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ee9247c3 1GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
26420023 2Copyright (C) 1992-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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3See the end for copying conditions.
4
a306c790 5Please send GNU C library bug reports via <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
69be6aaf 6using `glibc' in the "product" field.
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8Version 2.43
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10Major new features:
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12 [Add new features here]
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14Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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16 [Add deprecations, removals and changes affecting compatibility here]
17
18Changes to build and runtime requirements:
19
20 [Add changes to build and runtime requirements here]
21
22Security related changes:
23
24The following CVEs were fixed in this release, details of which can be
25found in the advisories directory of the release tarball:
26
27 [The release manager will add the list generated by
28 scripts/process-advisories.sh just before the release.]
29
30The following bugs were resolved with this release:
31
32 [The release manager will add the list generated by
33 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
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35Version 2.42
36
37Major new features:
38
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39* The following ISO C23 function families (introduced in TS
40 18661-4:2015) are now supported in <math.h>. Each family includes
41 functions for float, double, long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx, and a
42 type-generic macro in <tgmath.h>.
43
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44 - Power and absolute-value functions: compoundn, pown, powr, rootn,
45 rsqrt.
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47* On Linux, the pthread_gettid_np function has been added.
48
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49* The ISO C2Y family of unsigned abs functions, i.e. uabs, ulabs,
50 ullabs, and uimaxabs, is now supported.
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52* On Linux, the <termios.h> interface now supports arbitrary baud rates;
53 speed_t is redefined to simply be the baud rate specified as an
54 unsigned int, which matches the kernel interface.
55
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56* The thread-local cache in malloc (tcache) now supports caching of
57 large blocks. This feature can be enabled by setting the tunable
58 glibc.malloc.tcache_max to a larger value (max 4194304). Tcache is
59 also significantly faster for small sizes.
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61* A new configure option, "--enable-sframe", can be used to enable
62 SFrame support of the GNU C Libraries. SFrame is a new stack trace
63 information format which can be used by backtrace. It requires
64 binutils with a minimum version of 2.45.
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66* Support for lightweight stack guard pages via madvise and the
67 MADV_GUARD_INSTALL flag has been added to pthread_create.
68
69* Additional optimized and correctly rounded mathematical functions have
70 been imported from the CORE-MATH project, in particular acospif,
71 asinpif, atanpif, atan2pif, cospif, sinpif, tanpif.
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73* The testsuite has been significantly extended, including coverage of
74 the functionality of the printf and scanf function families in many
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75 variants.
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77* The manual has been significantly extended and updated, particularly
78 the threads, terminal, filesystem, resource, and math chapters.
79
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80* Code has been added to detect the x86-64 Intel Arrow Lake, Panther
81 Lake, Clearwater Forest, and Diamond Rapids microarchitectures.
82
83* Regarding S390, support for the new z17 platform has been added.
84
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85Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
86
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87* The glibc.rtld.execstack tunable now supports a compatibility mode to
88 allow programs that require an executable stack through dynamically
89 loaded shared libraries.
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91* On Linux, the <termio.h> header and the definition of struct termio
92 in <sys/ioctl.h> have been removed. The termio interface has been
93 obsolete since the very first version of POSIX.1 in 1988, replaced
94 with <termios.h>.
95
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96* The support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes has been deprecated
97 on all architectures and will be removed in the next release.
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99* On AArch64 Linux targets supporting the Scalable Matrix Extension
100 (SME), setjmp and sigsetjmp will disable the ZA state of SME.
30c7cf66 101
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102Changes to build and runtime requirements:
103
8322e93d 104* GCC 12.1 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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106* GNU Binutils 2.39 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
107
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108Security related changes:
109
110The following CVEs were fixed in this release, details of which can be
111found in the advisories directory of the release tarball:
112
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113 GLIBC-SA-2025-0001:
114 assert: Buffer overflow when printing assertion failure message
115 (CVE-2025-0395)
116
117 GLIBC-SA-2025-0003:
118 power10: strcmp fails to save and restore nonvolatile vector
119 registers (CVE-2025-5702)
120
121 GLIBC-SA-2025-0004:
122 power10: strncmp fails to save and restore nonvolatile vector
123 registers (CVE-2025-5745)
124
125 GLIBC-SA-2025-0005:
126 posix: Fix double-free after allocation failure in regcomp
127 (CVE-2025-8058)
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129The following bugs were resolved with this release:
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131 [5994] stdio: fflush after ungetc on seekable input stream
132 [12724] stdio: fclose violates POSIX 2008 on seekable input streams
133 [25263] dynamic-link: ldd and ld.so fail to resolve $ORIGIN with cross
134 dir symlink
135 [27880] nptl: Please provide a pthread pid accessor
136 [29190] dynamic-link: Symbols with version hash zero lead to crashes,
137 not matched correctly
138 [29459] stdio: fwrite does not return EPIPE when underlying write
139 fails with EPIPE.
140 [31791] nss: [Regression] nss: memory for >8 elements in nsswitch.conf
141 is not freed
142 [32058] libc: qsort leaks memory if C++ exception is thrown from
143 comparison function
144 [32269] dynamic-link: RISC-V IFUNC resolver cannot access gp pointer
145 [32369] stdio: fflush(NULL) doesn't properly flush files opened in
146 read mode
147 [32411] math: THREEp96 seems wrong
148 [32412] dynamic-link: Initial DTV is reallocated using main realloc in
149 auditing mode
150 [32483] locale: ctype.h macros segfault in multithreaded programs with
151 multiple libc.so
152 [32529] stdio: fseek failure on file opened with "rm" mode after
153 ungetc
154 [32535] stdio: fflush failure on file opened with "rm" mode after
155 ungetc
156 [32541] libc: getenv cannot be overridden in static builds
157 [32574] libc: pthread_attr_getstacksize/pthread_attr_getstack return
158 incorrect main stack size
159 [32612] dynamic-link: [aarch64 PAC] _dl_tlsdesc_dynamic can't be
160 unwound through with _Unwind_Backtrace
161 [32626] math: math: log10p1f is not correctly rounded
162 [32627] math: math: sinhf is not correctly rounded
163 [32630] math: math: tanf is not correctly rounded for all rounding
164 modes
165 [32653] dynamic-link: Review options for improving both security and
166 backwards compatibility of glibc 2.41 dlopen / execstack handling
167 [32694] math: wrong clang version 3.4 prereq checks in bits/floatn.h
168 for __float128 support, should be 3.9
169 [32708] libc: Inclusion of sys/mount.h triggers many gcc warnings
170 using -Wshift-overflow=2 -Wsystem-headers
171 [32711] math: math: remainder incorrect sign of zero result
172 [32717] libc: glibc tests fail when bfd is built with --enable-error-
173 execstack=yes
174 [32723] math: [2.41 Regression] /usr/include/bits/floatn.h doesn't
175 work with Intel SYCL compiler
176 [32763] dynamic-link: Static PIE with more than one PT_LOAD segments
177 at offset 0 segfault
178 [32777] crypt: The performance of the rand() function degradation
179 [32781] libc: Inccorect attribute access for sched_getattr
180 [32782] nptl: Race conditions in pthread cancellation causing crash
181 [32786] nptl: pthread_cond_* symbols should probably have had a
182 version bump in 2.41
183 [32795] nptl: aio_suspend_time64 confuses CLOCK_MONOTONIC and
184 CLOCK_REALTIME
185 [32810] dynamic-link: Immediate crash on x86-64 when running with
186 GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.cpu.hwcaps=-XSAVEC
187 [32823] libc: make[2]: *** [../Rules:248:
188 /home/dave/gnu/glibc/objdir/elf/tst-origin] Error 1
189 [32897] dynamic-link: pthread_getattr_np fails when executable stack
190 tunable is set
191 [32918] math: math: atanhf triggers UB
192 [32919] math: math: coshf triggers UB
193 [32920] math: math: logf triggers UB
194 [32921] math: math: sinhf triggers UB
195 [32922] math: math: cbrtf triggers UB
196 [32923] math: math: cospif triggers UB
197 [32924] math: math: erfcf triggers UB
198 [32925] math: math: sinpif triggers UB
199 [32932] libc: riscv: __riscv_hwprobe function attributes are incorrect
200 [32947] libc: stdlib: wrong iovec array size on __libc_message_impl
201 [32980] manual: getopt_long_only does not check long options first, as
202 the manual claims
203 [32981] ports: elf/tst-execstack-prog-static-tunable fails on
204 sparc64-linux-gnu
205 [32987] libc: New tst-dlopen-sgid test FAILs
206 [32996] malloc: i386 TLS helper functions don't preserve XMM registers
207 [33035] libc: [2.27 regression] Linux: __close_nocancel_nostatus
208 clobbers errno
209 [33056] string: Power 10 strcmp clobbers nonvolatile vector registers
210 (CVE-2025-5702)
211 [33059] string: Power 10 memchr clobbers v20
212 [33060] string: Power 10 strncmp clobbers nonvolatile vector registers
213 (CVE-2025-5745)
214 [33088] dynamic-link: __ehdr_start may need run-time relocation
215 [33089] build: [2.42 Regression] GCC 14.2.1 failed to build glibc
216 [33134] libc: mcount_internal shouldn't use vector/r16-r31 registers
217 nor call memcpy/memset
218 [33139] stdio: %n after static dlopen is unreliable if file
219 descriptors are exhausted
220 [33165] build: [2.42 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
221 [33173] math: Wrong IFUNC selector is used for modf/modff
222 [33185] regex: Double-free after memory allocation failure in regcomp
223 bracket expression parsing (CVE-2025-8058)
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224 [33224] dynamic-link: _dl_debug_state hook no longer works (since
225 8329939a37f483a16013dd8af8303cbcb86d92cb)
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227Version 2.41
228
229Major new features:
230
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231* Support for testing a glibc build with a set of C and C++ compilers
232 different from the C and C++ compilers used to build glibc has been
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234 $ ../configure TEST_CC="gcc-6.4.1" TEST_CXX="g++-6.4.1"
235
dc650eb7 236 This includes support for testing the glibc build with Clang, e.g.,
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237 $ ../configure TEST_CC="clang" TEST_CXX="clang++"
238
239 Some run-time failures with Clang are expected.
240
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241* The glibc test suite has been extended again significantly, with now
242 6232 separate tests compared to 5408 in glibc-2.40.
243
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244* In /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_OPTIONS environment variable, option
245 flags can now be prefixed with “-” to clear previously set flags.
246 For example, if /etc/resolv.conf contains “options no-aaaa”, a
247 process running with the RES_OPTIONS=-no-aaaa environment variable
248 performs AAAA DNS queries when the glibc DNS stub resolver is used.
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250* The DNS stub resolver now supports the strict-error option. If
251 activated, getaddrinfo for the AF_UNSPEC address family (with dual
252 A/AAAA DNS lookups) attemps to obtain an A/AAAA response pair from
253 another DNS server if one of the responses indicates failure. Without
254 the strict-error option, getaddrinfo returns the A record data it has
255 obtained even if the AAAA query failed. The new strict error mode is
256 incompatible with some DNS environments which do not follow the RFCs,
257 which is why this mode is not enabled by default. A future version
258 of the library may turn it on by default, however.
259
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260* On Linux, the sched_setattr and sched_getattr functions have been
261 added, for supporting parameterized scheduling policies such as
262 SCHED_DEADLINE.
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264* The iconv program now supports converting files in place. The program
265 automatically uses a temporary file if required.
266
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267* Character encoding, character type info, and transliteration tables
268 have been updated to Unicode 16.0.0.
269
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270* The following ISO C23 function families (introduced in TS
271 18661-4:2015) are now supported in <math.h>. Each family includes
272 functions for float, double, long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx, and a
273 type-generic macro in <tgmath.h>.
274
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275 - Trigonometric functions: acospi, asinpi, atan2pi, atanpi, cospi,
276 sinpi, tanpi.
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e442e837 278* The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2Y_SOURCE to
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279 enable features from the draft ISO C2Y standard. Only some features
280 from this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as
281 the draft is under active development, the set of features enabled by
282 this macro is liable to change. Features from C2Y are also enabled
283 by _GNU_SOURCE, or by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2y".
284
285* Optimized and correctly rounded exp10m1f, exp2m1f, expm1f, log10f,
286 log2p1f, log1pf, log10p1f, cbrtf, erff, erfcf, lgammaf, tgammaf,
287 tanf, acosf, acoshf, asinf, asinhf, atanf, atan2f, atanhf, coshf,
288 sinhf, and tanhf functions have been added from the CORE-MATH
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289 project <https://core-math.gitlabpages.inria.fr/>.
290
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291* A benchtest framework is now in place to track the performance of many
292 (mostly numerical) functions.
293
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294* A new tunable, glibc.rtld.execstack, can be used to control whether an
295 executable stack is allowed from the main program, either implicitly
296 due to a mising GNU_STACK ELF header or explicit explicitly because
297 of the executable bit in GNU_STACK. The default is to allow
298 executable stacks.
299
300* Support for the extensible rseq ABI introduced in the Linux kernel
301 version 6.3 has been added. The size and alignment of the rseq area
302 is now determined by auxiliary vector entries when provided by the
303 running kernel. This results in __rseq_size now exposing features
304 past the original ABI which currently include 'node_id' and 'mm_cid'
305 and will also allow exposing new features as they get added to future
306 Linux kernels.
307
308* The GNU C Library now supports the Guarded Control Stack extension
309 that allows to use shadow stacks on AArch64 systems that support this
310 extension. Building the library with standard branch protection
311 enabled while using a toolchain that supports GCS (binutils 2.44 and
312 GCC 15 or later) will enable GCS support in glibc. There is no
313 special configuration flag. GCS-enabled glibc is compatible with all
314 existing executables and shared libraries and will run with and
315 without GCS support in the system. GCS is opt-in and can be
316 controlled at runtime via the glibc.cpu.aarch64_gcs tunable. By
317 default GCS is disabled. Linux kernel supports this since 6.13.
318
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319* Significant effort has been put into improving the code generation
320 and speed of mathematical functions in the vector mathematics library
321 on AArch64, with regard to the Scalable Vector Extension (SVE) and
322 Advanced SIMD (Neon) intrinsics.
323
324* Support for memory protection keys on AArch64 systems with enabled
325 Stage 1 permission overlays feature as introduced in Armv8.9 / 9.4
326 has been added.
327
328* On PowerPC64, support for the return-oriented programming protection
329 instructions added in ISA 3.1 (Power10) has been added, as well as
330 function optimizations for Power10.
331
332* A new architecture type has been introduced internally to better
333 support Hygon x86-64 processors.
334
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335Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting
336compatibility:
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338* abort is now async-signal-safe and its implementation makes longjmp
339 from the SIGABRT handler always abort if set up with setjmp. Use
340 sigsetjmp to keep the old behavior, where the handler does not stop
341 the process execution.
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0ca8785a 343* dlopen and dlmopen no longer make the stack executable if a shared
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344 library requires it, either implicitly because of a missing GNU_STACK
345 ELF header (and default ABI permission having the executable bit set)
346 or explicitly because of the executable bit in GNU_STACK, and the
347 stack is not already executable. Instead, loading such objects will
348 fail.
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350* The nios2*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
351
352* The big-endian ARC port (arceb-linux-gnu) has been removed.
353
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354Changes to build and runtime requirements:
355
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356* On recent Linux kernels with vDSO getrandom support, getrandom does
357 not act as a "shall occur" cancellation point, in which case it might
461cab1d 358 not issue a syscall or trigger a deferred cancellation event.
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360* Testing the GNU C Library requires GNU awk to be compiled with support
361 for high precision arithmetic via the MPFR library.
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363Security related changes:
364
365The following CVEs were fixed in this release, details of which can be
366found in the advisories directory of the release tarball:
367
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368 GLIBC-SA-2025-0001:
369 assert: Buffer overflow when printing assertion failure message
370 (CVE-2025-0395)
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371
372The following bugs were resolved with this release:
373
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374 [6050] locale: iconv(1) buffers all of stdin in memory
375 [10460] locale: iconv does not support in-place conversion
376 [12683] nptl: Race conditions in pthread cancellation
377 [14147] nptl: Async cancellation left active after longjmp out of
378 signal handler
379 [14799] network: RES_OPTIONS cannot disable options enabled in
380 /etc/resolv.conf
381 [17703] locale: iconv(1) EFAULTs reading the second non-mmapable input
382 [20632] stdio: Buffer overflow in wchar IO (_IO_wfile_overflow)
383 [23675] stdio: freopen() with "ccs=<charset>" leaves the stream
384 unoriented
385 [25847] nptl: pthread_cond_signal failed to wake up pthread_cond_wait
386 due to a bug in undoing stealing
387 [26275] libc: abort(3) is not signal-safe
388 [27543] ports: Inconsistent behavior when handling FPSCR on SH
389 [27821] stdio: double call to ungetc causes uninitialized memory
390 reading. (also: ungetc causes memory leak)
391 [29437] libc: arc4random is too slow
392 [30009] build: unterminated options list in benchtest
393 [30081] network: libresolv: timeout when running in single-request
394 mode
395 [30220] math: String to double returns incorrectly rounded value for
396 hexadecimal subnormal
397 [30584] libc: initstate and initstate_r crash when the state argument
398 is unaligned
399 [30647] stdio: scanf functions wrong on nan()
400 [31394] libc: clone on sparc might fail with -EFAULT for no valid
401 reason
402 [31717] dynamic-link: TLS for library gets reallocated when loaded in
403 two contexts.
404 [31799] dynamic-link: -static-pie -Wl,-Ttext-segment=0x50000 doesn't
405 work
406 [31859] locale: Transliteration rules with two input characters like
407 "ḌḌ" "DDH" do not work.
