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| ee9247c3 | 1 | GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. |
| 26420023 | 2 | Copyright (C) 1992-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
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3 | See the end for copying conditions. |
| 4 | ||
| a306c790 | 5 | Please send GNU C library bug reports via <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> |
| 69be6aaf | 6 | using `glibc' in the "product" field. |
| bc6c1af5 | 7 | \f |
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8 | Version 2.43 |
| 9 | ||
| 10 | Major new features: | |
| 11 | ||
| 0f201f4a | 12 | * The ISO C23 memset_explicit function has been added. |
| 03b25150 | 13 | |
| ea18d5a4 JM |
14 | * The ISO C23 memalignment function has been added. |
| 15 | ||
| fa7f43a9 JM |
16 | * As specified in ISO C23, the assert macro is defined to take variable |
| 17 | arguments to support expressions with a comma inside a compound | |
| 18 | literal initializer not surrounded by parentheses. | |
| 19 | ||
| cd748a63 JM |
20 | * For ISO C23, the functions bsearch, memchr, strchr, strpbrk, strrchr, |
| 21 | strstr, wcschr, wcspbrk, wcsrchr, wcsstr and wmemchr that return | |
| 22 | pointers into their input arrays now have definitions as macros that | |
| 23 | return a pointer to a const-qualified type when the input argument is | |
| 24 | a pointer to a const-qualified type. | |
| 25 | ||
| 26d11a09 JM |
26 | * The C23 typedef names long_double_t, _Float32_t, _Float64_t, and (on |
| 27 | platforms supporting _Float128) _Float128_t, introduced in TS | |
| 28 | 18661-3:2015, have been added to <math.h>. | |
| 29 | ||
| 3d52fd27 AZ |
30 | * On Linux, the mseal function has been added. It allows for sealing |
| 31 | memory mappings to prevent further changes during process execution, | |
| 32 | such as changes to protection permissions, unmapping, relocation to | |
| 33 | another location, or shrinking the size. | |
| 34 | ||
| 56549264 JK |
35 | * The ISO C23 functions free_sized and free_aligned_sized are now |
| 36 | supported in <stdlib.h>. | |
| 37 | ||
| 03b25150 AH |
38 | Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility: |
| 39 | ||
| 9825f9b8 WD |
40 | * Support for dumped heaps has been removed - malloc_set_state() now always |
| 41 | returns the error code -1. | |
| 03b25150 | 42 | |
| 096fcdc0 JM |
43 | * The uimaxabs function has been renamed to umaxabs, following a change |
| 44 | to the name of that function in ISO C2Y. The old function continues | |
| 45 | to exist as a compatibility symbol for old binaries. | |
| 46 | ||
| 1f79bc48 JM |
47 | * The fromfp, fromfpx, ufromfp and ufromfpx functions, and the |
| 48 | corresponding functions for other floating-point types, now return | |
| 49 | their result in the same type as their floating-point argument, rather | |
| 50 | than intmax_t or uintmax_t, in accordance with a change to the | |
| 51 | definition of these functions in ISO C23. Existing binaries that use | |
| 52 | the versions returning intmax_t or uintmax_t will continue to work. | |
| 53 | ||
| b9579342 SL |
54 | * The support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes has been removed on all |
| 55 | architectures (powerpc, s390x, x86_64). | |
| 56 | ||
| 03b25150 AH |
57 | Changes to build and runtime requirements: |
| 58 | ||
| 59 | [Add changes to build and runtime requirements here] | |
| 60 | ||
| 61 | Security related changes: | |
| 62 | ||
| 63 | The following CVEs were fixed in this release, details of which can be | |
| 64 | found in the advisories directory of the release tarball: | |
| 65 | ||
| 66 | [The release manager will add the list generated by | |
| 67 | scripts/process-advisories.sh just before the release.] | |
| 68 | ||
| 69 | The following bugs were resolved with this release: | |
| 70 | ||
| 71 | [The release manager will add the list generated by | |
| 72 | scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.] | |
| 73 | \f | |
| 42aba918 AH |
74 | Version 2.42 |
| 75 | ||
| 76 | Major new features: | |
| 77 | ||
| 77261698 JM |
78 | * The following ISO C23 function families (introduced in TS |
| 79 | 18661-4:2015) are now supported in <math.h>. Each family includes | |
| 80 | functions for float, double, long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx, and a | |
| 81 | type-generic macro in <tgmath.h>. | |
| 82 | ||
| 06caf53a JM |
83 | - Power and absolute-value functions: compoundn, pown, powr, rootn, |
| 84 | rsqrt. | |
| 42aba918 | 85 | |
| 74d463c5 FW |
86 | * On Linux, the pthread_gettid_np function has been added. |
| 87 | ||
| 30a5fd9b AH |
88 | * The ISO C2Y family of unsigned abs functions, i.e. uabs, ulabs, |
| 89 | ullabs, and uimaxabs, is now supported. | |
| 5b132ec2 | 90 | |
| 5cf101a8 PAI |
91 | * On Linux, the <termios.h> interface now supports arbitrary baud rates; |
| 92 | speed_t is redefined to simply be the baud rate specified as an | |
| 93 | unsigned int, which matches the kernel interface. | |
| 94 | ||
| 30a5fd9b AH |
95 | * The thread-local cache in malloc (tcache) now supports caching of |
| 96 | large blocks. This feature can be enabled by setting the tunable | |
| 97 | glibc.malloc.tcache_max to a larger value (max 4194304). Tcache is | |
| 98 | also significantly faster for small sizes. | |
| f33bb123 | 99 | |
| 30a5fd9b AH |
100 | * A new configure option, "--enable-sframe", can be used to enable |
| 101 | SFrame support of the GNU C Libraries. SFrame is a new stack trace | |
| 102 | information format which can be used by backtrace. It requires | |
| 103 | binutils with a minimum version of 2.45. | |
| 3d780a44 | 104 | |
| 12c94943 AH |
105 | * Support for lightweight stack guard pages via madvise and the |
| 106 | MADV_GUARD_INSTALL flag has been added to pthread_create. | |
| 107 | ||
| 108 | * Additional optimized and correctly rounded mathematical functions have | |
| 109 | been imported from the CORE-MATH project, in particular acospif, | |
| 110 | asinpif, atanpif, atan2pif, cospif, sinpif, tanpif. | |
| 111 | ||
| 2a796b79 CD |
112 | * The testsuite has been significantly extended, including coverage of |
| 113 | the functionality of the printf and scanf function families in many | |
| 12c94943 AH |
114 | variants. |
| 115 | ||
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116 | * The manual has been significantly extended and updated, particularly |
| 117 | the threads, terminal, filesystem, resource, and math chapters. | |
| 118 | ||
| 12c94943 AH |
119 | * Code has been added to detect the x86-64 Intel Arrow Lake, Panther |
| 120 | Lake, Clearwater Forest, and Diamond Rapids microarchitectures. | |
| 121 | ||
| 122 | * Regarding S390, support for the new z17 platform has been added. | |
| 123 | ||
| 42aba918 AH |
124 | Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility: |
| 125 | ||
| 30a5fd9b AH |
126 | * The glibc.rtld.execstack tunable now supports a compatibility mode to |
| 127 | allow programs that require an executable stack through dynamically | |
| 128 | loaded shared libraries. | |
| 42aba918 | 129 | |
| e04afb71 PA |
130 | * On Linux, the <termio.h> header and the definition of struct termio |
| 131 | in <sys/ioctl.h> have been removed. The termio interface has been | |
| 132 | obsolete since the very first version of POSIX.1 in 1988, replaced | |
| 133 | with <termios.h>. | |
| 134 | ||
| 30a5fd9b AH |
135 | * The support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes has been deprecated |
| 136 | on all architectures and will be removed in the next release. | |
| 77438db8 | 137 | |
| 30a5fd9b AH |
138 | * On AArch64 Linux targets supporting the Scalable Matrix Extension |
| 139 | (SME), setjmp and sigsetjmp will disable the ZA state of SME. | |
| 30c7cf66 | 140 | |
| 42aba918 AH |
141 | Changes to build and runtime requirements: |
| 142 | ||
| 8322e93d | 143 | * GCC 12.1 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library. |
| 42aba918 | 144 | |
| e53ab208 SL |
145 | * GNU Binutils 2.39 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library. |
| 146 | ||
| 42aba918 AH |
147 | Security related changes: |
| 148 | ||
| 149 | The following CVEs were fixed in this release, details of which can be | |
| 150 | found in the advisories directory of the release tarball: | |
| 151 | ||
| a92914de AH |
152 | GLIBC-SA-2025-0001: |
| 153 | assert: Buffer overflow when printing assertion failure message | |
| 154 | (CVE-2025-0395) | |
| 155 | ||
| 156 | GLIBC-SA-2025-0003: | |
| 157 | power10: strcmp fails to save and restore nonvolatile vector | |
| 158 | registers (CVE-2025-5702) | |
| 159 | ||
| 160 | GLIBC-SA-2025-0004: | |
| 161 | power10: strncmp fails to save and restore nonvolatile vector | |
| 162 | registers (CVE-2025-5745) | |
| 163 | ||
| 164 | GLIBC-SA-2025-0005: | |
| 165 | posix: Fix double-free after allocation failure in regcomp | |
| 166 | (CVE-2025-8058) | |
| 42aba918 AH |
167 | |
| 168 | The following bugs were resolved with this release: | |
| 169 | ||
| 712623fb AH |
170 | [5994] stdio: fflush after ungetc on seekable input stream |
| 171 | [12724] stdio: fclose violates POSIX 2008 on seekable input streams | |
| 172 | [25263] dynamic-link: ldd and ld.so fail to resolve $ORIGIN with cross | |
| 173 | dir symlink | |
| 174 | [27880] nptl: Please provide a pthread pid accessor | |
| 175 | [29190] dynamic-link: Symbols with version hash zero lead to crashes, | |
| 176 | not matched correctly | |
| 177 | [29459] stdio: fwrite does not return EPIPE when underlying write | |
| 178 | fails with EPIPE. | |
| 179 | [31791] nss: [Regression] nss: memory for >8 elements in nsswitch.conf | |
| 180 | is not freed | |
| 181 | [32058] libc: qsort leaks memory if C++ exception is thrown from | |
| 182 | comparison function | |
| 183 | [32269] dynamic-link: RISC-V IFUNC resolver cannot access gp pointer | |
| 184 | [32369] stdio: fflush(NULL) doesn't properly flush files opened in | |
| 185 | read mode | |
| 186 | [32411] math: THREEp96 seems wrong | |
| 187 | [32412] dynamic-link: Initial DTV is reallocated using main realloc in | |
| 188 | auditing mode | |
| 189 | [32483] locale: ctype.h macros segfault in multithreaded programs with | |
| 190 | multiple libc.so | |
| 191 | [32529] stdio: fseek failure on file opened with "rm" mode after | |
| 192 | ungetc | |
| 193 | [32535] stdio: fflush failure on file opened with "rm" mode after | |
| 194 | ungetc | |
| 195 | [32541] libc: getenv cannot be overridden in static builds | |
| 196 | [32574] libc: pthread_attr_getstacksize/pthread_attr_getstack return | |
| 197 | incorrect main stack size | |
| 198 | [32612] dynamic-link: [aarch64 PAC] _dl_tlsdesc_dynamic can't be | |
| 199 | unwound through with _Unwind_Backtrace | |
| 200 | [32626] math: math: log10p1f is not correctly rounded | |
| 201 | [32627] math: math: sinhf is not correctly rounded | |
| 202 | [32630] math: math: tanf is not correctly rounded for all rounding | |
| 203 | modes | |
| 204 | [32653] dynamic-link: Review options for improving both security and | |
| 205 | backwards compatibility of glibc 2.41 dlopen / execstack handling | |
| 206 | [32694] math: wrong clang version 3.4 prereq checks in bits/floatn.h | |
| 207 | for __float128 support, should be 3.9 | |
| 208 | [32708] libc: Inclusion of sys/mount.h triggers many gcc warnings | |
| 209 | using -Wshift-overflow=2 -Wsystem-headers | |
| 210 | [32711] math: math: remainder incorrect sign of zero result | |
| 211 | [32717] libc: glibc tests fail when bfd is built with --enable-error- | |
| 212 | execstack=yes | |
| 213 | [32723] math: [2.41 Regression] /usr/include/bits/floatn.h doesn't | |
| 214 | work with Intel SYCL compiler | |
| 215 | [32763] dynamic-link: Static PIE with more than one PT_LOAD segments | |
| 216 | at offset 0 segfault | |
| 217 | [32777] crypt: The performance of the rand() function degradation | |
| 218 | [32781] libc: Inccorect attribute access for sched_getattr | |
| 219 | [32782] nptl: Race conditions in pthread cancellation causing crash | |
| 220 | [32786] nptl: pthread_cond_* symbols should probably have had a | |
| 221 | version bump in 2.41 | |
| 222 | [32795] nptl: aio_suspend_time64 confuses CLOCK_MONOTONIC and | |
| 223 | CLOCK_REALTIME | |
| 224 | [32810] dynamic-link: Immediate crash on x86-64 when running with | |
| 225 | GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.cpu.hwcaps=-XSAVEC | |
| 226 | [32823] libc: make[2]: *** [../Rules:248: | |
| 227 | /home/dave/gnu/glibc/objdir/elf/tst-origin] Error 1 | |
| 228 | [32897] dynamic-link: pthread_getattr_np fails when executable stack | |
| 229 | tunable is set | |
| 230 | [32918] math: math: atanhf triggers UB | |
| 231 | [32919] math: math: coshf triggers UB | |
| 232 | [32920] math: math: logf triggers UB | |
| 233 | [32921] math: math: sinhf triggers UB | |
| 234 | [32922] math: math: cbrtf triggers UB | |
| 235 | [32923] math: math: cospif triggers UB | |
| 236 | [32924] math: math: erfcf triggers UB | |
| 237 | [32925] math: math: sinpif triggers UB | |
| 238 | [32932] libc: riscv: __riscv_hwprobe function attributes are incorrect | |
| 239 | [32947] libc: stdlib: wrong iovec array size on __libc_message_impl | |
| 240 | [32980] manual: getopt_long_only does not check long options first, as | |
| 241 | the manual claims | |
| 242 | [32981] ports: elf/tst-execstack-prog-static-tunable fails on | |
| 243 | sparc64-linux-gnu | |
| 244 | [32987] libc: New tst-dlopen-sgid test FAILs | |
| 245 | [32996] malloc: i386 TLS helper functions don't preserve XMM registers | |
| 246 | [33035] libc: [2.27 regression] Linux: __close_nocancel_nostatus | |
| 247 | clobbers errno | |
| 248 | [33056] string: Power 10 strcmp clobbers nonvolatile vector registers | |
| 249 | (CVE-2025-5702) | |
| 250 | [33059] string: Power 10 memchr clobbers v20 | |
| 251 | [33060] string: Power 10 strncmp clobbers nonvolatile vector registers | |
| 252 | (CVE-2025-5745) | |
| 253 | [33088] dynamic-link: __ehdr_start may need run-time relocation | |
| 254 | [33089] build: [2.42 Regression] GCC 14.2.1 failed to build glibc | |
| 255 | [33134] libc: mcount_internal shouldn't use vector/r16-r31 registers | |
| 256 | nor call memcpy/memset | |
| 257 | [33139] stdio: %n after static dlopen is unreliable if file | |
| 258 | descriptors are exhausted | |
| 259 | [33165] build: [2.42 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt | |
| 260 | [33173] math: Wrong IFUNC selector is used for modf/modff | |
| 261 | [33185] regex: Double-free after memory allocation failure in regcomp | |
| 262 | bracket expression parsing (CVE-2025-8058) | |
| c113fdc4 AH |
263 | [33224] dynamic-link: _dl_debug_state hook no longer works (since |
| 264 | 8329939a37f483a16013dd8af8303cbcb86d92cb) | |
| 42aba918 | 265 | \f |
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266 | Version 2.41 |
| 267 | ||
| 268 | Major new features: | |
| 269 | ||
| 115afa9d AH |
270 | * Support for testing a glibc build with a set of C and C++ compilers |
| 271 | different from the C and C++ compilers used to build glibc has been | |
| dc650eb7 | 272 | added: |
| 0c36c983 L |
273 | $ ../configure TEST_CC="gcc-6.4.1" TEST_CXX="g++-6.4.1" |
| 274 | ||
| dc650eb7 | 275 | This includes support for testing the glibc build with Clang, e.g., |
| 0c36c983 L |
276 | $ ../configure TEST_CC="clang" TEST_CXX="clang++" |
| 277 | ||
| 278 | Some run-time failures with Clang are expected. | |
| 279 | ||
| 115afa9d AH |
280 | * The glibc test suite has been extended again significantly, with now |
| 281 | 6232 separate tests compared to 5408 in glibc-2.40. | |
| 282 | ||
| dc650eb7 AH |
283 | * In /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_OPTIONS environment variable, option |
| 284 | flags can now be prefixed with “-” to clear previously set flags. | |
| 285 | For example, if /etc/resolv.conf contains “options no-aaaa”, a | |
| 286 | process running with the RES_OPTIONS=-no-aaaa environment variable | |
| 287 | performs AAAA DNS queries when the glibc DNS stub resolver is used. | |
| b64d0f0e | 288 | |
| 76532595 FW |
289 | * The DNS stub resolver now supports the strict-error option. If |
| 290 | activated, getaddrinfo for the AF_UNSPEC address family (with dual | |
| 291 | A/AAAA DNS lookups) attemps to obtain an A/AAAA response pair from | |
| 292 | another DNS server if one of the responses indicates failure. Without | |
| 293 | the strict-error option, getaddrinfo returns the A record data it has | |
| 294 | obtained even if the AAAA query failed. The new strict error mode is | |
| 295 | incompatible with some DNS environments which do not follow the RFCs, | |
| 296 | which is why this mode is not enabled by default. A future version | |
| 297 | of the library may turn it on by default, however. | |
| 298 | ||
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299 | * On Linux, the sched_setattr and sched_getattr functions have been |
| 300 | added, for supporting parameterized scheduling policies such as | |
| 301 | SCHED_DEADLINE. | |
| 21571ca0 | 302 | |
| 8ef3cff9 FW |
303 | * The iconv program now supports converting files in place. The program |
| 304 | automatically uses a temporary file if required. | |
| 305 | ||
| 115afa9d AH |
306 | * Character encoding, character type info, and transliteration tables |
| 307 | have been updated to Unicode 16.0.0. | |
| 308 | ||
| 0ae0af68 JM |
309 | * The following ISO C23 function families (introduced in TS |
| 310 | 18661-4:2015) are now supported in <math.h>. Each family includes | |
| 311 | functions for float, double, long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx, and a | |
| 312 | type-generic macro in <tgmath.h>. | |
| 313 | ||
| 3374de90 JM |
314 | - Trigonometric functions: acospi, asinpi, atan2pi, atanpi, cospi, |
| 315 | sinpi, tanpi. | |
| 0ae0af68 | 316 | |
| e442e837 | 317 | * The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2Y_SOURCE to |
| dc650eb7 AH |
318 | enable features from the draft ISO C2Y standard. Only some features |
| 319 | from this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as | |
| 320 | the draft is under active development, the set of features enabled by | |
| 321 | this macro is liable to change. Features from C2Y are also enabled | |
| 322 | by _GNU_SOURCE, or by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2y". | |
| 323 | ||
| 324 | * Optimized and correctly rounded exp10m1f, exp2m1f, expm1f, log10f, | |
| 325 | log2p1f, log1pf, log10p1f, cbrtf, erff, erfcf, lgammaf, tgammaf, | |
| 326 | tanf, acosf, acoshf, asinf, asinhf, atanf, atan2f, atanhf, coshf, | |
| 327 | sinhf, and tanhf functions have been added from the CORE-MATH | |
| 29531b12 AZ |
328 | project <https://core-math.gitlabpages.inria.fr/>. |
| 329 | ||
| 115afa9d AH |
330 | * A benchtest framework is now in place to track the performance of many |
| 331 | (mostly numerical) functions. | |
| 332 | ||
| dc650eb7 AH |
333 | * A new tunable, glibc.rtld.execstack, can be used to control whether an |
| 334 | executable stack is allowed from the main program, either implicitly | |
| 335 | due to a mising GNU_STACK ELF header or explicit explicitly because | |
| 336 | of the executable bit in GNU_STACK. The default is to allow | |
| 337 | executable stacks. | |
| 338 | ||
| 339 | * Support for the extensible rseq ABI introduced in the Linux kernel | |
| 340 | version 6.3 has been added. The size and alignment of the rseq area | |
| 341 | is now determined by auxiliary vector entries when provided by the | |
| 342 | running kernel. This results in __rseq_size now exposing features | |
| 343 | past the original ABI which currently include 'node_id' and 'mm_cid' | |
| 344 | and will also allow exposing new features as they get added to future | |
| 345 | Linux kernels. | |
| 346 | ||
| 347 | * The GNU C Library now supports the Guarded Control Stack extension | |
| 348 | that allows to use shadow stacks on AArch64 systems that support this | |
| 349 | extension. Building the library with standard branch protection | |
| 350 | enabled while using a toolchain that supports GCS (binutils 2.44 and | |
| 351 | GCC 15 or later) will enable GCS support in glibc. There is no | |
| 352 | special configuration flag. GCS-enabled glibc is compatible with all | |
| 353 | existing executables and shared libraries and will run with and | |
| 354 | without GCS support in the system. GCS is opt-in and can be | |
| 355 | controlled at runtime via the glibc.cpu.aarch64_gcs tunable. By | |
| 356 | default GCS is disabled. Linux kernel supports this since 6.13. | |
| 357 | ||
| 115afa9d AH |
358 | * Significant effort has been put into improving the code generation |
| 359 | and speed of mathematical functions in the vector mathematics library | |
| 360 | on AArch64, with regard to the Scalable Vector Extension (SVE) and | |
| 361 | Advanced SIMD (Neon) intrinsics. | |
| 362 | ||
| 363 | * Support for memory protection keys on AArch64 systems with enabled | |
| 364 | Stage 1 permission overlays feature as introduced in Armv8.9 / 9.4 | |
| 365 | has been added. | |
| 366 | ||
| 367 | * On PowerPC64, support for the return-oriented programming protection | |
| 368 | instructions added in ISA 3.1 (Power10) has been added, as well as | |
| 369 | function optimizations for Power10. | |
| 370 | ||
| 371 | * A new architecture type has been introduced internally to better | |
| 372 | support Hygon x86-64 processors. | |
| 373 | ||
| dc650eb7 AH |
374 | Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting |
| 375 | compatibility: | |
| b64d0f0e | 376 | |
| dc650eb7 AH |
377 | * abort is now async-signal-safe and its implementation makes longjmp |
| 378 | from the SIGABRT handler always abort if set up with setjmp. Use | |
| 379 | sigsetjmp to keep the old behavior, where the handler does not stop | |
| 380 | the process execution. | |
| d40ac01c | 381 | |
| 0ca8785a | 382 | * dlopen and dlmopen no longer make the stack executable if a shared |
| dc650eb7 AH |
383 | library requires it, either implicitly because of a missing GNU_STACK |
| 384 | ELF header (and default ABI permission having the executable bit set) | |
| 385 | or explicitly because of the executable bit in GNU_STACK, and the | |
| 386 | stack is not already executable. Instead, loading such objects will | |
| 387 | fail. | |
| 0ca8785a | 388 | |
| 115afa9d AH |
389 | * The nios2*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported. |
| 390 | ||
| 391 | * The big-endian ARC port (arceb-linux-gnu) has been removed. | |
| 392 | ||
| b64d0f0e AH |
393 | Changes to build and runtime requirements: |
| 394 | ||
| dc650eb7 AH |
395 | * On recent Linux kernels with vDSO getrandom support, getrandom does |
| 396 | not act as a "shall occur" cancellation point, in which case it might | |
| 461cab1d | 397 | not issue a syscall or trigger a deferred cancellation event. |
| b64d0f0e | 398 | |
| dc650eb7 AH |
399 | * Testing the GNU C Library requires GNU awk to be compiled with support |
| 400 | for high precision arithmetic via the MPFR library. | |
| 0feb6da9 | 401 | |
| b64d0f0e AH |
402 | Security related changes: |
| 403 | ||
| 404 | The following CVEs were fixed in this release, details of which can be | |
| 405 | found in the advisories directory of the release tarball: | |
| 406 | ||
| 181b6258 AH |
407 | GLIBC-SA-2025-0001: |
| 408 | assert: Buffer overflow when printing assertion failure message | |
| 409 | (CVE-2025-0395) | |
| b64d0f0e AH |
410 | |
| 411 | The following bugs were resolved with this release: | |
| 412 | ||
| 306acc05 AH |
413 | [6050] locale: iconv(1) buffers all of stdin in memory |
| 414 | [10460] locale: iconv does not support in-place conversion | |
| 415 | [12683] nptl: Race conditions in pthread cancellation | |
| 416 | [14147] nptl: Async cancellation left active after longjmp out of | |
| 417 | signal handler | |
| 418 | [14799] network: RES_OPTIONS cannot disable options enabled in | |
| 419 | /etc/resolv.conf | |
| 420 | [17703] locale: iconv(1) EFAULTs reading the second non-mmapable input | |
| 421 | [20632] stdio: Buffer overflow in wchar IO (_IO_wfile_overflow) | |
| 422 | [23675] stdio: freopen() with "ccs=<charset>" leaves the stream | |
| 423 | unoriented | |
| 424 | [25847] nptl: pthread_cond_signal failed to wake up pthread_cond_wait | |
| 425 | due to a bug in undoing stealing | |
| 426 | [26275] libc: abort(3) is not signal-safe | |
| 427 | [27543] ports: Inconsistent behavior when handling FPSCR on SH | |
| 428 | [27821] stdio: double call to ungetc causes uninitialized memory | |
| 429 | reading. (also: ungetc causes memory leak) | |
| 430 | [29437] libc: arc4random is too slow | |
| 431 | [30009] build: unterminated options list in benchtest | |
| 432 | [30081] network: libresolv: timeout when running in single-request | |
| 433 | mode | |
| 434 | [30220] math: String to double returns incorrectly rounded value for | |
| 435 | hexadecimal subnormal | |
| 436 | [30584] libc: initstate and initstate_r crash when the state argument | |
| 437 | is unaligned | |
| 438 | [30647] stdio: scanf functions wrong on nan() | |
| 439 | [31394] libc: clone on sparc might fail with -EFAULT for no valid | |
| 440 | reason | |
| 441 | [31717] dynamic-link: TLS for library gets reallocated when loaded in | |
| 442 | two contexts. | |
| 443 | [31799] dynamic-link: -static-pie -Wl,-Ttext-segment=0x50000 doesn't | |
| 444 | work | |
| 445 | [31859] locale: Transliteration rules with two input characters like | |
| 446 | "ḌḌ" "DDH" do not work. | |
| 447 | [31890] network: DNS stub resolver ignores header-only error responses | |
| 448 | [31928] build: glibc doesn't compile if the compiler already define | |
| 449 | _FORTIFY_SOURCE | |
| 450 | [31968] libc: mremap implementation in C does not handle arguments | |
| 451 | correctly | |
| 452 | [31985] dynamic-link: la_objopen not called when ld.so is imported | |
| 453 | into a private namespace. However, la_objclose is called with an | |
| 454 | unknown cookie. | |
| 455 | [31997] libc: exit is not thread-safe, even when all atexit handlers | |
| 456 | are thread-safe | |
| 457 | [32026] libc: strerror, strsignal TLS not handled correctly for | |
| 458 | secondary namespaces (dlmopen, LD_AUDIT) | |
| 459 | [32033] locale: iconv (the program) does not truncate output file if | |
| 460 | input is empty | |
| 461 | [32040] nptl: CPU affinity test skeleton for sched_setaffinity and | |
| 462 | pthread_setaffinity_np can fail to report failure. | |
| 463 | [32042] build: Compilation issue for tst-resolv-short-response.c with | |
| 464 | older GCC | |
| 465 | [32045] math: nan() / strtod() incorrectly set errno for overflowing | |
| 466 | nan payload | |
| 467 | [32046] locale: iconv -c fails to report input encoding errors if | |
| 468 | output buffer is full | |
| 469 | [32047] libc: Tunables may incorrectly set Prefer_PMINUB_for_stringop | |
| 470 | [32050] locale: iconv - - < /dev/null fails with Bad file descriptor | |
| 471 | [32052] libc: stdlib.h's use of 'sz' identifier causes libstdc++ test | |
| 472 | failure | |
| 473 | [32065] dynamic-link: _dl_fini does not call la_objclose for proxy | |
| 474 | link maps | |
| 475 | [32066] dynamic-link: dlclose signals la_activity (LA_ACT_DELETE) | |
| 476 | after la_objclose calls | |
| 477 | [32078] string: Random __strchrnul_evex512 failures | |
| 478 | [32124] libc: readdir_r does not relay errors reported by the kernel | |
| 479 | [32125] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in __syscall_cancel_arch for | |
| 480 | powerpc64le-linux-gnu | |
| 481 | [32126] libc: readdir64_r: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values | |
| 482 | [32128] libc: Compat readdir64_r (__old_readdir64_r) does not enforce | |
| 483 | NAME_MAX limit | |
| 484 | [32134] stdio: freopen does not clear flags2 (FD_CLOEXEC etc) | |
| 485 | [32137] libc: libio/tst-stderr-compat, libio/tst-bz24228, math/test- | |
| 486 | matherr-2, nptl/tst-pthread_kill-exited fails on powerpc-unknown- | |
| 487 | linux-gnu | |
| 488 | [32140] stdio: freopen leaks memory on failure | |
| 489 | [32145] libc: New stdlib/tst-strtod1i, stdlib/tst-strtod3, stdlib/tst- | |
| 490 | strtod4, stdlib/tst-strtod5i failures on powerpc64le-linux-gnu | |
| 491 | [32148] stdio: Memory corruption with ancient i386 binaries using | |
| 492 | stdio | |
| 493 | [32168] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 16.0.0 | |
| 494 | [32173] libc: sparc: restartable syscalls are broken | |
| 495 | [32192] build: s390: utf16-utf32-z9.c fails to build w/ -fomit-frame- | |
| 496 | pointer | |
| 497 | [32197] locale: FAIL: iconv/tst-iconv_prog-buffer failures | |
| 498 | [32212] string: x86_64/strcmp caused 25% performance drop by commit | |
| 499 | 84e7c46df | |
| 500 | [32214] libc: random_bits always returns the same value if getrandom | |
| 501 | fails | |
| 502 | [32215] libc: Signal handlers after fork may encounter missing robust | |
| 503 | mutex list | |
| 504 | [32228] libc: .preinit_array in /lib/riscv64-linux-gnu/Scrt1.o is not | |
| 505 | properly aligned | |
| 506 | [32231] dynamic-link: ldconfig auxcache format change in 2.36 | |
| 507 | [32233] libc: error calls va_end twice. | |
| 508 | [32234] hurd: missing va_end call in fcntl.c | |
| 509 | [32245] build: glibc -Wstringop-overflow= build failure on hppa | |
| 510 | [32280] localedata: Enable transliteration rules with two input | |
| 511 | characters in scn_IT | |
| 512 | [32283] libc: Compilation issue for tst-syscall-restart.c with GCC | |
| 513 | 10.2.1 | |
| 514 | [32323] localedata: eo: Incorrect first day of week and first week of | |
| 515 | year | |
| 516 | [32344] string: Assembler warnings when building strcpy-evex.S and | |
| 517 | strncpy-evex.S | |
| 518 | [32350] hurd: function __xpg_strerror_r crashes for specific arguments | |
| 519 | [32360] stdio: Compilation issue for tst-printf-format-skeleton.c with | |
| 520 | GCC 10.2.1 | |
| 521 | [32366] malloc: malloc test failures with GCC 15 | |
| 522 | [32380] locale: dcigettext can cause SIGSEGV when domain name is too | |
| 523 | long | |
| 524 | [32414] libc: [x86_64 regression] tst-strtod5i.c:124:(.text+0x47c): | |
| 525 | undefined reference to `__copysignf128' | |
| 526 | [32418] math: __XXX math functions are declared, but not provided | |
| 527 | [32420] build: GCC 6 can't build glibc 2.41 | |
| 528 | [32440] libc: getrandom() in glibc 2.41 (development) returns EINVAL | |
| 529 | as retcode instead of errno on powerpc64le | |
| 530 | [32448] libc: iconv reports failure with successful transliteration | |
| 531 | [32450] libc: system() does not return -1 if a child process can't be | |
| 532 | created | |
| 533 | [32465] nss: ./getaddrinfo.c:1884:11: error: variable 'endp' is used | |
| 534 | uninitialized whenever '||' condition is true [-Werror,-Wsometimes- | |
| 535 | uninitialized] | |
| 536 | [32470] dynamic-link: Integer truncation during x86-64 cache size | |
| 537 | computation | |
| 538 | [32488] libc: Glibc failed to build with CET enabled | |
| 539 | [32492] libc: New test failures | |
| 540 | [32494] build: Compilation issue with GCC 14.2.1 | |
| 541 | [32508] dynamic-link: ldd: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: cannot execute binary | |
| 542 | file: Exec format error | |
| 543 | [32512] dynamic-link: failure to build on loong, undefined reference | |
| 544 | to `stpcpy' | |
| 545 | [32543] build: x32 glibc is miscompiled | |
| 546 | [32588] libc: [2.41 regression] bash crashes with 'realloc(): invalid | |
| 547 | pointer' with `env -i PATH=` | |
| b64d0f0e | 548 | \f |
| 903cd866 AH |
549 | Version 2.40 |
| 550 | ||
| 551 | Major new features: | |
| 552 | ||
| da894963 JJ |
553 | * The <stdbit.h> header type-generic macros have been changed when using |
| 554 | GCC 14.1 or later to use __builtin_stdc_bit_ceil etc. built-in functions | |
| 555 | in order to support unsigned __int128 and/or unsigned _BitInt(N) operands | |
| 556 | with arbitrary precisions when supported by the target. | |
| 903cd866 | 557 | |
| 42cc619d JM |
558 | * The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC23_SOURCE to |
| 559 | enable features from the ISO C23 standard. Only some features from | |
| 560 | this standard are supported by the GNU C Library. The older name | |
| 561 | _ISOC2X_SOURCE is still supported. Features from C23 are also enabled | |
| 562 | by _GNU_SOURCE, or by compiling with the GCC options -std=c23, | |
| 563 | -std=gnu23, -std=c2x or -std=gnu2x. | |
| 564 | ||
| 79c52daf JM |
565 | * The following ISO C23 function families (introduced in TS |
| 566 | 18661-4:2015) are now supported in <math.h>. Each family includes | |
| 567 | functions for float, double, long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx, and a | |
| 568 | type-generic macro in <tgmath.h>. | |
| 569 | ||
| 7ec903e0 JM |
570 | - Exponential functions: exp2m1, exp10m1. |
| 571 | ||
| 55eb99e9 | 572 | - Logarithmic functions: log2p1, log10p1, logp1. |
| 79c52daf | 573 | |
| fa455c3b | 574 | * A new tunable, glibc.rtld.enable_secure, can be used to run a program |
| 18a81441 JT |
575 | as if it were a setuid process. This is currently a testing tool to allow |
| 576 | more extensive verification tests for AT_SECURE programs and not meant to | |
| 577 | be a security feature. | |
| 578 | ||
| fa455c3b AH |
579 | * On Linux, the epoll header was updated to include epoll ioctl definitions |
| 580 | and the related structure added in Linux kernel 6.9. | |
| 581 | ||
| 582 | * The fortify functionality has been significantly enhanced for building | |
| 583 | programs with clang against the GNU C Library. | |
| 584 | ||
| 585 | * Many functions have been added to the vector library for aarch64: | |
| 586 | acosh, asinh, atanh, cbrt, cosh, erf, erfc, hypot, pow, sinh, tanh | |
| 587 | ||
| 588 | * On x86, memset can now use non-temporal stores to improve the performance | |
| 589 | of large writes. This behaviour is controlled by a new tunable | |
| 590 | x86_memset_non_temporal_threshold. | |
| 92c270d3 | 591 | |
| 903cd866 AH |
592 | Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility: |
| 593 | ||
| 5361ad39 FW |
594 | * Architectures which use a 32-bit seconds-since-epoch field in struct |
| 595 | lastlog, struct utmp, struct utmpx (such as i386, powerpc64le, rv32, | |
| 596 | rv64, x86-64) switched from a signed to an unsigned type for that | |
| 597 | field. This allows these fields to store timestamps beyond the year | |
| 598 | 2038, until the year 2106. Please note that applications are still | |
| 599 | expected to migrate off the interfaces declared in <utmp.h> and | |
| 600 | <utmpx.h> (except for login_tty) due to locking and session management | |
| 601 | problems. | |
| 903cd866 | 602 | |
| 2e456ccf FW |
603 | * __rseq_size now denotes the size of the active rseq area (20 bytes |
| 604 | initially), not the size of struct rseq (32 bytes initially). | |
| 605 | ||
| 903cd866 AH |
606 | Security related changes: |
| 607 | ||
| 608 | The following CVEs were fixed in this release, details of which can be | |
| 609 | found in the advisories directory of the release tarball: | |
| 610 | ||
| 391d9041 AH |
611 | GLIBC-SA-2024-0004: |
| 612 | ISO-2022-CN-EXT: fix out-of-bound writes when writing escape | |
| 613 | sequence (CVE-2024-2961) | |
| 614 | ||
| 615 | GLIBC-SA-2024-0005: | |
| 616 | nscd: Stack-based buffer overflow in netgroup cache (CVE-2024-33599) | |
| 617 | ||
| 618 | GLIBC-SA-2024-0006: | |
| 619 | nscd: Null pointer crash after notfound response (CVE-2024-33600) | |
| 620 | ||
| 621 | GLIBC-SA-2024-0007: | |
| 622 | nscd: netgroup cache may terminate daemon on memory allocation | |
| 623 | failure (CVE-2024-33601) | |
| 624 | ||
| 625 | GLIBC-SA-2024-0008: | |
| 626 | nscd: netgroup cache assumes NSS callback uses in-buffer strings | |
| 627 | (CVE-2024-33602) | |
| 903cd866 AH |
628 | |
| 629 | The following bugs are resolved with this release: | |
| 630 | ||
| ad6e85aa AH |
631 | [19622] network: Support aliasing with struct sockaddr |
| 632 | [21271] localedata: cv_RU: update translations | |
| 633 | [23774] localedata: lv_LV collates Y/y incorrectly | |
| 634 | [23865] string: wcsstr is quadratic-time | |
| 635 | [25119] localedata: Change Czech weekday names to lowercase | |
| 636 | [27777] stdio: fclose does a linear search, takes ages when many FILE* | |
| 637 | are opened | |
| 638 | [29770] libc: prctl does not match manual page ABI on powerpc64le- | |
| 639 | linux-gnu | |
| 640 | [29845] localedata: Update hr_HR locale currency to € | |
| 641 | [30701] time: getutxent misbehaves on 32-bit x86 when _TIME_BITS=64 | |
| 642 | [31316] build: Fails test misc/tst-dirname "Didn't expect signal from | |
| 643 | child: got `Illegal instruction'" on non SSE CPUs | |
| 644 | [31317] dynamic-link: [RISCV] static PIE crashes during self | |
| 645 | relocation | |
| 646 | [31325] libc: mips: clone3 is wrong for o32 | |
| 647 | [31335] math: Compile glibc with -march=x86-64-v3 should disable FMA4 | |
| 648 | multi-arch version | |
| 649 | [31339] libc: arm32 loader crash after cleanup in 2.36 | |
| 650 | [31340] manual: A bad sentence in section 22.3.5 (resource.texi) | |
| 651 | [31357] dynamic-link: $(objpfx)tst-rtld-list-diagnostics.out rule | |
| 652 | doesn't work with test wrapper | |
| 653 | [31370] localedata: wcwidth() does not treat | |
| 654 | DEFAULT_IGNORABLE_CODE_POINTs as zero-width | |
| 655 | [31371] dynamic-link: x86-64: APX and Tile registers aren't preserved | |
| 656 | in ld.so trampoline | |
| 657 | [31372] dynamic-link: _dl_tlsdesc_dynamic doesn't preserve all caller- | |
| 658 | saved registers | |
| 659 | [31383] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 and __fortified_attr_access vs size of | |
| 660 | 0 and zero size types | |
| 661 | [31385] build: sort-makefile-lines.py doesn't check variable with _ | |
| 662 | nor with "^# variable" | |
| 663 | [31402] libc: clone (NULL, NULL, ...) clobbers %r7 register on | |
| 664 | s390{,x} | |
| 665 | [31405] libc: Improve dl_iterate_phdr using _dl_find_object | |
| 666 | [31411] localedata: Add Latgalian locale | |
| 667 | [31412] build: GCC 6 failed to build i386 glibc on Fedora 39 | |
| 668 | [31429] build: Glibc failed to build with -march=x86-64-v3 | |
| 669 | [31468] libc: sigisemptyset returns true when the set contains signals | |
| 670 | larger than 34 | |
| 671 | [31476] network: Automatic activation of single-request options break | |
| 672 | resolv.conf reloading | |
| 673 | [31479] libc: Missing #include <sys/rseq.h> in sched_getcpu.c may | |
| 674 | result in a loss of rseq acceleration | |
| 675 | [31501] dynamic-link: _dl_tlsdesc_dynamic_xsavec may clobber %rbx | |
| 676 | [31518] manual: documentation: FLT_MAX_10_EXP questionable text, evtl. | |
| 677 | wrong, | |
| 678 | [31530] localedata: Locale file for Moksha - mdf_RU | |
| 679 | [31553] malloc: elf/tst-decorate-maps fails on ppc64el | |
| 680 | [31596] libc: On the llvm-arm32 platform, dlopen("not_exist.so", -1) | |
| 681 | triggers segmentation fault | |
| 682 | [31600] math: math: x86 ceill traps when FE_INEXACT is enabled | |
| 683 | [31601] math: math: x86 floor traps when FE_INEXACT is enabled | |
| 684 | [31603] math: math: x86 trunc traps when FE_INEXACT is enabled | |
| 685 | [31612] libc: arc4random fails to fallback to /dev/urandom if | |
| 686 | getrandom is not present | |
| 687 | [31629] build: powerpc64: Configuring with "--with-cpu=power10" and | |
| 688 | 'CFLAGS=-O2 -mcpu=power9' fails to build glibc | |
| 689 | [31640] dynamic-link: POWER10 ld.so crashes in | |
| 690 | elf_machine_load_address with GCC 14 | |
| 691 | [31661] libc: NPROCESSORS_CONF and NPROCESSORS_ONLN not available in | |
| 692 | getconf | |
| 693 | [31676] dynamic-link: Configuring with CC="gcc -march=x86-64-v3" | |
| 694 | --with-rtld-early-cflags=-march=x86-64 results in linker failure | |
| 695 | [31677] nscd: nscd: netgroup cache: invalid memcpy under low | |
| 696 | memory/storage conditions | |
| 697 | [31678] nscd: nscd: Null pointer dereferences after failed netgroup | |
| 698 | cache insertion | |
| 699 | [31679] nscd: nscd: netgroup cache may terminate daemon on memory | |
| 700 | allocation failure | |
| 701 | [31680] nscd: nscd: netgroup cache assumes NSS callback uses in-buffer | |
| 702 | strings | |
| 703 | [31682] math: [PowerPC] Floating point exception error for math test | |
| 704 | test-ceil-except-2 test-floor-except-2 test-trunc-except-2 | |
| 705 | [31686] dynamic-link: Stack-based buffer overflow in | |
| 706 | parse_tunables_string | |
| 707 | [31695] libc: pidfd_spawn/pidfd_spawnp leak an fd if clone3 succeeds | |
| 708 | but execve fails | |
| 709 | [31719] dynamic-link: --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests doesn't work | |
| 710 | with -Wl,--enable-new-dtags | |
| 711 | [31730] libc: backtrace_symbols_fd prints different strings than | |
| 712 | backtrace_symbols returns | |
| 713 | [31753] build: FAIL: link-static-libc with GCC 6/7/8 | |
| 714 | [31755] libc: procutils_read_file doesn't start with a leading | |
| 715 | underscore | |
| 716 | [31756] libc: write_profiling is only in libc.a | |
| 717 | [31757] build: Should XXXf128_do_not_use functions be excluded? | |
| 718 | [31759] math: Extra nearbyint symbols in libm.a | |
| 719 | [31760] math: Missing math functions | |
| 720 | [31764] build: _res_opcodes should be a compat symbol only | |
| 721 | [31765] dynamic-link: _dl_mcount_wrapper is exported without prototype | |
| 722 | [31766] stdio: _IO_stderr_ _IO_stdin_ _IO_stdout should be compat | |
| 723 | symbols | |
| 724 | [31768] string: Extra stpncpy symbol in libc.a | |
| 725 | [31770] libc: clone3 is in libc.a | |
| 726 | [31774] libc: Missing __isnanf128 in libc.a | |
| 727 | [31775] math: Missing exp10 exp10f32x exp10f64 fmod fmodf fmodf32 | |
| 728 | fmodf32x fmodf64 in libm.a | |
| 729 | [31777] string: Extra memchr strlen symbols in libc.a | |
| 730 | [31781] math: Missing math functions in libm.a | |
| 731 | [31782] build: Test build failure with recent GCC trunk (x86/tst-cpu- | |
| 732 | features-supports.c:69:3: error: parameter to builtin not valid: | |
| 733 | avx5124fmaps) | |
| 734 | [31785] string: loongarch: Extra strnlen symbols in libc.a | |
| 735 | [31786] string: powerpc: Extra strchrnul and strncasecmp_l symbols in | |
| 736 | libc.a | |
| 737 | [31787] math: powerpc: Extra llrintf, llrintf, llrintf32, and | |
| 738 | llrintf32 symbols in libc.a | |
| 739 | [31788] libc: microblaze: Extra cacheflush symbol in libc.a | |
| 740 | [31789] libc: powerpc: Extra versionsort symbol in libc.a | |
| 741 | [31790] libc: s390: Extra getutent32, getutent32_r, getutid32, | |
| 742 | getutid32_r, getutline32, getutline32_r, getutmp32, getutmpx32, | |
| 743 | getutxent32, getutxid32, getutxline32, pututline32, pututxline32, | |
| 744 | updwtmp32, updwtmpx32 in libc.a | |
| 745 | [31797] build: g++ -static requirement should be able to opt-out | |
| 746 | [31798] libc: pidfd_getpid.c is miscompiled by GCC 6.4 | |
| 747 | [31802] time: difftime is pure not const | |
| 748 | [31808] time: The supported time_t range is not documented. | |
| 749 | [31840] stdio: Memory leak in _IO_new_fdopen (fdopen) on seek failure | |
| 750 | [31867] build: "CPU ISA level is lower than required" on SSE2-free | |
| 751 | CPUs | |
| 752 | [31876] time: "Date and time" documentation fixes for POSIX.1-2024 etc | |
| 753 | [31883] build: ISA level support configure check relies on bashism / | |
| 754 | is otherwise broken for arithmetic | |
| 755 | [31892] build: Always install mtrace. | |
| 756 | [31917] libc: clang mq_open fortify wrapper does not handle 4 argument | |
| 757 | correctly | |
| 758 | [31927] libc: clang open fortify wrapper does not handle argument | |
| 759 | correctly | |
| 760 | [31931] time: tzset may fault on very short TZ string | |
| 761 | [31934] string: wcsncmp crash on s390x on vlbb instruction | |
| 762 | [31963] stdio: Crash in _IO_link_in within __gcov_exit | |
| 763 | [31965] dynamic-link: rseq extension mechanism does not work as | |
| 764 | intended | |
| 765 | [31980] build: elf/tst-tunables-enable_secure-env fails on ppc | |
| 903cd866 | 766 | \f |
| 78ca34d8 AH |
767 | Version 2.39 |
| 768 | ||
| 769 | Major new features: | |
| 770 | ||
| e2803cfd L |
771 | * A new tunable, glibc.cpu.plt_rewrite, can be used to enable PLT |
| 772 | rewrite on x86-64. When enabled with non-lazy binding, the dynamic | |
| 773 | linker will rewrite indirect branches in PLT with direct branches. | |
| 774 | ||
| a0cfc48e | 775 | * Sync with Linux kernel 6.6 shadow stack interface. The --enable-cet |
| feeb7297 | 776 | configure option is only supported on x86-64. |
| bbfb5493 | 777 | |
| 92861d93 | 778 | * struct statvfs now has an f_type member, equal to the f_type statfs member; |
| 779 | on the Hurd this was always available under a reserved name, | |
| 780 | and under Linux a spare has been allocated: it was always zero | |
| 781 | in previous versions of glibc, and zero is not a valid result. | |
| 78ca34d8 | 782 | |
| ce2bfb85 AZN |
783 | * On Linux, the functions posix_spawnattr_getcgroup_np and |
| 784 | posix_spawnattr_setcgroup_np have been added, along with the | |
| 785 | POSIX_SPAWN_SETCGROUP flag. They allow posix_spawn and posix_spawnp | |
| 786 | to set the cgroupv2 in the new process in a race-free manner. These | |
| 787 | functions are GNU extensions and require a kernel with clone3 support. | |
| 788 | ||
| 0d6f9f62 AZN |
789 | * On Linux, the pidfd_spawn and pidfd_spawp functions have been added. |
| 790 | They have a similar prototype and semantic as posix_spawn, but instead of | |
| 791 | returning a process ID, they return a file descriptor that can be used | |
| 792 | along other pidfd functions (like pidfd_send_signal, poll, or waitid). | |
| 793 | The pidfd functionality avoids the issue of PID reuse with the traditional | |
| 794 | posix_spawn interface. | |
| 795 | ||
| e7190fc7 AZN |
796 | * On Linux, the pidfd_getpid function has been added. It allows retrieving |
| 797 | the process ID associated with the process file descriptor created by | |
| 798 | pid_spawn, fork_np, or pidfd_open. | |
| 799 | ||
| cdbf8229 JM |
800 | * scanf-family functions now support the wN format length modifiers for |
| 801 | arguments pointing to types intN_t, int_leastN_t, uintN_t or | |
| 802 | uint_leastN_t (for example, %w32d to read int32_t or int_least32_t in | |
| 803 | decimal, or %w32x to read uint32_t or uint_least32_t in hexadecimal) | |
| 804 | and the wfN format length modifiers for arguments pointing to types | |
| 805 | int_fastN_t or uint_fastN_t, as specified in draft ISO C2X. | |
| 806 | ||
| bf033c00 AZ |
807 | * A new tunable, glibc.mem.decorate_maps, can be used to add additional |
| 808 | information on underlying memory allocated by the glibc (for instance, | |
| 809 | on thread stack created by pthread_create or memory allocated by | |
| 810 | malloc). | |
| 811 | ||
| b34b46b8 JM |
812 | * The <stdbit.h> header has been added from ISO C2X, with |
| 813 | stdc_leading_zeros, stdc_leading_ones, stdc_trailing_zeros, | |
| 814 | stdc_trailing_ones, stdc_first_leading_zero, stdc_first_leading_one, | |
| 815 | stdc_first_trailing_zero, stdc_first_trailing_one, stdc_count_zeros, | |
| 816 | stdc_count_ones, stdc_has_single_bit, stdc_bit_width, stdc_bit_floor | |
| 817 | and stdc_bit_ceil function families, each having functions for | |
| 818 | unsigned char, unsigned short, unsigned int, unsigned long int and | |
| 819 | unsigned long long int, and a type-generic macro. | |
| 820 | ||
| 7100d9ae SN |
821 | * On AArch64 new symbols were added to libmvec and now math.h has |
| 822 | annotations to allow GCC 9 or newer to auto-vectorize calls to the | |
| 823 | following scalar math functions when -ffast-math is specified: | |
| 824 | acos, acosf, asin, asinf, atan, atanf, atan2, atan2f, cos, cosf, | |
| 825 | exp, expf, exp10, exp10f, exp2, exp2f, expm1, expm1f, log, logf, | |
| 826 | log10, log10f, log1p, log1pf, log2, log2f, sin, sinf, tan, tanf. | |
| 827 | ||
| 78ca34d8 AH |
828 | Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility: |
| 829 | ||
| 2aa0974d | 830 | * The ldconfig program now skips file names containing ';' or ending in |
| aeb497d1 FW |
831 | ".dpkg.tmp" or ".dpkg.new", to avoid examining temporary files created |
| 832 | by the RPM and dpkg package managers. | |
| 78ca34d8 | 833 | |
| e6e3c666 AZ |
834 | * libcrypt has been removed from the GNU C Library. The configure |
| 835 | options "--enable-crypt" and "--enable-nss-crypt" are no longer | |
| 836 | available. <crypt.h>, libcrypt.a, and libcrypt.so.1 will not be | |
| 5d7f1bce FW |
837 | installed. For now <unistd.h> continues to declare the crypt |
| 838 | function by default, to avoid introducing vulnerabilities into | |
| 839 | existing applications due to a missing prototype. This declaration | |
| 840 | is deprecated and may be removed in a future glibc release. | |
| e6e3c666 AZ |
841 | |
| 842 | The replacement for libcrypt is libxcrypt, maintained separately from | |
| 843 | GNU libc, but available under compatible licensing terms, and providing | |
| 844 | binary backward compatibility with the former libcrypt. It is currently | |
| 845 | distributed from <https://github.com/besser82/libxcrypt/>. | |
| 846 | ||
| 847 | As a consequence of this removal, GNU libc no longer makes any use of | |
| 848 | the NSS cryptography library (Network Security Services; not to be | |
| 849 | confused with Name Service Switch). Distributors of binary packages | |
| 850 | of GNU libc are advised to check whether their build processes can be | |
| 851 | simplified. | |
| 852 | ||
| 486452af FW |
853 | * The dynamic linker calls the malloc and free functions in more cases |
| 854 | during TLS access if a shared object with dynamic TLS is loaded and | |
| 855 | unloaded. This can result in an infinite recursion if a malloc | |
| 856 | replacement library or its dependencies use dynamic TLS instead of | |
| 857 | initial-exec TLS. | |
| 858 | ||
| 460860f4 AZ |
859 | * The ia64*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported. |
| 860 | ||
| 78ca34d8 AH |
861 | Changes to build and runtime requirements: |
| 862 | ||
| cb7954c4 | 863 | * Building on LoongArch requires at a minimum binutils 2.41 for vector |
| 864 | instructions. | |
| 78ca34d8 AH |
865 | |
| 866 | Security related changes: | |
| 867 | ||
| 60c57b84 SP |
868 | The following CVEs were fixed in this release, details of which can be |
| 869 | found in the advisories directory of the release tarball: | |
| 870 | ||
| 62150d03 AH |
871 | GLIBC-SA-2023-0002: |
| 872 | getaddrinfo: Stack read overflow in no-aaaa mode (CVE-2023-4527) | |
| 873 | ||
| 874 | GLIBC-SA-2023-0003: | |
| 875 | getaddrinfo: Potential use-after-free (CVE-2023-4806) | |
| 876 | ||
| 877 | GLIBC-SA-2023-0004: | |
| 878 | tunables: local privilege escalation through buffer overflow | |
| 879 | (CVE-2023-4911) | |
| 880 | ||
| 881 | GLIBC-SA-2024-0001: | |
| 882 | syslog: Heap buffer overflow in __vsyslog_internal (CVE-2023-6246) | |
| 883 | ||
| 884 | GLIBC-SA-2024-0002: | |
| 885 | syslog: Heap buffer overflow in __vsyslog_internal (CVE-2023-6779) | |
| 886 | ||
| 887 | GLIBC-SA-2024-0003: | |
| 888 | syslog: Integer overflow in __vsyslog_internal (CVE-2023-6780) | |
| 1056e5b4 | 889 | |
| 143ef68b CD |
890 | GLIBC-SA-2024-0004: |
| 891 | ISO-2022-CN-EXT: fix out-of-bound writes when writing escape | |
| 892 | sequence (CVE-2024-2961) | |
| 893 | ||
| 894 | GLIBC-SA-2024-0005: | |
| 895 | nscd: Stack-based buffer overflow in netgroup cache (CVE-2024-33599) | |
| 896 | ||
| 897 | GLIBC-SA-2024-0006: | |
| 898 | nscd: Null pointer crashes after notfound response | |
| 899 | (CVE-2024-33600) | |
| 900 | ||
| 901 | GLIBC-SA-2024-0007: | |
| 902 | nscd: netgroup cache may terminate daemon on memory allocation | |
| 903 | failure (CVE-2024-33601) | |
| 904 | ||
| 905 | GLIBC-SA-2024-0008: | |
| 906 | nscd: netgroup cache assumes NSS callback uses in-buffer strings | |
| 907 | (CVE-2024-33602) | |
| 908 | ||
| 78ca34d8 AH |
909 | The following bugs are resolved with this release: |
| 910 | ||
| 62150d03 AH |
911 | [14522] localedata: fy_DE: LC_IDENTIFICATION data looks weird |
| 912 | [19305] libc: qsort() should return early if (nmemb <= 1) | |
| 913 | [19479] localedata: gbm_IN: new Garhwali Locale | |
| 914 | [19924] dynamic-link: TLS performance degradation after dlopen | |
| 915 | [19956] localedata: ssy_ER: rename from aa_ER@saaho | |
| 916 | [21719] libc: stdlib/msort : optimizing merge sort | |
| 917 | [22526] localedata: th_TH LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1" | |
| 918 | [23012] localedata: el_GR: Greece now uses the 24h format for time | |
| 919 | [23172] localedata: miq_NI: Provide actually abbreviated month names | |
| 920 | [24006] localedata: Cyclic dependencies via copy in locales | |
| 921 | [24013] localedata: am_pm definitions for es_ES | |
| 922 | [24386] localedata: crh_RU: new locale | |
| 923 | [24877] localedata: [Redundant Data] Remove redundant data between | |
| 924 | en_NZ and en_AU | |
| 925 | [25868] localedata: Incorrect trailing spaces in weekday names for | |
| 926 | nn_NO | |
| 927 | [26752] localedata: Please add the new locale zgh_MA | |
| 928 | [27069] dynamic-link: Need a way to tell if a tunable is set by user | |
| 929 | [27163] localedata: Error on test glk_IR with localedef | |
| 930 | [27312] localedata: su_ID: new Sundanese locale | |
| 931 | [27547] manual: "Summary of malloc-Related Functions" shows wrong | |
| 932 | argument order for `aligned_alloc` and `memalign` | |
| 933 | [27574] libc: glibc should probably not define __WORDSIZE=64 for | |
| 934 | __sparcv9 | |
| 935 | [27601] localedata: License information update in | |
| 936 | localedata/locales/ast_ES | |
| 937 | [28558] localedata: it_IT LC_MONETARY outdated p_cs_precedes and | |
| 938 | n_cs_precedes | |
| 939 | [28787] localedata: Add information for Occitan | |
| 940 | [29039] dynamic-link: Corrupt DTV after reuse of a TLS module ID | |
| 941 | following dlclose with unused TLS | |
| 942 | [29486] localedata: New Zealand locales (en_NZ & mi_NZ) first day of | |
| 943 | week should be Monday | |
| 944 | [29504] localedata: Incorrect/misleading Time Format For ms_MY (AM/PM) | |
| 945 | [29506] localedata: UTF-8 HANGUL SYLLABLE bugs | |
| 946 | [30349] libc: Support returning a pidfd from posix_spawn() | |
| 947 | [30412] localedata: d_t_fmt in id_ID uses %r placeholder but am_pm and | |
| 948 | t_fmt_ampm are undefined | |
| 949 | [30605] localedata: New locale for Komi language | |
| 950 | [30649] localedata: [PATCH] Add transliteration of common emojis to | |
| 951 | smileys | |
| 952 | [30694] locale: The iconv program no longer tells the user which given | |
| 953 | encoding name was wrong | |
| 954 | [30709] nscd: nscd fails to build with cleanup handler if built with | |
| 955 | -fexceptions | |
| 956 | [30737] libc: fdopendir() is not robust - returns bogus DIR* instead | |
| 957 | of flagging an error | |
| 958 | [30740] build: [m68k] undefined reference to | |
| 959 | `_wordcopy_fwd_dest_aligned' | |
| 960 | [30745] libc: Slight bug in cache info codes for x86 | |
| 961 | [30750] network: Unaligned accesses in resolver | |
| 962 | [30773] math: [m68k] busybox awk is broken (lshift.S related) | |
| 963 | [30789] libc: [2.38 Regression] sem_open will fail on multithreaded | |
| 964 | scenarios when semaphore file doesn't exist (O_CREAT) | |
| 965 | [30800] nscd: Improper assert in prune_cache triggers if clock jumps | |
| 966 | backwards | |
| 967 | [30804] libc: F_GETLK, F_SETLK, and F_SETLKW value change for | |
| 968 | powerpc64 with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 | |
| 969 | [30842] network: Stack read overflow in getaddrinfo in no-aaaa mode | |
| 970 | (CVE-2023-4527) | |
| 971 | [30843] network: potential use-after-free in getcanonname | |
| 972 | (CVE-2023-4806) | |
| 973 | [30854] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 15.1.0 | |
| 974 | [30884] network: Memory leak in getaddrinfo after fix for bug 30843 | |
| 975 | (CVE-2023-5156) | |
| 976 | [30932] libc: Fortify Source has false-positives when too many files | |
| 977 | are open | |
| 978 | [30945] malloc: Core affinity setting incurs lock contentions between | |
| 979 | threads | |
| 980 | [30960] math: signed integer overflow in | |
| 981 | glibc/sysdeps/s390/fpu/feenablxcpt.c | |
| 982 | [30964] locale: Number grouping check mishandles multibyte thousands | |
| 983 | separator | |
| 984 | [30981] dynamic-link: dlclose does not properly implement force-first | |
| 985 | handling | |
| 986 | [30988] math: fesetexcept raises floating-point exception traps on | |
| 987 | ppc, ppc64, ppc64le | |
| 988 | [30989] math: fesetexcept raises floating-point exception traps on | |
| 989 | i386 | |
| 990 | [30990] libc: fesetexceptflag raises floating-point exception traps on | |
| 991 | i386, x86_64 | |
| 992 | [30998] math: fesetexceptflag clears too many floating-point exception | |
| 993 | flags on alpha | |
| 994 | [31019] manual: The documentation of feenableexcept is incomplete | |
| 995 | [31022] math: feupdateenv (FE_DFL_ENV) crashes on riscv | |
| 996 | [31035] libc: Library search path terminates on relative non-directory | |
| 997 | name | |
| 998 | [31042] libc: [s390x] .init and .fini padding | |
| 999 | [31068] libc: sysdeps: sparc: invalid data access in memset due to | |
| 1000 | regression | |
| 1001 | [31078] manual: Code example in "Noncanonical Mode Example" has unused | |
| 1002 | 'char *name;' | |
| 1003 | [31086] localedata: Errors in Tibetan, Dzongkha data | |
| 1004 | [31113] string: Wrong unwind information for rawmemchr on aarch64 | |
| 1005 | [31151] libc: [RISC-V] missing support for profile/audit PLT setup | |
| 1006 | [31163] nss: getaddrinfo returns EAI_NONAME in oom situation | |
| 1007 | [31183] stdio: Wide stream buffer size reduced MB_LEN_MAX bytes after | |
| 1008 | bug 17522 fix | |
| 1009 | [31184] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-tlsgap | |
| 1010 | [31185] dynamic-link: Incorrect thread point access in | |
| 1011 | _dl_tlsdesc_undefweak and _dl_tlsdesc_dynamic | |
| 1012 | [31187] dynamic-link: Some CET tests fail with GCC 14 | |
| 1013 | [31204] localedata: Fix decimal point and thousands separator for | |
| 1014 | uz_UZ | |
| 1015 | [31205] localedata: Inconsistent (mon_)grouping formats | |
| 1016 | [31218] dynamic-link: PLT rewrite overflows large displacement on x32 | |
| 1017 | [31221] localedata: Add localedata for ISO code "tok" (Toki Pona) | |
| 1018 | [31230] dynamic-link: PLT rewrite failed without SELinux | |
| 1019 | [31239] localedata: anp_IN locale: abbreviated month names are the | |
| 1020 | same as the full month names | |
| 1021 | [31244] nptl: pthread_cancel hangs on sparc32 | |
| 1022 | [31257] localedata: Sync with CLDR: “Turkey” -> “Türkiye” | |
| 1023 | [31266] string: sparc: string/tst-memmove-overflow fails on 32-bit | |
| 1024 | sparcv9 | |
| 1025 | [31276] libc: Wrong condition for heap allocation in qsort_r | |
| 78ca34d8 | 1026 | \f |
| 2412deae CD |
1027 | Version 2.38 |
| 1028 | ||
| 1029 | Major new features: | |
| 1030 | ||
| 64924422 JM |
1031 | * When C2X features are enabled and the base argument is 0 or 2, the |
| 1032 | following functions support binary integers prefixed by 0b or 0B as | |
| 1033 | input: strtol, strtoll, strtoul, strtoull, strtol_l, strtoll_l, | |
| 1034 | strtoul_l, strtoull_l, strtoimax, strtoumax, strtoq, strtouq, wcstol, | |
| 1035 | wcstoll, wcstoul, wcstoull, wcstol_l, wcstoll_l, wcstoul_l, | |
| dee2bea0 JM |
1036 | wcstoull_l, wcstoimax, wcstoumax, wcstoq, wcstouq. Similarly, the |
| 1037 | following functions support binary integers prefixed by 0b or 0B as | |
| 1038 | input to the %i format: fscanf, scanf, sscanf, vscanf, vsscanf, | |
| 2d88df54 JM |
1039 | vfscanf, fwscanf, wscanf, swscanf, vfwscanf, vwscanf, vswscanf; those |
| 1040 | functions also support the %b format for binary integers, with or | |
| 1041 | without such a prefix and independent of standards mode. | |
| 2412deae | 1042 | |
| 2d88df54 JM |
1043 | * PRIb*, PRIB* and SCNb* macros from C2X have been added to |
| 1044 | <inttypes.h>. | |
| 2d4728e6 | 1045 | |
| 5f83b267 JM |
1046 | * printf-family functions now support the wN format length modifiers for |
| 1047 | arguments of type intN_t, int_leastN_t, uintN_t or uint_leastN_t (for | |
| 1048 | example, %w32d to print int32_t or int_least32_t in decimal, or %w32x | |
| 1049 | to print uint32_t or uint_least32_t in hexadecimal) and the wfN format | |
| 1050 | length modifiers for arguments of type int_fastN_t or uint_fastN_t, as | |
| 1051 | specified in draft ISO C2X. | |
| 1052 | ||
| b630be09 CM |
1053 | * A new tunable, glibc.pthread.stack_hugetlb, can be used to disable |
| 1054 | Transparent Huge Pages (THP) in stack allocation at pthread_create. | |
| 1055 | ||
| cd87e368 ST |
1056 | * Support for x86_64 running on Hurd has been added. This port requires |
| 1057 | as least binutils 2.40 and GCC 13: | |
| 1058 | ||
| 1059 | - x86_64-gnu | |
| 1060 | ||
| 653433cd AH |
1061 | * Vector math library libmvec support has been added to AArch64. It |
| 1062 | requires GCC version >= 10.1.0. It can be disabled via | |
| 1063 | "--disable-mathvec", however that is not a supported configuration as | |
| 1064 | it changes the ABI. The symbol names follow the AArch64 vector ABI, | |
| 1065 | they are declared in math.h and have to be called manually at this point. | |
| cd94326a | 1066 | |
| 454a20c8 FW |
1067 | * The strlcpy and strlcat functions have been added. They are derived |
| 1068 | from OpenBSD, and are expected to be added to a future POSIX version. | |
| 1069 | ||
| 64d9580c FB |
1070 | * A new configure option, "--enable-fortify-source", can be used to build the |
| 1071 | GNU C Library with _FORTIFY_SOURCE. The level of fortification can either be | |
| 1072 | provided, or is set to the highest value supported by the compiler. If not | |
| 1073 | explicitly enabled, then fortify source is forcibly disabled so to keep | |
| 1074 | original behavior unchanged. | |
| 1075 | ||
| 2412deae CD |
1076 | Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility: |
| 1077 | ||
| d5e321d1 | 1078 | * libcrypt is no longer built by default; one may use the "--enable-crypt" |
