
703 [31788] libc: microblaze: Extra cacheflush symbol in libc.a
704 [31789] libc: powerpc: Extra versionsort symbol in libc.a
705 [31790] libc: s390: Extra getutent32, getutent32_r, getutid32,
706 getutid32_r, getutline32, getutline32_r, getutmp32, getutmpx32,
707 getutxent32, getutxid32, getutxline32, pututline32, pututxline32,
708 updwtmp32, updwtmpx32 in libc.a
709 [31797] build: g++ -static requirement should be able to opt-out
710 [31798] libc: pidfd_getpid.c is miscompiled by GCC 6.4
711 [31802] time: difftime is pure not const
712 [31808] time: The supported time_t range is not documented.
713 [31840] stdio: Memory leak in _IO_new_fdopen (fdopen) on seek failure
714 [31867] build: "CPU ISA level is lower than required" on SSE2-free
715 CPUs
716 [31876] time: "Date and time" documentation fixes for POSIX.1-2024 etc
717 [31883] build: ISA level support configure check relies on bashism /
718 is otherwise broken for arithmetic
719 [31892] build: Always install mtrace.
720 [31917] libc: clang mq_open fortify wrapper does not handle 4 argument
721 correctly
722 [31927] libc: clang open fortify wrapper does not handle argument
723 correctly
724 [31931] time: tzset may fault on very short TZ string
725 [31934] string: wcsncmp crash on s390x on vlbb instruction
726 [31963] stdio: Crash in _IO_link_in within __gcov_exit
727 [31965] dynamic-link: rseq extension mechanism does not work as
728 intended
729 [31980] build: elf/tst-tunables-enable_secure-env fails on ppc
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733Major new features:
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736 rewrite on x86-64. When enabled with non-lazy binding, the dynamic
737 linker will rewrite indirect branches in PLT with direct branches.
738
a0cfc48e 739* Sync with Linux kernel 6.6 shadow stack interface. The --enable-cet
feeb7297 740 configure option is only supported on x86-64.
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92861d93 742* struct statvfs now has an f_type member, equal to the f_type statfs member;
743 on the Hurd this was always available under a reserved name,
744 and under Linux a spare has been allocated: it was always zero
745 in previous versions of glibc, and zero is not a valid result.
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748 posix_spawnattr_setcgroup_np have been added, along with the
749 POSIX_SPAWN_SETCGROUP flag. They allow posix_spawn and posix_spawnp
750 to set the cgroupv2 in the new process in a race-free manner. These
751 functions are GNU extensions and require a kernel with clone3 support.
752
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754 They have a similar prototype and semantic as posix_spawn, but instead of
755 returning a process ID, they return a file descriptor that can be used
756 along other pidfd functions (like pidfd_send_signal, poll, or waitid).
757 The pidfd functionality avoids the issue of PID reuse with the traditional
758 posix_spawn interface.
759
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761 the process ID associated with the process file descriptor created by
762 pid_spawn, fork_np, or pidfd_open.
763
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765 arguments pointing to types intN_t, int_leastN_t, uintN_t or
766 uint_leastN_t (for example, %w32d to read int32_t or int_least32_t in
767 decimal, or %w32x to read uint32_t or uint_least32_t in hexadecimal)
768 and the wfN format length modifiers for arguments pointing to types
769 int_fastN_t or uint_fastN_t, as specified in draft ISO C2X.
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772 information on underlying memory allocated by the glibc (for instance,
773 on thread stack created by pthread_create or memory allocated by
774 malloc).
775
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777 stdc_leading_zeros, stdc_leading_ones, stdc_trailing_zeros,
778 stdc_trailing_ones, stdc_first_leading_zero, stdc_first_leading_one,
779 stdc_first_trailing_zero, stdc_first_trailing_one, stdc_count_zeros,
780 stdc_count_ones, stdc_has_single_bit, stdc_bit_width, stdc_bit_floor
781 and stdc_bit_ceil function families, each having functions for
782 unsigned char, unsigned short, unsigned int, unsigned long int and
783 unsigned long long int, and a type-generic macro.
784
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786 annotations to allow GCC 9 or newer to auto-vectorize calls to the
787 following scalar math functions when -ffast-math is specified:
788 acos, acosf, asin, asinf, atan, atanf, atan2, atan2f, cos, cosf,
789 exp, expf, exp10, exp10f, exp2, exp2f, expm1, expm1f, log, logf,
790 log10, log10f, log1p, log1pf, log2, log2f, sin, sinf, tan, tanf.
791
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793
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796 by the RPM and dpkg package managers.
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799 options "--enable-crypt" and "--enable-nss-crypt" are no longer
800 available. <crypt.h>, libcrypt.a, and libcrypt.so.1 will not be
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802 function by default, to avoid introducing vulnerabilities into
803 existing applications due to a missing prototype. This declaration
804 is deprecated and may be removed in a future glibc release.
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806 The replacement for libcrypt is libxcrypt, maintained separately from
807 GNU libc, but available under compatible licensing terms, and providing
808 binary backward compatibility with the former libcrypt. It is currently
809 distributed from <https://github.com/besser82/libxcrypt/>.
810
811 As a consequence of this removal, GNU libc no longer makes any use of
812 the NSS cryptography library (Network Security Services; not to be
813 confused with Name Service Switch). Distributors of binary packages
814 of GNU libc are advised to check whether their build processes can be
815 simplified.
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818 during TLS access if a shared object with dynamic TLS is loaded and
819 unloaded. This can result in an infinite recursion if a malloc
820 replacement library or its dependencies use dynamic TLS instead of
821 initial-exec TLS.
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824
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826
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828 instructions.
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830Security related changes:
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833found in the advisories directory of the release tarball:
834
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835 GLIBC-SA-2023-0002:
836 getaddrinfo: Stack read overflow in no-aaaa mode (CVE-2023-4527)
837
838 GLIBC-SA-2023-0003:
839 getaddrinfo: Potential use-after-free (CVE-2023-4806)
840
841 GLIBC-SA-2023-0004:
842 tunables: local privilege escalation through buffer overflow
843 (CVE-2023-4911)
844
845 GLIBC-SA-2024-0001:
846 syslog: Heap buffer overflow in __vsyslog_internal (CVE-2023-6246)
847
848 GLIBC-SA-2024-0002:
849 syslog: Heap buffer overflow in __vsyslog_internal (CVE-2023-6779)
850
851 GLIBC-SA-2024-0003:
852 syslog: Integer overflow in __vsyslog_internal (CVE-2023-6780)
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855 ISO-2022-CN-EXT: fix out-of-bound writes when writing escape
856 sequence (CVE-2024-2961)
857
858 GLIBC-SA-2024-0005:
859 nscd: Stack-based buffer overflow in netgroup cache (CVE-2024-33599)
860
861 GLIBC-SA-2024-0006:
862 nscd: Null pointer crashes after notfound response
863 (CVE-2024-33600)
864
865 GLIBC-SA-2024-0007:
866 nscd: netgroup cache may terminate daemon on memory allocation
867 failure (CVE-2024-33601)
868
869 GLIBC-SA-2024-0008:
870 nscd: netgroup cache assumes NSS callback uses in-buffer strings
871 (CVE-2024-33602)
872
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874
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875 [14522] localedata: fy_DE: LC_IDENTIFICATION data looks weird
876 [19305] libc: qsort() should return early if (nmemb <= 1)
877 [19479] localedata: gbm_IN: new Garhwali Locale
878 [19924] dynamic-link: TLS performance degradation after dlopen
879 [19956] localedata: ssy_ER: rename from aa_ER@saaho
880 [21719] libc: stdlib/msort : optimizing merge sort
881 [22526] localedata: th_TH LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
882 [23012] localedata: el_GR: Greece now uses the 24h format for time
883 [23172] localedata: miq_NI: Provide actually abbreviated month names
884 [24006] localedata: Cyclic dependencies via copy in locales
885 [24013] localedata: am_pm definitions for es_ES
886 [24386] localedata: crh_RU: new locale
887 [24877] localedata: [Redundant Data] Remove redundant data between
888 en_NZ and en_AU
889 [25868] localedata: Incorrect trailing spaces in weekday names for
890 nn_NO
891 [26752] localedata: Please add the new locale zgh_MA
892 [27069] dynamic-link: Need a way to tell if a tunable is set by user
893 [27163] localedata: Error on test glk_IR with localedef
894 [27312] localedata: su_ID: new Sundanese locale
895 [27547] manual: "Summary of malloc-Related Functions" shows wrong
896 argument order for `aligned_alloc` and `memalign`
897 [27574] libc: glibc should probably not define __WORDSIZE=64 for
898 __sparcv9
899 [27601] localedata: License information update in
900 localedata/locales/ast_ES
901 [28558] localedata: it_IT LC_MONETARY outdated p_cs_precedes and
902 n_cs_precedes
903 [28787] localedata: Add information for Occitan
904 [29039] dynamic-link: Corrupt DTV after reuse of a TLS module ID
905 following dlclose with unused TLS
906 [29486] localedata: New Zealand locales (en_NZ & mi_NZ) first day of
907 week should be Monday
908 [29504] localedata: Incorrect/misleading Time Format For ms_MY (AM/PM)
909 [29506] localedata: UTF-8 HANGUL SYLLABLE bugs
910 [30349] libc: Support returning a pidfd from posix_spawn()
911 [30412] localedata: d_t_fmt in id_ID uses %r placeholder but am_pm and
912 t_fmt_ampm are undefined
913 [30605] localedata: New locale for Komi language
914 [30649] localedata: [PATCH] Add transliteration of common emojis to
915 smileys
916 [30694] locale: The iconv program no longer tells the user which given
917 encoding name was wrong
918 [30709] nscd: nscd fails to build with cleanup handler if built with
919 -fexceptions
920 [30737] libc: fdopendir() is not robust - returns bogus DIR* instead
921 of flagging an error
922 [30740] build: [m68k] undefined reference to
923 `_wordcopy_fwd_dest_aligned'
924 [30745] libc: Slight bug in cache info codes for x86
925 [30750] network: Unaligned accesses in resolver
926 [30773] math: [m68k] busybox awk is broken (lshift.S related)
927 [30789] libc: [2.38 Regression] sem_open will fail on multithreaded
928 scenarios when semaphore file doesn't exist (O_CREAT)
929 [30800] nscd: Improper assert in prune_cache triggers if clock jumps
930 backwards
931 [30804] libc: F_GETLK, F_SETLK, and F_SETLKW value change for
932 powerpc64 with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
933 [30842] network: Stack read overflow in getaddrinfo in no-aaaa mode
934 (CVE-2023-4527)
935 [30843] network: potential use-after-free in getcanonname
936 (CVE-2023-4806)
937 [30854] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 15.1.0
938 [30884] network: Memory leak in getaddrinfo after fix for bug 30843
939 (CVE-2023-5156)
940 [30932] libc: Fortify Source has false-positives when too many files
941 are open
942 [30945] malloc: Core affinity setting incurs lock contentions between
943 threads
944 [30960] math: signed integer overflow in
945 glibc/sysdeps/s390/fpu/feenablxcpt.c
946 [30964] locale: Number grouping check mishandles multibyte thousands
947 separator
948 [30981] dynamic-link: dlclose does not properly implement force-first
949 handling
950 [30988] math: fesetexcept raises floating-point exception traps on
951 ppc, ppc64, ppc64le
952 [30989] math: fesetexcept raises floating-point exception traps on
953 i386
954 [30990] libc: fesetexceptflag raises floating-point exception traps on
955 i386, x86_64
956 [30998] math: fesetexceptflag clears too many floating-point exception
957 flags on alpha
958 [31019] manual: The documentation of feenableexcept is incomplete
959 [31022] math: feupdateenv (FE_DFL_ENV) crashes on riscv
960 [31035] libc: Library search path terminates on relative non-directory
961 name
962 [31042] libc: [s390x] .init and .fini padding
963 [31068] libc: sysdeps: sparc: invalid data access in memset due to
964 regression
965 [31078] manual: Code example in "Noncanonical Mode Example" has unused
966 'char *name;'
967 [31086] localedata: Errors in Tibetan, Dzongkha data
968 [31113] string: Wrong unwind information for rawmemchr on aarch64
969 [31151] libc: [RISC-V] missing support for profile/audit PLT setup
970 [31163] nss: getaddrinfo returns EAI_NONAME in oom situation
971 [31183] stdio: Wide stream buffer size reduced MB_LEN_MAX bytes after
972 bug 17522 fix
973 [31184] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-tlsgap
974 [31185] dynamic-link: Incorrect thread point access in
975 _dl_tlsdesc_undefweak and _dl_tlsdesc_dynamic
976 [31187] dynamic-link: Some CET tests fail with GCC 14
977 [31204] localedata: Fix decimal point and thousands separator for
978 uz_UZ
979 [31205] localedata: Inconsistent (mon_)grouping formats
980 [31218] dynamic-link: PLT rewrite overflows large displacement on x32
981 [31221] localedata: Add localedata for ISO code "tok" (Toki Pona)
982 [31230] dynamic-link: PLT rewrite failed without SELinux
983 [31239] localedata: anp_IN locale: abbreviated month names are the
984 same as the full month names
985 [31244] nptl: pthread_cancel hangs on sparc32
986 [31257] localedata: Sync with CLDR: “Turkey” -> “Türkiye”
987 [31266] string: sparc: string/tst-memmove-overflow fails on 32-bit
988 sparcv9
989 [31276] libc: Wrong condition for heap allocation in qsort_r
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993Major new features:
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996 following functions support binary integers prefixed by 0b or 0B as
997 input: strtol, strtoll, strtoul, strtoull, strtol_l, strtoll_l,
998 strtoul_l, strtoull_l, strtoimax, strtoumax, strtoq, strtouq, wcstol,
999 wcstoll, wcstoul, wcstoull, wcstol_l, wcstoll_l, wcstoul_l,
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1001 following functions support binary integers prefixed by 0b or 0B as
1002 input to the %i format: fscanf, scanf, sscanf, vscanf, vsscanf,
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1004 functions also support the %b format for binary integers, with or
1005 without such a prefix and independent of standards mode.
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1008 <inttypes.h>.
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1011 arguments of type intN_t, int_leastN_t, uintN_t or uint_leastN_t (for
1012 example, %w32d to print int32_t or int_least32_t in decimal, or %w32x
1013 to print uint32_t or uint_least32_t in hexadecimal) and the wfN format
1014 length modifiers for arguments of type int_fastN_t or uint_fastN_t, as
1015 specified in draft ISO C2X.
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1018 Transparent Huge Pages (THP) in stack allocation at pthread_create.
1019
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1021 as least binutils 2.40 and GCC 13:
1022
1023 - x86_64-gnu
1024
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1026 requires GCC version >= 10.1.0. It can be disabled via
1027 "--disable-mathvec", however that is not a supported configuration as
1028 it changes the ABI. The symbol names follow the AArch64 vector ABI,
1029 they are declared in math.h and have to be called manually at this point.
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1032 from OpenBSD, and are expected to be added to a future POSIX version.
1033
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1035 GNU C Library with _FORTIFY_SOURCE. The level of fortification can either be
1036 provided, or is set to the highest value supported by the compiler. If not
1037 explicitly enabled, then fortify source is forcibly disabled so to keep
1038 original behavior unchanged.
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1041
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1044 GNU C Library in a future release, so it is recommended that
1045 applications port away from it to an alternative such as libxcrypt.
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1048 MADV_XXX constants were changed to have the same values as the other
1049 architectures. New programs compiled with this glibc version and which
1050 use the madvise call will require at least Linux kernel version 6.2,
1051 alternatively stable kernels from versions 6.1.6, 5.15.87, 5.10.163,
1052 5.4.228, 4.19.270 or 4.14.303.
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1064 ACLE.
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1069 format specifier that uses an <apostrophe> (enable grouping) and a
1070 minimum width specifier, the resulting output could be larger than
1071 reasonably expected by a caller that computed a tight bound on the
1072 buffer size. The resulting larger than expected output could result
1073 in a buffer overflow in the printf family of functions.
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1075The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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1077 [178] string: Please add strlcpy and strlcat (attached)
1078 [14697] nptl: Behavior of exit is nonconformant with respect to
1079 threads and stdio
1080 [15142] stdio: Missing locking in _IO_cleanup
1081 [18096] glob: null deref in wordexp/parse_dollars/parse_arith
1082 [18906] stdio: fopen: ccs value may affect open mode
1083 [24466] stdio: Feature request: provide special printf formats for
1084 intXX_t
1085 [25457] nss: hosts lookup fails for ipv4mapped ipv6 addresses
1086 [28519] libc: system and popen should pass "--" between /bin/sh and
1087 argument
1088 [29016] stdio: popen() sets errno to ENOMEM when shell does not exist
1089 [29591] string: wcsnlen length can overflow in page cross case.
1090 [30053] time: strftime %s returns -1 after 2038 on 32 bits systems
1091 [30068] stdio: incorrect printf output for integers with thousands
1092 separator and width field (CVE-2023-25139)
1093 [30111] time: support_descriptors_list fails after 2038 on 32 bits
1094 systems
1095 [30125] dynamic-link: [regression, bisected] glibc-2.37 creates new
1096 symlink for libraries without soname
1097 [30130] math: [s390] The _FPU_SETCW macro yields compile error with
1098 Clang
1099 [30156] time: Potential ntp_gettime abi break
1100 [30235] libc: Missing fallback in getlogin if loginuid is unset
1101 [30258] dynamic-link: sprof cannot read and display shared object
1102 profiling data correctly
1103 [30263] libc: Add test coverage for abs(), labs(), and llabs().
1104 [30305] math: Incorrect asm constraint in feraiseexcept on x86-64
1105 [30402] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-glibcelf
1106 [30425] dynamic-link: Symbol lookup during dlclose may fail
1107 unnecessarily
1108 [30435] dynamic-link: Root dir wrongly marked as nonexist in open_path
1109 [30477] libc: [RISCV]: time64 does not work on riscv32
1110 [30515] dynamic-link: _dl_find_object incorrectly returns 1 during
1111 early startup
1112 [30527] network: resolv_conf lock not unlocked on allocation failure
1113 [30550] math: powerpc64le: GCC-specific code for isinf() is being used
1114 on clang
1115 [30555] string: strerror can incorrectly return NULL
1116 [30579] malloc: trim_threshold in realloc lead to high memory usage
1117 [30662] nscd: Group and password cache use errno in place of errval
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1121Major new features:
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1124 getent with --no-addrconfig may contain addresses of families not
1125 configured on the current host i.e. as-if you had not passed
1126 AI_ADDRCONFIG to getaddrinfo calls.
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1128Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1129
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1131 subdirectories on the library search path or the subdirectory that
1132 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, or employs the legacy AT_HWCAP
1133 search mechanism, which was deprecated in version 2.33.
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1138 string larger than 1024 bytes, it reads uninitialized memory from the
1139 heap and prints it to the target log file, potentially revealing a
1140 portion of the contents of the heap.
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1142The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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1145 [12165] libc: readdir: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
1146 [19444] build: build failures with -O1 due to -Wmaybe-uninitialized
1147 [24774] nptl: pthread_rwlock_timedwrlock stalls on ARM
1148 [24816] nss: nss/tst-nss-files-hosts-long fails when no interface has
1149 AF_INET6 address (ie docker)
1150 [27087] stdio: PowerPC: Redefinition error with Clang from IEEE
1151 redirection headers
1152 [28846] network: CMSG_NXTHDR may trigger -Wstrict-overflow warning
1153 [28937] dynamic-link: New DSO dependency sorter does not put new map
1154 first if in a cycle
1155 [29249] libc: csu/libc-tls.c:202: undefined reference to
1156 `_startup_fatal_not_constant'
1157 [29305] network: Inefficient buffer space usage in nss_dns for
1158 gethostbyname and other functions
1159 [29375] libc: don't hide MAP_ANONYMOUS behind _GNU_SOURCE
1160 [29402] nscd: nscd: No such file or directory
1161 [29415] nscd: getaddrinfo with AI_ADDRCONFIG returns addresses with
1162 wrong family
1163 [29427] dynamic-link: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-printf.c:
1164 200: _dl_debug_vdprintf: Assertion `! "invalid format specifier"'
1165 failed!
1166 [29463] math: math/test-float128-y1 fails on x86_64
1167 [29485] build: Make hangs when the test misc/tst-pidfile returns
1168 FAIL_UNSUPPORTED
1169 [29490] dynamic-link: [bisected] new __brk_call causes dynamic loader
1170 segfault on alpha
1171 [29499] build: Check failed on misc/tst-glibcsyscalls while building
1172 for RISCV64 on a unmatched hardware
1173 [29501] build: Check failed on stdlib/tst-strfrom while building for
1174 RISCV64 on a unmatched hardware
1175 [29502] libc: alpha sys/acct.h out of date
1176 [29514] build: Need to use -fPIE not -fpie
1177 [29528] dynamic-link: __libc_early_init not called after dlmopen that
1178 reuses namespace
1179 [29536] libc: syslog fail to create large messages (CVE-2022-39046)
1180 [29537] libc: [2.34 regression]: Alignment issue on m68k when using
1181 futexes on qemu-user
1182 [29539] libc: LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS changed how vDSO library are
1183 printed
1184 [29544] libc: Regression in syslog(3) calls breaks RFC due to extra
1185 whitespace
1186 [29564] build: Incorrect way to change MAKEFLAGS in Makerules
1187 [29576] build: librtld.os: in function `_dl_start_profile':
1188 (.text+0x9444): undefined reference to `strcpy'
1189 [29578] libc: Definition of SUN_LEN() is wrong
1190 [29583] build: iconv failures on 32bit platform due to missing large
1191 file support
1192 [29600] dynamic-link: dlmopen hangs after loading certain libraries
1193 [29604] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 15.0.0
1194 [29605] nscd: Regression in NSCD backend of getaddrinfo
1195 [29607] nscd: nscd repeatably crashes calling __strlen_avx2 when hosts
1196 cache is enabled
1197 [29611] string: Optimized AVX2 string functions unconditionally use
1198 BMI2 instructions
1199 [29624] malloc: errno is not cleared when entering main
1200 [29638] libc: stdlib: arc4random fallback is never used
1201 [29657] libc: Incorrect struct stat for 64-bit time on linux/generic
1202 platforms
1203 [29698] build: Configuring for AArch32 on ARMv8+ disables
1204 optimizations
1205 [29727] locale: __strtol_internal out-of-bounds read when parsing
1206 thousands grouping
1207 [29730] libc: broken y2038 support in fstatat on MIPS N64
1208 [29746] libc: ppoll() does not switch to __ppoll64 when
1209 -D_TIME_BITS=64 and -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 is given on 32bit
1210 [29771] libc: Restore IPC_64 support in sysvipc *ctl functions
1211 [29780] build: possible parallel make issue in glibc-2.36 (siglist-
1212 aux.S: No such file or directory)
1213 [29864] libc: __libc_start_main() should obtain program headers
1214 address (_dl_phdr) from the auxv, not the ELF header.