408 [31890] network: DNS stub resolver ignores header-only error responses
409 [31928] build: glibc doesn't compile if the compiler already define
410 _FORTIFY_SOURCE
411 [31968] libc: mremap implementation in C does not handle arguments
412 correctly
413 [31985] dynamic-link: la_objopen not called when ld.so is imported
414 into a private namespace. However, la_objclose is called with an
415 unknown cookie.
416 [31997] libc: exit is not thread-safe, even when all atexit handlers
417 are thread-safe
418 [32026] libc: strerror, strsignal TLS not handled correctly for
419 secondary namespaces (dlmopen, LD_AUDIT)
420 [32033] locale: iconv (the program) does not truncate output file if
421 input is empty
422 [32040] nptl: CPU affinity test skeleton for sched_setaffinity and
423 pthread_setaffinity_np can fail to report failure.
424 [32042] build: Compilation issue for tst-resolv-short-response.c with
425 older GCC
426 [32045] math: nan() / strtod() incorrectly set errno for overflowing
427 nan payload
428 [32046] locale: iconv -c fails to report input encoding errors if
429 output buffer is full
430 [32047] libc: Tunables may incorrectly set Prefer_PMINUB_for_stringop
431 [32050] locale: iconv - - < /dev/null fails with Bad file descriptor
432 [32052] libc: stdlib.h's use of 'sz' identifier causes libstdc++ test
433 failure
434 [32065] dynamic-link: _dl_fini does not call la_objclose for proxy
435 link maps
436 [32066] dynamic-link: dlclose signals la_activity (LA_ACT_DELETE)
437 after la_objclose calls
438 [32078] string: Random __strchrnul_evex512 failures
439 [32124] libc: readdir_r does not relay errors reported by the kernel
440 [32125] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in __syscall_cancel_arch for
441 powerpc64le-linux-gnu
442 [32126] libc: readdir64_r: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
443 [32128] libc: Compat readdir64_r (__old_readdir64_r) does not enforce
444 NAME_MAX limit
445 [32134] stdio: freopen does not clear flags2 (FD_CLOEXEC etc)
446 [32137] libc: libio/tst-stderr-compat, libio/tst-bz24228, math/test-
447 matherr-2, nptl/tst-pthread_kill-exited fails on powerpc-unknown-
448 linux-gnu
449 [32140] stdio: freopen leaks memory on failure
450 [32145] libc: New stdlib/tst-strtod1i, stdlib/tst-strtod3, stdlib/tst-
451 strtod4, stdlib/tst-strtod5i failures on powerpc64le-linux-gnu
452 [32148] stdio: Memory corruption with ancient i386 binaries using
453 stdio
454 [32168] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 16.0.0
455 [32173] libc: sparc: restartable syscalls are broken
456 [32192] build: s390: utf16-utf32-z9.c fails to build w/ -fomit-frame-
457 pointer
458 [32197] locale: FAIL: iconv/tst-iconv_prog-buffer failures
459 [32212] string: x86_64/strcmp caused 25% performance drop by commit
460 84e7c46df
461 [32214] libc: random_bits always returns the same value if getrandom
462 fails
463 [32215] libc: Signal handlers after fork may encounter missing robust
464 mutex list
465 [32228] libc: .preinit_array in /lib/riscv64-linux-gnu/Scrt1.o is not
466 properly aligned
467 [32231] dynamic-link: ldconfig auxcache format change in 2.36
468 [32233] libc: error calls va_end twice.
469 [32234] hurd: missing va_end call in fcntl.c
470 [32245] build: glibc -Wstringop-overflow= build failure on hppa
471 [32280] localedata: Enable transliteration rules with two input
472 characters in scn_IT
473 [32283] libc: Compilation issue for tst-syscall-restart.c with GCC
474 10.2.1
475 [32323] localedata: eo: Incorrect first day of week and first week of
476 year
477 [32344] string: Assembler warnings when building strcpy-evex.S and
478 strncpy-evex.S
479 [32350] hurd: function __xpg_strerror_r crashes for specific arguments
480 [32360] stdio: Compilation issue for tst-printf-format-skeleton.c with
481 GCC 10.2.1
482 [32366] malloc: malloc test failures with GCC 15
483 [32380] locale: dcigettext can cause SIGSEGV when domain name is too
484 long
485 [32414] libc: [x86_64 regression] tst-strtod5i.c:124:(.text+0x47c):
486 undefined reference to `__copysignf128'
487 [32418] math: __XXX math functions are declared, but not provided
488 [32420] build: GCC 6 can't build glibc 2.41
489 [32440] libc: getrandom() in glibc 2.41 (development) returns EINVAL
490 as retcode instead of errno on powerpc64le
491 [32448] libc: iconv reports failure with successful transliteration
492 [32450] libc: system() does not return -1 if a child process can't be
493 created
494 [32465] nss: ./getaddrinfo.c:1884:11: error: variable 'endp' is used
495 uninitialized whenever '||' condition is true [-Werror,-Wsometimes-
496 uninitialized]
497 [32470] dynamic-link: Integer truncation during x86-64 cache size
498 computation
499 [32488] libc: Glibc failed to build with CET enabled
500 [32492] libc: New test failures
501 [32494] build: Compilation issue with GCC 14.2.1
502 [32508] dynamic-link: ldd: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: cannot execute binary
503 file: Exec format error
504 [32512] dynamic-link: failure to build on loong, undefined reference
505 to `stpcpy'
506 [32543] build: x32 glibc is miscompiled
507 [32588] libc: [2.41 regression] bash crashes with 'realloc(): invalid
508 pointer' with `env -i PATH=`
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511
512Major new features:
513
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514* The <stdbit.h> header type-generic macros have been changed when using
515 GCC 14.1 or later to use __builtin_stdc_bit_ceil etc. built-in functions
516 in order to support unsigned __int128 and/or unsigned _BitInt(N) operands
517 with arbitrary precisions when supported by the target.
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520 enable features from the ISO C23 standard. Only some features from
521 this standard are supported by the GNU C Library. The older name
522 _ISOC2X_SOURCE is still supported. Features from C23 are also enabled
523 by _GNU_SOURCE, or by compiling with the GCC options -std=c23,
524 -std=gnu23, -std=c2x or -std=gnu2x.
525
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527 18661-4:2015) are now supported in <math.h>. Each family includes
528 functions for float, double, long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx, and a
529 type-generic macro in <tgmath.h>.
530
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532
55eb99e9 533 - Logarithmic functions: log2p1, log10p1, logp1.
79c52daf 534
fa455c3b 535* A new tunable, glibc.rtld.enable_secure, can be used to run a program
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536 as if it were a setuid process. This is currently a testing tool to allow
537 more extensive verification tests for AT_SECURE programs and not meant to
538 be a security feature.
539
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540* On Linux, the epoll header was updated to include epoll ioctl definitions
541 and the related structure added in Linux kernel 6.9.
542
543* The fortify functionality has been significantly enhanced for building
544 programs with clang against the GNU C Library.
545
546* Many functions have been added to the vector library for aarch64:
547 acosh, asinh, atanh, cbrt, cosh, erf, erfc, hypot, pow, sinh, tanh
548
549* On x86, memset can now use non-temporal stores to improve the performance
550 of large writes. This behaviour is controlled by a new tunable
551 x86_memset_non_temporal_threshold.
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554
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555* Architectures which use a 32-bit seconds-since-epoch field in struct
556 lastlog, struct utmp, struct utmpx (such as i386, powerpc64le, rv32,
557 rv64, x86-64) switched from a signed to an unsigned type for that
558 field. This allows these fields to store timestamps beyond the year
559 2038, until the year 2106. Please note that applications are still
560 expected to migrate off the interfaces declared in <utmp.h> and
561 <utmpx.h> (except for login_tty) due to locking and session management
562 problems.
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565 initially), not the size of struct rseq (32 bytes initially).
566
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567Security related changes:
568
569The following CVEs were fixed in this release, details of which can be
570found in the advisories directory of the release tarball:
571
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572 GLIBC-SA-2024-0004:
573 ISO-2022-CN-EXT: fix out-of-bound writes when writing escape
574 sequence (CVE-2024-2961)
575
576 GLIBC-SA-2024-0005:
577 nscd: Stack-based buffer overflow in netgroup cache (CVE-2024-33599)
578
579 GLIBC-SA-2024-0006:
580 nscd: Null pointer crash after notfound response (CVE-2024-33600)
581
582 GLIBC-SA-2024-0007:
583 nscd: netgroup cache may terminate daemon on memory allocation
584 failure (CVE-2024-33601)
585
586 GLIBC-SA-2024-0008:
587 nscd: netgroup cache assumes NSS callback uses in-buffer strings
588 (CVE-2024-33602)
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590The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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592 [19622] network: Support aliasing with struct sockaddr
593 [21271] localedata: cv_RU: update translations
594 [23774] localedata: lv_LV collates Y/y incorrectly
595 [23865] string: wcsstr is quadratic-time
596 [25119] localedata: Change Czech weekday names to lowercase
597 [27777] stdio: fclose does a linear search, takes ages when many FILE*
598 are opened
599 [29770] libc: prctl does not match manual page ABI on powerpc64le-
600 linux-gnu
601 [29845] localedata: Update hr_HR locale currency to €
602 [30701] time: getutxent misbehaves on 32-bit x86 when _TIME_BITS=64
603 [31316] build: Fails test misc/tst-dirname "Didn't expect signal from
604 child: got `Illegal instruction'" on non SSE CPUs
605 [31317] dynamic-link: [RISCV] static PIE crashes during self
606 relocation
607 [31325] libc: mips: clone3 is wrong for o32
608 [31335] math: Compile glibc with -march=x86-64-v3 should disable FMA4
609 multi-arch version
610 [31339] libc: arm32 loader crash after cleanup in 2.36
611 [31340] manual: A bad sentence in section 22.3.5 (resource.texi)
612 [31357] dynamic-link: $(objpfx)tst-rtld-list-diagnostics.out rule
613 doesn't work with test wrapper
614 [31370] localedata: wcwidth() does not treat
615 DEFAULT_IGNORABLE_CODE_POINTs as zero-width
616 [31371] dynamic-link: x86-64: APX and Tile registers aren't preserved
617 in ld.so trampoline
618 [31372] dynamic-link: _dl_tlsdesc_dynamic doesn't preserve all caller-
619 saved registers
620 [31383] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 and __fortified_attr_access vs size of
621 0 and zero size types
622 [31385] build: sort-makefile-lines.py doesn't check variable with _
623 nor with "^# variable"
624 [31402] libc: clone (NULL, NULL, ...) clobbers %r7 register on
625 s390{,x}
626 [31405] libc: Improve dl_iterate_phdr using _dl_find_object
627 [31411] localedata: Add Latgalian locale
628 [31412] build: GCC 6 failed to build i386 glibc on Fedora 39
629 [31429] build: Glibc failed to build with -march=x86-64-v3
630 [31468] libc: sigisemptyset returns true when the set contains signals
631 larger than 34
632 [31476] network: Automatic activation of single-request options break
633 resolv.conf reloading
634 [31479] libc: Missing #include <sys/rseq.h> in sched_getcpu.c may
635 result in a loss of rseq acceleration
636 [31501] dynamic-link: _dl_tlsdesc_dynamic_xsavec may clobber %rbx
637 [31518] manual: documentation: FLT_MAX_10_EXP questionable text, evtl.
638 wrong,
639 [31530] localedata: Locale file for Moksha - mdf_RU
640 [31553] malloc: elf/tst-decorate-maps fails on ppc64el
641 [31596] libc: On the llvm-arm32 platform, dlopen("not_exist.so", -1)
642 triggers segmentation fault
643 [31600] math: math: x86 ceill traps when FE_INEXACT is enabled
644 [31601] math: math: x86 floor traps when FE_INEXACT is enabled
645 [31603] math: math: x86 trunc traps when FE_INEXACT is enabled
646 [31612] libc: arc4random fails to fallback to /dev/urandom if
647 getrandom is not present
648 [31629] build: powerpc64: Configuring with "--with-cpu=power10" and
649 'CFLAGS=-O2 -mcpu=power9' fails to build glibc
650 [31640] dynamic-link: POWER10 ld.so crashes in
651 elf_machine_load_address with GCC 14
652 [31661] libc: NPROCESSORS_CONF and NPROCESSORS_ONLN not available in
653 getconf
654 [31676] dynamic-link: Configuring with CC="gcc -march=x86-64-v3"
655 --with-rtld-early-cflags=-march=x86-64 results in linker failure
656 [31677] nscd: nscd: netgroup cache: invalid memcpy under low
657 memory/storage conditions
658 [31678] nscd: nscd: Null pointer dereferences after failed netgroup
659 cache insertion
660 [31679] nscd: nscd: netgroup cache may terminate daemon on memory
661 allocation failure
662 [31680] nscd: nscd: netgroup cache assumes NSS callback uses in-buffer
663 strings
664 [31682] math: [PowerPC] Floating point exception error for math test
665 test-ceil-except-2 test-floor-except-2 test-trunc-except-2
666 [31686] dynamic-link: Stack-based buffer overflow in
667 parse_tunables_string
668 [31695] libc: pidfd_spawn/pidfd_spawnp leak an fd if clone3 succeeds
669 but execve fails
670 [31719] dynamic-link: --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests doesn't work
671 with -Wl,--enable-new-dtags
672 [31730] libc: backtrace_symbols_fd prints different strings than
673 backtrace_symbols returns
674 [31753] build: FAIL: link-static-libc with GCC 6/7/8
675 [31755] libc: procutils_read_file doesn't start with a leading
676 underscore
677 [31756] libc: write_profiling is only in libc.a
678 [31757] build: Should XXXf128_do_not_use functions be excluded?
679 [31759] math: Extra nearbyint symbols in libm.a
680 [31760] math: Missing math functions
681 [31764] build: _res_opcodes should be a compat symbol only
682 [31765] dynamic-link: _dl_mcount_wrapper is exported without prototype
683 [31766] stdio: _IO_stderr_ _IO_stdin_ _IO_stdout should be compat
684 symbols
685 [31768] string: Extra stpncpy symbol in libc.a
686 [31770] libc: clone3 is in libc.a
687 [31774] libc: Missing __isnanf128 in libc.a
688 [31775] math: Missing exp10 exp10f32x exp10f64 fmod fmodf fmodf32
689 fmodf32x fmodf64 in libm.a
690 [31777] string: Extra memchr strlen symbols in libc.a
691 [31781] math: Missing math functions in libm.a
692 [31782] build: Test build failure with recent GCC trunk (x86/tst-cpu-
693 features-supports.c:69:3: error: parameter to builtin not valid:
694 avx5124fmaps)
695 [31785] string: loongarch: Extra strnlen symbols in libc.a
696 [31786] string: powerpc: Extra strchrnul and strncasecmp_l symbols in
697 libc.a
698 [31787] math: powerpc: Extra llrintf, llrintf, llrintf32, and
699 llrintf32 symbols in libc.a
700 [31788] libc: microblaze: Extra cacheflush symbol in libc.a
701 [31789] libc: powerpc: Extra versionsort symbol in libc.a
702 [31790] libc: s390: Extra getutent32, getutent32_r, getutid32,
703 getutid32_r, getutline32, getutline32_r, getutmp32, getutmpx32,
704 getutxent32, getutxid32, getutxline32, pututline32, pututxline32,
705 updwtmp32, updwtmpx32 in libc.a
706 [31797] build: g++ -static requirement should be able to opt-out
707 [31798] libc: pidfd_getpid.c is miscompiled by GCC 6.4
708 [31802] time: difftime is pure not const
709 [31808] time: The supported time_t range is not documented.
710 [31840] stdio: Memory leak in _IO_new_fdopen (fdopen) on seek failure
711 [31867] build: "CPU ISA level is lower than required" on SSE2-free
712 CPUs
713 [31876] time: "Date and time" documentation fixes for POSIX.1-2024 etc
714 [31883] build: ISA level support configure check relies on bashism /
715 is otherwise broken for arithmetic
716 [31892] build: Always install mtrace.
717 [31917] libc: clang mq_open fortify wrapper does not handle 4 argument
718 correctly
719 [31927] libc: clang open fortify wrapper does not handle argument
720 correctly
721 [31931] time: tzset may fault on very short TZ string
722 [31934] string: wcsncmp crash on s390x on vlbb instruction
723 [31963] stdio: Crash in _IO_link_in within __gcov_exit
724 [31965] dynamic-link: rseq extension mechanism does not work as
725 intended
726 [31980] build: elf/tst-tunables-enable_secure-env fails on ppc
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729
730Major new features:
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733 rewrite on x86-64. When enabled with non-lazy binding, the dynamic
734 linker will rewrite indirect branches in PLT with direct branches.
735
a0cfc48e 736* Sync with Linux kernel 6.6 shadow stack interface. The --enable-cet
feeb7297 737 configure option is only supported on x86-64.
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92861d93 739* struct statvfs now has an f_type member, equal to the f_type statfs member;
740 on the Hurd this was always available under a reserved name,
741 and under Linux a spare has been allocated: it was always zero
742 in previous versions of glibc, and zero is not a valid result.
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745 posix_spawnattr_setcgroup_np have been added, along with the
746 POSIX_SPAWN_SETCGROUP flag. They allow posix_spawn and posix_spawnp
747 to set the cgroupv2 in the new process in a race-free manner. These
748 functions are GNU extensions and require a kernel with clone3 support.
749
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750* On Linux, the pidfd_spawn and pidfd_spawp functions have been added.
751 They have a similar prototype and semantic as posix_spawn, but instead of
752 returning a process ID, they return a file descriptor that can be used
753 along other pidfd functions (like pidfd_send_signal, poll, or waitid).