| 6c85c5a1 SP |
1079 | option to build libcrypt. libcrypt is likely to be removed from the |
| 1080 | GNU C Library in a future release, so it is recommended that | |
| 1081 | applications port away from it to an alternative such as libxcrypt. | |
| 1082 | ||
| 79ea63f0 JDA |
1083 | * In the Linux kernel for the hppa/parisc architecture some of the |
| 1084 | MADV_XXX constants were changed to have the same values as the other | |
| 1085 | architectures. New programs compiled with this glibc version and which | |
| 1086 | use the madvise call will require at least Linux kernel version 6.2, | |
| 1087 | alternatively stable kernels from versions 6.1.6, 5.15.87, 5.10.163, | |
| 1088 | 5.4.228, 4.19.270 or 4.14.303. | |
| 2412deae | 1089 | |
| 653433cd | 1090 | * The "--disable-experimental-malloc" option is no longer available. The |
| 36f2487f | 1091 | per-thread cache can still be disabled per-application using tunables |
| 6384171f AZ |
1092 | (glibc.malloc.tcache_count set to zero). |
| 1093 | ||
| 653433cd | 1094 | * The configure option "--enable-tunables" has been removed. The tunable |
| 33237fe8 AZN |
1095 | feature is now always enabled. |
| 1096 | ||
| 2412deae CD |
1097 | Changes to build and runtime requirements: |
| 1098 | ||
| 36f2487f AH |
1099 | * Building libmvec on AArch64 requires at a minimum GCC 10.1.0 for SVE |
| 1100 | ACLE. | |
| 2412deae CD |
1101 | |
| 1102 | Security related changes: | |
| 1103 | ||
| 67c37737 CD |
1104 | CVE-2023-25139: When the printf family of functions is called with a |
| 1105 | format specifier that uses an <apostrophe> (enable grouping) and a | |
| 1106 | minimum width specifier, the resulting output could be larger than | |
| 1107 | reasonably expected by a caller that computed a tight bound on the | |
| 1108 | buffer size. The resulting larger than expected output could result | |
| 1109 | in a buffer overflow in the printf family of functions. | |
| 2412deae CD |
1110 | |
| 1111 | The following bugs are resolved with this release: | |
| 1112 | ||
| b40f5f84 AH |
1113 | [178] string: Please add strlcpy and strlcat (attached) |
| 1114 | [14697] nptl: Behavior of exit is nonconformant with respect to | |
| 1115 | threads and stdio | |
| 1116 | [15142] stdio: Missing locking in _IO_cleanup | |
| 1117 | [18096] glob: null deref in wordexp/parse_dollars/parse_arith | |
| 1118 | [18906] stdio: fopen: ccs value may affect open mode | |
| 1119 | [24466] stdio: Feature request: provide special printf formats for | |
| 1120 | intXX_t | |
| 1121 | [25457] nss: hosts lookup fails for ipv4mapped ipv6 addresses | |
| 1122 | [28519] libc: system and popen should pass "--" between /bin/sh and | |
| 1123 | argument | |
| 1124 | [29016] stdio: popen() sets errno to ENOMEM when shell does not exist | |
| 1125 | [29591] string: wcsnlen length can overflow in page cross case. | |
| 1126 | [30053] time: strftime %s returns -1 after 2038 on 32 bits systems | |
| 1127 | [30068] stdio: incorrect printf output for integers with thousands | |
| 1128 | separator and width field (CVE-2023-25139) | |
| 1129 | [30111] time: support_descriptors_list fails after 2038 on 32 bits | |
| 1130 | systems | |
| 1131 | [30125] dynamic-link: [regression, bisected] glibc-2.37 creates new | |
| 1132 | symlink for libraries without soname | |
| 1133 | [30130] math: [s390] The _FPU_SETCW macro yields compile error with | |
| 1134 | Clang | |
| 1135 | [30156] time: Potential ntp_gettime abi break | |
| 1136 | [30235] libc: Missing fallback in getlogin if loginuid is unset | |
| 1137 | [30258] dynamic-link: sprof cannot read and display shared object | |
| 1138 | profiling data correctly | |
| 1139 | [30263] libc: Add test coverage for abs(), labs(), and llabs(). | |
| 1140 | [30305] math: Incorrect asm constraint in feraiseexcept on x86-64 | |
| 1141 | [30402] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-glibcelf | |
| 1142 | [30425] dynamic-link: Symbol lookup during dlclose may fail | |
| 1143 | unnecessarily | |
| 1144 | [30435] dynamic-link: Root dir wrongly marked as nonexist in open_path | |
| 1145 | [30477] libc: [RISCV]: time64 does not work on riscv32 | |
| 1146 | [30515] dynamic-link: _dl_find_object incorrectly returns 1 during | |
| 1147 | early startup | |
| 1148 | [30527] network: resolv_conf lock not unlocked on allocation failure | |
| 1149 | [30550] math: powerpc64le: GCC-specific code for isinf() is being used | |
| 1150 | on clang | |
| 1151 | [30555] string: strerror can incorrectly return NULL | |
| 1152 | [30579] malloc: trim_threshold in realloc lead to high memory usage | |
| 1153 | [30662] nscd: Group and password cache use errno in place of errval | |
| 2412deae | 1154 | \f |
| 5fded9c4 CD |
1155 | Version 2.37 |
| 1156 | ||
| 1157 | Major new features: | |
| 1158 | ||
| a623f13a FW |
1159 | * The getent tool now supports the --no-addrconfig option. The output of |
| 1160 | getent with --no-addrconfig may contain addresses of families not | |
| 1161 | configured on the current host i.e. as-if you had not passed | |
| 1162 | AI_ADDRCONFIG to getaddrinfo calls. | |
| 5fded9c4 CD |
1163 | |
| 1164 | Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility: | |
| 1165 | ||
| 90d58fe8 | 1166 | * The dynamic linker no longer loads shared objects from the "tls" |
| 78d9a162 JP |
1167 | subdirectories on the library search path or the subdirectory that |
| 1168 | corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, or employs the legacy AT_HWCAP | |
| 1169 | search mechanism, which was deprecated in version 2.33. | |
| 5fded9c4 | 1170 | |
| 5fded9c4 CD |
1171 | Security related changes: |
| 1172 | ||
| 76fe5602 SP |
1173 | CVE-2022-39046: When the syslog function is passed a crafted input |
| 1174 | string larger than 1024 bytes, it reads uninitialized memory from the | |
| 1175 | heap and prints it to the target log file, potentially revealing a | |
| 1176 | portion of the contents of the heap. | |
| 5fded9c4 CD |
1177 | |
| 1178 | The following bugs are resolved with this release: | |
| 1179 | ||
| 01b9668c CD |
1180 | [12154] network: Cannot resolve hosts which have wildcard aliases |
| 1181 | [12165] libc: readdir: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values | |
| 1182 | [19444] build: build failures with -O1 due to -Wmaybe-uninitialized | |
| 1183 | [24774] nptl: pthread_rwlock_timedwrlock stalls on ARM | |
| 1184 | [24816] nss: nss/tst-nss-files-hosts-long fails when no interface has | |
| 1185 | AF_INET6 address (ie docker) | |
| 1186 | [27087] stdio: PowerPC: Redefinition error with Clang from IEEE | |
| 1187 | redirection headers | |
| 1188 | [28846] network: CMSG_NXTHDR may trigger -Wstrict-overflow warning | |
| 1189 | [28937] dynamic-link: New DSO dependency sorter does not put new map | |
| 1190 | first if in a cycle | |
| 1191 | [29249] libc: csu/libc-tls.c:202: undefined reference to | |
| 1192 | `_startup_fatal_not_constant' | |
| 1193 | [29305] network: Inefficient buffer space usage in nss_dns for | |
| 1194 | gethostbyname and other functions | |
| 1195 | [29375] libc: don't hide MAP_ANONYMOUS behind _GNU_SOURCE | |
| 1196 | [29402] nscd: nscd: No such file or directory | |
| 1197 | [29415] nscd: getaddrinfo with AI_ADDRCONFIG returns addresses with | |
| 1198 | wrong family | |
| 1199 | [29427] dynamic-link: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-printf.c: | |
| 1200 | 200: _dl_debug_vdprintf: Assertion `! "invalid format specifier"' | |
| 1201 | failed! | |
| 1202 | [29463] math: math/test-float128-y1 fails on x86_64 | |
| 1203 | [29485] build: Make hangs when the test misc/tst-pidfile returns | |
| 1204 | FAIL_UNSUPPORTED | |
| 1205 | [29490] dynamic-link: [bisected] new __brk_call causes dynamic loader | |
| 1206 | segfault on alpha | |
| 1207 | [29499] build: Check failed on misc/tst-glibcsyscalls while building | |
| 1208 | for RISCV64 on a unmatched hardware | |
| 1209 | [29501] build: Check failed on stdlib/tst-strfrom while building for | |
| 1210 | RISCV64 on a unmatched hardware | |
| 1211 | [29502] libc: alpha sys/acct.h out of date | |
| 1212 | [29514] build: Need to use -fPIE not -fpie | |
| 1213 | [29528] dynamic-link: __libc_early_init not called after dlmopen that | |
| 1214 | reuses namespace | |
| 1215 | [29536] libc: syslog fail to create large messages (CVE-2022-39046) | |
| 1216 | [29537] libc: [2.34 regression]: Alignment issue on m68k when using | |
| 1217 | futexes on qemu-user | |
| 1218 | [29539] libc: LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS changed how vDSO library are | |
| 1219 | printed | |
| 1220 | [29544] libc: Regression in syslog(3) calls breaks RFC due to extra | |
| 1221 | whitespace | |
| 1222 | [29564] build: Incorrect way to change MAKEFLAGS in Makerules | |
| 1223 | [29576] build: librtld.os: in function `_dl_start_profile': | |
| 1224 | (.text+0x9444): undefined reference to `strcpy' | |
| 1225 | [29578] libc: Definition of SUN_LEN() is wrong | |
| 1226 | [29583] build: iconv failures on 32bit platform due to missing large | |
| 1227 | file support | |
| 1228 | [29600] dynamic-link: dlmopen hangs after loading certain libraries | |
| 1229 | [29604] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 15.0.0 | |
| 1230 | [29605] nscd: Regression in NSCD backend of getaddrinfo | |
| 1231 | [29607] nscd: nscd repeatably crashes calling __strlen_avx2 when hosts | |
| 1232 | cache is enabled | |
| 1233 | [29611] string: Optimized AVX2 string functions unconditionally use | |
| 1234 | BMI2 instructions | |
| 1235 | [29624] malloc: errno is not cleared when entering main | |
| 1236 | [29638] libc: stdlib: arc4random fallback is never used | |
| 1237 | [29657] libc: Incorrect struct stat for 64-bit time on linux/generic | |
| 1238 | platforms | |
| 1239 | [29698] build: Configuring for AArch32 on ARMv8+ disables | |
| 1240 | optimizations | |
| 1241 | [29727] locale: __strtol_internal out-of-bounds read when parsing | |
| 1242 | thousands grouping | |
| 1243 | [29730] libc: broken y2038 support in fstatat on MIPS N64 | |
| 1244 | [29746] libc: ppoll() does not switch to __ppoll64 when | |
| 1245 | -D_TIME_BITS=64 and -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 is given on 32bit | |
| 1246 | [29771] libc: Restore IPC_64 support in sysvipc *ctl functions | |
| 1247 | [29780] build: possible parallel make issue in glibc-2.36 (siglist- | |
| 1248 | aux.S: No such file or directory) | |
| 1249 | [29864] libc: __libc_start_main() should obtain program headers | |
| 1250 | address (_dl_phdr) from the auxv, not the ELF header. | |
| 1251 | [29951] time: daylight variable not set correctly if last DST change | |
| 1252 | coincides with offset change | |
| 1253 | [30039] stdio: __vsprintf_internal does not handle unspecified buffer | |
| 1254 | length in fortify mode | |
| 5fded9c4 | 1255 | \f |
| bc6c1af5 CD |
1256 | Version 2.36 |
| 1257 | ||
| 1258 | Major new features: | |
| 1259 | ||
| 4c5b1cf5 L |
1260 | * Support for DT_RELR relative relocation format has been added to |
| 1261 | glibc. This is a new ELF dynamic tag that improves the size of | |
| 1262 | relative relocations in shared object files and position independent | |
| 1263 | executables (PIE). DT_RELR generation requires linker support for | |
| 1264 | -z pack-relative-relocs option, which is supported for some targets | |
| 1265 | in recent binutils versions. Lazy binding doesn't apply to DT_RELR. | |
| bc6c1af5 | 1266 | |
| 56cf9e8e AZ |
1267 | * On Linux, the pidfd_open, pidfd_getfd, and pidfd_send_signal functions |
| 1268 | have been added. The pidfd functionality provides access to a process | |
| 7f0d9e61 | 1269 | while avoiding the issue of PID reuse on traditional Unix systems. |
| 97f5d19c | 1270 | |
| d19ee347 AZ |
1271 | * On Linux, the process_madvise function has been added. It has the |
| 1272 | same functionality as madvise but alters the target process identified | |
| 1273 | by the pidfd. | |
| 1274 | ||
| 1002f1af AZ |
1275 | * On Linux, the process_mrelease function has been added. It allows a |
| 1276 | caller to release the memory of a dying process. The release of the | |
| 1277 | memory is carried out in the context of the caller, using the caller's | |
| 1278 | CPU affinity, and priority with CPU usage accounted to the caller. | |
| 1279 | ||
| f282cdbe FW |
1280 | * The “no-aaaa” DNS stub resolver option has been added. System |
| 1281 | administrators can use it to suppress AAAA queries made by the stub | |
| 1282 | resolver, including AAAA lookups triggered by NSS-based interfaces | |
| 1283 | such as getaddrinfo. Only DNS lookups are affected: IPv6 data in | |
| 1284 | /etc/hosts is still used, getaddrinfo with AI_PASSIVE will still | |
| 1285 | produce IPv6 addresses, and configured IPv6 name servers are still | |
| 1286 | used. To produce correct Name Error (NXDOMAIN) results, AAAA queries | |
| 1287 | are translated to A queries. The new resolver option is intended | |
| 1288 | primarily for diagnostic purposes, to rule out that AAAA DNS queries | |
| 1289 | have adverse impact. It is incompatible with EDNS0 usage and DNSSEC | |
| 1290 | validation by applications. | |
| 1291 | ||
| af1aa36c AZ |
1292 | * On Linux, the fsopen, fsmount, move_mount, fsconfig, fspick, open_tree, |
| 1293 | and mount_setattr have been added. They are part of the new Linux kernel | |
| 1294 | mount APIs that allow applications to more flexibly configure and operate | |
| 1295 | on filesystem mounts. The new mount APIs are specifically designed to work | |
| 78a408ee | 1296 | with namespaces. |
| 6c0eedd9 | 1297 | |
| b15538d7 FW |
1298 | * localedef now accepts locale definition files encoded in UTF-8. |
| 1299 | Previously, input bytes not within the ASCII range resulted in | |
| 1300 | unpredictable output. | |
| 1301 | ||
| 8bcca1db TH |
1302 | * Support for the mbrtoc8 and c8rtomb multibyte/UTF-8 character conversion |
| 1303 | functions has been added per the ISO C2X N2653 and C++20 P0482R6 proposals. | |
| 1304 | Support for the char8_t typedef has been added per the ISO C2X N2653 | |
| 1305 | proposal. The functions are declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the | |
| 1306 | _GNU_SOURCE macro or C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro is defined. | |
| 1307 | The char8_t typedef is declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the | |
| 1308 | _GNU_SOURCE macro is defined and the C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro | |
| 1309 | is not defined (if __cpp_char8_t is defined, then char8_t is a builtin type). | |
| 1310 | ||
| 6f4e0fcf | 1311 | * The functions arc4random, arc4random_buf, and arc4random_uniform have been |
| eaad4f9e JD |
1312 | added. The functions wrap getrandom and/or /dev/urandom to return high- |
| 1313 | quality randomness from the kernel. | |
| 6f4e0fcf | 1314 | |
| 3a380458 | 1315 | * Support for LoongArch running on Linux has been added. This port requires |
| 1316 | as least binutils 2.38, GCC 12, and Linux 5.19. Currently only hard-float | |
| 1317 | ABI is supported: | |
| 1318 | ||
| 1319 | - loongarch64-linux-gnu | |
| 1320 | ||
| 1321 | The LoongArch ABI is 64-bit little-endian. | |
| 1322 | ||
| bc6c1af5 CD |
1323 | Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility: |
| 1324 | ||
| 6628c742 AZ |
1325 | * Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes |
| 1326 | removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment | |
| 1327 | variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader. | |
| bc6c1af5 | 1328 | |
| b46d2506 AZ |
1329 | * The Linux kernel version check has been removed along with the |
| 1330 | LD_ASSUME_KERNEL environment variable. The minimum kernel used to built | |
| 1331 | glibc is still provided through NT_GNU_ABI_TAG ELF note and also printed | |
| 1332 | when libc.so is issued directly. | |
| 1333 | ||
| d2db60d8 AZ |
1334 | * On Linux, The LD_LIBRARY_VERSION environment variable has been removed. |
| 1335 | ||
| bc6c1af5 CD |
1336 | The following bugs are resolved with this release: |
| 1337 | ||
| 90d8f0dc CD |
1338 | [14932] dynamic-link: dlsym(handle, "foo") and dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "foo") |
| 1339 | return different result with versioned "foo" | |
| 1340 | [16355] libc: syslog.h's SYSLOG_NAMES namespace violation and utter | |
| 1341 | mess | |
| 1342 | [23293] dynamic-link: aarch64: getauxval is broken when run as ld.so | |
| 1343 | ./exe and ld.so adjusts argv on the stack | |
| 1344 | [24595] nptl: [2.28 Regression]: Deadlock in atfork handler which | |
| 1345 | calls dlclose | |
| 1346 | [25744] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS returns 2 instead of 1 when | |
| 1347 | consuming the second byte of certain double byte characters | |
| 1348 | [25812] stdio: Libio vtable protection is sometimes only partially | |
| 1349 | enforced | |
| 1350 | [27054] libc: pthread_atfork handlers that call pthread_atfork | |
| 1351 | deadlock | |
| 1352 | [27924] dynamic-link: ld.so: Support DT_RELR relative relocation | |
| 1353 | format | |
| 1354 | [28128] build: declare_symbol_alias doesn't work for assembly codes | |
| 1355 | [28566] network: getnameinfo with NI_NOFQDN is not thread safe | |
| 1356 | [28752] nss: Segfault in getpwuid when stat fails | |
| 1357 | [28815] libc: realpath should not copy to resolved buffer on error | |
| 1358 | [28828] stdio: fputwc crashes | |
| 1359 | [28838] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-p_align3 | |
| 1360 | [28845] locale: ld-monetary.c should be updated to match ISO C and | |
| 1361 | other standards. | |
| 1362 | [28850] libc: linux: __get_nprocs_sched reads uninitialized memory | |
| 1363 | from the stack | |
| 1364 | [28852] libc: getaddrinfo leaks memory with AI_ALL | |
| 1365 | [28853] libc: tst-spawn6 changes current foreground process group | |
| 1366 | (breaks test isolation) | |
| 1367 | [28857] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-audit24a | |
| 1368 | [28860] build: --enable-kernel=5.1.0 build fails because of missing | |
| 1369 | __convert_scm_timestamps | |
| 1370 | [28865] libc: linux: _SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF and _SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN are | |
| 1371 | inaccurate without /sys and /proc | |
| 1372 | [28868] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader DFS algorithm segfaults on | |
| 1373 | missing libraries | |
| 7f0d9e61 | 1374 | [28880] libc: Program crashes if date beyond 2038 |
| 90d8f0dc CD |
1375 | [28883] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/select.c: __select64 |
| 1376 | !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS && !__ASSUME_PSELECT fails on Microblaze | |
| 1377 | [28896] string: strncmp-avx2-rtm and wcsncmp-avx2-rtm fallback on non- | |
| 1378 | rtm variants when avoiding overflow | |
| 1379 | [28922] build: The .d dependency files aren't always generated | |
| 1380 | [28931] libc: hosts lookup broken for SUCCESS=CONTINUE and | |
| 1381 | SUCCESS=MERGE | |
| 1382 | [28936] build: nm: No such file | |
| 1383 | [28950] localedata: Add locale for ISO code "tok" (Toki Pona) | |
| 1384 | [28953] nss: NSS lookup result can be incorrect if function lookup | |
| 1385 | clobbers errno | |
| 1386 | [28970] math: benchtest: libmvec benchmark doesn't build with make | |
| 1387 | bench. | |
| 1388 | [28991] libc: sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF) should read | |
| 1389 | /sys/devices/system/cpu/possible | |
| 1390 | [28993] libc: closefrom() iterates until max int if no access to | |
| 1391 | /proc/self/fd/ | |
| 1392 | [28996] libc: realpath fails to copy partial result to resolved buffer | |
| 1393 | on ENOENT and EACCES | |
| 1394 | [29027] math: [ia64] fabs fails with sNAN input | |
| 1395 | [29029] nptl: poll() spuriously returns EINTR during thread | |
| 1396 | cancellation and with cancellation disabled | |
| 1397 | [29030] string: GLIBC 2.35 regression - Fortify crash on certain valid | |
| 1398 | uses of mbsrtowcs (*** buffer overflow detected ***: terminated) | |
| 1399 | [29062] dynamic-link: Memory leak in _dl_find_object_update if object | |
| 1400 | is promoted to global scope | |
| 1401 | [29069] libc: fstatat64_time64_statx wrapper broken on MIPS N32 with | |
| 1402 | -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 and -D_TIME_BITS=64 | |
| 1403 | [29071] dynamic-link: m68k: Removal of ELF_DURING_STARTUP optimization | |
| 1404 | broke ld.so | |
| 1405 | [29097] time: fchmodat does not handle 64 bit time_t for | |
| 1406 | AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW | |
| 1407 | [29109] libc: posix_spawn() always returns 1 (EPERM) on clone() | |
| 1408 | failure | |
| 1409 | [29141] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 fail for gcc 12/glibc 2.35 | |
| 1410 | [29162] string: [PATCH] string.h syntactic error: | |
| 1411 | include/bits/string_fortified.h:110: error: expected ',' or ';' | |
| 1412 | before '__fortified_attr_access' | |
| 1413 | [29165] libc: [Regression] broken argv adjustment | |
| 1414 | [29187] dynamic-link: [regression] broken argv adjustment for nios2 | |
| 1415 | [29193] math: sincos produces a different output than sin/cos | |
| 1416 | [29197] string: __strncpy_power9() uses uninitialised register vs18 | |
| 1417 | value for filling after \0 | |
| 1418 | [29203] libc: daemon is not y2038 aware | |
| 1419 | [29204] libc: getusershell is not 2038 aware | |
| 1420 | [29207] libc: posix_fallocate fallback implementation is not y2038 | |
| 1421 | aware | |
| 1422 | [29208] libc: fpathconf(_PC_ASYNC_IO) is not y2038 aware | |
| 1423 | [29209] libc: isfdtype is not y2038 aware | |
| 1424 | [29210] network: ruserpass is not y2038 aware | |
| 1425 | [29211] libc: __open_catalog is not y2038 aware | |
| 1426 | [29213] libc: gconv_parseconfdir is not y2038 aware | |
| 1427 | [29214] nptl: pthread_setcanceltype fails to set type | |
| 1428 | [29225] network: Mistyped define statement in socket/sys/socket.h in | |
| 1429 | line 184 | |
| 1430 | [29274] nptl: __read_chk is not a cancellation point | |
| 1431 | [29279] libc: undefined reference to `mbstowcs_chk' after | |
| 1432 | 464d189b9622932a75302290625de84931656ec0 | |
| 1433 | [29304] libc: mq_timedreceive does not handle 64 bit syscall return | |
| 1434 | correct for !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS | |
| 1435 | [29403] libc: st_atim, st_mtim, st_ctim stat struct members are | |
| 1436 | missing on microblaze with largefile | |
| a85c93c4 CD |
1437 | \f |
| 1438 | Version 2.35 | |
| 1439 | ||
| 1440 | Major new features: | |
| 1441 | ||
| b5172560 MF |
1442 | * Unicode 14.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and |
| 1443 | transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 14.0.0, using | |
| 1444 | generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat). | |
| 1445 | ||
| a93d9e03 L |
1446 | * Bump r_version in the debugger interface to 2 and add a new field, |
| 1447 | r_next, support multiple namespaces. | |
| 1448 | ||
| 466f2be6 CD |
1449 | * Support for the C.UTF-8 locale has been added to glibc. The locale |
| 1450 | supports full code-point sorting for all valid Unicode code points. A | |
| 1451 | limitation in the framework for fnmatch, regexec, and regcomp requires | |
| 1452 | a compromise to save space and only ASCII-based range expressions are | |
| 1453 | supported for now (see bug 28255). The full size of the locale is | |
| 1454 | only ~400KiB, with 346KiB coming from LC_CTYPE information for | |
| 1455 | Unicode. This locale harmonizes downstream C.UTF-8 already shipping | |
| 1456 | in various downstream distributions. The locale is not built into | |
| 1457 | glibc, and must be installed. | |
| a85c93c4 | 1458 | |
| abd38358 JM |
1459 | * <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type, and |
| 1460 | corresponding <tgmath.h> macros, are added from TS 18661-1:2014, TS | |
| 1461 | 18661-3:2015 and draft ISO C2X: | |
| 1462 | ||
| 1463 | - fsqrt, fsqrtl, dsqrtl and corresponding fMsqrtfN, fMsqrtfNx, | |
| 1464 | fMxsqrtfN and fMxsqrtfNx functions. | |
| 1465 | ||
| b3f27d81 JM |
1466 | - ffma, ffmal, dfmal and corresponding fMfmafN, fMfmafNx, fMxfmafN and |
| 1467 | fMxfmafNx functions. | |
| 1468 | ||
| 90f0ac10 JM |
1469 | * <math.h> functions for floating-point maximum and minimum, |
| 1470 | corresponding to new operations in IEEE 754-2019, and corresponding | |
| 1471 | <tgmath.h> macros, are added from draft ISO C2X: fmaximum, | |
| 1472 | fmaximum_num, fmaximum_mag, fmaximum_mag_num, fminimum, fminimum_num, | |
| 1473 | fminimum_mag, fminimum_mag_num and corresponding functions for float, | |
| 1474 | long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx. | |
| 1475 | ||
| 347a5b59 SN |
1476 | * <math.h> macros for single-precision float constants are added as a |
| 1477 | GNU extension: M_Ef, M_LOG2Ef, M_LOG10Ef, M_LN2f, M_LN10f, M_PIf, | |
| 1478 | M_PI_2f, M_PI_4f, M_1_PIf, M_2_PIf, M_2_SQRTPIf, M_SQRT2f and | |
| 1479 | M_SQRT1_2f. | |
| 1480 | ||
| 8807e560 JM |
1481 | * The __STDC_IEC_60559_BFP__ and __STDC_IEC_60559_COMPLEX__ macros are |
| 1482 | predefined as specified in TS 18661-1:2014. | |
| 1483 | ||
| 52c057e3 JM |
1484 | * The exp10 functions in <math.h> now have a corresponding type-generic |
| 1485 | macro in <tgmath.h>. | |
| 1486 | ||
| 01d34e93 JM |
1487 | * The ISO C2X macro _PRINTF_NAN_LEN_MAX has been added to <stdio.h>. |
| 1488 | ||
| 309548be JM |
1489 | * printf-family functions now support the %b format for output of |
| 1490 | integers in binary, as specified in draft ISO C2X, and the %B variant | |
| 1491 | of that format recommended by draft ISO C2X. | |
| 1492 | ||
| 15a0c573 CLT |
1493 | * A new DSO sorting algorithm has been added in the dynamic linker that uses |
| 1494 | topological sorting by depth-first search (DFS), solving performance issues | |
| 1495 | of the existing sorting algorithm when encountering particular circular | |
| 1496 | object dependency cases. | |
| 1497 | ||
| 0884724a FW |
1498 | * A new tunable, glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort, can be used to select between |
| 1499 | the two DSO sorting algorithms. The default setting of '2' uses the | |
| 1500 | new DFS-based algorithm. The setting '1' switches to the old | |
| 1501 | algorithm used in glibc 2.33 and earlier. | |
| 15a0c573 | 1502 | |
| 11c88336 NG |
1503 | * ABI support for a new function '__memcmpeq'. '__memcmpeq' is meant |
| 1504 | to be used by compilers for optimizing usage of 'memcmp' when its | |
| 1505 | return value is only used for its boolean status. | |
| c901c3e7 FW |
1506 | |
| 1507 | * Support for automatically registering threads with the Linux rseq | |
| 1508 | system call has been added. This system call is implemented starting | |
| 1509 | from Linux 4.18. The Restartable Sequences ABI accelerates user-space | |
| 1510 | operations on per-cpu data. It allows user-space to perform updates | |
| 1511 | on per-cpu data without requiring heavy-weight atomic operations. | |
| 1512 | Automatically registering threads allows all libraries, including | |
| 1513 | libc, to make immediate use of the rseq support by using the | |
| 1514 | documented ABI, via the __rseq_flags, __rseq_offset, and __rseq_size | |
| 1515 | variables. The GNU C Library manual has details on integration of | |
| 1516 | Restartable Sequences. | |
| 2e75604f FW |
1517 | |
| 1518 | * A symbolic link to the dynamic linker is now installed under | |
| 1519 | /usr/bin/ld.so (or more precisely, '${bindir}/ld.so'). | |
| 11c88336 | 1520 | |
| 23645707 SP |
1521 | * All programs and the testsuite in glibc are now built as position independent |
| 1522 | executables (PIE) by default on toolchains and architectures that support it. | |
| 1523 | Further, if the toolchain and architecture supports it, even static programs | |
| 1524 | are built as PIE and the resultant glibc can be used to build static PIE | |
| 1525 | executables. A new option --disable-default-pie has been added to disable | |
| 1526 | this behavior and get a non-PIE build. This option replaces | |
| 1527 | --enable-static-pie, which no longer has any effect on the build | |
| 1528 | configuration. | |
| 1529 | ||
| 5f6d8d97 | 1530 | * On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.malloc.hugetlb, can be used to |
| 98d5fcb8 AZ |
1531 | either make malloc issue madvise plus MADV_HUGEPAGE on mmap and sbrk |
| 1532 | or to use huge pages directly with mmap calls with the MAP_HUGETLB | |
| 1533 | flags). The former can improve performance when Transparent Huge Pages | |
| 1534 | is set to 'madvise' mode while the latter uses the system reserved | |
| 1535 | huge pages. | |
| 5f6d8d97 | 1536 | |
| 9702a790 FW |
1537 | * The printf family of functions now handles the flagged %#m conversion |
| 1538 | specifier, printing errno as an error constant (similar to strerrorname_np). | |
| 1539 | ||
| 5d28a896 FW |
1540 | * The function _dl_find_object has been added. In-process unwinders |
| 1541 | can use it to efficiently locate unwinding information for a code | |
| 1542 | address. | |
| 1543 | ||
| c1fc366e SH |
1544 | * Support for OpenRISC running on Linux has been added. This port requires |
| 1545 | as least binutils 2.35, GCC 11, and Linux 5.4. Currently only soft-float | |
| 1546 | ABI is supported: | |
| 1547 | ||
| 1548 | - or1k-linux-gnu | |
| 1549 | ||
| 1550 | The OpenRISC ABI is 32-bit big-endian and uses 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and | |
| 1551 | 64-bit file offsets (LFS default). | |
| 1552 | ||
| 9ba202c7 FW |
1553 | * A new configure option, --with-rtld-early-cflags, can be used to |
| 1554 | specify additional compiler flags for building the early startup code | |
| 1555 | of the dynamic linker. On targets which have CPU compatibility | |
| 1556 | checks, this can help to ensure that proper diagnostics are printed if | |
| 1557 | the dynamic loader runs on an incompatible CPU. | |
| 1558 | ||
| 5f3a7ebc AZ |
1559 | * On Linux, the epoll_pwait2 function has been added. It is similar to |
| 1560 | epoll_wait with the difference the timeout has nanoseconds resolution. | |
| 1561 | ||
| 6289d28d AZ |
1562 | * The function posix_spawn_file_actions_addtcsetpgrp_np has been added, |
| 1563 | enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to set the controlling terminal in | |
| 1564 | the new process in a race free manner. This function is a GNU extension. | |
| 342cc934 | 1565 | |
| 829ea0ca SP |
1566 | * Source fortification (_FORTIFY_SOURCE) level 3 is now available for |
| 1567 | applications compiling with glibc and gcc 12 and later. Level 3 leverages | |
| 1568 | the __builtin_dynamic_object_size function to deliver additional | |
| 1569 | fortification balanced against additional runtime cost (checking non-constant | |
| 1570 | bounds). | |
| 1571 | ||
| 2fe48f52 CD |
1572 | * The audit libraries will avoid unnecessary slowdown if it is not required |
| 1573 | PLT tracking (by not implementing the la_pltenter or la_pltexit callbacks). | |
| 1574 | ||
| a85c93c4 CD |
1575 | Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility: |
| 1576 | ||
| f6ff8786 L |
1577 | * On x86-64, the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC environment variable support |
| 1578 | has been removed since the first PT_LOAD segment is no longer executable | |
| 1579 | due to defaulting to -z separate-code. | |
| 1f3d4607 | 1580 | |
| a93d9e03 L |
1581 | * The r_version update in the debugger interface makes the glibc binary |
| 1582 | incompatible with GDB binaries built without the following commits: | |
| 1583 | ||
| 1584 | c0154a4a21a gdb: Don't assume r_ldsomap when r_version > 1 on Linux | |
| 1585 | 4eb629d50d4 gdbserver: Check r_version < 1 for Linux debugger interface | |
| 1586 | ||
| 1587 | when audit modules or dlmopen are used. | |
| a85c93c4 | 1588 | |
| bf433b84 FS |
1589 | * Intel MPX support (lazy PLT, ld.so profile, and LD_AUDIT) has been removed. |
| 1590 | ||
| 23645707 SP |
1591 | * The --enable-static-pie option is no longer available. The glibc build |
| 1592 | configuration script now automatically detects static-pie support in the | |
| 1593 | toolchain and architecture and enables it if available. | |
| 1594 | ||
| 65ccd641 AZ |
1595 | * The catchsegv script and associated libSegFault.so shared object have |
| 1596 | been removed. There are widely-deployed out-of-process alternatives for | |
| 1597 | catching coredumps and backtraces. | |
| 1598 | ||
| be211e09 AZ |
1599 | * Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes |
| 1600 | removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment | |
| 1601 | variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader. | |
| 1602 | ||
| d7703d31 AZ |
1603 | * The LD_TRACE_PRELINKING environment variable has been removed. Similar |
| 1604 | functionality to obtain the program mapping address can be achieved by | |
| 1605 | using LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS to value of 2. | |
| 1606 | ||
| 14476154 AZ |
1607 | * The LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS has been removed. The variable was mainly used to |
| 1608 | support prelink PIE binaries. | |
| 1609 | ||
| 32ffd427 CD |
1610 | Changes to build and runtime requirements: |
| 1611 | ||
| 32612615 AZ |
1612 | * The audit module interface version LAV_CURRENT is increased to enable |
| 1613 | proper bind-now support. The loader now advertises via the la_symbind | |
| 32ffd427 | 1614 | flags that PLT trace is not possible. New audit modules require the |
| 7f0d9e61 | 1615 | new dynamic loader supporting the latest LAV_CURRENT version. Old audit |
| 32ffd427 | 1616 | modules are still loaded for all targets except aarch64. |
| 32612615 | 1617 | |
| ce9a68c5 BW |
1618 | * The audit interface on aarch64 is extended to support both the indirect |
| 1619 | result location register (x8) and NEON Q register. Old audit modules are | |
| 32ffd427 CD |
1620 | rejected by the loader. Audit modules must be rebuilt to use the newer |
| 1621 | structure sizes and the latest module interface version for LAV_CURRENT. | |
| a85c93c4 CD |
1622 | |
| 1623 | Security related changes: | |
| 1624 | ||
| 226b4677 FW |
1625 | CVE-2022-23219: Passing an overlong file name to the clnt_create |
| 1626 | legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow when | |
| 1627 | using the "unix" protocol. Reported by Martin Sebor. | |
| a85c93c4 | 1628 | |
| f545ad49 FW |
1629 | CVE-2022-23218: Passing an overlong file name to the svcunix_create |
| 1630 | legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow. | |
| 1631 | ||
| ee8d5e33 SP |
1632 | CVE-2021-3998: Passing a path longer than PATH_MAX to the realpath |
| 1633 | function could result in a memory leak and potential access of | |
| 1634 | uninitialized memory. Reported by Qualys. | |
| 1635 | ||
| 23e0e8f5 SP |
1636 | CVE-2021-3999: Passing a buffer of size exactly 1 byte to the getcwd |
| 1637 | function may result in an off-by-one buffer underflow and overflow | |
| 1638 | when the current working directory is longer than PATH_MAX and also | |
| 1639 | corresponds to the / directory through an unprivileged mount | |
| 1640 | namespace. Reported by Qualys. | |
| 1641 | ||
| a85c93c4 CD |
1642 | The following bugs are resolved with this release: |
| 1643 | ||
| a134ce82 CD |
1644 | [12889] nptl: Race condition in pthread_kill |
| 1645 | [14232] nptl: tst-cancel7 and tst-cancelx7 race condition | |
| 1646 | [14913] libc: [mips] Clean up MIPS 64-bit register-dump.h output | |
| 1647 | [15310] dynamic-link: _dl_sort_fini is O(n^3) causing slow exit when | |
| 1648 | many dsos | |
| 1649 | [15333] libc: Use 64-bit stat functions in installed programs | |
| 1650 | [15533] dynamic-link: LD_AUDIT introduces an avoidable performance | |
| 1651 | degradation | |
| 1652 | [15971] dynamic-link: No interface for debugger access to libraries | |
| 1653 | loaded with dlmopen | |
| 1654 | [17318] locale: [RFE] Provide a C.UTF-8 locale by default | |
| 1655 | [17645] dynamic-link: RFE: Improve performance of dynamic loader for | |
| 1656 | deeply nested DSO dependencies. | |
| 1657 | [19193] nptl: pthread_kill, pthread_cancel return ESRCH for a thread | |
| 1658 | ID whose lifetime has not ended | |
| 1659 | [22542] network: buffer overflow in sunrpc clnt_create | |
| 1660 | (CVE-2022-23219) | |
| 1661 | [22716] malloc: [PATCH] mtrace.pl: use TRACE_PRELINKING instead of | |
| 1662 | TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS | |
| 1663 | [25947] malloc: memory leak in muntrace | |
| 1664 | [26045] math: fmaxf(inf, nan) does not always work | |
| 1665 | [26108] math: exp10() has problems with <tgmath.h> | |
| 1666 | [26779] build: benign use after realloc at localealias.c:329 | |
| 1667 | [27609] dynamic-link: [2.32/2.33/2.34 Regression] In elf/dl-open.c | |
| 1668 | (_dl_open) we might use __LM_ID_CALLER to index GL(dl_ns)[] | |
| 1669 | [27945] build: build-many-glibcs.py doesn't configure GCC with | |
| 1670 | --enable-initfini-array | |
| 1671 | [27991] build: x86: sysdeps/x86/configure.ac breaks when | |
| 1672 | libc_cv_include_x86_isa_level is loaded from cache | |
| 1673 | [28036] nptl: Incorrect types for pthread_mutexattr_set/getrobust_np | |
| 1674 | in __REDIRECT_NTH macro | |
| 1675 | [28061] dynamic-link: A failing dlmopen called by an auditor crashed | |
| 1676 | [28062] dynamic-link: Suppress audit calls when a (new) namespace is | |
| 1677 | empty | |
| 1678 | [28126] libc: nftw aborts for paths longer than PATH_MAX | |
| 1679 | [28129] dynamic-link: Unnecessary check DT_DEBUG in ld.so | |
| 1680 | [28153] libc: [test] gmon/tst-gmon-gprof* may have a f3 line when | |
| 1681 | built with ld.lld | |
| 1682 | [28182] libc: _TIME_BITS=64 in C++ has issues with fcntl, ioctl, prctl | |
| 1683 | [28185] math: Inaccurate j0f function (again) | |
| 1684 | [28199] locale: iconvconfig prefix flag behaves differently in glibc | |
| 1685 | 2.34 | |
| 1686 | [28203] dynamic-link: aarch64: elf_machine_{load_address,dynamic} | |
| 1687 | should drop _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_[0] in favor of __ehdr_start for | |
| 1688 | robustness | |
| 1689 | [28213] librt: NULL pointer dereference in mq_notify (CVE-2021-38604) | |
| 1690 | [28223] libc: mips: clone does not align stack | |
| 1691 | [28253] dynamic-link: Missing colon in LD_SHOW_AUXV output after | |
| 1692 | AT_MINSIGSTKSZ | |
| 1693 | [28256] malloc: Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised | |
| 1694 | value(s) in __GI___tunables_init | |
| 1695 | [28260] build: io/tst-closefrom, misc/tst-close_range, posix/tst- | |
| 1696 | spawn5 fail if stray fds are open | |
| 1697 | [28310] libc: Do not use affinity mask for sysconf | |
| 1698 | (_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF) | |
| 1699 | [28338] time: undefined behavior in __tzfile_compute with oddball TZif | |
| 1700 | file | |
| 1701 | [28340] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes while loading a DSO with a read- | |
| 1702 | only dynamic section | |
| 1703 | [28349] libc: Segfault for ping -R on qemux86 caused by recvmsg() | |
| 1704 | [28350] libc: ping receives SIGABRT on lib32-qemux86-64 caused by | |
| 1705 | recvmsg() | |
| 1706 | [28353] network: Race condition on __opensock | |
| 1707 | [28357] dynamic-link: deadlock between pthread_create and ctors | |
| 1708 | [28358] math: f64xdivf128 and f64xmulf128 spurious underflows | |
| 1709 | [28361] nptl: Fix for bug 12889 causes setxid deadlock | |
| 1710 | [28368] build: -Waddress instances in stdio-common/vfprintf-internal.c | |
| 1711 | [28390] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 14.0.0 | |
| 1712 | [28397] math: tgmath.h should not define fmaxmag, fminmag macros for | |
| 1713 | C2X | |
| 1714 | [28400] libc: [2.35 Regression] string/test-strncasecmp: cannot set | |
| 1715 | locale "en_US.UTF-8" | |
| 1716 | [28407] nptl: pthread_kill assumes that kill (getpid ()) is equivalent | |
| 1717 | to tgkill (getpid (), gettid()) | |
| 1718 | [28455] dynamic-link: -Wl,--enable-new-dtags doesn't work | |
| 1719 | [28457] dynamic-link: Missing reldepmod4.so dependency for | |
| 1720 | globalmod1.so | |
| 1721 | [28469] time: linux: struct timex is not correctly set for 32-bit | |
| 1722 | systems with TIMESIZE=64 | |
| 1723 | [28470] regex: Buffer read overrun in regular expression searching | |
| 1724 | [28475] string: Incorrect access attribute on memfrob | |
| 1725 | [28524] libc: Conversion from ISO-2022-JP-3 with iconv may emit | |
| 1726 | spurious NUL character on state reset | |
| 1727 | [28532] libc: powerpc64[le]: CFI for assembly templated syscalls is | |
| 1728 | incorrect | |
| 1729 | [28550] dynamic-link: FAIL: tst-dso- | |
| 1730 | ordering9_112-ecbda(GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort=1) | |
| 1731 | execution test | |
| 1732 | [28554] build: Undefined generate-md5 | |
| 1733 | [28572] libc: Misaligned accesses in test-memcpy and test-mempcpy on | |
| 1734 | hppa | |
| 1735 | [28607] nptl: Masked signals are delivered on thread exit | |
| 1736 | [28624] libc: openjdk 8/9 assume uni processor and gets stuck due to | |
| 1737 | lack of cpu counting /proc fallback with glibc 2.34 | |
| 1738 | [28646] string: [2.35 Regression] mock -r fedora-36-x86_64 | |
| 1739 | /tmp/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.312.b07-2.fc36.src.rpm& fails to build | |
| 1740 | [28648] dynamic-link: Running ld.so on statically linked binaries | |
| 1741 | crashes | |
| 1742 | [28656] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC no longer works due to | |
| 1743 | binutils changes | |
| 1744 | [28676] dynamic-link: p_align on PT_LOAD segment in DSO isn't honored | |
| 1745 | [28678] nptl: nptl/tst-create1 hangs sporadically | |
| 1746 | [28688] dynamic-link: PT_LOAD p_align check is too strict | |
| 1747 | [28700] nss: "dns [!UNAVAIL=return] files" default for hosts database | |
| 1748 | is not useful | |
| 1749 | [28707] time: assert in tzfile.c __tzfile_read striking with truncated | |
| 1750 | timezones generated by tzcode-2021d and later | |
| 1751 | [28713] math: GCC 12 miscompiles libm | |
| 1752 | [28732] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-dl_find_object | |
| 1753 | [28738] build: LIBC_LINKER_FEATURE doesn't work on linker -z option | |
| 1754 | [28745] dynamic-link: _dl_find_object miscompilation on powerpc64le | |
| 1755 | [28746] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE does not work for stpcpy | |
| 1756 | [28749] libc: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: rtld.c: 1632: dl_main: | |
| 1757 | Assertion `GL(dl_rtld_map).l_libname' failed! | |
| 1758 | [28755] string: overflow bug in wcsncmp_avx2 and wcsncmp_evex | |
| 1759 | [28757] nptl: GDB printer tests failed with new GDB | |
| 1760 | [28765] math: x86_64 libmvec atan2 accuracy | |
| 1761 | [28766] manual: Document libmvec accuracy | |
| 1762 | [28768] network: Buffer overflow in svcunix_create with long pathnames | |
| 1763 | (CVE-2022-23218) | |
| 1764 | [28769] libc: Off-by-one buffer overflow/underflow in getcwd() | |
| 1765 | (CVE-2021-3999) | |
| 1766 | [28770] libc: Unexpected return value from realpath() for too long | |
| 1767 | results (CVE-2021-3998) | |
| 1768 | [28771] libc: %ebx optimization macros are incompatible with .altmacro | |
| 1769 | in Systemtap probes | |
| 1770 | [28780] build: --disable-default-pie doesn't work on static programs | |
| 1771 | [28782] libc: x86-64 ISA level for glibc itself is always | |
| 1772 | x86-64-baseline | |
| 1773 | [28792] glob: possible wrong behaviour with patterns with double [ | |
| 1774 | with no closing ] | |
| 1775 | [28837] libc: FAIL: socket/tst-socket-timestamp-compat | |
| 1776 | [28847] locale: Empty mon_decimal_point in LC_MONETARY results in non- | |
| 1777 | empty mon_decimal_point_wc | |
| a85c93c4 | 1778 | |
| 2edf8f3d AZ |
1779 | \f |
| 1780 | Version 2.34 | |
| 1781 | ||
| 1782 | Major new features: | |
| 1783 | ||
| 2e2c08aa CD |
1784 | * In order to support smoother in-place-upgrades and to simplify |
| 1785 | the implementation of the runtime all functionality formerly | |
| 1786 | implemented in the libraries libpthread, libdl, libutil, libanl has | |
| 1787 | been integrated into libc. New applications do not need to link with | |
| 1788 | -lpthread, -ldl, -lutil, -lanl anymore. For backwards compatibility, | |
| 1789 | empty static archives libpthread.a, libdl.a, libutil.a, libanl.a are | |
| 1790 | provided, so that the linker options keep working. Applications which | |
| 1791 | have been linked against glibc 2.33 or earlier continue to load the | |
| 1792 | corresponding shared objects (which are now empty). The integration | |
| 1793 | of those libraries into libc means that additional symbols become | |
| 1794 | available by default. This can cause applications that contain weak | |
| 1795 | references to take unexpected code paths that would only have been | |
| 1796 | used in previous glibc versions when e.g. preloading libpthread.so.0, | |
| 1797 | potentially exposing application bugs. | |
| 1798 | ||
| 5d98a7da L |
1799 | * When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE are defined, |
| 1800 | PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is no longer constant and is redefined to | |
| 2e2c08aa CD |
1801 | sysconf(_SC_THREAD_STACK_MIN). This supports dynamic sized register |
| 1802 | sets for modern architectural features like Arm SVE. | |
| 5d98a7da L |
1803 | |
| 1804 | * Add _SC_MINSIGSTKSZ and _SC_SIGSTKSZ. When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE | |
| 1805 | or _GNU_SOURCE are defined, MINSIGSTKSZ and SIGSTKSZ are no longer | |
| 57fb02b2 | 1806 | constant on Linux. MINSIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf(_SC_MINSIGSTKSZ) |
| 2e2c08aa CD |
1807 | and SIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf (_SC_SIGSTKSZ). This supports |
| 1808 | dynamic sized register sets for modern architectural features like | |
| 1809 | Arm SVE. | |
| 2edf8f3d | 1810 | |
| 851f32cf FW |
1811 | * The dynamic linker implements the --list-diagnostics option, printing |
| 1812 | a dump of information related to IFUNC resolver operation and | |
| 1813 | glibc-hwcaps subdirectory selection. | |
| 1814 | ||
| 19d83270 AH |
1815 | * On Linux, the function execveat has been added. It operates similar to |
| 1816 | execve and it is is already used to implement fexecve without requiring | |
| 1817 | /proc to be mounted. However, different than fexecve, if the syscall is not | |
| 1818 | supported by the kernel an error is returned instead of trying a fallback. | |
| 1819 | ||
| e5ac7bd6 JM |
1820 | * The ISO C2X function timespec_getres has been added. |
| 1821 | ||
| 858045ad JM |
1822 | * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_EXT__, from draft ISO |
| 1823 | C2X, is supported to enable declarations of functions defined in Annex F | |
| 1824 | of C2X. Those declarations are also enabled when | |
| 1825 | __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, as specified in TS 18661-1, is | |
| 1826 | defined, and when _GNU_SOURCE is defined. | |
| 1827 | ||
| ebae2f5a MC |
1828 | * On powerpc64*, glibc can now be compiled without scv support using the |
| 1829 | --disable-scv configure option. | |
| 1830 | ||
| ac3babc3 PE |
1831 | * Add support for 64-bit time_t on configurations like x86 where time_t |
| 1832 | is traditionally 32-bit. Although time_t still defaults to 32-bit on | |
| 1833 | these configurations, this default may change in future versions. | |
| cfdaa29f MH |
1834 | This is enabled with the _TIME_BITS preprocessor macro set to 64 and is |
| 1835 | only supported when LFS (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) is also enabled. It is | |
| 1836 | only enabled for Linux and the full support requires a minimum kernel | |
| 1837 | version of 5.1. | |
| 47f24c21 | 1838 | |
| 7b54aaf2 SP |
1839 | * The main gconv-modules file in glibc now contains only a small set of |
| 1840 | essential converter modules and the rest have been moved into a supplementary | |
| 1841 | configuration file gconv-modules-extra.conf in the gconv-modules.d directory | |
| 1842 | in the same GCONV_PATH. Similarly, external converter modules directories | |
| 1843 | may have supplementary configuration files in a gconv-modules.d directory | |
| 1844 | with names ending with .conf to logically classify the converter modules in | |
| 1845 | that directory. | |
| 1846 | ||
| dd45734e FW |
1847 | * On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.pthread.stack_cache_size, can be used |
| 1848 | to configure the size of the thread stack cache. | |
| 1849 | ||
| c32c868a | 1850 | * The function _Fork has been added as an async-signal-safe fork replacement |
| 7f0d9e61 | 1851 | since Austin Group issue 62 dropped the async-signal-safe requirement for |
| c32c868a AZ |
1852 | fork (and it will be included in the future POSIX standard). The new _Fork |
| 1853 | function does not run any atfork function neither resets any internal state | |
| 1854 | or lock (such as the malloc one), and only sets up a minimal state required | |
| 1855 | to call async-signal-safe functions (such as raise or execve). This function | |
| 1856 | is currently a GNU extension. | |
| 1857 | ||
| 28628628 AZ |
1858 | * On Linux, the close_range function has been added. It allows efficiently |
| 1859 | closing a range of file descriptors on recent kernels (version 5.9). | |
| 1860 | ||
| 60744950 | 1861 | * The function closefrom has been added. It closes all file descriptors |
| cfdaa29f MH |
1862 | greater than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension, |
| 1863 | although it is also present in other systems. | |
| 60744950 | 1864 | |
| cfdaa29f MH |
1865 | * The posix_spawn_file_actions_addclosefrom_np function has been added, |
| 1866 | enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to close all file descriptors greater | |
| 1867 | than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension, | |
| 1868 | although Solaris also provides a similar function. | |
| 882d6e17 | 1869 | |
| c1cb2dee FW |
1870 | * When invoked explicitly, the dynamic linker now uses the kernel to |
| 1871 | execute programs that do not have any dynamic dependency (that is, | |
| 1872 | they are statically linked). This feature is Linux-specific. | |
| 1873 | ||
| 2edf8f3d AZ |
1874 | Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility: |
| 1875 | ||
| f03b78fa FW |
1876 | * The function pthread_mutex_consistent_np has been deprecated; programs |
| 1877 | should use the equivalent standard function pthread_mutex_consistent | |
| 1878 | instead. | |
| 2edf8f3d | 1879 | |
| 9b7ab14e FW |
1880 | * The function pthread_mutexattr_getrobust_np has been deprecated; |
| 1881 | programs should use the equivalent standard function | |
| 1882 | pthread_mutexattr_getrobust instead. | |
| 1883 | ||
| 1ec4cd5a FW |
1884 | * The function pthread_mutexattr_setrobust_np has been deprecated; |
| 1885 | programs should use the equivalent standard function | |
| 1886 | pthread_mutexattr_setrobust instead. | |
| 1887 | ||
| c2fd60a5 FW |
1888 | * The function pthread_yield has been deprecated; programs should use |
| 1889 | the equivalent standard function sched_yield instead. | |
| 1890 | ||
| 248dbed1 FW |
1891 | * The function inet_neta declared in <arpa/inet.h> has been deprecated. |
| 1892 | ||
| 1893 | * Various rarely-used functions declared in <resolv.h> and | |
| 1894 | <arpa/nameser.h> have been deprecated. Applications are encouraged to | |
| 1895 | use dedicated DNS processing libraries if applicable. For <resolv.h>, | |
| 1896 | this affects the functions dn_count_labels, fp_nquery, fp_query, | |
| 1897 | fp_resstat, hostalias, loc_aton, loc_ntoa, p_cdname, p_cdnname, | |
| 1898 | p_class, p_fqname, p_fqnname, p_option, p_query, p_rcode, p_time, | |
| 1899 | p_type, putlong, putshort, res_hostalias, res_isourserver, | |
| 1900 | res_nameinquery, res_queriesmatch, res_randomid, sym_ntop, sym_ntos, | |
| 1901 | sym_ston. For <arpa/nameser.h>, the functions ns_datetosecs, | |
| 1902 | ns_format_ttl, ns_makecanon, ns_parse_ttl, ns_samedomain, ns_samename, | |
| 1903 | ns_sprintrr, ns_sprintrrf, ns_subdomain have been deprecated. | |
| 1904 | ||
| 2e2c08aa CD |
1905 | * Various symbols previously defined in libresolv have been moved to libc |
| 1906 | in order to prepare for libresolv moving entirely into libc (see earlier | |
| 1907 | entry for merging libraries into libc). The symbols __dn_comp, | |
| 1908 | __dn_expand, __dn_skipname, __res_dnok, __res_hnok, __res_mailok, | |
| 1909 | __res_mkquery, __res_nmkquery, __res_nquery, __res_nquerydomain, | |
| 1910 | __res_nsearch, __res_nsend, __res_ownok, __res_query, __res_querydomain, | |
| 1911 | __res_search, __res_send formerly in libresolv have been renamed and no | |
| 1912 | longer have a __ prefix. They are now available in libc. | |
| 1913 | ||
| bf6749a7 AZ |
1914 | * The pthread cancellation handler is now installed with SA_RESTART and |
| 1915 | pthread_cancel will always send the internal SIGCANCEL on a cancellation | |
| cfdaa29f | 1916 | request. It should not be visible to applications since the cancellation |
| bf6749a7 AZ |
1917 | handler should either act upon cancellation (if asynchronous cancellation |
| 1918 | is enabled) or ignore the cancellation internal signal. However there are | |
| cfdaa29f MH |
1919 | buggy kernel interfaces (for instance some CIFS versions) that could still |
| 1920 | see a spurious EINTR error when cancellation interrupts a blocking syscall. | |
| bf6749a7 | 1921 | |
| 8208be38 FW |
1922 | * Previously, glibc installed its various shared objects under versioned |
| 1923 | file names such as libc-2.33.so. The ABI sonames (e.g., libc.so.6) | |
| 1924 | were provided as symbolic links. Starting with glibc 2.34, the shared | |
| 1925 | objects are installed under their ABI sonames directly, without | |
| 1926 | symbolic links. This increases compatibility with distribution | |
| 1927 | package managers that delete removed files late during the package | |
| 1928 | upgrade or downgrade process. | |
| 1929 | ||
| 00d28960 SP |
1930 | * The symbols mallwatch and tr_break are now deprecated and no longer used in |
| 1931 | mtrace. Similar functionality can be achieved by using conditional | |
| 1932 | breakpoints within mtrace functions from within gdb. | |
| 1933 | ||
| 55a4dd39 SP |
1934 | * The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default |
| 1935 | implementation __default_morecore have been removed from the API. Existing | |
| 1936 | applications will continue to link against these symbols but the interfaces | |
| 1937 | no longer have any effect on malloc. | |
| 1938 | ||
| 2d2d9f2b SP |
1939 | * Debugging features in malloc such as the MALLOC_CHECK_ environment variable |
| 1940 | (or the glibc.malloc.check tunable), mtrace() and mcheck() have now been | |
| 1941 | disabled by default in the main C library. Users looking to use these | |
| 1942 | features now need to preload a new debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so to get | |
| 1943 | this functionality back. | |
| 1944 | ||
| 0552fd2c SP |
1945 | * The deprecated functions malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state have been |
| 1946 | moved from the core C library into libc_malloc_debug.so. Legacy applications | |
| 1947 | that still use these functions will now need to preload libc_malloc_debug.so | |
| 1948 | in their environment using the LD_PRELOAD environment variable. | |
| 1949 | ||
| 1e5a5866 SP |
1950 | * The deprecated memory allocation hooks __malloc_hook, __realloc_hook, |
| 1951 | __memalign_hook and __free_hook are now removed from the API. Compatibility | |
| 1952 | symbols are present to support legacy programs but new applications can no | |
| 1953 | longer link to these symbols. These hooks no longer have any effect on glibc | |
| 1954 | functionality. The malloc debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so currently | |
| 1955 | supports hooks and can be preloaded to get this functionality back for older | |
| 1956 | programs. However this is a transitional measure and may be removed in a | |
| 1957 | future release of the GNU C Library. Users may port away from these hooks by | |
| 1958 | writing and preloading their own malloc interposition library. | |
| 1959 | ||
| 2edf8f3d AZ |
1960 | Changes to build and runtime requirements: |
| 1961 | ||
| e9fed243 FW |
1962 | * On Linux, the shm_open, sem_open, and related functions now expect the |
| 1963 | file shared memory file system to be mounted at /dev/shm. These functions | |
| 1964 | no longer search among the system's mount points for a suitable | |
| 1965 | replacement if /dev/shm is not available. | |
| 2edf8f3d AZ |
1966 | |
| 1967 | Security related changes: | |
| 1968 | ||
| 24eb3be5 DD |
1969 | CVE-2021-27645: The nameserver caching daemon (nscd), when processing |
| 1970 | a request for netgroup lookup, may crash due to a double-free, | |
| 1971 | potentially resulting in degraded service or Denial of Service on the | |
| 1972 | local system. Reported by Chris Schanzle. | |
| 2edf8f3d | 1973 | |
| 42d35935 AS |
1974 | CVE-2021-33574: The mq_notify function has a potential use-after-free |
| 1975 | issue when using a notification type of SIGEV_THREAD and a thread | |
| 1976 | attribute with a non-default affinity mask. | |
| 1977 | ||
| 2e2c08aa CD |
1978 | CVE-2021-35942: The wordexp function may overflow the positional |
| 1979 | parameter number when processing the expansion resulting in a crash. | |
| 1980 | Reported by Philippe Antoine. | |
| 1981 | ||
| 2edf8f3d AZ |
1982 | The following bugs are resolved with this release: |
| 1983 | ||
| 2e2c08aa CD |
1984 | [4737] libc: fork is not async-signal-safe |
| 1985 | [5781] math: Slow dbl-64 sin/cos/sincos for special values | |
| 1986 | [10353] libc: Methods for deleting all file descriptors greater than | |
| 1987 | given integer (closefrom) | |
| 1988 | [14185] glob: fnmatch() fails when '*' wildcard is applied on the file | |
| 1989 | name containing multi-byte character(s) | |
| 1990 | [14469] math: Inaccurate j0f function | |
| 1991 | [14470] math: Inaccurate j1f function | |
| 1992 | [14471] math: Inaccurate y0f function | |
| 1993 | [14472] math: Inaccurate y1f function | |
| 1994 | [14744] nptl: kill -32 $pid or kill -33 $pid on a process cancels a | |
| 1995 | random thread | |
| 1996 | [15271] dynamic-link: dlmopen()ed shared library with LM_ID_NEWLM | |
| 1997 | crashes if it fails dlsym() twice | |
| 1998 | [15648] nptl: multiple definition of `__lll_lock_wait_private' | |
| 1999 | [16063] nptl: Provide a pthread_once variant in libc directly | |
| 2000 | [17144] libc: syslog is not thread-safe if NO_SIGPIPE is not defined | |
| 2001 | [17145] libc: syslog with LOG_CONS leaks console file descriptor | |
| 2002 | [17183] manual: description of ENTRY struct in <search.h> in glibc | |
| 2003 | manual is incorrect | |
| 2004 | [18435] nptl: pthread_once hangs when init routine throws an exception | |
| 2005 | [18524] nptl: Missing calloc error checking in | |
| 2006 | __cxa_thread_atexit_impl | |
| 2007 | [19329] dynamic-link: dl-tls.c assert failure at concurrent | |
| 2008 | pthread_create and dlopen | |
| 2009 | [19366] nptl: returning from a thread should disable cancellation | |
| 2010 | [19511] nptl: 8MB memory leak in pthread_create in case of failure | |
| 2011 | when non-root user changes priority | |
| 2012 | [20802] dynamic-link: getauxval NULL pointer dereference after static | |
| 2013 | dlopen | |
| 2014 | [20813] nptl: pthread_exit is inconsistent between libc and libpthread | |
| 2015 | [22057] malloc: malloc_usable_size is broken with mcheck | |
| 2016 | [22668] locale: LC_COLLATE: the last character of ellipsis is not | |
| 2017 | ordered correctly | |
| 2018 | [23323] libc: [RFE] CSU startup hardening. | |
| 2019 | [23328] malloc: Remove malloc hooks and ensure related APIs return no | |
| 2020 | data. | |
| 2021 | [23462] dynamic-link: Static binary with dynamic string tokens ($LIB, | |
| 2022 | $PLATFORM, $ORIGIN) crashes | |
| 2023 | [23489] libc: "gcc -lmcheck" aborts on free when using posix_memalign | |
| 2024 | [23554] nptl: pthread_getattr_np reports wrong stack size with | |
| 2025 | MULTI_PAGE_ALIASING | |
| 2026 | [24106] libc: Bash interpreter in ldd script is taken from host | |
| 2027 | [24773] dynamic-link: dlerror in an secondary namespace does not use | |
| 2028 | the right free implementation | |
| 2029 | [25036] localedata: Update collation order for Swedish | |
| 2030 | [25383] libc: where_is_shmfs/__shm_directory/SHM_GET_NAME may cause | |
| 2031 | shm_open to pick wrong directory | |
| 2032 | [25680] dynamic-link: ifuncmain9picstatic and ifuncmain9picstatic | |
| 2033 | crash in IFUNC resolver due to stack canary (--enable-stack- | |
| 2034 | protector=all) | |
| 2035 | [26874] build: -Warray-bounds in _IO_wdefault_doallocate | |
| 2036 | [26983] math: [x86_64] x86_64 tgamma has too large ULP error | |
| 2037 | [27111] dynamic-link: pthread_create and tls access use link_map | |
| 2038 | objects that may be concurrently freed by dlclose | |
| 2039 | [27132] malloc: memusagestat is linked to system librt, leading to | |
| 2040 | undefined symbols on major version upgrade | |
| 2041 | [27136] dynamic-link: dtv setup at thread creation may leave an entry | |
| 2042 | uninitialized | |
| 2043 | [27249] libc: libSegFault.so does not output signal number properly | |
| 2044 | [27304] nptl: pthread_cond_destroy does not pass private flag to futex | |
| 2045 | system calls | |
| 2046 | [27318] dynamic-link: glibc fails to load binaries when built with | |
| 2047 | -march=sandybridge: CPU ISA level is lower than required | |
| 2048 | [27343] nss: initgroups() SIGSEGVs when called on a system without | |
| 2049 | nsswich.conf (in a chroot) | |
| 2050 | [27346] dynamic-link: x86: PTWRITE feature check is missing | |
| 2051 | [27389] network: NSS chroot hardening causes regressions in chroot | |
| 2052 | deployments | |
| 2053 | [27403] dynamic-link: aarch64: tlsdesc htab is not freed on dlclose | |
| 2054 | [27444] libc: sysconf reports unsupported option (-1) for | |