1215 [29951] time: daylight variable not set correctly if last DST change
1216 coincides with offset change
1217 [30039] stdio: __vsprintf_internal does not handle unspecified buffer
1218 length in fortify mode
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1222Major new features:
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1225 glibc. This is a new ELF dynamic tag that improves the size of
1226 relative relocations in shared object files and position independent
1227 executables (PIE). DT_RELR generation requires linker support for
1228 -z pack-relative-relocs option, which is supported for some targets
1229 in recent binutils versions. Lazy binding doesn't apply to DT_RELR.
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1232 have been added. The pidfd functionality provides access to a process
7f0d9e61 1233 while avoiding the issue of PID reuse on traditional Unix systems.
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1236 same functionality as madvise but alters the target process identified
1237 by the pidfd.
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1240 caller to release the memory of a dying process. The release of the
1241 memory is carried out in the context of the caller, using the caller's
1242 CPU affinity, and priority with CPU usage accounted to the caller.
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1245 administrators can use it to suppress AAAA queries made by the stub
1246 resolver, including AAAA lookups triggered by NSS-based interfaces
1247 such as getaddrinfo. Only DNS lookups are affected: IPv6 data in
1248 /etc/hosts is still used, getaddrinfo with AI_PASSIVE will still
1249 produce IPv6 addresses, and configured IPv6 name servers are still
1250 used. To produce correct Name Error (NXDOMAIN) results, AAAA queries
1251 are translated to A queries. The new resolver option is intended
1252 primarily for diagnostic purposes, to rule out that AAAA DNS queries
1253 have adverse impact. It is incompatible with EDNS0 usage and DNSSEC
1254 validation by applications.
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1257 and mount_setattr have been added. They are part of the new Linux kernel
1258 mount APIs that allow applications to more flexibly configure and operate
1259 on filesystem mounts. The new mount APIs are specifically designed to work
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1263 Previously, input bytes not within the ASCII range resulted in
1264 unpredictable output.
1265
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1267 functions has been added per the ISO C2X N2653 and C++20 P0482R6 proposals.
1268 Support for the char8_t typedef has been added per the ISO C2X N2653
1269 proposal. The functions are declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the
1270 _GNU_SOURCE macro or C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro is defined.
1271 The char8_t typedef is declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the
1272 _GNU_SOURCE macro is defined and the C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro
1273 is not defined (if __cpp_char8_t is defined, then char8_t is a builtin type).
1274
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1277 quality randomness from the kernel.
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3a380458 1279* Support for LoongArch running on Linux has been added. This port requires
1280 as least binutils 2.38, GCC 12, and Linux 5.19. Currently only hard-float
1281 ABI is supported:
1282
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1284
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1290 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
1291 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
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1294 LD_ASSUME_KERNEL environment variable. The minimum kernel used to built
1295 glibc is still provided through NT_GNU_ABI_TAG ELF note and also printed
1296 when libc.so is issued directly.
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1303 return different result with versioned "foo"
1304 [16355] libc: syslog.h's SYSLOG_NAMES namespace violation and utter
1305 mess
1306 [23293] dynamic-link: aarch64: getauxval is broken when run as ld.so
1307 ./exe and ld.so adjusts argv on the stack
1308 [24595] nptl: [2.28 Regression]: Deadlock in atfork handler which
1309 calls dlclose
1310 [25744] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS returns 2 instead of 1 when
1311 consuming the second byte of certain double byte characters
1312 [25812] stdio: Libio vtable protection is sometimes only partially
1313 enforced
1314 [27054] libc: pthread_atfork handlers that call pthread_atfork
1315 deadlock
1316 [27924] dynamic-link: ld.so: Support DT_RELR relative relocation
1317 format
1318 [28128] build: declare_symbol_alias doesn't work for assembly codes
1319 [28566] network: getnameinfo with NI_NOFQDN is not thread safe
1320 [28752] nss: Segfault in getpwuid when stat fails
1321 [28815] libc: realpath should not copy to resolved buffer on error
1322 [28828] stdio: fputwc crashes
1323 [28838] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-p_align3
1324 [28845] locale: ld-monetary.c should be updated to match ISO C and
1325 other standards.
1326 [28850] libc: linux: __get_nprocs_sched reads uninitialized memory
1327 from the stack
1328 [28852] libc: getaddrinfo leaks memory with AI_ALL
1329 [28853] libc: tst-spawn6 changes current foreground process group
1330 (breaks test isolation)
1331 [28857] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-audit24a
1332 [28860] build: --enable-kernel=5.1.0 build fails because of missing
1333 __convert_scm_timestamps
1334 [28865] libc: linux: _SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF and _SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN are
1335 inaccurate without /sys and /proc
1336 [28868] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader DFS algorithm segfaults on
1337 missing libraries
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1340 !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS && !__ASSUME_PSELECT fails on Microblaze
1341 [28896] string: strncmp-avx2-rtm and wcsncmp-avx2-rtm fallback on non-
1342 rtm variants when avoiding overflow
1343 [28922] build: The .d dependency files aren't always generated
1344 [28931] libc: hosts lookup broken for SUCCESS=CONTINUE and
1345 SUCCESS=MERGE
1346 [28936] build: nm: No such file
1347 [28950] localedata: Add locale for ISO code "tok" (Toki Pona)
1348 [28953] nss: NSS lookup result can be incorrect if function lookup
1349 clobbers errno
1350 [28970] math: benchtest: libmvec benchmark doesn't build with make
1351 bench.
1352 [28991] libc: sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF) should read
1353 /sys/devices/system/cpu/possible
1354 [28993] libc: closefrom() iterates until max int if no access to
1355 /proc/self/fd/
1356 [28996] libc: realpath fails to copy partial result to resolved buffer
1357 on ENOENT and EACCES
1358 [29027] math: [ia64] fabs fails with sNAN input
1359 [29029] nptl: poll() spuriously returns EINTR during thread
1360 cancellation and with cancellation disabled
1361 [29030] string: GLIBC 2.35 regression - Fortify crash on certain valid
1362 uses of mbsrtowcs (*** buffer overflow detected ***: terminated)
1363 [29062] dynamic-link: Memory leak in _dl_find_object_update if object
1364 is promoted to global scope
1365 [29069] libc: fstatat64_time64_statx wrapper broken on MIPS N32 with
1366 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 and -D_TIME_BITS=64
1367 [29071] dynamic-link: m68k: Removal of ELF_DURING_STARTUP optimization
1368 broke ld.so
1369 [29097] time: fchmodat does not handle 64 bit time_t for
1370 AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW
1371 [29109] libc: posix_spawn() always returns 1 (EPERM) on clone()
1372 failure
1373 [29141] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 fail for gcc 12/glibc 2.35
1374 [29162] string: [PATCH] string.h syntactic error:
1375 include/bits/string_fortified.h:110: error: expected ',' or ';'
1376 before '__fortified_attr_access'
1377 [29165] libc: [Regression] broken argv adjustment
1378 [29187] dynamic-link: [regression] broken argv adjustment for nios2
1379 [29193] math: sincos produces a different output than sin/cos
1380 [29197] string: __strncpy_power9() uses uninitialised register vs18
1381 value for filling after \0
1382 [29203] libc: daemon is not y2038 aware
1383 [29204] libc: getusershell is not 2038 aware
1384 [29207] libc: posix_fallocate fallback implementation is not y2038
1385 aware
1386 [29208] libc: fpathconf(_PC_ASYNC_IO) is not y2038 aware
1387 [29209] libc: isfdtype is not y2038 aware
1388 [29210] network: ruserpass is not y2038 aware
1389 [29211] libc: __open_catalog is not y2038 aware
1390 [29213] libc: gconv_parseconfdir is not y2038 aware
1391 [29214] nptl: pthread_setcanceltype fails to set type
1392 [29225] network: Mistyped define statement in socket/sys/socket.h in
1393 line 184
1394 [29274] nptl: __read_chk is not a cancellation point
1395 [29279] libc: undefined reference to `mbstowcs_chk' after
1396 464d189b9622932a75302290625de84931656ec0
1397 [29304] libc: mq_timedreceive does not handle 64 bit syscall return
1398 correct for !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS
1399 [29403] libc: st_atim, st_mtim, st_ctim stat struct members are
1400 missing on microblaze with largefile
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1407 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 14.0.0, using
1408 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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1411 r_next, support multiple namespaces.
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1414 supports full code-point sorting for all valid Unicode code points. A
1415 limitation in the framework for fnmatch, regexec, and regcomp requires
1416 a compromise to save space and only ASCII-based range expressions are
1417 supported for now (see bug 28255). The full size of the locale is
1418 only ~400KiB, with 346KiB coming from LC_CTYPE information for
1419 Unicode. This locale harmonizes downstream C.UTF-8 already shipping
1420 in various downstream distributions. The locale is not built into
1421 glibc, and must be installed.
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1424 corresponding <tgmath.h> macros, are added from TS 18661-1:2014, TS
1425 18661-3:2015 and draft ISO C2X:
1426
1427 - fsqrt, fsqrtl, dsqrtl and corresponding fMsqrtfN, fMsqrtfNx,
1428 fMxsqrtfN and fMxsqrtfNx functions.
1429
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1430 - ffma, ffmal, dfmal and corresponding fMfmafN, fMfmafNx, fMxfmafN and
1431 fMxfmafNx functions.
1432
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1433* <math.h> functions for floating-point maximum and minimum,
1434 corresponding to new operations in IEEE 754-2019, and corresponding
1435 <tgmath.h> macros, are added from draft ISO C2X: fmaximum,
1436 fmaximum_num, fmaximum_mag, fmaximum_mag_num, fminimum, fminimum_num,
1437 fminimum_mag, fminimum_mag_num and corresponding functions for float,
1438 long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx.
1439
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1440* <math.h> macros for single-precision float constants are added as a
1441 GNU extension: M_Ef, M_LOG2Ef, M_LOG10Ef, M_LN2f, M_LN10f, M_PIf,
1442 M_PI_2f, M_PI_4f, M_1_PIf, M_2_PIf, M_2_SQRTPIf, M_SQRT2f and
1443 M_SQRT1_2f.
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1445* The __STDC_IEC_60559_BFP__ and __STDC_IEC_60559_COMPLEX__ macros are
1446 predefined as specified in TS 18661-1:2014.
1447
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1448* The exp10 functions in <math.h> now have a corresponding type-generic
1449 macro in <tgmath.h>.
1450
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1451* The ISO C2X macro _PRINTF_NAN_LEN_MAX has been added to <stdio.h>.
1452
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1453* printf-family functions now support the %b format for output of
1454 integers in binary, as specified in draft ISO C2X, and the %B variant
1455 of that format recommended by draft ISO C2X.
1456
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1457* A new DSO sorting algorithm has been added in the dynamic linker that uses
1458 topological sorting by depth-first search (DFS), solving performance issues
1459 of the existing sorting algorithm when encountering particular circular
1460 object dependency cases.
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1462* A new tunable, glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort, can be used to select between
1463 the two DSO sorting algorithms. The default setting of '2' uses the
1464 new DFS-based algorithm. The setting '1' switches to the old
1465 algorithm used in glibc 2.33 and earlier.
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1467* ABI support for a new function '__memcmpeq'. '__memcmpeq' is meant
1468 to be used by compilers for optimizing usage of 'memcmp' when its
1469 return value is only used for its boolean status.
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1471* Support for automatically registering threads with the Linux rseq
1472 system call has been added. This system call is implemented starting
1473 from Linux 4.18. The Restartable Sequences ABI accelerates user-space
1474 operations on per-cpu data. It allows user-space to perform updates
1475 on per-cpu data without requiring heavy-weight atomic operations.
1476 Automatically registering threads allows all libraries, including
1477 libc, to make immediate use of the rseq support by using the
1478 documented ABI, via the __rseq_flags, __rseq_offset, and __rseq_size
1479 variables. The GNU C Library manual has details on integration of
1480 Restartable Sequences.
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1482* A symbolic link to the dynamic linker is now installed under
1483 /usr/bin/ld.so (or more precisely, '${bindir}/ld.so').
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1485* All programs and the testsuite in glibc are now built as position independent
1486 executables (PIE) by default on toolchains and architectures that support it.
1487 Further, if the toolchain and architecture supports it, even static programs
1488 are built as PIE and the resultant glibc can be used to build static PIE
1489 executables. A new option --disable-default-pie has been added to disable
1490 this behavior and get a non-PIE build. This option replaces
1491 --enable-static-pie, which no longer has any effect on the build
1492 configuration.
1493
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1496 or to use huge pages directly with mmap calls with the MAP_HUGETLB
1497 flags). The former can improve performance when Transparent Huge Pages
1498 is set to 'madvise' mode while the latter uses the system reserved
1499 huge pages.
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1501* The printf family of functions now handles the flagged %#m conversion
1502 specifier, printing errno as an error constant (similar to strerrorname_np).
1503
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1504* The function _dl_find_object has been added. In-process unwinders
1505 can use it to efficiently locate unwinding information for a code
1506 address.
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1508* Support for OpenRISC running on Linux has been added. This port requires
1509 as least binutils 2.35, GCC 11, and Linux 5.4. Currently only soft-float
1510 ABI is supported:
1511
1512 - or1k-linux-gnu
1513
1514 The OpenRISC ABI is 32-bit big-endian and uses 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and
1515 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
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1517* A new configure option, --with-rtld-early-cflags, can be used to
1518 specify additional compiler flags for building the early startup code
1519 of the dynamic linker. On targets which have CPU compatibility
1520 checks, this can help to ensure that proper diagnostics are printed if
1521 the dynamic loader runs on an incompatible CPU.
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1523* On Linux, the epoll_pwait2 function has been added. It is similar to
1524 epoll_wait with the difference the timeout has nanoseconds resolution.
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1526* The function posix_spawn_file_actions_addtcsetpgrp_np has been added,
1527 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to set the controlling terminal in
1528 the new process in a race free manner. This function is a GNU extension.
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1530* Source fortification (_FORTIFY_SOURCE) level 3 is now available for
1531 applications compiling with glibc and gcc 12 and later. Level 3 leverages
1532 the __builtin_dynamic_object_size function to deliver additional
1533 fortification balanced against additional runtime cost (checking non-constant
1534 bounds).
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1537 PLT tracking (by not implementing the la_pltenter or la_pltexit callbacks).
1538
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1542 has been removed since the first PT_LOAD segment is no longer executable
1543 due to defaulting to -z separate-code.
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1545* The r_version update in the debugger interface makes the glibc binary
1546 incompatible with GDB binaries built without the following commits:
1547
1548 c0154a4a21a gdb: Don't assume r_ldsomap when r_version > 1 on Linux
1549 4eb629d50d4 gdbserver: Check r_version < 1 for Linux debugger interface
1550
1551 when audit modules or dlmopen are used.
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1553* Intel MPX support (lazy PLT, ld.so profile, and LD_AUDIT) has been removed.
1554
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1555* The --enable-static-pie option is no longer available. The glibc build
1556 configuration script now automatically detects static-pie support in the
1557 toolchain and architecture and enables it if available.
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1559* The catchsegv script and associated libSegFault.so shared object have
1560 been removed. There are widely-deployed out-of-process alternatives for
1561 catching coredumps and backtraces.
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1563* Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes
1564 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
1565 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
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1567* The LD_TRACE_PRELINKING environment variable has been removed. Similar
1568 functionality to obtain the program mapping address can be achieved by
1569 using LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS to value of 2.
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1571* The LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS has been removed. The variable was mainly used to
1572 support prelink PIE binaries.
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1574Changes to build and runtime requirements:
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1576* The audit module interface version LAV_CURRENT is increased to enable
1577 proper bind-now support. The loader now advertises via the la_symbind
32ffd427 1578 flags that PLT trace is not possible. New audit modules require the
7f0d9e61 1579 new dynamic loader supporting the latest LAV_CURRENT version. Old audit
32ffd427 1580 modules are still loaded for all targets except aarch64.
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1583 result location register (x8) and NEON Q register. Old audit modules are
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1585 structure sizes and the latest module interface version for LAV_CURRENT.
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1587Security related changes:
1588
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1589 CVE-2022-23219: Passing an overlong file name to the clnt_create
1590 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow when
1591 using the "unix" protocol. Reported by Martin Sebor.
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1593 CVE-2022-23218: Passing an overlong file name to the svcunix_create
1594 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow.
1595
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1596 CVE-2021-3998: Passing a path longer than PATH_MAX to the realpath
1597 function could result in a memory leak and potential access of
1598 uninitialized memory. Reported by Qualys.
1599
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1600 CVE-2021-3999: Passing a buffer of size exactly 1 byte to the getcwd
1601 function may result in an off-by-one buffer underflow and overflow
1602 when the current working directory is longer than PATH_MAX and also
1603 corresponds to the / directory through an unprivileged mount
1604 namespace. Reported by Qualys.
1605
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1608 [12889] nptl: Race condition in pthread_kill
1609 [14232] nptl: tst-cancel7 and tst-cancelx7 race condition
1610 [14913] libc: [mips] Clean up MIPS 64-bit register-dump.h output
1611 [15310] dynamic-link: _dl_sort_fini is O(n^3) causing slow exit when
1612 many dsos
1613 [15333] libc: Use 64-bit stat functions in installed programs
1614 [15533] dynamic-link: LD_AUDIT introduces an avoidable performance
1615 degradation
1616 [15971] dynamic-link: No interface for debugger access to libraries
1617 loaded with dlmopen
1618 [17318] locale: [RFE] Provide a C.UTF-8 locale by default
1619 [17645] dynamic-link: RFE: Improve performance of dynamic loader for
1620 deeply nested DSO dependencies.
1621 [19193] nptl: pthread_kill, pthread_cancel return ESRCH for a thread
1622 ID whose lifetime has not ended
1623 [22542] network: buffer overflow in sunrpc clnt_create
1624 (CVE-2022-23219)
1625 [22716] malloc: [PATCH] mtrace.pl: use TRACE_PRELINKING instead of
1626 TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS
1627 [25947] malloc: memory leak in muntrace
1628 [26045] math: fmaxf(inf, nan) does not always work
1629 [26108] math: exp10() has problems with <tgmath.h>
1630 [26779] build: benign use after realloc at localealias.c:329
1631 [27609] dynamic-link: [2.32/2.33/2.34 Regression] In elf/dl-open.c
1632 (_dl_open) we might use __LM_ID_CALLER to index GL(dl_ns)[]
1633 [27945] build: build-many-glibcs.py doesn't configure GCC with
1634 --enable-initfini-array
1635 [27991] build: x86: sysdeps/x86/configure.ac breaks when
1636 libc_cv_include_x86_isa_level is loaded from cache
1637 [28036] nptl: Incorrect types for pthread_mutexattr_set/getrobust_np
1638 in __REDIRECT_NTH macro
1639 [28061] dynamic-link: A failing dlmopen called by an auditor crashed
1640 [28062] dynamic-link: Suppress audit calls when a (new) namespace is
1641 empty
1642 [28126] libc: nftw aborts for paths longer than PATH_MAX
1643 [28129] dynamic-link: Unnecessary check DT_DEBUG in ld.so
1644 [28153] libc: [test] gmon/tst-gmon-gprof* may have a f3 line when
1645 built with ld.lld
1646 [28182] libc: _TIME_BITS=64 in C++ has issues with fcntl, ioctl, prctl
1647 [28185] math: Inaccurate j0f function (again)
1648 [28199] locale: iconvconfig prefix flag behaves differently in glibc
1649 2.34
1650 [28203] dynamic-link: aarch64: elf_machine_{load_address,dynamic}
1651 should drop _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_[0] in favor of __ehdr_start for
1652 robustness
1653 [28213] librt: NULL pointer dereference in mq_notify (CVE-2021-38604)
1654 [28223] libc: mips: clone does not align stack
1655 [28253] dynamic-link: Missing colon in LD_SHOW_AUXV output after
1656 AT_MINSIGSTKSZ
1657 [28256] malloc: Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised
1658 value(s) in __GI___tunables_init
1659 [28260] build: io/tst-closefrom, misc/tst-close_range, posix/tst-
1660 spawn5 fail if stray fds are open
1661 [28310] libc: Do not use affinity mask for sysconf
1662 (_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF)
1663 [28338] time: undefined behavior in __tzfile_compute with oddball TZif
1664 file
1665 [28340] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes while loading a DSO with a read-
1666 only dynamic section
1667 [28349] libc: Segfault for ping -R on qemux86 caused by recvmsg()
1668 [28350] libc: ping receives SIGABRT on lib32-qemux86-64 caused by
1669 recvmsg()
1670 [28353] network: Race condition on __opensock
1671 [28357] dynamic-link: deadlock between pthread_create and ctors
1672 [28358] math: f64xdivf128 and f64xmulf128 spurious underflows
1673 [28361] nptl: Fix for bug 12889 causes setxid deadlock
1674 [28368] build: -Waddress instances in stdio-common/vfprintf-internal.c
1675 [28390] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 14.0.0
1676 [28397] math: tgmath.h should not define fmaxmag, fminmag macros for
1677 C2X
1678 [28400] libc: [2.35 Regression] string/test-strncasecmp: cannot set
1679 locale "en_US.UTF-8"
1680 [28407] nptl: pthread_kill assumes that kill (getpid ()) is equivalent
1681 to tgkill (getpid (), gettid())
1682 [28455] dynamic-link: -Wl,--enable-new-dtags doesn't work
1683 [28457] dynamic-link: Missing reldepmod4.so dependency for
1684 globalmod1.so
1685 [28469] time: linux: struct timex is not correctly set for 32-bit
1686 systems with TIMESIZE=64
1687 [28470] regex: Buffer read overrun in regular expression searching
1688 [28475] string: Incorrect access attribute on memfrob
1689 [28524] libc: Conversion from ISO-2022-JP-3 with iconv may emit
1690 spurious NUL character on state reset
1691 [28532] libc: powerpc64[le]: CFI for assembly templated syscalls is
1692 incorrect
1693 [28550] dynamic-link: FAIL: tst-dso-
1694 ordering9_112-ecbda(GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort=1)
1695 execution test
1696 [28554] build: Undefined generate-md5
1697 [28572] libc: Misaligned accesses in test-memcpy and test-mempcpy on
1698 hppa
1699 [28607] nptl: Masked signals are delivered on thread exit
1700 [28624] libc: openjdk 8/9 assume uni processor and gets stuck due to
1701 lack of cpu counting /proc fallback with glibc 2.34
1702 [28646] string: [2.35 Regression] mock -r fedora-36-x86_64
1703 /tmp/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.312.b07-2.fc36.src.rpm& fails to build
1704 [28648] dynamic-link: Running ld.so on statically linked binaries
1705 crashes
1706 [28656] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC no longer works due to
1707 binutils changes
1708 [28676] dynamic-link: p_align on PT_LOAD segment in DSO isn't honored
1709 [28678] nptl: nptl/tst-create1 hangs sporadically
1710 [28688] dynamic-link: PT_LOAD p_align check is too strict
1711 [28700] nss: "dns [!UNAVAIL=return] files" default for hosts database
1712 is not useful
1713 [28707] time: assert in tzfile.c __tzfile_read striking with truncated
1714 timezones generated by tzcode-2021d and later
1715 [28713] math: GCC 12 miscompiles libm
1716 [28732] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-dl_find_object
1717 [28738] build: LIBC_LINKER_FEATURE doesn't work on linker -z option
1718 [28745] dynamic-link: _dl_find_object miscompilation on powerpc64le
1719 [28746] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE does not work for stpcpy
1720 [28749] libc: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: rtld.c: 1632: dl_main:
1721 Assertion `GL(dl_rtld_map).l_libname' failed!
1722 [28755] string: overflow bug in wcsncmp_avx2 and wcsncmp_evex
1723 [28757] nptl: GDB printer tests failed with new GDB
1724 [28765] math: x86_64 libmvec atan2 accuracy
1725 [28766] manual: Document libmvec accuracy
1726 [28768] network: Buffer overflow in svcunix_create with long pathnames
1727 (CVE-2022-23218)
1728 [28769] libc: Off-by-one buffer overflow/underflow in getcwd()
1729 (CVE-2021-3999)
1730 [28770] libc: Unexpected return value from realpath() for too long
1731 results (CVE-2021-3998)
1732 [28771] libc: %ebx optimization macros are incompatible with .altmacro
1733 in Systemtap probes
1734 [28780] build: --disable-default-pie doesn't work on static programs
1735 [28782] libc: x86-64 ISA level for glibc itself is always
1736 x86-64-baseline
1737 [28792] glob: possible wrong behaviour with patterns with double [
1738 with no closing ]
1739 [28837] libc: FAIL: socket/tst-socket-timestamp-compat
1740 [28847] locale: Empty mon_decimal_point in LC_MONETARY results in non-
1741 empty mon_decimal_point_wc
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1744Version 2.34
1745
1746Major new features:
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1748* In order to support smoother in-place-upgrades and to simplify
1749 the implementation of the runtime all functionality formerly
1750 implemented in the libraries libpthread, libdl, libutil, libanl has
1751 been integrated into libc. New applications do not need to link with
1752 -lpthread, -ldl, -lutil, -lanl anymore. For backwards compatibility,
1753 empty static archives libpthread.a, libdl.a, libutil.a, libanl.a are
1754 provided, so that the linker options keep working. Applications which
1755 have been linked against glibc 2.33 or earlier continue to load the
1756 corresponding shared objects (which are now empty). The integration
1757 of those libraries into libc means that additional symbols become
1758 available by default. This can cause applications that contain weak
1759 references to take unexpected code paths that would only have been
1760 used in previous glibc versions when e.g. preloading libpthread.so.0,
1761 potentially exposing application bugs.
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1764 PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is no longer constant and is redefined to
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1766 sets for modern architectural features like Arm SVE.
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1768* Add _SC_MINSIGSTKSZ and _SC_SIGSTKSZ. When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE
1769 or _GNU_SOURCE are defined, MINSIGSTKSZ and SIGSTKSZ are no longer
57fb02b2 1770 constant on Linux. MINSIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf(_SC_MINSIGSTKSZ)
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1772 dynamic sized register sets for modern architectural features like
1773 Arm SVE.
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1775* The dynamic linker implements the --list-diagnostics option, printing
1776 a dump of information related to IFUNC resolver operation and
1777 glibc-hwcaps subdirectory selection.
1778
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1779* On Linux, the function execveat has been added. It operates similar to
1780 execve and it is is already used to implement fexecve without requiring
1781 /proc to be mounted. However, different than fexecve, if the syscall is not
1782 supported by the kernel an error is returned instead of trying a fallback.
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1785
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1786* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_EXT__, from draft ISO
1787 C2X, is supported to enable declarations of functions defined in Annex F
1788 of C2X. Those declarations are also enabled when
1789 __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, as specified in TS 18661-1, is
1790 defined, and when _GNU_SOURCE is defined.
1791
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1793 --disable-scv configure option.
1794
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1795* Add support for 64-bit time_t on configurations like x86 where time_t
1796 is traditionally 32-bit. Although time_t still defaults to 32-bit on
1797 these configurations, this default may change in future versions.
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1799 only supported when LFS (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) is also enabled. It is
1800 only enabled for Linux and the full support requires a minimum kernel
1801 version of 5.1.
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1803* The main gconv-modules file in glibc now contains only a small set of
1804 essential converter modules and the rest have been moved into a supplementary
1805 configuration file gconv-modules-extra.conf in the gconv-modules.d directory
1806 in the same GCONV_PATH. Similarly, external converter modules directories
1807 may have supplementary configuration files in a gconv-modules.d directory
1808 with names ending with .conf to logically classify the converter modules in
1809 that directory.
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1812 to configure the size of the thread stack cache.
1813
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1817 function does not run any atfork function neither resets any internal state
1818 or lock (such as the malloc one), and only sets up a minimal state required
1819 to call async-signal-safe functions (such as raise or execve). This function
1820 is currently a GNU extension.
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1823 closing a range of file descriptors on recent kernels (version 5.9).
1824
60744950 1825* The function closefrom has been added. It closes all file descriptors
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1826 greater than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
1827 although it is also present in other systems.
60744950 1828
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1829* The posix_spawn_file_actions_addclosefrom_np function has been added,
1830 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to close all file descriptors greater
1831 than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
1832 although Solaris also provides a similar function.
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1834* When invoked explicitly, the dynamic linker now uses the kernel to
1835 execute programs that do not have any dynamic dependency (that is,
1836 they are statically linked). This feature is Linux-specific.
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1838Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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1840* The function pthread_mutex_consistent_np has been deprecated; programs
1841 should use the equivalent standard function pthread_mutex_consistent
1842 instead.
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1844* The function pthread_mutexattr_getrobust_np has been deprecated;
1845 programs should use the equivalent standard function
1846 pthread_mutexattr_getrobust instead.
1847
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1848* The function pthread_mutexattr_setrobust_np has been deprecated;
1849 programs should use the equivalent standard function
1850 pthread_mutexattr_setrobust instead.
1851
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1852* The function pthread_yield has been deprecated; programs should use
1853 the equivalent standard function sched_yield instead.
1854
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1855* The function inet_neta declared in <arpa/inet.h> has been deprecated.
1856
1857* Various rarely-used functions declared in <resolv.h> and
1858 <arpa/nameser.h> have been deprecated. Applications are encouraged to
1859 use dedicated DNS processing libraries if applicable. For <resolv.h>,
1860 this affects the functions dn_count_labels, fp_nquery, fp_query,
1861 fp_resstat, hostalias, loc_aton, loc_ntoa, p_cdname, p_cdnname,
1862 p_class, p_fqname, p_fqnname, p_option, p_query, p_rcode, p_time,
1863 p_type, putlong, putshort, res_hostalias, res_isourserver,
1864 res_nameinquery, res_queriesmatch, res_randomid, sym_ntop, sym_ntos,
1865 sym_ston. For <arpa/nameser.h>, the functions ns_datetosecs,
1866 ns_format_ttl, ns_makecanon, ns_parse_ttl, ns_samedomain, ns_samename,
1867 ns_sprintrr, ns_sprintrrf, ns_subdomain have been deprecated.
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1870 in order to prepare for libresolv moving entirely into libc (see earlier
1871 entry for merging libraries into libc). The symbols __dn_comp,
1872 __dn_expand, __dn_skipname, __res_dnok, __res_hnok, __res_mailok,
1873 __res_mkquery, __res_nmkquery, __res_nquery, __res_nquerydomain,
1874 __res_nsearch, __res_nsend, __res_ownok, __res_query, __res_querydomain,
1875 __res_search, __res_send formerly in libresolv have been renamed and no
1876 longer have a __ prefix. They are now available in libc.
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1879 pthread_cancel will always send the internal SIGCANCEL on a cancellation
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1884 see a spurious EINTR error when cancellation interrupts a blocking syscall.
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1887 file names such as libc-2.33.so. The ABI sonames (e.g., libc.so.6)
1888 were provided as symbolic links. Starting with glibc 2.34, the shared
1889 objects are installed under their ABI sonames directly, without
1890 symbolic links. This increases compatibility with distribution
1891 package managers that delete removed files late during the package
1892 upgrade or downgrade process.
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1895 mtrace. Similar functionality can be achieved by using conditional
1896 breakpoints within mtrace functions from within gdb.
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1899 implementation __default_morecore have been removed from the API. Existing
1900 applications will continue to link against these symbols but the interfaces
1901 no longer have any effect on malloc.
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1904 (or the glibc.malloc.check tunable), mtrace() and mcheck() have now been
1905 disabled by default in the main C library. Users looking to use these
1906 features now need to preload a new debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so to get
1907 this functionality back.
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1910 moved from the core C library into libc_malloc_debug.so. Legacy applications
1911 that still use these functions will now need to preload libc_malloc_debug.so
1912 in their environment using the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
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1915 __memalign_hook and __free_hook are now removed from the API. Compatibility
1916 symbols are present to support legacy programs but new applications can no
1917 longer link to these symbols. These hooks no longer have any effect on glibc
1918 functionality. The malloc debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so currently
1919 supports hooks and can be preloaded to get this functionality back for older
1920 programs. However this is a transitional measure and may be removed in a
1921 future release of the GNU C Library. Users may port away from these hooks by
1922 writing and preloading their own malloc interposition library.
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1927 file shared memory file system to be mounted at /dev/shm. These functions
1928 no longer search among the system's mount points for a suitable
1929 replacement if /dev/shm is not available.
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1931Security related changes:
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1934 a request for netgroup lookup, may crash due to a double-free,
1935 potentially resulting in degraded service or Denial of Service on the
1936 local system. Reported by Chris Schanzle.
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1939 issue when using a notification type of SIGEV_THREAD and a thread
1940 attribute with a non-default affinity mask.
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1943 parameter number when processing the expansion resulting in a crash.
1944 Reported by Philippe Antoine.
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1949 [5781] math: Slow dbl-64 sin/cos/sincos for special values
1950 [10353] libc: Methods for deleting all file descriptors greater than
1951 given integer (closefrom)
1952 [14185] glob: fnmatch() fails when '*' wildcard is applied on the file
1953 name containing multi-byte character(s)
1954 [14469] math: Inaccurate j0f function
1955 [14470] math: Inaccurate j1f function
1956 [14471] math: Inaccurate y0f function
1957 [14472] math: Inaccurate y1f function
1958 [14744] nptl: kill -32 $pid or kill -33 $pid on a process cancels a
1959 random thread
1960 [15271] dynamic-link: dlmopen()ed shared library with LM_ID_NEWLM
1961 crashes if it fails dlsym() twice
1962 [15648] nptl: multiple definition of `__lll_lock_wait_private'
1963 [16063] nptl: Provide a pthread_once variant in libc directly
1964 [17144] libc: syslog is not thread-safe if NO_SIGPIPE is not defined
1965 [17145] libc: syslog with LOG_CONS leaks console file descriptor
1966 [17183] manual: description of ENTRY struct in <search.h> in glibc
1967 manual is incorrect
1968 [18435] nptl: pthread_once hangs when init routine throws an exception
1969 [18524] nptl: Missing calloc error checking in
1970 __cxa_thread_atexit_impl
1971 [19329] dynamic-link: dl-tls.c assert failure at concurrent
1972 pthread_create and dlopen
1973 [19366] nptl: returning from a thread should disable cancellation
1974 [19511] nptl: 8MB memory leak in pthread_create in case of failure
1975 when non-root user changes priority
1976 [20802] dynamic-link: getauxval NULL pointer dereference after static
1977 dlopen
1978 [20813] nptl: pthread_exit is inconsistent between libc and libpthread
1979 [22057] malloc: malloc_usable_size is broken with mcheck
1980 [22668] locale: LC_COLLATE: the last character of ellipsis is not
1981 ordered correctly
1982 [23323] libc: [RFE] CSU startup hardening.
1983 [23328] malloc: Remove malloc hooks and ensure related APIs return no
1984 data.
1985 [23462] dynamic-link: Static binary with dynamic string tokens ($LIB,
1986 $PLATFORM, $ORIGIN) crashes
1987 [23489] libc: "gcc -lmcheck" aborts on free when using posix_memalign
1988 [23554] nptl: pthread_getattr_np reports wrong stack size with
1989 MULTI_PAGE_ALIASING
1990 [24106] libc: Bash interpreter in ldd script is taken from host
1991 [24773] dynamic-link: dlerror in an secondary namespace does not use
1992 the right free implementation
1993 [25036] localedata: Update collation order for Swedish
1994 [25383] libc: where_is_shmfs/__shm_directory/SHM_GET_NAME may cause
1995 shm_open to pick wrong directory
1996 [25680] dynamic-link: ifuncmain9picstatic and ifuncmain9picstatic
1997 crash in IFUNC resolver due to stack canary (--enable-stack-
1998 protector=all)
1999 [26874] build: -Warray-bounds in _IO_wdefault_doallocate
2000 [26983] math: [x86_64] x86_64 tgamma has too large ULP error
2001 [27111] dynamic-link: pthread_create and tls access use link_map
2002 objects that may be concurrently freed by dlclose
2003 [27132] malloc: memusagestat is linked to system librt, leading to
2004 undefined symbols on major version upgrade
2005 [27136] dynamic-link: dtv setup at thread creation may leave an entry
2006 uninitialized
2007 [27249] libc: libSegFault.so does not output signal number properly
2008 [27304] nptl: pthread_cond_destroy does not pass private flag to futex
2009 system calls
2010 [27318] dynamic-link: glibc fails to load binaries when built with
2011 -march=sandybridge: CPU ISA level is lower than required
2012 [27343] nss: initgroups() SIGSEGVs when called on a system without
2013 nsswich.conf (in a chroot)
2014 [27346] dynamic-link: x86: PTWRITE feature check is missing
2015 [27389] network: NSS chroot hardening causes regressions in chroot
2016 deployments
2017 [27403] dynamic-link: aarch64: tlsdesc htab is not freed on dlclose
2018 [27444] libc: sysconf reports unsupported option (-1) for
2019 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_LINESIZE on X86 since v2.33
2020 [27462] nscd: double-free in nscd (CVE-2021-27645)
2021 [27468] malloc: aarch64: realloc crash with heap tagging: FAIL:
2022 malloc/tst-malloc-thread-fail
2023 [27498] dynamic-link: __dl_iterate_phdr lacks unwinding information
2024 [27511] libc: S390 memmove assumes Vector Facility when MIE Facility 3
2025 is present
2026 [27522] glob: glob, glob64 incorrectly marked as __THROW
2027 [27555] dynamic-link: Static tests fail with --enable-stack-
2028 protector=all
2029 [27559] libc: fstat(AT_FDCWD) succeeds (it shouldn't) and returns
2030 information for the current directory
2031 [27577] dynamic-link: elf/ld.so --help doesn't work
2032 [27605] libc: tunables can't control xsave/xsavec selection in
2033 dl_runtime_resolve_*
2034 [27623] libc: powerpc: Missing registers in sc[v] clobbers list
2035 [27645] libc: [linux] sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSOR...) breaks down on
2036 containers
2037 [27646] dynamic-link: Linker error for non-existing NSS symbols (e.g.
2038 _nss_files_getcanonname_r) from within a dlmopen namespace.
2039 [27648] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-select
2040 [27650] stdio: vfscanf returns too early if a match is longer than
2041 INT_MAX
2042 [27651] libc: Performance regression after updating to 2.33
2043 [27655] string: Wrong size calculation in string/test-strnlen.c
2044 [27706] libc: select fails to update timeout on error
2045 [27709] libc: arm: FAIL: debug/tst-longjmp_chk2
2046 [27721] dynamic-link: x86: ld_audit ignores bind now for TLSDESC and
2047 tries resolving them lazily
2048 [27744] nptl: Support different libpthread/ld.so load orders in
2049 libthread_db
2050 [27749] libc: Data race __run_exit_handlers
2051 [27761] libc: getconf: Segmentation fault when passing '-vq' as
2052 argument
2053 [27832] nss: makedb.c:797:7: error: 'writev' specified size 4294967295
2054 exceeds maximum object size 2147483647
2055 [27870] malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ causes realloc(valid_ptr, TOO_LARGE) to
2056 not set ENOMEM
2057 [27872] build: Obsolete configure option --enable-stackguard-
2058 randomization
2059 [27873] build: tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo fail when building on AMD cpu
2060 [27882] localedata: Use U+00AF MACRON in more EBCDIC charsets
2061 [27892] libc: powerpc: scv ABI error handling fails to check
2062 IS_ERR_VALUE
2063 [27896] nptl: mq_notify does not handle separately allocated thread
2064 attributes (CVE-2021-33574)
2065 [27901] libc: TEST_STACK_ALIGN doesn't work
2066 [27902] libc: The x86-64 clone wrapper fails to align child stack
2067 [27914] nptl: Install SIGSETXID handler with SA_ONSTACK
2068 [27939] libc: aarch64: clone does not align the stack
2069 [27968] libc: s390x: clone does not align the stack
2070 [28011] libc: Wild read in wordexp (parse_param) (CVE-2021-35942)
2071 [28024] string: s390(31bit): Wrong result of memchr (MEMCHR_Z900_G5)
2072 with n >= 0x80000000
2073 [28028] malloc: malloc: tcache shutdown sequence does not work if the
2074 thread never allocated anything
2075 [28033] libc: Need to check RTM_ALWAYS_ABORT for RTM
2076 [28064] string: x86_64:wcslen implementation list has wcsnlen
2077 [28067] libc: FAIL: posix/tst-spawn5
2078 [28068] malloc: FAIL: malloc/tst-mallocalign1-mcheck
2079 [28071] time: clock_gettime, gettimeofday, time lost vDSO acceleration
2080 on older kernels
2081 [28075] nis: Out-of-bounds static buffer read in nis_local_domain
2082 [28089] build: tst-tls20 fails when linker defaults to --as-needed
2083 [28090] build: elf/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo-static fails on certain
2084 AMD64 cpus
2085 [28091] network: ns_name_skip may return 0 for domain names without
2086 terminator
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2089Version 2.33
2090
2091Major new features:
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2093* The dynamic linker accepts the --list-tunables argument which prints
2094 all the supported tunables. This option is disable if glibc is
2095 configured with tunables disabled (--enable-tunables=no).
2096
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2097* The dynamic linker accepts the --argv0 argument and provides opportunity
2098 to change argv[0] string.
2099
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2100* The dynamic linker loads optimized implementations of shared objects
2101 from subdirectories under the glibc-hwcaps directory on the library
2102 search path if the system's capabilities meet the requirements for
2103 that subdirectory. Initially supported subdirectories include
2104 "power9" and "power10" for the powerpc64le-linux-gnu architecture,
2105 "z13", "z14", "z15" for s390x-linux-gnu, and "x86-64-v2", "x86-64-v3",
2106 "x86-64-v4" for x86_64-linux-gnu. In the x86_64-linux-gnu case, the
2107 subdirectory names correspond to the vendor-independent x86-64
2108 microarchitecture levels defined in the x86-64 psABI supplement.
2109
2110* The new --help option of the dynamic linker provides usage and
2111 information and library search path diagnostics.
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2114 but with larger field widths to accurately report values that are
2115 larger than fit in an integer.
2116
96203980 2117* Add <sys/platform/x86.h> to provide query macros for x86 CPU features.
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2119* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been expanded to run on
2120 32-bit hardware. This is supported for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
2121
2122 - rv32imac ilp32
2123 - rv32imafdc ilp32
2124 - rv32imafdc ilp32d
2125
2126 The 32-bit RISC-V port requires at least Linux 5.4, GCC 7.1 and binutils
2127 2.28.
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2130 glibc may use additional checks that may have an additional performance
2131 overhead. At present these checks are available only on LLVM 9 and later.
2132 The latest GCC available at this time (10.2) does not support this level of
2133 fortification.
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2138 mallinfo2 instead.
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2140* When dlopen is used in statically linked programs, alternative library
2141 implementations from HWCAP subdirectories are no longer loaded.
2142 Instead, the default implementation is used.
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2145 removed. To support old binaries, the vtimes function continues to exist
2146 as a compatibility symbol. Applications should use the getrlimit or
2147 prlimit.
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2149* Following a change in the tzdata 2018a release upstream, the zdump
2150 program is now installed in the /usr/bin subdirectory. Previously,
2151 the /usr/sbin subdirectory was used.
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2154 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ that is defined by the compiler, instead of being
2155 hardcoded to double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
2156 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
2157 libraries that use this type in their interfaces. The new definition
2158 improves consistency with compiler behavior in many scenarios.
2159
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2160* A future version of glibc will stop loading shared objects from the
2161 "tls" subdirectories on the library search path, the subdirectory that
2162 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, and also stop employing
2163 the legacy AT_HWCAP search mechanism. Applications should switch to
2164 the new glibc-hwcaps mechanism instead; if they do not do that, only
2165 the baseline version (directly from the search path directory) will be
2166 loaded.
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2171 the intended access modes for pseudo-terminals. glibc no longer
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2174 corresponded to what most systems used, so that grantpt did not
2175 perform any adjustments.