754 The pidfd functionality avoids the issue of PID reuse with the traditional
755 posix_spawn interface.
756
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758 the process ID associated with the process file descriptor created by
759 pid_spawn, fork_np, or pidfd_open.
760
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761* scanf-family functions now support the wN format length modifiers for
762 arguments pointing to types intN_t, int_leastN_t, uintN_t or
763 uint_leastN_t (for example, %w32d to read int32_t or int_least32_t in
764 decimal, or %w32x to read uint32_t or uint_least32_t in hexadecimal)
765 and the wfN format length modifiers for arguments pointing to types
766 int_fastN_t or uint_fastN_t, as specified in draft ISO C2X.
767
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769 information on underlying memory allocated by the glibc (for instance,
770 on thread stack created by pthread_create or memory allocated by
771 malloc).
772
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773* The <stdbit.h> header has been added from ISO C2X, with
774 stdc_leading_zeros, stdc_leading_ones, stdc_trailing_zeros,
775 stdc_trailing_ones, stdc_first_leading_zero, stdc_first_leading_one,
776 stdc_first_trailing_zero, stdc_first_trailing_one, stdc_count_zeros,
777 stdc_count_ones, stdc_has_single_bit, stdc_bit_width, stdc_bit_floor
778 and stdc_bit_ceil function families, each having functions for
779 unsigned char, unsigned short, unsigned int, unsigned long int and
780 unsigned long long int, and a type-generic macro.
781
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783 annotations to allow GCC 9 or newer to auto-vectorize calls to the
784 following scalar math functions when -ffast-math is specified:
785 acos, acosf, asin, asinf, atan, atanf, atan2, atan2f, cos, cosf,
786 exp, expf, exp10, exp10f, exp2, exp2f, expm1, expm1f, log, logf,
787 log10, log10f, log1p, log1pf, log2, log2f, sin, sinf, tan, tanf.
788
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790
2aa0974d 791* The ldconfig program now skips file names containing ';' or ending in
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792 ".dpkg.tmp" or ".dpkg.new", to avoid examining temporary files created
793 by the RPM and dpkg package managers.
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796 options "--enable-crypt" and "--enable-nss-crypt" are no longer
797 available. <crypt.h>, libcrypt.a, and libcrypt.so.1 will not be
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798 installed. For now <unistd.h> continues to declare the crypt
799 function by default, to avoid introducing vulnerabilities into
800 existing applications due to a missing prototype. This declaration
801 is deprecated and may be removed in a future glibc release.
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803 The replacement for libcrypt is libxcrypt, maintained separately from
804 GNU libc, but available under compatible licensing terms, and providing
805 binary backward compatibility with the former libcrypt. It is currently
806 distributed from <https://github.com/besser82/libxcrypt/>.
807
808 As a consequence of this removal, GNU libc no longer makes any use of
809 the NSS cryptography library (Network Security Services; not to be
810 confused with Name Service Switch). Distributors of binary packages
811 of GNU libc are advised to check whether their build processes can be
812 simplified.
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815 during TLS access if a shared object with dynamic TLS is loaded and
816 unloaded. This can result in an infinite recursion if a malloc
817 replacement library or its dependencies use dynamic TLS instead of
818 initial-exec TLS.
819
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821
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823
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825 instructions.
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827Security related changes:
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830found in the advisories directory of the release tarball:
831
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832 GLIBC-SA-2023-0002:
833 getaddrinfo: Stack read overflow in no-aaaa mode (CVE-2023-4527)
834
835 GLIBC-SA-2023-0003:
836 getaddrinfo: Potential use-after-free (CVE-2023-4806)
837
838 GLIBC-SA-2023-0004:
839 tunables: local privilege escalation through buffer overflow
840 (CVE-2023-4911)
841
842 GLIBC-SA-2024-0001:
843 syslog: Heap buffer overflow in __vsyslog_internal (CVE-2023-6246)
844
845 GLIBC-SA-2024-0002:
846 syslog: Heap buffer overflow in __vsyslog_internal (CVE-2023-6779)
847
848 GLIBC-SA-2024-0003:
849 syslog: Integer overflow in __vsyslog_internal (CVE-2023-6780)
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852 ISO-2022-CN-EXT: fix out-of-bound writes when writing escape
853 sequence (CVE-2024-2961)
854
855 GLIBC-SA-2024-0005:
856 nscd: Stack-based buffer overflow in netgroup cache (CVE-2024-33599)
857
858 GLIBC-SA-2024-0006:
859 nscd: Null pointer crashes after notfound response
860 (CVE-2024-33600)
861
862 GLIBC-SA-2024-0007:
863 nscd: netgroup cache may terminate daemon on memory allocation
864 failure (CVE-2024-33601)
865
866 GLIBC-SA-2024-0008:
867 nscd: netgroup cache assumes NSS callback uses in-buffer strings
868 (CVE-2024-33602)
869
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871
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872 [14522] localedata: fy_DE: LC_IDENTIFICATION data looks weird
873 [19305] libc: qsort() should return early if (nmemb <= 1)
874 [19479] localedata: gbm_IN: new Garhwali Locale
875 [19924] dynamic-link: TLS performance degradation after dlopen
876 [19956] localedata: ssy_ER: rename from aa_ER@saaho
877 [21719] libc: stdlib/msort : optimizing merge sort
878 [22526] localedata: th_TH LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
879 [23012] localedata: el_GR: Greece now uses the 24h format for time
880 [23172] localedata: miq_NI: Provide actually abbreviated month names
881 [24006] localedata: Cyclic dependencies via copy in locales
882 [24013] localedata: am_pm definitions for es_ES
883 [24386] localedata: crh_RU: new locale
884 [24877] localedata: [Redundant Data] Remove redundant data between
885 en_NZ and en_AU
886 [25868] localedata: Incorrect trailing spaces in weekday names for
887 nn_NO
888 [26752] localedata: Please add the new locale zgh_MA
889 [27069] dynamic-link: Need a way to tell if a tunable is set by user
890 [27163] localedata: Error on test glk_IR with localedef
891 [27312] localedata: su_ID: new Sundanese locale
892 [27547] manual: "Summary of malloc-Related Functions" shows wrong
893 argument order for `aligned_alloc` and `memalign`
894 [27574] libc: glibc should probably not define __WORDSIZE=64 for
895 __sparcv9
896 [27601] localedata: License information update in
897 localedata/locales/ast_ES
898 [28558] localedata: it_IT LC_MONETARY outdated p_cs_precedes and
899 n_cs_precedes
900 [28787] localedata: Add information for Occitan
901 [29039] dynamic-link: Corrupt DTV after reuse of a TLS module ID
902 following dlclose with unused TLS
903 [29486] localedata: New Zealand locales (en_NZ & mi_NZ) first day of
904 week should be Monday
905 [29504] localedata: Incorrect/misleading Time Format For ms_MY (AM/PM)
906 [29506] localedata: UTF-8 HANGUL SYLLABLE bugs
907 [30349] libc: Support returning a pidfd from posix_spawn()
908 [30412] localedata: d_t_fmt in id_ID uses %r placeholder but am_pm and
909 t_fmt_ampm are undefined
910 [30605] localedata: New locale for Komi language
911 [30649] localedata: [PATCH] Add transliteration of common emojis to
912 smileys
913 [30694] locale: The iconv program no longer tells the user which given
914 encoding name was wrong
915 [30709] nscd: nscd fails to build with cleanup handler if built with
916 -fexceptions
917 [30737] libc: fdopendir() is not robust - returns bogus DIR* instead
918 of flagging an error
919 [30740] build: [m68k] undefined reference to
920 `_wordcopy_fwd_dest_aligned'
921 [30745] libc: Slight bug in cache info codes for x86
922 [30750] network: Unaligned accesses in resolver
923 [30773] math: [m68k] busybox awk is broken (lshift.S related)
924 [30789] libc: [2.38 Regression] sem_open will fail on multithreaded
925 scenarios when semaphore file doesn't exist (O_CREAT)
926 [30800] nscd: Improper assert in prune_cache triggers if clock jumps
927 backwards
928 [30804] libc: F_GETLK, F_SETLK, and F_SETLKW value change for
929 powerpc64 with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
930 [30842] network: Stack read overflow in getaddrinfo in no-aaaa mode
931 (CVE-2023-4527)
932 [30843] network: potential use-after-free in getcanonname
933 (CVE-2023-4806)
934 [30854] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 15.1.0
935 [30884] network: Memory leak in getaddrinfo after fix for bug 30843
936 (CVE-2023-5156)
937 [30932] libc: Fortify Source has false-positives when too many files
938 are open
939 [30945] malloc: Core affinity setting incurs lock contentions between
940 threads
941 [30960] math: signed integer overflow in
942 glibc/sysdeps/s390/fpu/feenablxcpt.c
943 [30964] locale: Number grouping check mishandles multibyte thousands
944 separator
945 [30981] dynamic-link: dlclose does not properly implement force-first
946 handling
947 [30988] math: fesetexcept raises floating-point exception traps on
948 ppc, ppc64, ppc64le
949 [30989] math: fesetexcept raises floating-point exception traps on
950 i386
951 [30990] libc: fesetexceptflag raises floating-point exception traps on
952 i386, x86_64
953 [30998] math: fesetexceptflag clears too many floating-point exception
954 flags on alpha
955 [31019] manual: The documentation of feenableexcept is incomplete
956 [31022] math: feupdateenv (FE_DFL_ENV) crashes on riscv
957 [31035] libc: Library search path terminates on relative non-directory
958 name
959 [31042] libc: [s390x] .init and .fini padding
960 [31068] libc: sysdeps: sparc: invalid data access in memset due to
961 regression
962 [31078] manual: Code example in "Noncanonical Mode Example" has unused
963 'char *name;'
964 [31086] localedata: Errors in Tibetan, Dzongkha data
965 [31113] string: Wrong unwind information for rawmemchr on aarch64
966 [31151] libc: [RISC-V] missing support for profile/audit PLT setup
967 [31163] nss: getaddrinfo returns EAI_NONAME in oom situation
968 [31183] stdio: Wide stream buffer size reduced MB_LEN_MAX bytes after
969 bug 17522 fix
970 [31184] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-tlsgap
971 [31185] dynamic-link: Incorrect thread point access in
972 _dl_tlsdesc_undefweak and _dl_tlsdesc_dynamic
973 [31187] dynamic-link: Some CET tests fail with GCC 14
974 [31204] localedata: Fix decimal point and thousands separator for
975 uz_UZ
976 [31205] localedata: Inconsistent (mon_)grouping formats
977 [31218] dynamic-link: PLT rewrite overflows large displacement on x32
978 [31221] localedata: Add localedata for ISO code "tok" (Toki Pona)
979 [31230] dynamic-link: PLT rewrite failed without SELinux
980 [31239] localedata: anp_IN locale: abbreviated month names are the
981 same as the full month names
982 [31244] nptl: pthread_cancel hangs on sparc32
983 [31257] localedata: Sync with CLDR: “Turkey” -> “Türkiye”
984 [31266] string: sparc: string/tst-memmove-overflow fails on 32-bit
985 sparcv9
986 [31276] libc: Wrong condition for heap allocation in qsort_r
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990Major new features:
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993 following functions support binary integers prefixed by 0b or 0B as
994 input: strtol, strtoll, strtoul, strtoull, strtol_l, strtoll_l,
995 strtoul_l, strtoull_l, strtoimax, strtoumax, strtoq, strtouq, wcstol,
996 wcstoll, wcstoul, wcstoull, wcstol_l, wcstoll_l, wcstoul_l,
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998 following functions support binary integers prefixed by 0b or 0B as
999 input to the %i format: fscanf, scanf, sscanf, vscanf, vsscanf,
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1001 functions also support the %b format for binary integers, with or
1002 without such a prefix and independent of standards mode.
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1005 <inttypes.h>.
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1008 arguments of type intN_t, int_leastN_t, uintN_t or uint_leastN_t (for
1009 example, %w32d to print int32_t or int_least32_t in decimal, or %w32x
1010 to print uint32_t or uint_least32_t in hexadecimal) and the wfN format
1011 length modifiers for arguments of type int_fastN_t or uint_fastN_t, as
1012 specified in draft ISO C2X.
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1015 Transparent Huge Pages (THP) in stack allocation at pthread_create.
1016
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1018 as least binutils 2.40 and GCC 13:
1019
1020 - x86_64-gnu
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1023 requires GCC version >= 10.1.0. It can be disabled via
1024 "--disable-mathvec", however that is not a supported configuration as
1025 it changes the ABI. The symbol names follow the AArch64 vector ABI,
1026 they are declared in math.h and have to be called manually at this point.
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1029 from OpenBSD, and are expected to be added to a future POSIX version.
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1032 GNU C Library with _FORTIFY_SOURCE. The level of fortification can either be
1033 provided, or is set to the highest value supported by the compiler. If not
1034 explicitly enabled, then fortify source is forcibly disabled so to keep
1035 original behavior unchanged.
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1038
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1041 GNU C Library in a future release, so it is recommended that
1042 applications port away from it to an alternative such as libxcrypt.
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1045 MADV_XXX constants were changed to have the same values as the other
1046 architectures. New programs compiled with this glibc version and which
1047 use the madvise call will require at least Linux kernel version 6.2,
1048 alternatively stable kernels from versions 6.1.6, 5.15.87, 5.10.163,
1049 5.4.228, 4.19.270 or 4.14.303.
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1061 ACLE.
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1066 format specifier that uses an <apostrophe> (enable grouping) and a
1067 minimum width specifier, the resulting output could be larger than
1068 reasonably expected by a caller that computed a tight bound on the
1069 buffer size. The resulting larger than expected output could result
1070 in a buffer overflow in the printf family of functions.
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1072The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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1074 [178] string: Please add strlcpy and strlcat (attached)
1075 [14697] nptl: Behavior of exit is nonconformant with respect to
1076 threads and stdio
1077 [15142] stdio: Missing locking in _IO_cleanup
1078 [18096] glob: null deref in wordexp/parse_dollars/parse_arith
1079 [18906] stdio: fopen: ccs value may affect open mode
1080 [24466] stdio: Feature request: provide special printf formats for
1081 intXX_t
1082 [25457] nss: hosts lookup fails for ipv4mapped ipv6 addresses
1083 [28519] libc: system and popen should pass "--" between /bin/sh and
1084 argument
1085 [29016] stdio: popen() sets errno to ENOMEM when shell does not exist
1086 [29591] string: wcsnlen length can overflow in page cross case.
1087 [30053] time: strftime %s returns -1 after 2038 on 32 bits systems
1088 [30068] stdio: incorrect printf output for integers with thousands
1089 separator and width field (CVE-2023-25139)
1090 [30111] time: support_descriptors_list fails after 2038 on 32 bits
1091 systems
1092 [30125] dynamic-link: [regression, bisected] glibc-2.37 creates new
1093 symlink for libraries without soname
1094 [30130] math: [s390] The _FPU_SETCW macro yields compile error with
1095 Clang
1096 [30156] time: Potential ntp_gettime abi break
1097 [30235] libc: Missing fallback in getlogin if loginuid is unset
1098 [30258] dynamic-link: sprof cannot read and display shared object
1099 profiling data correctly
1100 [30263] libc: Add test coverage for abs(), labs(), and llabs().
1101 [30305] math: Incorrect asm constraint in feraiseexcept on x86-64
1102 [30402] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-glibcelf
1103 [30425] dynamic-link: Symbol lookup during dlclose may fail
1104 unnecessarily
1105 [30435] dynamic-link: Root dir wrongly marked as nonexist in open_path
1106 [30477] libc: [RISCV]: time64 does not work on riscv32
1107 [30515] dynamic-link: _dl_find_object incorrectly returns 1 during
1108 early startup
1109 [30527] network: resolv_conf lock not unlocked on allocation failure
1110 [30550] math: powerpc64le: GCC-specific code for isinf() is being used
1111 on clang
1112 [30555] string: strerror can incorrectly return NULL
1113 [30579] malloc: trim_threshold in realloc lead to high memory usage
1114 [30662] nscd: Group and password cache use errno in place of errval
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1118Major new features:
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1121 getent with --no-addrconfig may contain addresses of families not
1122 configured on the current host i.e. as-if you had not passed
1123 AI_ADDRCONFIG to getaddrinfo calls.
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1125Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1126
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1129 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, or employs the legacy AT_HWCAP
1130 search mechanism, which was deprecated in version 2.33.
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1135 string larger than 1024 bytes, it reads uninitialized memory from the
1136 heap and prints it to the target log file, potentially revealing a
1137 portion of the contents of the heap.
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1139The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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1142 [12165] libc: readdir: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
1143 [19444] build: build failures with -O1 due to -Wmaybe-uninitialized
1144 [24774] nptl: pthread_rwlock_timedwrlock stalls on ARM
1145 [24816] nss: nss/tst-nss-files-hosts-long fails when no interface has
1146 AF_INET6 address (ie docker)
1147 [27087] stdio: PowerPC: Redefinition error with Clang from IEEE
1148 redirection headers
1149 [28846] network: CMSG_NXTHDR may trigger -Wstrict-overflow warning
1150 [28937] dynamic-link: New DSO dependency sorter does not put new map
1151 first if in a cycle
1152 [29249] libc: csu/libc-tls.c:202: undefined reference to
1153 `_startup_fatal_not_constant'
1154 [29305] network: Inefficient buffer space usage in nss_dns for
1155 gethostbyname and other functions
1156 [29375] libc: don't hide MAP_ANONYMOUS behind _GNU_SOURCE
1157 [29402] nscd: nscd: No such file or directory
1158 [29415] nscd: getaddrinfo with AI_ADDRCONFIG returns addresses with
1159 wrong family
1160 [29427] dynamic-link: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-printf.c:
1161 200: _dl_debug_vdprintf: Assertion `! "invalid format specifier"'
1162 failed!