| 2055 | _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_LINESIZE on X86 since v2.33 | |
| 2056 | [27462] nscd: double-free in nscd (CVE-2021-27645) | |
| 2057 | [27468] malloc: aarch64: realloc crash with heap tagging: FAIL: | |
| 2058 | malloc/tst-malloc-thread-fail | |
| 2059 | [27498] dynamic-link: __dl_iterate_phdr lacks unwinding information | |
| 2060 | [27511] libc: S390 memmove assumes Vector Facility when MIE Facility 3 | |
| 2061 | is present | |
| 2062 | [27522] glob: glob, glob64 incorrectly marked as __THROW | |
| 2063 | [27555] dynamic-link: Static tests fail with --enable-stack- | |
| 2064 | protector=all | |
| 2065 | [27559] libc: fstat(AT_FDCWD) succeeds (it shouldn't) and returns | |
| 2066 | information for the current directory | |
| 2067 | [27577] dynamic-link: elf/ld.so --help doesn't work | |
| 2068 | [27605] libc: tunables can't control xsave/xsavec selection in | |
| 2069 | dl_runtime_resolve_* | |
| 2070 | [27623] libc: powerpc: Missing registers in sc[v] clobbers list | |
| 2071 | [27645] libc: [linux] sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSOR...) breaks down on | |
| 2072 | containers | |
| 2073 | [27646] dynamic-link: Linker error for non-existing NSS symbols (e.g. | |
| 2074 | _nss_files_getcanonname_r) from within a dlmopen namespace. | |
| 2075 | [27648] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-select | |
| 2076 | [27650] stdio: vfscanf returns too early if a match is longer than | |
| 2077 | INT_MAX | |
| 2078 | [27651] libc: Performance regression after updating to 2.33 | |
| 2079 | [27655] string: Wrong size calculation in string/test-strnlen.c | |
| 2080 | [27706] libc: select fails to update timeout on error | |
| 2081 | [27709] libc: arm: FAIL: debug/tst-longjmp_chk2 | |
| 2082 | [27721] dynamic-link: x86: ld_audit ignores bind now for TLSDESC and | |
| 2083 | tries resolving them lazily | |
| 2084 | [27744] nptl: Support different libpthread/ld.so load orders in | |
| 2085 | libthread_db | |
| 2086 | [27749] libc: Data race __run_exit_handlers | |
| 2087 | [27761] libc: getconf: Segmentation fault when passing '-vq' as | |
| 2088 | argument | |
| 2089 | [27832] nss: makedb.c:797:7: error: 'writev' specified size 4294967295 | |
| 2090 | exceeds maximum object size 2147483647 | |
| 2091 | [27870] malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ causes realloc(valid_ptr, TOO_LARGE) to | |
| 2092 | not set ENOMEM | |
| 2093 | [27872] build: Obsolete configure option --enable-stackguard- | |
| 2094 | randomization | |
| 2095 | [27873] build: tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo fail when building on AMD cpu | |
| 2096 | [27882] localedata: Use U+00AF MACRON in more EBCDIC charsets | |
| 2097 | [27892] libc: powerpc: scv ABI error handling fails to check | |
| 2098 | IS_ERR_VALUE | |
| 2099 | [27896] nptl: mq_notify does not handle separately allocated thread | |
| 2100 | attributes (CVE-2021-33574) | |
| 2101 | [27901] libc: TEST_STACK_ALIGN doesn't work | |
| 2102 | [27902] libc: The x86-64 clone wrapper fails to align child stack | |
| 2103 | [27914] nptl: Install SIGSETXID handler with SA_ONSTACK | |
| 2104 | [27939] libc: aarch64: clone does not align the stack | |
| 2105 | [27968] libc: s390x: clone does not align the stack | |
| 2106 | [28011] libc: Wild read in wordexp (parse_param) (CVE-2021-35942) | |
| 2107 | [28024] string: s390(31bit): Wrong result of memchr (MEMCHR_Z900_G5) | |
| 2108 | with n >= 0x80000000 | |
| 2109 | [28028] malloc: malloc: tcache shutdown sequence does not work if the | |
| 2110 | thread never allocated anything | |
| 2111 | [28033] libc: Need to check RTM_ALWAYS_ABORT for RTM | |
| 2112 | [28064] string: x86_64:wcslen implementation list has wcsnlen | |
| 2113 | [28067] libc: FAIL: posix/tst-spawn5 | |
| 2114 | [28068] malloc: FAIL: malloc/tst-mallocalign1-mcheck | |
| 2115 | [28071] time: clock_gettime, gettimeofday, time lost vDSO acceleration | |
| 2116 | on older kernels | |
| 2117 | [28075] nis: Out-of-bounds static buffer read in nis_local_domain | |
| 2118 | [28089] build: tst-tls20 fails when linker defaults to --as-needed | |
| 2119 | [28090] build: elf/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo-static fails on certain | |
| 2120 | AMD64 cpus | |
| 2121 | [28091] network: ns_name_skip may return 0 for domain names without | |
| 2122 | terminator | |
| 2edf8f3d | 2123 | |
| 4c56bcbc CD |
2124 | \f |
| 2125 | Version 2.33 | |
| 2126 | ||
| 2127 | Major new features: | |
| 2128 | ||
| 86f65dff L |
2129 | * The dynamic linker accepts the --list-tunables argument which prints |
| 2130 | all the supported tunables. This option is disable if glibc is | |
| 2131 | configured with tunables disabled (--enable-tunables=no). | |
| 2132 | ||
| c6702789 VM |
2133 | * The dynamic linker accepts the --argv0 argument and provides opportunity |
| 2134 | to change argv[0] string. | |
| 2135 | ||
| 570bb423 FW |
2136 | * The dynamic linker loads optimized implementations of shared objects |
| 2137 | from subdirectories under the glibc-hwcaps directory on the library | |
| 2138 | search path if the system's capabilities meet the requirements for | |
| 2139 | that subdirectory. Initially supported subdirectories include | |
| 2140 | "power9" and "power10" for the powerpc64le-linux-gnu architecture, | |
| 2141 | "z13", "z14", "z15" for s390x-linux-gnu, and "x86-64-v2", "x86-64-v3", | |
| 2142 | "x86-64-v4" for x86_64-linux-gnu. In the x86_64-linux-gnu case, the | |
| 2143 | subdirectory names correspond to the vendor-independent x86-64 | |
| 2144 | microarchitecture levels defined in the x86-64 psABI supplement. | |
| 2145 | ||
| 2146 | * The new --help option of the dynamic linker provides usage and | |
| 2147 | information and library search path diagnostics. | |
| 2148 | ||
| cdf64542 DD |
2149 | * The mallinfo2 function is added to report statistics as per mallinfo, |
| 2150 | but with larger field widths to accurately report values that are | |
| 2151 | larger than fit in an integer. | |
| 2152 | ||
| 96203980 | 2153 | * Add <sys/platform/x86.h> to provide query macros for x86 CPU features. |
| 389f6854 AF |
2154 | |
| 2155 | * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been expanded to run on | |
| 2156 | 32-bit hardware. This is supported for the following ISA and ABI pairs: | |
| 2157 | ||
| 2158 | - rv32imac ilp32 | |
| 2159 | - rv32imafdc ilp32 | |
| 2160 | - rv32imafdc ilp32d | |
| 2161 | ||
| 2162 | The 32-bit RISC-V port requires at least Linux 5.4, GCC 7.1 and binutils | |
| 2163 | 2.28. | |
| 4c56bcbc | 2164 | |
| c43c5796 SP |
2165 | * A new fortification level _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 is available. At this level, |
| 2166 | glibc may use additional checks that may have an additional performance | |
| 2167 | overhead. At present these checks are available only on LLVM 9 and later. | |
| 2168 | The latest GCC available at this time (10.2) does not support this level of | |
| 2169 | fortification. | |
| 2170 | ||
| 4c56bcbc CD |
2171 | Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility: |
| 2172 | ||
| cdf64542 DD |
2173 | * The mallinfo function is marked deprecated. Callers should call |
| 2174 | mallinfo2 instead. | |
| 4c56bcbc | 2175 | |
| 56f8d442 FW |
2176 | * When dlopen is used in statically linked programs, alternative library |
| 2177 | implementations from HWCAP subdirectories are no longer loaded. | |
| 2178 | Instead, the default implementation is used. | |
| 2179 | ||
| ab5ee31e AZ |
2180 | * The deprecated <sys/vtimes.h> header and the function vtimes have been |
| 2181 | removed. To support old binaries, the vtimes function continues to exist | |
| 2182 | as a compatibility symbol. Applications should use the getrlimit or | |
| 2183 | prlimit. | |
| 2184 | ||
| 05d38b3e FW |
2185 | * Following a change in the tzdata 2018a release upstream, the zdump |
| 2186 | program is now installed in the /usr/bin subdirectory. Previously, | |
| 2187 | the /usr/sbin subdirectory was used. | |
| 2188 | ||
| f88242af MH |
2189 | * On s390(x), the type float_t is now derived from the macro |
| 2190 | __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ that is defined by the compiler, instead of being | |
| 2191 | hardcoded to double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries | |
| 2192 | that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other | |
| 2193 | libraries that use this type in their interfaces. The new definition | |
| 2194 | improves consistency with compiler behavior in many scenarios. | |
| 2195 | ||
| 570bb423 FW |
2196 | * A future version of glibc will stop loading shared objects from the |
| 2197 | "tls" subdirectories on the library search path, the subdirectory that | |
| 2198 | corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, and also stop employing | |
| 2199 | the legacy AT_HWCAP search mechanism. Applications should switch to | |
| 2200 | the new glibc-hwcaps mechanism instead; if they do not do that, only | |
| 2201 | the baseline version (directly from the search path directory) will be | |
| 2202 | loaded. | |
| 2203 | ||
| 4c56bcbc CD |
2204 | Changes to build and runtime requirements: |
| 2205 | ||
| 27fe5f2e FW |
2206 | * On Linux, the system administrator needs to configure /dev/pts with |
| 2207 | the intended access modes for pseudo-terminals. glibc no longer | |
| 7f0d9e61 | 2208 | attempts to adjust permissions of terminal devices. The previous glibc |
| 27fe5f2e FW |
2209 | defaults ("tty" group, user read/write and group write) already |
| 2210 | corresponded to what most systems used, so that grantpt did not | |
| 2211 | perform any adjustments. | |
| 2212 | ||
| 2213 | * On Linux, the posix_openpt and getpt functions no longer attempt to | |
| 2214 | use legacy (BSD) pseudo-terminals and assume that if /dev/ptmx exists | |
| 2215 | (and pseudo-terminals are supported), a devpts file system is mounted | |
| 2216 | on /dev/pts. Current systems already meet these requirements. | |
| 4c56bcbc | 2217 | |
| 844b4d8b SL |
2218 | * s390x requires GCC 7.1 or newer. See gcc Bug 98269. |
| 2219 | ||
| 4c56bcbc CD |
2220 | Security related changes: |
| 2221 | ||
| d7f4f3f5 | 2222 | CVE-2021-3326: An assertion failure during conversion from the |
| 934c48a0 | 2223 | ISO-20220-JP-3 character set using the iconv function has been fixed. |
| d7f4f3f5 FW |
2224 | This assertion was triggered by certain valid inputs in which the |
| 2225 | converted output contains a combined sequence of two wide characters | |
| 2226 | crossing a buffer boundary. Reported by Tavis Ormandy. | |
| 2227 | ||
| 9a99c682 AS |
2228 | CVE-2020-27618: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when |
| 2229 | invoked with input containing redundant shift sequences in the IBM1364, | |
| 2230 | IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, or IBM1399 character sets. | |
| 4c56bcbc | 2231 | |
| 38a9e93c SP |
2232 | CVE-2020-29562: An assertion failure has been fixed in the iconv function |
| 2233 | when invoked with UCS4 input containing an invalid character. | |
| 2234 | ||
| 18b640c5 SP |
2235 | CVE-2019-25013: A buffer overflow has been fixed in the iconv function when |
| 2236 | invoked with EUC-KR input containing invalid multibyte input sequences. | |
| 2237 | ||
| 4c56bcbc CD |
2238 | The following bugs are resolved with this release: |
| 2239 | ||
| 5e25920f AZ |
2240 | [10635] libc: realpath portability patches |
| 2241 | [16124] dynamic-link: ld.so should allow to change argv[0] | |
| 2242 | [17924] malloc: 'free' should not set errno | |
| 2243 | [18683] libc: Linux faccessat implementation can incorrectly ignore | |
| 2244 | AT_EACCESS | |
| 2245 | [22899] libc: Use 64-bit readdir() in generic POSIX getcwd() | |
| 597d0267 | 2246 | [23091] hurd: missing waitid support |
| 5e25920f AZ |
2247 | [23249] libc: Epyc and other current AMD CPUs do not select the |
| 2248 | "haswell" platform subdirectory | |
| 2249 | [24080] dynamic-link: Definition of "haswell" platform is inconsistent | |
| 2250 | with GCC | |
| 2251 | [24202] libc: m68k setjmp() saves incorrect 'a5' register in --enable- | |
| 2252 | stack-protector=all | |
| 2253 | [24941] libc: Make grantpt usable after multi-threaded fork in more | |
| 2254 | cases | |
| 2255 | [24970] libc: realpath mishandles EOVERFLOW; stat not needed anyway | |
| 2256 | [24973] locale: iconv encounters segmentation fault when converting | |
| 2257 | 0x00 0xfe in EUC-KR to UTF-8 (CVE-2019-25013) | |
| 2258 | [25399] string: undefined reference to `__warn_memset_zero_len' when | |
| 2259 | changing gnuc version | |
| 2260 | [25859] libc: glibc parser for /sys/devices/system/cpu/online is | |
| 2261 | incorrect | |
| 2262 | [25938] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should store meaning of hwcap mask | |
| 2263 | bits | |
| 2264 | [25971] libc: s390 bits/hwcap.h out of sync with kernel | |
| 2265 | [26053] libc: unlockpt fails with ENOTTY for non-ptmx descriptors | |
| 2266 | [26100] libc: Race in syslog(3) with regards to tag printing. | |
| 2267 | [26124] libc: Export <cpu-features.h> | |
| 2268 | [26130] nscd: Inconsistent nscd cache during pruning | |
| 7f0d9e61 | 2269 | [26203] libc: GLRO(dl_x86_cpu_features) may not be initialized |
| 5e25920f AZ |
2270 | [26224] locale: iconv hangs when converting some invalid inputs from |
| 2271 | several IBM character sets (CVE-2020-27618) | |
| 2272 | [26341] libc: realpath cyclically call __alloca(path_max) to consume | |
| 2273 | too much stack space | |
| 2274 | [26343] manual: invalid documented return type for strerrorname_np(), | |
| 2275 | strerrordesc_np(), sigdescr_np(), sigabbrev_np() | |
| 2276 | [26376] libc: Namespace violation in stdio.h and sys/stat.h if build | |
| 2277 | with optimization. | |
| 2278 | [26383] locale: bind_textdomain_codeset doesn't accept //TRANSLIT | |
| 2279 | anymore | |
| 2280 | [26394] time: [2.33 Regression] FAIL: nptl/tst-join14 | |
| 2281 | [26534] math: libm.so 2.32 SIGILL in pow() due to FMA4 instruction on | |
| 2282 | non-FMA4 system | |
| 2283 | [26552] dynamic-link: CPU_FEATURE_USABLE_P should be more conservative | |
| 2284 | [26553] libc: mtx_init allows type set to "mtx_recursive" only | |
| 2285 | [26555] string: strerrorname_np does not return the documented value | |
| 2286 | [26592] libc: pointer arithmetic overflows in realpath | |
| 2287 | [26600] network: Transaction ID collisions cause slow DNS lookups in | |
| 2288 | getaddrinfo | |
| 2289 | [26606] libc: [2.33 Regression] pselect is broken on x32 | |
| 2290 | [26615] libc: powerpc: libc segfaults when LD_PRELOADed with libgcc | |
| 2291 | [26620] glob: fnmatch with collating symbols results in segmentation | |
| 2292 | fault | |
| 2293 | [26625] libc: [2.33 Regression] CET is disabled | |
| 2294 | [26636] libc: 32-bit shmctl(IPC_INFO) crashes when shminfo struct is | |
| 2295 | at the end of a memory mapping | |
| 2296 | [26637] libc: semctl SEM_STAT_ANY fails to pass the buffer specified | |
| 2297 | by the caller to the kernel | |
| 2298 | [26639] libc: msgctl IPC_INFO and MSG_INFO return garbage | |
| 2299 | [26647] build: [-Werror=array-parameter=] due to different | |
| 2300 | declarations for __sigsetjmp | |
| 2301 | [26648] libc: mkstemp is likely to fail on systems with non-stricly- | |
| 2302 | monotonic clocks | |
| 2303 | [26649] stdio: printf should handle non-normal x86 long double numbers | |
| 2304 | gracefully (CVE-2020-29573) | |
| 2305 | [26686] build: -Warray-parameter instances building with GCC 11 | |
| 2306 | [26687] build: -Warray-bounds instances building with GCC 11 | |
| 2307 | [26690] stdio: Aliasing violation in __vfscanf_internal | |
| 2308 | [26691] nptl: Use a minimum guard size of 64 KiB on aarch64 | |
| 2309 | [26726] build: GCC warning calling new_composite_name with an array of | |
| 2310 | one element | |
| 2311 | [26736] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-sysvshm-linux | |
| 2312 | [26737] libc: Random FAIL: rt/tst-shm | |
| 2313 | [26791] libc: Missing O_CLOEXEC in sysconf.c | |
| 2314 | [26798] dynamic-link: aarch64: variant PCS symbols may be incorrectly | |
| 2315 | lazy bound | |
| 2316 | [26801] nptl: pthread_mutex_clocklock with CLOCK_MONOTONIC can fail on | |
| 2317 | PI mutexes | |
| 2318 | [26818] string: aarch64: string tests may run ifunc variants that are | |
| 2319 | not safe | |
| 2320 | [26821] libc: Memory leak test failures on Fedora 33 | |
| 2321 | [26824] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-cpu-features-supports with recent trunk: | |
| 2322 | FSGSBASE/LM/RDRAND check failure | |
| 2323 | [26833] time: adjtime() with delta == NULL segfaults on armv7 32bit | |
| 2324 | platform | |
| 2325 | [26853] libc: aarch64: Missing unwind information in statically linked | |
| 2326 | startup code | |
| 2327 | [26923] locale: Assertion failure in iconv when converting invalid | |
| 2328 | UCS4 (CVE-2020-29562) | |
| 2329 | [26926] dynamic-link: aarch64: library dependencies are not bti | |
| 2330 | protected | |
| 2331 | [26932] libc: sh: Multiple floating point functions defined as stubs | |
| 2332 | only since 2.31 | |
| 2333 | [26964] nptl: pthread_mutex_timedlock returning EAGAIN after futex is | |
| 2334 | locked | |
| 2335 | [26988] dynamic-link: aarch64: BTI mprotect address is not page | |
| 2336 | aligned | |
| 2337 | [27002] build: libc_freeres_fn build failure with GCC 11 | |
| 2338 | [27004] dynamic-link: ld.so is miscompiled by GCC 11 | |
| 2339 | [27008] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should have endianness markup | |
| 2340 | [27042] libc: [alpha] anonymous union in struct stat confuses | |
| 2341 | detection logic | |
| 2342 | [27053] libc: Conformance regression in system(3) (and probably also | |
| 2343 | pclose(3)) | |
| 2344 | [27072] dynamic-link: static pie ifunc resolvers run before hwcap is | |
| 2345 | setup | |
| 2346 | [27077] network: Do not reload /etc/nsswitch.conf from chroot | |
| 2347 | [27083] libc: Unsafe unbounded alloca in addmntent | |
| 2348 | [27104] dynamic-link: The COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_MAX handshake does not | |
| 2349 | work | |
| 2350 | [27130] string: "rep movsb" performance issue | |
| 2351 | [27150] libc: alpha: wait4() is unavailable in static linking | |
| 2352 | [27177] dynamic-link: | |
| 2353 | GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.cpu.x86_ibt=on:glibc.cpu.x86_shstk=on doesn't | |
| 2354 | work | |
| 2355 | [27222] dynamic-link: Incorrect sysdeps/x86/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo.c | |
| 2356 | [27237] malloc: deadlock in malloc/tst-malloc-stats-cancellation | |
| 2357 | [27256] locale: Assertion failure in ISO-2022-JP-3 gconv module | |
| 2358 | related to combining characters (CVE-2021-3326) | |
| 4c56bcbc | 2359 | |
| 0b8c2f95 | 2360 | \f |
| d8775136 SP |
2361 | Version 2.32 |
| 2362 | ||
| 2363 | Major new features: | |
| 2364 | ||
| 936c9666 MF |
2365 | * Unicode 13.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and |
| 2366 | transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 13.0.0, using | |
| 8645f624 MF |
2367 | generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat). |
| 2368 | ||
| 2369 | * New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq) | |
| d8775136 | 2370 | |
| 758caf37 VG |
2371 | * Support for Synopsys ARC HS cores (ARCv2 ISA) running Linux has been |
| 2372 | added. This port requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-8.3 and Linux-5.1. | |
| 2373 | Three ABIs are supported: | |
| 2374 | ||
| 2375 | - arc-linux-gnu | |
| 2376 | - arc-linux-gnuhf | |
| 2377 | - arceb-linux-gnu | |
| 2378 | ||
| 4d3a77c7 | 2379 | The arc* ABIs are little-endian while arceb is big-endian. All ABIs use |
| 758caf37 VG |
2380 | 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and 64-bit file offsets (LFS default). |
| 2381 | ||
| 8f7a75d7 FW |
2382 | * The GNU C Library now loads audit modules listed in the DT_AUDIT and |
| 2383 | DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable. | |
| 2384 | ||
| 051be01f | 2385 | * powerpc64le supports IEEE128 long double libm/libc redirects when |
| 4d3a77c7 | 2386 | using -mabi=ieeelongdouble to compile C code on supported GCC |
| 051be01f GG |
2387 | toolchains. It is recommended to use GCC 8 or newer when testing |
| 2388 | this option. | |
| 2389 | ||
| 901ac843 MS |
2390 | * To help detect buffer overflows and other out-of-bounds accesses |
| 2391 | several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This | |
| 2392 | should help GCC 10 issue better warnings. | |
| 2393 | ||
| 4d3a77c7 | 2394 | * On Linux, functions pthread_attr_setsigmask_np and |
| ec41af45 FW |
2395 | pthread_attr_getsigmask_np have been added. They allow applications |
| 2396 | to specify the signal mask of a thread created with pthread_create. | |
| 2397 | ||
| 706ad1e7 FW |
2398 | * The GNU C Library now provides the header file <sys/single_threaded.h> |
| 2399 | which declares the variable __libc_single_threaded. Applications are | |
| 2400 | encouraged to use this variable for single-thread optimizations, | |
| 2401 | instead of weak references to symbols historically defined in | |
| 2402 | libpthread. | |
| 2403 | ||
| bfe05aa2 | 2404 | * The functions sigabbrev_np and sigdescr_np have been added. The |
| 4d3a77c7 PZ |
2405 | sigabbrev_np function returns the abbreviated signal name (e.g. "HUP" for |
| 2406 | SIGHUP) while sigdescr_np returns a string describing the signal number | |
| 2407 | (e.g "Hangup" for SIGHUP). Different than strsignal, sigdescr_np does not | |
| bfe05aa2 AZ |
2408 | attempt to translate the return description, both functions return |
| 2409 | NULL for an invalid signal number. | |
| 2410 | ||
| 2411 | They should be used instead of sys_siglist or sys_sigabbrev and they | |
| 2412 | are both thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions. | |
| 2413 | ||
| 325081b9 | 2414 | * The functions strerrorname_np and strerrordesc_np have been added. The |
| 4d3a77c7 PZ |
2415 | strerroname_np function returns error number name (e.g. "EINVAL" for EINVAL) |
| 2416 | while strerrordesc_np returns a string describing the error number | |
| 325081b9 AZ |
2417 | (e.g "Invalid argument" for EINVAL). Different than strerror, |
| 2418 | strerrordesc_np does not attempt to translate the return description, both | |
| 2419 | functions return NULL for an invalid error number. | |
| 2420 | ||
| 2421 | They should be used instead of sys_errlist and sys_nerr, both are | |
| 2422 | thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions. | |
| 2423 | ||
| a2a83bf6 SN |
2424 | * AArch64 now supports standard branch protection security hardening |
| 2425 | in glibc when it is built with a GCC that is configured with | |
| 42c9e9af SN |
2426 | --enable-standard-branch-protection (or if -mbranch-protection=standard |
| 2427 | flag is passed when building both GCC target libraries and glibc, | |
| 2428 | in either case a custom GCC is needed). This includes branch target | |
| a2a83bf6 SN |
2429 | identification (BTI) and pointer authentication for return addresses |
| 2430 | (PAC-RET). They require armv8.5-a and armv8.3-a architecture | |
| 2431 | extensions respectively for the protection to be effective, | |
| 2432 | otherwise the used instructions are nops. User code can use PAC-RET | |
| 2433 | without libc support, but BTI requires a libc that is built with BTI | |
| 2434 | support, otherwise runtime objects linked into user code will not be | |
| 2435 | BTI compatible. | |
| 2436 | ||
| d8775136 SP |
2437 | Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility: |
| 2438 | ||
| 5500cdba PV |
2439 | * Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc. Sun RPC is removed |
| 2440 | from glibc. This includes the rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and the Sun | |
| 2441 | RPC header files. Backward compatibility for old programs is kept | |
| 2442 | only for architectures and ABIs that have been added in or before | |
| 2443 | glibc 2.31. New programs need to use TI-RPC | |
| 2444 | <http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=summary> and | |
| 2445 | rpcsvc-proto <https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto>. | |
| 2446 | ||
| ae7a94e5 PV |
2447 | * Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-nsl. libnsl is only built |
| 2448 | as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules "nis" | |
| 2449 | and "nisplus" are not built at all and libnsl's headers aren't | |
| 2450 | installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs | |
| 2451 | that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement | |
| 2452 | implementations based on TI-RPC, which additionally support IPv6, are | |
| 2453 | available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not | |
| 4d3a77c7 | 2454 | affect the "compat" NSS module, which does not depend on libnsl |
| ae7a94e5 PV |
2455 | since 2.27 and thus can be used without NIS. |
| 2456 | ||
| 076f09af FW |
2457 | * The deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been |
| 2458 | removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to | |
| 2459 | exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it), | |
| 2460 | but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system | |
| 2461 | call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5. | |
| d8775136 | 2462 | |
| 6d246cb8 FW |
2463 | * The sstk function is no longer available to newly linked binaries. |
| 2464 | Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function | |
| 2465 | was not declared in any header file. | |
| 2466 | ||
| 02802faf FW |
2467 | * The legacy signal handling functions siginterrupt, sigpause, sighold, |
| 2468 | sigrelse, sigignore and sigset, and the sigmask macro have been | |
| 2469 | deprecated. Applications should use the sigsuspend, sigprocmask and | |
| 2470 | sigaction functions instead. | |
| 2471 | ||
| cad64f77 JT |
2472 | * ldconfig now defaults to the new format for ld.so.cache. glibc has |
| 2473 | already supported this format for almost 20 years. | |
| 2474 | ||
| b1ccfc06 AZ |
2475 | * The deprecated arrays sys_siglist, _sys_siglist, and sys_sigabbrev |
| 2476 | are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations | |
| 2477 | have been removed from <string.h>. They are exported solely as | |
| 2478 | compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use | |
| 2479 | strsignal instead. | |
| 2480 | ||
| f13d2601 AZ |
2481 | * The deprecated symbols sys_errlist, _sys_errlist, sys_nerr, and _sys_nerr |
| 2482 | are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations | |
| 4d3a77c7 | 2483 | have been removed from <stdio.h>. They are exported solely as |
| f13d2601 AZ |
2484 | compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use |
| 2485 | strerror or strerror_r instead. | |
| 2486 | ||
| 28aff047 AZ |
2487 | * Both strerror and strerror_l now share the same internal buffer in the |
| 2488 | calling thread, meaning that the returned string pointer may be invalided | |
| 2489 | or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same thread or | |
| 2490 | if the thread is terminated. It makes strerror MT-safe. | |
| 2491 | ||
| 89c25529 FW |
2492 | * Using weak references to libpthread functions such as pthread_create |
| 2493 | or pthread_key_create to detect the singled-threaded nature of a | |
| 2494 | program is an obsolescent feature. Future versions of glibc will | |
| 2495 | define pthread_create within libc.so.6 itself, so such checks will | |
| 2496 | always flag the program as multi-threaded. Applications should check | |
| 2497 | the __libc_single_threaded variable declared in | |
| 2498 | <sys/single_threaded.h> instead. | |
| 2499 | ||
| ae7a94e5 PV |
2500 | * The "files" NSS module no longer supports the "key" database (used for |
| 2501 | secure RPC). The contents of the /etc/publickey file will be ignored, | |
| 2502 | regardless of the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of | |
| 2503 | storing RPC keys only supported the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES | |
| 2504 | flavor of secure RPC.) | |
| 94d9c76e | 2505 | |
| e72b98e6 FW |
2506 | * The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default |
| 2507 | implementation __default_morecore have been deprecated. Applications | |
| 2508 | should use malloc interposition to change malloc behavior, and mmap to | |
| 2509 | allocate anonymous memory. A future version of glibc may require that | |
| 2510 | applications which use the malloc hooks must preload a special shared | |
| 2511 | object, to enable the hooks. | |
| 2512 | ||
| 20fb7452 FW |
2513 | * The hesiod NSS module has been deprecated and will be removed in a |
| 2514 | future version of glibc. System administrators are encouraged to | |
| 2515 | switch to other approaches for networked account databases, such as | |
| 2516 | LDAP. | |
| 2517 | ||
| d8775136 SP |
2518 | Changes to build and runtime requirements: |
| 2519 | ||
| 50545f5a PM |
2520 | * powerpc64le requires GCC 7.4 or newer. This is required for supporting |
| 2521 | long double redirects. | |
| d8775136 SP |
2522 | |
| 2523 | Security related changes: | |
| 2524 | ||
| 17a0126a AJ |
2525 | CVE-2016-10228: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when |
| 2526 | invoked with the -c option and when processing invalid multi-byte input | |
| 2527 | sequences. Reported by Jan Engelhardt. | |
| 2528 | ||
| 15ab1952 AJ |
2529 | CVE-2020-10029: Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack |
| 2530 | corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido | |
| 2531 | Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem. | |
| d8775136 | 2532 | |
| 39a05214 AJ |
2533 | CVE-2020-1752: A use-after-free vulnerability in the glob function when |
| 2534 | expanding ~user has been fixed. | |
| 2535 | ||
| 17400c4b AJ |
2536 | CVE-2020-6096: A signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy and |
| 2537 | memmove functions has been fixed. Discovered by Jason Royes and Samual | |
| 2538 | Dytrych of the Cisco Security Assessment and Penetration Team (See | |
| 2539 | TALOS-2020-1019). | |
| 2540 | ||
| d8775136 SP |
2541 | The following bugs are resolved with this release: |
| 2542 | ||
| 923adfcb CD |
2543 | [9809] localedata: ckb_IQ: new Kurdish Sorani locale |
| 2544 | [10441] manual: Backtraces code example lacks error checking | |
| 2545 | [10815] librt: [timer_create / SIGEV_THREAD] signalmask of | |
| 2546 | timer_sigev_thread dangerous | |
| 2547 | [14231] stdio: stdio-common tests memory requirements | |
| 2548 | [14578] libc: /proc-based emulation for lchmod, fchmodat | |
| 2549 | [16272] dynamic-link: dlopen()ing a DT_FILTER library crashes if | |
| 2550 | filtee has constructor | |
| 2551 | [19519] locale: iconv(1) with -c option hangs on illegal multi-byte | |
| 2552 | sequences (CVE-2016-10228) | |
| 2553 | [19737] admin: Doc page “20.5.2 Infinity and NaN” has incorrect HTML | |
| 2554 | character entities for infinity & pi | |
| 2555 | [20338] libc: Parsing of /etc/gshadow can return bad pointers causing | |
| 2556 | segfaults in applications | |
| 2557 | [20543] libc: Please move from .gnu.linkonce to comdat | |
| 7f0d9e61 | 2558 | [22489] network: gcc warns about implicit conversion in |
| 923adfcb CD |
2559 | ICMP6_FILTER_SETPASS with -Wsign-conversion |
| 2560 | [22525] localedata: or_IN LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1" | |
| 2561 | [23294] math: Complex _FloatN functions are redirected to the wrong | |
| 2562 | function with -mlong-double-64 | |
| 2563 | [23296] libc: Data race in setting function descriptor during lazy | |
| 2564 | binding | |
| 2565 | [23668] dynamic-link: ldconfig: Default to the new format for | |
| 2566 | ld.so.cache | |
| 2567 | [23819] hurd: hurd: Add C11 thread support | |
| 2568 | [23990] build: test-container error out on failure to exec child. | |
| 2569 | [23991] build: shell-container typo in run_command_array | |
| 2570 | [24638] manual: Error in example of parsing a template string | |
| 2571 | [24654] manual: Wrong declaration of wcschr in libc manual | |
| 2572 | [24943] dynamic-link: Support DT_AUDIT, DT_DEPAUDIT in the dynamic | |
| 2573 | linker | |
| 2574 | [25051] dynamic-link: aarch64, powerpc64 uses surplus static tls for | |
| 2575 | dynamically loaded dsos | |
| 2576 | [25098] nptl: nptl: ctype classification functions are not AS-Safe | |
| 2577 | [25219] libc: improve out-of-bounds checking with GCC 10 attribute | |
| 2578 | access | |
| 2579 | [25262] libc: getcontext/setcontext/swapcontext unnecessarily save and | |
| 2580 | restore EAX, ECX and EDX | |
| 2581 | [25397] dynamic-link: Legacy bitmap doesn't cover jitted code | |
| 2582 | [25414] glob: 'glob' use-after-free bug (CVE-2020-1752) | |
| 2583 | [25420] network: Race condition in resolv_conf.c can result in caching | |
| 2584 | stale configuration forever | |
| 2585 | [25487] math: sinl() stack corruption from crafted input | |
| 2586 | (CVE-2020-10029) | |
| 2587 | [25506] build: configure: broken detection of STT_GNU_IFUNC when GCC | |
| 2588 | defaults to PIE | |
| 2589 | [25523] libc: MIPS/Linux inline syscall template is miscompiled | |
| 2590 | [25620] libc: Signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy() | |
| 2591 | (CVE-2020-6096) | |
| 2592 | [25623] libc: test-sysvmsg, test-sysvsem, test-sysvshm fail with 2.31 | |
| 2593 | on 32 bit and old kernel | |
| 2594 | [25635] libc: arm: Wrong sysdep order selection for soft-fp | |
| 2595 | [25639] localedata: Some names of days and months wrongly spelt in | |
| 2596 | Occitan | |
| 2597 | [25657] libc: sigprocmask() and sigisemptyset() manipulate different | |
| 2598 | amount of sigset_t bytes | |
| 2599 | [25691] stdio: printf: memory leak when printing long multibyte | |
| 2600 | strings | |
| 2601 | [25715] libc: system() returns wrong errors when posix_spawn fails | |
| 2602 | [25733] malloc: mallopt(M_MXFAST) can set global_max_fast to 0 | |
| 2603 | [25734] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS fails to reset conversion | |
| 2604 | state for conversions that produce two Unicode code points | |
| 2605 | [25765] nptl: Incorrect futex syscall in __pthread_disable_asynccancel | |
| 2606 | for linux x86_64 leads to livelock | |
| 2607 | [25788] dynamic-link: [i386] -fno-omit-frame-pointer in CFLAGS causes | |
| 2608 | test failures, invalid instruction in ld.so | |
| 2609 | [25790] glob: Typo in tst-fnmatch.input | |
| 2610 | [25810] libc: x32: Incorrect syscall entries with pointer, off_t and | |
| 2611 | size_t | |
| 2612 | [25819] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 13.0.0 | |
| 2613 | [25824] libc: Abnormal function of strnlen in aarch64 | |
| 2614 | [25887] dynamic-link: Wasted space in _dl_x86_feature_1[1] | |
| 2615 | [25896] libc: Incorrect prctl | |
| 2616 | [25902] libc: Bad LOADARGS_N | |
| 2617 | [25905] dynamic-link: VSX registers are corrupted during PLT | |
| 2618 | resolution when glibc is built with --disable-multi-arch and --with- | |
| 2619 | cpu=power9 | |
| 2620 | [25933] string: Off by one error in __strncmp_avx2 when | |
| 2621 | length=VEC_SIZE*4 and strings are at page boundaries can cause a | |
| 2622 | segfault | |
| 2623 | [25942] nptl: Deadlock on stack_cache_lock between __nptl_setxid and | |
| 2624 | exiting detached thread | |
| 2625 | [25966] libc: Incorrect access of __x86_shared_non_temporal_threshold | |
| 2626 | for x32 | |
| 2627 | [25976] nss: internal_end*ent in nss_compat may clobber errno, hiding | |
| 2628 | ERANGE | |
| 2629 | [25999] nptl: Use-after-free issue in pthread_getaddr_default_np | |
| 2630 | [26073] math: getpayload() has wrong return value | |
| 2631 | [26076] dynamic-link: dlmopen crashes after failing to load | |
| 2632 | dependencies in audit mode | |
| 2633 | [26120] localedata: column width of of some Korean | |
| 2634 | JUNGSEONG/JONGSEONG characters wrong (should be 0) | |
| 2635 | [26128] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFLUSHOPT | |
| 2636 | [26133] libc: Incorrect need_arch_feature_F16C | |
| 2637 | [26137] libc: strtod() triggers exception FE_INEXACT on reasonable | |
| 2638 | input | |
| 2639 | [26149] libc: PKU is usable only if OSPKE is set | |
| 2640 | [26173] libc: powerpc64*: Add @notoc to calls to functions that do not | |
| 2641 | preserve r2 | |
| 2642 | [26208] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFSH | |
| 2643 | [26210] network: Incorrect use of hidden symbols for global sunrpc | |
| 2644 | variables | |
| 2645 | [26211] stdio: printf integer overflow calculating allocation size | |
| 2646 | [26214] stdio: printf_fp double free | |
| 2647 | [26215] stdio: printf_fp memory leak | |
| 2648 | [26232] time: FAIL: support/tst-timespec for 32-bit targets | |
| 2649 | [26258] nss: nss_compat should not read input files with mmap | |
| 2650 | [26332] string: Incorrect cache line size load causes memory | |
| 2651 | corruption in memset | |
| 2652 | ||
| d8775136 | 2653 | \f |
| 0b8c2f95 CD |
2654 | Version 2.31 |
| 2655 | ||
| 2656 | Major new features: | |
| 2657 | ||
| 777d75fb JM |
2658 | * The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to |
| 2659 | enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from | |
| 2660 | this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft | |
| 2661 | is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is | |
| 2662 | liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or | |
| 2663 | by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x". | |
| 0b8c2f95 | 2664 | |
| f9fabc1b JM |
2665 | * The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now |
| 2666 | have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS | |
| 2667 | 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of | |
| 2668 | Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3. | |
| 2669 | ||
| 69ca4b54 | 2670 | * The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a |
| 3ef5e118 | 2671 | terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against |
| 69ca4b54 MC |
2672 | CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME. This function is a GNU extension. |
| 2673 | ||
| c5fbd7c3 TM |
2674 | * New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar). |
| 2675 | ||
| 446997ff FW |
2676 | * The DNS stub resolver will optionally send the AD (authenticated data) bit |
| 2677 | in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in | |
| 2678 | /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this | |
| 2679 | mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to | |
| 2680 | applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default | |
| 2681 | mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in | |
| 2682 | responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name | |
| 2683 | servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.) | |
| 2684 | ||
| 0b8c2f95 CD |
2685 | Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility: |
| 2686 | ||
| 42760d76 JM |
2687 | * The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding |
| 2688 | functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to | |
| 2689 | avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument | |
| 2690 | passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification | |
| 2691 | Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass | |
| 2692 | floating-point arguments directly will continue to work. | |
| 0b8c2f95 | 2693 | |
| 12cbde1d | 2694 | * The obsolete function stime is no longer available to newly linked |
| 521c7fc6 ZW |
2695 | binaries, and its declaration has been removed from <time.h>. |
| 2696 | Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead. | |
| 2697 | ||
| 2698 | * We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>, | |
| 2699 | in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists | |
| 2700 | but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use | |
| 2701 | gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead. | |
| 2702 | ||
| 2703 | * The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a | |
| 2704 | system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for | |
| 2705 | many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's | |
| 2706 | timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis. | |
| 2707 | Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have | |
| 2708 | made this no longer practical. | |
| 2709 | ||
| 2710 | As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument | |
| 2711 | should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and | |
| 2712 | tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always | |
| 2713 | happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future | |
| 2714 | release.) | |
| 2715 | ||
| 2716 | All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to | |
| 2717 | gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated | |
| 2718 | with the current time, use the localtime function. | |
| 2719 | ||
| 2720 | gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans | |
| 2721 | to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider | |
| 2722 | using clock_gettime instead. | |
| 12cbde1d | 2723 | |
| c3f9aef0 ZW |
2724 | * The settimeofday function can still be used to set a system-wide time |
| 2725 | zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux | |
| 2726 | kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide | |
| 2727 | time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel, | |
| 2728 | and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down. | |
| 2729 | ||
| 2730 | However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident, | |
| 2731 | settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset | |
| 2732 | simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call | |
| 2733 | will fail (setting errno to EINVAL). | |
| 2734 | ||
| 2735 | Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call | |
| 2736 | to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on | |
| 2737 | some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a | |
| 2738 | more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement | |
| 2739 | becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all | |
| 2740 | platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer. | |
| 2741 | ||
| 521c7fc6 ZW |
2742 | settimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. Programs that set |
| 2743 | the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of | |
| 2744 | functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly | |
| 2745 | linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like | |
| 2746 | offset API. | |
| c3f9aef0 | 2747 | |
| 521c7fc6 ZW |
2748 | * SPARC ISA v7 is no longer supported. v8 is still supported, but only if |
| 2749 | the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors | |
| 2750 | are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not). | |
| 2b5fea83 | 2751 | |
| 521c7fc6 ZW |
2752 | As the oldest 64-bit SPARC ISA is v9, this only affects 32-bit |
| 2753 | configurations. | |
| 5d9b7b9f | 2754 | |
| 79e0cd7b FW |
2755 | * If a lazy binding failure happens during dlopen, during the execution of |
| 2756 | an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the | |
| 2757 | dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error | |
| 2758 | captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because | |
| 2759 | resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible. | |
| 2760 | ||
| ba44e5b5 DM |
2761 | * For MIPS hard-float ABIs, the GNU C Library will be configured to need an |
| 2762 | executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require | |
| 2763 | minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing | |
| 2764 | floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to | |
| 2765 | 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While | |
| 2766 | currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are | |
| 2767 | expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by | |
| 2768 | default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels. | |
| 2769 | ||
| 2770 | The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a | |
| 2771 | non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels. | |
| 2772 | ||
| 2cd01a1d SN |
2773 | * System call wrappers for time system calls now use the new time64 system |
| 2774 | calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call | |
| 2775 | the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system | |
| 2776 | calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments | |
| 2777 | that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning | |
| 2778 | -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue. | |
| 2779 | ||
| 0b8c2f95 CD |
2780 | Changes to build and runtime requirements: |
| 2781 | ||
| a1bd5f86 | 2782 | * It is no longer necessary to have recent Linux kernel headers to build |
| f1bb5499 SP |
2783 | working (non-stub) system call wrappers on all architectures except 64-bit |
| 2784 | RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0. | |
| 0b8c2f95 | 2785 | |
| 97ff54d2 SP |
2786 | * The ChangeLog file is no longer present in the toplevel directory of the |
| 2787 | source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as | |
| 2788 | ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries. | |
| 2789 | ||
| 0b8c2f95 CD |
2790 | Security related changes: |
| 2791 | ||
| 7f1a08cf FW |
2792 | CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an |
| 2793 | out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context. | |
| 2794 | ||
| d5dfad43 MK |
2795 | CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC |
| 2796 | environment variable during program execution after a security | |
| 2797 | transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping | |
| 2798 | addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid | |
| 2799 | program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki. | |
| 0b8c2f95 CD |
2800 | |
| 2801 | The following bugs are resolved with this release: | |
| 2802 | ||
| e7daa7fc SP |
2803 | [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters |
| 2804 | [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname | |
| 2805 | [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol | |
| 2806 | [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h | |
| 2807 | [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking | |
| 2808 | [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes | |
| 2809 | [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD | |
| 2810 | [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on | |
| 2811 | linking failure | |
| 2812 | [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical | |
| 2813 | Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks | |
| 2814 | [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table | |
| 2815 | [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers | |
| 2816 | [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt | |
| 2817 | [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode | |
| 2818 | [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF | |
| 2819 | constructors/destructors is not fatal | |
| 2820 | [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start | |
| 2821 | [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T | |
| 2822 | 7408-2005 | |
| 2823 | [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible | |
| 2824 | with localedef | |
| 2825 | [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails | |
| 2826 | [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes | |
| 2827 | [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition | |
| 2828 | [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64 | |
| 2829 | [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache | |
| 2830 | [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h> | |
| 2831 | [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale | |
| 2832 | utmp entries | |
| 2833 | [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to | |
| 2834 | ABSOLUTE ABI | |
| 2835 | [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in | |
| 2836 | _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure | |
| 2837 | [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC | |
| 2838 | (stringop-overflow error) | |
| 2839 | [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_* | |
| 2840 | functions other can lead to crashes | |
| 2841 | [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure | |
| 2842 | [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used | |
| 2843 | unconditionally | |
| 2844 | [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup | |
| 2845 | [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement | |
| 2846 | [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10 | |
| 2847 | [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it | |
| 2848 | still can fail with an error | |
| 2849 | [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale | |
| 2850 | [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node | |
| 2851 | [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not | |
| 2852 | initialized correctly | |
| 2853 | [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang | |
| 2854 | -frewrite-includes | |
| 2855 | [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt | |
| 2856 | value to an unsigned | |
| 2857 | [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid | |
| 2858 | binaries (CVE-2019-19126) | |
| 2859 | [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf- | |
| 2860 | protection | |
| 2861 | [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15 | |
| 2862 | ifunc variant. | |
| 2863 | [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et | |
| 2864 | al. for Clang++ | |
| 2865 | [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI | |
| 2866 | (Slovenian) | |
| 2867 | [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86 | |
| 2868 | [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG. | |
| 2869 | [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling | |
| 2870 | with -std=c11 | |
| 2871 | [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M" | |
| 2872 | [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time | |
| 2873 | part | |
| 2874 | [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL | |
| 2875 | (dl_initfirst) link map pointer | |
| 2876 | [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__ | |
| 2877 | [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc | |
| 2878 | [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in | |
| 2879 | getaddrinfo.c:gethosts | |
| 0b8c2f95 | 2880 | |
| de44ab67 SP |
2881 | \f |
| 2882 | Version 2.30 | |
| 2883 | ||
| 2884 | Major new features: | |
| 2885 | ||
| f6efec90 MF |
2886 | * Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and |
| 2887 | transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using | |
| 86bdd49d MF |
2888 | generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat). |
| 2889 | ||
| 8692ebdb DN |
2890 | * The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared |
| 2891 | objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable. | |
| de44ab67 | 2892 | |
| 7b807a35 FW |
2893 | * The twalk_r function has been added. It is similar to the existing |
| 2894 | twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument | |
| 2895 | to the callback function. | |
| 2896 | ||
| 51ea67d5 | 2897 | * On Linux, the getdents64, gettid, and tgkill functions have been added. |
| 1d0fc213 | 2898 | |
| 2c7e704b TS |
2899 | * Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an |
| 2900 | alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW, | |
| 2901 | nan_TW, lzh_TW. | |
| 2902 | ||
| 466afec3 TS |
2903 | * The entry for the new Japanese era has been added for ja_JP locale. |
| 2904 | ||
| 25f7a3c9 AZ |
2905 | * Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc, |
| 2906 | pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size | |
| 2907 | larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with | |
| 2908 | pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might | |
| 2909 | overflow the ptrdiff_t type. | |
| 2910 | ||
| f0b2132b FW |
2911 | * The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference |
| 2912 | versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname | |
| 2913 | since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol | |
| 2914 | FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with | |
| 2915 | link time reference, is gone. | |
| 2916 | ||
| 65dd7e9c MC |
2917 | * Add new POSIX-proposed pthread_cond_clockwait, pthread_mutex_clocklock, |
| 2918 | pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait | |
| 2919 | functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also | |
| 2920 | accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should | |
| 2921 | be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC | |
| 2922 | and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the | |
| 2923 | time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires | |
| 2924 | the clock choice at initialization time). | |
| 2925 | ||
| dcf36bca SN |
2926 | * On AArch64 the GNU IFUNC resolver call ABI changed: old resolvers still |
| 2927 | work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in | |
| 2928 | the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value. | |
| 2929 | ||
| de44ab67 SP |
2930 | Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility: |
| 2931 | ||
| 5a659ccc FW |
2932 | * The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not |
| 2933 | support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space | |
| 2934 | emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel | |
| 2935 | behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the | |
| 74448103 DD |
2936 | copy_file_range function can no longer rely on glibc to provide a fallback |
| 2937 | on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if | |
| 2938 | this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback. | |
| 2939 | Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version | |
| 2940 | 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel. | |
| 5a659ccc | 2941 | |
| f289e656 FW |
2942 | * The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime, |
| 2943 | clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library | |
| 2944 | for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the | |
| 2945 | definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available | |
| 2946 | since glibc 2.17. | |
| de44ab67 | 2947 | |
| a0a0dc83 FW |
2948 | * The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h> |
| 2949 | and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed. | |
| 2950 | ||
| 3f8b44be FW |
2951 | * Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 |
| 2952 | resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed. | |
| 2953 | ||
| 33322186 FW |
2954 | * The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub |
| 2955 | resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>. | |
| 2956 | ||
| 94a4e9e4 FW |
2957 | * With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the |
| 2958 | BIND_NOW flag. | |
| 2959 | ||
| a053e878 ZW |
2960 | * Support for the PowerPC SPE ISA extension (powerpc-*-*gnuspe* |
| 2961 | configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this | |
| 2962 | subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9. | |
| 2963 | ||
| 6b33f373 FW |
2964 | * On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h> |
| 2965 | header have been removed. | |
| 2966 | ||
| 744e8296 FW |
2967 | * The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been |
| 2968 | deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc. | |
| 2969 | Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random | |
| 2970 | bits, the getentropy function can be used. | |
| 2971 | ||
| de44ab67 SP |
2972 | Changes to build and runtime requirements: |
| 2973 | ||
| 4dcbbc3b JM |
2974 | * GCC 6.2 or later is required to build the GNU C Library. |
| 2975 | ||
| 2976 | Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when | |
| 2977 | compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. | |
| de44ab67 SP |
2978 | |
| 2979 | Security related changes: | |
| 2980 | ||
| 3f635fb4 L |
2981 | CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check |
| 2982 | size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX | |
| 2983 | has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed | |
| 2984 | in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper | |
| 2985 | 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set, | |
| 2986 | memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as | |
| 2987 | zero. Reported by H.J. Lu. | |
| de44ab67 | 2988 | |
| b626c5aa AJ |
2989 | CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match |
| 2990 | via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer | |
| 2991 | over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen. | |
| 2992 | ||
| de44ab67 SP |
2993 | The following bugs are resolved with this release: |
| 2994 | ||
| e7124906 CD |
2995 | [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails |
| 2996 | [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper | |
| 2997 | [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined | |
| 2998 | [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols | |
| 2999 | [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]] | |
| 3000 | [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop | |
| 3001 | [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library | |
| 3002 | [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before | |
| 3003 | invalid input drops valid char | |
| 3004 | [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash | |
| 3005 | [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8 | |
| 3006 | [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday | |
| 3007 | [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019 | |
| 3008 | [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header | |
| 3009 | malloc.h. | |
| 3010 | [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables | |
| 3011 | [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode | |
| 3012 | [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get() | |
| 3013 | [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation | |
| 3014 | functions | |
| 3015 | [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep | |
| 3016 | [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang | |
| 3017 | [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error | |
| 3018 | for long double = double | |
| 3019 | [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for | |
| 3020 | long double = double | |
| 3021 | [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations | |
| 3022 | [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start | |
| 3023 | [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid | |
| 3024 | long timeouts | |
| fdb724f9 | 3025 | [24051] stdio: puts and putchar output to _IO_stdout instead of stdout |
| e7124906 CD |
3026 | [24059] nss: nss_files: get_next_alias calls fgets_unlocked without |
| 3027 | checking for NULL. | |
| 3028 | [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i | |
| 3029 | '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'" | |
| 3030 | [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version | |
| 3031 | [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment | |
| 3032 | [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in | |
| 3033 | RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309) | |
| 3034 | [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2 | |
| 3035 | [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm, | |
| 3036 | not the default "nor" | |
| 3037 | [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN | |
| 3038 | false positives, change to modern flexible array | |
| 3039 | [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of | |
| 3040 | instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing | |
| 3041 | compiler barriers. | |
| 3042 | [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause | |
| 3043 | unnecessary librt dependencies | |
| 3044 | [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale | |
| 3045 | [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join | |
| 3046 | [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point | |
| 3047 | [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting | |
| 3048 | unsorted chunk | |
| 3049 | [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit | |
| 3050 | [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through | |
| 3051 | to R_SPARC_H44 | |
| 3052 | [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales | |
| 3053 | [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in | |
| 3054 | tt_RU (Tatar) locale | |
| 3055 | [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0 | |
| 3056 | [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects | |
| 3057 | [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers | |
| 3058 | [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in | |
| 3059 | tt_RU (Tatar) locale | |
| 3060 | [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale | |
| 3061 | [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent | |
| 3062 | [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era | |
| 3063 | [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror | |
| 3064 | was not used | |
| 3065 | [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in- | |
| 3066 | tests | |
| 3067 | [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures | |
| 3068 | [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit | |
| 3069 | time_t changes | |
| 3070 | [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0 | |
| 3071 | [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some | |
| 3072 | kernels and break testing | |
| 3073 | [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix | |
| 3074 | [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null | |