2176
2177* On Linux, the posix_openpt and getpt functions no longer attempt to
2178 use legacy (BSD) pseudo-terminals and assume that if /dev/ptmx exists
2179 (and pseudo-terminals are supported), a devpts file system is mounted
2180 on /dev/pts. Current systems already meet these requirements.
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2185
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934c48a0 2187 ISO-20220-JP-3 character set using the iconv function has been fixed.
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2189 converted output contains a combined sequence of two wide characters
2190 crossing a buffer boundary. Reported by Tavis Ormandy.
2191
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2193 invoked with input containing redundant shift sequences in the IBM1364,
2194 IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, or IBM1399 character sets.
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2197 when invoked with UCS4 input containing an invalid character.
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2200 invoked with EUC-KR input containing invalid multibyte input sequences.
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2205 [16124] dynamic-link: ld.so should allow to change argv[0]
2206 [17924] malloc: 'free' should not set errno
2207 [18683] libc: Linux faccessat implementation can incorrectly ignore
2208 AT_EACCESS
2209 [22899] libc: Use 64-bit readdir() in generic POSIX getcwd()
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2212 "haswell" platform subdirectory
2213 [24080] dynamic-link: Definition of "haswell" platform is inconsistent
2214 with GCC
2215 [24202] libc: m68k setjmp() saves incorrect 'a5' register in --enable-
2216 stack-protector=all
2217 [24941] libc: Make grantpt usable after multi-threaded fork in more
2218 cases
2219 [24970] libc: realpath mishandles EOVERFLOW; stat not needed anyway
2220 [24973] locale: iconv encounters segmentation fault when converting
2221 0x00 0xfe in EUC-KR to UTF-8 (CVE-2019-25013)
2222 [25399] string: undefined reference to `__warn_memset_zero_len' when
2223 changing gnuc version
2224 [25859] libc: glibc parser for /sys/devices/system/cpu/online is
2225 incorrect
2226 [25938] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should store meaning of hwcap mask
2227 bits
2228 [25971] libc: s390 bits/hwcap.h out of sync with kernel
2229 [26053] libc: unlockpt fails with ENOTTY for non-ptmx descriptors
2230 [26100] libc: Race in syslog(3) with regards to tag printing.
2231 [26124] libc: Export <cpu-features.h>
2232 [26130] nscd: Inconsistent nscd cache during pruning
7f0d9e61 2233 [26203] libc: GLRO(dl_x86_cpu_features) may not be initialized
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2235 several IBM character sets (CVE-2020-27618)
2236 [26341] libc: realpath cyclically call __alloca(path_max) to consume
2237 too much stack space
2238 [26343] manual: invalid documented return type for strerrorname_np(),
2239 strerrordesc_np(), sigdescr_np(), sigabbrev_np()
2240 [26376] libc: Namespace violation in stdio.h and sys/stat.h if build
2241 with optimization.
2242 [26383] locale: bind_textdomain_codeset doesn't accept //TRANSLIT
2243 anymore
2244 [26394] time: [2.33 Regression] FAIL: nptl/tst-join14
2245 [26534] math: libm.so 2.32 SIGILL in pow() due to FMA4 instruction on
2246 non-FMA4 system
2247 [26552] dynamic-link: CPU_FEATURE_USABLE_P should be more conservative
2248 [26553] libc: mtx_init allows type set to "mtx_recursive" only
2249 [26555] string: strerrorname_np does not return the documented value
2250 [26592] libc: pointer arithmetic overflows in realpath
2251 [26600] network: Transaction ID collisions cause slow DNS lookups in
2252 getaddrinfo
2253 [26606] libc: [2.33 Regression] pselect is broken on x32
2254 [26615] libc: powerpc: libc segfaults when LD_PRELOADed with libgcc
2255 [26620] glob: fnmatch with collating symbols results in segmentation
2256 fault
2257 [26625] libc: [2.33 Regression] CET is disabled
2258 [26636] libc: 32-bit shmctl(IPC_INFO) crashes when shminfo struct is
2259 at the end of a memory mapping
2260 [26637] libc: semctl SEM_STAT_ANY fails to pass the buffer specified
2261 by the caller to the kernel
2262 [26639] libc: msgctl IPC_INFO and MSG_INFO return garbage
2263 [26647] build: [-Werror=array-parameter=] due to different
2264 declarations for __sigsetjmp
2265 [26648] libc: mkstemp is likely to fail on systems with non-stricly-
2266 monotonic clocks
2267 [26649] stdio: printf should handle non-normal x86 long double numbers
2268 gracefully (CVE-2020-29573)
2269 [26686] build: -Warray-parameter instances building with GCC 11
2270 [26687] build: -Warray-bounds instances building with GCC 11
2271 [26690] stdio: Aliasing violation in __vfscanf_internal
2272 [26691] nptl: Use a minimum guard size of 64 KiB on aarch64
2273 [26726] build: GCC warning calling new_composite_name with an array of
2274 one element
2275 [26736] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-sysvshm-linux
2276 [26737] libc: Random FAIL: rt/tst-shm
2277 [26791] libc: Missing O_CLOEXEC in sysconf.c
2278 [26798] dynamic-link: aarch64: variant PCS symbols may be incorrectly
2279 lazy bound
2280 [26801] nptl: pthread_mutex_clocklock with CLOCK_MONOTONIC can fail on
2281 PI mutexes
2282 [26818] string: aarch64: string tests may run ifunc variants that are
2283 not safe
2284 [26821] libc: Memory leak test failures on Fedora 33
2285 [26824] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-cpu-features-supports with recent trunk:
2286 FSGSBASE/LM/RDRAND check failure
2287 [26833] time: adjtime() with delta == NULL segfaults on armv7 32bit
2288 platform
2289 [26853] libc: aarch64: Missing unwind information in statically linked
2290 startup code
2291 [26923] locale: Assertion failure in iconv when converting invalid
2292 UCS4 (CVE-2020-29562)
2293 [26926] dynamic-link: aarch64: library dependencies are not bti
2294 protected
2295 [26932] libc: sh: Multiple floating point functions defined as stubs
2296 only since 2.31
2297 [26964] nptl: pthread_mutex_timedlock returning EAGAIN after futex is
2298 locked
2299 [26988] dynamic-link: aarch64: BTI mprotect address is not page
2300 aligned
2301 [27002] build: libc_freeres_fn build failure with GCC 11
2302 [27004] dynamic-link: ld.so is miscompiled by GCC 11
2303 [27008] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should have endianness markup
2304 [27042] libc: [alpha] anonymous union in struct stat confuses
2305 detection logic
2306 [27053] libc: Conformance regression in system(3) (and probably also
2307 pclose(3))
2308 [27072] dynamic-link: static pie ifunc resolvers run before hwcap is
2309 setup
2310 [27077] network: Do not reload /etc/nsswitch.conf from chroot
2311 [27083] libc: Unsafe unbounded alloca in addmntent
2312 [27104] dynamic-link: The COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_MAX handshake does not
2313 work
2314 [27130] string: "rep movsb" performance issue
2315 [27150] libc: alpha: wait4() is unavailable in static linking
2316 [27177] dynamic-link:
2317 GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.cpu.x86_ibt=on:glibc.cpu.x86_shstk=on doesn't
2318 work
2319 [27222] dynamic-link: Incorrect sysdeps/x86/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo.c
2320 [27237] malloc: deadlock in malloc/tst-malloc-stats-cancellation
2321 [27256] locale: Assertion failure in ISO-2022-JP-3 gconv module
2322 related to combining characters (CVE-2021-3326)
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2325Version 2.32
2326
2327Major new features:
2328
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2329* Unicode 13.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2330 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 13.0.0, using
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2331 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2332
2333* New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq)
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2335* Support for Synopsys ARC HS cores (ARCv2 ISA) running Linux has been
2336 added. This port requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-8.3 and Linux-5.1.
2337 Three ABIs are supported:
2338
2339 - arc-linux-gnu
2340 - arc-linux-gnuhf
2341 - arceb-linux-gnu
2342
4d3a77c7 2343 The arc* ABIs are little-endian while arceb is big-endian. All ABIs use
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2344 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
2345
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2346* The GNU C Library now loads audit modules listed in the DT_AUDIT and
2347 DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
2348
051be01f 2349* powerpc64le supports IEEE128 long double libm/libc redirects when
4d3a77c7 2350 using -mabi=ieeelongdouble to compile C code on supported GCC
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2351 toolchains. It is recommended to use GCC 8 or newer when testing
2352 this option.
2353
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2354* To help detect buffer overflows and other out-of-bounds accesses
2355 several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This
2356 should help GCC 10 issue better warnings.
2357
4d3a77c7 2358* On Linux, functions pthread_attr_setsigmask_np and
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2359 pthread_attr_getsigmask_np have been added. They allow applications
2360 to specify the signal mask of a thread created with pthread_create.
2361
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2362* The GNU C Library now provides the header file <sys/single_threaded.h>
2363 which declares the variable __libc_single_threaded. Applications are
2364 encouraged to use this variable for single-thread optimizations,
2365 instead of weak references to symbols historically defined in
2366 libpthread.
2367
bfe05aa2 2368* The functions sigabbrev_np and sigdescr_np have been added. The
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2369 sigabbrev_np function returns the abbreviated signal name (e.g. "HUP" for
2370 SIGHUP) while sigdescr_np returns a string describing the signal number
2371 (e.g "Hangup" for SIGHUP). Different than strsignal, sigdescr_np does not
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2372 attempt to translate the return description, both functions return
2373 NULL for an invalid signal number.
2374
2375 They should be used instead of sys_siglist or sys_sigabbrev and they
2376 are both thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
2377
325081b9 2378* The functions strerrorname_np and strerrordesc_np have been added. The
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2379 strerroname_np function returns error number name (e.g. "EINVAL" for EINVAL)
2380 while strerrordesc_np returns a string describing the error number
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2381 (e.g "Invalid argument" for EINVAL). Different than strerror,
2382 strerrordesc_np does not attempt to translate the return description, both
2383 functions return NULL for an invalid error number.
2384
2385 They should be used instead of sys_errlist and sys_nerr, both are
2386 thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
2387
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2388* AArch64 now supports standard branch protection security hardening
2389 in glibc when it is built with a GCC that is configured with
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2390 --enable-standard-branch-protection (or if -mbranch-protection=standard
2391 flag is passed when building both GCC target libraries and glibc,
2392 in either case a custom GCC is needed). This includes branch target
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2393 identification (BTI) and pointer authentication for return addresses
2394 (PAC-RET). They require armv8.5-a and armv8.3-a architecture
2395 extensions respectively for the protection to be effective,
2396 otherwise the used instructions are nops. User code can use PAC-RET
2397 without libc support, but BTI requires a libc that is built with BTI
2398 support, otherwise runtime objects linked into user code will not be
2399 BTI compatible.
2400
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2401Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2402
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2403* Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc. Sun RPC is removed
2404 from glibc. This includes the rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and the Sun
2405 RPC header files. Backward compatibility for old programs is kept
2406 only for architectures and ABIs that have been added in or before
2407 glibc 2.31. New programs need to use TI-RPC
2408 <http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=summary> and
2409 rpcsvc-proto <https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto>.
2410
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2411* Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-nsl. libnsl is only built
2412 as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules "nis"
2413 and "nisplus" are not built at all and libnsl's headers aren't
2414 installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs
2415 that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement
2416 implementations based on TI-RPC, which additionally support IPv6, are
2417 available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not
4d3a77c7 2418 affect the "compat" NSS module, which does not depend on libnsl
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2419 since 2.27 and thus can be used without NIS.
2420
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2421* The deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
2422 removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
2423 exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
2424 but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system
2425 call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5.
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2427* The sstk function is no longer available to newly linked binaries.
2428 Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function
2429 was not declared in any header file.
2430
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2431* The legacy signal handling functions siginterrupt, sigpause, sighold,
2432 sigrelse, sigignore and sigset, and the sigmask macro have been
2433 deprecated. Applications should use the sigsuspend, sigprocmask and
2434 sigaction functions instead.
2435
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2436* ldconfig now defaults to the new format for ld.so.cache. glibc has
2437 already supported this format for almost 20 years.
2438
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2439* The deprecated arrays sys_siglist, _sys_siglist, and sys_sigabbrev
2440 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
2441 have been removed from <string.h>. They are exported solely as
2442 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
2443 strsignal instead.
2444
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2445* The deprecated symbols sys_errlist, _sys_errlist, sys_nerr, and _sys_nerr
2446 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
4d3a77c7 2447 have been removed from <stdio.h>. They are exported solely as
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2448 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
2449 strerror or strerror_r instead.
2450
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2451* Both strerror and strerror_l now share the same internal buffer in the
2452 calling thread, meaning that the returned string pointer may be invalided
2453 or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same thread or
2454 if the thread is terminated. It makes strerror MT-safe.
2455
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2456* Using weak references to libpthread functions such as pthread_create
2457 or pthread_key_create to detect the singled-threaded nature of a
2458 program is an obsolescent feature. Future versions of glibc will
2459 define pthread_create within libc.so.6 itself, so such checks will
2460 always flag the program as multi-threaded. Applications should check
2461 the __libc_single_threaded variable declared in
2462 <sys/single_threaded.h> instead.
2463
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2464* The "files" NSS module no longer supports the "key" database (used for
2465 secure RPC). The contents of the /etc/publickey file will be ignored,
2466 regardless of the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of
2467 storing RPC keys only supported the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES
2468 flavor of secure RPC.)
94d9c76e 2469
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2470* The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
2471 implementation __default_morecore have been deprecated. Applications
2472 should use malloc interposition to change malloc behavior, and mmap to
2473 allocate anonymous memory. A future version of glibc may require that
2474 applications which use the malloc hooks must preload a special shared
2475 object, to enable the hooks.
2476
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2477* The hesiod NSS module has been deprecated and will be removed in a
2478 future version of glibc. System administrators are encouraged to
2479 switch to other approaches for networked account databases, such as
2480 LDAP.
2481
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2483
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2484* powerpc64le requires GCC 7.4 or newer. This is required for supporting
2485 long double redirects.
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2486
2487Security related changes:
2488
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2489 CVE-2016-10228: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
2490 invoked with the -c option and when processing invalid multi-byte input
2491 sequences. Reported by Jan Engelhardt.
2492
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AJ
2493 CVE-2020-10029: Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack
2494 corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido
2495 Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
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2497 CVE-2020-1752: A use-after-free vulnerability in the glob function when
2498 expanding ~user has been fixed.
2499
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2500 CVE-2020-6096: A signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy and
2501 memmove functions has been fixed. Discovered by Jason Royes and Samual
2502 Dytrych of the Cisco Security Assessment and Penetration Team (See
2503 TALOS-2020-1019).
2504
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2505The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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2507 [9809] localedata: ckb_IQ: new Kurdish Sorani locale
2508 [10441] manual: Backtraces code example lacks error checking
2509 [10815] librt: [timer_create / SIGEV_THREAD] signalmask of
2510 timer_sigev_thread dangerous
2511 [14231] stdio: stdio-common tests memory requirements
2512 [14578] libc: /proc-based emulation for lchmod, fchmodat
2513 [16272] dynamic-link: dlopen()ing a DT_FILTER library crashes if
2514 filtee has constructor
2515 [19519] locale: iconv(1) with -c option hangs on illegal multi-byte
2516 sequences (CVE-2016-10228)
2517 [19737] admin: Doc page “20.5.2 Infinity and NaN” has incorrect HTML
2518 character entities for infinity & pi
2519 [20338] libc: Parsing of /etc/gshadow can return bad pointers causing
2520 segfaults in applications
2521 [20543] libc: Please move from .gnu.linkonce to comdat
7f0d9e61 2522 [22489] network: gcc warns about implicit conversion in
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2523 ICMP6_FILTER_SETPASS with -Wsign-conversion
2524 [22525] localedata: or_IN LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2525 [23294] math: Complex _FloatN functions are redirected to the wrong
2526 function with -mlong-double-64
2527 [23296] libc: Data race in setting function descriptor during lazy
2528 binding
2529 [23668] dynamic-link: ldconfig: Default to the new format for
2530 ld.so.cache
2531 [23819] hurd: hurd: Add C11 thread support
2532 [23990] build: test-container error out on failure to exec child.
2533 [23991] build: shell-container typo in run_command_array
2534 [24638] manual: Error in example of parsing a template string
2535 [24654] manual: Wrong declaration of wcschr in libc manual
2536 [24943] dynamic-link: Support DT_AUDIT, DT_DEPAUDIT in the dynamic
2537 linker
2538 [25051] dynamic-link: aarch64, powerpc64 uses surplus static tls for
2539 dynamically loaded dsos
2540 [25098] nptl: nptl: ctype classification functions are not AS-Safe
2541 [25219] libc: improve out-of-bounds checking with GCC 10 attribute
2542 access
2543 [25262] libc: getcontext/setcontext/swapcontext unnecessarily save and
2544 restore EAX, ECX and EDX
2545 [25397] dynamic-link: Legacy bitmap doesn't cover jitted code
2546 [25414] glob: 'glob' use-after-free bug (CVE-2020-1752)
2547 [25420] network: Race condition in resolv_conf.c can result in caching
2548 stale configuration forever
2549 [25487] math: sinl() stack corruption from crafted input
2550 (CVE-2020-10029)
2551 [25506] build: configure: broken detection of STT_GNU_IFUNC when GCC
2552 defaults to PIE
2553 [25523] libc: MIPS/Linux inline syscall template is miscompiled
2554 [25620] libc: Signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy()
2555 (CVE-2020-6096)
2556 [25623] libc: test-sysvmsg, test-sysvsem, test-sysvshm fail with 2.31
2557 on 32 bit and old kernel
2558 [25635] libc: arm: Wrong sysdep order selection for soft-fp
2559 [25639] localedata: Some names of days and months wrongly spelt in
2560 Occitan
2561 [25657] libc: sigprocmask() and sigisemptyset() manipulate different
2562 amount of sigset_t bytes
2563 [25691] stdio: printf: memory leak when printing long multibyte
2564 strings
2565 [25715] libc: system() returns wrong errors when posix_spawn fails
2566 [25733] malloc: mallopt(M_MXFAST) can set global_max_fast to 0
2567 [25734] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS fails to reset conversion
2568 state for conversions that produce two Unicode code points
2569 [25765] nptl: Incorrect futex syscall in __pthread_disable_asynccancel
2570 for linux x86_64 leads to livelock
2571 [25788] dynamic-link: [i386] -fno-omit-frame-pointer in CFLAGS causes
2572 test failures, invalid instruction in ld.so
2573 [25790] glob: Typo in tst-fnmatch.input
2574 [25810] libc: x32: Incorrect syscall entries with pointer, off_t and
2575 size_t
2576 [25819] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 13.0.0
2577 [25824] libc: Abnormal function of strnlen in aarch64
2578 [25887] dynamic-link: Wasted space in _dl_x86_feature_1[1]
2579 [25896] libc: Incorrect prctl
2580 [25902] libc: Bad LOADARGS_N
2581 [25905] dynamic-link: VSX registers are corrupted during PLT
2582 resolution when glibc is built with --disable-multi-arch and --with-
2583 cpu=power9
2584 [25933] string: Off by one error in __strncmp_avx2 when
2585 length=VEC_SIZE*4 and strings are at page boundaries can cause a
2586 segfault
2587 [25942] nptl: Deadlock on stack_cache_lock between __nptl_setxid and
2588 exiting detached thread
2589 [25966] libc: Incorrect access of __x86_shared_non_temporal_threshold
2590 for x32
2591 [25976] nss: internal_end*ent in nss_compat may clobber errno, hiding
2592 ERANGE
2593 [25999] nptl: Use-after-free issue in pthread_getaddr_default_np
2594 [26073] math: getpayload() has wrong return value
2595 [26076] dynamic-link: dlmopen crashes after failing to load
2596 dependencies in audit mode
2597 [26120] localedata: column width of of some Korean
2598 JUNGSEONG/JONGSEONG characters wrong (should be 0)
2599 [26128] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFLUSHOPT
2600 [26133] libc: Incorrect need_arch_feature_F16C
2601 [26137] libc: strtod() triggers exception FE_INEXACT on reasonable
2602 input
2603 [26149] libc: PKU is usable only if OSPKE is set
2604 [26173] libc: powerpc64*: Add @notoc to calls to functions that do not
2605 preserve r2
2606 [26208] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFSH
2607 [26210] network: Incorrect use of hidden symbols for global sunrpc
2608 variables
2609 [26211] stdio: printf integer overflow calculating allocation size
2610 [26214] stdio: printf_fp double free
2611 [26215] stdio: printf_fp memory leak
2612 [26232] time: FAIL: support/tst-timespec for 32-bit targets
2613 [26258] nss: nss_compat should not read input files with mmap
2614 [26332] string: Incorrect cache line size load causes memory
2615 corruption in memset
2616
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2618Version 2.31
2619
2620Major new features:
2621
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2622* The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
2623 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
2624 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
2625 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
2626 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
2627 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
0b8c2f95 2628
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2629* The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
2630 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
2631 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
2632 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
2633
69ca4b54 2634* The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
3ef5e118 2635 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
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2636 CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME. This function is a GNU extension.
2637
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2638* New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar).
2639
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2640* The DNS stub resolver will optionally send the AD (authenticated data) bit
2641 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
2642 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
2643 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
2644 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
2645 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
2646 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
2647 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
2648
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2649Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2650
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2651* The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
2652 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
2653 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
2654 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
2655 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
2656 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
0b8c2f95 2657
12cbde1d 2658* The obsolete function stime is no longer available to newly linked
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2659 binaries, and its declaration has been removed from <time.h>.
2660 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
2661
2662* We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
2663 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
2664 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
2665 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
2666
2667* The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
2668 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
2669 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
2670 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
2671 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
2672 made this no longer practical.
2673
2674 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
2675 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
2676 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
2677 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
2678 release.)
2679
2680 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
2681 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
2682 with the current time, use the localtime function.
2683
2684 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
2685 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
2686 using clock_gettime instead.
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2688* The settimeofday function can still be used to set a system-wide time
2689 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
2690 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
2691 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
2692 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
2693
2694 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
2695 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
2696 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
2697 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
2698
2699 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
2700 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
2701 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
2702 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
2703 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
2704 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
2705
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2706 settimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. Programs that set
2707 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
2708 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
2709 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
2710 offset API.