1163 [29463] math: math/test-float128-y1 fails on x86_64
1164 [29485] build: Make hangs when the test misc/tst-pidfile returns
1165 FAIL_UNSUPPORTED
1166 [29490] dynamic-link: [bisected] new __brk_call causes dynamic loader
1167 segfault on alpha
1168 [29499] build: Check failed on misc/tst-glibcsyscalls while building
1169 for RISCV64 on a unmatched hardware
1170 [29501] build: Check failed on stdlib/tst-strfrom while building for
1171 RISCV64 on a unmatched hardware
1172 [29502] libc: alpha sys/acct.h out of date
1173 [29514] build: Need to use -fPIE not -fpie
1174 [29528] dynamic-link: __libc_early_init not called after dlmopen that
1175 reuses namespace
1176 [29536] libc: syslog fail to create large messages (CVE-2022-39046)
1177 [29537] libc: [2.34 regression]: Alignment issue on m68k when using
1178 futexes on qemu-user
1179 [29539] libc: LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS changed how vDSO library are
1180 printed
1181 [29544] libc: Regression in syslog(3) calls breaks RFC due to extra
1182 whitespace
1183 [29564] build: Incorrect way to change MAKEFLAGS in Makerules
1184 [29576] build: librtld.os: in function `_dl_start_profile':
1185 (.text+0x9444): undefined reference to `strcpy'
1186 [29578] libc: Definition of SUN_LEN() is wrong
1187 [29583] build: iconv failures on 32bit platform due to missing large
1188 file support
1189 [29600] dynamic-link: dlmopen hangs after loading certain libraries
1190 [29604] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 15.0.0
1191 [29605] nscd: Regression in NSCD backend of getaddrinfo
1192 [29607] nscd: nscd repeatably crashes calling __strlen_avx2 when hosts
1193 cache is enabled
1194 [29611] string: Optimized AVX2 string functions unconditionally use
1195 BMI2 instructions
1196 [29624] malloc: errno is not cleared when entering main
1197 [29638] libc: stdlib: arc4random fallback is never used
1198 [29657] libc: Incorrect struct stat for 64-bit time on linux/generic
1199 platforms
1200 [29698] build: Configuring for AArch32 on ARMv8+ disables
1201 optimizations
1202 [29727] locale: __strtol_internal out-of-bounds read when parsing
1203 thousands grouping
1204 [29730] libc: broken y2038 support in fstatat on MIPS N64
1205 [29746] libc: ppoll() does not switch to __ppoll64 when
1206 -D_TIME_BITS=64 and -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 is given on 32bit
1207 [29771] libc: Restore IPC_64 support in sysvipc *ctl functions
1208 [29780] build: possible parallel make issue in glibc-2.36 (siglist-
1209 aux.S: No such file or directory)
1210 [29864] libc: __libc_start_main() should obtain program headers
1211 address (_dl_phdr) from the auxv, not the ELF header.
1212 [29951] time: daylight variable not set correctly if last DST change
1213 coincides with offset change
1214 [30039] stdio: __vsprintf_internal does not handle unspecified buffer
1215 length in fortify mode
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1219Major new features:
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1222 glibc. This is a new ELF dynamic tag that improves the size of
1223 relative relocations in shared object files and position independent
1224 executables (PIE). DT_RELR generation requires linker support for
1225 -z pack-relative-relocs option, which is supported for some targets
1226 in recent binutils versions. Lazy binding doesn't apply to DT_RELR.
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1229 have been added. The pidfd functionality provides access to a process
7f0d9e61 1230 while avoiding the issue of PID reuse on traditional Unix systems.
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1233 same functionality as madvise but alters the target process identified
1234 by the pidfd.
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1237 caller to release the memory of a dying process. The release of the
1238 memory is carried out in the context of the caller, using the caller's
1239 CPU affinity, and priority with CPU usage accounted to the caller.
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1242 administrators can use it to suppress AAAA queries made by the stub
1243 resolver, including AAAA lookups triggered by NSS-based interfaces
1244 such as getaddrinfo. Only DNS lookups are affected: IPv6 data in
1245 /etc/hosts is still used, getaddrinfo with AI_PASSIVE will still
1246 produce IPv6 addresses, and configured IPv6 name servers are still
1247 used. To produce correct Name Error (NXDOMAIN) results, AAAA queries
1248 are translated to A queries. The new resolver option is intended
1249 primarily for diagnostic purposes, to rule out that AAAA DNS queries
1250 have adverse impact. It is incompatible with EDNS0 usage and DNSSEC
1251 validation by applications.
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1254 and mount_setattr have been added. They are part of the new Linux kernel
1255 mount APIs that allow applications to more flexibly configure and operate
1256 on filesystem mounts. The new mount APIs are specifically designed to work
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1260 Previously, input bytes not within the ASCII range resulted in
1261 unpredictable output.
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1264 functions has been added per the ISO C2X N2653 and C++20 P0482R6 proposals.
1265 Support for the char8_t typedef has been added per the ISO C2X N2653
1266 proposal. The functions are declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the
1267 _GNU_SOURCE macro or C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro is defined.
1268 The char8_t typedef is declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the
1269 _GNU_SOURCE macro is defined and the C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro
1270 is not defined (if __cpp_char8_t is defined, then char8_t is a builtin type).
1271
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1274 quality randomness from the kernel.
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1277 as least binutils 2.38, GCC 12, and Linux 5.19. Currently only hard-float
1278 ABI is supported:
1279
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1281
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1287 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
1288 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
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1291 LD_ASSUME_KERNEL environment variable. The minimum kernel used to built
1292 glibc is still provided through NT_GNU_ABI_TAG ELF note and also printed
1293 when libc.so is issued directly.
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1299 [14932] dynamic-link: dlsym(handle, "foo") and dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "foo")
1300 return different result with versioned "foo"
1301 [16355] libc: syslog.h's SYSLOG_NAMES namespace violation and utter
1302 mess
1303 [23293] dynamic-link: aarch64: getauxval is broken when run as ld.so
1304 ./exe and ld.so adjusts argv on the stack
1305 [24595] nptl: [2.28 Regression]: Deadlock in atfork handler which
1306 calls dlclose
1307 [25744] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS returns 2 instead of 1 when
1308 consuming the second byte of certain double byte characters
1309 [25812] stdio: Libio vtable protection is sometimes only partially
1310 enforced
1311 [27054] libc: pthread_atfork handlers that call pthread_atfork
1312 deadlock
1313 [27924] dynamic-link: ld.so: Support DT_RELR relative relocation
1314 format
1315 [28128] build: declare_symbol_alias doesn't work for assembly codes
1316 [28566] network: getnameinfo with NI_NOFQDN is not thread safe
1317 [28752] nss: Segfault in getpwuid when stat fails
1318 [28815] libc: realpath should not copy to resolved buffer on error
1319 [28828] stdio: fputwc crashes
1320 [28838] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-p_align3
1321 [28845] locale: ld-monetary.c should be updated to match ISO C and
1322 other standards.
1323 [28850] libc: linux: __get_nprocs_sched reads uninitialized memory
1324 from the stack
1325 [28852] libc: getaddrinfo leaks memory with AI_ALL
1326 [28853] libc: tst-spawn6 changes current foreground process group
1327 (breaks test isolation)
1328 [28857] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-audit24a
1329 [28860] build: --enable-kernel=5.1.0 build fails because of missing
1330 __convert_scm_timestamps
1331 [28865] libc: linux: _SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF and _SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN are
1332 inaccurate without /sys and /proc
1333 [28868] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader DFS algorithm segfaults on
1334 missing libraries
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1337 !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS && !__ASSUME_PSELECT fails on Microblaze
1338 [28896] string: strncmp-avx2-rtm and wcsncmp-avx2-rtm fallback on non-
1339 rtm variants when avoiding overflow
1340 [28922] build: The .d dependency files aren't always generated
1341 [28931] libc: hosts lookup broken for SUCCESS=CONTINUE and
1342 SUCCESS=MERGE
1343 [28936] build: nm: No such file
1344 [28950] localedata: Add locale for ISO code "tok" (Toki Pona)
1345 [28953] nss: NSS lookup result can be incorrect if function lookup
1346 clobbers errno
1347 [28970] math: benchtest: libmvec benchmark doesn't build with make
1348 bench.
1349 [28991] libc: sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF) should read
1350 /sys/devices/system/cpu/possible
1351 [28993] libc: closefrom() iterates until max int if no access to
1352 /proc/self/fd/
1353 [28996] libc: realpath fails to copy partial result to resolved buffer
1354 on ENOENT and EACCES
1355 [29027] math: [ia64] fabs fails with sNAN input
1356 [29029] nptl: poll() spuriously returns EINTR during thread
1357 cancellation and with cancellation disabled
1358 [29030] string: GLIBC 2.35 regression - Fortify crash on certain valid
1359 uses of mbsrtowcs (*** buffer overflow detected ***: terminated)
1360 [29062] dynamic-link: Memory leak in _dl_find_object_update if object
1361 is promoted to global scope
1362 [29069] libc: fstatat64_time64_statx wrapper broken on MIPS N32 with
1363 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 and -D_TIME_BITS=64
1364 [29071] dynamic-link: m68k: Removal of ELF_DURING_STARTUP optimization
1365 broke ld.so
1366 [29097] time: fchmodat does not handle 64 bit time_t for
1367 AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW
1368 [29109] libc: posix_spawn() always returns 1 (EPERM) on clone()
1369 failure
1370 [29141] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 fail for gcc 12/glibc 2.35
1371 [29162] string: [PATCH] string.h syntactic error:
1372 include/bits/string_fortified.h:110: error: expected ',' or ';'
1373 before '__fortified_attr_access'
1374 [29165] libc: [Regression] broken argv adjustment
1375 [29187] dynamic-link: [regression] broken argv adjustment for nios2
1376 [29193] math: sincos produces a different output than sin/cos
1377 [29197] string: __strncpy_power9() uses uninitialised register vs18
1378 value for filling after \0
1379 [29203] libc: daemon is not y2038 aware
1380 [29204] libc: getusershell is not 2038 aware
1381 [29207] libc: posix_fallocate fallback implementation is not y2038
1382 aware
1383 [29208] libc: fpathconf(_PC_ASYNC_IO) is not y2038 aware
1384 [29209] libc: isfdtype is not y2038 aware
1385 [29210] network: ruserpass is not y2038 aware
1386 [29211] libc: __open_catalog is not y2038 aware
1387 [29213] libc: gconv_parseconfdir is not y2038 aware
1388 [29214] nptl: pthread_setcanceltype fails to set type
1389 [29225] network: Mistyped define statement in socket/sys/socket.h in
1390 line 184
1391 [29274] nptl: __read_chk is not a cancellation point
1392 [29279] libc: undefined reference to `mbstowcs_chk' after
1393 464d189b9622932a75302290625de84931656ec0
1394 [29304] libc: mq_timedreceive does not handle 64 bit syscall return
1395 correct for !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS
1396 [29403] libc: st_atim, st_mtim, st_ctim stat struct members are
1397 missing on microblaze with largefile
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1404 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 14.0.0, using
1405 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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1408 r_next, support multiple namespaces.
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1411 supports full code-point sorting for all valid Unicode code points. A
1412 limitation in the framework for fnmatch, regexec, and regcomp requires
1413 a compromise to save space and only ASCII-based range expressions are
1414 supported for now (see bug 28255). The full size of the locale is
1415 only ~400KiB, with 346KiB coming from LC_CTYPE information for
1416 Unicode. This locale harmonizes downstream C.UTF-8 already shipping
1417 in various downstream distributions. The locale is not built into
1418 glibc, and must be installed.
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1420* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type, and
1421 corresponding <tgmath.h> macros, are added from TS 18661-1:2014, TS
1422 18661-3:2015 and draft ISO C2X:
1423
1424 - fsqrt, fsqrtl, dsqrtl and corresponding fMsqrtfN, fMsqrtfNx,
1425 fMxsqrtfN and fMxsqrtfNx functions.
1426
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1427 - ffma, ffmal, dfmal and corresponding fMfmafN, fMfmafNx, fMxfmafN and
1428 fMxfmafNx functions.
1429
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1430* <math.h> functions for floating-point maximum and minimum,
1431 corresponding to new operations in IEEE 754-2019, and corresponding
1432 <tgmath.h> macros, are added from draft ISO C2X: fmaximum,
1433 fmaximum_num, fmaximum_mag, fmaximum_mag_num, fminimum, fminimum_num,
1434 fminimum_mag, fminimum_mag_num and corresponding functions for float,
1435 long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx.
1436
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1437* <math.h> macros for single-precision float constants are added as a
1438 GNU extension: M_Ef, M_LOG2Ef, M_LOG10Ef, M_LN2f, M_LN10f, M_PIf,
1439 M_PI_2f, M_PI_4f, M_1_PIf, M_2_PIf, M_2_SQRTPIf, M_SQRT2f and
1440 M_SQRT1_2f.
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1442* The __STDC_IEC_60559_BFP__ and __STDC_IEC_60559_COMPLEX__ macros are
1443 predefined as specified in TS 18661-1:2014.
1444
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1445* The exp10 functions in <math.h> now have a corresponding type-generic
1446 macro in <tgmath.h>.
1447
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1448* The ISO C2X macro _PRINTF_NAN_LEN_MAX has been added to <stdio.h>.
1449
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1450* printf-family functions now support the %b format for output of
1451 integers in binary, as specified in draft ISO C2X, and the %B variant
1452 of that format recommended by draft ISO C2X.
1453
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1454* A new DSO sorting algorithm has been added in the dynamic linker that uses
1455 topological sorting by depth-first search (DFS), solving performance issues
1456 of the existing sorting algorithm when encountering particular circular
1457 object dependency cases.
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1459* A new tunable, glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort, can be used to select between
1460 the two DSO sorting algorithms. The default setting of '2' uses the
1461 new DFS-based algorithm. The setting '1' switches to the old
1462 algorithm used in glibc 2.33 and earlier.
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1464* ABI support for a new function '__memcmpeq'. '__memcmpeq' is meant
1465 to be used by compilers for optimizing usage of 'memcmp' when its
1466 return value is only used for its boolean status.
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1468* Support for automatically registering threads with the Linux rseq
1469 system call has been added. This system call is implemented starting
1470 from Linux 4.18. The Restartable Sequences ABI accelerates user-space
1471 operations on per-cpu data. It allows user-space to perform updates
1472 on per-cpu data without requiring heavy-weight atomic operations.
1473 Automatically registering threads allows all libraries, including
1474 libc, to make immediate use of the rseq support by using the
1475 documented ABI, via the __rseq_flags, __rseq_offset, and __rseq_size
1476 variables. The GNU C Library manual has details on integration of
1477 Restartable Sequences.
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1479* A symbolic link to the dynamic linker is now installed under
1480 /usr/bin/ld.so (or more precisely, '${bindir}/ld.so').
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1482* All programs and the testsuite in glibc are now built as position independent
1483 executables (PIE) by default on toolchains and architectures that support it.
1484 Further, if the toolchain and architecture supports it, even static programs
1485 are built as PIE and the resultant glibc can be used to build static PIE
1486 executables. A new option --disable-default-pie has been added to disable
1487 this behavior and get a non-PIE build. This option replaces
1488 --enable-static-pie, which no longer has any effect on the build
1489 configuration.
1490
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1493 or to use huge pages directly with mmap calls with the MAP_HUGETLB
1494 flags). The former can improve performance when Transparent Huge Pages
1495 is set to 'madvise' mode while the latter uses the system reserved
1496 huge pages.
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1498* The printf family of functions now handles the flagged %#m conversion
1499 specifier, printing errno as an error constant (similar to strerrorname_np).
1500
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1501* The function _dl_find_object has been added. In-process unwinders
1502 can use it to efficiently locate unwinding information for a code
1503 address.
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1505* Support for OpenRISC running on Linux has been added. This port requires
1506 as least binutils 2.35, GCC 11, and Linux 5.4. Currently only soft-float
1507 ABI is supported:
1508
1509 - or1k-linux-gnu
1510
1511 The OpenRISC ABI is 32-bit big-endian and uses 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and
1512 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
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1514* A new configure option, --with-rtld-early-cflags, can be used to
1515 specify additional compiler flags for building the early startup code
1516 of the dynamic linker. On targets which have CPU compatibility
1517 checks, this can help to ensure that proper diagnostics are printed if
1518 the dynamic loader runs on an incompatible CPU.
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1521 epoll_wait with the difference the timeout has nanoseconds resolution.
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1524 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to set the controlling terminal in
1525 the new process in a race free manner. This function is a GNU extension.
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1527* Source fortification (_FORTIFY_SOURCE) level 3 is now available for
1528 applications compiling with glibc and gcc 12 and later. Level 3 leverages
1529 the __builtin_dynamic_object_size function to deliver additional
1530 fortification balanced against additional runtime cost (checking non-constant
1531 bounds).
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1534 PLT tracking (by not implementing the la_pltenter or la_pltexit callbacks).
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1539 has been removed since the first PT_LOAD segment is no longer executable
1540 due to defaulting to -z separate-code.
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1542* The r_version update in the debugger interface makes the glibc binary
1543 incompatible with GDB binaries built without the following commits:
1544
1545 c0154a4a21a gdb: Don't assume r_ldsomap when r_version > 1 on Linux
1546 4eb629d50d4 gdbserver: Check r_version < 1 for Linux debugger interface
1547
1548 when audit modules or dlmopen are used.