| 3075 | [-Werror=format-overflow=] | |
| 3076 | [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64 | |
| 3077 | [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv | |
| 3078 | [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio | |
| 3079 | [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with | |
| 3080 | -O3 -march=skylake | |
| 3081 | [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35 | |
| 3082 | [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles | |
| 3083 | crash | |
| 3084 | [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static | |
| 3085 | linked glibc | |
| 3086 | [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction | |
| 3087 | [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes | |
| 3088 | [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry | |
| 3089 | in /etc/nsswitch.conf | |
| 3090 | [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32 | |
| 3091 | [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion | |
| 3092 | [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is | |
| 3093 | always implemented in the same library | |
| 3094 | [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation | |
| 3095 | [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread | |
| 3096 | [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container | |
| 3097 | testroot | |
| de44ab67 | 3098 | |
| 437faa96 CD |
3099 | \f |
| 3100 | Version 2.29 | |
| 3101 | ||
| 3102 | Major new features: | |
| 3103 | ||
| a092ca94 L |
3104 | * The getcpu wrapper function has been added, which returns the currently |
| 3105 | used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific. | |
| 3106 | ||
| 08a5ee14 CD |
3107 | * A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers |
| 3108 | to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new | |
| 3109 | target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree: | |
| 3110 | 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR | |
| 3111 | to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default | |
| 3112 | configured location. | |
| 437faa96 | 3113 | |
| 424c4f60 | 3114 | * Optimized generic exp, exp2, log, log2, pow, sinf, cosf, sincosf and tanf. |
| 3bded567 | 3115 | |
| 2bda273a FW |
3116 | * The reallocarray function is now declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE, not just |
| 3117 | for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments. | |
| 3118 | ||
| f0458cf4 AZ |
3119 | * For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel |
| 3120 | indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel | |
| 3121 | (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is | |
| 3122 | suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting | |
| 3123 | transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on | |
| 3124 | each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the | |
| 3125 | HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the | |
| 3126 | process actually does not use HTM). | |
| 3127 | ||
| 3a3fb755 FW |
3128 | * The functions posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np and |
| 3129 | posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling | |
| 3130 | posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different | |
| 3131 | directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function | |
| 3132 | posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function | |
| 3133 | of the same name. | |
| 4a938cb2 | 3134 | |
| 14d0e87d AZ |
3135 | * The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490). |
| 3136 | Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in | |
| 3137 | pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle | |
| 5fc3eca7 | 3138 | inconsistent mutex state after a fork call in a multi-threaded process. |
| 14d0e87d AZ |
3139 | In both popen and system there is no direct access to user-defined mutexes. |
| 3140 | ||
| 5f72b005 MH |
3141 | * Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port |
| 3142 | requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are | |
| 3143 | supported: | |
| 3144 | - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian | |
| 3145 | - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian | |
| 3146 | ||
| b22eed37 TS |
3147 | * strftime's default formatting of a locale's alternative year (%Ey) |
| 3148 | has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits, | |
| 3149 | like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during | |
| 3150 | the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless | |
| 3151 | for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have | |
| 3152 | alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be | |
| 3153 | overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions). | |
| 3154 | ||
| 32f600a2 TS |
3155 | * As a GNU extension, the '_' and '-' flags can now be applied to |
| 3156 | "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the | |
| 3157 | same effect that they would on "%Ey". | |
| 3158 | ||
| 437faa96 CD |
3159 | Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility: |
| 3160 | ||
| dce452dc SP |
3161 | * The glibc.tune tunable namespace has been renamed to glibc.cpu and the |
| 3162 | tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name. | |
| 437faa96 | 3163 | |
| d59f3e5e JM |
3164 | * The type of the pr_uid and pr_gid members of struct elf_prpsinfo, defined |
| 3165 | in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by | |
| 3166 | the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on | |
| 3167 | MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V. | |
| 3168 | ||
| 3f7f1d18 JM |
3169 | * For the MIPS n32 ABI, the type of the pr_sigpend and pr_sighold members of |
| 3170 | struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo, | |
| 3171 | defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually | |
| 3172 | used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those | |
| 3173 | structures. | |
| 3174 | ||
| 03992356 ZW |
3175 | * An archaic GNU extension to scanf, under which '%as', '%aS', and '%a[...]' |
| 3176 | meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now | |
| 3177 | restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE | |
| 3178 | defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a | |
| 3179 | hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs | |
| 3180 | compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE. | |
| 3181 | ||
| 3182 | POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input | |
| 3183 | with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using | |
| 3184 | '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to | |
| 3185 | '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the | |
| 3186 | C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE. | |
| 3187 | ||
| 3188 | GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long | |
| 3189 | as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with | |
| 3190 | __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))). | |
| 3191 | ||
| 437faa96 CD |
3192 | Changes to build and runtime requirements: |
| 3193 | ||
| c6982f7e | 3194 | * Python 3.4 or later is required to build the GNU C Library. |
| 437faa96 | 3195 | |
| 192963be JM |
3196 | * On most architectures, GCC 5 or later is required to build the GNU C |
| 3197 | Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.) | |
| 3198 | ||
| 3199 | Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when | |
| 3200 | compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. | |
| 3201 | ||
| 437faa96 CD |
3202 | Security related changes: |
| 3203 | ||
| d527c860 FW |
3204 | CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a |
| 3205 | denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo | |
| 3206 | calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken. | |
| 437faa96 | 3207 | |
| 97700a34 L |
3208 | CVE-2019-6488: On x32, the size_t parameter may be passed in the lower |
| 3209 | 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it | |
| 3210 | happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register | |
| 3211 | in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow. | |
| 3212 | Reported by H.J. Lu. | |
| 3213 | ||
| 108bc404 FW |
3214 | CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4 |
| 3215 | addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data | |
| 3216 | or command injection issues in applications. | |
| 3217 | ||
| 437faa96 CD |
3218 | The following bugs are resolved with this release: |
| 3219 | ||
| 330c9d0d SP |
3220 | [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong |
| 3221 | [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty | |
| 3222 | [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for | |
| 3223 | thousands | |
| 3224 | [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly | |
| 3225 | [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset | |
| 3226 | [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and | |
| 3227 | --param options) | |
| 3228 | [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np, | |
| 3229 | posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np | |
| 3230 | [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format | |
| 3231 | [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers | |
| 3232 | [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent | |
| 3233 | [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp | |
| 3234 | [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault | |
| 3235 | [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing | |
| 3236 | characters (CVE-2016-10739) | |
| 3237 | [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL | |
| 3238 | [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls | |
| 3239 | [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu | |
| 3240 | [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function | |
| 3241 | pointer argument is non-NULL | |
| 3242 | [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen | |
| 3243 | [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT | |
| 3244 | [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations | |
| 3245 | [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when | |
| 3246 | multithreads call popen | |
| 3247 | [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL | |
| 3248 | and pthread_create fails. | |
| 3249 | [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ? | |
| 3250 | [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a | |
| 3251 | constructor | |
| 3252 | [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to | |
| 3253 | PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP. | |
| 3254 | [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc | |
| 3255 | source tree | |
| 3256 | [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft- | |
| 3257 | float | |
| 3258 | [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by | |
| 3259 | one error | |
| 3260 | [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream | |
| 3261 | [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older | |
| 3262 | linker | |
| 3263 | [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers | |
| 3264 | [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak | |
| 3265 | [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast | |
| 3266 | [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t | |
| 3267 | [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte | |
| 3268 | [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2 | |
| 3269 | [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different | |
| 3270 | filesystems | |
| 3271 | [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps | |
| 3272 | [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S | |
| 3273 | [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_* | |
| 3274 | functions | |
| 3275 | [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles | |
| 3276 | [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in | |
| 3277 | posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2() | |
| 3278 | [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid | |
| 3279 | have wrong type | |
| 3280 | [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have | |
| 3281 | wrong type | |
| 3282 | [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result | |
| 3283 | [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in | |
| 3284 | bits/types/struct_rusage.h | |
| 3285 | [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of | |
| 3286 | threads | |
| 3287 | [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl- | |
| 3288 | start.S | |
| 3289 | [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr() | |
| 3290 | [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly | |
| 3291 | [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on | |
| 3292 | powerpc64le | |
| 3293 | [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect | |
| 3294 | [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols | |
| 3295 | [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update | |
| 3296 | [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication | |
| 3297 | [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils | |
| 3298 | [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in | |
| 3299 | strftime | |
| 3300 | [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h | |
| 3301 | [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure | |
| 3302 | [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale | |
| 3303 | [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc | |
| 3304 | [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs | |
| 3305 | [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64 | |
| 3306 | [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols | |
| 3307 | [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit) | |
| 3308 | [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present | |
| 3309 | [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock | |
| 3310 | [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines | |
| 3311 | [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines | |
| 3312 | [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect | |
| 3313 | [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards | |
| 3314 | tcache size | |
| 3315 | [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in | |
| 3316 | sysdeps/posix/spawni.c | |
| 3317 | [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect | |
| 3318 | [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef | |
| 3319 | [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor | |
| 3320 | (CVE-2018-19591) | |
| 3321 | [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non- | |
| 3322 | nearest rounding mode | |
| 3323 | [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k | |
| 3324 | [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow | |
| 3325 | [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9 | |
| 3326 | [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU | |
| 3327 | [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA | |
| 3328 | [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL | |
| 3329 | [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7 | |
| 3330 | [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt | |
| 3331 | [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math- | |
| 3332 | error | |
| 3333 | [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow | |
| 3334 | [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when | |
| 3335 | using GCC 8 | |
| 3336 | [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt | |
| 3337 | [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno} | |
| 3338 | [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check | |
| 3339 | [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on | |
| 3340 | ppc64le | |
| 3341 | [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the | |
| 3342 | expected result | |
| 3343 | [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for | |
| 3344 | x32 (CVE-2019-6488) | |
| 3345 | [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by | |
| 3346 | sigaltstack | |
| 3347 | [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all | |
| 3348 | answers will be rejected) | |
| 3349 | [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register | |
| 437faa96 | 3350 | |
| 086ee48e DL |
3351 | \f |
| 3352 | Version 2.28 | |
| 3353 | ||
| 3354 | Major new features: | |
| 3355 | ||
| 97f2237e CD |
3356 | * The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016 |
| 3357 | Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by | |
| 3358 | Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the | |
| 3359 | collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from | |
| 3360 | the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and | |
| 3361 | uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular | |
| 3362 | expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A | |
| 3363 | is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been | |
| 3364 | updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new | |
| 3365 | collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale | |
| 3366 | archive or binary locales. | |
| 3367 | ||
| e6c69509 L |
3368 | * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for Intel CET, AKA |
| 3369 | Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built | |
| 3370 | with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect | |
| 3371 | branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is | |
| 3372 | compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This | |
| 3373 | feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and | |
| 3374 | binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs | |
| 3375 | capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel | |
| e84bd851 L |
3376 | Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686, |
| 3377 | x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested | |
| 3378 | for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been | |
| 3379 | validated for i686. | |
| e6c69509 | 3380 | |
| 9449a295 MR |
3381 | * The GNU C Library now has correct support for ABSOLUTE symbols |
| 3382 | (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were | |
| 3383 | relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can | |
| 3384 | make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the | |
| 3385 | dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION | |
| 3386 | field) to indicate such support is required. | |
| 3387 | ||
| b11643c2 MF |
3388 | * Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and |
| 3389 | transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using | |
| 3390 | generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat). | |
| 3391 | ||
| d8742dd8 JM |
3392 | * <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added |
| 3393 | from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015: | |
| 3394 | ||
| 3395 | - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and | |
| 3396 | fMxaddfNx functions. | |
| 086ee48e | 3397 | |
| 8d3f9e85 JM |
3398 | - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and |
| 3399 | fMxsubfNx functions. | |
| 3400 | ||
| 69a01461 JM |
3401 | - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and |
| 3402 | fMxmulfNx functions. | |
| 3403 | ||
| 632a6cbe JM |
3404 | - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and |
| 3405 | fMxdivfNx functions. | |
| 3406 | ||
| e607a352 | 3407 | * Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following |
| df467d22 | 3408 | languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian, |
| 9145f033 | 3409 | Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now |
| e607a352 RL |
3410 | support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek, |
| 3411 | and Kashubian. | |
| c553cd6f | 3412 | |
| 61c4aad7 | 3413 | * Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also |
| e607a352 | 3414 | include the support for two grammatical forms of month names. |
| a1e0c5fa | 3415 | |
| fb03b04b ST |
3416 | * Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree |
| 3417 | patches. | |
| 3418 | ||
| d6da5cb6 FW |
3419 | * The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function |
| 3420 | which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function | |
| 3421 | acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel | |
| 3422 | support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of | |
| 3423 | EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu, | |
| 3424 | which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE | |
| 3425 | flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition | |
| 3426 | that can clobber the destination inadvertently). | |
| 3427 | ||
| fd70af45 FW |
3428 | * The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64 |
| 3429 | function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct | |
| 3430 | kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on | |
| 3431 | the fstatat64 function. | |
| 3432 | ||
| 7f9f1ecb FW |
3433 | * IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2 |
| 3434 | library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If | |
| 3435 | libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded | |
| 3436 | or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or | |
| 3437 | getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail | |
| 3438 | with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and | |
| 3439 | decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES, | |
| 3440 | NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been | |
| 3441 | deprecated. They no longer have any effect. | |
| 3442 | ||
| 5aad5f61 CD |
3443 | * Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED, |
| 3444 | DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full | |
| 3445 | range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as | |
| 3446 | '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules | |
| 3447 | have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string | |
| 3448 | token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will | |
| 3449 | now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered | |
| 3450 | unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and | |
| 3451 | for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED | |
| 3452 | results in a load failure now. | |
| 3453 | ||
| 969c3355 AZ |
3454 | * Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The |
| 3455 | implementation includes all the standard functions provided by | |
| 3456 | <threads.h>: | |
| 3457 | ||
| 3458 | - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create, | |
| 3459 | thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management. | |
| 3460 | ||
| 3461 | - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and | |
| 3462 | mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion. | |
| 3463 | ||
| 3464 | - call_once for function call synchronization. | |
| 3465 | ||
| 3466 | - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and | |
| 3467 | cnd_wait for conditional variables. | |
| 3468 | ||
| 3469 | - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage. | |
| 3470 | ||
| 3471 | Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads. | |
| 3472 | ||
| 086ee48e DL |
3473 | Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility: |
| 3474 | ||
| 18ea73ad ZW |
3475 | * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer |
| 3476 | installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to | |
| 3477 | use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead. | |
| 3478 | ||
| 3479 | * The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros. | |
| 3480 | This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded | |
| 3481 | to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and | |
| 3482 | putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead | |
| 3483 | investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if | |
| 3484 | necessary, flockfile and funlockfile. | |
| 3485 | ||
| 3486 | * All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you | |
| 3487 | read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another | |
| 3488 | process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect | |
| 3489 | (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This | |
| 3490 | corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect | |
| 3491 | programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal. | |
| 3492 | (Bug #1190.) | |
| 3493 | ||
| 3494 | * The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from | |
| 3495 | the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other | |
| 3496 | headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely | |
| 3497 | used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with | |
| 3498 | user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for | |
| 3499 | further explanation. | |
| 3500 | ||
| 3501 | <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require | |
| 3502 | these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include | |
| 3503 | <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined. | |
| e16deca6 | 3504 | |
| a3fb6b6b JM |
3505 | * The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported. |
| 3506 | ||
| cf2478d5 AZ |
3507 | * The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked |
| 3508 | binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This | |
| 3509 | function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs. | |
| 3510 | ||
| ebc129fd JM |
3511 | * The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked |
| 3512 | binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel | |
| 3513 | and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with | |
| 3514 | version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel. | |
| 3515 | ||
| 5c5c0dd7 JM |
3516 | * The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked |
| 3517 | binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel | |
| 3518 | and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name | |
| 3519 | for this function instead. | |
| 3520 | ||
| 7f9f1ecb FW |
3521 | * The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the |
| 3522 | getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior | |
| 3523 | previously selected by them is now always enabled. | |
| 3524 | ||
| 3525 | * The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for | |
| 3526 | the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3 | |
| 3527 | restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been | |
| 3528 | removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution. | |
| 3529 | ||
| 06ab719d AZ |
3530 | * The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It |
| 3531 | is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non | |
| 3532 | LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with | |
| 3533 | fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD | |
| 3534 | locks act as a cancellation entrypoint. | |
| 3535 | ||
| b10a0acc ZW |
3536 | * The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt, |
| 3537 | ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked | |
| 3538 | binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no | |
| 3539 | longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the | |
| 3540 | DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that | |
| 3541 | still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library, | |
| 3542 | such as libgcrypt. | |
| 3543 | ||
| 3544 | * Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the | |
| 3545 | macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt | |
| 3546 | function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is | |
| 3547 | enabled. | |
| 3548 | ||
| 3549 | * The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked | |
| 3550 | binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt, | |
| 3551 | and it has not appeared in any header file in many years. | |
| 3552 | ||
| e69d994a ZW |
3553 | * We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing |
| 3554 | library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope, | |
| 3555 | keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue | |
| 3556 | to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or | |
| 3557 | 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will | |
| 3558 | need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project. | |
| 3559 | ||
| 3560 | In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc | |
| 3561 | will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate | |
| 3562 | project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default | |
| 3563 | behavior in a future release. | |
| 3564 | ||
| 086ee48e DL |
3565 | Changes to build and runtime requirements: |
| 3566 | ||
| f2873d2d | 3567 | GNU make 4.0 or later is now required to build glibc. |
| 086ee48e DL |
3568 | |
| 3569 | Security related changes: | |
| 3570 | ||
| 7f9f1ecb FW |
3571 | CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have |
| 3572 | been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using | |
| 3573 | the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno | |
| 3574 | Böck and Christian Weisgerber. | |
| 086ee48e | 3575 | |
| 43d4f3d5 FW |
3576 | CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386 |
| 3577 | architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn. | |
| 3578 | ||
| 3579 | CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could | |
| 3580 | result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey | |
| 3581 | Izbyshev. | |
| 3582 | ||
| 3583 | CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi | |
| 3584 | architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer | |
| 3585 | overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab. | |
| 3586 | ||
| 086ee48e DL |
3587 | The following bugs are resolved with this release: |
| 3588 | ||
| 3c03baca CD |
3589 | [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant |
| 3590 | [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified | |
| 3591 | [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t, | |
| 3592 | when __WORDSIZE != 64 | |
| 3593 | [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion | |
| 3594 | [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing | |
| 3595 | [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs | |
| 3596 | [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads | |
| 3597 | [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO | |
| 3598 | 14651 | |
| 3599 | [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings | |
| 3600 | [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h | |
| 3601 | [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical. | |
| 3602 | [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os | |
| 3603 | [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign- | |
| 3604 | conversion is given | |
| 3605 | [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of | |
| 3606 | date | |
| 3607 | [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2 | |
| 3608 | [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global | |
| 3609 | scope with -O1 and higher | |
| 3610 | [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c | |
| 3611 | [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter | |
| 3612 | [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall | |
| 3613 | [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11 | |
| 3614 | [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h | |
| 3615 | [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536) | |
| 3616 | [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison, | |
| 3617 | horrible machine code) | |
| 3618 | [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for | |
| 3619 | last constant. | |
| 3620 | [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol | |
| 3621 | [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat | |
| 3622 | symbols | |
| 3623 | [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database | |
| 3624 | [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being | |
| 3625 | defined | |
| 3626 | [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os | |
| 3627 | [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr | |
| 3628 | [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale | |
| 3629 | [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c' | |
| 3630 | [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext- | |
| 3631 | fpscr.c' | |
| 3632 | [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function | |
| 3633 | idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261) | |
| 3634 | [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in | |
| 3635 | stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263) | |
| 3636 | [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by | |
| 3637 | the base address | |
| 3638 | [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h | |
| 3639 | [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks | |
| 3640 | [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in | |
| 3641 | open_verify | |
| 3642 | [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available | |
| 3643 | [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename | |
| 3644 | [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options | |
| 3645 | [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a | |
| 3646 | malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985) | |
| 3647 | [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization | |
| 3648 | [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong | |
| 3649 | [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S | |
| 3650 | [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s | |
| 3651 | [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt | |
| 3652 | [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan) | |
| 3653 | [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL | |
| 3654 | [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static | |
| 3655 | dlopen | |
| 3656 | [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with | |
| 3657 | AT_SECURE=1 | |
| 3658 | [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU) | |
| 3659 | [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in | |
| 3660 | puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062) | |
| 3661 | [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup | |
| 3662 | [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently | |
| 3663 | [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation | |
| 3664 | should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation | |
| 3665 | for Spanish with CLDR | |
| 3666 | [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built | |
| 3667 | by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie | |
| 3668 | [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms | |
| 3669 | [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when | |
| 3670 | crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269) | |
| 3671 | [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and | |
| 3672 | es_BO | |
| 3673 | [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding | |
| 3674 | CLOCKS_PER_SECOND | |
| 3675 | [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1 | |
| 3676 | [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from | |
| 3677 | `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()' | |
| 3678 | [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust | |
| 3679 | dlopen failures | |
| 3680 | [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close | |
| 3681 | to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236) | |
| 3682 | [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked | |
| 3683 | through an absolute DT_NEEDED path | |
| 3684 | [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped | |
| 3685 | [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument | |
| 3686 | [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc | |
| 3687 | [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha | |
| 3688 | [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig | |
| 3689 | [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr | |
| 3690 | [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR | |
| 3691 | [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is | |
| 3692 | [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly | |
| 3693 | [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES | |
| 3694 | [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8 | |
| 3695 | [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database' | |
| 3696 | [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with | |
| 3697 | makecontext | |
| 3698 | [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe | |
| 3699 | [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR | |
| 3700 | required | |
| 3701 | [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon | |
| 3702 | [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 | |
| 3703 | [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names | |
| 3704 | [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling | |
| 3705 | [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale | |
| 3706 | [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is | |
| 3707 | disabled | |
| 3708 | [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation | |
| 3709 | failure | |
| 3710 | [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan | |
| 3711 | [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set | |
| 3712 | [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression | |
| 3713 | [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls | |
| 3714 | [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu | |
| 3715 | [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep | |
| 3716 | [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable | |
| 3717 | patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN) | |
| 3718 | [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit | |
| 3719 | and libc build with -Os) | |
| 3720 | [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names | |
| 3721 | [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden | |
| 3722 | [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated) | |
| 3723 | [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double | |
| 3724 | [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands | |
| 3725 | that changes /etc/passwd | |
| 3726 | [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies | |
| 3727 | (CVE-2018-11237) | |
| 3728 | [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction | |
| 3729 | [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb) | |
| 3730 | [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file | |
| 3731 | posix/regcomp.c | |
| 3732 | [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields | |
| 3733 | [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC | |
| 3734 | [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64 | |
| 3735 | -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse | |
| 3736 | [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for | |
| 3737 | AT_SECURE | |
| 3738 | [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode | |
| 3739 | [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus- | |
| 3740 | parser.c | |
| 3741 | [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY | |
| 3742 | [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute | |
| 3743 | [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point | |
| 3744 | [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and | |
| 3745 | directed rounding | |
| 3746 | [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1 | |
| 3747 | [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol | |
| 3748 | '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23' | |
| 3749 | [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in | |
| 3750 | lookup | |
| 3751 | [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object | |
| 3752 | interposition | |
| 3753 | [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across | |
| 3754 | DSO boundaries. | |
| 3755 | [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with | |
| 3756 | <linux/time.h> | |
| 3757 | [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc | |
| 3758 | checking | |
| 3759 | [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license | |
| 3760 | [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales | |
| 3761 | [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data | |
| 3762 | [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8 | |
| 3763 | [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter | |
| 3764 | [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT | |
| 3765 | [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests | |
| 3766 | [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel | |
| 3767 | processors | |
| 3768 | [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug | |
| 086ee48e | 3769 | |
| 00cdcf5a SP |
3770 | \f |
| 3771 | Version 2.27 | |
| 3772 | ||
| 3773 | Major new features: | |
| 3774 | ||
| 9d7a3741 L |
3775 | * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static |
| 3776 | PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE | |
| bd7bbb26 | 3777 | executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address |
| 9d7a3741 L |
3778 | and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some |
| 3779 | memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie | |
| 3780 | the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE | |
| 3781 | executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently | |
| 25fb7dd6 SN |
3782 | supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on |
| 3783 | aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later. | |
| 9d7a3741 | 3784 | |
| ac817e08 | 3785 | * Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf, |
| c70e4e9c L |
3786 | sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and |
| 3787 | H.J. Lu from Intel. | |
| 20c7b195 | 3788 | |
| ae8372d7 JM |
3789 | * Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1. |
| 3790 | ||
| 4cf82d23 | 3791 | * Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf. |
| 72aa6233 | 3792 | |
| ec2c1fce FW |
3793 | * In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API |
| 3794 | family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack | |
| 3795 | backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the | |
| 3796 | amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential | |
| 3797 | security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time | |
| 3798 | leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both | |
| 3799 | from a security and performance perspective. | |
| 3800 | ||
| 91e7cf98 FW |
3801 | * The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing |
| 3802 | stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting | |
| 3803 | in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects | |
| 3804 | process aborts as the result of assertion failures. | |
| 3805 | ||
| 81325b12 | 3806 | * On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64, |
| 40ca951b PD |
3807 | alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements |
| 3808 | _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. | |
| 3809 | These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where | |
| 81325b12 JM |
3810 | this format is supported but is not the format of long double. |
| 3811 | ||
| a23aa5b7 | 3812 | * On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64, |
| 40ca951b | 3813 | mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now |
| a23aa5b7 JM |
3814 | implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS |
| 3815 | 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for | |
| 3816 | _Float128. | |
| 3817 | ||
| 1f9055ce JM |
3818 | * The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and |
| 3819 | _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are | |
| 3820 | corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128. | |
| 0d93b7fd | 3821 | |
| 4bab0224 | 3822 | * glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux. |
| 59d2cbb1 | 3823 | |
| 446d22e9 FW |
3824 | * Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now |
| 3825 | declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set, | |
| 3826 | pkey_get. | |
| 3827 | ||
| bad7a0c8 FW |
3828 | * The copy_file_range function was added. |
| 3829 | ||
| e6a1c5dc PM |
3830 | * Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7. |
| 3831 | ||
| 7d38eb38 AJ |
3832 | * The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX |
| 3833 | collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific | |
| 3834 | ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that. | |
| 3835 | ||
| 22390764 RL |
3836 | * Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added. |
| 3837 | In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now | |
| 3838 | produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part | |
| 3839 | of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form | |
| 3840 | required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek | |
| 3841 | and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month | |
| 3842 | in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case. | |
| 3843 | ||
| 3844 | In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh" | |
| 3845 | are all valid and will all accept any known form of month | |
| 3846 | name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to | |
| 3847 | nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return | |
| 3848 | the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query | |
| 3849 | constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings | |
| 3850 | used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively. | |
| 3851 | ||
| 3852 | In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to | |
| 3853 | define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the | |
| c10c9a5e RL |
3854 | same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they |
| 3855 | are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon", | |
| 3856 | respectively. | |
| 3857 | ||
| 3858 | These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or | |
| 3859 | "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such | |
| 3860 | alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian, | |
| 3861 | Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian. | |
| 22390764 RL |
3862 | |
| 3863 | This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to | |
| 3864 | be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already | |
| 3865 | available on some BSD-derived operating systems. | |
| 3866 | ||
| 4378b735 CD |
3867 | This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications |
| 3868 | to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales. | |
| 0a32e219 | 3869 | See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility. |
| 4378b735 | 3870 | |
| 40ca951b PD |
3871 | * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port |
| 3872 | requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported | |
| 3873 | for the following ISA and ABI pairs: | |
| 3874 | ||
| 3875 | - rv64imac lp64 | |
| 3876 | - rv64imafdc lp64 | |
| 3877 | - rv64imafdc lp64d | |
| 3878 | ||
| 00cdcf5a SP |
3879 | Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility: |
| 3880 | ||
| 4378b735 CD |
3881 | * Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the |
| 3882 | GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX | |
| d4ae7827 | 3883 | locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob", |
| 4378b735 CD |
3884 | support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale |
| 3885 | data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be | |
| 3886 | recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some | |
| 3887 | distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications | |
| 3888 | may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the | |
| 3889 | builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to | |
| 3890 | fix this. | |
| 3891 | ||
| f1a844ac FW |
3892 | * Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated |
| 3893 | and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call | |
| 3894 | dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead. | |
| 3895 | ||
| 2fc21aaa FW |
3896 | * Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and |
| 3897 | functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams | |
| 3898 | provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal | |
| 3899 | symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish, | |
| 3900 | _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn, | |
| 3901 | _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach, | |
| 3902 | _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen, | |
| 3903 | _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open, | |
| 3904 | _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff, | |
| 3905 | _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow, | |
| 3906 | _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all, | |
| 3907 | _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area, | |
| 3908 | _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end, | |
| 3909 | _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in, | |
| 3910 | _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock, | |
| 3911 | _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark, | |
| 3912 | _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static, | |
| 3913 | _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow, | |
| 3914 | _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode, | |
| 3915 | _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish, | |
| 3916 | _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow, | |
| 3917 | _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write, | |
| 3918 | _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow, | |
| 3919 | _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a | |
| 3920 | future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old | |
| 3921 | applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols. | |
| 3922 | ||
| 60e2846e DL |
3923 | * On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer |
| 3924 | defined by <sys/ptrace.h>. | |
| 00cdcf5a | 3925 | |
| 813378e9 JM |
3926 | * libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided |
| 3927 | matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error | |
| 3928 | handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work | |
| 3929 | for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The | |
| 3930 | libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct | |
| 3931 | exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW, | |
| 3932 | TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE. | |
| 3933 | ||
| 5a80d39d JM |
3934 | * The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for |
| 3935 | new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and | |
| 3936 | exp10l for these functions instead. | |
| 3937 | ||
| 4fa9b3bf JM |
3938 | * The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On |
| 3939 | platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name | |
| 3940 | mangling for interfaces involving this type. | |
| 3941 | ||
| 644d3857 JM |
3942 | * The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as |
| 3943 | glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now | |
| 3944 | ignored. | |
| 3945 | ||
| 8df5d347 JM |
3946 | * The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware |
| 3947 | floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether | |
| 3948 | the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a | |
| 3949 | --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions. | |
| 3950 | ||
| c0a25aa9 FW |
3951 | * The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that |
| 3952 | the specified string can be parsed as a domain name. | |
| 3953 | ||
| 34eb4157 FW |
3954 | * In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace> |
| 3955 | element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps. | |
| 3956 | ||
| 754034c4 JM |
3957 | * The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new |
| 3958 | programs. | |
| 3959 | ||
| ed95f611 AZ |
3960 | * The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported. |
| 3961 | ||
| 48a8f832 ZW |
3962 | * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated |
| 3963 | and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using | |
| 3964 | either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces | |
| 3965 | instead. | |
| 3966 | ||
| 3967 | libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions, | |
| 3968 | but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now | |
| 3969 | standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are | |
| 3970 | any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public | |
| 3971 | use, but predates the bits convention. | |
| 3972 | ||
| 00cdcf5a SP |
3973 | Changes to build and runtime requirements: |
| 3974 | ||
| 1faaf703 JB |
3975 | * bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl' |
| 3976 | subdirectory. | |
| 00cdcf5a SP |
3977 | |
| 3978 | Security related changes: | |
| 3979 | ||
| 403143e1 FW |
3980 | CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under |
| 3981 | examination directly, without preventing code execution through the | |
| 3982 | dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security | |
| 3983 | vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd | |
| 3984 | script.) | |
| 00cdcf5a | 3985 | |
| 822f523b FW |
3986 | CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE, |
| 3987 | suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either | |
| 3988 | on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name). | |
| 3989 | Reported by Tim Rühsen. | |
| c369d66e | 3990 | |
| 914c9994 FW |
3991 | CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE, |
| 3992 | would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator | |
| 3993 | processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial | |
| 3994 | of service. | |
| 3995 | ||
| 15e84c63 AJ |
3996 | CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and |
| 3997 | without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while | |
| a159b53f PE |
3998 | unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen. |
| 3999 | ||
| 37ac8e63 FW |
4000 | CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near |
| 4001 | the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small, | |
| 4002 | instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc | |
| 4003 | thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw. | |
| 4004 | ||
| 8a0b17e4 FW |
4005 | CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads |
| 4006 | to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se, | |
| 4007 | it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by | |
| 4008 | Qualys. | |
| 4009 | ||
| 3ff3dfa5 FW |
4010 | CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation |
| 4011 | of the number of search path components. (This is not a security | |
| 4012 | vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for | |
| 4013 | CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because | |
| 4014 | of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys. | |
| 4015 | ||
| 3e3c904d AJ |
4016 | CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN |
| 4017 | for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the | |
| 4018 | current directory. | |
| 4019 | ||
| 52a713fd DL |
4020 | CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function |
| 4021 | succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour | |
| 4022 | of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog. | |
| 4023 | ||
| 4590634f FW |
4024 | CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with |
| 4025 | an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a | |
| 4026 | buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk. | |
| 4027 | ||
| 71aa429b FW |
4028 | CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near |
| 4029 | the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too | |
| 4030 | small, instead of NULL. | |
| 4031 | ||
| 00cdcf5a SP |
4032 | The following bugs are resolved with this release: |
| 4033 | ||
| 242cbc90 DL |
4034 | [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks |
| 4035 | [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3) | |
| 4036 | [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan) | |
| 4037 | locale | |
| 4038 | [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function | |
| 4039 | [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale | |
| 4040 | [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive | |
| 4041 | cases | |
| 4042 | [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator | |
| 4043 | [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale | |
| 4044 | [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point | |
| 4045 | [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update | |
| 4046 | [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale | |
| 4047 | [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory | |
| 4048 | [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit() | |
| 4049 | [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map. | |
| 4050 | [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be | |
| 4051 | "Bangla" | |
| 4052 | [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors | |
| 4053 | [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full- | |
| 4054 | width Latin characters | |
| 4055 | [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update | |
| 4056 | [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort | |
| 4057 | [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical | |
| 4058 | letters | |
| 4059 | [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator | |
| 4060 | [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries | |
| 4061 | (CVE-2009-5064) | |
| 4062 | [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale | |
| 4063 | [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation | |
| 4064 | [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation | |
| 4065 | [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales | |
| 4066 | [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even | |
| 4067 | if malloc succeeded | |
| 4068 | [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file | |
| 4069 | nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography | |
| 4070 | [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly | |
| 4071 | [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race | |
| 4072 | [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale | |
| 4073 | [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT | |
| 4074 | [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64 | |
| 4075 | [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S | |
| 4076 | [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries | |
| 4077 | [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and | |
| 4078 | U+309A | |
| 4079 | [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values | |
| 4080 | [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV | |
| 4081 | [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral | |
| 4082 | [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n | |
| 4083 | [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf | |
| 4084 | [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening | |
| 4085 | [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters | |
| 4086 | [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale | |
| 4087 | for Nicaragua | |
| 4088 | [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing | |
| 4089 | they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions | |
| 4090 | are not found. | |
| 4091 | [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator | |
| 4092 | [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network | |
| 4093 | access | |
| 4094 | [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale | |
| 4095 | [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage | |
| 4096 | [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype | |
| 4097 | [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions | |
| 4098 | [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++ | |
| 4099 | __regcall calling convention | |
| 4100 | [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c | |
| 4101 | [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if | |
| 4102 | _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++ | |
| 4103 | [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace | |
| 4104 | [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE | |
| 4105 | [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h | |
| 4106 | [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal | |
| 4107 | SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise | |
| 4108 | (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED); | |
| 4109 | [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers | |
| 4110 | [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields | |
| 4111 | [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128 | |
| 4112 | [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES] | |
| 4113 | locale | |
| 4114 | [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack- | |
| 4115 | protector=all | |
| 4116 | [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical | |
| 4117 | wcwidth | |