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2712* SPARC ISA v7 is no longer supported. v8 is still supported, but only if
2713 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
2714 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
2b5fea83 2715
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2716 As the oldest 64-bit SPARC ISA is v9, this only affects 32-bit
2717 configurations.
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2719* If a lazy binding failure happens during dlopen, during the execution of
2720 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
2721 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
2722 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
2723 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
2724
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2725* For MIPS hard-float ABIs, the GNU C Library will be configured to need an
2726 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
2727 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
2728 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
2729 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
2730 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
2731 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
2732 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
2733
2734 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
2735 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
2736
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2737* System call wrappers for time system calls now use the new time64 system
2738 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
2739 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
2740 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
2741 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
2742 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
2743
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2745
a1bd5f86 2746* It is no longer necessary to have recent Linux kernel headers to build
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2747 working (non-stub) system call wrappers on all architectures except 64-bit
2748 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
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2750* The ChangeLog file is no longer present in the toplevel directory of the
2751 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
2752 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
2753
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2755
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2756 CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an
2757 out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context.
2758
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2759 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
2760 environment variable during program execution after a security
2761 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
2762 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
2763 program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
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2765The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2766
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2767 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
2768 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
2769 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
2770 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
2771 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
2772 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
2773 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
2774 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
2775 linking failure
2776 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
2777 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
2778 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
2779 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
2780 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
2781 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
2782 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
2783 constructors/destructors is not fatal
2784 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
2785 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
2786 7408-2005
2787 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
2788 with localedef
2789 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
2790 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
2791 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
2792 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
2793 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
2794 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
2795 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
2796 utmp entries
2797 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
2798 ABSOLUTE ABI
2799 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
2800 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
2801 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
2802 (stringop-overflow error)
2803 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
2804 functions other can lead to crashes
2805 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
2806 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
2807 unconditionally
2808 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
2809 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
2810 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
2811 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
2812 still can fail with an error
2813 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
2814 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
2815 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
2816 initialized correctly
2817 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
2818 -frewrite-includes
2819 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
2820 value to an unsigned
2821 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
2822 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
2823 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
2824 protection
2825 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
2826 ifunc variant.
2827 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
2828 al. for Clang++
2829 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
2830 (Slovenian)
2831 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
2832 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
2833 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
2834 with -std=c11
2835 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
2836 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
2837 part
2838 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
2839 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
2840 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
2841 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
2842 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
2843 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
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2846Version 2.30
2847
2848Major new features:
2849
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2850* Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2851 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
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2852 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2853
8692ebdb
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2854* The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
2855 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
de44ab67 2856
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2857* The twalk_r function has been added. It is similar to the existing
2858 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
2859 to the callback function.
2860
51ea67d5 2861* On Linux, the getdents64, gettid, and tgkill functions have been added.
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2863* Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
2864 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
2865 nan_TW, lzh_TW.
2866
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2867* The entry for the new Japanese era has been added for ja_JP locale.
2868
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2869* Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
2870 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
2871 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
2872 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
2873 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
2874
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2875* The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
2876 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
2877 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
2878 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
2879 link time reference, is gone.
2880
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2881* Add new POSIX-proposed pthread_cond_clockwait, pthread_mutex_clocklock,
2882 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
2883 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
2884 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
2885 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
2886 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
2887 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
2888 the clock choice at initialization time).
2889
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2890* On AArch64 the GNU IFUNC resolver call ABI changed: old resolvers still
2891 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
2892 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
2893
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2894Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2895
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2896* The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
2897 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
2898 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
2899 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
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2900 copy_file_range function can no longer rely on glibc to provide a fallback
2901 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
2902 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
2903 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
2904 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
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2906* The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime,
2907 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
2908 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
2909 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
2910 since glibc 2.17.
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2912* The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
2913 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
2914
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2915* Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
2916 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
2917
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2918* The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
2919 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
2920
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2921* With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
2922 BIND_NOW flag.
2923
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2924* Support for the PowerPC SPE ISA extension (powerpc-*-*gnuspe*
2925 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
2926 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
2927
6b33f373
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2928* On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
2929 header have been removed.
2930
744e8296
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2931* The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
2932 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
2933 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
2934 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
2935
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2936Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2937
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2938* GCC 6.2 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
2939
2940 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
2941 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
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2942
2943Security related changes:
2944
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2945 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
2946 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
2947 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
2948 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
2949 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
2950 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
2951 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
de44ab67 2952
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2953 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
2954 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
2955 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
2956
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2959 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
2960 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
2961 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
2962 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
2963 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
2964 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
2965 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
2966 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
2967 invalid input drops valid char
2968 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
2969 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
2970 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
2971 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
2972 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
2973 malloc.h.
2974 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
2975 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
2976 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
2977 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
2978 functions
2979 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
2980 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
2981 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
2982 for long double = double
2983 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
2984 long double = double
2985 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
2986 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
2987 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
2988 long timeouts
fdb724f9 2989 [24051] stdio: puts and putchar output to _IO_stdout instead of stdout
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2990 [24059] nss: nss_files: get_next_alias calls fgets_unlocked without
2991 checking for NULL.
2992 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
2993 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
2994 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
2995 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
2996 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
2997 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
2998 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
2999 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
3000 not the default "nor"
3001 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
3002 false positives, change to modern flexible array
3003 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
3004 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
3005 compiler barriers.
3006 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
3007 unnecessary librt dependencies
3008 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
3009 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
3010 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
3011 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
3012 unsorted chunk
3013 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
3014 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
3015 to R_SPARC_H44
3016 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
3017 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
3018 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
3019 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
3020 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
3021 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
3022 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
3023 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
3024 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
3025 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
3026 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
3027 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
3028 was not used
3029 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
3030 tests
3031 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
3032 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
3033 time_t changes
3034 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
3035 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
3036 kernels and break testing
3037 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
3038 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
3039 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
3040 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
3041 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
3042 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
3043 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
3044 -O3 -march=skylake
3045 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
3046 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
3047 crash
3048 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
3049 linked glibc
3050 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
3051 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
3052 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
3053 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
3054 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
3055 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
3056 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
3057 always implemented in the same library
3058 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
3059 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
3060 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
3061 testroot
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3064Version 2.29
3065
3066Major new features:
3067
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3068* The getcpu wrapper function has been added, which returns the currently
3069 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
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3071* A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
3072 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
3073 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
3074 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
3075 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
3076 configured location.
437faa96 3077
424c4f60 3078* Optimized generic exp, exp2, log, log2, pow, sinf, cosf, sincosf and tanf.
3bded567 3079
2bda273a
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3080* The reallocarray function is now declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE, not just
3081 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
3082
f0458cf4
AZ
3083* For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
3084 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
3085 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
3086 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
3087 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
3088 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
3089 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
3090 process actually does not use HTM).
3091
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3092* The functions posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np and
3093 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
3094 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
3095 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
3096 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
3097 of the same name.
4a938cb2 3098
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AZ
3099* The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
3100 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
3101 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
5fc3eca7 3102 inconsistent mutex state after a fork call in a multi-threaded process.
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3103 In both popen and system there is no direct access to user-defined mutexes.
3104
5f72b005
MH
3105* Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
3106 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
3107 supported:
3108 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
3109 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
3110
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3111* strftime's default formatting of a locale's alternative year (%Ey)
3112 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
3113 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
3114 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
3115 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
3116 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
3117 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
3118
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3119* As a GNU extension, the '_' and '-' flags can now be applied to
3120 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
3121 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
3122
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3123Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
3124
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3126 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
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3128* The type of the pr_uid and pr_gid members of struct elf_prpsinfo, defined
3129 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
3130 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
3131 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
3132
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3133* For the MIPS n32 ABI, the type of the pr_sigpend and pr_sighold members of
3134 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
3135 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
3136 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
3137 structures.
3138
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3139* An archaic GNU extension to scanf, under which '%as', '%aS', and '%a[...]'
3140 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
3141 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
3142 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
3143 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
3144 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
3145
3146 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
3147 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
3148 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
3149 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
3150 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
3151
3152 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
3153 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
3154 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
3155
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3156Changes to build and runtime requirements:
3157
c6982f7e 3158* Python 3.4 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
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3160* On most architectures, GCC 5 or later is required to build the GNU C
3161 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
3162
3163 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
3164 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
3165
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3166Security related changes:
3167
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3168 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
3169 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
3170 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
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3172 CVE-2019-6488: On x32, the size_t parameter may be passed in the lower
3173 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
3174 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
3175 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
3176 Reported by H.J. Lu.
3177
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3178 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
3179 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
3180 or command injection issues in applications.
3181
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3182The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3183
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3184 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
3185 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
3186 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
3187 thousands
3188 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
3189 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
3190 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
3191 --param options)
3192 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
3193 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
3194 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
3195 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
3196 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
3197 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
3198 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
3199 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
3200 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
3201 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
3202 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
3203 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
3204 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
3205 pointer argument is non-NULL
3206 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
3207 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
3208 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
3209 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
3210 multithreads call popen
3211 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
3212 and pthread_create fails.
3213 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
3214 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
3215 constructor
3216 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
3217 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
3218 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
3219 source tree
3220 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
3221 float
3222 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
3223 one error
3224 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
3225 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
3226 linker
3227 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
3228 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
3229 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
3230 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
3231 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
3232 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
3233 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
3234 filesystems
3235 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
3236 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
3237 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
3238 functions
3239 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
3240 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
3241 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
3242 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
3243 have wrong type
3244 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
3245 wrong type
3246 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
3247 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
3248 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
3249 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
3250 threads
3251 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
3252 start.S
3253 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
3254 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
3255 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
3256 powerpc64le
3257 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
3258 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
3259 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
3260 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
3261 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
3262 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
3263 strftime
3264 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
3265 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
3266 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
3267 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
3268 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
3269 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
3270 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
3271 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
3272 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
3273 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
3274 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
3275 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
3276 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
3277 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
3278 tcache size
3279 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
3280 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
3281 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
3282 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
3283 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
3284 (CVE-2018-19591)
3285 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
3286 nearest rounding mode
3287 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
3288 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
3289 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
3290 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
3291 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
3292 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
3293 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
3294 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
3295 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
3296 error
3297 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
3298 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
3299 using GCC 8
3300 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
3301 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
3302 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
3303 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
3304 ppc64le
3305 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
3306 expected result
3307 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
3308 x32 (CVE-2019-6488)
3309 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
3310 sigaltstack
3311 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
3312 answers will be rejected)
3313 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
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3316Version 2.28
3317
3318Major new features:
3319
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3320* The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
3321 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
3322 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
3323 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
3324 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
3325 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
3326 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
3327 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
3328 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
3329 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
3330 archive or binary locales.
3331
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3332* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for Intel CET, AKA
3333 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
3334 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
3335 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
3336 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
3337 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
3338 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
3339 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
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3340 Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
3341 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
3342 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
3343 validated for i686.
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3345* The GNU C Library now has correct support for ABSOLUTE symbols
3346 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
3347 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
3348 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
3349 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
3350 field) to indicate such support is required.
3351
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3352* Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
3353 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
3354 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
3355
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3356* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
3357 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
3358
3359 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
3360 fMxaddfNx functions.
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3362 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
3363 fMxsubfNx functions.
3364
69a01461
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3365 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
3366 fMxmulfNx functions.
3367
632a6cbe
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3368 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
3369 fMxdivfNx functions.
3370
e607a352 3371* Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
df467d22 3372 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
9145f033 3373 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
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3374 support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
3375 and Kashubian.
c553cd6f 3376
61c4aad7 3377* Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
e607a352 3378 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
a1e0c5fa 3379
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3380* Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
3381 patches.
3382
d6da5cb6
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3383* The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
3384 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
3385 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
3386 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
3387 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
3388 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
3389 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
3390 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
3391
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3392* The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
3393 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
3394 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
3395 the fstatat64 function.
3396
7f9f1ecb
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3397* IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
3398 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
3399 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
3400 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
3401 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
3402 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
3403 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
3404 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
3405 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
3406
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3407* Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
3408 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
3409 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
3410 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
3411 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
3412 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
3413 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
3414 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
3415 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
3416 results in a load failure now.
3417
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3418* Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The
3419 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
3420 <threads.h>:
3421
3422 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
3423 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
3424
3425 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
3426 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
3427
3428 - call_once for function call synchronization.
3429
3430 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
3431 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
3432
3433 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
3434
3435 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
3436
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3437Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
3438
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3439* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
3440 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
3441 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
3442
3443* The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
3444 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
3445 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
3446 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
3447 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
3448 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
3449
3450* All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
3451 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
3452 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
3453 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
3454 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
3455 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
3456 (Bug #1190.)
3457
3458* The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
3459 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
3460 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
3461 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
3462 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
3463 further explanation.
3464
3465 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
3466 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
3467 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
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3469* The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
3470
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3471* The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
3472 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
3473 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
3474
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3475* The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
3476 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
3477 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
3478 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
3479
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3480* The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
3481 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
3482 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
3483 for this function instead.
3484
7f9f1ecb
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3485* The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
3486 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
3487 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
3488
3489* The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
3490 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
3491 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
3492 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
3493
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AZ
3494* The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
3495 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
3496 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
3497 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
3498 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
3499
b10a0acc
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3500* The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
3501 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
3502 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
3503 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
3504 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
3505 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
3506 such as libgcrypt.
3507
3508* Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
3509 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
3510 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
3511 enabled.
3512
3513* The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
3514 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
3515 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
3516
e69d994a
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3517* We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
3518 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
3519 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
3520 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
3521 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
3522 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
3523
3524 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
3525 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
3526 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
3527 behavior in a future release.
3528
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3529Changes to build and runtime requirements:
3530
f2873d2d 3531 GNU make 4.0 or later is now required to build glibc.
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3532
3533Security related changes:
3534
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3535 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
3536 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
3537 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
3538 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
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3540 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
3541 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
3542
3543 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
3544 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
3545 Izbyshev.
3546
3547 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
3548 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
3549 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
3550
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3551The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3552
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3553 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
3554 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
3555 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
3556 when __WORDSIZE != 64
3557 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
3558 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
3559 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
3560 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
3561 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
3562 14651
3563 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
3564 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
3565 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
3566 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
3567 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
3568 conversion is given
3569 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
3570 date
3571 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
3572 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
3573 scope with -O1 and higher
3574 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
3575 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
3576 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
3577 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
3578 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
3579 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
3580 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
3581 horrible machine code)
3582 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
3583 last constant.
3584 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
3585 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
3586 symbols
3587 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
3588 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
3589 defined
3590 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
3591 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
3592 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
3593 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
3594 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
3595 fpscr.c'
3596 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
3597 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
3598 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
3599 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
3600 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
3601 the base address
3602 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
3603 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
3604 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
3605 open_verify
3606 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
3607 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
3608 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
3609 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
3610 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
3611 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
3612 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
3613 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
3614 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
3615 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
3616 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
3617 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
3618 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
3619 dlopen
3620 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
3621 AT_SECURE=1
3622 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
3623 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
3624 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
3625 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
3626 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
3627 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
3628 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
3629 for Spanish with CLDR
3630 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
3631 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
3632 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
3633 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
3634 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
3635 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
3636 es_BO
3637 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
3638 CLOCKS_PER_SECOND
3639 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
3640 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
3641 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
3642 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
3643 dlopen failures
3644 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
3645 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
3646 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
3647 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
3648 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
3649 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
3650 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
3651 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
3652 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
3653 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
3654 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
3655 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
3656 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
3657 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
3658 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
3659 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
3660 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
3661 makecontext
3662 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
3663 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
3664 required
3665 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
3666 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
3667 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
3668 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
3669 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
3670 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
3671 disabled
3672 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
3673 failure
3674 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
3675 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
3676 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
3677 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
3678 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
3679 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
3680 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
3681 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
3682 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
3683 and libc build with -Os)
3684 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
3685 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
3686 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
3687 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
3688 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
3689 that changes /etc/passwd
3690 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
3691 (CVE-2018-11237)
3692 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
3693 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
3694 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
3695 posix/regcomp.c
3696 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
3697 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
3698 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
3699 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
3700 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
3701 AT_SECURE
3702 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
3703 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
3704 parser.c
3705 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
3706 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
3707 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
3708 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
3709 directed rounding
3710 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
3711 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
3712 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
3713 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
3714 lookup
3715 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
3716 interposition
3717 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
3718 DSO boundaries.
3719 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
3720 <linux/time.h>
3721 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
3722 checking
3723 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
3724 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
3725 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
3726 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
3727 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
3728 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
3729 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
3730 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
3731 processors
3732 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
086ee48e 3733
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3734\f
3735Version 2.27
3736
3737Major new features:
3738
9d7a3741
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3739* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
3740 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
bd7bbb26 3741 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
9d7a3741
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3742 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
3743 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
3744 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
3745 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
25fb7dd6
SN
3746 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
3747 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
9d7a3741 3748
ac817e08 3749* Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
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3750 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
3751 H.J. Lu from Intel.
20c7b195 3752
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3753* Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
3754
4cf82d23 3755* Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
72aa6233 3756
ec2c1fce
FW
3757* In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
3758 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
3759 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
3760 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
3761 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
3762 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
3763 from a security and performance perspective.
3764
91e7cf98
FW
3765* The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
3766 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
3767 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
3768 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
3769
81325b12 3770* On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
40ca951b
PD
3771 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
3772 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
3773 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
81325b12
JM
3774 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
3775
a23aa5b7 3776* On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
40ca951b 3777 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
a23aa5b7
JM
3778 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
3779 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
3780 _Float128.
3781
1f9055ce
JM
3782* The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
3783 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
3784 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
0d93b7fd 3785
4bab0224 3786* glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
59d2cbb1 3787
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FW
3788* Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
3789 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
3790 pkey_get.
3791
bad7a0c8
FW
3792* The copy_file_range function was added.
3793
e6a1c5dc
PM
3794* Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
3795
7d38eb38
AJ
3796* The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
3797 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
3798 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
3799
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3800* Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
3801 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
3802 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
3803 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
3804 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
3805 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
3806 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
3807
3808 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
3809 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
3810 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
3811 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
3812 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
3813 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
3814 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
3815
3816 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
3817 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
c10c9a5e
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3818 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
3819 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
3820 respectively.
3821
3822 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
3823 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
3824 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
3825 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
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3826
3827 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
3828 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
3829 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
3830
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3831 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
3832 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
0a32e219 3833 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
4378b735 3834
40ca951b
PD
3835* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
3836 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
3837 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
3838
3839 - rv64imac lp64
3840 - rv64imafdc lp64
3841 - rv64imafdc lp64d
3842
00cdcf5a
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3843Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
3844
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3845* Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
3846 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
d4ae7827 3847 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
4378b735
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3848 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
3849 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
3850 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
3851 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
3852 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
3853 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
3854 fix this.
3855
f1a844ac
FW
3856* Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
3857 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
3858 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
3859
2fc21aaa
FW
3860* Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
3861 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
3862 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
3863 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
3864 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
3865 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
3866 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
3867 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
3868 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
3869 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
3870 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
3871 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
3872 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
3873 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
3874 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
3875 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
3876 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
3877 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
3878 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
3879 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
3880 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
3881 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
3882 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
3883 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
3884 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
3885 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
3886
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3887* On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
3888 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
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JM
3890* libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
3891 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
3892 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
3893 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
3894 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
3895 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
3896 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
3897
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3898* The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
3899 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
3900 exp10l for these functions instead.
3901
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3902* The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
3903 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
3904 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3905
644d3857
JM
3906* The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
3907 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
3908 ignored.
3909
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3910* The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
3911 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
3912 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
3913 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
3914
c0a25aa9
FW
3915* The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
3916 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
3917
34eb4157
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3918* In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
3919 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
3920
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3921* The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
3922 programs.
3923
ed95f611
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3924* The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
3925
48a8f832
ZW
3926* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
3927 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
3928 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
3929 instead.
3930
3931 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
3932 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
3933 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
3934 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
3935 use, but predates the bits convention.
3936
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3937Changes to build and runtime requirements:
3938
1faaf703
JB
3939* bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
3940 subdirectory.
00cdcf5a
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3941
3942Security related changes:
3943
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3944 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
3945 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
3946 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
3947 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
3948 script.)
00cdcf5a 3949
822f523b
FW
3950 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
3951 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
3952 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
3953 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
c369d66e 3954
914c9994
FW
3955 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
3956 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
3957 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
3958 of service.
3959
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3960 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
3961 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
a159b53f
PE
3962 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
3963
37ac8e63
FW
3964 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
3965 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
3966 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
3967 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
3968
8a0b17e4
FW
3969 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
3970 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
3971 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
3972 Qualys.
3973
3ff3dfa5
FW
3974 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
3975 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
3976 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
3977 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
3978 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
3979
3e3c904d
AJ
3980 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
3981 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
3982 current directory.
3983
52a713fd
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3984 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
3985 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
3986 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
3987
4590634f
FW
3988 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
3989 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
3990 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
3991
71aa429b
FW
3992 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
3993 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
3994 small, instead of NULL.
3995
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3996The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3997
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3998 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
3999 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
4000 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
4001 locale
4002 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
4003 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
4004 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
4005 cases
4006 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
4007 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
4008 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
4009 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
4010 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
4011 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
4012 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
4013 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
4014 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
4015 "Bangla"
4016 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
4017 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
4018 width Latin characters
4019 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
4020 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
4021 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
4022 letters
4023 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
4024 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
4025 (CVE-2009-5064)
4026 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
4027 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
4028 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
4029 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
4030 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
4031 if malloc succeeded
4032 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
4033 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
4034 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
4035 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
4036 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
4037 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
4038 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
4039 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
4040 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
4041 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
4042 U+309A
4043 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
4044 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
4045 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
4046 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
4047 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
4048 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
4049 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
4050 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
4051 for Nicaragua
4052 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
4053 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
4054 are not found.