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1550* Intel MPX support (lazy PLT, ld.so profile, and LD_AUDIT) has been removed.
1551
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1552* The --enable-static-pie option is no longer available. The glibc build
1553 configuration script now automatically detects static-pie support in the
1554 toolchain and architecture and enables it if available.
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1556* The catchsegv script and associated libSegFault.so shared object have
1557 been removed. There are widely-deployed out-of-process alternatives for
1558 catching coredumps and backtraces.
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1560* Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes
1561 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
1562 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
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1564* The LD_TRACE_PRELINKING environment variable has been removed. Similar
1565 functionality to obtain the program mapping address can be achieved by
1566 using LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS to value of 2.
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1568* The LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS has been removed. The variable was mainly used to
1569 support prelink PIE binaries.
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1571Changes to build and runtime requirements:
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1573* The audit module interface version LAV_CURRENT is increased to enable
1574 proper bind-now support. The loader now advertises via the la_symbind
32ffd427 1575 flags that PLT trace is not possible. New audit modules require the
7f0d9e61 1576 new dynamic loader supporting the latest LAV_CURRENT version. Old audit
32ffd427 1577 modules are still loaded for all targets except aarch64.
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1580 result location register (x8) and NEON Q register. Old audit modules are
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1582 structure sizes and the latest module interface version for LAV_CURRENT.
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1584Security related changes:
1585
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1586 CVE-2022-23219: Passing an overlong file name to the clnt_create
1587 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow when
1588 using the "unix" protocol. Reported by Martin Sebor.
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1590 CVE-2022-23218: Passing an overlong file name to the svcunix_create
1591 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow.
1592
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1593 CVE-2021-3998: Passing a path longer than PATH_MAX to the realpath
1594 function could result in a memory leak and potential access of
1595 uninitialized memory. Reported by Qualys.
1596
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1597 CVE-2021-3999: Passing a buffer of size exactly 1 byte to the getcwd
1598 function may result in an off-by-one buffer underflow and overflow
1599 when the current working directory is longer than PATH_MAX and also
1600 corresponds to the / directory through an unprivileged mount
1601 namespace. Reported by Qualys.
1602
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1603The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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1605 [12889] nptl: Race condition in pthread_kill
1606 [14232] nptl: tst-cancel7 and tst-cancelx7 race condition
1607 [14913] libc: [mips] Clean up MIPS 64-bit register-dump.h output
1608 [15310] dynamic-link: _dl_sort_fini is O(n^3) causing slow exit when
1609 many dsos
1610 [15333] libc: Use 64-bit stat functions in installed programs
1611 [15533] dynamic-link: LD_AUDIT introduces an avoidable performance
1612 degradation
1613 [15971] dynamic-link: No interface for debugger access to libraries
1614 loaded with dlmopen
1615 [17318] locale: [RFE] Provide a C.UTF-8 locale by default
1616 [17645] dynamic-link: RFE: Improve performance of dynamic loader for
1617 deeply nested DSO dependencies.
1618 [19193] nptl: pthread_kill, pthread_cancel return ESRCH for a thread
1619 ID whose lifetime has not ended
1620 [22542] network: buffer overflow in sunrpc clnt_create
1621 (CVE-2022-23219)
1622 [22716] malloc: [PATCH] mtrace.pl: use TRACE_PRELINKING instead of
1623 TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS
1624 [25947] malloc: memory leak in muntrace
1625 [26045] math: fmaxf(inf, nan) does not always work
1626 [26108] math: exp10() has problems with <tgmath.h>
1627 [26779] build: benign use after realloc at localealias.c:329
1628 [27609] dynamic-link: [2.32/2.33/2.34 Regression] In elf/dl-open.c
1629 (_dl_open) we might use __LM_ID_CALLER to index GL(dl_ns)[]
1630 [27945] build: build-many-glibcs.py doesn't configure GCC with
1631 --enable-initfini-array
1632 [27991] build: x86: sysdeps/x86/configure.ac breaks when
1633 libc_cv_include_x86_isa_level is loaded from cache
1634 [28036] nptl: Incorrect types for pthread_mutexattr_set/getrobust_np
1635 in __REDIRECT_NTH macro
1636 [28061] dynamic-link: A failing dlmopen called by an auditor crashed
1637 [28062] dynamic-link: Suppress audit calls when a (new) namespace is
1638 empty
1639 [28126] libc: nftw aborts for paths longer than PATH_MAX
1640 [28129] dynamic-link: Unnecessary check DT_DEBUG in ld.so
1641 [28153] libc: [test] gmon/tst-gmon-gprof* may have a f3 line when
1642 built with ld.lld
1643 [28182] libc: _TIME_BITS=64 in C++ has issues with fcntl, ioctl, prctl
1644 [28185] math: Inaccurate j0f function (again)
1645 [28199] locale: iconvconfig prefix flag behaves differently in glibc
1646 2.34
1647 [28203] dynamic-link: aarch64: elf_machine_{load_address,dynamic}
1648 should drop _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_[0] in favor of __ehdr_start for
1649 robustness
1650 [28213] librt: NULL pointer dereference in mq_notify (CVE-2021-38604)
1651 [28223] libc: mips: clone does not align stack
1652 [28253] dynamic-link: Missing colon in LD_SHOW_AUXV output after
1653 AT_MINSIGSTKSZ
1654 [28256] malloc: Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised
1655 value(s) in __GI___tunables_init
1656 [28260] build: io/tst-closefrom, misc/tst-close_range, posix/tst-
1657 spawn5 fail if stray fds are open
1658 [28310] libc: Do not use affinity mask for sysconf
1659 (_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF)
1660 [28338] time: undefined behavior in __tzfile_compute with oddball TZif
1661 file
1662 [28340] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes while loading a DSO with a read-
1663 only dynamic section
1664 [28349] libc: Segfault for ping -R on qemux86 caused by recvmsg()
1665 [28350] libc: ping receives SIGABRT on lib32-qemux86-64 caused by
1666 recvmsg()
1667 [28353] network: Race condition on __opensock
1668 [28357] dynamic-link: deadlock between pthread_create and ctors
1669 [28358] math: f64xdivf128 and f64xmulf128 spurious underflows
1670 [28361] nptl: Fix for bug 12889 causes setxid deadlock
1671 [28368] build: -Waddress instances in stdio-common/vfprintf-internal.c
1672 [28390] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 14.0.0
1673 [28397] math: tgmath.h should not define fmaxmag, fminmag macros for
1674 C2X
1675 [28400] libc: [2.35 Regression] string/test-strncasecmp: cannot set
1676 locale "en_US.UTF-8"
1677 [28407] nptl: pthread_kill assumes that kill (getpid ()) is equivalent
1678 to tgkill (getpid (), gettid())
1679 [28455] dynamic-link: -Wl,--enable-new-dtags doesn't work
1680 [28457] dynamic-link: Missing reldepmod4.so dependency for
1681 globalmod1.so
1682 [28469] time: linux: struct timex is not correctly set for 32-bit
1683 systems with TIMESIZE=64
1684 [28470] regex: Buffer read overrun in regular expression searching
1685 [28475] string: Incorrect access attribute on memfrob
1686 [28524] libc: Conversion from ISO-2022-JP-3 with iconv may emit
1687 spurious NUL character on state reset
1688 [28532] libc: powerpc64[le]: CFI for assembly templated syscalls is
1689 incorrect
1690 [28550] dynamic-link: FAIL: tst-dso-
1691 ordering9_112-ecbda(GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort=1)
1692 execution test
1693 [28554] build: Undefined generate-md5
1694 [28572] libc: Misaligned accesses in test-memcpy and test-mempcpy on
1695 hppa
1696 [28607] nptl: Masked signals are delivered on thread exit
1697 [28624] libc: openjdk 8/9 assume uni processor and gets stuck due to
1698 lack of cpu counting /proc fallback with glibc 2.34
1699 [28646] string: [2.35 Regression] mock -r fedora-36-x86_64
1700 /tmp/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.312.b07-2.fc36.src.rpm& fails to build
1701 [28648] dynamic-link: Running ld.so on statically linked binaries
1702 crashes
1703 [28656] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC no longer works due to
1704 binutils changes
1705 [28676] dynamic-link: p_align on PT_LOAD segment in DSO isn't honored
1706 [28678] nptl: nptl/tst-create1 hangs sporadically
1707 [28688] dynamic-link: PT_LOAD p_align check is too strict
1708 [28700] nss: "dns [!UNAVAIL=return] files" default for hosts database
1709 is not useful
1710 [28707] time: assert in tzfile.c __tzfile_read striking with truncated
1711 timezones generated by tzcode-2021d and later
1712 [28713] math: GCC 12 miscompiles libm
1713 [28732] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-dl_find_object
1714 [28738] build: LIBC_LINKER_FEATURE doesn't work on linker -z option
1715 [28745] dynamic-link: _dl_find_object miscompilation on powerpc64le
1716 [28746] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE does not work for stpcpy
1717 [28749] libc: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: rtld.c: 1632: dl_main:
1718 Assertion `GL(dl_rtld_map).l_libname' failed!
1719 [28755] string: overflow bug in wcsncmp_avx2 and wcsncmp_evex
1720 [28757] nptl: GDB printer tests failed with new GDB
1721 [28765] math: x86_64 libmvec atan2 accuracy
1722 [28766] manual: Document libmvec accuracy
1723 [28768] network: Buffer overflow in svcunix_create with long pathnames
1724 (CVE-2022-23218)
1725 [28769] libc: Off-by-one buffer overflow/underflow in getcwd()
1726 (CVE-2021-3999)
1727 [28770] libc: Unexpected return value from realpath() for too long
1728 results (CVE-2021-3998)
1729 [28771] libc: %ebx optimization macros are incompatible with .altmacro
1730 in Systemtap probes
1731 [28780] build: --disable-default-pie doesn't work on static programs
1732 [28782] libc: x86-64 ISA level for glibc itself is always
1733 x86-64-baseline
1734 [28792] glob: possible wrong behaviour with patterns with double [
1735 with no closing ]
1736 [28837] libc: FAIL: socket/tst-socket-timestamp-compat
1737 [28847] locale: Empty mon_decimal_point in LC_MONETARY results in non-
1738 empty mon_decimal_point_wc
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1741Version 2.34
1742
1743Major new features:
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1745* In order to support smoother in-place-upgrades and to simplify
1746 the implementation of the runtime all functionality formerly
1747 implemented in the libraries libpthread, libdl, libutil, libanl has
1748 been integrated into libc. New applications do not need to link with
1749 -lpthread, -ldl, -lutil, -lanl anymore. For backwards compatibility,
1750 empty static archives libpthread.a, libdl.a, libutil.a, libanl.a are
1751 provided, so that the linker options keep working. Applications which
1752 have been linked against glibc 2.33 or earlier continue to load the
1753 corresponding shared objects (which are now empty). The integration
1754 of those libraries into libc means that additional symbols become
1755 available by default. This can cause applications that contain weak
1756 references to take unexpected code paths that would only have been
1757 used in previous glibc versions when e.g. preloading libpthread.so.0,
1758 potentially exposing application bugs.
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1761 PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is no longer constant and is redefined to
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1763 sets for modern architectural features like Arm SVE.
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1765* Add _SC_MINSIGSTKSZ and _SC_SIGSTKSZ. When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE
1766 or _GNU_SOURCE are defined, MINSIGSTKSZ and SIGSTKSZ are no longer
57fb02b2 1767 constant on Linux. MINSIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf(_SC_MINSIGSTKSZ)
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1769 dynamic sized register sets for modern architectural features like
1770 Arm SVE.
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1772* The dynamic linker implements the --list-diagnostics option, printing
1773 a dump of information related to IFUNC resolver operation and
1774 glibc-hwcaps subdirectory selection.
1775
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1776* On Linux, the function execveat has been added. It operates similar to
1777 execve and it is is already used to implement fexecve without requiring
1778 /proc to be mounted. However, different than fexecve, if the syscall is not
1779 supported by the kernel an error is returned instead of trying a fallback.
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1782
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1783* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_EXT__, from draft ISO
1784 C2X, is supported to enable declarations of functions defined in Annex F
1785 of C2X. Those declarations are also enabled when
1786 __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, as specified in TS 18661-1, is
1787 defined, and when _GNU_SOURCE is defined.
1788
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1789* On powerpc64*, glibc can now be compiled without scv support using the
1790 --disable-scv configure option.
1791
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1792* Add support for 64-bit time_t on configurations like x86 where time_t
1793 is traditionally 32-bit. Although time_t still defaults to 32-bit on
1794 these configurations, this default may change in future versions.
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1796 only supported when LFS (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) is also enabled. It is
1797 only enabled for Linux and the full support requires a minimum kernel
1798 version of 5.1.
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1800* The main gconv-modules file in glibc now contains only a small set of
1801 essential converter modules and the rest have been moved into a supplementary
1802 configuration file gconv-modules-extra.conf in the gconv-modules.d directory
1803 in the same GCONV_PATH. Similarly, external converter modules directories
1804 may have supplementary configuration files in a gconv-modules.d directory
1805 with names ending with .conf to logically classify the converter modules in
1806 that directory.
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1809 to configure the size of the thread stack cache.
1810
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1814 function does not run any atfork function neither resets any internal state
1815 or lock (such as the malloc one), and only sets up a minimal state required
1816 to call async-signal-safe functions (such as raise or execve). This function
1817 is currently a GNU extension.
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1820 closing a range of file descriptors on recent kernels (version 5.9).
1821
60744950 1822* The function closefrom has been added. It closes all file descriptors
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1823 greater than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
1824 although it is also present in other systems.
60744950 1825
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1827 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to close all file descriptors greater
1828 than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
1829 although Solaris also provides a similar function.
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1831* When invoked explicitly, the dynamic linker now uses the kernel to
1832 execute programs that do not have any dynamic dependency (that is,
1833 they are statically linked). This feature is Linux-specific.
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1835Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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1837* The function pthread_mutex_consistent_np has been deprecated; programs
1838 should use the equivalent standard function pthread_mutex_consistent
1839 instead.
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1841* The function pthread_mutexattr_getrobust_np has been deprecated;
1842 programs should use the equivalent standard function
1843 pthread_mutexattr_getrobust instead.
1844
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1845* The function pthread_mutexattr_setrobust_np has been deprecated;
1846 programs should use the equivalent standard function
1847 pthread_mutexattr_setrobust instead.
1848
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1849* The function pthread_yield has been deprecated; programs should use
1850 the equivalent standard function sched_yield instead.
1851
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1852* The function inet_neta declared in <arpa/inet.h> has been deprecated.
1853
1854* Various rarely-used functions declared in <resolv.h> and
1855 <arpa/nameser.h> have been deprecated. Applications are encouraged to
1856 use dedicated DNS processing libraries if applicable. For <resolv.h>,
1857 this affects the functions dn_count_labels, fp_nquery, fp_query,
1858 fp_resstat, hostalias, loc_aton, loc_ntoa, p_cdname, p_cdnname,
1859 p_class, p_fqname, p_fqnname, p_option, p_query, p_rcode, p_time,
1860 p_type, putlong, putshort, res_hostalias, res_isourserver,
1861 res_nameinquery, res_queriesmatch, res_randomid, sym_ntop, sym_ntos,
1862 sym_ston. For <arpa/nameser.h>, the functions ns_datetosecs,
1863 ns_format_ttl, ns_makecanon, ns_parse_ttl, ns_samedomain, ns_samename,
1864 ns_sprintrr, ns_sprintrrf, ns_subdomain have been deprecated.
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1867 in order to prepare for libresolv moving entirely into libc (see earlier
1868 entry for merging libraries into libc). The symbols __dn_comp,
1869 __dn_expand, __dn_skipname, __res_dnok, __res_hnok, __res_mailok,
1870 __res_mkquery, __res_nmkquery, __res_nquery, __res_nquerydomain,
1871 __res_nsearch, __res_nsend, __res_ownok, __res_query, __res_querydomain,
1872 __res_search, __res_send formerly in libresolv have been renamed and no
1873 longer have a __ prefix. They are now available in libc.
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1876 pthread_cancel will always send the internal SIGCANCEL on a cancellation
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1881 see a spurious EINTR error when cancellation interrupts a blocking syscall.
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1884 file names such as libc-2.33.so. The ABI sonames (e.g., libc.so.6)
1885 were provided as symbolic links. Starting with glibc 2.34, the shared
1886 objects are installed under their ABI sonames directly, without
1887 symbolic links. This increases compatibility with distribution
1888 package managers that delete removed files late during the package
1889 upgrade or downgrade process.
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1892 mtrace. Similar functionality can be achieved by using conditional
1893 breakpoints within mtrace functions from within gdb.
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1896 implementation __default_morecore have been removed from the API. Existing
1897 applications will continue to link against these symbols but the interfaces
1898 no longer have any effect on malloc.
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1901 (or the glibc.malloc.check tunable), mtrace() and mcheck() have now been
1902 disabled by default in the main C library. Users looking to use these
1903 features now need to preload a new debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so to get
1904 this functionality back.
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1907 moved from the core C library into libc_malloc_debug.so. Legacy applications
1908 that still use these functions will now need to preload libc_malloc_debug.so
1909 in their environment using the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
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1912 __memalign_hook and __free_hook are now removed from the API. Compatibility
1913 symbols are present to support legacy programs but new applications can no
1914 longer link to these symbols. These hooks no longer have any effect on glibc
1915 functionality. The malloc debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so currently
1916 supports hooks and can be preloaded to get this functionality back for older
1917 programs. However this is a transitional measure and may be removed in a
1918 future release of the GNU C Library. Users may port away from these hooks by
1919 writing and preloading their own malloc interposition library.