| 4118 | [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap | |
| 4119 | consistency check failures | |
| 4120 | [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag | |
| 4121 | [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so | |
| 4122 | [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a | |
| 4123 | [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to | |
| 4124 | PIE | |
| 4125 | [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian | |
| 4126 | locales | |
| 4127 | [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP | |
| 4128 | [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG | |
| 4129 | [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC | |
| 4130 | [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc | |
| 4131 | [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than | |
| 4132 | _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow | |
| 4133 | [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context | |
| 4134 | on memory allocation failure | |
| 4135 | [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace | |
| 4136 | [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is | |
| 4137 | the suspect) | |
| 4138 | [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by- | |
| 4139 | default (i386) | |
| 4140 | [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered | |
| 4141 | errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail | |
| 4142 | [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT | |
| 4143 | [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME | |
| 4144 | instead of EAI_NODATA | |
| 4145 | [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux | |
| 4146 | constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL | |
| 4147 | [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf | |
| 4148 | [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r | |
| 4149 | implementation | |
| 4150 | [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128 | |
| 4151 | [21944] libc: sigval namespace | |
| 4152 | [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke | |
| 4153 | [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in | |
| 4154 | sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S | |
| 4155 | [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack | |
| 4156 | allocation in syscall loops) | |
| 4157 | [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA | |
| 4158 | [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM | |
| 4159 | [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking | |
| 4160 | [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used? | |
| 4161 | [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU | |
| 4162 | [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type | |
| 4163 | [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol | |
| 4164 | [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func | |
| 4165 | [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not | |
| 4166 | occur with -O3 | |
| 4167 | [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly | |
| 4168 | [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed | |
| 4169 | [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative | |
| 4170 | amounts) | |
| 4171 | [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN | |
| 4172 | [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for | |
| 4173 | niu_NZ | |
| 4174 | [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL | |
| 4175 | checks | |
| 4176 | [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure | |
| 4177 | [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace | |
| 4178 | [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace | |
| 4179 | [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali | |
| 4180 | [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language | |
| 4181 | [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook | |
| 4182 | __malloc_initialize_hook correctly | |
| 4183 | [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame | |
| 4184 | [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3 | |
| 4185 | [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for | |
| 4186 | Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1) | |
| 4187 | [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul | |
| 4188 | Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0 | |
| 4189 | [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode | |
| 4190 | [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition | |
| 4191 | [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition | |
| 4192 | [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64 | |
| 4193 | [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf | |
| 4194 | parsing after OOM | |
| 4195 | [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf | |
| 4196 | object | |
| 4197 | [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET | |
| 4198 | [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects | |
| 4199 | e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_* | |
| 4200 | [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits | |
| 4201 | [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ | |
| 4202 | [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat | |
| fdb724f9 | 4203 | [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf outputs a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and |
| 242cbc90 DL |
4204 | ppc64le |
| 4205 | [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces | |
| 4206 | [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64 | |
| 4207 | [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination | |
| 4208 | [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default | |
| 4209 | [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no | |
| 4210 | [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump | |
| 4211 | [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so | |
| 4212 | [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice | |
| 4213 | [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling | |
| 4214 | symlinks") cause "make" segfaults | |
| 4215 | [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and | |
| 4216 | math_force_eval | |
| 4217 | [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race | |
| 4218 | [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept | |
| 4219 | [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols | |
| 4220 | [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128 | |
| 4221 | [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without | |
| 4222 | the svid compat wrapper | |
| 4223 | [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper | |
| 4224 | [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation | |
| 4225 | [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work | |
| 4226 | [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1 | |
| 4227 | [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales. | |
| 4228 | [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in | |
| 4229 | --verbose. | |
| 4230 | [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64 | |
| 4231 | [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade | |
| 4232 | to 2.26 | |
| 4233 | [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform | |
| 4234 | [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670) | |
| 4235 | [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux | |
| 4236 | [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed | |
| 4237 | [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671) | |
| 4238 | [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping | |
| 4239 | (CVE-2017-15804) | |
| 4240 | [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n | |
| 4241 | [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign | |
| 4242 | [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to | |
| 4243 | the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on | |
| 4244 | failure." | |
| 4245 | [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable | |
| 4246 | [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with | |
| 4247 | -m32 | |
| 4248 | [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check | |
| 4249 | [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return | |
| 4250 | NULL (CVE-2017-17426) | |
| 4251 | [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++ | |
| 4252 | [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale | |
| 4253 | [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters | |
| 4254 | inside the ASCII printable range | |
| 4255 | [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for | |
| 4256 | -mlong-double-64 | |
| 4257 | [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales | |
| 4258 | [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps | |
| 4259 | [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the | |
| 4260 | Internet | |
| 4261 | [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks | |
| 4262 | [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing | |
| 4263 | backslash | |
| 4264 | [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault | |
| 4265 | [22432] build: Non-deterministic build | |
| 4266 | [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub- | |
| 4267 | heaps in an arena | |
| 4268 | [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong | |
| 4269 | networking interface | |
| 4270 | [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request | |
| 4271 | [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c | |
| 4272 | [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign | |
| 4273 | [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to | |
| 4274 | __nscd_hash/__nss_hash | |
| 4275 | [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling | |
| 4276 | [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n | |
| 4277 | [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR | |
| 4278 | [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific | |
| 4279 | order | |
| 4280 | [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1" | |
| 4281 | [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1" | |
| 4282 | [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1" | |
| 4283 | [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1" | |
| 4284 | [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1" | |
| 4285 | [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the | |
| 4286 | same as for Croatian | |
| 4287 | [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2 | |
| 4288 | [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf) | |
| 4289 | [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures | |
| 4290 | for initial thread" | |
| 4291 | [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of | |
| 4292 | SC_SSIZE_MAX | |
| 4293 | [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute | |
| 4294 | [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero | |
| 4295 | [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check | |
| 4296 | [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly | |
| 4297 | [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths | |
| 4298 | (CVE-2017-1000408) | |
| 4299 | [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409) | |
| 4300 | [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be | |
| 4301 | modified in case of success | |
| 4302 | [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’ | |
| 4303 | [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of | |
| 4304 | success | |
| 4305 | [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable- | |
| 4306 | stack-protector=all | |
| 4307 | [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID | |
| 4308 | binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997) | |
| 4309 | [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice | |
| 4310 | [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective | |
| 4311 | [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h | |
| 4312 | [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded | |
| 4313 | [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64 | |
| 4314 | [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of | |
| 4315 | adding it on top | |
| 4316 | [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha | |
| 4317 | [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date | |
| 4318 | [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha | |
| 4319 | [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8 | |
| 4320 | [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions | |
| 4321 | [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions | |
| 4322 | [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386 | |
| 4323 | [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines | |
| 4324 | [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path | |
| 4325 | (CVE-2018-1000001) | |
| 4326 | [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock- | |
| 4327 | elision and tunables | |
| 4328 | [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious | |
| 4329 | "invalid" exception | |
| 4330 | [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result | |
| 4331 | [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions | |
| 4332 | [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid" | |
| 4333 | exception | |
| 4334 | [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception | |
| 4335 | [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit | |
| 4336 | power4 | |
| 4337 | [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl | |
| 4338 | [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact" | |
| 4339 | [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE. | |
| 4340 | [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10 | |
| 4341 | [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa | |
| 4342 | [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed | |
| 4343 | [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd | |
| 4344 | [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero | |
| 4345 | before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c | |
| 00cdcf5a | 4346 | |
| 58557c22 SP |
4347 | \f |
| 4348 | Version 2.26 | |
| 4349 | ||
| 2b2ccd0c ZW |
4350 | Major new features: |
| 4351 | ||
| d5c3fafc DD |
4352 | * A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires |
| 4353 | no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate | |
| 4354 | and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking | |
| 4355 | the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a | |
| 4356 | wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special | |
| 4357 | instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by | |
| 4358 | DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell. | |
| 4359 | ||
| 925fac77 MF |
4360 | * Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and |
| 4361 | transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using | |
| 0b38d66a | 4362 | generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat). |
| a0e52598 MF |
4363 | These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in |
| 4364 | wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences | |
| 4365 | are rendered with pango, see for example: | |
| 4366 | https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5 | |
| 58557c22 | 4367 | |
| 2b2ccd0c ZW |
4368 | * Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The |
| 4369 | Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by | |
| 4370 | Egmont Koblinger. | |
| e4e79484 | 4371 | |
| 2b2ccd0c | 4372 | * Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer: |
| 025b33ae | 4373 | |
| 7e368000 JM |
4374 | - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been |
| 4375 | modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option | |
| 4376 | “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior. | |
| daeb1fa2 | 4377 | |
| 7e368000 JM |
4378 | - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains |
| 4379 | (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf); | |
| 4380 | previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward | |
| 4381 | compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global | |
| 4382 | object are still limited to six search domains. | |
| 139ace95 | 4383 | |
| 7e368000 JM |
4384 | - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C |
| 4385 | Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a | |
| 4386 | starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.) | |
| cd354a38 | 4387 | |
| 2b2ccd0c ZW |
4388 | * The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak |
| 4389 | behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable. | |
| d8cee557 | 4390 | |
| 2b2ccd0c ZW |
4391 | * New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc) |
| 4392 | to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer | |
| 4393 | overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by | |
| 4394 | Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld. | |
| f0be25b6 | 4395 | |
| 2b2ccd0c ZW |
4396 | * New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2. |
| 4397 | These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an | |
| 4398 | additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the | |
| 4399 | running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later. | |
| 8082d91e | 4400 | |
| 2b2ccd0c ZW |
4401 | * posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to |
| 4402 | create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is | |
| 4403 | scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time | |
| 4404 | being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE. | |
| 2e0bbbfb | 4405 | |
| 2b2ccd0c ZW |
4406 | * errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all |
| 4407 | supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the | |
| 4408 | Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals. | |
| 12d2dd70 | 4409 | |
| 2b2ccd0c | 4410 | * On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements |
| 8d6cba41 JM |
4411 | 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE |
| 4412 | 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy, | |
| 4413 | Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers. | |
| 2c0b90ab | 4414 | |
| 2b2ccd0c | 4415 | To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support |
| 8d6cba41 JM |
4416 | 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS |
| 4417 | 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for | |
| 4418 | C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__ | |
| 4419 | must be defined to make the new interfaces visible. | |
| 4420 | ||
| 4421 | The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other | |
| 4422 | floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not | |
| 4423 | supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example, | |
| 4424 | strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no | |
| 4425 | printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128 | |
| 4426 | interfaces should be used instead. | |
| f819dbea | 4427 | |
| 2b2ccd0c ZW |
4428 | Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility: |
| 4429 | ||
| 4430 | * The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to | |
| 4431 | now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the | |
| 4432 | spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all) | |
| 4433 | architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is | |
| 4434 | often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but | |
| 4435 | may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous | |
| 4436 | behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement | |
| 4437 | Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm). | |
| 4438 | ||
| 4439 | * The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been | |
| 4440 | removed. | |
| 4441 | ||
| 4442 | * Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers | |
| 7e368000 | 4443 | will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with |
| 2b2ccd0c ZW |
4444 | --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such |
| 4445 | as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used. | |
| 4446 | ||
| 4447 | * The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and | |
| 4448 | libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by | |
| 4449 | default. | |
| 4450 | ||
| 4451 | The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a | |
| 4452 | compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers | |
| 4453 | or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this | |
| 7e368000 JM |
4454 | library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs |
| 4455 | that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.) | |
| 2b2ccd0c ZW |
4456 | |
| 4457 | Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support | |
| 4458 | IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure | |
| 4459 | option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+) | |
| 4460 | name service modules, to be built and installed. | |
| 4461 | ||
| 4462 | * The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC | |
| 4463 | support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS. | |
| 4464 | (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not | |
| 4465 | EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.) | |
| 4466 | ||
| 4467 | * res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS | |
| 4468 | servers have not supported this opcode for a long time. | |
| 5b757a51 | 4469 | |
| 6781d8e6 FW |
4470 | * The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been |
| 4471 | exported by accident. | |
| 4472 | ||
| 2b2ccd0c ZW |
4473 | * <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions, |
| 4474 | as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros | |
| 4475 | __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect. | |
| 4476 | ||
| 4477 | * The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should | |
| 4478 | use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of | |
| 4479 | locale_t with no other declarations, please contact | |
| 4480 | libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain. | |
| 4481 | ||
| 4482 | * The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed. | |
| 4483 | ||
| 4484 | * The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>. | |
| 4485 | ||
| 4486 | * The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use | |
| 4487 | free instead. | |
| 4488 | ||
| 4489 | * The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes | |
| 4490 | the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type. | |
| 4491 | ||
| 4492 | * The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes | |
| 4493 | the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type. | |
| 4494 | ||
| 4495 | * On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has | |
| 4496 | the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no | |
| 4497 | longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct | |
| 4498 | mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer | |
| 4499 | defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct | |
| 4500 | mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the | |
| 4501 | fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++ | |
| 4502 | name mangling for interfaces involving those types. | |
| 4503 | ||
| 4504 | * On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been | |
| 4505 | synced with the kernel: | |
| 4506 | ||
| 4507 | - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS | |
| 4508 | are not supported on this architecture and have been removed. | |
| 4509 | ||
| 4510 | - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA, | |
| 4511 | PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE, | |
| 4512 | PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added. | |
| 4513 | ||
| 4514 | Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally | |
| 4515 | available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime. | |
| 4516 | ||
| 4517 | Changes to build and runtime requirements: | |
| 4518 | ||
| 4519 | * Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures | |
| 4520 | supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for | |
| 4521 | x86-32 and x86-64.) | |
| 4522 | ||
| 7e368000 | 4523 | * GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library. |
| 2b2ccd0c | 4524 | |
| 7e368000 JM |
4525 | * On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C |
| 4526 | Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required. | |
| 2b2ccd0c ZW |
4527 | |
| 4528 | Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when | |
| 7e368000 JM |
4529 | compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly |
| 4530 | how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you | |
| 4531 | are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please | |
| 2b2ccd0c | 4532 | contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.) |
| aef16cc8 | 4533 | |
| 58557c22 SP |
4534 | Security related changes: |
| 4535 | ||
| e14a2772 | 4536 | * The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes, |
| e1113af3 SP |
4537 | to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132). |
| 4538 | ||
| 4539 | * LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE | |
| 4540 | mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366). | |
| 4541 | ||
| 4542 | * Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is | |
| 4543 | called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack | |
| 4544 | (CVE-2010-3192). | |
| 4545 | ||
| 4546 | * A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been | |
| 4547 | fixed (CVE-2017-12133). | |
| 58557c22 SP |
4548 | |
| 4549 | The following bugs are resolved with this release: | |
| 4550 | ||
| e061bd17 SP |
4551 | [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname |
| 4552 | [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic | |
| 4553 | [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt | |
| 4554 | fields | |
| 4555 | [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace | |
| 4556 | (CVE-2010-3192) | |
| 4557 | [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out | |
| 4558 | [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale | |
| 4559 | [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if | |
| 4560 | ld.bfd is available | |
| 4561 | [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE | |
| 4562 | [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format | |
| 4563 | [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between | |
| 4564 | x86 and other generic code | |
| 4565 | [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name | |
| 4566 | [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are | |
| 4567 | incorrect | |
| 4568 | [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string | |
| 4569 | [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h> | |
| 4570 | [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests | |
| 4571 | [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE) | |
| 4572 | [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English | |
| 4573 | [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains | |
| 4574 | [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub | |
| 4575 | resolver | |
| 4576 | [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC | |
| 4577 | [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting | |
| 4578 | order of 0D36 and 0D37 | |
| 4579 | [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam | |
| 4580 | chillu characters | |
| 4581 | [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa | |
| 4582 | [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when | |
| 4583 | receiving data | |
| 4584 | [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing | |
| 4585 | whitespace | |
| 4586 | [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0 | |
| 4587 | [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement | |
| 4588 | [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr) | |
| 4589 | for Peru | |
| 4590 | [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED. | |
| 4591 | [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect | |
| 4592 | failures consistently | |
| 4593 | [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now | |
| 4594 | [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa | |
| 4595 | [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit- | |
| 4596 | frame-pointer on i386 | |
| 4597 | [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor | |
| 4598 | register | |
| 7f0d9e61 | 4599 | [21075] libc: unused assignment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S |
| e061bd17 SP |
4600 | [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss |
| 4601 | [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the | |
| 4602 | generic c code is used | |
| 4603 | [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian | |
| 4604 | [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent | |
| 4605 | around 4000 | |
| 4606 | [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call | |
| 4607 | (CVE-2017-12133) | |
| 4608 | [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7 | |
| 4609 | [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking | |
| 4610 | with -lieee | |
| 4611 | [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1 | |
| 4612 | (-0.0) when linking with -lieee | |
| 4613 | [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results | |
| 4614 | [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs | |
| 4615 | [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686 | |
| 4616 | [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR | |
| 4617 | [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries | |
| 4618 | [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31 | |
| 4619 | [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking | |
| 4620 | [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed | |
| 4621 | remove() | |
| 4622 | [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be | |
| 4623 | checked for errors. | |
| 4624 | [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to | |
| 4625 | new posix_spawn implementation | |
| 4626 | [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt | |
| 4627 | leads to lower CPU frequency | |
| 4628 | [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX | |
| 4629 | [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace | |
| 4630 | [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace | |
| 4631 | [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace | |
| 4632 | [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values | |
| 4633 | [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now | |
| 4634 | [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older | |
| 4635 | [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results | |
| 4636 | [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with | |
| 4637 | _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error | |
| 4638 | [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does | |
| 4639 | not support gethostbyname4_r | |
| 4640 | [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase | |
| 4641 | switching | |
| 4642 | [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of | |
| 4643 | arenas | |
| 4644 | [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID | |
| 4645 | [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer | |
| 4646 | [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer | |
| 4647 | [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard | |
| 4648 | against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132) | |
| 4649 | [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback | |
| 4650 | [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE | |
| 4651 | and _POSIX_C_SOURCE | |
| 4652 | [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect | |
| 4653 | [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features | |
| 4654 | [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64 | |
| 4655 | [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server | |
| 4656 | [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in | |
| 4657 | localedata/charmaps/CP1254 | |
| 4658 | [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error | |
| 4659 | [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace | |
| 4660 | [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure | |
| 4661 | [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace | |
| 4662 | [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace | |
| 4663 | [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for | |
| 4664 | retry value | |
| 4665 | [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label | |
| 4666 | [21511] libc: sigstack namespace | |
| 4667 | [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper | |
| 4668 | [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error: | |
| 4669 | bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory | |
| 4670 | [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace | |
| 4671 | [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so | |
| 4672 | [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0 | |
| 4673 | [21537] libc: | |
| 4674 | ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error: | |
| 4675 | junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@' | |
| 4676 | [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4 | |
| 4677 | [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with | |
| 4678 | request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS. | |
| 4679 | [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN) | |
| 4680 | [21543] libc: sigevent namespace | |
| 4681 | [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong | |
| 4682 | size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure | |
| 4683 | [21550] libc: sigwait namespace | |
| 4684 | [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace | |
| 4685 | [21554] libc: sigpause namespace | |
| 4686 | [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace | |
| 4687 | [21561] libc: waitid namespace | |
| 4688 | [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove | |
| 4689 | '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied | |
| 4690 | [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition | |
| 4691 | [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace | |
| 4692 | [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace | |
| 4693 | [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath | |
| 4694 | [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI | |
| 4695 | issue on x86-64 | |
| 4696 | [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008 | |
| 4697 | [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias | |
| 4698 | stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366) | |
| 4699 | [21625] libc: wait3 namespace | |
| 4700 | [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result | |
| 4701 | construction | |
| 4702 | [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast | |
| 4703 | [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for | |
| 4704 | between_2_3 | |
| 4705 | [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol | |
| 4706 | [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race | |
| 4707 | conditions | |
| 4708 | [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type | |
| 4709 | [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji | |
| 4710 | Hindi Locale | |
| 4711 | [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in | |
| 4712 | posix/sched_cpucount.c | |
| 4713 | [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ? | |
| 4714 | [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES] | |
| 4715 | locale | |
| 4716 | [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval, | |
| 4717 | leading to relocation crash | |
| 4718 | [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion | |
| 4719 | `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed. | |
| 4720 | [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa | |
| 4721 | [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing | |
| 4722 | [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard | |
| 4723 | __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’ | |
| 4724 | [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari | |
| 4725 | [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale | |
| 4726 | [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES] | |
| 4727 | locale | |
| 4728 | [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES] | |
| 4729 | locale | |
| 4730 | [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language | |
| 4731 | [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN | |
| 4732 | [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK | |
| 4733 | [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB | |
| 4734 | [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail | |
| 4735 | [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a | |
| 4736 | [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a | |
| 4737 | [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day | |
| 4738 | strings | |
| 4739 | [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack- | |
| 4740 | protector=all | |
| 4741 | [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for | |
| 4742 | ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY | |
| 4743 | [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL | |
| 4744 | [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW | |
| 4745 | [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya | |
| 4746 | [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN | |
| 4747 | [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale | |
| 4748 | [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales | |
| 4749 | [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET | |
| 4750 | [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL | |
| 4751 | [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock | |
| 4752 | [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread | |
| 4753 | [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes | |
| 4754 | [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn | |
| 4755 | [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations | |
| 4756 | [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy | |
| 4757 | [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France | |
| 4758 | [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea | |
| 4759 | [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes | |
| 4760 | [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes | |
| 4761 | [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes | |
| 4762 | [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h | |
| 4763 | [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW | |
| 4764 | [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW | |
| 4765 | [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN | |
| 4766 | [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN | |
| 4767 | [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN | |
| 4768 | [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN | |
| 4769 | [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes | |
| 4770 | with unicode 9.0 | |
| 4771 | [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal | |
| 4772 | [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP | |
| 4773 | [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK | |
| 4774 | [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence. | |
| 4775 | [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name | |
| 58557c22 | 4776 | |
| d5b396c1 | 4777 | \f |
| e720d3d9 CD |
4778 | Version 2.25 |
| 4779 | ||
| 48789000 JM |
4780 | * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR |
| 4781 | 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that | |
| 4782 | TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C | |
| 4783 | Library. | |
| e720d3d9 | 4784 | |
| bf91be88 JM |
4785 | * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS |
| 4786 | 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros | |
| a5ac5676 | 4787 | from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by |
| bf91be88 JM |
4788 | the GNU C Library. |
| 4789 | ||
| 412cb261 JM |
4790 | * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS |
| 4791 | 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros | |
| 4792 | from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by | |
| 4793 | the GNU C Library. | |
| 4794 | ||
| c0307377 ZW |
4795 | * The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are |
| 4796 | now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L. | |
| 4797 | Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this | |
| 4798 | will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance | |
| 4799 | mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will | |
| 4800 | see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with | |
| 4801 | just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT, | |
| 4802 | will not. | |
| 4803 | ||
| 4804 | Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be | |
| 4805 | defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for | |
| 4806 | many years. | |
| 4807 | ||
| dbab6577 ZW |
4808 | * The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This |
| 4809 | means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev” | |
| 4810 | will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>. | |
| 4811 | ||
| 4812 | These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently | |
| 4813 | collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug | |
| 4814 | 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code | |
| 4815 | presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the | |
| 4816 | problem. | |
| 4817 | ||
| ec94343f | 4818 | * New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the |
| c0b43536 JM |
4819 | fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the |
| 4820 | femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros. | |
| 5146356f | 4821 | |
| a292f45a JM |
4822 | * Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>: |
| 4823 | CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH, | |
| 5b17fd0d JM |
4824 | UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to |
| 4825 | <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH, | |
| 4826 | INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH, | |
| 4827 | UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH, | |
| 4828 | INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH, | |
| 4829 | UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH, | |
| 4830 | UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH, | |
| 4831 | UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH, | |
| 4832 | UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH, | |
| 4833 | WINT_WIDTH. | |
| a292f45a | 4834 | |
| d942e95c JM |
4835 | * New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014: |
| 4836 | ||
| f82a4bdb JM |
4837 | - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL. |
| 4838 | ||
| 423c2b9d JM |
4839 | - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp, |
| 4840 | fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf, | |
| 4841 | fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl. | |
| 41c67149 | 4842 | |
| 55a38f82 JM |
4843 | - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the |
| 4844 | FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros. | |
| 4845 | ||
| 525f8039 JM |
4846 | - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag, |
| 4847 | fminmagf, fminmagl. | |
| 4848 | ||
| 1e7c8fcc JM |
4849 | - Comparison macros: iseqsig. |
| 4850 | ||
| 29cb9293 | 4851 | - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero. |
| d942e95c | 4852 | |
| cc6a8d74 JM |
4853 | - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl, |
| 4854 | totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl. | |
| 5e9d98a3 | 4855 | |
| eaf5ad0b JM |
4856 | - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel. |
| 4857 | ||
| eb3c12c7 | 4858 | - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload, |
| 457663a7 | 4859 | setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl. |
| f8e8b8ed | 4860 | |
| f3b904d9 JM |
4861 | * The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014, |
| 4862 | are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string. | |
| 4863 | ||
| cecbc796 NA |
4864 | * Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled. |
| 4865 | It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong. | |
| 4866 | Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle). | |
| 4867 | ||
| ea1bd74d ZW |
4868 | * The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is |
| 4869 | intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use; | |
| 4870 | the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they | |
| 4871 | are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the | |
| 4872 | effects of the memory clear). | |
| 4873 | ||
| b0216d3e JM |
4874 | * On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined |
| 4875 | to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries | |
| 4876 | that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other | |
| 4877 | libraries that use this type in their interfaces. | |
| 4878 | ||
| f3b904d9 JM |
4879 | * On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the |
| 4880 | float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float | |
| 4881 | and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect | |
| 4882 | the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may | |
| 4883 | affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces, | |
| 4884 | if they are compiled or used with those options. | |
| 6962682f | 4885 | |
| 92dcaa3e FW |
4886 | * The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file |
| 4887 | have been added. | |
| 4888 | ||
| 705a79f8 FW |
4889 | * The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192 |
| 4890 | bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most | |
| 4891 | file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on | |
| 4892 | network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be | |
| 4893 | as large as several megabytes. | |
| 4894 | ||
| 4d728087 FW |
4895 | * The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support |
| 4896 | for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has | |
| 4897 | been removed. | |
| 4898 | ||
| e863cce5 FW |
4899 | * The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed. |
| 4900 | Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will | |
| 4901 | get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far | |
| 4902 | as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change | |
| 4903 | will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped | |
| 4904 | Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should | |
| 4905 | be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree. | |
| 4906 | ||
| 7ec47a85 FW |
4907 | * The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the |
| 4908 | corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. | |
| 4909 | “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the | |
| 4910 | “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006. | |
| 4911 | ||
| 099191b1 | 4912 | * The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING |
| 5140d036 FW |
4913 | flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a |
| 4914 | backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the | |
| 4915 | Internet. | |
| 4916 | ||
| bbe989ee FW |
4917 | * The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG, |
| 4918 | RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated. | |
| 4919 | They were already unimplemented. | |
| bfbd1de1 | 4920 | |
| b76e0659 FW |
4921 | * The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for |
| 4922 | _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but | |
| 4923 | removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC | |
| 4924 | 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead. | |
| 4925 | ||
| 3a2a1d2c FW |
4926 | * DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the |
| 4927 | <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to | |
| 4928 | decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc | |
| 4929 | only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which | |
| 4930 | is incompatible with the currently deployed version. | |
| 4931 | ||
| be728303 FW |
4932 | * The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p, |
| 4933 | ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the | |
| 4934 | <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and | |
| 4935 | meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and | |
| 4936 | thus not suitable for encoding in a macro. | |
| 4937 | ||
| 6815a33d FW |
4938 | * The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook |
| 4939 | and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed. | |
| 4940 | The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file | |
| 4941 | did not reflect that. | |
| 4942 | ||
| 022dfdce SL |
4943 | * For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has |
| 4944 | been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures | |
| 4945 | that correct debugging information is generated for functions | |
| 4946 | selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by | |
| 4947 | configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by | |
| 4948 | enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function' | |
| 4949 | variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file | |
| 4950 | 'gcc/config.gcc'. | |
| 4951 | ||
| 23b5cae1 MG |
4952 | * GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable |
| 4953 | structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty | |
| 4954 | printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read | |
| 4955 | using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb. | |
| 4956 | ||
| 7715d3ab SP |
4957 | * Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application |
| 4958 | program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure | |
| 4959 | flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has | |
| 4960 | instructions on adding new tunables to the library. | |
| 4961 | ||
| 0cea3587 SP |
4962 | * A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in |
| 4963 | the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering | |
| 4964 | guarantees. | |
| 4965 | ||
| 4966 | * A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more | |
| 4967 | scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to | |
| 4968 | make state changes. | |
| 4969 | ||
| e720d3d9 CD |
4970 | Security related changes: |
| 4971 | ||
| fc82b0a2 | 4972 | * On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which |
| 4d047efd FW |
4973 | have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a |
| 4974 | missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang | |
| 4975 | (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported | |
| 056dd72a | 4976 | by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323) |
| e720d3d9 | 4977 | |
| fc82b0a2 FW |
4978 | * The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer |
| 4979 | dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which | |
| 4980 | was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a | |
| 4981 | question type which is outside the range of valid question type values. | |
| 4982 | (CVE-2015-5180) | |
| 4983 | ||
| e720d3d9 CD |
4984 | The following bugs are resolved with this release: |
| 4985 | ||
| fdb724f9 | 4986 | [4099] stdio: Overly aggressive caching by stream i/o functions. |
| 4e054e6b SP |
4987 | [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack- |
| 4988 | protector-all | |
| 4989 | [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format | |
| 4990 | [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent | |
| 4991 | before it started waiting | |
| 4992 | [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl | |
| 4993 | [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point | |
| 4994 | [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32 | |
| 4995 | [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of | |
| 4996 | wrong type | |
| 4997 | [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a | |
| 4998 | library linked with pthread | |
| 4999 | [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix | |
| 5000 | "FIXME: Ingo" issue) | |
| 5001 | [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__ | |
| 5002 | [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall | |
| 5003 | [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d | |
| 5004 | after being __libc_memalign()'d | |
| 5005 | [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail | |
| 7f0d9e61 | 5006 | when it shouldn't |
| 4e054e6b SP |
5007 | [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is |
| 5008 | not | |
| 5009 | [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by | |
| 5010 | PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM | |
| 5011 | [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record | |
| 5012 | type queries (CVE-2015-5180) | |
| 5013 | [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact" | |
| 5014 | [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr | |
| 5015 | [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat | |
| 5016 | [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build | |
| 5017 | [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous | |
| 5018 | termination | |
| 5019 | [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests | |
| 5020 | [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols | |
| 5021 | [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling | |
| 5022 | "implement"/"implementation" in several places | |
| 5023 | [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6 | |
| 5024 | [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous | |
| 5025 | [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE | |
| 5026 | causes a segmentation fault | |
| 5027 | [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static | |
| 5028 | linking | |
| 5029 | [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API | |
| 5030 | [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to | |
| 5031 | uninitialized GOT | |
| 5032 | [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite | |
| 5033 | versions | |
| 5034 | [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create | |
| 5035 | [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data | |
| 5036 | [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object | |
| 5037 | is always true. | |
| 5038 | [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h | |
| 5039 | [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance | |
| 5040 | modes | |
| 5041 | [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy | |
| 5042 | (incorrect fix in bug 19243) | |
| 5043 | [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning | |
| 5044 | [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition | |
| 5045 | [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop | |
| 5046 | in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323) | |
| 5047 | [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST | |
| 5048 | [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking | |
| 5049 | libpthread.a | |
| 5050 | [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID | |
| 5051 | [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value | |
| 5052 | [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to | |
| 5053 | _res_hconf | |
| 5054 | [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug- | |
| 5055 | information. | |
| 5056 | [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition | |
| 5057 | penalty | |
| 5058 | [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete | |
| 5059 | [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512 | |
| 5060 | cause transition penalty | |
| 5061 | [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol | |
| 5062 | [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent | |
| 5063 | [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers | |
| 5064 | [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3 | |
| 5065 | [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc- | |
| 5066 | mcount.oS) | |
| 5067 | [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size | |
| 5068 | Checking | |
| 5069 | [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support | |
| 5070 | [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in | |
| 5071 | <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect | |
| 5072 | [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions | |
| 5073 | [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs | |
| 5074 | [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable- | |
| 5075 | multi-arch | |
| 5076 | [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels | |
| 5077 | (RES_USEBSTRING) | |
| 5078 | [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to | |
| 5079 | assertion: "maxidx >= 2" | |
| 5080 | [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT | |
| 5081 | [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables | |
| 5082 | -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable) | |
| 5083 | [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX. | |
| 5084 | [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS | |
| 5085 | [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code | |
| 5086 | [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN | |
| 5087 | [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone | |
| 5088 | [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os | |
| 5089 | [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x | |
| 5090 | [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace | |
| 5091 | [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in | |
| 5092 | glibc | |
| 5093 | [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if | |
| 5094 | __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2 | |
| 5095 | [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration | |
| 5096 | [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc | |
| 5097 | [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace | |
| 5098 | [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure | |
| 5099 | [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t | |
| 5100 | [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid | |
| 5101 | [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80, | |
| 5102 | U+20AC), not same as GBK | |
| 5103 | [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64 | |
| 5104 | [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments | |
| 5105 | [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static. | |
| 5106 | [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee | |
| 5107 | [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling | |
| 5108 | [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling | |
| 5109 | [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore | |
| 5110 | [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with | |
| 5111 | RES_USE_INET6 | |
| 5112 | [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check | |
| 5113 | [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups | |
| 5114 | [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character | |
| 5115 | [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus | |
| 5116 | [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on | |
| 5117 | wrong condition | |
| 5118 | [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check | |
| 5119 | [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow | |
| 5120 | [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace | |
| 5121 | [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64 | |
| 5122 | [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed | |
| 5123 | [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask | |
| 5124 | [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by | |
| 5125 | clang | |
| 5126 | [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h | |
| 5127 | [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports | |
| 5128 | [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to | |
| 5129 | subprocesses with AT_SECURE | |
| 5130 | [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S | |
| e720d3d9 | 5131 | \f |
| 11fca961 AZ |
5132 | Version 2.24 |
| 5133 | ||
| 5b4ecd3f JM |
5134 | * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library |
| 5135 | can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux | |
| 5136 | kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already | |
| 5137 | required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain | |
| 5138 | unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all | |
| 5139 | architectures. | |
| 5140 | ||
| b6ebba70 MF |
5141 | * The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long |
| 5142 | time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long | |
| 5143 | been included in previous releases. | |
| 11fca961 | 5144 | |
| 7584a3f9 FW |
5145 | * The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is |
| 5146 | recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead. | |
| 5147 | ||
| b49ab5f4 FW |
5148 | * The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early |
| 5149 | 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type | |
| 5150 | instead of “union wait”. | |
| 5151 | ||
| ced8f893 SG |
5152 | * A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system |
| 5153 | administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP | |
| 5154 | to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide | |
| 5155 | easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new | |
| 5156 | action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf: | |
| 5157 | group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis | |
| 5158 | Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat). | |
| 5159 | ||
| 2ba3cfa1 FW |
5160 | * The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the |
| 5161 | API. | |
| 5162 | ||
| b7a9b7b0 MF |
5163 | * The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't |
| 5164 | done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely | |
| 5165 | drop it. | |
| 6a54bcda | 5166 | |
| 41a359e2 RS |
5167 | * nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to |
| 5168 | libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions | |
| 5169 | return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity | |
| 5170 | and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the | |
| 5171 | direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU | |
| 5172 | extensions. | |
| 5173 | ||
| 11fca961 AZ |
5174 | Security related changes: |
| 5175 | ||
| f5b3338d FW |
5176 | * An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It |
| 5177 | could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an | |
| 5178 | overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075) | |
| 5179 | ||
| 4ab2ab03 FW |
5180 | * Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack, |
| 5181 | even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially | |
| 5182 | resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation | |
| 5183 | instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706) | |
| 11fca961 | 5184 | |
| 5171f307 FW |
5185 | * The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was |
| 5186 | called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name. | |
| 5187 | Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234) | |
| 5188 | ||
| bc779a1a FW |
5189 | * The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when |
| 5190 | flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez' | |
| 5191 | alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429) | |
| 5192 | ||
| fab38231 FW |
5193 | * The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory |
| 5194 | leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup, | |
| 5195 | and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to | |
| 5196 | memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417) | |
| 5197 | ||
| 11fca961 AZ |
5198 | The following bugs are resolved with this release: |
| 5199 | ||
| 3c4f81ec CD |
5200 | [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file |
| 5201 | [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead | |
| 5202 | of MS-DOS. | |
| 5203 | [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC | |
| 5204 | [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow | |
| 5205 | [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently | |
| 5206 | [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files | |
| 5207 | [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale | |
| 5208 | [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale | |
| 5209 | [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale | |
| 5210 | [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest | |
| 5211 | CLDR data | |
| 5212 | [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results | |
| 5213 | [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored | |
| 5214 | [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork? | |
| 5215 | [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers | |
| 5216 | [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale | |
| 5217 | [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of | |
| 5218 | romanisation | |
| 5219 | [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0 | |
| 5220 | and +/- | |
| 5221 | [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales | |
| 5222 | [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe | |
| 5223 | [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception | |
| 5224 | [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates | |
| 5225 | [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale | |
| 5226 | [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale | |
| 5227 | [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale | |
| 5228 | [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro | |
| 5229 | [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first | |
| 5230 | malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks | |
| 5231 | [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in | |
| 5232 | all locales | |
| 5233 | [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers | |
| 5234 | [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start | |
| 5235 | [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD | |
| 5236 | [17950] build: Build fails with -msse | |
| 5237 | [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday | |
| 5238 | [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to | |
| 5239 | execute | |
| 5240 | [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes | |
| 5241 | [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed | |
| 5242 | -Wsystem-headers | |
| 5243 | [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency | |
| 5244 | [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in | |
| 5245 | Romanian locale data | |
| 5246 | [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned | |
| 5247 | symbol | |
| 5248 | [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r | |
| 5249 | [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese | |
| 5250 | language | |
| 5251 | [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales | |
| 5252 | [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6 | |
| 5253 | nameservers (CVE-2016-5417) | |
| 5254 | [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx | |
| 5255 | machine | |
| 5256 | [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in | |
| 5257 | description | |
| 5258 | [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork | |
| 5259 | [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in | |
| 5260 | posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2} | |
| 5261 | [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror | |
| 5262 | when using RTLD_NEXT | |
| 5263 | [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in | |
| 5264 | `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h' | |
| 5265 | [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc | |
| 5266 | [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week | |
| 5267 | [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name | |
| 5268 | server initialization, breaking Hesiod | |
| 5269 | [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables | |
| 5270 | [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline | |
| 5271 | [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD | |
| 5272 | Excavator core | |
| 5273 | [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes | |
| 5274 | [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes | |
| 5275 | [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes | |
| 5276 | [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal | |
| 5277 | double range | |
| 5278 | [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low | |
| 5279 | part zero incorrect | |
| 5280 | [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in | |
| 5281 | equality tests | |
| 5282 | [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links | |
| 5283 | [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others | |
| 5284 | [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting | |
| 5285 | [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo | |
| 5286 | [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA | |
| 5287 | [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in | |
| 5288 | glibc-2.22 | |
| 5289 | [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix | |
| 5290 | [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' & | |
| 5291 | 'tst-numeric.c' | |
| 5292 | [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling | |
| 5293 | [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero | |
| 5294 | low part | |
| 5295 | [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero | |
| 5296 | result | |
| 5297 | [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to | |
| 5298 | unaligned stack | |
| 5299 | [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update | |
| 5300 | pointers and lengths in error-case. | |
| 5301 | [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always | |
| 5302 | report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values. | |
| 5303 | [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc | |
| 5304 | [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64 | |
| 5305 | [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined | |
| 5306 | [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse | |
| 5307 | [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy | |
| 5308 | [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect | |
| 5309 | NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234) | |
| 5310 | [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests | |
| 5311 | [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo | |
| 5312 | [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding | |
| 5313 | modes | |
| 5314 | [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name | |
| 5315 | server addresses | |
| 5316 | [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext | |
| 5317 | [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version | |
| 5318 | [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second | |
| 5319 | response to getaddrinfo | |
| 5320 | [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length | |
| 5321 | [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when | |
| 5322 | confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size | |
| 5323 | [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer | |
| 5324 | [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP | |
| 5325 | [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is | |
| 5326 | sometimes incorrect | |
| 5327 | [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b | |
| 5328 | [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash | |
| 5329 | [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected | |
| 5330 | record types | |
| 5331 | [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in | |
| 5332 | _nss_dns_getcanonname_r | |
| 5333 | [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records | |
| 5334 | [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation | |
| 5335 | (CVE-2016-3075) | |
| 5336 | [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset | |
| 5337 | [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests | |
| 5338 | [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while | |
| 5339 | resolving symbols | |
| 5340 | [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace | |
| 5341 | [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size | |
| 5342 | [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace | |
| 5343 | [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf | |
| 5344 | [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory | |
| 5345 | [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale | |
| 5346 | [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace | |
| 5347 | [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in | |
| 5348 | gethosts | |
| 5349 | [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace | |
| 5350 | [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0 | |
| 5351 | [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation | |
| 5352 | (CVE-2016-3706) | |
| 5353 | [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure | |
| 5354 | [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX | |
| 5355 | [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate | |
| 5356 | [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace | |
| 5357 | [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack | |
| 5358 | [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records | |
| 5359 | [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace | |
| 5360 | [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before | |
| 5361 | [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98 | |
| 5362 | [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions | |
| 5363 | [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4 | |
| 5364 | [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4 | |
| 5365 | [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static | |
| 5366 | executable | |
| 5367 | [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace | |
| 5368 | [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace | |
| 5369 | [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4 | |
| 5370 | [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for | |
| 5371 | XPG3 | |
| 5372 | [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied | |
| 5373 | [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call | |
| 5374 | (CVE-2016-4429) | |
| 5375 | [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S | |
| 5376 | [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID | |
| 5377 | [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with | |
| 5378 | AS not supporting AVX512 | |
| 5379 | [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for | |
| 5380 | sNaN argument | |
| 5381 | [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN | |
| 5382 | [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN | |
| 5383 | argument | |
| 5384 | [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid" | |
| 5385 | [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input | |
| 5386 | [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit | |
| 5387 | [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening | |
| 5388 | [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register | |
| 5389 | eax=0x80000001 | |
| 5390 | [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects. | |
| 5391 | [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative | |
| 5392 | subnormals | |
| 5393 | [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN | |
| 5394 | [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN | |
| 5395 | [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again. | |
| 5396 | [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN | |
| 5397 | [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN | |
| 5398 | [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers | |
| 5399 | [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN | |
| 5400 | [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input | |
| 5401 | [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN | |
| 5402 | input | |
| 5403 | [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN | |
| 5404 | [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN | |
| 5405 | [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN | |
| 5406 | [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN | |
| 5407 | [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN | |
| 5408 | [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN | |
| 5409 | [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN | |
| 5410 | [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent | |
| 5411 | [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN | |
| 5412 | [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler | |
| 5413 | [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN | |
| 5414 | [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid" | |
| 5415 | [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision / | |
| 5416 | double rounding | |
| 5417 | [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input | |
| 5418 | [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array | |
| 5419 | subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds] | |
| 5420 | [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND | |
| 5421 | [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock | |
| 5422 | (Only arm/linux) | |
| 5423 | [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S | |
| 5424 | [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap | |
| 5425 | fallbacks | |
| 5426 | [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing | |
| 5427 | "invalid" exceptions | |
| 5428 | [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1 | |
| 5429 | [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari | |
| 5430 | [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result | |
| 5431 | [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0) | |
| 5432 | [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64 | |
| 5433 | [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64} | |
| 5434 | [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64 | |
| 5435 | [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976 | |
| 5436 | [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines | |
| 11fca961 | 5437 | \f |
| aeb47bbc DM |
5438 | Version 2.23 |
| 5439 | ||
| 23256f5e MF |
5440 | * Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and |
| 5441 | transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new | |
| 5442 | and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat). | |
| 5443 | These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs | |
| 5444 | 89, 16061, and 18568. | |
| 5445 | ||
| 2359035a FW |
5446 | * sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the |
| 5447 | kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the | |
| 5448 | CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will | |
| 5449 | now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU | |
| 5450 | affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after | |
| 5451 | setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check | |
| 5452 | would not detect this in the majority of cases). | |
| 5453 | ||
| 8b7b7f75 MW |
5454 | * The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS |
| 5455 | the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close, | |
| 5456 | fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set. | |
| 5457 | ||
| 2eecc8af FW |
5458 | * getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink |
| 5459 | socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will | |
| 5460 | terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink | |
| 5461 | descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on | |
| 5462 | descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a | |
| 5463 | multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink | |
| 5464 | file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo. | |
| 5465 | ||
| a62719ba FW |
5466 | * A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or |
| 5467 | glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the | |
| 5468 | unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads. | |
| 5469 | The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in | |
| 7f0d9e61 | 5470 | the concurrent throughput of allocation requests for applications which |
| de51ff8c | 5471 | trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and |
| a62719ba FW |
5472 | destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by |
| 5473 | Ericsson.) | |
| a014cecd | 5474 | |
| bc148ca1 MF |
5475 | * There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the |
| 5476 | building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and | |
| 5477 | tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code | |
| 5478 | independent of the GNU C Library. | |
| 5479 | ||
| 1c70b6f1 ZW |
5480 | * The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require |
| 5481 | this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead. | |
| 1efad39b | 5482 | |
| eed3e1eb JM |
5483 | * The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms, |
| 5484 | query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries; | |
| 5485 | the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header | |
| 5486 | were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be | |
| 5487 | used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the | |
| 5488 | Linux kernel. | |
| 5489 | ||
| 1efad39b SL |
5490 | * Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13. |
| 5491 | Implemented by Stefan Liebler. | |
| b08b4218 | 5492 | |
| d709042a JM |
5493 | * Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer |
| 5494 | have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that | |
| 5495 | require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the | |
| 5496 | variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without | |
| 5497 | defining their own copy. | |
| 5498 | ||
| b08b4218 JM |
5499 | * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU |
| 5500 | C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can | |
| 5501 | still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library. | |
| f268ab5f | 5502 | |
| 8f5e8b01 JM |
5503 | Security related changes: |
| 5504 | ||
| 6400ae6e FW |
5505 | * An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no |
| 5506 | longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776) | |
| 5507 | ||
| 5508 | * The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable | |
| 5509 | the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously, | |
| 5510 | LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries | |
| 5511 | running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert. | |
| 5512 | (CVE-2015-8777) | |
| 5513 | ||
| 5514 | * An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an | |
| 5515 | out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778) | |
| 5516 | ||
| 5517 | * The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by | |
| 5518 | Max. (CVE-2015-8779) | |
| 5519 | ||
| 8f5e8b01 JM |
5520 | * The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage |
| 5521 | depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the | |
| 6400ae6e | 5522 | functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761) |
| 8f5e8b01 | 5523 | |
| e9db92d3 CD |
5524 | * A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from |
| 5525 | libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control | |
| 5526 | of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in | |
| 5527 | the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the | |
| 5528 | NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC | |
| 5529 | family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to | |
| 5530 | send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the | |
| 5531 | buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query | |
| 5532 | writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by | |
| 5533 | _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove | |
| 5534 | the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for | |
| 5535 | reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of | |
| 5536 | Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547) | |
| 5537 | ||
| ad372e29 | 5538 | The following bugs are resolved with this release: |
| f268ab5f | 5539 | |
| ad372e29 AZ |
5540 | [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå |
| 5541 | [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent | |
| 5542 | [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1) | |
| 5543 | [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1) | |
| 5544 | [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1) | |
| 5545 | [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better | |
| 5546 | use `mkstemp' | |
| 5547 | [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading | |
| 7f0d9e61 | 5548 | [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doesn't set errno on |
| ad372e29 AZ |
5549 | overflow/underflow errors |
| 5550 | [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on | |
| 5551 | overflow/underflow | |
| 5552 | [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure | |
| 5553 | [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support | |
| 5554 | [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever | |
| 5555 | [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers | |
| 5556 | [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access | |
| 5557 | [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A} | |
| 5558 | are not contiguous | |
| 5559 | [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double | |
| 5560 | [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers | |
| 5561 | [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check | |
| 5562 | [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf | |
| 5563 | [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c | |
| 5564 | [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C | |
| 5565 | [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise | |
| 5566 | FE_INVALID with argument out of range | |
| 5567 | [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear | |
| 5568 | all exceptions | |
| 5569 | [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function | |
| 5570 | arguments | |
| 5571 | [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf() | |
| 5572 | [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data | |
| 5573 | [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they | |
| 5574 | should include | |
| 5575 | [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction | |
| 5576 | [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder | |
| 5577 | [16296] math: fegetround is pure? | |
| 5578 | [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable. | |
| 5579 | [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on | |
| 5580 | GNU/Linux | |
| 5581 | [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions | |
| 5582 | [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive | |
| 5583 | arguments | |
| 5584 | [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with | |
| 5585 | "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32 | |
| 5586 | [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around | |
| 5587 | [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl | |
| 5588 | [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf | |
| 5589 | [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf | |
| 5590 | [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2 | |
| 5591 | [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed | |
| 5592 | rounding results | |
| 5593 | [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer | |
| 5594 | [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences | |
| 5595 | [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761) | |
| 5596 | [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2 | |
| 5597 | [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output | |
| 5598 | fails | |
| 5599 | [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value | |
| 5600 | [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at | |
| 5601 | block boundary | |
| 5602 | [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ? | |
| 5603 | [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ? | |
| 5604 | [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading | |
| 5605 | (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...) | |
| 5606 | [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before | |
| 5607 | 4.7? | |
| 5608 | [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC | |
| 5609 | [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock | |
| 5610 | (related to lock elision) | |
| 5611 | [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely | |
| 5612 | [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z | |
| 5613 | [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones | |
| 5614 | [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations | |
| 5615 | (CVE-2015-8779) | |
| 5616 | [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86 | |
| 5617 | [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success | |
| 5618 | [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count | |
| 5619 | is too large (CVE-2015-8778) | |
| 5620 | [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path | |
| 5621 | [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions | |
| 5622 | [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows | |
| 5623 | [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations | |
| 5624 | [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols | |
| 5625 | [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity() | |
| 5626 | [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates | |
| 5627 | [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information | |
| 5628 | [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions | |
| 5629 | [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0 | |
| 5630 | [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random | |
| 5631 | [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows | |
| 5632 | [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument | |
| 5633 | [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code | |
| 5634 | contains a vector instruction exception. | |
| 5635 | [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow | |
| 5636 | [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU | |
| 5637 | locales | |
| 5638 | [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf | |
| 5639 | [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes | |
| 5640 | [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the | |
| 5641 | buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547) | |
| 5642 | [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible | |
| 5643 | missing break ? | |
| 5644 | [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for | |
| 5645 | 32bit processes | |
| 5646 | [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported | |
| 5647 | [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield | |
| 5648 | infinity | |
| 5649 | [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection | |
| 5650 | [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision | |
| 5651 | [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG | |
| 5652 | [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure | |
| 5653 | [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to | |
| 5654 | be forced unloaded | |
| 5655 | [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE | |
| 5656 | [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6: | |
| 5657 | error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’ | |
| 5658 | [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0 | |
| 5659 | [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate | |
| 5660 | [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are | |
| 5661 | statically too large | |
| 5662 | [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec | |
| 5663 | [18803] math: hypot missing underflows | |
| 5664 | [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure | |
| 5665 | [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows | |
| 5666 | [18824] math: fma spurious underflows | |
| 5667 | [18825] math: pow missing underflows | |
| 5668 | [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons | |
| 5669 | [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior | |
| 5670 | [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol | |
| 5671 | FUTEX_SHARED | |
| 5672 | [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional | |
| 5673 | [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective | |
| 5674 | [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm | |
| 5675 | [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression | |
| 5676 | [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines | |
| 5677 | [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format | |
| 5678 | [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by | |
| 5679 | opendir() | |
| 5680 | [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged | |
| 5681 | binaries (CVE-2015-8777) | |
| 5682 | [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows | |
| 5683 | [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect | |
| 5684 | signgam | |
| 5685 | [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro | |
| 5686 | [18956] math: powf inaccuracy | |
| 5687 | [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows | |
| 5688 | [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows | |
| 5689 | [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb) | |
| 5690 | [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale | |
| 5691 | dependencies | |
| 5692 | [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a | |
| 5693 | [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX | |
| 5694 | [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision | |
| 5695 | [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision | |
| 5696 | [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf | |
| 5697 | [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault | |
| 5698 | (CVE-2015-8776) | |
| 5699 | [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction | |
| 5700 | [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26 | |
| 5701 | [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path | |
| 5702 | [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy | |
| 5703 | [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list | |
| 5704 | [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception | |
| 5705 | [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling | |
| 5706 | [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing | |
| 5707 | contention | |
| 5708 | [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign | |
| 5709 | [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign | |
| 5710 | [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto | |
| 5711 | [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes | |
| 5712 | [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2 | |
| 5713 | [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs | |
| 5714 | [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity | |
| 5715 | [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result | |
| 5716 | [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default | |
| 5717 | rounding modes | |
| 5718 | [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for | |
| 5719 | ILP32 | |
| 5720 | [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long | |
| 5721 | [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong. | |
| 5722 | [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow | |
| 5723 | threshold | |
| 5724 | [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold | |
| 5725 | [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long | |
| 5726 | [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os | |
| 7f0d9e61 | 5727 | [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assembler |
| ad372e29 AZ |
5728 | [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions |
| 5729 | [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash | |
| 5730 | [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions | |
| 5731 | [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation | |
| 5732 | [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity, | |
| 5733 | pthread_setaffinity_np | |
| 5734 | [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows | |
| 5735 | [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs | |
| 5736 | [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure | |
| 5737 | [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly. | |
| 5738 | [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses | |
| 5739 | prelink | |
| 5740 | [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv | |
| 5741 | (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions | |
| 5742 | [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and | |
| 5743 | _int_new_arena/reused_arena | |
| 5744 | [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception | |
| 5745 | [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result | |
| 5746 | [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and | |
| 5747 | bits/mathcalls.h | |
| 5748 | [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn | |
| 5749 | [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only | |
| 5750 | for C99-based standards | |
| 5751 | [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean | |
| 5752 | [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite- | |
| 5753 | math-only | |
| 5754 | [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect. | |
| 5755 | [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl | |
| 5756 | [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps | |
| 5757 | disabled | |
| 5758 | [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious | |
| 5759 | "inexact" exceptions | |
| 5760 | [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer | |
| 5761 | arguments | |
| 5762 | [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales | |
| 5763 | [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading | |
| 5764 | to an assertion failure and reference count corruption | |
| 5765 | [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST | |
| 5766 | rules | |
| 5767 | [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales | |
| 5768 | [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl | |
| 5769 | [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing | |
| 5770 | MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines | |
| 5771 | [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32 | |
| 5772 | [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown | |
| 5773 | [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments | |
| 5774 | [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows | |
| 5775 | [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1 | |
| 5776 | [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends | |
| 5777 | from 32bit | |
| 5778 | [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont | |
| 5779 | [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search" | |
| 5780 | / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf | |
| 5781 | [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative | |
| 5782 | subnormals | |
| 5783 | [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma | |
| 5784 | [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an | |
| 5785 | error on 32-bit architectures | |
| 5786 | [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa | |
| 5787 | [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903, | |
| 5788 | IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909 | |
| 5789 | [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11 | |
| 5790 | [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG | |
| 5791 | [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2 | |
| 5792 | [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os | |
| 5793 | [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os | |
| 5794 | [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with | |
| 5795 | -Os | |
| 5796 | [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core | |
| 5797 | CPU's. | |
| 5798 | [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH] | |
| 5799 | [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set". | |
| 5800 | [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext | |
| 5801 | [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other | |
| 5802 | architectures | |
| 5803 | [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions. | |
| aeb47bbc | 5804 | \f |
| 1c7a4a51 JM |
5805 | Version 2.22 |
| 5806 | ||
| 5807 | * The following bugs are resolved with this release: | |
| 5808 | ||
| 3df5cd98 | 5809 | 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152, |
| 0e569d30 MF |
5810 | 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969, |
| 5811 | 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538, | |
| 5812 | 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293, | |
| 5813 | 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620, | |
| 5814 | 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833, | |
| 5815 | 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965, | |
| 5816 | 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007, | |
| 5817 | 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042, | |
| 5818 | 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104, | |
| 5819 | 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197, | |
| 5820 | 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245, | |
| 5821 | 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400, | |
| 5822 | 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469, | |
| 5823 | 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508, | |
| 5824 | 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532, | |
| 5825 | 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547, | |
| 5826 | 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593, | |
| 6fdd5d65 FW |
5827 | 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648, |
| 5828 | 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887. | |
| 2959eda9 | 5829 | |
| f7fba805 SL |
5830 | * Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with |
| 5831 | _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument. | |
| 5832 | ||
| 2959eda9 AS |
5833 | * A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS |
| 5834 | requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a | |
| 5835 | misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was | |
| 5836 | not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or, | |
| 5837 | potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically | |
| 5838 | valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781) | |
| 4a4839c9 | 5839 | |
| 42261ad7 FW |
5840 | * The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time |
| 5841 | zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of | |
| 5842 | the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to | |
| 5843 | large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ | |
| 5844 | variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes. | |
| 5845 | ||
| afcd9480 AM |
5846 | * A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors |
| 5847 | for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need | |
| 5848 | binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization. | |
| 5849 | ||
| 4a4839c9 AO |
5850 | * Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using |
| 5851 | new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red | |
| 5852 | Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug | |
| 5853 | 17998. | |
| 5854 | ||
| b13b96ca AS |
5855 | * CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent |
| 5856 | and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service | |
| 5857 | condition in some applications. | |
| 21933112 AS |
5858 | |
| 5859 | * Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64 | |
| a6336cc4 AS |
5860 | implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf, |
| 5861 | pow, powf. | |
| 21933112 AS |
5862 | The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is |
| 5863 | enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0. | |
| 037e4b99 AS |
5864 | Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to |
| 5865 | specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds). | |
| 21933112 | 5866 | Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information. |
| fdb7d390 AZ |
5867 | |
| 5868 | * A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX | |
| 5869 | compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing | |
| 5870 | issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The | |
| 5871 | old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries. | |
| 7fde904c MF |
5872 | |
| 5873 | * The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21 | |
| 5874 | releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built | |
| 5875 | against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694. | |
| 7493ab25 RM |
5876 | |
| 5877 | * Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl). | |
| 5878 | Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google). | |
| 2ec11c2b ZW |
5879 | |
| 5880 | * The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future | |
| 5881 | release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning. | |
| 5882 | Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead. | |
| 5883 | ||
| a03ba363 | 5884 | This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and |
| 2ec11c2b ZW |
5885 | removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation |
| 5886 | leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details. | |
| 1c7a4a51 | 5887 | \f |
| 58b930ae SP |
5888 | Version 2.21 |
| 5889 | ||
| 5890 | * The following bugs are resolved with this release: | |
| 5891 | ||
| 042e1521 | 5892 | 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498, |
| 5bd80bfe PP |
5893 | 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618, |
| 5894 | 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370, | |
| 5895 | 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555, | |
| 5896 | 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589, | |
| 5897 | 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647, | |
| 5898 | 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719, | |
| 5899 | 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747, | |
| 5900 | 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797, | |
| 5901 | 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885, | |
| 5902 | 17892. | |
| 5903 | ||
| 46d54873 FW |
5904 | * CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate |
| 5905 | too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the | |
| 5906 | allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required | |
| 5907 | buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as | |
| 5908 | intended. | |
| 042e1521 CD |
5909 | |
| 5910 | * A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all | |
| 5911 | machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were | |
| 5912 | difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version | |
| 5913 | of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations. | |
| 5914 | The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post, | |
| 5915 | sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue. | |
| a39208bd | 5916 | |
| 522e6ee3 CLT |
5917 | * Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics. |
| 5918 | ||
| d3b00f46 AZ |
5919 | * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp |
| 5920 | implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le. | |
| 8bedcb5f | 5921 | Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM). |
| 96d6fd6c | 5922 | |
| 8d2c0a59 AZ |
5923 | * Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64 |
| 5924 | and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on | |
| 5925 | HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with | |
| 5926 | --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for | |
| 5927 | powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side | |
| 5928 | effects being visible outside transactions. | |
| 5929 | ||
| dc400d7b RE |
5930 | * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for |
| 5931 | AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd. | |
| ec582ca0 | 5932 | |
| 0f9dfe04 L |
5933 | * i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store. |
| 5934 | ||
| a39208bd CD |
5935 | * CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag |
| 5936 | under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for | |
| ebda2f17 | 5937 | command substitution when the application did not request it. The |
| a39208bd CD |
5938 | implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the |
| 5939 | shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected. | |
| fb89b46d | 5940 | |
| a5357b7c JL |
5941 | * CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when |
| 5942 | processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers. | |
| 5943 | ||
| e54db0ea AM |
5944 | * CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an |
| 5945 | infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected | |
| 5946 | format. | |
| 11e3417a | 5947 | |
| 4863355a JM |
5948 | * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU |
| 5949 | C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can | |
| 5950 | still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library. | |
| 5951 | ||
| a4ecc9eb JM |
5952 | * The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be |
| 5953 | disabled by configuring with --disable-werror. | |
| 5954 | ||
| 0d560bbf | 5955 | * New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU. |
| 0781a777 RM |
5956 | |
| 5957 | * The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original | |
| 5958 | 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which | |
| 5959 | programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI | |
| 5960 | compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact. | |
| 6d248857 WN |
5961 | |
| 5962 | * Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building | |
| 5963 | with newer versions of bison. | |
| 28c38448 MF |
5964 | |
| 5965 | * Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions. | |
| 5966 | The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision | |
| 5967 | registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2 | |
| 5968 | introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the | |
| 5969 | corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the | |
| 5970 | o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both | |
| 5971 | require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI | |
| 5972 | extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI | |
| 5973 | through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now | |
| 5974 | tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are | |
| 5975 | compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and | |
| 5976 | unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and | |
| 5977 | hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64. | |
| 5978 | ||
| 5979 | GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards: | |
| 5980 | It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the | |
| 5981 | new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible | |
| 5982 | with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC | |
| 5983 | compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default. | |
| 58b930ae | 5984 | \f |
| d5b396c1 AM |
5985 | Version 2.20 |
| 5986 | ||
| 5987 | * The following bugs are resolved with this release: | |
| 5988 | ||
| 6a9350c8 JM |
5989 | 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347, |
| 5990 | 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198, | |
| 5991 | 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447, | |
| 5992 | 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600, | |
| 5993 | 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639, | |
| 5994 | 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689, | |
| 5995 | 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739, | |
| 5996 | 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791, | |
| 5997 | 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849, | |
| 5998 | 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912, | |
| 5999 | 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958, | |
| 6000 | 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022, | |
| 6001 | 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078, | |
| 6002 | 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150, | |
| 6003 | 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354. | |
| 0961f7e1 | 6004 | |
| 95ee7fb1 SL |
6005 | * Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x: |
| 6006 | On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in | |
| 6007 | 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions | |
| 6008 | of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp | |
| 6009 | are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones. | |
| 45ef6628 | 6010 | Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these |
| 95ee7fb1 SL |
6011 | functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or |
| 6012 | ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt | |
| 6013 | against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any | |
| 6014 | case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change. | |
| 6015 | ||
| 0961f7e1 JL |
6016 | * Support for file description locks is added to systems running the |
| 6017 | Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to | |
| 6018 | operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of | |
| 6019 | F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks | |
| 6020 | are associated with an open file instead of a process. | |
| f3d338c9 | 6021 | |
| f940b965 RE |
6022 | * Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd. |
| 6023 | ||
| d0f5b3f8 JM |
6024 | * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library |
| 6025 | can be used with is 2.6.32. | |
| 6026 | ||
| d6fe5e58 JM |
6027 | * Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails. |
| 6028 | Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated, | |
| 6029 | with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is | |
| 6030 | printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with | |
| 6031 | error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check | |
| 6032 | stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior. | |
| 6033 | ||
| 464263cc JM |
6034 | * The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed |
| 6035 | from ports. | |
| c941736c JM |
6036 | |
| 6037 | * The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer | |
| 6038 | supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a | |
| 6039 | warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that | |
| 6040 | conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the | |
| 6041 | interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with | |
| 6042 | _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature | |
| 6043 | test macros defined. | |
| f63c86fe WN |
6044 | |
| 6045 | * Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd. | |
| 5a414ff7 DV |
6046 | |
| 6047 | * Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x. | |
| 6048 | This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems. | |
| 6049 | The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and | |
| 6050 | then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision | |
| 6051 | default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports | |
| 6052 | transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code | |
| 6053 | is not built. | |
| d03efb2f AM |
6054 | |
| 6055 | * CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not | |
| 6056 | copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to | |
| 6057 | deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if | |
| 6058 | the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen | |
| 6059 | invocation. | |
| cfd2ea50 JM |
6060 | |
| 6061 | * All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory | |
| 6062 | instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was | |
| 6063 | distributed separately before glibc 2.17). | |
| f083450f RM |
6064 | |
| 6065 | * The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on". | |
| 6066 | On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now | |
| 6067 | used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no | |
| 6068 | longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support. | |
| 4e8f95a0 FW |
6069 | |
| 6070 | * Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG | |
| 6071 | and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax. | |
| 6072 | setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly | |
| 6073 | long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path | |
| 6074 | components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were | |
| 6075 | silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode | |
| 6076 | (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the | |
| 6077 | additional checks. | |
| 9a8a5720 RM |
6078 | |
| 6079 | * On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible | |
| 6080 | with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous | |
| 6081 | versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls | |
| 6082 | into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic | |
| 6083 | linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it | |
| 6084 | supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to | |
| 6085 | handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind | |
| 6086 | versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10 | |
| 6087 | release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation. | |
| a1a6a401 FW |
6088 | |
| 6089 | * Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed. | |
| 6090 | The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for | |
| 6091 | over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The | |
| 6092 | normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration | |
| 6093 | with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier | |
| f9df71e8 | 6094 | continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119) |
| 41488498 FW |
6095 | |
| 6096 | * Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935, | |
| 6097 | IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read, | |
| 6098 | resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which | |
| 6099 | use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040) | |
| 6c1fd795 DM |
6100 | \f |
| 6101 | Version 2.19 | |
| 6102 | ||
| 6103 | * The following bugs are resolved with this release: | |
| 6104 | ||
| fd2f9486 JM |
6105 | 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981, |
| 6106 | 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751, | |
| 6107 | 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286, | |
| 6108 | 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089, | |
| 6109 | 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427, | |
| 6110 | 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632, | |
| 6111 | 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748, | |
| 6112 | 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844, | |
| 6113 | 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886, | |
| 6114 | 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915, | |
| ed27ed83 JM |
6115 | 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968, |
| 6116 | 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046, | |
| 6117 | 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144, | |
| 6118 | 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245, | |
| 6119 | 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338, | |
| 798212a0 PP |
6120 | 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385, |
| 6121 | 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430, | |
| 6122 | 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529 | |
| 141f3a77 | 6123 | |
| 11520a57 CD |
6124 | * Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the |
| 6125 | Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators. | |
| 6126 | ||
| 2fe16229 CD |
6127 | * The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to |
| 6128 | support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use | |
| 6129 | __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock | |
| 08d76093 CD |
6130 | extension which uses __block. |
| 6131 | ||
| 303e567a SP |
6132 | * CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for |
| 6133 | large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache | |
| 6134 | computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a | |
| 6135 | stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm | |
| 6136 | which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow. | |
| 6137 | ||
| 141f3a77 SP |
6138 | * CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and |
| 6139 | rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls | |
| 6140 | back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow. | |
| 6141 | The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup | |
| 6142 | if malloc fails. | |
| c61b4d41 CD |
6143 | |
| 6144 | * CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not | |
| 6145 | initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature | |
| 6146 | being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a | |
| 6147 | random value for static applications. Existing static applications need | |
| 6148 | to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754). | |
| 91ce4085 FW |
6149 | |
| 6150 | * CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes | |
| 6151 | to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL | |
| 6152 | character. (Bugzilla #14699). | |
| 6153 | ||
| ba0d798c WN |
6154 | * CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and |
| 6155 | aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the | |
| 6156 | heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855, | |
| 6157 | #15856, #15857). | |
| 6158 | ||
| 7cbcdb36 SP |
6159 | * CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results |
| 6160 | for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072). | |
| 6161 | ||