4055 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
4056 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
4057 access
4058 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
4059 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
4060 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
4061 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
4062 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
4063 __regcall calling convention
4064 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
4065 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
4066 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
4067 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
4068 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
4069 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
4070 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
4071 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
4072 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
4073 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
4074 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
4075 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
4076 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
4077 locale
4078 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
4079 protector=all
4080 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
4081 wcwidth
4082 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
4083 consistency check failures
4084 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
4085 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
4086 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
4087 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
4088 PIE
4089 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
4090 locales
4091 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
4092 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
4093 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
4094 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
4095 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
4096 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
4097 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
4098 on memory allocation failure
4099 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
4100 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
4101 the suspect)
4102 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
4103 default (i386)
4104 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
4105 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
4106 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
4107 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
4108 instead of EAI_NODATA
4109 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
4110 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
4111 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
4112 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
4113 implementation
4114 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
4115 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
4116 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
4117 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
4118 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
4119 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
4120 allocation in syscall loops)
4121 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
4122 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
4123 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
4124 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
4125 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
4126 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
4127 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
4128 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
4129 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
4130 occur with -O3
4131 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
4132 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
4133 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
4134 amounts)
4135 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
4136 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
4137 niu_NZ
4138 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
4139 checks
4140 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
4141 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
4142 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
4143 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
4144 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
4145 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
4146 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
4147 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
4148 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
4149 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
4150 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
4151 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
4152 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
4153 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
4154 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
4155 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
4156 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
4157 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
4158 parsing after OOM
4159 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
4160 object
4161 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
4162 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
4163 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
4164 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
4165 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
4166 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
fdb724f9 4167 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf outputs a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
242cbc90
DL
4168 ppc64le
4169 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
4170 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
4171 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
4172 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
4173 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
4174 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
4175 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
4176 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
4177 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
4178 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
4179 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
4180 math_force_eval
4181 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
4182 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
4183 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
4184 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
4185 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
4186 the svid compat wrapper
4187 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
4188 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
4189 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
4190 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
4191 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
4192 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
4193 --verbose.
4194 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
4195 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
4196 to 2.26
4197 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
4198 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
4199 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
4200 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
4201 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
4202 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
4203 (CVE-2017-15804)
4204 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
4205 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
4206 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
4207 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
4208 failure."
4209 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
4210 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
4211 -m32
4212 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
4213 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
4214 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
4215 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
4216 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
4217 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
4218 inside the ASCII printable range
4219 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
4220 -mlong-double-64
4221 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
4222 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
4223 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
4224 Internet
4225 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
4226 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
4227 backslash
4228 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
4229 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
4230 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
4231 heaps in an arena
4232 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
4233 networking interface
4234 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
4235 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
4236 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
4237 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
4238 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
4239 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
4240 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
4241 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
4242 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
4243 order
4244 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
4245 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
4246 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
4247 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
4248 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
4249 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
4250 same as for Croatian
4251 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
4252 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
4253 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
4254 for initial thread"
4255 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
4256 SC_SSIZE_MAX
4257 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
4258 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
4259 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
4260 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
4261 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
4262 (CVE-2017-1000408)
4263 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
4264 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
4265 modified in case of success
4266 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
4267 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
4268 success
4269 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
4270 stack-protector=all
4271 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
4272 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
4273 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
4274 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
4275 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
4276 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
4277 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
4278 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
4279 adding it on top
4280 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
4281 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
4282 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
4283 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
4284 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
4285 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
4286 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
4287 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
4288 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
4289 (CVE-2018-1000001)
4290 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
4291 elision and tunables
4292 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
4293 "invalid" exception
4294 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
4295 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
4296 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
4297 exception
4298 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4299 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
4300 power4
4301 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
4302 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
4303 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
4304 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
4305 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
4306 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
4307 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
4308 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
4309 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
00cdcf5a 4310
58557c22
SP
4311\f
4312Version 2.26
4313
2b2ccd0c
ZW
4314Major new features:
4315
d5c3fafc
DD
4316* A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
4317 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
4318 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
4319 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
4320 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
4321 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
4322 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
4323
925fac77
MF
4324* Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
4325 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
0b38d66a 4326 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
a0e52598
MF
4327 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
4328 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
4329 are rendered with pango, see for example:
4330 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
58557c22 4331
2b2ccd0c
ZW
4332* Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
4333 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
4334 Egmont Koblinger.
e4e79484 4335
2b2ccd0c 4336* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
025b33ae 4337
7e368000
JM
4338 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
4339 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
4340 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
daeb1fa2 4341
7e368000
JM
4342 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
4343 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
4344 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
4345 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
4346 object are still limited to six search domains.
139ace95 4347
7e368000
JM
4348 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
4349 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
4350 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
cd354a38 4351
2b2ccd0c
ZW
4352* The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
4353 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
d8cee557 4354
2b2ccd0c
ZW
4355* New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
4356 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
4357 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
4358 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
f0be25b6 4359
2b2ccd0c
ZW
4360* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
4361 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
4362 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
4363 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
8082d91e 4364
2b2ccd0c
ZW
4365* posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
4366 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
4367 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
4368 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
2e0bbbfb 4369
2b2ccd0c
ZW
4370* errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
4371 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
4372 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
12d2dd70 4373
2b2ccd0c 4374* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
8d6cba41
JM
4375 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
4376 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
4377 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
2c0b90ab 4378
2b2ccd0c 4379 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
8d6cba41
JM
4380 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
4381 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
4382 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
4383 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
4384
4385 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
4386 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
4387 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
4388 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
4389 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
4390 interfaces should be used instead.
f819dbea 4391
2b2ccd0c
ZW
4392Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
4393
4394* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
4395 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
4396 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
4397 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
4398 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
4399 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
4400 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
4401 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
4402
4403* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
4404 removed.
4405
4406* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
7e368000 4407 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
2b2ccd0c
ZW
4408 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
4409 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
4410
4411* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
4412 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
4413 default.
4414
4415 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
4416 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
4417 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
7e368000
JM
4418 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
4419 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
2b2ccd0c
ZW
4420
4421 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
4422 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
4423 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
4424 name service modules, to be built and installed.
4425
4426* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
4427 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
4428 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
4429 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
4430
4431* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
4432 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
5b757a51 4433
6781d8e6
FW
4434* The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
4435 exported by accident.
4436
2b2ccd0c
ZW
4437* <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
4438 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
4439 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
4440
4441* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
4442 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
4443 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
4444 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
4445
4446* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
4447
4448* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
4449
4450* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
4451 free instead.
4452
4453* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
4454 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
4455
4456* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
4457 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
4458
4459* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
4460 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
4461 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
4462 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
4463 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
4464 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
4465 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
4466 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
4467
4468* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
4469 synced with the kernel:
4470
4471 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
4472 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
4473
4474 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
4475 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
4476 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
4477
4478 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
4479 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
4480
4481Changes to build and runtime requirements:
4482
4483* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
4484 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
4485 x86-32 and x86-64.)
4486
7e368000 4487* GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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4489* On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
4490 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
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4491
4492 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
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4493 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
4494 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
4495 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2b2ccd0c 4496 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
aef16cc8 4497
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4498Security related changes:
4499
e14a2772 4500* The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
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4501 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
4502
4503* LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
4504 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
4505
4506* Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
4507 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
4508 (CVE-2010-3192).
4509
4510* A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
4511 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
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4512
4513The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4514
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4515 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
4516 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
4517 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
4518 fields
4519 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
4520 (CVE-2010-3192)
4521 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
4522 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
4523 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
4524 ld.bfd is available
4525 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
4526 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
4527 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
4528 x86 and other generic code
4529 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
4530 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
4531 incorrect
4532 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
4533 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
4534 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
4535 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
4536 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
4537 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
4538 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
4539 resolver
4540 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
4541 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
4542 order of 0D36 and 0D37
4543 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
4544 chillu characters
4545 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
4546 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
4547 receiving data
4548 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
4549 whitespace
4550 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
4551 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
4552 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
4553 for Peru
4554 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
4555 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
4556 failures consistently
4557 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
4558 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
4559 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
4560 frame-pointer on i386
4561 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
4562 register
7f0d9e61 4563 [21075] libc: unused assignment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
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4564 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
4565 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
4566 generic c code is used
4567 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
4568 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
4569 around 4000
4570 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
4571 (CVE-2017-12133)
4572 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
4573 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
4574 with -lieee
4575 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
4576 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
4577 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
4578 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
4579 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
4580 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
4581 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
4582 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
4583 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
4584 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
4585 remove()
4586 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
4587 checked for errors.
4588 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
4589 new posix_spawn implementation
4590 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
4591 leads to lower CPU frequency
4592 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
4593 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
4594 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
4595 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
4596 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
4597 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
4598 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
4599 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
4600 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
4601 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
4602 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
4603 not support gethostbyname4_r
4604 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
4605 switching
4606 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
4607 arenas
4608 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
4609 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
4610 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
4611 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
4612 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
4613 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
4614 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
4615 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
4616 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
4617 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
4618 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
4619 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
4620 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
4621 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
4622 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
4623 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
4624 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
4625 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
4626 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
4627 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
4628 retry value
4629 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
4630 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
4631 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
4632 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
4633 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
4634 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
4635 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
4636 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
4637 [21537] libc:
4638 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
4639 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
4640 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
4641 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
4642 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
4643 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
4644 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
4645 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
4646 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
4647 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
4648 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
4649 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
4650 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
4651 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
4652 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
4653 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
4654 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
4655 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
4656 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
4657 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
4658 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
4659 issue on x86-64
4660 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
4661 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
4662 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
4663 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
4664 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
4665 construction
4666 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
4667 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
4668 between_2_3
4669 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
4670 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
4671 conditions
4672 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
4673 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
4674 Hindi Locale
4675 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
4676 posix/sched_cpucount.c
4677 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
4678 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
4679 locale
4680 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
4681 leading to relocation crash
4682 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
4683 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
4684 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
4685 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
4686 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
4687 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
4688 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
4689 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
4690 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
4691 locale
4692 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
4693 locale
4694 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
4695 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
4696 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
4697 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
4698 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
4699 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
4700 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
4701 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
4702 strings
4703 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
4704 protector=all
4705 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
4706 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
4707 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
4708 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
4709 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
4710 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
4711 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
4712 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
4713 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
4714 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
4715 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
4716 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
4717 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
4718 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
4719 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
4720 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
4721 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
4722 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
4723 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
4724 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
4725 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
4726 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
4727 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
4728 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
4729 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
4730 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
4731 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
4732 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
4733 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
4734 with unicode 9.0
4735 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
4736 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
4737 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
4738 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
4739 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
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4742Version 2.25
4743
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4744* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
4745 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
4746 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
4747 Library.
e720d3d9 4748
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4749* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
4750 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
a5ac5676 4751 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
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4752 the GNU C Library.
4753
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4754* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
4755 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
4756 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
4757 the GNU C Library.
4758
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4759* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
4760 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
4761 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
4762 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
4763 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
4764 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
4765 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
4766 will not.
4767
4768 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
4769 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
4770 many years.
4771
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4772* The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
4773 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
4774 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
4775
4776 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
4777 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
4778 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
4779 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
4780 problem.
4781
ec94343f 4782* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
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4783 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
4784 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
5146356f 4785
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4786* Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
4787 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
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4788 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
4789 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
4790 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
4791 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
4792 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
4793 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
4794 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
4795 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
4796 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
4797 WINT_WIDTH.
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4799* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
4800
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4801 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
4802
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4803 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
4804 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
4805 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
41c67149 4806
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4807 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
4808 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
4809
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4810 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
4811 fminmagf, fminmagl.
4812
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4813 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
4814
29cb9293 4815 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
d942e95c 4816
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4817 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
4818 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
5e9d98a3 4819
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4820 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
4821
eb3c12c7 4822 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
457663a7 4823 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
f8e8b8ed 4824
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4825* The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
4826 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
4827
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4828* Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
4829 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
4830 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
4831
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4832* The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
4833 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
4834 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
4835 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
4836 effects of the memory clear).
4837
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4838* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
4839 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
4840 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
4841 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
4842
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4843* On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
4844 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
4845 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
4846 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
4847 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
4848 if they are compiled or used with those options.
6962682f 4849
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4850* The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
4851 have been added.
4852
705a79f8
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4853* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
4854 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
4855 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
4856 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
4857 as large as several megabytes.
4858
4d728087
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4859* The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
4860 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
4861 been removed.
4862
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4863* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
4864 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
4865 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
4866 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
4867 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
4868 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
4869 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
4870
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4871* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
4872 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
4873 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
4874 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
4875
099191b1 4876* The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
5140d036
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4877 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
4878 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
4879 Internet.
4880
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4881* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
4882 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
4883 They were already unimplemented.
bfbd1de1 4884
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4885* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
4886 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
4887 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
4888 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
4889
3a2a1d2c
FW
4890* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
4891 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
4892 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
4893 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
4894 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
4895
be728303
FW
4896* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
4897 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
4898 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
4899 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
4900 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
4901
6815a33d
FW
4902* The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
4903 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
4904 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
4905 did not reflect that.
4906
022dfdce
SL
4907* For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
4908 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
4909 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
4910 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
4911 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
4912 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
4913 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
4914 'gcc/config.gcc'.
4915
23b5cae1
MG
4916* GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
4917 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
4918 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
4919 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
4920
7715d3ab
SP
4921* Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
4922 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
4923 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
4924 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
4925
0cea3587
SP
4926* A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
4927 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
4928 guarantees.
4929
4930* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
4931 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
4932 make state changes.
4933
e720d3d9
CD
4934Security related changes:
4935
fc82b0a2 4936* On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
4d047efd
FW
4937 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
4938 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
4939 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
056dd72a 4940 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
e720d3d9 4941
fc82b0a2
FW
4942* The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
4943 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
4944 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
4945 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
4946 (CVE-2015-5180)
4947
e720d3d9
CD
4948The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4949
fdb724f9 4950 [4099] stdio: Overly aggressive caching by stream i/o functions.
4e054e6b
SP
4951 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
4952 protector-all
4953 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
4954 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
4955 before it started waiting
4956 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
4957 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
4958 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
4959 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
4960 wrong type
4961 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
4962 library linked with pthread
4963 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
4964 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
4965 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
4966 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
4967 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
4968 after being __libc_memalign()'d
4969 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
7f0d9e61 4970 when it shouldn't
4e054e6b
SP
4971 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
4972 not
4973 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
4974 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
4975 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
4976 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
4977 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
4978 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
4979 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
4980 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
4981 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
4982 termination
4983 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
4984 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
4985 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
4986 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
4987 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
4988 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
4989 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
4990 causes a segmentation fault
4991 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
4992 linking
4993 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
4994 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
4995 uninitialized GOT
4996 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
4997 versions
4998 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
4999 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
5000 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
5001 is always true.
5002 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
5003 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
5004 modes
5005 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
5006 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
5007 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
5008 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
5009 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
5010 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
5011 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
5012 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
5013 libpthread.a
5014 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
5015 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
5016 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
5017 _res_hconf
5018 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
5019 information.
5020 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
5021 penalty
5022 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
5023 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
5024 cause transition penalty
5025 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
5026 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
5027 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
5028 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
5029 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
5030 mcount.oS)
5031 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
5032 Checking
5033 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
5034 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
5035 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
5036 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
5037 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
5038 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
5039 multi-arch
5040 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
5041 (RES_USEBSTRING)
5042 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
5043 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
5044 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
5045 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
5046 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
5047 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
5048 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
5049 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
5050 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
5051 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
5052 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
5053 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
5054 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
5055 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
5056 glibc
5057 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
5058 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
5059 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
5060 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
5061 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
5062 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
5063 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
5064 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
5065 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
5066 U+20AC), not same as GBK
5067 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
5068 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
5069 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
5070 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
5071 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
5072 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
5073 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
5074 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
5075 RES_USE_INET6
5076 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
5077 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
5078 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
5079 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
5080 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
5081 wrong condition
5082 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
5083 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
5084 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
5085 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
5086 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
5087 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
5088 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
5089 clang
5090 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
5091 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
5092 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
5093 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
5094 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
e720d3d9 5095\f
11fca961
AZ
5096Version 2.24
5097
5b4ecd3f
JM
5098* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
5099 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
5100 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
5101 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
5102 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
5103 architectures.
5104
b6ebba70
MF
5105* The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
5106 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
5107 been included in previous releases.
11fca961 5108
7584a3f9
FW
5109* The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
5110 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
5111
b49ab5f4
FW
5112* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
5113 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
5114 instead of “union wait”.
5115
ced8f893
SG
5116* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
5117 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
5118 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
5119 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
5120 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
5121 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
5122 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
5123
2ba3cfa1
FW
5124* The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
5125 API.
5126
b7a9b7b0
MF
5127* The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
5128 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
5129 drop it.
6a54bcda 5130
41a359e2
RS
5131* nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
5132 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
5133 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
5134 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
5135 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
5136 extensions.
5137
11fca961
AZ
5138Security related changes:
5139
f5b3338d
FW
5140* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
5141 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
5142 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
5143
4ab2ab03
FW
5144* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
5145 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
5146 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
5147 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
11fca961 5148
5171f307
FW
5149* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
5150 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
5151 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
5152
bc779a1a
FW
5153* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
5154 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
5155 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
5156
fab38231
FW
5157* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
5158 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
5159 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
5160 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
5161
11fca961
AZ
5162The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5163
3c4f81ec
CD
5164 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
5165 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
5166 of MS-DOS.
5167 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
5168 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
5169 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
5170 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
5171 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
5172 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
5173 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
5174 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
5175 CLDR data
5176 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
5177 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
5178 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
5179 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
5180 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
5181 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
5182 romanisation
5183 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
5184 and +/-
5185 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
5186 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
5187 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
5188 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
5189 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
5190 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
5191 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
5192 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
5193 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
5194 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
5195 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
5196 all locales
5197 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
5198 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
5199 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
5200 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
5201 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
5202 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
5203 execute
5204 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
5205 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
5206 -Wsystem-headers
5207 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
5208 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
5209 Romanian locale data
5210 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
5211 symbol
5212 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
5213 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
5214 language
5215 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
5216 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
5217 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
5218 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
5219 machine
5220 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
5221 description
5222 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
5223 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
5224 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
5225 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
5226 when using RTLD_NEXT
5227 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
5228 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
5229 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
5230 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
5231 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
5232 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
5233 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
5234 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
5235 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
5236 Excavator core
5237 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
5238 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
5239 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
5240 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
5241 double range
5242 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
5243 part zero incorrect
5244 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
5245 equality tests
5246 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
5247 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
5248 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
5249 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
5250 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
5251 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
5252 glibc-2.22
5253 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
5254 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
5255 'tst-numeric.c'
5256 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
5257 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
5258 low part
5259 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
5260 result
5261 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
5262 unaligned stack
5263 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
5264 pointers and lengths in error-case.
5265 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
5266 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
5267 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
5268 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
5269 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
5270 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
5271 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
5272 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
5273 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
5274 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
5275 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
5276 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
5277 modes
5278 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
5279 server addresses
5280 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
5281 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
5282 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
5283 response to getaddrinfo
5284 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
5285 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
5286 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
5287 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
5288 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
5289 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
5290 sometimes incorrect
5291 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
5292 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
5293 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
5294 record types
5295 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
5296 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
5297 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
5298 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
5299 (CVE-2016-3075)
5300 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
5301 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
5302 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
5303 resolving symbols
5304 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
5305 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
5306 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
5307 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
5308 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
5309 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
5310 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
5311 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
5312 gethosts
5313 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
5314 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
5315 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
5316 (CVE-2016-3706)
5317 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
5318 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
5319 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
5320 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
5321 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
5322 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
5323 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
5324 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
5325 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
5326 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
5327 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
5328 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
5329 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
5330 executable
5331 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
5332 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
5333 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
5334 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
5335 XPG3
5336 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
5337 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
5338 (CVE-2016-4429)
5339 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
5340 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
5341 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
5342 AS not supporting AVX512
5343 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
5344 sNaN argument
5345 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
5346 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
5347 argument
5348 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
5349 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
5350 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
5351 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
5352 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
5353 eax=0x80000001
5354 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
5355 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
5356 subnormals
5357 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
5358 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
5359 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
5360 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
5361 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
5362 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
5363 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
5364 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
5365 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
5366 input
5367 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
5368 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
5369 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
5370 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
5371 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
5372 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
5373 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
5374 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
5375 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
5376 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
5377 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
5378 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
5379 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
5380 double rounding
5381 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
5382 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
5383 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
5384 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
5385 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
5386 (Only arm/linux)
5387 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
5388 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
5389 fallbacks
5390 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
5391 "invalid" exceptions
5392 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
5393 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
5394 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
5395 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
5396 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
5397 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
5398 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
5399 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
5400 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
11fca961 5401\f
aeb47bbc
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5402Version 2.23
5403
23256f5e
MF
5404* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
5405 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
5406 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
5407 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
5408 89, 16061, and 18568.
5409
2359035a
FW
5410* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
5411 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
5412 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
5413 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
5414 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
5415 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
5416 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
5417
8b7b7f75
MW
5418* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
5419 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
5420 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
5421
2eecc8af
FW
5422* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
5423 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
5424 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
5425 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
5426 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
5427 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
5428 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
5429
a62719ba
FW
5430* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
5431 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
5432 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
5433 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
7f0d9e61 5434 the concurrent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 5435 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
a62719ba
FW
5436 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
5437 Ericsson.)
a014cecd 5438
bc148ca1
MF
5439* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
5440 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
5441 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
5442 independent of the GNU C Library.
5443
1c70b6f1
ZW
5444* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
5445 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
1efad39b 5446
eed3e1eb
JM
5447* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
5448 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
5449 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
5450 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
5451 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
5452 Linux kernel.
5453
1efad39b
SL
5454* Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
5455 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
b08b4218 5456
d709042a
JM
5457* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
5458 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
5459 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
5460 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
5461 defining their own copy.
5462
b08b4218
JM
5463* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
5464 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
5465 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
f268ab5f 5466
8f5e8b01
JM
5467Security related changes:
5468
6400ae6e
FW
5469* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
5470 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
5471
5472* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
5473 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
5474 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
5475 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
5476 (CVE-2015-8777)
5477
5478* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
5479 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
5480
5481* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
5482 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
5483
8f5e8b01
JM
5484* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
5485 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 5486 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
8f5e8b01 5487
e9db92d3
CD
5488* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
5489 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
5490 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
5491 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
5492 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
5493 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
5494 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
5495 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
5496 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
5497 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
5498 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
5499 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
5500 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
5501
ad372e29 5502The following bugs are resolved with this release:
f268ab5f 5503
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5504 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
5505 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
5506 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
5507 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
5508 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
5509 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
5510 use `mkstemp'
5511 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
7f0d9e61 5512 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doesn't set errno on
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5513 overflow/underflow errors
5514 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
5515 overflow/underflow
5516 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
5517 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
5518 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
5519 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
5520 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
5521 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
5522 are not contiguous
5523 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
5524 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
5525 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
5526 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
5527 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
5528 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
5529 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
5530 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
5531 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
5532 all exceptions
5533 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
5534 arguments
5535 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
5536 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
5537 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
5538 should include
5539 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
5540 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
5541 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
5542 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
5543 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
5544 GNU/Linux
5545 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
5546 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
5547 arguments
5548 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
5549 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
5550 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
5551 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
5552 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
5553 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
5554 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
5555 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
5556 rounding results
5557 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
5558 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
5559 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
5560 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
5561 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
5562 fails
5563 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
5564 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
5565 block boundary
5566 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
5567 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
5568 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
5569 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
5570 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
5571 4.7?