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1924 file shared memory file system to be mounted at /dev/shm. These functions
1925 no longer search among the system's mount points for a suitable
1926 replacement if /dev/shm is not available.
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1931 a request for netgroup lookup, may crash due to a double-free,
1932 potentially resulting in degraded service or Denial of Service on the
1933 local system. Reported by Chris Schanzle.
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1936 issue when using a notification type of SIGEV_THREAD and a thread
1937 attribute with a non-default affinity mask.
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1940 parameter number when processing the expansion resulting in a crash.
1941 Reported by Philippe Antoine.
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1945 [4737] libc: fork is not async-signal-safe
1946 [5781] math: Slow dbl-64 sin/cos/sincos for special values
1947 [10353] libc: Methods for deleting all file descriptors greater than
1948 given integer (closefrom)
1949 [14185] glob: fnmatch() fails when '*' wildcard is applied on the file
1950 name containing multi-byte character(s)
1951 [14469] math: Inaccurate j0f function
1952 [14470] math: Inaccurate j1f function
1953 [14471] math: Inaccurate y0f function
1954 [14472] math: Inaccurate y1f function
1955 [14744] nptl: kill -32 $pid or kill -33 $pid on a process cancels a
1956 random thread
1957 [15271] dynamic-link: dlmopen()ed shared library with LM_ID_NEWLM
1958 crashes if it fails dlsym() twice
1959 [15648] nptl: multiple definition of `__lll_lock_wait_private'
1960 [16063] nptl: Provide a pthread_once variant in libc directly
1961 [17144] libc: syslog is not thread-safe if NO_SIGPIPE is not defined
1962 [17145] libc: syslog with LOG_CONS leaks console file descriptor
1963 [17183] manual: description of ENTRY struct in <search.h> in glibc
1964 manual is incorrect
1965 [18435] nptl: pthread_once hangs when init routine throws an exception
1966 [18524] nptl: Missing calloc error checking in
1967 __cxa_thread_atexit_impl
1968 [19329] dynamic-link: dl-tls.c assert failure at concurrent
1969 pthread_create and dlopen
1970 [19366] nptl: returning from a thread should disable cancellation
1971 [19511] nptl: 8MB memory leak in pthread_create in case of failure
1972 when non-root user changes priority
1973 [20802] dynamic-link: getauxval NULL pointer dereference after static
1974 dlopen
1975 [20813] nptl: pthread_exit is inconsistent between libc and libpthread
1976 [22057] malloc: malloc_usable_size is broken with mcheck
1977 [22668] locale: LC_COLLATE: the last character of ellipsis is not
1978 ordered correctly
1979 [23323] libc: [RFE] CSU startup hardening.
1980 [23328] malloc: Remove malloc hooks and ensure related APIs return no
1981 data.
1982 [23462] dynamic-link: Static binary with dynamic string tokens ($LIB,
1983 $PLATFORM, $ORIGIN) crashes
1984 [23489] libc: "gcc -lmcheck" aborts on free when using posix_memalign
1985 [23554] nptl: pthread_getattr_np reports wrong stack size with
1986 MULTI_PAGE_ALIASING
1987 [24106] libc: Bash interpreter in ldd script is taken from host
1988 [24773] dynamic-link: dlerror in an secondary namespace does not use
1989 the right free implementation
1990 [25036] localedata: Update collation order for Swedish
1991 [25383] libc: where_is_shmfs/__shm_directory/SHM_GET_NAME may cause
1992 shm_open to pick wrong directory
1993 [25680] dynamic-link: ifuncmain9picstatic and ifuncmain9picstatic
1994 crash in IFUNC resolver due to stack canary (--enable-stack-
1995 protector=all)
1996 [26874] build: -Warray-bounds in _IO_wdefault_doallocate
1997 [26983] math: [x86_64] x86_64 tgamma has too large ULP error
1998 [27111] dynamic-link: pthread_create and tls access use link_map
1999 objects that may be concurrently freed by dlclose
2000 [27132] malloc: memusagestat is linked to system librt, leading to
2001 undefined symbols on major version upgrade
2002 [27136] dynamic-link: dtv setup at thread creation may leave an entry
2003 uninitialized
2004 [27249] libc: libSegFault.so does not output signal number properly
2005 [27304] nptl: pthread_cond_destroy does not pass private flag to futex
2006 system calls
2007 [27318] dynamic-link: glibc fails to load binaries when built with
2008 -march=sandybridge: CPU ISA level is lower than required
2009 [27343] nss: initgroups() SIGSEGVs when called on a system without
2010 nsswich.conf (in a chroot)
2011 [27346] dynamic-link: x86: PTWRITE feature check is missing
2012 [27389] network: NSS chroot hardening causes regressions in chroot
2013 deployments
2014 [27403] dynamic-link: aarch64: tlsdesc htab is not freed on dlclose
2015 [27444] libc: sysconf reports unsupported option (-1) for
2016 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_LINESIZE on X86 since v2.33
2017 [27462] nscd: double-free in nscd (CVE-2021-27645)
2018 [27468] malloc: aarch64: realloc crash with heap tagging: FAIL:
2019 malloc/tst-malloc-thread-fail
2020 [27498] dynamic-link: __dl_iterate_phdr lacks unwinding information
2021 [27511] libc: S390 memmove assumes Vector Facility when MIE Facility 3
2022 is present
2023 [27522] glob: glob, glob64 incorrectly marked as __THROW
2024 [27555] dynamic-link: Static tests fail with --enable-stack-
2025 protector=all
2026 [27559] libc: fstat(AT_FDCWD) succeeds (it shouldn't) and returns
2027 information for the current directory
2028 [27577] dynamic-link: elf/ld.so --help doesn't work
2029 [27605] libc: tunables can't control xsave/xsavec selection in
2030 dl_runtime_resolve_*
2031 [27623] libc: powerpc: Missing registers in sc[v] clobbers list
2032 [27645] libc: [linux] sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSOR...) breaks down on
2033 containers
2034 [27646] dynamic-link: Linker error for non-existing NSS symbols (e.g.
2035 _nss_files_getcanonname_r) from within a dlmopen namespace.
2036 [27648] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-select
2037 [27650] stdio: vfscanf returns too early if a match is longer than
2038 INT_MAX
2039 [27651] libc: Performance regression after updating to 2.33
2040 [27655] string: Wrong size calculation in string/test-strnlen.c
2041 [27706] libc: select fails to update timeout on error
2042 [27709] libc: arm: FAIL: debug/tst-longjmp_chk2
2043 [27721] dynamic-link: x86: ld_audit ignores bind now for TLSDESC and
2044 tries resolving them lazily
2045 [27744] nptl: Support different libpthread/ld.so load orders in
2046 libthread_db
2047 [27749] libc: Data race __run_exit_handlers
2048 [27761] libc: getconf: Segmentation fault when passing '-vq' as
2049 argument
2050 [27832] nss: makedb.c:797:7: error: 'writev' specified size 4294967295
2051 exceeds maximum object size 2147483647
2052 [27870] malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ causes realloc(valid_ptr, TOO_LARGE) to
2053 not set ENOMEM
2054 [27872] build: Obsolete configure option --enable-stackguard-
2055 randomization
2056 [27873] build: tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo fail when building on AMD cpu
2057 [27882] localedata: Use U+00AF MACRON in more EBCDIC charsets
2058 [27892] libc: powerpc: scv ABI error handling fails to check
2059 IS_ERR_VALUE
2060 [27896] nptl: mq_notify does not handle separately allocated thread
2061 attributes (CVE-2021-33574)
2062 [27901] libc: TEST_STACK_ALIGN doesn't work
2063 [27902] libc: The x86-64 clone wrapper fails to align child stack
2064 [27914] nptl: Install SIGSETXID handler with SA_ONSTACK
2065 [27939] libc: aarch64: clone does not align the stack
2066 [27968] libc: s390x: clone does not align the stack
2067 [28011] libc: Wild read in wordexp (parse_param) (CVE-2021-35942)
2068 [28024] string: s390(31bit): Wrong result of memchr (MEMCHR_Z900_G5)
2069 with n >= 0x80000000
2070 [28028] malloc: malloc: tcache shutdown sequence does not work if the
2071 thread never allocated anything
2072 [28033] libc: Need to check RTM_ALWAYS_ABORT for RTM
2073 [28064] string: x86_64:wcslen implementation list has wcsnlen
2074 [28067] libc: FAIL: posix/tst-spawn5
2075 [28068] malloc: FAIL: malloc/tst-mallocalign1-mcheck
2076 [28071] time: clock_gettime, gettimeofday, time lost vDSO acceleration
2077 on older kernels
2078 [28075] nis: Out-of-bounds static buffer read in nis_local_domain
2079 [28089] build: tst-tls20 fails when linker defaults to --as-needed
2080 [28090] build: elf/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo-static fails on certain
2081 AMD64 cpus
2082 [28091] network: ns_name_skip may return 0 for domain names without
2083 terminator
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2086Version 2.33
2087
2088Major new features:
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2090* The dynamic linker accepts the --list-tunables argument which prints
2091 all the supported tunables. This option is disable if glibc is
2092 configured with tunables disabled (--enable-tunables=no).
2093
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2094* The dynamic linker accepts the --argv0 argument and provides opportunity
2095 to change argv[0] string.
2096
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2098 from subdirectories under the glibc-hwcaps directory on the library
2099 search path if the system's capabilities meet the requirements for
2100 that subdirectory. Initially supported subdirectories include
2101 "power9" and "power10" for the powerpc64le-linux-gnu architecture,
2102 "z13", "z14", "z15" for s390x-linux-gnu, and "x86-64-v2", "x86-64-v3",
2103 "x86-64-v4" for x86_64-linux-gnu. In the x86_64-linux-gnu case, the
2104 subdirectory names correspond to the vendor-independent x86-64
2105 microarchitecture levels defined in the x86-64 psABI supplement.
2106
2107* The new --help option of the dynamic linker provides usage and
2108 information and library search path diagnostics.
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2111 but with larger field widths to accurately report values that are
2112 larger than fit in an integer.
2113
96203980 2114* Add <sys/platform/x86.h> to provide query macros for x86 CPU features.
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2116* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been expanded to run on
2117 32-bit hardware. This is supported for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
2118
2119 - rv32imac ilp32
2120 - rv32imafdc ilp32
2121 - rv32imafdc ilp32d
2122
2123 The 32-bit RISC-V port requires at least Linux 5.4, GCC 7.1 and binutils
2124 2.28.
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2127 glibc may use additional checks that may have an additional performance
2128 overhead. At present these checks are available only on LLVM 9 and later.
2129 The latest GCC available at this time (10.2) does not support this level of
2130 fortification.
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2135 mallinfo2 instead.
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2137* When dlopen is used in statically linked programs, alternative library
2138 implementations from HWCAP subdirectories are no longer loaded.
2139 Instead, the default implementation is used.
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2142 removed. To support old binaries, the vtimes function continues to exist
2143 as a compatibility symbol. Applications should use the getrlimit or
2144 prlimit.
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2146* Following a change in the tzdata 2018a release upstream, the zdump
2147 program is now installed in the /usr/bin subdirectory. Previously,
2148 the /usr/sbin subdirectory was used.
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2151 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ that is defined by the compiler, instead of being
2152 hardcoded to double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
2153 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
2154 libraries that use this type in their interfaces. The new definition
2155 improves consistency with compiler behavior in many scenarios.
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2158 "tls" subdirectories on the library search path, the subdirectory that
2159 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, and also stop employing
2160 the legacy AT_HWCAP search mechanism. Applications should switch to
2161 the new glibc-hwcaps mechanism instead; if they do not do that, only
2162 the baseline version (directly from the search path directory) will be
2163 loaded.
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2168 the intended access modes for pseudo-terminals. glibc no longer
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2171 corresponded to what most systems used, so that grantpt did not
2172 perform any adjustments.
2173
2174* On Linux, the posix_openpt and getpt functions no longer attempt to
2175 use legacy (BSD) pseudo-terminals and assume that if /dev/ptmx exists
2176 (and pseudo-terminals are supported), a devpts file system is mounted
2177 on /dev/pts. Current systems already meet these requirements.
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2182
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2186 converted output contains a combined sequence of two wide characters
2187 crossing a buffer boundary. Reported by Tavis Ormandy.
2188
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2190 invoked with input containing redundant shift sequences in the IBM1364,
2191 IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, or IBM1399 character sets.
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2194 when invoked with UCS4 input containing an invalid character.
2195
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2197 invoked with EUC-KR input containing invalid multibyte input sequences.
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2202 [16124] dynamic-link: ld.so should allow to change argv[0]
2203 [17924] malloc: 'free' should not set errno
2204 [18683] libc: Linux faccessat implementation can incorrectly ignore
2205 AT_EACCESS
2206 [22899] libc: Use 64-bit readdir() in generic POSIX getcwd()
597d0267 2207 [23091] hurd: missing waitid support
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2209 "haswell" platform subdirectory
2210 [24080] dynamic-link: Definition of "haswell" platform is inconsistent
2211 with GCC
2212 [24202] libc: m68k setjmp() saves incorrect 'a5' register in --enable-
2213 stack-protector=all
2214 [24941] libc: Make grantpt usable after multi-threaded fork in more
2215 cases
2216 [24970] libc: realpath mishandles EOVERFLOW; stat not needed anyway
2217 [24973] locale: iconv encounters segmentation fault when converting
2218 0x00 0xfe in EUC-KR to UTF-8 (CVE-2019-25013)
2219 [25399] string: undefined reference to `__warn_memset_zero_len' when
2220 changing gnuc version
2221 [25859] libc: glibc parser for /sys/devices/system/cpu/online is
2222 incorrect
2223 [25938] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should store meaning of hwcap mask
2224 bits
2225 [25971] libc: s390 bits/hwcap.h out of sync with kernel
2226 [26053] libc: unlockpt fails with ENOTTY for non-ptmx descriptors
2227 [26100] libc: Race in syslog(3) with regards to tag printing.
2228 [26124] libc: Export <cpu-features.h>
2229 [26130] nscd: Inconsistent nscd cache during pruning
7f0d9e61 2230 [26203] libc: GLRO(dl_x86_cpu_features) may not be initialized
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2232 several IBM character sets (CVE-2020-27618)
2233 [26341] libc: realpath cyclically call __alloca(path_max) to consume
2234 too much stack space
2235 [26343] manual: invalid documented return type for strerrorname_np(),
2236 strerrordesc_np(), sigdescr_np(), sigabbrev_np()
2237 [26376] libc: Namespace violation in stdio.h and sys/stat.h if build
2238 with optimization.
2239 [26383] locale: bind_textdomain_codeset doesn't accept //TRANSLIT
2240 anymore
2241 [26394] time: [2.33 Regression] FAIL: nptl/tst-join14
2242 [26534] math: libm.so 2.32 SIGILL in pow() due to FMA4 instruction on
2243 non-FMA4 system
2244 [26552] dynamic-link: CPU_FEATURE_USABLE_P should be more conservative
2245 [26553] libc: mtx_init allows type set to "mtx_recursive" only
2246 [26555] string: strerrorname_np does not return the documented value
2247 [26592] libc: pointer arithmetic overflows in realpath
2248 [26600] network: Transaction ID collisions cause slow DNS lookups in
2249 getaddrinfo
2250 [26606] libc: [2.33 Regression] pselect is broken on x32
2251 [26615] libc: powerpc: libc segfaults when LD_PRELOADed with libgcc
2252 [26620] glob: fnmatch with collating symbols results in segmentation
2253 fault
2254 [26625] libc: [2.33 Regression] CET is disabled
2255 [26636] libc: 32-bit shmctl(IPC_INFO) crashes when shminfo struct is
2256 at the end of a memory mapping
2257 [26637] libc: semctl SEM_STAT_ANY fails to pass the buffer specified
2258 by the caller to the kernel
2259 [26639] libc: msgctl IPC_INFO and MSG_INFO return garbage
2260 [26647] build: [-Werror=array-parameter=] due to different
2261 declarations for __sigsetjmp
2262 [26648] libc: mkstemp is likely to fail on systems with non-stricly-
2263 monotonic clocks
2264 [26649] stdio: printf should handle non-normal x86 long double numbers
2265 gracefully (CVE-2020-29573)
2266 [26686] build: -Warray-parameter instances building with GCC 11
2267 [26687] build: -Warray-bounds instances building with GCC 11
2268 [26690] stdio: Aliasing violation in __vfscanf_internal
2269 [26691] nptl: Use a minimum guard size of 64 KiB on aarch64
2270 [26726] build: GCC warning calling new_composite_name with an array of
2271 one element
2272 [26736] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-sysvshm-linux
2273 [26737] libc: Random FAIL: rt/tst-shm
2274 [26791] libc: Missing O_CLOEXEC in sysconf.c
2275 [26798] dynamic-link: aarch64: variant PCS symbols may be incorrectly
2276 lazy bound
2277 [26801] nptl: pthread_mutex_clocklock with CLOCK_MONOTONIC can fail on
2278 PI mutexes
2279 [26818] string: aarch64: string tests may run ifunc variants that are
2280 not safe
2281 [26821] libc: Memory leak test failures on Fedora 33
2282 [26824] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-cpu-features-supports with recent trunk:
2283 FSGSBASE/LM/RDRAND check failure
2284 [26833] time: adjtime() with delta == NULL segfaults on armv7 32bit
2285 platform
2286 [26853] libc: aarch64: Missing unwind information in statically linked
2287 startup code
2288 [26923] locale: Assertion failure in iconv when converting invalid
2289 UCS4 (CVE-2020-29562)
2290 [26926] dynamic-link: aarch64: library dependencies are not bti
2291 protected
2292 [26932] libc: sh: Multiple floating point functions defined as stubs
2293 only since 2.31
2294 [26964] nptl: pthread_mutex_timedlock returning EAGAIN after futex is
2295 locked
2296 [26988] dynamic-link: aarch64: BTI mprotect address is not page
2297 aligned
2298 [27002] build: libc_freeres_fn build failure with GCC 11
2299 [27004] dynamic-link: ld.so is miscompiled by GCC 11
2300 [27008] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should have endianness markup
2301 [27042] libc: [alpha] anonymous union in struct stat confuses
2302 detection logic
2303 [27053] libc: Conformance regression in system(3) (and probably also
2304 pclose(3))
2305 [27072] dynamic-link: static pie ifunc resolvers run before hwcap is
2306 setup
2307 [27077] network: Do not reload /etc/nsswitch.conf from chroot
2308 [27083] libc: Unsafe unbounded alloca in addmntent
2309 [27104] dynamic-link: The COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_MAX handshake does not
2310 work
2311 [27130] string: "rep movsb" performance issue
2312 [27150] libc: alpha: wait4() is unavailable in static linking
2313 [27177] dynamic-link:
2314 GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.cpu.x86_ibt=on:glibc.cpu.x86_shstk=on doesn't
2315 work
2316 [27222] dynamic-link: Incorrect sysdeps/x86/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo.c
2317 [27237] malloc: deadlock in malloc/tst-malloc-stats-cancellation
2318 [27256] locale: Assertion failure in ISO-2022-JP-3 gconv module
2319 related to combining characters (CVE-2021-3326)
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2322Version 2.32
2323
2324Major new features:
2325
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2326* Unicode 13.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2327 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 13.0.0, using
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2328 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2329
2330* New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq)
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2332* Support for Synopsys ARC HS cores (ARCv2 ISA) running Linux has been
2333 added. This port requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-8.3 and Linux-5.1.