| 82bab04b | 6162 | * New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW, |
| b46d046e | 6163 | pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP. |
| ddd9fb8f | 6164 | |
| c5f840fd MB |
6165 | * Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT |
| 6166 | ||
| 3e181dda CD |
6167 | * The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all |
| 6168 | supported locales. | |
| ddd9fb8f | 6169 | |
| 3e181dda | 6170 | * ISO 1427 definitions were updated. |
| 7447ccd9 | 6171 | |
| 8a05c252 CL |
6172 | * ISO 3166 definitions were updated. |
| 6173 | ||
| 6055173a JM |
6174 | * The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian |
| 6175 | command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that | |
| 6176 | for which the C library was built. | |
| 6177 | ||
| b125d3e5 JM |
6178 | * Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for |
| 6179 | which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a | |
| 6180 | consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible | |
| 6181 | with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with | |
| 6182 | old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library, | |
| 6183 | in the following circumstances: | |
| 6184 | ||
| 6185 | + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems. | |
| 6186 | ||
| 6187 | + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may | |
| 6188 | be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed. | |
| 6189 | ||
| d4f66d37 JM |
6190 | * The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with |
| 6191 | --disable-versioning had not worked for several years. | |
| 6192 | ||
| 3e181dda CD |
6193 | * ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh, |
| 6194 | cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue). | |
| e35696c3 | 6195 | |
| ffb89e53 AO |
6196 | * SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced. |
| 6197 | ||
| 5d29ccce SP |
6198 | * SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of |
| 6199 | transcendental functions have been introduced. | |
| 6200 | ||
| 8b7d57cd | 6201 | * Support for powerpc64le has been added. |
| b125d3e5 JM |
6202 | |
| 6203 | * The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors. | |
| 0a3ac0aa | 6204 | |
| fd712ef3 | 6205 | * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64. |
| 7011c262 | 6206 | |
| c688b419 JM |
6207 | * A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same |
| 6208 | set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other | |
| 6209 | feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise | |
| 6210 | disable some of those declarations. | |
| 6211 | ||
| 7011c262 | 6212 | * The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that |
| 029c7b25 JM |
6213 | conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library |
| 6214 | that did nothing) has also been removed. | |
| 0a57b83e AO |
6215 | |
| 6216 | * Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and | |
| 6217 | Async-Cancel Safety has been added. | |
| ee4ec1d7 AK |
6218 | |
| 6219 | * Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x: | |
| 6220 | On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to | |
| 6221 | allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or | |
| 6222 | return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards | |
| 6223 | compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled | |
| 6224 | with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into | |
| 6225 | another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit | |
| 6226 | which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new | |
| 6227 | fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields | |
| 6228 | that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined | |
| 6229 | behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the | |
| 6230 | final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may | |
| 6231 | require recompilation. | |
| 2c8bfe7d DM |
6232 | \f |
| 6233 | Version 2.18 | |
| 6234 | ||
| 6235 | * The following bugs are resolved with this release: | |
| 6236 | ||
| 17db6e8d | 6237 | 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120, |
| 0432680e PY |
6238 | 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988, |
| 6239 | 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496, | |
| 8c17cb1f JM |
6240 | 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941, |
| 6241 | 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003, | |
| 6242 | 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062, | |
| 6243 | 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234, | |
| 6244 | 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335, | |
| 6245 | 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381, | |
| 6246 | 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424, | |
| 6247 | 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485, | |
| 6248 | 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577, | |
| 6249 | 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711, | |
| 6250 | 15755, 15759. | |
| e4608715 CD |
6251 | |
| 6252 | * CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal | |
| 6253 | has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755). | |
| 6254 | Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure | |
| 6255 | option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it | |
| 6256 | considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution | |
| 6257 | understands and accepts the risks. | |
| 1cef1b19 | 6258 | |
| 5b535ac4 AS |
6259 | * CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla |
| 6260 | #15078). | |
| 6261 | ||
| 1cef1b19 AS |
6262 | * CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been |
| 6263 | fixed (Bugzilla #15330). | |
| 7fffbdff | 6264 | |
| 55e4107b SP |
6265 | * Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread |
| 6266 | and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11 | |
| 6267 | destructor calls to glibc. | |
| 6268 | ||
| e5c74c63 SP |
6269 | * Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and |
| 6270 | output. | |
| 6271 | ||
| 6272 | * Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on | |
| 6273 | non-x86 architectures. | |
| 6274 | ||
| e7521973 JM |
6275 | * Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove. |
| 6276 | ||
| 6277 | * Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft. | |
| 6278 | ||
| 6279 | * Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and | |
| 6280 | Richard Henderson. | |
| 6281 | ||
| 6282 | * Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller. | |
| 6283 | ||
| 6284 | * Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by | |
| 6285 | Richard Henderson. | |
| 6286 | ||
| 6287 | * Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by | |
| 6288 | Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov. | |
| 6289 | ||
| 8cfdb7e0 SP |
6290 | * Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc. |
| 6291 | ||
| 57267616 TS |
6292 | * New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN). |
| 6293 | It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension. | |
| 58206c68 | 6294 | |
| c204ab28 SP |
6295 | * On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call |
| 6296 | for improved precision, rather than old times system call. | |
| 61dd6208 | 6297 | |
| 0748546f PE |
6298 | * Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using |
| 6299 | the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases -- | |
| 6300 | currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037. | |
| 6301 | ||
| 61dd6208 SP |
6302 | * Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and |
| 6303 | pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread | |
| 6304 | attributes of a process. | |
| a7cb9d67 AK |
6305 | |
| 6306 | * Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64. | |
| 6307 | This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems. | |
| 6308 | When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure | |
| 6309 | time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT | |
| 6310 | mutexes. | |
| be063fa4 RA |
6311 | |
| 6312 | * Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10 | |
| 6313 | availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold. | |
| 6314 | ||
| 6315 | * Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold. | |
| 370ca3d2 JM |
6316 | \f |
| 6317 | Version 2.17 | |
| 6318 | ||
| 6319 | * The following bugs are resolved with this release: | |
| 6320 | ||
| 80ceeaee | 6321 | 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808, |
| b4180a5e AJ |
6322 | 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638, |
| 6323 | 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679, | |
| 6324 | 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950, | |
| 6325 | 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157, | |
| 6326 | 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298, | |
| 6327 | 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376, | |
| 6328 | 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518, | |
| 6329 | 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568, | |
| 6330 | 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645, | |
| 6331 | 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719, | |
| 6332 | 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803, | |
| 6333 | 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833, | |
| 6334 | 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872, | |
| 6335 | 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914. | |
| 14bc93a9 | 6336 | |
| 95b4f1b6 SE |
6337 | * Optimization of memcpy for MIPS. |
| 6338 | ||
| 14bc93a9 JL |
6339 | * CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with |
| 6340 | EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889). | |
| 7a845b2c | 6341 | |
| b54eb3cb JM |
6342 | * The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory |
| 6343 | of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately. | |
| 6344 | ||
| 7e2bd01f MS |
6345 | * Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro. |
| 6346 | ||
| 08f43f9b AK |
6347 | * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x. |
| 6348 | Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and | |
| 6349 | zEnterprise z196. | |
| 6350 | Implemented by Andreas Krebbel. | |
| 6351 | ||
| 84b3fd84 FW |
6352 | * The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment, |
| 6353 | returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces | |
| 6354 | the internal function __secure_getenv. | |
| 6355 | ||
| 815e6fa3 GB |
6356 | * SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker. |
| 6357 | Implemented by Gary Benson. | |
| 6358 | ||
| 400726de MK |
6359 | * Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem. |
| 6360 | Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov. | |
| 6361 | ||
| 7aab07e4 | 6362 | * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library |
| 6dad2c06 | 6363 | can be used with is 2.6.16. |
| 7aab07e4 | 6364 | |
| 15d0da8c WS |
6365 | * Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for |
| 6366 | powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt. | |
| 6367 | ||
| 3cc3ef96 RM |
6368 | * New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it |
| 6369 | never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd). | |
| c53d909c RM |
6370 | New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself; |
| 6371 | this is the default if --disable-nscd is used. | |
| 3cc3ef96 | 6372 | |
| b54eb3cb JM |
6373 | * Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and |
| 6374 | bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc. | |
| 6375 | ||
| 85429b1a | 6376 | * Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an |
| 0d224d52 | 6377 | interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by |
| 85429b1a DM |
6378 | default. |
| 6379 | ||
| b54eb3cb JM |
6380 | * New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for |
| 6381 | distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version | |
| 6382 | information in --help and --version output. | |
| 6383 | ||
| 050af9c4 SP |
6384 | * The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for |
| 6385 | the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This | |
| 6386 | allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc. | |
| 6387 | ||
| 89a3ad0b AO |
6388 | * The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the |
| 6389 | specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will | |
| 6390 | consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is | |
| 6391 | enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm | |
| 6392 | when the mode is enabled. | |
| 6393 | ||
| 6e6249d0 RM |
6394 | * The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available |
| 6395 | directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with | |
| 6396 | -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a | |
| 6397 | single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and | |
| 6398 | is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads | |
| 6399 | library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with | |
| 6400 | multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library. | |
| 5a04f376 | 6401 | |
| d9286582 NK |
6402 | * New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ, |
| 6403 | sat_IN, and szl_PL. | |
| 8d44e150 UD |
6404 | \f |
| 6405 | Version 2.16 | |
| 6406 | ||
| 6407 | * The following bugs are resolved with this release: | |
| 6408 | ||
| a8133e19 JM |
6409 | 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551, |
| 6410 | 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335, | |
| 6411 | 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822, | |
| 6412 | 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884, | |
| 6413 | 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140, | |
| 6414 | 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174, | |
| 6415 | 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047, | |
| 6416 | 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495, | |
| 6417 | 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531, | |
| 6418 | 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563, | |
| 6419 | 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656, | |
| 6420 | 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738, | |
| 6421 | 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792, | |
| 6422 | 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854, | |
| 6423 | 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892, | |
| 6424 | 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917, | |
| 6425 | 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928, | |
| 6426 | 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970, | |
| 6427 | 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036, | |
| 6428 | 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064, | |
| 6429 | 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123, | |
| 6430 | 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273, | |
| 6431 | 14277, 14278. | |
| 380d7e87 | 6432 | |
| a086b4d6 L |
6433 | * Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by |
| 6434 | configuring glibc with: | |
| 6435 | BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32' | |
| 8f7a75d7 | 6436 | Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info. |
| a086b4d6 L |
6437 | Implemented by H.J. Lu. |
| 6438 | ||
| 380d7e87 UD |
6439 | * ISO C11 support: |
| 6440 | ||
| 6441 | + define static_assert | |
| 6442 | ||
| 6443 | + do not declare gets | |
| 6444 | ||
| 6445 | + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11 | |
| 6446 | ||
| 6447 | + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter | |
| 6448 | to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement | |
| 6449 | in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the | |
| 6450 | implementation. | |
| 8d44e150 | 6451 | |
| 74033a25 | 6452 | + timespec_get added |
| 544563c9 UD |
6453 | |
| 6454 | + uchar.h support added | |
| d75a0a62 | 6455 | |
| ac097f5c UD |
6456 | + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added |
| 6457 | ||
| 16dd419d UD |
6458 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
| 6459 | ||
| 9dc4e1fb | 6460 | * Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports. |
| 33808bf1 UD |
6461 | |
| 6462 | * Remove support for anything but ELF binary format | |
| d9a216c0 UD |
6463 | |
| 6464 | * Checking versions of poll, ppoll added. | |
| 6465 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
| daa891c0 UD |
6466 | |
| 6467 | * More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions. | |
| 6468 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
| 021db4be AJ |
6469 | |
| 6470 | * New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC | |
| 6471 | headers and functions available at compile time as they were before | |
| 6472 | version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future | |
| 6473 | after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of | |
| 6474 | existing applications. | |
| ffb7875d | 6475 | |
| 21708942 | 6476 | * Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed. |
| ffb7875d JM |
6477 | Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version |
| 6478 | before 2.6. | |
| 83678f76 | 6479 | |
| edb00e4d RH |
6480 | * New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to |
| 6481 | the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also | |
| 6482 | defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key. | |
| 6483 | ||
| 83678f76 | 6484 | * New locales: mag_IN |
| 7b44a2df RM |
6485 | |
| 6486 | * New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes | |
| 6487 | into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations. | |
| 6488 | So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are | |
| 6489 | provided only for i*86 and x86_64. | |
| 6490 | Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho. | |
| 47e452cf JM |
6491 | |
| 6492 | * Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva. | |
| 6493 | ||
| d9dc34cd TMQMF |
6494 | * More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella |
| 6495 | and Will Schmidt. | |
| 47e452cf JM |
6496 | |
| 6497 | * More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller. | |
| 6498 | ||
| 6499 | * Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds | |
| 6500 | without a previously built glibc. | |
| 6501 | ||
| 6502 | * Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by | |
| 6503 | Chris Metcalf from Tilera. | |
| 6504 | ||
| 6505 | * Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is | |
| 6506 | now supported for ARM processors. | |
| 6507 | ||
| 6508 | * The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3 | |
| 6509 | as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the | |
| 6510 | /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI. | |
| 6511 | ||
| 6512 | * Support for CRIS has been removed from ports. | |
| d9dc34cd TMQMF |
6513 | |
| 6514 | * A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level | |
| 6515 | platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a | |
| 6516 | function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio | |
| 6517 | Magno Quites Machado Filho. | |
| 929cc14e AJ |
6518 | |
| 6519 | * ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with | |
| 6520 | what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used | |
| 6521 | for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds. | |
| 6522 | Contributed by H.J. Lu. | |
| ee9247c3 CD |
6523 | |
| 6524 | * Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was | |
| 6525 | conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math | |
| 6526 | library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results. | |
| 6527 | Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his | |
| 6528 | patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues. | |
| 6529 | ||
| 6530 | * Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts | |
| 6531 | will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from | |
| 6532 | their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at | |
| 6533 | <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>. | |
| ee1a7fab | 6534 | \f |
| e80fab37 | 6535 | Version 2.15 |
| 11988f8f | 6536 | |
| c0244a9d UD |
6537 | * The following bugs are resolved with this release: |
| 6538 | ||
| aebae053 UD |
6539 | 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847, |
| 6540 | 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962, | |
| 6541 | 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092, | |
| 6542 | 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179, | |
| 6543 | 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335, | |
| 6544 | 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472, | |
| 6545 | 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540 | |
| c0244a9d | 6546 | |
| 11988f8f UD |
6547 | * New program pldd to list loaded object of a process |
| 6548 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
| 9f2da732 UD |
6549 | |
| 6550 | * Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db | |
| 6551 | and support for initgroups lookups. | |
| 6552 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
| 0b1cbaae L |
6553 | |
| 6554 | * Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32. | |
| 6555 | Contributed by HJ Lu. | |
| 8912479f L |
6556 | |
| 6557 | * Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64. | |
| 6558 | Contributed by HJ Lu. | |
| 99710781 | 6559 | |
| fc2ee42a LD |
6560 | * Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen |
| 6561 | on x86-32 and x86-64. | |
| 99710781 | 6562 | Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva. |
| c55fbd1e | 6563 | |
| d42964a0 | 6564 | * Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32. |
| 693fb948 LD |
6565 | Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva. |
| 6566 | ||
| 1d3e4b61 UD |
6567 | * Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy |
| 6568 | for x86-64 and x86-32. | |
| 093ecf92 LD |
6569 | Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva. |
| 6570 | ||
| c55fbd1e UD |
6571 | * New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64 |
| 6572 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
| a0f33f99 UD |
6573 | |
| 6574 | * Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added. | |
| 6575 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
| 684ae515 UD |
6576 | |
| 6577 | * nscd now also caches the netgroup database. | |
| 6578 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
| 0ac5ae23 UD |
6579 | |
| 6580 | * Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option. | |
| 6581 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
| d9a4d2ab UD |
6582 | |
| 6583 | * Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations | |
| 6584 | to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
| 6585 | ||
| 6586 | * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64. | |
| 6587 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
| 78239589 UD |
6588 | |
| 6589 | * New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev | |
| e188ebba UD |
6590 | |
| 6591 | * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32. | |
| 6592 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
| a1267ba1 | 6593 | |
| f0b264f1 AZ |
6594 | * Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC. |
| 6595 | Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella. | |
| 2655fd5c | 6596 | |
| 6b64057b | 6597 | * New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK |
| e80fab37 | 6598 | \f |
| dded88cd | 6599 | Version 2.14 |
| 9f94d2ea | 6600 | |
| 50934221 UD |
6601 | * The following bugs are resolved with this release: |
| 6602 | ||
| 553149f6 | 6603 | 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257, |
| 873ca504 | 6604 | 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724, |
| 3cf74f8a | 6605 | 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945, |
| 7ae22829 | 6606 | 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350, |
| 4462fad3 UD |
6607 | 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489, |
| 6608 | 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583, | |
| 6609 | 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655, | |
| 4769ae77 UD |
6610 | 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723, |
| 6611 | 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792, | |
| f16846a5 | 6612 | 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841 |
| 50934221 | 6613 | |
| 7b57bfe5 UD |
6614 | * The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working |
| 6615 | but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore. | |
| 6616 | Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC. | |
| 6b1e7d19 | 6617 | The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits. |
| 018b9e36 UD |
6618 | |
| 6619 | Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link | |
| a0446976 UD |
6620 | programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the |
| 6621 | removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers. | |
| 7b57bfe5 UD |
6622 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
| 6623 | ||
| c6489db3 | 6624 | * New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at, |
| f1f929d7 | 6625 | syncfs, setns, sendmmsg |
| 83fe108b | 6626 | |
| 72d1dddb | 6627 | * New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH, |
| a7b80ed5 | 6628 | yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU |
| bc469bea UD |
6629 | |
| 6630 | * New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774 | |
| a9171047 UD |
6631 | |
| 6632 | * New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs | |
| 6633 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
| 7d17596c UD |
6634 | |
| 6635 | * The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed | |
| 6636 | from the default implementation in the next version. The design never | |
| 6637 | worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do | |
| 6638 | not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally. | |
| 9f94d2ea | 6639 | \f |
| 4828935d LM |
6640 | Version 2.13 |
| 6641 | ||
| ac2b484c UD |
6642 | * The following bugs are resolved with this release: |
| 6643 | ||
| c30b7ee2 UD |
6644 | 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611, |
| 6645 | 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979, | |
| 6646 | 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113, | |
| 6647 | 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348, | |
| 6648 | 12378, 12394, 12397 | |
| ac2b484c | 6649 | |
| 10b3bedc | 6650 | * New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark |
| c08fb0d7 | 6651 | |
| ac2b484c | 6652 | * POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp |
| 8d50becc | 6653 | |
| e9f82e0d UD |
6654 | * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2), |
| 6655 | strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2) | |
| 8d50becc | 6656 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
| 4828935d | 6657 | \f |
| ee1a7fab UD |
6658 | Version 2.12 |
| 6659 | ||
| d36b9613 UD |
6660 | * The following bugs are resolved with this release: |
| 6661 | ||
| 2e0fb521 DL |
6662 | 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915, |
| 6663 | 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001, | |
| 6664 | 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070, | |
| 6665 | 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184, | |
| fc97f36d UD |
6666 | 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194, |
| 6667 | 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279, | |
| 6668 | 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397, | |
| 5ae958d7 | 6669 | 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571 |
| 86a4c67f UD |
6670 | |
| 6671 | * New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np | |
| d36b9613 | 6672 | |
| ee1a7fab UD |
6673 | * New Linux interface: recvmmsg |
| 6674 | ||
| 5e4295fb UD |
6675 | * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller. |
| 6676 | ||
| 6677 | * The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the | |
| 6678 | EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header. | |
| 6679 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
| 6680 | ||
| 71170aa0 UD |
6681 | * New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table |
| 6682 | will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies. | |
| 6683 | Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be | |
| 6684 | missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris. | |
| 6685 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
| 6686 | ||
| d36b9613 | 6687 | * New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU |
| b50f8e42 UD |
6688 | \f |
| 6689 | Version 2.11 | |
| 6690 | ||
| d36b9613 UD |
6691 | * The following bugs are resolved with this release: |
| 6692 | ||
| 6693 | 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183, | |
| 6694 | 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229, | |
| 6695 | 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416, | |
| 6696 | 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564, | |
| 6697 | 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784, | |
| 6698 | 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847 | |
| 6699 | ||
| 3a83202d UD |
6700 | * New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps, |
| 6701 | mkostemps64 | |
| 3d5243d4 UD |
6702 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
| 6703 | ||
| 24ab9c76 | 6704 | * Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack |
| b50f8e42 UD |
6705 | frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
| 6706 | ||
| b8706f70 UD |
6707 | * STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables. |
| 6708 | Implemented by H.J. Lu. | |
| 6709 | ||
| 51a71cf0 UD |
6710 | * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra. |
| 6711 | ||
| 0122f28e | 6712 | * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp, |
| 9d36a6c4 | 6713 | strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), |
| 7f3146e7 | 6714 | strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2). |
| 0122f28e UD |
6715 | Contributed by H.J. Lu. |
| 6716 | ||
| 9d36a6c4 | 6717 | strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3). |
| 0122f28e UD |
6718 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
| 6719 | ||
| 9d36a6c4 UD |
6720 | * New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk, |
| 6721 | strstr, strcasestr. | |
| 6722 | Contributed by H.J. Lu. | |
| 6723 | ||
| 6724 | * Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64. | |
| 6725 | Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper. | |
| 6726 | ||
| 0122f28e UD |
6727 | * AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so. |
| 6728 | Implemented by H.J. Lu. | |
| 6729 | ||
| 6730 | * STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added. | |
| 6731 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
| 6732 | ||
| 6733 | * Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more | |
| 6734 | broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not | |
| 6735 | handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending | |
| 6736 | the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf | |
| 6737 | can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the | |
| 6738 | necessity is every process again. | |
| 6739 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
| 6740 | ||
| 9d36a6c4 UD |
6741 | * New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup. |
| 6742 | Implemented by Adam Tkac. | |
| 6743 | ||
| 6744 | * Optimized iconv conversions for S390x. | |
| 6745 | Implemented by Andreas Krebbel. | |
| 6746 | ||
| 4bc1b896 UD |
6747 | * Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel |
| 6748 | support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64. | |
| 6749 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
| 6750 | ||
| 9dd5b8a1 | 6751 | * New locales: ps_AF, my_MM |
| f1092afe UD |
6752 | \f |
| 6753 | Version 2.10 | |
| 6754 | ||
| d36b9613 UD |
6755 | * The following bugs are resolved with this release: |
| 6756 | ||
| 6757 | 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098, | |
| 6758 | 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736, | |
| 6759 | 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881, | |
| 6760 | 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052, | |
| 6761 | 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128 | |
| 6762 | ||
| bb066545 | 6763 | * New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info |
| e109c612 UD |
6764 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
| 6765 | ||
| 425ce2ed | 6766 | * New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64. |
| e109c612 | 6767 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
| 6f5c3117 | 6768 | |
| 1fdd89a7 | 6769 | * Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This |
| 735be400 | 6770 | could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code. |
| 1fdd89a7 | 6771 | |
| 6cbe890a UD |
6772 | * XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are |
| 6773 | now in POSIX. | |
| 77db439e | 6774 | |
| 1f04d005 | 6775 | * New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo |
| 6cbe890a | 6776 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
| 1f04d005 | 6777 | |
| 610e67ed UD |
6778 | * New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit |
| 6779 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
| 6780 | ||
| 878b72c5 UD |
6781 | * Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime |
| 6782 | using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
| 6783 | ||
| e109c612 UD |
6784 | * The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in |
| 6785 | NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
| 6786 | ||
| 6787 | * The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient | |
| 6788 | but higher performing in multi-threaded programs. | |
| 6789 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
| 6790 | ||
| 735be400 | 6791 | * New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN |
| 878b72c5 | 6792 | |
| 84aa52d7 | 6793 | * Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64. |
| 9d26efa9 UD |
6794 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
| 6795 | ||
| 6796 | * Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types | |
| 6797 | and extend existing format specifiers. | |
| a152f366 UD |
6798 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
| 6799 | ||
| c7e74e59 UD |
6800 | * Handling for group shadow files has been added. |
| 6801 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
| 6802 | ||
| 57be3fd7 UD |
6803 | * DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS |
| 6804 | servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS | |
| 6805 | server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout | |
| 6806 | in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put | |
| 6807 | 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf. | |
| 6808 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
| 28919a77 | 6809 | \f |
| b29899ae UD |
6810 | Version 2.9 |
| 6811 | ||
| d36b9613 UD |
6812 | * The following bugs are resolved with this release: |
| 6813 | ||
| 597d0267 ST |
6814 | 2447, 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447, |
| 6815 | 6461, 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712, | |
| 6816 | 6713, 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839, | |
| 6817 | 6843, 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955, | |
| 6818 | 6966, 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029 | |
| d36b9613 | 6819 | |
| b29899ae | 6820 | * Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked |
| f05ac8f5 UD |
6821 | up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
| 6822 | ||
| 6823 | * TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64. | |
| 6824 | Implemented by Alexandre Oliva. | |
| 18a74157 UD |
6825 | |
| 6826 | * getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite. | |
| 6827 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
| 0caca71a UD |
6828 | |
| 6829 | * New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh, | |
| 6830 | htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh. | |
| 6831 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
| 6832 | ||
| 6833 | * New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n). | |
| 6834 | Implemented by Eric Blake. | |
| e038616f | 6835 | |
| 8ec2550e | 6836 | * New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2 |
| e038616f UD |
6837 | |
| 6838 | * Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the | |
| ebcc1f4d | 6839 | close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
| e038616f | 6840 | |
| 7b3ba2c4 UD |
6841 | * Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't |
| 6842 | implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really | |
| 6843 | use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis. | |
| 6844 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
| 6845 | ||
| e038616f UD |
6846 | * Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec |
| 6847 | flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
| 48b22986 | 6848 | |
| bf837fa3 UD |
6849 | * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu, |
| 6850 | Sinhala) | |
| 48b22986 | 6851 | Implemented by Pravin Satpute. |
| 0a26fc4d UD |
6852 | |
| 6853 | * New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW. | |
| b29899ae | 6854 | \f |
| 28919a77 UD |
6855 | Version 2.8 |
| 6856 | ||
| d36b9613 UD |
6857 | * The following bugs are resolved with this release: |
| 6858 | ||
| 6859 | 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220, | |
| 6860 | 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382, | |
| 6861 | 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454, | |
| 6862 | 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600, | |
| 6863 | 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768, | |
| 6864 | 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979, | |
| 6865 | 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042 | |
| 6866 | ||
| e038616f | 6867 | * New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA. |
| b4354cf4 | 6868 | |
| 77751669 | 6869 | * New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8. |
| aece054b UD |
6870 | |
| 6871 | * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati). | |
| 6872 | Implemented by Pravin Satpute. | |
| 6873 | ||
| 6874 | * IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID | |
| 6875 | ||
| 6876 | * nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries | |
| 6877 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
| 6878 | ||
| 6879 | * nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often. | |
| 6880 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
| 6881 | ||
| 6882 | * More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf, | |
| 6883 | vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf. | |
| 6884 | Implemented by Jakub Jelinek. | |
| 6885 | ||
| 6886 | * Faster memset for x86-64. | |
| 6887 | Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu. | |
| 6888 | ||
| 6889 | * Faster memcpy on x86. | |
| 6890 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
| 6891 | ||
| 6892 | * ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX). | |
| 6893 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
| 3b32d8a2 | 6894 | |
| 7f0d9e61 | 6895 | * Faster sqrt and sqrtf implementation for some PPC variants. |
| d990b282 | 6896 | Implemented by Steven Munroe. |
| 46c38bd7 | 6897 | \f |
| e1db0493 UD |
6898 | Version 2.7 |
| 6899 | ||
| d36b9613 UD |
6900 | * The following bugs are resolved with this release: |
| 6901 | ||
| 6902 | 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566, | |
| 6903 | 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773, | |
| 6904 | 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925, | |
| 6905 | 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063, | |
| 6906 | 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186 | |
| 6907 | ||
| e1db0493 UD |
6908 | * More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open. |
| 6909 | Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper. | |
| 6910 | ||
| 6911 | * Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek. | |
| 6912 | ||
| 6913 | * Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance | |
| 6914 | by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested. | |
| 6915 | Implemented by Jakub Jelinek. | |
| 6916 | ||
| 6917 | * PPC optimizations to math and string functions. | |
| 6918 | Implemented by Steven Munroe. | |
| 6919 | ||
| 28919a77 | 6920 | * New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional |
| e1db0493 UD |
6921 | options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
| 6922 | ||
| 6923 | * More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
| 6924 | ||
| 0304f168 UD |
6925 | * New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write. |
| 6926 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
| 6927 | ||
| e1db0493 UD |
6928 | * Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation. |
| 6929 | Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper. | |
| 6930 | ||
| 6931 | * Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc. | |
| 6932 | Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper. | |
| 6933 | ||
| 6934 | * Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
| 6935 | ||
| 6936 | * SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption. | |
| 6937 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
| 0304f168 UD |
6938 | |
| 6939 | * New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG, | |
| 6940 | ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN, | |
| 6941 | yo_NG. | |
| 6942 | ||
| 6943 | + New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU. | |
| 6944 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
| e1db0493 | 6945 | \f |
| 11bf311e | 6946 | Version 2.6 |
| 46c38bd7 | 6947 | |
| d36b9613 UD |
6948 | * The following bugs are resolved with this release: |
| 6949 | ||
| 6950 | 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348, | |
| 6951 | 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493, | |
| 6952 | 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842, | |
| 6953 | 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991, | |
| 6954 | 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114, | |
| 6955 | 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392, | |
| 6956 | 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586, | |
| 6957 | 4702, 4858 | |
| 6958 | ||
| bce20b9a | 6959 | * New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu. |
| 46c38bd7 | 6960 | |
| 4a44ce79 UD |
6961 | * New generic interfaces: strerror_l. |
| 6962 | ||
| b21fa963 | 6963 | * nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
| 3af48b5b UD |
6964 | \f |
| 6965 | Version 2.5 | |
| 6966 | ||
| d36b9613 UD |
6967 | * The following bugs are resolved with this release: |
| 6968 | ||
| 6969 | 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784, | |
| 6970 | 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182, | |
| 6971 | 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472, | |
| 6972 | 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526, | |
| 6973 | 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693, | |
| 6974 | 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841, | |
| 6975 | 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998, | |
| 6976 | 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189, | |
| 6977 | 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273 | |
| 6978 | ||
| 3af48b5b | 6979 | * For Linux, the sorting of addresses returned by getaddrinfo now also |
| 457b559e UD |
6980 | handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled. |
| 6981 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
| 3af48b5b | 6982 | |
| 3142b1ac UD |
6983 | * Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file. |
| 6984 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
| 6985 | ||
| 871b9158 | 6986 | * New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice. |
| 1e528c6e UD |
6987 | |
| 6988 | * New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov. | |
| 3af48b5b | 6989 | |
| 3142b1ac UD |
6990 | * For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate |
| 6991 | option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results | |
| 6992 | of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some | |
| 457b559e | 6993 | site might have problems with the default behavior. |
| 3142b1ac UD |
6994 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
| 6995 | ||
| 07bfff20 | 6996 | * Iterating over entire database in NIS can be slow. With the |
| 3142b1ac UD |
6997 | SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide |
| 6998 | to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once. | |
| 6999 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
| 7000 | ||
| 07bfff20 UD |
7001 | * The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by |
| 7002 | Ulrich Drepper. | |
| 7003 | ||
| 871b9158 UD |
7004 | * Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper. |
| 7005 | ||
| d5ba53f9 UD |
7006 | * Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and |
| 7007 | Ulrich Drepper. | |
| 7008 | ||
| ad2a3c07 UD |
7009 | * Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek. |
| 7010 | ||
| 88cc61e8 UD |
7011 | * New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN, |
| 7012 | or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME. | |
| 2e92188d | 7013 | \f |
| 137e6462 UD |
7014 | Version 2.4 |
| 7015 | ||
| 7016 | * More overflow detection functions. | |
| 7017 | ||
| 7018 | * New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153, | |
| 7019 | IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba. | |
| 1aa4e40a | 7020 | |
| 4973cbe5 UD |
7021 | More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097, |
| 7022 | IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144, | |
| 7023 | IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517, | |
| 7024 | IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712, | |
| 7025 | IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed | |
| 7026 | by Masahide Washizawa. | |
| 7027 | ||
| 1aa4e40a UD |
7028 | * It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using |
| 7029 | LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
| da0eaa47 RM |
7030 | |
| 7031 | * The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no | |
| 7032 | longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels. | |
| 7033 | For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we | |
| 7034 | recommend using the stable 2.3 branch. | |
| 4973cbe5 | 7035 | |
| 35129bc0 RM |
7036 | * The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream, |
| 7037 | but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer. | |
| 7038 | ||
| 7039 | * The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect. | |
| 7040 | ||
| 7041 | * New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat, | |
| 7042 | futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat, | |
| 7043 | renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat. | |
| 7044 | ||
| 7045 | * New Linux kernel system calls: unshare, | |
| 7046 | inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch. | |
| 7047 | ||
| 7048 | * The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess, | |
| 7049 | for compatibility with some other systems. | |
| 7050 | ||
| 7051 | * Timezone data updated to 2006b version. | |
| 137e6462 | 7052 | \f |
| e6a9beca RM |
7053 | Version 2.3.6 |
| 7054 | ||
| 7055 | * The following bugs are resolved with this release: | |
| 7056 | ||
| 7057 | 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961, | |
| 7058 | 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086, | |
| 7059 | 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098, | |
| 7060 | 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109, | |
| 7061 | 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252, | |
| 7062 | 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534 | |
| 7063 | ||
| 5a82c748 | 7064 | Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug. |
| e6a9beca RM |
7065 | |
| 7066 | * As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library. | |
| 7067 | ||
| 7068 | * Timezone data updated to 2005m version. | |
| 7069 | \f | |
| da232bf9 RM |
7070 | Version 2.3.5 |
| 7071 | ||
| 7072 | * The following bugs are resolved with this release: | |
| 7073 | ||
| 7074 | 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719, | |
| 7075 | 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736, | |
| 7076 | 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776, | |
| 7077 | 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825 | |
| 7078 | ||
| 5a82c748 | 7079 | Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug. |
| da232bf9 | 7080 | \f |
| a55bda85 UD |
7081 | Version 2.3.4 |
| 7082 | ||
| 7083 | * Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far. | |
| 7084 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
| 8a1f658b UD |
7085 | |
| 7086 | * nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded. | |
| 7087 | For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes. | |
| 7088 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
| 7089 | ||
| 7090 | * nscd can now perform SELinux checks. | |
| 7091 | Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>. | |
| 7092 | ||
| 0325dd20 | 7093 | * getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed |
| 8a1f658b UD |
7094 | efficiently. |
| 7095 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
| 7096 | ||
| 7097 | * The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when | |
| 7098 | compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception | |
| 7099 | handling data. | |
| 7100 | ||
| 7101 | * The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when | |
| 7102 | it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate | |
| 0325dd20 | 7103 | the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
| 8a1f658b UD |
7104 | |
| 7105 | * Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int | |
| 0325dd20 UD |
7106 | lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
| 7107 | ||
| 7108 | * Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate | |
| 7109 | namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course, | |
| 7110 | like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically | |
| 7111 | linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
| 7112 | ||
| 7113 | * Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions | |
| 7114 | were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by | |
| 7115 | Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible. | |
| 720817e7 RM |
7116 | Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper. |
| 7117 | ||
| 7118 | * Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that | |
| 7119 | have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from | |
| 7120 | the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers. | |
| 7121 | These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module | |
| 7122 | that is usable as an add-on when building the library. | |
| a55bda85 | 7123 | \f |
| 3a601d31 RM |
7124 | Version 2.3.3 |
| 7125 | ||
| 45e4762c RM |
7126 | * New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to |
| 7127 | interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface. | |
| 7128 | ||
| 3a601d31 RM |
7129 | * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64; |
| 7130 | implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath. | |
| 925c3c5c | 7131 | |
| 69be6aaf | 7132 | * getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information. |
| 925c3c5c UD |
7133 | Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk. |
| 7134 | ||
| 7135 | * getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF. | |
| 7136 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
| 97fd3a30 UD |
7137 | |
| 7138 | * support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly | |
| 7139 | by Roland McGrath. | |
| 7140 | ||
| c5af724c | 7141 | * regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek |
| 97fd3a30 UD |
7142 | and Ulrich Drepper. |
| 7143 | ||
| 7144 | * getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to | |
| 7145 | RFC 3484. | |
| 3a601d31 | 7146 | \f |
| 747bf98e RM |
7147 | Version 2.3.2 |
| 7148 | ||
| f87277f2 RM |
7149 | * Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data |
| 7150 | were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS. | |
| 7151 | Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t' | |
| 7152 | object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale. | |
| 7153 | The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h> | |
| 7154 | create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function | |
| 7155 | `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so | |
| 7156 | parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added | |
| 7157 | in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath. | |
| 7158 | ||
| 747bf98e RM |
7159 | * The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which |
| 7160 | have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h> | |
| 7161 | and are now also available on the Hurd. | |
| 7162 | ||
| 7163 | * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64. | |
| d62507dd RM |
7164 | |
| 7165 | * The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names. | |
| 7166 | This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead. | |
| 52a16e58 | 7167 | |
| f87277f2 RM |
7168 | * Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for |
| 7169 | PowerPC machines with no FPU. | |
| 7170 | ||
| 52a16e58 | 7171 | * fexecve is implemented on Linux. |
| f9ad060c | 7172 | |
| f87277f2 RM |
7173 | * The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to |
| 7174 | specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible. | |
| 9ef0a840 | 7175 | |
| 7f0d9e61 | 7176 | * With appropriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented |
| 9ef0a840 UD |
7177 | in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This |
| 7178 | change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling | |
| 7179 | of weak definition in ld.so. | |
| 7180 | ||
| 7181 | * Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived | |
| 7182 | at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately. | |
| 7183 | ||
| 7184 | * Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The | |
| 7185 | AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled. | |
| 747bf98e | 7186 | \f |
| 03a2c647 | 7187 | Version 2.3 |
| 37fb1084 | 7188 | |
| 03a2c647 UD |
7189 | * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164 |
| 7190 | charsets. | |
| 7191 | ||
| 7192 | * iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding | |
| 7193 | options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale". | |
| 47e8b443 | 7194 | |
| bb0ec5bd | 7195 | * localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in |
| 47e8b443 | 7196 | the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used. |
| c17f665b UD |
7197 | |
| 7198 | * Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional | |
| 7199 | tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek. | |
| 8e57fc70 | 7200 | |
| bb0ec5bd | 7201 | * Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating |
| 91e6367e UD |
7202 | copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of |
| 7203 | the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
| 207b66ce UD |
7204 | |
| 7205 | * The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based | |
| 7206 | on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c. | |
| 3b0bdc72 | 7207 | |
| bb0ec5bd | 7208 | * Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant |
| 3b0bdc72 | 7209 | implementation of regex. |
| 02779eaa UD |
7210 | |
| 7211 | * Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support | |
| 7212 | Unicode 3.2. | |
| be45f421 | 7213 | |
| bb0ec5bd RM |
7214 | * Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are |
| 7215 | not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper. | |
| be45f421 | 7216 | |
| bb0ec5bd RM |
7217 | * The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF |
| 7218 | thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms. | |
| 7219 | Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima. | |
| be45f421 UD |
7220 | |
| 7221 | * Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213, | |
| f87277f2 | 7222 | EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII. |
| a753ffb2 RM |
7223 | |
| 7224 | * New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs': | |
| 7225 | BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses. | |
| 7226 | Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath. | |
| 6a9340b5 UD |
7227 | |
| 7228 | * Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale | |
| 7229 | archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper. | |
| dd4f2115 UD |
7230 | |
| 7231 | * Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions | |
| 7232 | inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath, | |
| 7233 | and Ulrich Drepper. | |
| c843e065 RM |
7234 | |
| 7235 | * Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux. | |
| 7236 | \f | |
| 45061a15 RM |
7237 | Version 2.2.6 |
| 7238 | ||
| 7239 | * The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the | |
| 7240 | old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3). | |
| 7241 | ||
| 7242 | * The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file | |
| 7243 | with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name. | |
| 03a2c647 | 7244 | \f |
| a8ae31c2 UD |
7245 | Version 2.2.5 |
| 7246 | ||
| 76321a25 AJ |
7247 | * Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the |
| 7248 | 128-bit long double format. | |
| a8ae31c2 | 7249 | |
| 557a9213 UD |
7250 | * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160, |
| 7251 | IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets. | |
| a8ae31c2 | 7252 | |
| ad2e4f18 | 7253 | * Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux. |
| a8ae31c2 | 7254 | |
| 7d0c5823 RM |
7255 | * Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd. |
| 7256 | ||
| a8ae31c2 UD |
7257 | * libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams |
| 7258 | as well. | |
| 7259 | ||
| 45061a15 RM |
7260 | * optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils |
| 7261 | versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations. | |
| 8e57fc70 UD |
7262 | |
| 7263 | * Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu. | |
| 7d0c5823 | 7264 | \f |
| 33996419 AJ |
7265 | Version 2.2.4 |
| 7266 | ||
| 2995f70e | 7267 | * Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh, |
| aff17a50 | 7268 | asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format. |
| 8fee1bb0 UD |
7269 | |
| 7270 | * Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to | |
| 7271 | support Unicode 3.1. | |
| 86dbe05e UD |
7272 | |
| 7273 | * Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels. | |
| 7274 | Patch by Isamu Hasegawa. | |
| 045fcd26 | 7275 | |
| 69d5f925 | 7276 | * Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks. |
| 045fcd26 | 7277 | |
| 69d5f925 | 7278 | * Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through |
| 045fcd26 UD |
7279 | iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file. |
| 7280 | Contributed by Ulrich Drepper. | |
| 7281 | ||
| 7282 | * The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty | |
| 7283 | severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger. | |
| 7284 | ||
| 7285 | * The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio | |
| 7286 | extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath. | |
| 129d706d UD |
7287 | |
| 7288 | * mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries. | |
| 33996419 | 7289 | \f |
| 2ace5721 UD |
7290 | Version 2.2.3 |
| 7291 | ||
| 1746f2b0 | 7292 | * Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and |
| 2ace5721 UD |
7293 | accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions |
| 7294 | in float, double, and long double format. | |
| 7295 | ||
| f128331c | 7296 | * Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc, |
| b8750342 UD |
7297 | and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the |
| 7298 | 128-bit long double format. | |
| 07f951e4 | 7299 | |
| e4d82761 UD |
7300 | * The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added. |
| 7301 | The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv | |
| 7302 | <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis | |
| 7303 | <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>. | |
| 7304 | ||
| 2ace5721 UD |
7305 | * An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed |
| 7306 | after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments. | |
| 7307 | No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
| b8a8413c UD |
7308 | |
| 7309 | * Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky | |
| 7310 | <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>. | |
| a66f0958 UD |
7311 | |
| 7312 | * David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family | |
| 7313 | of functions for Linux/IA-64. | |
| 481b550f UD |
7314 | |
| 7315 | * The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service | |
| 7316 | of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum | |
| 7317 | <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper. | |
| f128331c UD |
7318 | |
| 7319 | * Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext | |
| 7320 | family of functions for Linux/S390. | |
| 232fdf8c UD |
7321 | |
| 7322 | * Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family | |
| 7323 | of functions for Linux/x86. | |