5572 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
5573 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
5574 (related to lock elision)
5575 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
5576 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
5577 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
5578 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
5579 (CVE-2015-8779)
5580 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
5581 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
5582 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
5583 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
5584 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
5585 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
5586 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
5587 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
5588 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
5589 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
5590 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
5591 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
5592 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
5593 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
5594 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
5595 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
5596 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
5597 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
5598 contains a vector instruction exception.
5599 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
5600 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
5601 locales
5602 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
5603 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
5604 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
5605 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
5606 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
5607 missing break ?
5608 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
5609 32bit processes
5610 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
5611 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
5612 infinity
5613 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
5614 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
5615 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
5616 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
5617 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
5618 be forced unloaded
5619 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
5620 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
5621 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
5622 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
5623 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
5624 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
5625 statically too large
5626 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
5627 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
5628 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
5629 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
5630 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
5631 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
5632 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
5633 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
5634 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
5635 FUTEX_SHARED
5636 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
5637 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
5638 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
5639 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
5640 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
5641 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
5642 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
5643 opendir()
5644 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
5645 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
5646 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
5647 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
5648 signgam
5649 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
5650 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
5651 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
5652 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
5653 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
5654 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
5655 dependencies
5656 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
5657 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
5658 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
5659 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
5660 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
5661 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
5662 (CVE-2015-8776)
5663 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
5664 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
5665 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
5666 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
5667 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
5668 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
5669 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
5670 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
5671 contention
5672 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
5673 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
5674 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
5675 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
5676 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
5677 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
5678 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
5679 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
5680 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
5681 rounding modes
5682 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
5683 ILP32
5684 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
5685 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
5686 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
5687 threshold
5688 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
5689 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
5690 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
7f0d9e61 5691 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assembler
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5692 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
5693 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
5694 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
5695 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
5696 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
5697 pthread_setaffinity_np
5698 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
5699 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
5700 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
5701 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
5702 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
5703 prelink
5704 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
5705 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
5706 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
5707 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
5708 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
5709 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
5710 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
5711 bits/mathcalls.h
5712 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
5713 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
5714 for C99-based standards
5715 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
5716 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
5717 math-only
5718 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
5719 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
5720 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
5721 disabled
5722 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
5723 "inexact" exceptions
5724 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
5725 arguments
5726 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
5727 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
5728 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
5729 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
5730 rules
5731 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
5732 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
5733 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
5734 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
5735 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
5736 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
5737 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
5738 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
5739 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
5740 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
5741 from 32bit
5742 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
5743 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
5744 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
5745 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
5746 subnormals
5747 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
5748 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
5749 error on 32-bit architectures
5750 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
5751 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
5752 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
5753 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
5754 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
5755 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
5756 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
5757 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
5758 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
5759 -Os
5760 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
5761 CPU's.
5762 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
5763 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
5764 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
5765 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
5766 architectures
5767 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
aeb47bbc 5768\f
1c7a4a51
JM
5769Version 2.22
5770
5771* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5772
3df5cd98 5773 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
0e569d30
MF
5774 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
5775 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
5776 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
5777 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
5778 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
5779 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
5780 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
5781 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
5782 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
5783 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
5784 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
5785 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
5786 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
5787 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
5788 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
5789 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
5790 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
6fdd5d65
FW
5791 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
5792 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
2959eda9 5793
f7fba805
SL
5794* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
5795 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
5796
2959eda9
AS
5797* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
5798 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
5799 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
5800 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
5801 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
5802 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4a4839c9 5803
42261ad7
FW
5804* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
5805 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
5806 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
5807 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
5808 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
5809
afcd9480
AM
5810* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
5811 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
5812 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
5813
4a4839c9
AO
5814* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
5815 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
5816 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
5817 17998.
5818
b13b96ca
AS
5819* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
5820 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
5821 condition in some applications.
21933112
AS
5822
5823* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
a6336cc4
AS
5824 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
5825 pow, powf.
21933112
AS
5826 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
5827 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
037e4b99
AS
5828 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
5829 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 5830 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
fdb7d390
AZ
5831
5832* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
5833 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
5834 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
5835 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
7fde904c
MF
5836
5837* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
5838 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
5839 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
7493ab25
RM
5840
5841* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
5842 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
2ec11c2b
ZW
5843
5844* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
5845 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
5846 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
5847
a03ba363 5848 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
2ec11c2b
ZW
5849 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
5850 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
1c7a4a51 5851\f
58b930ae
SP
5852Version 2.21
5853
5854* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5855
042e1521 5856 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
5bd80bfe
PP
5857 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
5858 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
5859 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
5860 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
5861 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
5862 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
5863 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
5864 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
5865 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
5866 17892.
5867
46d54873
FW
5868* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
5869 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
5870 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
5871 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
5872 intended.
042e1521
CD
5873
5874* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
5875 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
5876 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
5877 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
5878 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
5879 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
a39208bd 5880
522e6ee3
CLT
5881* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
5882
d3b00f46
AZ
5883* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
5884 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 5885 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
96d6fd6c 5886
8d2c0a59
AZ
5887* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
5888 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
5889 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
5890 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
5891 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
5892 effects being visible outside transactions.
5893
dc400d7b
RE
5894* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
5895 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
ec582ca0 5896
0f9dfe04
L
5897* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
5898
a39208bd
CD
5899* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
5900 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
ebda2f17 5901 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
a39208bd
CD
5902 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
5903 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
fb89b46d 5904
a5357b7c
JL
5905* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
5906 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
5907
e54db0ea
AM
5908* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
5909 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
5910 format.
11e3417a 5911
4863355a
JM
5912* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
5913 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
5914 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
5915
a4ecc9eb
JM
5916* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
5917 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
5918
0d560bbf 5919* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
0781a777
RM
5920
5921* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
5922 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
5923 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
5924 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
6d248857
WN
5925
5926* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
5927 with newer versions of bison.
28c38448
MF
5928
5929* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
5930 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
5931 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
5932 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
5933 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
5934 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
5935 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
5936 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
5937 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
5938 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
5939 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
5940 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
5941 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
5942
5943 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
5944 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
5945 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
5946 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
5947 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
58b930ae 5948\f
d5b396c1
AM
5949Version 2.20
5950
5951* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5952
6a9350c8
JM
5953 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
5954 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
5955 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
5956 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
5957 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
5958 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
5959 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
5960 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
5961 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
5962 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
5963 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
5964 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
5965 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
5966 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
5967 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
0961f7e1 5968
95ee7fb1
SL
5969* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
5970 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
5971 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
5972 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
5973 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 5974 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
95ee7fb1
SL
5975 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
5976 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
5977 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
5978 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
5979
0961f7e1
JL
5980* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
5981 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
5982 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
5983 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
5984 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
f3d338c9 5985
f940b965
RE
5986* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5987
d0f5b3f8
JM
5988* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
5989 can be used with is 2.6.32.
5990
d6fe5e58
JM
5991* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
5992 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
5993 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
5994 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
5995 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
5996 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
5997
464263cc
JM
5998* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
5999 from ports.
c941736c
JM
6000
6001* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
6002 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
6003 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
6004 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
6005 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
6006 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
6007 test macros defined.
f63c86fe
WN
6008
6009* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5a414ff7
DV
6010
6011* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
6012 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
6013 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
6014 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
6015 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
6016 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
6017 is not built.
d03efb2f
AM
6018
6019* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
6020 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
6021 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
6022 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
6023 invocation.
cfd2ea50
JM
6024
6025* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
6026 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
6027 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
f083450f
RM
6028
6029* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
6030 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
6031 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
6032 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
4e8f95a0
FW
6033
6034* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
6035 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
6036 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
6037 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
6038 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
6039 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
6040 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
6041 additional checks.
9a8a5720
RM
6042
6043* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
6044 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
6045 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
6046 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
6047 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
6048 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
6049 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
6050 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
6051 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
a1a6a401
FW
6052
6053* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
6054 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
6055 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
6056 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
6057 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 6058 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
41488498
FW
6059
6060* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
6061 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
6062 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
6063 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
6c1fd795
DM
6064\f
6065Version 2.19
6066
6067* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6068
fd2f9486
JM
6069 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
6070 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
6071 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
6072 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
6073 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
6074 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
6075 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
6076 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
6077 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
6078 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
ed27ed83
JM
6079 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
6080 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
6081 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
6082 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
6083 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
798212a0
PP
6084 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
6085 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
6086 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
141f3a77 6087
11520a57
CD
6088* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
6089 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
6090
2fe16229
CD
6091* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
6092 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
6093 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
08d76093
CD
6094 extension which uses __block.
6095
303e567a
SP
6096* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
6097 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
6098 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
6099 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
6100 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
6101
141f3a77
SP
6102* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
6103 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
6104 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
6105 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
6106 if malloc fails.
c61b4d41
CD
6107
6108* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
6109 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
6110 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
6111 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
6112 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
91ce4085
FW
6113
6114* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
6115 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
6116 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
6117
ba0d798c
WN
6118* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
6119 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
6120 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
6121 #15856, #15857).
6122
7cbcdb36
SP
6123* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
6124 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
6125
82bab04b 6126* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 6127 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
ddd9fb8f 6128
c5f840fd
MB
6129* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
6130
3e181dda
CD
6131* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
6132 supported locales.
ddd9fb8f 6133
3e181dda 6134* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
7447ccd9 6135
8a05c252
CL
6136* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
6137
6055173a
JM
6138* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
6139 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
6140 for which the C library was built.
6141
b125d3e5
JM
6142* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
6143 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
6144 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
6145 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
6146 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
6147 in the following circumstances:
6148
6149 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
6150
6151 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
6152 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
6153
d4f66d37
JM
6154* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
6155 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
6156
3e181dda
CD
6157* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
6158 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
e35696c3 6159
ffb89e53
AO
6160* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
6161
5d29ccce
SP
6162* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
6163 transcendental functions have been introduced.
6164
8b7d57cd 6165* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
b125d3e5
JM
6166
6167* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 6168
fd712ef3 6169* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 6170
c688b419
JM
6171* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
6172 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
6173 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
6174 disable some of those declarations.
6175
7011c262 6176* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
029c7b25
JM
6177 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
6178 that did nothing) has also been removed.
0a57b83e
AO
6179
6180* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
6181 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
ee4ec1d7
AK
6182
6183* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
6184 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
6185 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
6186 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
6187 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
6188 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
6189 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
6190 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
6191 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
6192 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
6193 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
6194 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
6195 require recompilation.
2c8bfe7d
DM
6196\f
6197Version 2.18
6198
6199* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6200
17db6e8d 6201 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
0432680e
PY
6202 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
6203 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
8c17cb1f
JM
6204 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
6205 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
6206 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
6207 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
6208 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
6209 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
6210 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
6211 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
6212 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
6213 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
6214 15755, 15759.
e4608715
CD
6215
6216* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
6217 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
6218 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
6219 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
6220 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
6221 understands and accepts the risks.
1cef1b19 6222
5b535ac4
AS
6223* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
6224 #15078).
6225
1cef1b19
AS
6226* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
6227 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
7fffbdff 6228
55e4107b
SP
6229* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
6230 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
6231 destructor calls to glibc.
6232
e5c74c63
SP
6233* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
6234 output.
6235
6236* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
6237 non-x86 architectures.
6238
e7521973
JM
6239* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
6240
6241* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
6242
6243* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
6244 Richard Henderson.
6245
6246* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
6247
6248* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
6249 Richard Henderson.
6250
6251* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
6252 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
6253
8cfdb7e0
SP
6254* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
6255
57267616
TS
6256* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
6257 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
58206c68 6258
c204ab28
SP
6259* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
6260 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
61dd6208 6261
0748546f
PE
6262* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
6263 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
6264 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
6265
61dd6208
SP
6266* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
6267 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
6268 attributes of a process.
a7cb9d67
AK
6269
6270* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
6271 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
6272 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
6273 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
6274 mutexes.
be063fa4
RA
6275
6276* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
6277 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
6278
6279* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
370ca3d2
JM
6280\f
6281Version 2.17
6282
6283* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6284
80ceeaee 6285 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
b4180a5e
AJ
6286 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
6287 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
6288 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
6289 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
6290 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
6291 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
6292 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
6293 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
6294 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
6295 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
6296 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
6297 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
6298 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
6299 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
14bc93a9 6300
95b4f1b6
SE
6301* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
6302
14bc93a9
JL
6303* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
6304 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
7a845b2c 6305
b54eb3cb
JM
6306* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
6307 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
6308
7e2bd01f
MS
6309* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
6310
08f43f9b
AK
6311* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
6312 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
6313 zEnterprise z196.
6314 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
6315
84b3fd84
FW
6316* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
6317 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
6318 the internal function __secure_getenv.
6319
815e6fa3
GB
6320* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
6321 Implemented by Gary Benson.
6322
400726de
MK
6323* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
6324 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
6325
7aab07e4 6326* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 6327 can be used with is 2.6.16.
7aab07e4 6328
15d0da8c
WS
6329* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
6330 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
6331
3cc3ef96
RM
6332* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
6333 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
c53d909c
RM
6334 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
6335 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3cc3ef96 6336
b54eb3cb
JM
6337* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
6338 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
6339
85429b1a 6340* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 6341 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
85429b1a
DM
6342 default.
6343
b54eb3cb
JM
6344* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
6345 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
6346 information in --help and --version output.
6347
050af9c4
SP
6348* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
6349 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
6350 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
6351
89a3ad0b
AO
6352* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
6353 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
6354 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
6355 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
6356 when the mode is enabled.
6357
6e6249d0
RM
6358* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
6359 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
6360 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
6361 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
6362 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
6363 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
6364 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5a04f376 6365
d9286582
NK
6366* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
6367 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
8d44e150
UD
6368\f
6369Version 2.16
6370
6371* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6372
a8133e19
JM
6373 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
6374 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
6375 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
6376 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
6377 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
6378 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
6379 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
6380 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
6381 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
6382 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
6383 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
6384 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
6385 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
6386 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
6387 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
6388 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
6389 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
6390 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
6391 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
6392 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
6393 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
6394 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
6395 14277, 14278.
380d7e87 6396
a086b4d6
L
6397* Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
6398 configuring glibc with:
6399 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
8f7a75d7 6400 Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
a086b4d6
L
6401 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
6402
380d7e87
UD
6403* ISO C11 support:
6404
6405 + define static_assert
6406
6407 + do not declare gets
6408
6409 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
6410
6411 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
6412 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
6413 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
6414 implementation.
8d44e150 6415
74033a25 6416 + timespec_get added
544563c9
UD
6417
6418 + uchar.h support added
d75a0a62 6419
ac097f5c
UD
6420 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
6421
16dd419d
UD
6422 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6423
9dc4e1fb 6424* Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
33808bf1
UD
6425
6426* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
d9a216c0
UD
6427
6428* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
6429 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
daa891c0
UD
6430
6431* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
6432 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
021db4be
AJ
6433
6434* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
6435 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
6436 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
6437 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
6438 existing applications.
ffb7875d 6439
21708942 6440* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
ffb7875d
JM
6441 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
6442 before 2.6.
83678f76 6443
edb00e4d
RH
6444* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
6445 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
6446 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
6447
83678f76 6448* New locales: mag_IN
7b44a2df
RM
6449
6450* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
6451 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
6452 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
6453 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
6454 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
47e452cf
JM
6455
6456* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
6457
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
6458* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
6459 and Will Schmidt.
47e452cf
JM
6460
6461* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
6462
6463* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
6464 without a previously built glibc.
6465
6466* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
6467 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
6468
6469* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
6470 now supported for ARM processors.
6471
6472* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
6473 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
6474 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
6475
6476* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
6477
6478* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
6479 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
6480 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
6481 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
929cc14e
AJ
6482
6483* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
6484 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
6485 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
6486 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
ee9247c3
CD
6487
6488* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
6489 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
6490 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
6491 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
6492 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
6493
6494* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
6495 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
6496 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
6497 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
ee1a7fab 6498\f
e80fab37 6499Version 2.15
11988f8f 6500
c0244a9d
UD
6501* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6502
aebae053
UD
6503 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
6504 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
6505 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
6506 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
6507 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
6508 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
6509 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
c0244a9d 6510
11988f8f
UD
6511* New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
6512 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
9f2da732
UD
6513
6514* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
6515 and support for initgroups lookups.
6516 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
0b1cbaae
L
6517
6518* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
6519 Contributed by HJ Lu.
8912479f
L
6520
6521* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
6522 Contributed by HJ Lu.
99710781 6523
fc2ee42a
LD
6524* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
6525 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 6526 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 6527
d42964a0 6528* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
693fb948
LD
6529 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
6530
1d3e4b61
UD
6531* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
6532 for x86-64 and x86-32.
093ecf92
LD
6533 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
6534
c55fbd1e
UD
6535* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
6536 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a0f33f99
UD
6537
6538* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
6539 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
684ae515
UD
6540
6541* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
6542 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
0ac5ae23
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6543
6544* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
6545 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6547* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
6548 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6549
6550* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
6551 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6553* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
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6555* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
6556 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6558* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
6559 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
2655fd5c 6560
6b64057b 6561* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
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6565* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6566
553149f6 6567 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 6568 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 6569 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 6570 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
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6572 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
6573 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
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6574 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
6575 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 6576 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
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6578* The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
6579 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
6580 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 6581 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
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6583 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
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6584 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
6585 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
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6586 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6587
c6489db3 6588* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
f1f929d7 6589 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
83fe108b 6590
72d1dddb 6591* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 6592 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
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6594* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
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6596* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
6597 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6599* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
6600 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
6601 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
6602 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
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6605
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6607
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6609 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
6610 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
6611 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
6612 12378, 12394, 12397
ac2b484c 6613
10b3bedc 6614* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
c08fb0d7 6615
ac2b484c 6616* POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
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6618* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
6619 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 6620 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6622Version 2.12
6623
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6625
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6626 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
6627 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
6628 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
6629 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
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6630 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
6631 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
6632 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 6633 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
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6635* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
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6637* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
6638
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6639* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
6640
6641* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
6642 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
6643 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6644
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6646 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
6647 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
6648 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
6649 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6650
d36b9613 6651* New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
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6653Version 2.11
6654
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6655* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6656
6657 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
6658 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
6659 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
6660 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
6661 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
6662 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
6663
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6664* New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
6665 mkostemps64
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6666 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6667
24ab9c76 6668* Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
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6669 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6670
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6671* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
6672 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
6673
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6674* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
6675
0122f28e 6676* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
9d36a6c4 6677 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 6678 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
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6679 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
6680
9d36a6c4 6681 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
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6682 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6683
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6684* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
6685 strstr, strcasestr.
6686 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
6687
6688* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
6689 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
6690
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6691* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
6692 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
6693
6694* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
6695 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6696
6697* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
6698 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
6699 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
6700 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
6701 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
6702 necessity is every process again.
6703 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6704
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6705* New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
6706 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
6707
6708* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
6709 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
6710
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6711* Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
6712 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
6713 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6714
9dd5b8a1 6715* New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
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6717Version 2.10
6718
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6719* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6720
6721 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
6722 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
6723 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
6724 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
6725 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
6726
bb066545 6727* New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
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6728 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6729
425ce2ed 6730* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
e109c612 6731 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 6732
1fdd89a7 6733* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
735be400 6734 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
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6736* XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
6737 now in POSIX.
77db439e 6738
1f04d005 6739* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6cbe890a 6740 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1f04d005 6741
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6742* New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
6743 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6744
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6745* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
6746 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6747
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6748* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
6749 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6750
6751* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
6752 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
6753 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6754
735be400 6755* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
878b72c5 6756
84aa52d7 6757* Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
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6758 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6759
6760* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
6761 and extend existing format specifiers.
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6762 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6763
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6764* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
6765 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6766
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6767* DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
6768 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
6769 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
6770 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
6771 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
6772 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6774Version 2.9
6775
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6776* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6777
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6778 2447, 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447,
6779 6461, 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712,
6780 6713, 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839,
6781 6843, 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955,
6782 6966, 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
d36b9613 6783
b29899ae 6784* Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
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6785 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6786
6787* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
6788 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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6790* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
6791 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6793* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
6794 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
6795 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6796
6797* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
6798 Implemented by Eric Blake.
e038616f 6799
8ec2550e 6800* New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
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6801
6802* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
ebcc1f4d 6803 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6805* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
6806 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
6807 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
6808 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6809
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6810* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
6811 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6813* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
6814 Sinhala)
48b22986 6815 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
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6817* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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6819Version 2.8
6820
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6821* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6822
6823 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
6824 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
6825 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
6826 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
6827 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
6828 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
6829 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
6830
e038616f 6831* New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
b4354cf4 6832
77751669 6833* New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
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6835* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
6836 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
6837
6838* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
6839
6840* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
6841 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6842
6843* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
6844 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6845
6846* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
6847 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
6848 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
6849
6850* Faster memset for x86-64.
6851 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
6852
6853* Faster memcpy on x86.
6854 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6855
6856* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
6857 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3b32d8a2 6858
7f0d9e61 6859* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implementation for some PPC variants.
d990b282 6860 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
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6863
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6864* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6865
6866 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
6867 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
6868 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
6869 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
6870 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
6871
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6872* More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
6873 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
6874
6875* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
6876
6877* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
6878 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
6879 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
6880
6881* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
6882 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
6883
28919a77 6884* New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
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6885 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6886
6887* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6888
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6889* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
6890 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6891
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6892* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
6893 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
6894
6895* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
6896 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
6897
6898* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6899
6900* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
6901 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6903* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
6904 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
6905 yo_NG.
6906
6907+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
6908 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6913
6914 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
6915 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
6916 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
6917 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
6918 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
6919 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
6920 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
6921 4702, 4858
6922
bce20b9a 6923* New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
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6926
b21fa963 6927* nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6929Version 2.5
6930
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6931* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6932
6933 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
6934 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
6935 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
6936 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
6937 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
6938 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
6939 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
6940 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
6941 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
6942
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6944 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
6945 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6947* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
6948 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6949
871b9158 6950* New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
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6951
6952* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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6954* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
6955 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
6956 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
457b559e 6957 site might have problems with the default behavior.