2334 Three ABIs are supported:
2335
2336 - arc-linux-gnu
2337 - arc-linux-gnuhf
2338 - arceb-linux-gnu
2339
4d3a77c7 2340 The arc* ABIs are little-endian while arceb is big-endian. All ABIs use
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2341 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
2342
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2343* The GNU C Library now loads audit modules listed in the DT_AUDIT and
2344 DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
2345
051be01f 2346* powerpc64le supports IEEE128 long double libm/libc redirects when
4d3a77c7 2347 using -mabi=ieeelongdouble to compile C code on supported GCC
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2348 toolchains. It is recommended to use GCC 8 or newer when testing
2349 this option.
2350
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2351* To help detect buffer overflows and other out-of-bounds accesses
2352 several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This
2353 should help GCC 10 issue better warnings.
2354
4d3a77c7 2355* On Linux, functions pthread_attr_setsigmask_np and
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2356 pthread_attr_getsigmask_np have been added. They allow applications
2357 to specify the signal mask of a thread created with pthread_create.
2358
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2359* The GNU C Library now provides the header file <sys/single_threaded.h>
2360 which declares the variable __libc_single_threaded. Applications are
2361 encouraged to use this variable for single-thread optimizations,
2362 instead of weak references to symbols historically defined in
2363 libpthread.
2364
bfe05aa2 2365* The functions sigabbrev_np and sigdescr_np have been added. The
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2366 sigabbrev_np function returns the abbreviated signal name (e.g. "HUP" for
2367 SIGHUP) while sigdescr_np returns a string describing the signal number
2368 (e.g "Hangup" for SIGHUP). Different than strsignal, sigdescr_np does not
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2369 attempt to translate the return description, both functions return
2370 NULL for an invalid signal number.
2371
2372 They should be used instead of sys_siglist or sys_sigabbrev and they
2373 are both thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
2374
325081b9 2375* The functions strerrorname_np and strerrordesc_np have been added. The
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2376 strerroname_np function returns error number name (e.g. "EINVAL" for EINVAL)
2377 while strerrordesc_np returns a string describing the error number
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2378 (e.g "Invalid argument" for EINVAL). Different than strerror,
2379 strerrordesc_np does not attempt to translate the return description, both
2380 functions return NULL for an invalid error number.
2381
2382 They should be used instead of sys_errlist and sys_nerr, both are
2383 thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
2384
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2385* AArch64 now supports standard branch protection security hardening
2386 in glibc when it is built with a GCC that is configured with
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2387 --enable-standard-branch-protection (or if -mbranch-protection=standard
2388 flag is passed when building both GCC target libraries and glibc,
2389 in either case a custom GCC is needed). This includes branch target
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2390 identification (BTI) and pointer authentication for return addresses
2391 (PAC-RET). They require armv8.5-a and armv8.3-a architecture
2392 extensions respectively for the protection to be effective,
2393 otherwise the used instructions are nops. User code can use PAC-RET
2394 without libc support, but BTI requires a libc that is built with BTI
2395 support, otherwise runtime objects linked into user code will not be
2396 BTI compatible.
2397
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2398Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2399
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2400* Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc. Sun RPC is removed
2401 from glibc. This includes the rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and the Sun
2402 RPC header files. Backward compatibility for old programs is kept
2403 only for architectures and ABIs that have been added in or before
2404 glibc 2.31. New programs need to use TI-RPC
2405 <http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=summary> and
2406 rpcsvc-proto <https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto>.
2407
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2408* Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-nsl. libnsl is only built
2409 as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules "nis"
2410 and "nisplus" are not built at all and libnsl's headers aren't
2411 installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs
2412 that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement
2413 implementations based on TI-RPC, which additionally support IPv6, are
2414 available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not
4d3a77c7 2415 affect the "compat" NSS module, which does not depend on libnsl
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2416 since 2.27 and thus can be used without NIS.
2417
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2418* The deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
2419 removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
2420 exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
2421 but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system
2422 call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5.
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2424* The sstk function is no longer available to newly linked binaries.
2425 Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function
2426 was not declared in any header file.
2427
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2428* The legacy signal handling functions siginterrupt, sigpause, sighold,
2429 sigrelse, sigignore and sigset, and the sigmask macro have been
2430 deprecated. Applications should use the sigsuspend, sigprocmask and
2431 sigaction functions instead.
2432
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2433* ldconfig now defaults to the new format for ld.so.cache. glibc has
2434 already supported this format for almost 20 years.
2435
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2436* The deprecated arrays sys_siglist, _sys_siglist, and sys_sigabbrev
2437 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
2438 have been removed from <string.h>. They are exported solely as
2439 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
2440 strsignal instead.
2441
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2442* The deprecated symbols sys_errlist, _sys_errlist, sys_nerr, and _sys_nerr
2443 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
4d3a77c7 2444 have been removed from <stdio.h>. They are exported solely as
f13d2601
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2445 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
2446 strerror or strerror_r instead.
2447
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2448* Both strerror and strerror_l now share the same internal buffer in the
2449 calling thread, meaning that the returned string pointer may be invalided
2450 or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same thread or
2451 if the thread is terminated. It makes strerror MT-safe.
2452
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FW
2453* Using weak references to libpthread functions such as pthread_create
2454 or pthread_key_create to detect the singled-threaded nature of a
2455 program is an obsolescent feature. Future versions of glibc will
2456 define pthread_create within libc.so.6 itself, so such checks will
2457 always flag the program as multi-threaded. Applications should check
2458 the __libc_single_threaded variable declared in
2459 <sys/single_threaded.h> instead.
2460
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2461* The "files" NSS module no longer supports the "key" database (used for
2462 secure RPC). The contents of the /etc/publickey file will be ignored,
2463 regardless of the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of
2464 storing RPC keys only supported the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES
2465 flavor of secure RPC.)
94d9c76e 2466
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2467* The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
2468 implementation __default_morecore have been deprecated. Applications
2469 should use malloc interposition to change malloc behavior, and mmap to
2470 allocate anonymous memory. A future version of glibc may require that
2471 applications which use the malloc hooks must preload a special shared
2472 object, to enable the hooks.
2473
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2474* The hesiod NSS module has been deprecated and will be removed in a
2475 future version of glibc. System administrators are encouraged to
2476 switch to other approaches for networked account databases, such as
2477 LDAP.
2478
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2479Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2480
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2481* powerpc64le requires GCC 7.4 or newer. This is required for supporting
2482 long double redirects.
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2483
2484Security related changes:
2485
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AJ
2486 CVE-2016-10228: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
2487 invoked with the -c option and when processing invalid multi-byte input
2488 sequences. Reported by Jan Engelhardt.
2489
15ab1952
AJ
2490 CVE-2020-10029: Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack
2491 corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido
2492 Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
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2494 CVE-2020-1752: A use-after-free vulnerability in the glob function when
2495 expanding ~user has been fixed.
2496
17400c4b
AJ
2497 CVE-2020-6096: A signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy and
2498 memmove functions has been fixed. Discovered by Jason Royes and Samual
2499 Dytrych of the Cisco Security Assessment and Penetration Team (See
2500 TALOS-2020-1019).
2501
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2502The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2503
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2504 [9809] localedata: ckb_IQ: new Kurdish Sorani locale
2505 [10441] manual: Backtraces code example lacks error checking
2506 [10815] librt: [timer_create / SIGEV_THREAD] signalmask of
2507 timer_sigev_thread dangerous
2508 [14231] stdio: stdio-common tests memory requirements
2509 [14578] libc: /proc-based emulation for lchmod, fchmodat
2510 [16272] dynamic-link: dlopen()ing a DT_FILTER library crashes if
2511 filtee has constructor
2512 [19519] locale: iconv(1) with -c option hangs on illegal multi-byte
2513 sequences (CVE-2016-10228)
2514 [19737] admin: Doc page “20.5.2 Infinity and NaN” has incorrect HTML
2515 character entities for infinity & pi
2516 [20338] libc: Parsing of /etc/gshadow can return bad pointers causing
2517 segfaults in applications
2518 [20543] libc: Please move from .gnu.linkonce to comdat
7f0d9e61 2519 [22489] network: gcc warns about implicit conversion in
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2520 ICMP6_FILTER_SETPASS with -Wsign-conversion
2521 [22525] localedata: or_IN LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2522 [23294] math: Complex _FloatN functions are redirected to the wrong
2523 function with -mlong-double-64
2524 [23296] libc: Data race in setting function descriptor during lazy
2525 binding
2526 [23668] dynamic-link: ldconfig: Default to the new format for
2527 ld.so.cache
2528 [23819] hurd: hurd: Add C11 thread support
2529 [23990] build: test-container error out on failure to exec child.
2530 [23991] build: shell-container typo in run_command_array
2531 [24638] manual: Error in example of parsing a template string
2532 [24654] manual: Wrong declaration of wcschr in libc manual
2533 [24943] dynamic-link: Support DT_AUDIT, DT_DEPAUDIT in the dynamic
2534 linker
2535 [25051] dynamic-link: aarch64, powerpc64 uses surplus static tls for
2536 dynamically loaded dsos
2537 [25098] nptl: nptl: ctype classification functions are not AS-Safe
2538 [25219] libc: improve out-of-bounds checking with GCC 10 attribute
2539 access
2540 [25262] libc: getcontext/setcontext/swapcontext unnecessarily save and
2541 restore EAX, ECX and EDX
2542 [25397] dynamic-link: Legacy bitmap doesn't cover jitted code
2543 [25414] glob: 'glob' use-after-free bug (CVE-2020-1752)
2544 [25420] network: Race condition in resolv_conf.c can result in caching
2545 stale configuration forever
2546 [25487] math: sinl() stack corruption from crafted input
2547 (CVE-2020-10029)
2548 [25506] build: configure: broken detection of STT_GNU_IFUNC when GCC
2549 defaults to PIE
2550 [25523] libc: MIPS/Linux inline syscall template is miscompiled
2551 [25620] libc: Signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy()
2552 (CVE-2020-6096)
2553 [25623] libc: test-sysvmsg, test-sysvsem, test-sysvshm fail with 2.31
2554 on 32 bit and old kernel
2555 [25635] libc: arm: Wrong sysdep order selection for soft-fp
2556 [25639] localedata: Some names of days and months wrongly spelt in
2557 Occitan
2558 [25657] libc: sigprocmask() and sigisemptyset() manipulate different
2559 amount of sigset_t bytes
2560 [25691] stdio: printf: memory leak when printing long multibyte
2561 strings
2562 [25715] libc: system() returns wrong errors when posix_spawn fails
2563 [25733] malloc: mallopt(M_MXFAST) can set global_max_fast to 0
2564 [25734] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS fails to reset conversion
2565 state for conversions that produce two Unicode code points
2566 [25765] nptl: Incorrect futex syscall in __pthread_disable_asynccancel
2567 for linux x86_64 leads to livelock
2568 [25788] dynamic-link: [i386] -fno-omit-frame-pointer in CFLAGS causes
2569 test failures, invalid instruction in ld.so
2570 [25790] glob: Typo in tst-fnmatch.input
2571 [25810] libc: x32: Incorrect syscall entries with pointer, off_t and
2572 size_t
2573 [25819] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 13.0.0
2574 [25824] libc: Abnormal function of strnlen in aarch64
2575 [25887] dynamic-link: Wasted space in _dl_x86_feature_1[1]
2576 [25896] libc: Incorrect prctl
2577 [25902] libc: Bad LOADARGS_N
2578 [25905] dynamic-link: VSX registers are corrupted during PLT
2579 resolution when glibc is built with --disable-multi-arch and --with-
2580 cpu=power9
2581 [25933] string: Off by one error in __strncmp_avx2 when
2582 length=VEC_SIZE*4 and strings are at page boundaries can cause a
2583 segfault
2584 [25942] nptl: Deadlock on stack_cache_lock between __nptl_setxid and
2585 exiting detached thread
2586 [25966] libc: Incorrect access of __x86_shared_non_temporal_threshold
2587 for x32
2588 [25976] nss: internal_end*ent in nss_compat may clobber errno, hiding
2589 ERANGE
2590 [25999] nptl: Use-after-free issue in pthread_getaddr_default_np
2591 [26073] math: getpayload() has wrong return value
2592 [26076] dynamic-link: dlmopen crashes after failing to load
2593 dependencies in audit mode
2594 [26120] localedata: column width of of some Korean
2595 JUNGSEONG/JONGSEONG characters wrong (should be 0)
2596 [26128] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFLUSHOPT
2597 [26133] libc: Incorrect need_arch_feature_F16C
2598 [26137] libc: strtod() triggers exception FE_INEXACT on reasonable
2599 input
2600 [26149] libc: PKU is usable only if OSPKE is set
2601 [26173] libc: powerpc64*: Add @notoc to calls to functions that do not
2602 preserve r2
2603 [26208] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFSH
2604 [26210] network: Incorrect use of hidden symbols for global sunrpc
2605 variables
2606 [26211] stdio: printf integer overflow calculating allocation size
2607 [26214] stdio: printf_fp double free
2608 [26215] stdio: printf_fp memory leak
2609 [26232] time: FAIL: support/tst-timespec for 32-bit targets
2610 [26258] nss: nss_compat should not read input files with mmap
2611 [26332] string: Incorrect cache line size load causes memory
2612 corruption in memset
2613
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2615Version 2.31
2616
2617Major new features:
2618
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2619* The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
2620 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
2621 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
2622 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
2623 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
2624 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
0b8c2f95 2625
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2626* The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
2627 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
2628 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
2629 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
2630
69ca4b54 2631* The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
3ef5e118 2632 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
69ca4b54
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2633 CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME. This function is a GNU extension.
2634
c5fbd7c3
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2635* New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar).
2636
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2637* The DNS stub resolver will optionally send the AD (authenticated data) bit
2638 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
2639 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
2640 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
2641 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
2642 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
2643 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
2644 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
2645
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2646Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2647
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2648* The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
2649 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
2650 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
2651 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
2652 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
2653 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
0b8c2f95 2654
12cbde1d 2655* The obsolete function stime is no longer available to newly linked
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2656 binaries, and its declaration has been removed from <time.h>.
2657 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
2658
2659* We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
2660 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
2661 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
2662 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
2663
2664* The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
2665 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
2666 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
2667 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
2668 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
2669 made this no longer practical.
2670
2671 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
2672 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
2673 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
2674 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
2675 release.)
2676
2677 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
2678 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
2679 with the current time, use the localtime function.
2680
2681 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
2682 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
2683 using clock_gettime instead.
12cbde1d 2684
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2685* The settimeofday function can still be used to set a system-wide time
2686 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
2687 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
2688 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
2689 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
2690
2691 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
2692 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
2693 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
2694 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
2695
2696 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
2697 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
2698 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
2699 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
2700 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
2701 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
2702
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2703 settimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. Programs that set
2704 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
2705 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
2706 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
2707 offset API.
c3f9aef0 2708
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2709* SPARC ISA v7 is no longer supported. v8 is still supported, but only if
2710 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
2711 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
2b5fea83 2712
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2713 As the oldest 64-bit SPARC ISA is v9, this only affects 32-bit
2714 configurations.
5d9b7b9f 2715
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2716* If a lazy binding failure happens during dlopen, during the execution of
2717 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
2718 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
2719 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
2720 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
2721
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2722* For MIPS hard-float ABIs, the GNU C Library will be configured to need an
2723 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
2724 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
2725 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
2726 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
2727 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
2728 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
2729 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
2730
2731 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
2732 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
2733
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2734* System call wrappers for time system calls now use the new time64 system
2735 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
2736 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
2737 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
2738 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
2739 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
2740
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2741Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2742
a1bd5f86 2743* It is no longer necessary to have recent Linux kernel headers to build
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2744 working (non-stub) system call wrappers on all architectures except 64-bit
2745 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
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2747* The ChangeLog file is no longer present in the toplevel directory of the
2748 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
2749 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
2750
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2751Security related changes:
2752
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2753 CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an
2754 out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context.