| eacde9d0 UD |
7324 | |
| 7325 | * Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications. | |
| 2ace5721 | 7326 | \f |
| 306eeae5 UD |
7327 | Version 2.2.2 |
| 7328 | ||
| 464d97ec | 7329 | * Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir |
| 306eeae5 UD |
7330 | we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The |
| 7331 | result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in | |
| 7332 | the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need | |
| 7333 | corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in | |
| 7334 | previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many | |
| 7335 | other headers. | |
| 464d97ec UD |
7336 | |
| 7337 | * regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly. | |
| 7338 | Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>. | |
| 7339 | ||
| 7340 | * iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles | |
| 7341 | charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be | |
| 7342 | provided and the conversion happens based on this data. | |
| 7343 | Contributed by Ulrich Drepper. | |
| 7344 | ||
| 7345 | * The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed | |
| 7346 | locales. While | |
| 7347 | ||
| 7348 | locale -a | |
| 7349 | ||
| 7350 | only lists the names of the supported locales | |
| 7351 | ||
| 7352 | locale -a --verbose | |
| 7353 | ||
| 7354 | provides details such as country, language, and codeset name. | |
| 7355 | Contributed by Ulrich Drepper. | |
| 306eeae5 | 7356 | \f |
| d2defdc4 UD |
7357 | Version 2.2.1 |
| 7358 | ||
| 7359 | * The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset | |
| 7360 | selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful | |
| 7361 | character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way | |
| 7362 | to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first | |
| 7363 | message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like | |
| 7364 | ||
| 7365 | $ codeset=ISO-8859-2 | |
| 7366 | ||
| 7367 | to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case). | |
| 7368 | ||
| 7369 | Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper. | |
| aea6353a UD |
7370 | |
| 7371 | * New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset), | |
| 7372 | IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset). | |
| 7373 | Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>. | |
| 234669e2 UD |
7374 | |
| 7375 | * Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson | |
| 7376 | <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>. | |
| 7377 | ||
| 7378 | * The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is | |
| 7379 | changed from the default "C" locale. | |
| 7380 | ||
| 7381 | * The usual bug fixes. | |
| d2defdc4 | 7382 | \f |
| 2e92188d UD |
7383 | Version 2.2 |
| 7384 | ||
| 08a2e4a0 GM |
7385 | * Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's |
| 7386 | new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC | |
| 7387 | is in progress. | |
| 7388 | ||
| 2e92188d UD |
7389 | * Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd. |
| 7390 | ||
| 793bd4d9 | 7391 | * The Berkeley db libraries have been removed. |
| 2e92188d | 7392 | |
| 47b853e8 UD |
7393 | Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it |
| 7394 | obviously requires a database library being available. | |
| 7395 | ||
| 0013b2b1 UD |
7396 | * Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
| 7397 | ||
| abbffdf9 | 7398 | * Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper. |
| 01c771d0 | 7399 | |
| 6e8afc1c UD |
7400 | * Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the |
| 7401 | behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger. | |
| 7402 | ||
| 591e1ffb UD |
7403 | * ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek. |
| 7404 | ||
| d3436b3c UD |
7405 | * The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports |
| 7406 | threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley, | |
| 7407 | and Mark Kettenis. | |
| 2588068b UD |
7408 | |
| 7409 | This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since | |
| 7410 | now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it | |
| 7411 | in one thread does not have any effect in other threads. | |
| 66ac0abe | 7412 | |
| a00c3ca9 | 7413 | The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport |
| d3436b3c UD |
7414 | protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas. |
| 7415 | ||
| 1c5d4617 UD |
7416 | * Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the |
| 7417 | header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library | |
| 7418 | (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard). | |
| 7419 | ||
| abbffdf9 UD |
7420 | * Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character |
| 7421 | sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll, | |
| 7422 | strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work. | |
| 7423 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
| 7424 | ||
| 8f3f1e09 UD |
7425 | Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data |
| 7426 | structures for the wide character tables. | |
| 7427 | ||
| abbffdf9 UD |
7428 | * Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
| 7429 | ||
| 69173865 UD |
7430 | * The utmp daemon has been removed. |
| 7431 | ||
| 7432 | * The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger. | |
| 7433 | ||
| 37fb8add UD |
7434 | * A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima |
| 7435 | and Yutaka Niibe. | |
| 7436 | ||
| 594cee6c UD |
7437 | * POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper. |
| 7438 | ||
| 40c4c9b5 UD |
7439 | * POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku. |
| 7440 | ||
| 594cee6c UD |
7441 | * POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
| 7442 | ||
| 7443 | * POSIX spinlocks are now available. | |
| 7444 | ||
| 40c4c9b5 UD |
7445 | * Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented. |
| 7446 | ||
| 8f3f1e09 UD |
7447 | * the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out |
| 7448 | compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only | |
| 7449 | implemented for Linux. | |
| 7450 | ||
| 3107c0c5 UD |
7451 | * the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new |
| 7452 | field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be | |
| 7453 | recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc | |
| 7454 | versions. | |
| 7455 | ||
| d2830ba4 UD |
7456 | * various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by |
| 7457 | Masahide Washizawa. | |
| 7458 | ||
| 8f3f1e09 | 7459 | * IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu. |
| 6f2a8167 UD |
7460 | \f |
| 7461 | Version 2.1.3 | |
| 7462 | ||
| 7463 | * bug fixes | |
| 7464 | ||
| 01c771d0 UD |
7465 | \f |
| 7466 | Version 2.1.2 | |
| 7467 | ||
| 7468 | * bug fixes | |
| 7469 | ||
| 28f540f4 | 7470 | \f |
| e518937a UD |
7471 | Version 2.1.1 |
| 7472 | ||
| 27995311 UD |
7473 | * New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added. |
| 7474 | ||
| 16b0f634 UD |
7475 | * New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean. |
| 7476 | ||
| 407d26b7 | 7477 | * Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code). |
| 16b0f634 UD |
7478 | |
| 7479 | * Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0. | |
| 7480 | ||
| 407d26b7 | 7481 | * New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx. |
| 16b0f634 | 7482 | |
| 407d26b7 | 7483 | * Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader). |
| 16b0f634 UD |
7484 | |
| 7485 | * Update timezone data files. | |
| 27995311 | 7486 | |
| 554b8800 UD |
7487 | * lots of charmaps corrections |
| 7488 | ||
| 7489 | * some new locale definitions and charmaps | |
| 7490 | ||
| e518937a | 7491 | \f |
| c84142e8 UD |
7492 | Version 2.1 |
| 7493 | ||
| da2d1bc5 UD |
7494 | * Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to |
| 7495 | conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been | |
| 7496 | adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications, | |
| 7497 | but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use | |
| 7498 | struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present | |
| 7499 | a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries. | |
| 7500 | ||
| c84142e8 | 7501 | * An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale |
| 1fb05e3d | 7502 | model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
| c84142e8 | 7503 | |
| 1fb05e3d | 7504 | * Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on |
| c84142e8 UD |
7505 | symbol level. |
| 7506 | ||
| 7f0d9e61 | 7507 | * Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierarchical |
| c84142e8 | 7508 | command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt. |
| 377a515b | 7509 | |
| cbdee279 | 7510 | * strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X. |
| 377a515b UD |
7511 | |
| 7512 | * printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point | |
| cbdee279 | 7513 | numbers. |
| 377a515b | 7514 | |
| cbdee279 | 7515 | * scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers. |
| e61abf83 | 7516 | |
| 48869012 UD |
7517 | * the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides |
| 7518 | information and interfaces for the available integer types. | |
| e61abf83 | 7519 | |
| 813f4f4d UD |
7520 | * about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math |
| 7521 | library. | |
| 7522 | ||
| e61abf83 | 7523 | * the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math |
| cbdee279 UD |
7524 | functions from ISO C 9X. |
| 7525 | ||
| 7526 | * the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or | |
| 7527 | real valued functions. | |
| e61abf83 | 7528 | |
| a5a0310d | 7529 | * Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2. |
| e61abf83 | 7530 | |
| a5a0310d UD |
7531 | * Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library. |
| 7532 | ||
| 7533 | * Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon. | |
| cbdee279 | 7534 | |
| 440d13e2 | 7535 | * Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv). |
| cbdee279 UD |
7536 | |
| 7537 | * Optimized string functions have been added. | |
| 7538 | ||
| 7539 | * The localedata addon is now part of glibc. | |
| 2eb45444 UD |
7540 | |
| 7541 | * An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper. | |
| ea278354 | 7542 | |
| 48244d09 UD |
7543 | * Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching |
| 7544 | daemon for NSS (nscd). | |
| 7545 | ||
| 7546 | Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under | |
| 7547 | Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes | |
| 7548 | ||
| 0dee6738 | 7549 | user system wall |
| 48244d09 | 7550 | |
| 0dee6738 | 7551 | using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s |
| 48244d09 | 7552 | |
| 0dee6738 | 7553 | using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s |
| 48244d09 | 7554 | |
| 0dee6738 | 7555 | using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s |
| 48244d09 | 7556 | |
| 0dee6738 UD |
7557 | using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s |
| 7558 | ||
| 7559 | using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s | |
| 7560 | ||
| 7561 | using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s | |
| 48244d09 | 7562 | |
| 48244d09 UD |
7563 | Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times. |
| 7564 | It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is | |
| 0dee6738 | 7565 | horribly slow. |
| 48244d09 | 7566 | |
| 0dee6738 UD |
7567 | [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was |
| 7568 | distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced. | |
| ea278354 UD |
7569 | |
| 7570 | * Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family. | |
| 48869012 UD |
7571 | |
| 7572 | * Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module. | |
| 20833331 UD |
7573 | |
| 7574 | * The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN | |
| 7575 | and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper). | |
| 7576 | ||
| 7577 | * rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland). | |
| 48244d09 | 7578 | |
| 62595351 UD |
7579 | * A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott |
| 7580 | Bambrough. | |
| 7581 | ||
| 7582 | * Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the | |
| 7583 | latest draft standards. | |
| 7584 | ||
| 1770a20d UD |
7585 | * Support for Linux 2.2 has been added. |
| 7586 | ||
| 48244d09 UD |
7587 | * Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release: |
| 7588 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | |
| 62595351 | 7589 | addseverity NEW: Unix98 |
| 48244d09 | 7590 | alphasort64 NEW: LFS |
| 62595351 UD |
7591 | argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext |
| 7592 | argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext | |
| 7593 | argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext | |
| 7594 | argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext | |
| 7595 | argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext | |
| 7596 | argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext | |
| 7597 | argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext | |
| 7598 | argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext | |
| 7599 | argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext | |
| 7600 | argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext | |
| e980ca92 UD |
7601 | authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC |
| 7602 | authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC | |
| 7603 | authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC | |
| 48244d09 UD |
7604 | backtrace NEW: GNU ext. |
| 7605 | backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext. | |
| 7606 | backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext. | |
| 7607 | cacos NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7608 | cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7609 | cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7610 | cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7611 | cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7612 | cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7613 | capget NEW: kernel | |
| 7614 | capset NEW: kernel | |
| 7615 | carg NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7616 | cargf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7617 | cargl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7618 | casin NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7619 | casinf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7620 | casinh NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7621 | casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7622 | casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7623 | casinl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7624 | catan NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7625 | catanf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7626 | catanh NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7627 | catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7628 | catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7629 | catanl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| e980ca92 | 7630 | cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC |
| 48244d09 UD |
7631 | ccos NEW: ISO C 9x |
| 7632 | ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7633 | ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7634 | ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7635 | ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7636 | ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7637 | cexp NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7638 | cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7639 | cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7640 | cimag NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7641 | cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7642 | cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7643 | clearerr_locked REMOVED | |
| 7644 | clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext | |
| 7645 | clog NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7646 | clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7647 | clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7648 | clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7649 | clogf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7650 | clogl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7651 | conj NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7652 | conjf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7653 | conjl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7654 | cpow NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7655 | cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7656 | cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7657 | cproj NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7658 | cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7659 | cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7660 | creal NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7661 | crealf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7662 | creall NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7663 | creat64 NEW: LFS | |
| 7664 | csin NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7665 | csinf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7666 | csinh NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7667 | csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7668 | csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7669 | csinl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7670 | csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7671 | csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7672 | csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7673 | ctan NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7674 | ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7675 | ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7676 | ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7677 | ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7678 | ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| e980ca92 UD |
7679 | des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC |
| 7680 | ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC | |
| 62595351 | 7681 | endutxent NEW: Unix98 |
| 48244d09 UD |
7682 | exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x |
| 7683 | exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7684 | exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7685 | exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7686 | exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7687 | exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7688 | fattach NEW: STREAMS | |
| 7689 | fdetach NEW: STREAMS | |
| 7690 | fdim NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7691 | fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7692 | fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7693 | feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7694 | fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7695 | fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7696 | fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7697 | feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7698 | feof_locked REMOVED | |
| 7699 | feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7700 | ferror_locked REMOVED | |
| 7701 | fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7702 | fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7703 | fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7704 | fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7705 | feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7706 | fflush_locked REMOVED | |
| 7707 | ffsl NEW: GNU ext. | |
| 7708 | ffsll NEW: GNU ext. | |
| 7709 | fgetpos64 NEW: LFS | |
| 7710 | fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext. | |
| 7711 | fileno_locked REMOVED | |
| 7712 | fma NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7713 | fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7714 | fmal NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7715 | fmax NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7716 | fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7717 | fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7718 | fmin NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7719 | fminf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7720 | fminl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 62595351 | 7721 | fmtmsg NEW: Unix98 |
| 48244d09 UD |
7722 | fopen64 NEW: LFS |
| 7723 | fputc_locked REMOVED | |
| 7724 | fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext. | |
| 7725 | fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext. | |
| 7726 | freopen64 NEW: LFS | |
| 7727 | fseeko NEW: Unix98 | |
| 7728 | fsetpos64 NEW: LFS | |
| 7729 | fstatfs64 NEW: LFS | |
| 7730 | fstatvfs NEW: Unix98 | |
| 7731 | fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS | |
| 7732 | ftello NEW: Unix98 | |
| 7733 | ftello64 NEW: LFS | |
| 7734 | ftruncate64 NEW: LFS | |
| 7735 | ftw64 NEW: LFS | |
| 7736 | fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext. | |
| 7737 | gai_strerror NEW: IPv6 | |
| 7738 | gamma_r REMOVED | |
| 7739 | gammaf_r REMOVED | |
| 7740 | gammal_r REMOVED | |
| 7741 | getchar_locked REMOVED | |
| 7742 | getdate NEW: Unix98 | |
| 7743 | getdate_err NEW: Unix98 | |
| 7744 | getdate_r NEW: GNU ext. | |
| 7745 | getmsg NEW: STREAMS | |
| 7746 | getnameinfo NEW: IPv6 | |
| e980ca92 | 7747 | getnetname NEW: Secure RPC |
| 48244d09 UD |
7748 | getpmsg NEW: STREAMS |
| 7749 | getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY | |
| 7750 | getrlimit64 NEW: LFS | |
| 62595351 UD |
7751 | getutxent NEW: Unix98 |
| 7752 | getutxid NEW: Unix98 | |
| 7753 | getutxline NEW: Unix98 | |
| 48244d09 UD |
7754 | glob64 NEW: GNU ext. |
| 7755 | globfree64 NEW: GNU ext. | |
| 7756 | gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext. | |
| 7757 | gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext. | |
| 7758 | grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY | |
| e980ca92 | 7759 | host2netname NEW: Secure RPC |
| 48244d09 UD |
7760 | iconv NEW: iconv |
| 7761 | iconv_close NEW: iconv | |
| 7762 | iconv_open NEW: iconv | |
| 7763 | if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6 | |
| 7764 | if_indextoname NEW: IPv6 | |
| 7765 | if_nameindex NEW: IPv6 | |
| 7766 | if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6 | |
| 7767 | in6addr_any NEW: IPv6 | |
| 7768 | in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6 | |
| 7769 | inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6 | |
| 7770 | isastream NEW: STREAMS | |
| 7771 | iswblank NEW: GNU ext. | |
| e980ca92 UD |
7772 | key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC |
| 7773 | key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC | |
| 7774 | key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC | |
| 7775 | key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC | |
| 7776 | key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC | |
| 7777 | key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC | |
| 7778 | key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC | |
| 7779 | key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC | |
| 7780 | key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC | |
| 48244d09 UD |
7781 | llrint NEW: ISO C 9x |
| 7782 | llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7783 | llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7784 | llround NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7785 | llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7786 | llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7787 | log2 NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7788 | log2f NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7789 | log2l NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7790 | lrint NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7791 | lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7792 | lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7793 | lround NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7794 | lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7795 | lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7796 | lseek64 NEW: LFS | |
| 7797 | makecontext NEW: Unix98 | |
| 7798 | mempcpy NEW: GNU ext. | |
| 7799 | mmap64 NEW: LFS | |
| 7800 | moncontrol REMOVED | |
| 7801 | modify_ldt NEW: kernel | |
| 7802 | nan NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7803 | nanf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7804 | nanl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7805 | nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7806 | nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7807 | nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| e980ca92 UD |
7808 | netname2host NEW: Secure RPC |
| 7809 | netname2user NEW: Secure RPC | |
| 42bd0a85 UD |
7810 | nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x |
| 7811 | nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7812 | nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 48244d09 UD |
7813 | nftw NEW: Unix98 |
| 7814 | nftw64 NEW: LFS | |
| 7815 | open64 NEW: LFS | |
| e980ca92 | 7816 | passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC |
| 48244d09 UD |
7817 | pow10 NEW: GNU ext. |
| 7818 | pow10f NEW: GNU ext. | |
| 7819 | pow10l NEW: GNU ext. | |
| 7820 | pread NEW: Unix98 | |
| 7821 | pread64 NEW: LFS | |
| 7822 | printf_size NEW: GNU ext. | |
| 7823 | printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext. | |
| 7824 | profil_counter REMOVED | |
| 7825 | pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED | |
| 7826 | pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED | |
| 7827 | ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY | |
| 7828 | ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY | |
| 7829 | putc_locked REMOVED | |
| 7830 | putchar_locked REMOVED | |
| 7831 | putgrent NEW: GNU ext. | |
| 7832 | putmsg NEW: STREAMS | |
| 7833 | putpmsg NEW: STREAMS | |
| 62595351 | 7834 | pututxline NEW: Unix98 |
| 48244d09 UD |
7835 | pwrite NEW: Unix98 |
| 7836 | pwrite64 NEW: LFS | |
| 7837 | readdir64 NEW: LFS | |
| 7838 | readdir64_r NEW: LFS | |
| 7839 | remquo NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7840 | remquof NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7841 | remquol NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7842 | round NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7843 | roundf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7844 | roundl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7845 | rtime NEW: GNU ext. | |
| 7846 | scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7847 | scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7848 | scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7849 | scandir64 NEW: LFS | |
| 7850 | sendfile NEW: kernel | |
| 7851 | setcontext NEW: Unix98 | |
| 7852 | setrlimit64 NEW: LFS | |
| 62595351 | 7853 | setutxent NEW: Unix98 |
| 48244d09 UD |
7854 | sighold NEW: Unix98 |
| 7855 | sigignore NEW: Unix98 | |
| 7856 | sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b | |
| 7857 | sigrelse NEW: Unix98 | |
| 7858 | sigset NEW: POSIX.1b | |
| 7859 | sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b | |
| 7860 | sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b | |
| 7861 | sincos NEW: GNU ext. | |
| 7862 | sincosf NEW: GNU ext. | |
| 7863 | sincosl NEW: GNU ext. | |
| 7864 | statfs64 NEW: LFS | |
| 7865 | statvfs NEW: Unix98 | |
| 7866 | statvfs64 NEW: LFS | |
| 7867 | strcasestr NEW: GNU ext. | |
| 48244d09 UD |
7868 | strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x |
| 7869 | strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7870 | strverscmp NEW: GNU ext. | |
| e980ca92 | 7871 | svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC |
| 48244d09 UD |
7872 | svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx |
| 7873 | svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext | |
| 7874 | swapcontext NEW: Unix98 | |
| 7875 | tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY | |
| 7876 | tdestroy NEW: GNU ext. | |
| 7877 | tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7878 | tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7879 | tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7880 | tmpfile64 NEW: LFS | |
| 7881 | trunc NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7882 | truncate64 NEW: LFS | |
| 7883 | truncf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7884 | truncl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7885 | umount2 NEW: kernel | |
| 7886 | unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY | |
| 62595351 | 7887 | updwtmpx NEW: Unix98 |
| e980ca92 | 7888 | user2netname NEW: Secure RPC |
| 62595351 | 7889 | utmpxname NEW: Unix98 |
| 48244d09 | 7890 | versionsort NEW: GNU ext. |
| 3ef4002b | 7891 | versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext. |
| 48244d09 UD |
7892 | waitid NEW: Unix98 |
| 7893 | wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext. | |
| 7894 | wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext. | |
| 7895 | wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext. | |
| 7896 | wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7897 | wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7898 | wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7899 | wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x | |
| 7900 | wcswcs NEW: Unix98 | |
| 7901 | wordexp NEW: POSIX.2 | |
| 7902 | wordfree NEW: POSIX.2 | |
| 7903 | write_profiling REMOVED | |
| e980ca92 UD |
7904 | xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC |
| 7905 | xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC | |
| 7906 | xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC | |
| 7907 | xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC | |
| 7908 | xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC | |
| 7909 | xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC | |
| 7910 | xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC | |
| 7911 | xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC | |
| 7912 | xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC | |
| 7913 | xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC | |
| 7914 | xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC | |
| 7915 | xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC | |
| 7916 | xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC | |
| 48244d09 | 7917 | xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext |
| e980ca92 | 7918 | xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC |
| 48244d09 | 7919 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
| 1770a20d UD |
7920 | \f |
| 7921 | Version 2.0.6 | |
| 7922 | ||
| 7923 | * more bug fixes | |
| 7924 | ||
| a5a0310d UD |
7925 | \f |
| 7926 | Version 2.0.5 | |
| 7927 | ||
| 7928 | * more bug fixes | |
| 7929 | ||
| 7930 | * inet_ntoa is thread-safe | |
| 7931 | ||
| 7932 | * updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc | |
| 7933 | ||
| 7934 | * rewrite of cbrt function | |
| 7935 | ||
| 7936 | * update of timezone data | |
| 7937 | \f | |
| 7938 | Version 2.0.4 | |
| 7939 | ||
| 7940 | * more bug fixes | |
| 7941 | \f | |
| 7942 | Version 2.0.3 | |
| 7943 | ||
| 7944 | * more bug fixes | |
| c84142e8 | 7945 | \f |
| 795fbc9a UD |
7946 | Version 2.0.2 |
| 7947 | ||
| 7948 | * more bug fixes | |
| 7949 | ||
| 7950 | * add atoll function | |
| 7951 | ||
| 7952 | * fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code | |
| e61abf83 UD |
7953 | |
| 7954 | * fix math functions | |
| 795fbc9a UD |
7955 | \f |
| 7956 | Version 2.0.1 | |
| 7957 | ||
| 7958 | * fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific) | |
| 7959 | ||
| 7960 | * dynamic loader preserves all registers | |
| 7961 | ||
| 7962 | * Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in | |
| 7963 | the ELF dynamic loader. | |
| 7964 | ||
| 7965 | * support for parallel builds is improved | |
| 7966 | \f | |
| 40a4b79f | 7967 | Version 2.0 |
| 28f540f4 | 7968 | |
| d3669add RM |
7969 | * GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you |
| 7970 | must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with | |
| 7971 | `-D_GNU_SOURCE'. | |
| 7972 | ||
| 28f540f4 RM |
7973 | * The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak |
| 7974 | symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak | |
| 7975 | symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There | |
| 7976 | is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the | |
| 787126fe RM |
7977 | `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and |
| 7978 | `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion | |
| 28f540f4 RM |
7979 | of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of |
| 7980 | the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to | |
| 7981 | less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files. | |
| dcf0671d UD |
7982 | There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on |
| 7983 | files in the ELF format. | |
| 49e522bf RM |
7984 | |
| 7985 | * Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options. | |
| 7986 | Run `configure --help' to see the details. | |
| 7987 | ||
| 7988 | * The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized | |
| b25c5d66 RM |
7989 | (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The |
| 7990 | `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to | |
| 7991 | `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is | |
| 7992 | built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries | |
| 7993 | are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time | |
| 7994 | loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The | |
| 7995 | new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time | |
| 33a934a3 UD |
7996 | dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the |
| 7997 | application of same name on other systems and it provides information | |
| 7998 | about dynamically linked binaries. | |
| 49e522bf | 7999 | |
| 71733723 RM |
8000 | * The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling |
| 8001 | executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code | |
| d3669add RM |
8002 | through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by |
| 8003 | the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils); | |
| 8004 | the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang. | |
| 71733723 | 8005 | |
| f7eac6eb | 8006 | * The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from |
| 33a934a3 UD |
8007 | Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by |
| 8008 | Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double' | |
| 8009 | functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so | |
| 8010 | programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands. | |
| 8011 | ||
| 8012 | * John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions. | |
| f7eac6eb | 8013 | |
| 5f0e6fc7 RM |
8014 | * Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf' |
| 8015 | mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the | |
| 33a934a3 UD |
8016 | group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers, |
| 8017 | shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf' | |
| 8018 | file controls what services are used for each individual database. This | |
| 8019 | works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf', | |
| 8020 | so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even | |
| 8021 | relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based | |
| 8022 | NSS services available. | |
| 5f0e6fc7 | 8023 | |
| 49e522bf RM |
8024 | * The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from |
| 8025 | strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and | |
| 8026 | `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities). | |
| 8027 | ||
| 8028 | * The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from | |
| 8029 | strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values, | |
| 8030 | respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same). | |
| 8031 | ||
| 8032 | * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point | |
| 8033 | printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and | |
| 8034 | `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly | |
| 8035 | accurate, and much faster than the old ones. | |
| 8036 | ||
| 33a934a3 UD |
8037 | * The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by |
| 8038 | Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale' | |
| 8039 | to compile the POSIX locale definition. | |
| 8040 | ||
| 8041 | * The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are | |
| 8042 | now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The | |
| 8043 | collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions. | |
| 8044 | ||
| 49e522bf RM |
8045 | * The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing |
| 8046 | various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale'). | |
| 8047 | ||
| f7eac6eb | 8048 | * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on |
| 33a934a3 | 8049 | wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>; |
| b7407d63 | 8050 | and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>. |
| 7f0d9e61 | 8051 | These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendment 1 specification. |
| 33a934a3 UD |
8052 | |
| 8053 | * There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available. | |
| 8054 | It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified | |
| 8055 | by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper. | |
| f7eac6eb | 8056 | |
| 71733723 | 8057 | * You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings |
| 49e522bf RM |
8058 | for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example, |
| 8059 | `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints | |
| 8060 | ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different | |
| d365fd2c RM |
8061 | format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate |
| 8062 | different orderings of the values being printed. To support this | |
| 49e522bf | 8063 | feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see |
| d365fd2c | 8064 | the header file <printf.h> for details. |
| 49e522bf RM |
8065 | |
| 8066 | * The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new | |
| 8067 | formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says | |
| 8068 | to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this | |
| 8069 | says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping | |
| 8070 | separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are | |
| 8071 | not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual | |
| 8072 | conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale). | |
| 28f540f4 RM |
8073 | |
| 8074 | * The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much | |
| 8075 | less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid', | |
| 8076 | which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no | |
| 8077 | argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are | |
| 8078 | provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp' | |
| 8079 | with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it. | |
| 8080 | ||
| 8081 | * The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that | |
| 8082 | operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD. | |
| 8083 | ||
| 33a934a3 UD |
8084 | * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release. |
| 8085 | Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the | |
| 8086 | NSS scheme used in glibc. | |
| 28f540f4 | 8087 | |
| 28f540f4 RM |
8088 | * There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'. |
| 8089 | ||
| 8090 | * There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for | |
| 8091 | `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and | |
| 8092 | their use is discouraged. | |
| 8093 | ||
| 8094 | * The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now | |
| 8095 | done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld. | |
| 787126fe | 8096 | |
| 22a1292a RM |
8097 | * New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access', |
| 8098 | but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs. | |
| 49e522bf RM |
8099 | |
| 8100 | * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest | |
| 8101 | local time conventions of the countries of the world. | |
| 8102 | ||
| 8103 | * The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream; | |
| 8104 | see <dirent.h>. | |
| 8105 | ||
| 8106 | * The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface | |
| 8107 | for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for | |
| 33a934a3 UD |
8108 | compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are |
| 8109 | also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and | |
| 8110 | all functions also exist in a reentrant form. | |
| 342414a6 RM |
8111 | |
| 8112 | * The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various | |
| 8113 | functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to | |
| 8114 | system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for | |
| 8115 | allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device. | |
| c709e372 RM |
8116 | |
| 8117 | * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style | |
| 8118 | shared memory and IPC on systems that support it. | |
| 8119 | ||
| 8120 | * Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found | |
| 8121 | in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective | |
| 8122 | implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple | |
| 8123 | binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random | |
| 8124 | number generator. | |
| 8125 | ||
| 8126 | * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the | |
| 8127 | `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc. | |
| 8128 | ||
| 8129 | * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several | |
| 8130 | string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors. | |
| 8131 | ||
| 71733723 | 8132 | * Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely |
| c709e372 | 8133 | on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux. |
| 33a934a3 UD |
8134 | The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later, |
| 8135 | using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux). | |
| c709e372 | 8136 | |
| d3669add RM |
8137 | * Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux). |
| 8138 | ||
| 33a934a3 UD |
8139 | * David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library |
| 8140 | to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the | |
| 8141 | dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha. | |
| 8142 | ||
| 8143 | * Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function | |
| 8144 | for arithmetic and string handling. | |
| d3669add | 8145 | |
| c709e372 | 8146 | * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to |
| 40a4b79f RM |
8147 | support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with |
| 8148 | his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed | |
| 8149 | catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean. | |
| 8150 | ||
| 8151 | * For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat' | |
| 8152 | program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it | |
| 8153 | creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the | |
| 8154 | <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with | |
| 8155 | programs already written to use it.) | |
| 71733723 RM |
8156 | |
| 8157 | * New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h> | |
| 8158 | constants. | |
| 8159 | ||
| 8160 | * Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility | |
| 8161 | with 4.4 BSD. | |
| 8162 | ||
| 8163 | * New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has | |
| 8164 | a given effective group ID. | |
| 8165 | ||
| 8166 | * When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a | |
| 8167 | special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *', | |
| 8168 | `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic | |
| 8169 | `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning. | |
| 8170 | ||
| 8171 | * New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient | |
| 6d52618b | 8172 | function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the |
| 71733723 RM |
8173 | canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn', |
| 8174 | and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for | |
| 8175 | doing the same thing. | |
| 8176 | ||
| 8177 | * The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the | |
| 8178 | POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion. | |
| 8179 | ||
| 8180 | * New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD. | |
| 33a934a3 | 8181 | `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available. |
| 71733723 RM |
8182 | |
| 8183 | * New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it. | |
| 8184 | ||
| f7eac6eb RM |
8185 | * We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header |
| 8186 | files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several | |
| 8187 | types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is | |
| 6d52618b | 8188 | an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with |
| 999493cb | 8189 | `-ldb' to get these functions. |
| f7eac6eb RM |
8190 | |
| 8191 | * New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack | |
| 8192 | space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'. | |
| 52e9a9d1 RM |
8193 | |
| 8194 | * New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum | |
| 33a934a3 UD |
8195 | number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and |
| 8196 | `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa' | |
| 8197 | function. | |
| 40a4b79f RM |
8198 | |
| 8199 | * New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>. | |
| 8200 | ||
| 8201 | * The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader | |
| 8202 | provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated | |
| 8203 | strings. | |
| 8204 | ||
| 8205 | * A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading | |
| 8206 | and writing the utmp file. | |
| 33a934a3 UD |
8207 | |
| 8208 | * An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by | |
| 8209 | Thorsten Kukuk. | |
| 8210 | ||
| 8211 | * Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be | |
| 8212 | completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality | |
| 8213 | to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats. | |
| 8214 | ||
| 8215 | * Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function | |
| 8216 | defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value. | |
| 8217 | ||
| 8218 | * Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone | |
| 8219 | code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone | |
| 8220 | specification. | |
| 8221 | ||
| 8222 | * The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced | |
| 8223 | by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger. | |
| 8224 | The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is | |
| 8225 | optimized for the use in multi threaded programs. | |
| 8226 | ||
| 8227 | * Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of | |
| 8228 | functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special | |
| 8229 | salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems. | |
| 8230 | ||
| 8231 | * Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper: | |
| 8232 | `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal' | |
| 8233 | to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style | |
| 8234 | expression matcher. | |
| 8235 | ||
| 8236 | * the `lchown' function is available on system which support this | |
| 8237 | functionality. | |
| 8238 | ||
| 8239 | * The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed | |
| 8240 | by Ulrich Drepper. | |
| 8241 | ||
| 8242 | * David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe. | |
| 8243 | ||
| 8244 | * POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available, | |
| 8245 | `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an | |
| 8246 | implementation of `getaddrinfo'. | |
| 28f540f4 RM |
8247 | \f |
| 8248 | Version 1.09 | |
| 8249 | ||
| 8250 | * For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'. | |
| 8251 | ||
| 8252 | * New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and | |
| 8253 | friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD. | |
| 8254 | ||
| 8255 | * The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that | |
| 8256 | want to put themselves in the background. | |
| 8257 | ||
| 8258 | * Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that | |
| 8259 | run without an operating system. | |
| 8260 | ||
| 8261 | * `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long | |
| 8262 | long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'. | |
| 8263 | ||
| 8264 | * All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking | |
| 8265 | routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release. | |
| 8266 | ||
| 8267 | * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release. | |
| 8268 | ||
| 8269 | * The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the | |
| 8270 | YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which | |
| 8271 | have YP (aka NIS). | |
| 8272 | ||
| 8273 | * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international | |
| 8274 | conventions. | |
| 8275 | ||
| 8276 | * The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in | |
| 8277 | $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir). | |
| 8278 | \f | |
| 8279 | Version 1.08 | |
| 8280 | ||
| 8281 | * The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free | |
| 8282 | RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs | |
| 8283 | are included. (There is still no support for YP.) | |
| 8284 | ||
| 8285 | * Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running | |
| 8286 | Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4). | |
| 8287 | ||
| 8288 | * The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking | |
| 8289 | facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility. | |
| 8290 | ||
| 8291 | * New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility. | |
| 8292 | ||
| 8293 | * New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility. | |
| 8294 | ||
| 8295 | * New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for | |
| 8296 | compatibility. | |
| 8297 | ||
| 8298 | * The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes | |
| 8299 | the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling | |
| 8300 | function (with versions of GCC that support this). | |
| 8301 | ||
| 8302 | * The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>. | |
| 8303 | ||
| 8304 | * The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory | |
| 8305 | management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and | |
| 8306 | `madvise', on systems that support those facilities. | |
| 8307 | ||
| 8308 | * The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to | |
| 8309 | abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes | |
| 8310 | an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function | |
| 8311 | `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at | |
| 8312 | any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc' | |
| 8313 | on a block). | |
| 8314 | ||
| 8315 | * It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one | |
| 8316 | system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All | |
| 8317 | you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the | |
| 8318 | native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a | |
| 8319 | few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the | |
| 8320 | cross-compiler. | |
| 8321 | ||
| 8322 | * The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes | |
| 8323 | a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file. | |
| 8324 | \f | |
| 8325 | Version 1.07 | |
| 8326 | ||
| 8327 | * Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha | |
| 8328 | running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete. | |
| 8329 | ||
| 8330 | * You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix | |
| 8331 | to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install | |
| 8332 | the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever. | |
| 8333 | ||
| 8334 | * The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It | |
| 8335 | copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the | |
| 8336 | address of the last character written. | |
| 8337 | ||
| 8338 | * You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is | |
| 8339 | compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you. | |
| 8340 | ||
| 8341 | * You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the | |
| 8342 | stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor. | |
| 8343 | ||
| 8344 | * ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it | |
| 8345 | allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which | |
| 8346 | you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if | |
| 8347 | you dereference this pointer. | |
| 8348 | ||
| 8349 | * The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either | |
| 8350 | NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4. | |
| 8351 | ||
| 8352 | * The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function | |
| 8353 | for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix | |
| 8354 | systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as | |
| 8355 | `pipe', `fork' and `getppid'). | |
| 8356 | ||
| 8357 | * The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined | |
| 8358 | to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels | |
| 8359 | use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to | |
| 8360 | EAGAIN in every system call function. | |
| 8361 | \f | |
| 8362 | Version 1.06 | |
| 8363 | ||
| 8364 | * The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library. | |
| 8365 | `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual. | |
| 8366 | `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i | |
| 8367 | in Emacs or the `info' program. | |
| 596dc7b6 | 8368 | Please send comments on the manual to libc-alpha@sourceware.org. |
| 28f540f4 RM |
8369 | |
| 8370 | * The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4). | |
| 8371 | ||
| 8372 | * Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2. | |
| 8373 | ||
| 8374 | * Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running | |
| 8375 | Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix). | |
| 8376 | ||
| 8377 | * The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO | |
| 8378 | ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2). | |
| 8379 | ||
| 8380 | * New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when | |
| 8381 | malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you. | |
| 8382 | ||
| 8383 | * The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for | |
| 8384 | its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation | |
| 8385 | overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it | |
| 8386 | needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a | |
| 8387 | pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **'). | |
| 8388 | ||
| 8389 | * There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding | |
| 8390 | to the error code in `errno'. | |
| 8391 | ||
| 8392 | * In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s' | |
| 8393 | or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you | |
| 8394 | pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a | |
| 8395 | malloc'd string. | |
| 8396 | ||
| 8397 | * The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and | |
| 8398 | `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a | |
| 8399 | name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching. | |
| 8400 | ||
| 8401 | * `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a | |
| 8402 | uniquely-named temporary file. | |
| 8403 | \f | |
| 8404 | Version 1.05 | |
| 8405 | ||
| 8406 | * The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is | |
| 8407 | has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more | |
| 8408 | precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'. | |
| 8409 | ||
| 8410 | * The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14 | |
| 8411 | characters. | |
| 8412 | ||
| 8413 | * `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE. | |
| 8414 | These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'. | |
| 8415 | ||
| 8416 | * New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD. | |
| 8417 | \f | |
| 8418 | Version 1.04 | |
| 8419 | ||
| 8420 | * The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure' | |
| 8421 | script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU | |
| 8422 | packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged. | |
| 8423 | The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail. | |
| 8424 | ||
| 8425 | * The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and | |
| 8426 | traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and | |
| 8427 | it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional'). | |
| 8428 | ||
| 8429 | * Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the | |
| 8430 | MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4. | |
| 8431 | ||
| 8432 | * The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries. | |
| 8433 | Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be | |
| 8434 | made itself into a shared library. | |
| 8435 | ||
| 8436 | * Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems | |
| 8437 | (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V. | |
| 8438 | ||
| 8439 | * New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison | |
| 8440 | with limited length. | |
| 8441 | ||
| 8442 | * New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'. | |
| 8443 | ||
| 8444 | * New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories. | |
| 8445 | ||
| 8446 | * New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'. | |
| 8447 | ||
| 8448 | * Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw' | |
| 8449 | function for traversing a directory tree. | |
| 8450 | ||
| 8451 | * The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library. | |
| 8452 | The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that | |
| 8453 | writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do | |
| 8454 | formatted output directly to an obstack. | |
| 8455 | ||
| 8456 | * Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only), | |
| 8457 | cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid. | |
| 8458 | ||
| 8459 | * `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'. | |
| 8460 | ||
| 8461 | * The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful | |
| 8462 | things to your strings. | |
| 8463 | ||
| 8464 | * There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand. | |
| 8465 | ||
| 8466 | * Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux. | |
| 8467 | These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really | |
| 8468 | supporting those systems. | |
| 8469 | ||
| 8470 | * `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what | |
| 8471 | the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'. | |
| 8472 | This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local | |
| 8473 | configuration files. | |
| 8474 | ||
| 8475 | * The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++ | |
| 8476 | compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code. | |
| 8477 | ||
| 8478 | * The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy, | |
| 56ddf355 UD |
8479 | bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared |
| 8480 | in <strings.h>.) | |
| 28f540f4 RM |
8481 | |
| 8482 | * Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting | |
| 8483 | function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be | |
| 8484 | significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is | |
| 8485 | now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot | |
| 8486 | of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the | |
| 8487 | required storage is not available. | |
| 8488 | ||
| 8489 | * The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which | |
| 8490 | provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points. | |
| 28f540f4 RM |
8491 | |
| 8492 | * The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the | |
| 8493 | latest files released from Berkeley. | |
| 8494 | \f | |
| 8495 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
| 9fcdec73 | 8496 | Copying conditions: |
| 28f540f4 RM |
8497 | |
| 8498 | Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies | |
| 8499 | of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the | |
| 8500 | copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved, | |
| 8501 | thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn. | |
| 8502 | ||
| 8503 | Permission is granted to distribute modified versions | |
| 8504 | of this document, or of portions of it, | |
| 8505 | under the above conditions, provided also that they | |
| 8506 | carry prominent notices stating who last changed them. | |
| 8507 | \f | |
| 8508 | Local variables: | |
| 8509 | version-control: never | |
| f7be48d8 | 8510 | fill-column: 72 |
| 557a9213 | 8511 | End: |