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6958 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6959
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6961 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
6962 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
6963 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6964
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6965* The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
6966 Ulrich Drepper.
6967
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6968* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
6969
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6970* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
6971 Ulrich Drepper.
6972
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6973* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
6974
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6975* New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
6976 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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6978Version 2.4
6979
6980* More overflow detection functions.
6981
6982* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
6983 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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6985 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
6986 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
6987 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
6988 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
6989 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
6990 by Masahide Washizawa.
6991
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6992* It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
6993 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6994
6995* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
6996 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
6997 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
6998 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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7000* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
7001 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
7002
7003* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
7004
7005* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
7006 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
7007 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
7008
7009* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
7010 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
7011
7012* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
7013 for compatibility with some other systems.
7014
7015* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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7017Version 2.3.6
7018
7019* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
7020
7021 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
7022 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
7023 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
7024 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
7025 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
7026 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
7027
5a82c748 7028 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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7029
7030* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
7031
7032* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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7034Version 2.3.5
7035
7036* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
7037
7038 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
7039 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
7040 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
7041 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
7042
5a82c748 7043 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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7045Version 2.3.4
7046
7047* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
7048 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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7049
7050* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
7051 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
7052 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7053
7054* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
7055 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
7056
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7058 efficiently.
7059 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7060
7061* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
7062 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
7063 handling data.
7064
7065* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
7066 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
0325dd20 7067 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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7069* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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7070 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7071
7072* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
7073 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
7074 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
7075 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7076
7077* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
7078 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
7079 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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7080 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
7081
7082* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
7083 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
7084 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
7085 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
7086 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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7088Version 2.3.3
7089
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7090* New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
7091 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
7092
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7093* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
7094 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
925c3c5c 7095
69be6aaf 7096* getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
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7097 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
7098
7099* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
7100 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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7102* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
7103 by Roland McGrath.
7104
c5af724c 7105* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
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7106 and Ulrich Drepper.
7107
7108* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
7109 RFC 3484.
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7111Version 2.3.2
7112
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7113* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
7114 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
7115 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
7116 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
7117 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
7118 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
7119 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
7120 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
7121 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
7122
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7123* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
7124 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
7125 and are now also available on the Hurd.
7126
7127* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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7128
7129* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
7130 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
52a16e58 7131
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7132* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
7133 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
7134
52a16e58 7135* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
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7137* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
7138 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
9ef0a840 7139
7f0d9e61 7140* With appropriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
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7141 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
7142 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
7143 of weak definition in ld.so.
7144
7145* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
7146 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
7147
7148* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
7149 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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7153* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
7154 charsets.
7155
7156* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
7157 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
47e8b443 7158
bb0ec5bd 7159* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 7160 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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7161
7162* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
7163 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
8e57fc70 7164
bb0ec5bd 7165* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
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7166 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
7167 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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7168
7169* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
7170 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3b0bdc72 7171
bb0ec5bd 7172* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3b0bdc72 7173 implementation of regex.
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7174
7175* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
7176 Unicode 3.2.
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7178* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
7179 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
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7181* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
7182 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
7183 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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7184
7185* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
f87277f2 7186 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
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7187
7188* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
7189 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
7190 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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7191
7192* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
7193 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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7194
7195* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
7196 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
7197 and Ulrich Drepper.
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7198
7199* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
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7201Version 2.2.6
7202
7203* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
7204 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
7205
7206* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
7207 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
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7209Version 2.2.5
7210
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7211* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
7212 128-bit long double format.
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7214* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
7215 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
a8ae31c2 7216
ad2e4f18 7217* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
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7219* Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
7220
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7221* libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
7222 as well.
7223
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7224* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
7225 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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7226
7227* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
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7229Version 2.2.4
7230
2995f70e 7231* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 7232 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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7233
7234* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
7235 support Unicode 3.1.
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7236
7237* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
7238 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
045fcd26 7239
69d5f925 7240* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 7241
69d5f925 7242* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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7243 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
7244 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
7245
7246* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
7247 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
7248
7249* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
7250 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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7251
7252* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
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7254Version 2.2.3
7255
1746f2b0 7256* Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
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7257 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
7258 in float, double, and long double format.
7259
f128331c 7260* Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
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7261 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
7262 128-bit long double format.
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7264* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
7265 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
7266 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
7267 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
7268
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7269* An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
7270 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
7271 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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7272
7273* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
7274 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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7275
7276* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
7277 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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7279* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
7280 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
7281 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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7282
7283* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
7284 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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7285
7286* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
7287 of functions for Linux/x86.
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7288
7289* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
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7291Version 2.2.2
7292
464d97ec 7293* Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
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7294 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
7295 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
7296 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
7297 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
7298 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
7299 other headers.
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7301* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
7302 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
7303
7304* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
7305 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
7306 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
7307 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
7308
7309* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
7310 locales. While
7311
7312 locale -a
7313
7314 only lists the names of the supported locales
7315
7316 locale -a --verbose
7317
7318 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
7319 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
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7322
7323* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
7324 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
7325 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
7326 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
7327 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
7328
7329 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
7330
7331 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
7332
7333 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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7334
7335* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
7336 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
7337 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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7339* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
7340 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
7341
7342* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
7343 changed from the default "C" locale.
7344
7345* The usual bug fixes.
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7347Version 2.2
7348
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7349* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
7350 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
7351 is in progress.
7352
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7353* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
7354
793bd4d9 7355* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
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7357 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
7358 obviously requires a database library being available.
7359
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7360* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7361
abbffdf9 7362* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
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7364* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
7365 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
7366
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7367* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
7368
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7369* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
7370 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
7371 and Mark Kettenis.
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7372
7373 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
7374 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
7375 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 7376
a00c3ca9 7377 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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7378 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
7379
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7380* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
7381 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
7382 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
7383
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7384* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
7385 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
7386 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
7387 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7388
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7389 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
7390 structures for the wide character tables.
7391
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7392* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7393
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7394* The utmp daemon has been removed.
7395
7396* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
7397
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7398* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
7399 and Yutaka Niibe.
7400
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7401* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
7402
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7403* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
7404
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7405* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7406
7407* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
7408
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7409* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
7410
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7411* the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
7412 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
7413 implemented for Linux.
7414
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7415* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
7416 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
7417 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
7418 versions.
7419
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7420* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
7421 Masahide Washizawa.
7422
8f3f1e09 7423* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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7425Version 2.1.3
7426
7427* bug fixes
7428
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7430Version 2.1.2
7431
7432* bug fixes
7433
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7435Version 2.1.1
7436
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7437* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
7438
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7439* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
7440
407d26b7 7441* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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7442
7443* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
7444
407d26b7 7445* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 7446
407d26b7 7447* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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7448
7449* Update timezone data files.
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7451* lots of charmaps corrections
7452
7453* some new locale definitions and charmaps
7454
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7456Version 2.1
7457
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7458* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
7459 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
7460 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
7461 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
7462 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
7463 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
7464
c84142e8 7465* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 7466 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 7467
1fb05e3d 7468* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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7469 symbol level.
7470
7f0d9e61 7471* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierarchical
c84142e8 7472 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
377a515b 7473
cbdee279 7474* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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7475
7476* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 7477 numbers.
377a515b 7478
cbdee279 7479* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
e61abf83 7480
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7481* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
7482 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
e61abf83 7483
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7484* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
7485 library.
7486
e61abf83 7487* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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7488 functions from ISO C 9X.
7489
7490* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
7491 real valued functions.
e61abf83 7492
a5a0310d 7493* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
e61abf83 7494
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7495* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
7496
7497* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 7498
440d13e2 7499* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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7501* Optimized string functions have been added.
7502
7503* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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7505* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
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7508 daemon for NSS (nscd).
7509
7510 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
7511 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
7512
0dee6738 7513 user system wall
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0dee6738 7515 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 7516
0dee6738 7517 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 7518
0dee6738 7519 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
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7521 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
7522
7523 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
7524
7525 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
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7528 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
0dee6738 7529 horribly slow.
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7532 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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7534* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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7536* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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7537
7538* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
7539 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
7540
7541* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
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7543* A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
7544 Bambrough.
7545
7546* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
7547 latest draft standards.
7548
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7550
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7551* Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
7552~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
62595351 7553addseverity NEW: Unix98
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7555argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
7556argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
7557argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
7558argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
7559argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
7560argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
7561argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
7562argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
7563argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
7564argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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7565authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
7566authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
7567authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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7568backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
7569backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
7570backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
7571cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
7572cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
7573cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
7574cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
7575cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
7576cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
7577capget NEW: kernel
7578capset NEW: kernel
7579carg NEW: ISO C 9x
7580cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
7581cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
7582casin NEW: ISO C 9x
7583casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
7584casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
7585casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
7586casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
7587casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
7588catan NEW: ISO C 9x
7589catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
7590catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
7591catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
7592catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
7593catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
e980ca92 7594cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
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7595ccos NEW: ISO C 9x
7596ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
7597ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
7598ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
7599ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
7600ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
7601cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
7602cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
7603cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
7604cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
7605cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
7606cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
7607clearerr_locked REMOVED
7608clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
7609clog NEW: ISO C 9x
7610clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
7611clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
7612clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
7613clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
7614clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
7615conj NEW: ISO C 9x
7616conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
7617conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
7618cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
7619cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
7620cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
7621cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
7622cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
7623cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
7624creal NEW: ISO C 9x
7625crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
7626creall NEW: ISO C 9x
7627creat64 NEW: LFS
7628csin NEW: ISO C 9x
7629csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
7630csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
7631csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
7632csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
7633csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
7634csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
7635csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
7636csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
7637ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
7638ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
7639ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
7640ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
7641ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
7642ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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7643des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
7644ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 7645endutxent NEW: Unix98
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7646exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x
7647exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
7648exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
7649exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
7650exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
7651exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
7652fattach NEW: STREAMS
7653fdetach NEW: STREAMS
7654fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
7655fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
7656fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
7657feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
7658fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
7659fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
7660fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
7661feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
7662feof_locked REMOVED
7663feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
7664ferror_locked REMOVED
7665fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
7666fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
7667fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
7668fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
7669feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
7670fflush_locked REMOVED
7671ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
7672ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
7673fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
7674fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
7675fileno_locked REMOVED
7676fma NEW: ISO C 9x
7677fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
7678fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
7679fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
7680fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
7681fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
7682fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
7683fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
7684fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
62595351 7685fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
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7686fopen64 NEW: LFS
7687fputc_locked REMOVED
7688fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
7689fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
7690freopen64 NEW: LFS
7691fseeko NEW: Unix98
7692fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
7693fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
7694fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
7695fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
7696ftello NEW: Unix98
7697ftello64 NEW: LFS
7698ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
7699ftw64 NEW: LFS
7700fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
7701gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
7702gamma_r REMOVED
7703gammaf_r REMOVED
7704gammal_r REMOVED
7705getchar_locked REMOVED
7706getdate NEW: Unix98
7707getdate_err NEW: Unix98
7708getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
7709getmsg NEW: STREAMS
7710getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
e980ca92 7711getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
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7712getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
7713getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
7714getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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7715getutxent NEW: Unix98
7716getutxid NEW: Unix98
7717getutxline NEW: Unix98
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7718glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
7719globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
7720gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
7721gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
7722grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
e980ca92 7723host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
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7724iconv NEW: iconv
7725iconv_close NEW: iconv
7726iconv_open NEW: iconv
7727if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
7728if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
7729if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
7730if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
7731in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
7732in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
7733inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
7734isastream NEW: STREAMS
7735iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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7736key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
7737key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
7738key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
7739key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
7740key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
7741key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
7742key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
7743key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
7744key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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7745llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
7746llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
7747llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
7748llround NEW: ISO C 9x
7749llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
7750llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
7751log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
7752log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
7753log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
7754lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
7755lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
7756lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
7757lround NEW: ISO C 9x
7758lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
7759lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
7760lseek64 NEW: LFS
7761makecontext NEW: Unix98
7762mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
7763mmap64 NEW: LFS
7764moncontrol REMOVED
7765modify_ldt NEW: kernel
7766nan NEW: ISO C 9x
7767nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
7768nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
7769nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
7770nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
7771nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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7772netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
7773netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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7774nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
7775nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
7776nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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7777nftw NEW: Unix98
7778nftw64 NEW: LFS
7779open64 NEW: LFS
e980ca92 7780passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
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7781pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
7782pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
7783pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
7784pread NEW: Unix98
7785pread64 NEW: LFS
7786printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
7787printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
7788profil_counter REMOVED
7789pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
7790pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
7791ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
7792ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
7793putc_locked REMOVED
7794putchar_locked REMOVED
7795putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
7796putmsg NEW: STREAMS
7797putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
62595351 7798pututxline NEW: Unix98
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7799pwrite NEW: Unix98
7800pwrite64 NEW: LFS
7801readdir64 NEW: LFS
7802readdir64_r NEW: LFS
7803remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
7804remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
7805remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
7806round NEW: ISO C 9x
7807roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
7808roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
7809rtime NEW: GNU ext.
7810scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
7811scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
7812scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
7813scandir64 NEW: LFS
7814sendfile NEW: kernel
7815setcontext NEW: Unix98
7816setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 7817setutxent NEW: Unix98
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7818sighold NEW: Unix98
7819sigignore NEW: Unix98
7820sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
7821sigrelse NEW: Unix98
7822sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
7823sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
7824sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
7825sincos NEW: GNU ext.
7826sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
7827sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
7828statfs64 NEW: LFS
7829statvfs NEW: Unix98
7830statvfs64 NEW: LFS
7831strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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7832strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
7833strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
7834strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
e980ca92 7835svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
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7836svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
7837svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
7838swapcontext NEW: Unix98
7839tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
7840tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
7841tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
7842tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
7843tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
7844tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
7845trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
7846truncate64 NEW: LFS
7847truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
7848truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
7849umount2 NEW: kernel
7850unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 7851updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 7852user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 7853utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 7854versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
3ef4002b 7855versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
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7856waitid NEW: Unix98
7857wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
7858wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
7859wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
7860wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
7861wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
7862wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
7863wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
7864wcswcs NEW: Unix98
7865wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
7866wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
7867write_profiling REMOVED
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7869xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
7870xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
7871xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
7872xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
7873xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
7874xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
7875xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
7876xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
7877xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
7878xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
7879xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
7880xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 7881xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
e980ca92 7882xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
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7885Version 2.0.6
7886
7887* more bug fixes
7888
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7890Version 2.0.5
7891
7892* more bug fixes
7893
7894* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
7895
7896* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
7897
7898* rewrite of cbrt function
7899
7900* update of timezone data
7901\f
7902Version 2.0.4
7903
7904* more bug fixes
7905\f
7906Version 2.0.3
7907
7908* more bug fixes
c84142e8 7909\f
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7911
7912* more bug fixes
7913
7914* add atoll function
7915
7916* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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7918* fix math functions
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7920Version 2.0.1
7921
7922* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
7923
7924* dynamic loader preserves all registers
7925
7926* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
7927 the ELF dynamic loader.
7928
7929* support for parallel builds is improved
7930\f
40a4b79f 7931Version 2.0
28f540f4 7932
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7933* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
7934 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
7935 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
7936
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7937* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
7938 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
7939 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
7940 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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7941 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
7942 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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7943 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
7944 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
7945 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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7946 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
7947 files in the ELF format.
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7948
7949* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
7950 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
7951
7952* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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7953 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
7954 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
7955 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
7956 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
7957 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
7958 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
7959 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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7960 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
7961 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
7962 about dynamically linked binaries.
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7964* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
7965 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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7966 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
7967 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
7968 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 7969
f7eac6eb 7970* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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7972 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
7973 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
7974 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
7975
7976* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
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7979 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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7980 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
7981 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
7982 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
7983 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
7984 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
7985 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
7986 NSS services available.
5f0e6fc7 7987
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7988* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
7989 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
7990 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
7991
7992* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
7993 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
7994 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
7995
7996* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
7997 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
7998 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
7999 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
8000
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8002 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
8003 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
8004
8005* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
8006 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
8007 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
8008
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8010 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
8011
f7eac6eb 8012* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 8013 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 8014 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
7f0d9e61 8015 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendment 1 specification.
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8017* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
8018 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
8019 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 8020
71733723 8021* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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8022 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
8023 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
8024 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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8025 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
8026 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 8027 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 8028 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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8029
8030* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
8031 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
8032 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
8033 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
8034 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
8035 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
8036 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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8037
8038* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
8039 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
8040 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
8041 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
8042 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
8043 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
8044
8045* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
8046 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
8047
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8049 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
8050 NSS scheme used in glibc.
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8052* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
8053
8054* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
8055 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
8056 their use is discouraged.
8057
8058* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
8059 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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8061* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
8062 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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8063
8064* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
8065 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
8066
8067* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
8068 see <dirent.h>.
8069
8070* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
8071 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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8072 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
8073 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
8074 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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8075
8076* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
8077 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
8078 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
8079 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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8080
8081* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
8082 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
8083
8084* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
8085 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
8086 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
8087 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
8088 number generator.
8089
8090* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
8091 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
8092
8093* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
8094 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
8095
71733723 8096* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 8097 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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8098 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
8099 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
c709e372 8100
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8101* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
8102
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8103* David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
8104 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
8105 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
8106
8107* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
8108 for arithmetic and string handling.
d3669add 8109
c709e372 8110* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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8111 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
8112 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
8113 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
8114
8115* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
8116 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
8117 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
8118 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
8119 programs already written to use it.)
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8120
8121* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
8122 constants.
8123
8124* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
8125 with 4.4 BSD.
8126
8127* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
8128 a given effective group ID.
8129
8130* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
8131 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
8132 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
8133 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
8134
8135* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 8136 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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8137 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
8138 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
8139 doing the same thing.
8140
8141* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
8142 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
8143
8144* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 8145 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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8146
8147* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
8148
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8149* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
8150 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
8151 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 8152 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 8153 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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8154
8155* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
8156 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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8157
8158* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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8159 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
8160 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
8161 function.
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8162
8163* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
8164
8165* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
8166 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
8167 strings.
8168
8169* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
8170 and writing the utmp file.
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8171
8172* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
8173 Thorsten Kukuk.
8174
8175* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
8176 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
8177 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
8178
8179* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
8180 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
8181
8182* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
8183 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
8184 specification.
8185
8186* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
8187 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
8188 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
8189 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
8190
8191* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
8192 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
8193 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
8194
8195* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
8196 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
8197 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
8198 expression matcher.
8199
8200* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
8201 functionality.
8202
8203* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
8204 by Ulrich Drepper.
8205
8206* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
8207
8208* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
8209 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
8210 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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8212Version 1.09
8213
8214* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
8215
8216* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
8217 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
8218
8219* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
8220 want to put themselves in the background.
8221
8222* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
8223 run without an operating system.
8224
8225* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
8226 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
8227
8228* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
8229 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
8230
8231* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
8232
8233* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
8234 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
8235 have YP (aka NIS).
8236
8237* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
8238 conventions.
8239
8240* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
8241 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
8242\f
8243Version 1.08
8244
8245* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
8246 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
8247 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
8248
8249* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
8250 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
8251
8252* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
8253 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
8254
8255* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
8256
8257* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
8258
8259* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
8260 compatibility.
8261
8262* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
8263 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
8264 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
8265
8266* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
8267
8268* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
8269 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
8270 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
8271
8272* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
8273 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
8274 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
8275 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
8276 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
8277 on a block).
8278
8279* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
8280 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
8281 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
8282 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
8283 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
8284 cross-compiler.
8285
8286* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
8287 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
8288\f
8289Version 1.07
8290
8291* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
8292 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
8293
8294* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
8295 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
8296 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
8297
8298* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
8299 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
8300 address of the last character written.
8301
8302* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
8303 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
8304
8305* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
8306 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
8307
8308* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
8309 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
8310 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
8311 you dereference this pointer.
8312
8313* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
8314 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
8315
8316* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
8317 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
8318 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
8319 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
8320
8321* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
8322 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
8323 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
8324 EAGAIN in every system call function.
8325\f
8326Version 1.06
8327
8328* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
8329 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
8330 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
8331 in Emacs or the `info' program.
596dc7b6 8332 Please send comments on the manual to libc-alpha@sourceware.org.
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8333
8334* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
8335
8336* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
8337
8338* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
8339 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
8340
8341* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
8342 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
8343
8344* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
8345 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
8346
8347* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
8348 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
8349 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
8350 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
8351 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
8352
8353* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
8354 to the error code in `errno'.
8355
8356* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
8357 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
8358 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
8359 malloc'd string.
8360
8361* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
8362 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
8363 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
8364
8365* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
8366 uniquely-named temporary file.
8367\f
8368Version 1.05
8369
8370* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
8371 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
8372 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
8373
8374* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
8375 characters.
8376
8377* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
8378 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
8379
8380* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
8381\f
8382Version 1.04
8383
8384* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
8385 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
8386 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
8387 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
8388
8389* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
8390 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
8391 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
8392
8393* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
8394 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
8395
8396* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
8397 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
8398 made itself into a shared library.
8399
8400* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
8401 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
8402
8403* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
8404 with limited length.
8405
8406* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
8407
8408* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
8409
8410* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
8411
8412* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
8413 function for traversing a directory tree.
8414
8415* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
8416 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
8417 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
8418 formatted output directly to an obstack.
8419
8420* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
8421 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
8422
8423* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
8424
8425* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
8426 things to your strings.
8427
8428* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
8429
8430* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
8431 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
8432 supporting those systems.
8433
8434* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
8435 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
8436 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
8437 configuration files.
8438
8439* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
8440 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
8441
8442* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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8443 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
8444 in <strings.h>.)
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8445
8446* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
8447 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
8448 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
8449 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
8450 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
8451 required storage is not available.
8452
8453* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
8454 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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8455
8456* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
8457 latest files released from Berkeley.
8458\f
8459----------------------------------------------------------------------
9fcdec73 8460Copying conditions:
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8461
8462 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
8463 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
8464 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
8465 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
8466
8467 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
8468 of this document, or of portions of it,
8469 under the above conditions, provided also that they
8470 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
8471\f
8472Local variables:
8473version-control: never
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