2755
d5dfad43
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2756 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
2757 environment variable during program execution after a security
2758 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
2759 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
2760 program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
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2761
2762The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2763
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2764 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
2765 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
2766 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
2767 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
2768 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
2769 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
2770 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
2771 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
2772 linking failure
2773 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
2774 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
2775 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
2776 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
2777 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
2778 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
2779 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
2780 constructors/destructors is not fatal
2781 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
2782 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
2783 7408-2005
2784 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
2785 with localedef
2786 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
2787 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
2788 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
2789 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
2790 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
2791 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
2792 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
2793 utmp entries
2794 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
2795 ABSOLUTE ABI
2796 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
2797 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
2798 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
2799 (stringop-overflow error)
2800 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
2801 functions other can lead to crashes
2802 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
2803 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
2804 unconditionally
2805 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
2806 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
2807 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
2808 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
2809 still can fail with an error
2810 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
2811 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
2812 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
2813 initialized correctly
2814 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
2815 -frewrite-includes
2816 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
2817 value to an unsigned
2818 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
2819 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
2820 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
2821 protection
2822 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
2823 ifunc variant.
2824 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
2825 al. for Clang++
2826 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
2827 (Slovenian)
2828 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
2829 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
2830 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
2831 with -std=c11
2832 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
2833 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
2834 part
2835 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
2836 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
2837 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
2838 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
2839 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
2840 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
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2843Version 2.30
2844
2845Major new features:
2846
f6efec90
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2847* Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2848 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
86bdd49d
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2849 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2850
8692ebdb
DN
2851* The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
2852 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
de44ab67 2853
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2854* The twalk_r function has been added. It is similar to the existing
2855 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
2856 to the callback function.
2857
51ea67d5 2858* On Linux, the getdents64, gettid, and tgkill functions have been added.
1d0fc213 2859
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2860* Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
2861 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
2862 nan_TW, lzh_TW.
2863
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2864* The entry for the new Japanese era has been added for ja_JP locale.
2865
25f7a3c9
AZ
2866* Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
2867 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
2868 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
2869 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
2870 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
2871
f0b2132b
FW
2872* The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
2873 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
2874 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
2875 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
2876 link time reference, is gone.
2877
65dd7e9c
MC
2878* Add new POSIX-proposed pthread_cond_clockwait, pthread_mutex_clocklock,
2879 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
2880 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
2881 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
2882 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
2883 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
2884 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
2885 the clock choice at initialization time).
2886
dcf36bca
SN
2887* On AArch64 the GNU IFUNC resolver call ABI changed: old resolvers still
2888 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
2889 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
2890
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2891Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2892
5a659ccc
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2893* The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
2894 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
2895 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
2896 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
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2897 copy_file_range function can no longer rely on glibc to provide a fallback
2898 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
2899 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
2900 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
2901 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
5a659ccc 2902
f289e656
FW
2903* The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime,
2904 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
2905 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
2906 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
2907 since glibc 2.17.
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2909* The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
2910 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
2911
3f8b44be
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2912* Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
2913 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
2914
33322186
FW
2915* The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
2916 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
2917
94a4e9e4
FW
2918* With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
2919 BIND_NOW flag.
2920
a053e878
ZW
2921* Support for the PowerPC SPE ISA extension (powerpc-*-*gnuspe*
2922 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
2923 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
2924
6b33f373
FW
2925* On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
2926 header have been removed.
2927
744e8296
FW
2928* The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
2929 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
2930 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
2931 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
2932
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2933Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2934
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2935* GCC 6.2 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
2936
2937 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
2938 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
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2939
2940Security related changes:
2941
3f635fb4
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2942 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
2943 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
2944 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
2945 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
2946 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
2947 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
2948 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
de44ab67 2949
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2950 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
2951 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
2952 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
2953
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2955
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2956 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
2957 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
2958 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
2959 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
2960 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
2961 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
2962 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
2963 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
2964 invalid input drops valid char
2965 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
2966 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
2967 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
2968 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
2969 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
2970 malloc.h.
2971 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
2972 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
2973 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
2974 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
2975 functions
2976 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
2977 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
2978 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
2979 for long double = double
2980 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
2981 long double = double
2982 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
2983 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
2984 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
2985 long timeouts
fdb724f9 2986 [24051] stdio: puts and putchar output to _IO_stdout instead of stdout
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2987 [24059] nss: nss_files: get_next_alias calls fgets_unlocked without
2988 checking for NULL.
2989 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
2990 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
2991 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
2992 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
2993 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
2994 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
2995 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
2996 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
2997 not the default "nor"
2998 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
2999 false positives, change to modern flexible array
3000 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
3001 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
3002 compiler barriers.
3003 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
3004 unnecessary librt dependencies
3005 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
3006 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
3007 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
3008 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
3009 unsorted chunk
3010 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
3011 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
3012 to R_SPARC_H44
3013 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
3014 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
3015 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
3016 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
3017 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
3018 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
3019 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
3020 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
3021 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
3022 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
3023 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
3024 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
3025 was not used
3026 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
3027 tests
3028 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
3029 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
3030 time_t changes
3031 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
3032 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
3033 kernels and break testing
3034 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
3035 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
3036 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
3037 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
3038 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
3039 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
3040 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
3041 -O3 -march=skylake
3042 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
3043 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
3044 crash
3045 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
3046 linked glibc
3047 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
3048 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
3049 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
3050 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
3051 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
3052 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
3053 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
3054 always implemented in the same library
3055 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
3056 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
3057 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
3058 testroot
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3061Version 2.29
3062
3063Major new features:
3064
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3065* The getcpu wrapper function has been added, which returns the currently
3066 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
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3068* A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
3069 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
3070 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
3071 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
3072 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
3073 configured location.
437faa96 3074
424c4f60 3075* Optimized generic exp, exp2, log, log2, pow, sinf, cosf, sincosf and tanf.
3bded567 3076
2bda273a
FW
3077* The reallocarray function is now declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE, not just
3078 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
3079
f0458cf4
AZ
3080* For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
3081 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
3082 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
3083 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
3084 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
3085 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
3086 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
3087 process actually does not use HTM).
3088
3a3fb755
FW
3089* The functions posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np and
3090 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
3091 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
3092 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
3093 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
3094 of the same name.
4a938cb2 3095
14d0e87d
AZ
3096* The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
3097 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
3098 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
5fc3eca7 3099 inconsistent mutex state after a fork call in a multi-threaded process.
14d0e87d
AZ
3100 In both popen and system there is no direct access to user-defined mutexes.
3101
5f72b005
MH
3102* Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
3103 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
3104 supported:
3105 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
3106 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
3107
b22eed37
TS
3108* strftime's default formatting of a locale's alternative year (%Ey)
3109 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
3110 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
3111 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
3112 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
3113 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
3114 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
3115
32f600a2
TS
3116* As a GNU extension, the '_' and '-' flags can now be applied to
3117 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
3118 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
3119
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3120Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
3121
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3122* The glibc.tune tunable namespace has been renamed to glibc.cpu and the
3123 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
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3125* The type of the pr_uid and pr_gid members of struct elf_prpsinfo, defined
3126 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
3127 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
3128 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
3129
3f7f1d18
JM
3130* For the MIPS n32 ABI, the type of the pr_sigpend and pr_sighold members of
3131 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
3132 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
3133 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
3134 structures.
3135
03992356
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3136* An archaic GNU extension to scanf, under which '%as', '%aS', and '%a[...]'
3137 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
3138 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
3139 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
3140 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
3141 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
3142
3143 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
3144 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
3145 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
3146 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
3147 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
3148
3149 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
3150 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
3151 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
3152
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3153Changes to build and runtime requirements:
3154
c6982f7e 3155* Python 3.4 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
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3157* On most architectures, GCC 5 or later is required to build the GNU C
3158 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
3159
3160 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
3161 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
3162
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3163Security related changes:
3164
d527c860
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3165 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
3166 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
3167 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
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3169 CVE-2019-6488: On x32, the size_t parameter may be passed in the lower
3170 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
3171 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
3172 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
3173 Reported by H.J. Lu.
3174
108bc404
FW
3175 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
3176 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
3177 or command injection issues in applications.
3178
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3179The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3180
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3181 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
3182 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
3183 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
3184 thousands
3185 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
3186 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
3187 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
3188 --param options)
3189 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
3190 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
3191 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
3192 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
3193 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
3194 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
3195 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
3196 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
3197 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
3198 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
3199 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
3200 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
3201 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
3202 pointer argument is non-NULL
3203 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
3204 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
3205 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
3206 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
3207 multithreads call popen
3208 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
3209 and pthread_create fails.
3210 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
3211 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
3212 constructor
3213 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
3214 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
3215 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
3216 source tree
3217 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
3218 float
3219 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
3220 one error
3221 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
3222 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
3223 linker
3224 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
3225 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
3226 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
3227 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
3228 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
3229 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
3230 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
3231 filesystems
3232 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
3233 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
3234 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
3235 functions
3236 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
3237 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
3238 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
3239 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
3240 have wrong type
3241 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
3242 wrong type
3243 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
3244 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
3245 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
3246 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
3247 threads
3248 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
3249 start.S
3250 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
3251 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
3252 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
3253 powerpc64le
3254 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
3255 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
3256 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
3257 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
3258 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
3259 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
3260 strftime
3261 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
3262 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
3263 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
3264 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
3265 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
3266 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
3267 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
3268 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
3269 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
3270 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
3271 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
3272 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
3273 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
3274 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
3275 tcache size
3276 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
3277 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
3278 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
3279 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
3280 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
3281 (CVE-2018-19591)
3282 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
3283 nearest rounding mode
3284 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
3285 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
3286 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
3287 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
3288 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
3289 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
3290 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
3291 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
3292 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
3293 error
3294 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
3295 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
3296 using GCC 8
3297 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
3298 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
3299 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
3300 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
3301 ppc64le
3302 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
3303 expected result
3304 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
3305 x32 (CVE-2019-6488)
3306 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
3307 sigaltstack
3308 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
3309 answers will be rejected)
3310 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
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3313Version 2.28
3314
3315Major new features:
3316
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3317* The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
3318 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
3319 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
3320 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
3321 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
3322 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
3323 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
3324 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
3325 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
3326 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
3327 archive or binary locales.
3328
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3329* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for Intel CET, AKA
3330 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
3331 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
3332 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
3333 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
3334 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
3335 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
3336 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
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3337 Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
3338 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
3339 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
3340 validated for i686.
e6c69509 3341
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3342* The GNU C Library now has correct support for ABSOLUTE symbols
3343 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
3344 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
3345 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
3346 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
3347 field) to indicate such support is required.
3348
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3349* Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
3350 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
3351 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
3352
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3353* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
3354 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
3355
3356 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
3357 fMxaddfNx functions.
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3359 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
3360 fMxsubfNx functions.
3361
69a01461
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3362 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
3363 fMxmulfNx functions.
3364
632a6cbe
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3365 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
3366 fMxdivfNx functions.
3367
e607a352 3368* Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
df467d22 3369 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
9145f033 3370 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
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3371 support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
3372 and Kashubian.
c553cd6f 3373
61c4aad7 3374* Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
e607a352 3375 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
a1e0c5fa 3376
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3377* Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
3378 patches.
3379
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3380* The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
3381 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
3382 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
3383 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
3384 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
3385 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
3386 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
3387 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
3388
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3389* The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
3390 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
3391 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
3392 the fstatat64 function.
3393
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3394* IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
3395 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
3396 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
3397 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
3398 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
3399 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
3400 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
3401 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
3402 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
3403
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3404* Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
3405 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
3406 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
3407 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
3408 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
3409 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
3410 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
3411 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
3412 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
3413 results in a load failure now.
3414
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3415* Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The
3416 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
3417 <threads.h>:
3418
3419 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
3420 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
3421
3422 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
3423 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
3424
3425 - call_once for function call synchronization.
3426
3427 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
3428 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
3429
3430 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
3431
3432 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
3433
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3434Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
3435
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3436* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
3437 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
3438 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
3439
3440* The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
3441 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
3442 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
3443 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
3444 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
3445 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
3446
3447* All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
3448 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
3449 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
3450 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
3451 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
3452 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
3453 (Bug #1190.)
3454
3455* The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
3456 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
3457 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
3458 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
3459 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
3460 further explanation.
3461
3462 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
3463 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
3464 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
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3466* The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
3467
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3468* The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
3469 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
3470 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
3471
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3472* The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
3473 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
3474 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
3475 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
3476
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3477* The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
3478 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
3479 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
3480 for this function instead.
3481
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3482* The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
3483 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
3484 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
3485
3486* The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
3487 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
3488 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
3489 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
3490
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3491* The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
3492 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
3493 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
3494 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
3495 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
3496
b10a0acc
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3497* The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
3498 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
3499 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
3500 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
3501 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
3502 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
3503 such as libgcrypt.
3504
3505* Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
3506 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
3507 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
3508 enabled.
3509
3510* The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
3511 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
3512 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
3513
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3514* We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
3515 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
3516 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
3517 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
3518 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
3519 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
3520
3521 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
3522 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
3523 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
3524 behavior in a future release.
3525
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3526Changes to build and runtime requirements:
3527
f2873d2d 3528 GNU make 4.0 or later is now required to build glibc.
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3529
3530Security related changes:
3531
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3532 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
3533 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
3534 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
3535 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
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3537 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
3538 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
3539
3540 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
3541 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
3542 Izbyshev.
3543
3544 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
3545 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
3546 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
3547
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3548The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3549
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3550 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
3551 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
3552 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
3553 when __WORDSIZE != 64
3554 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
3555 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
3556 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
3557 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
3558 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
3559 14651
3560 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
3561 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
3562 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
3563 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
3564 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
3565 conversion is given
3566 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
3567 date
3568 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
3569 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
3570 scope with -O1 and higher
3571 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
3572 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
3573 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
3574 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
3575 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
3576 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
3577 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
3578 horrible machine code)
3579 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
3580 last constant.
3581 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
3582 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
3583 symbols
3584 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
3585 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
3586 defined
3587 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
3588 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
3589 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
3590 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
3591 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
3592 fpscr.c'
3593 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
3594 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
3595 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
3596 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
3597 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
3598 the base address
3599 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
3600 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
3601 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
3602 open_verify
3603 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
3604 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
3605 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
3606 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
3607 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
3608 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
3609 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
3610 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
3611 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
3612 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
3613 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
3614 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
3615 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
3616 dlopen
3617 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
3618 AT_SECURE=1
3619 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
3620 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
3621 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
3622 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
3623 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
3624 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
3625 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
3626 for Spanish with CLDR
3627 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
3628 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
3629 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
3630 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
3631 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
3632 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
3633 es_BO
3634 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
3635 CLOCKS_PER_SECOND
3636 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
3637 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
3638 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
3639 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
3640 dlopen failures
3641 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
3642 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
3643 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
3644 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
3645 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
3646 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
3647 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
3648 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
3649 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
3650 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
3651 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
3652 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
3653 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
3654 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
3655 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
3656 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
3657 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
3658 makecontext
3659 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
3660 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
3661 required
3662 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
3663 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
3664 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
3665 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
3666 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
3667 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
3668 disabled
3669 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
3670 failure
3671 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
3672 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
3673 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
3674 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
3675 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
3676 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
3677 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
3678 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
3679 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
3680 and libc build with -Os)
3681 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
3682 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
3683 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
3684 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
3685 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
3686 that changes /etc/passwd
3687 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
3688 (CVE-2018-11237)
3689 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
3690 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
3691 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
3692 posix/regcomp.c
3693 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
3694 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
3695 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
3696 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
3697 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
3698 AT_SECURE
3699 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
3700 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
3701 parser.c
3702 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
3703 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
3704 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
3705 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
3706 directed rounding
3707 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
3708 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
3709 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
3710 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
3711 lookup
3712 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
3713 interposition
3714 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
3715 DSO boundaries.
3716 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
3717 <linux/time.h>
3718 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
3719 checking
3720 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
3721 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
3722 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
3723 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
3724 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
3725 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
3726 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
3727 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
3728 processors
3729 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
086ee48e 3730
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3731\f
3732Version 2.27
3733
3734Major new features:
3735
9d7a3741
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3736* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
3737 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
bd7bbb26 3738 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
9d7a3741
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3739 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
3740 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
3741 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
3742 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
25fb7dd6
SN
3743 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
3744 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
9d7a3741 3745
ac817e08 3746* Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
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3747 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
3748 H.J. Lu from Intel.
20c7b195 3749
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3750* Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
3751
4cf82d23 3752* Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
72aa6233 3753
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3754* In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
3755 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
3756 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
3757 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
3758 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
3759 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
3760 from a security and performance perspective.
3761
91e7cf98
FW
3762* The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
3763 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
3764 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
3765 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
3766
81325b12 3767* On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
40ca951b
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3768 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
3769 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
3770 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
81325b12
JM
3771 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
3772
a23aa5b7 3773* On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
40ca951b 3774 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
a23aa5b7
JM
3775 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
3776 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
3777 _Float128.
3778
1f9055ce
JM
3779* The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
3780 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
3781 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
0d93b7fd 3782
4bab0224 3783* glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
59d2cbb1 3784
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3785* Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
3786 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
3787 pkey_get.
3788
bad7a0c8
FW
3789* The copy_file_range function was added.
3790
e6a1c5dc
PM
3791* Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
3792
7d38eb38
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3793* The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
3794 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
3795 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
3796
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3797* Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
3798 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
3799 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
3800 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
3801 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
3802 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
3803 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
3804
3805 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
3806 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
3807 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
3808 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
3809 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
3810 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
3811 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
3812
3813 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
3814 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
c10c9a5e
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3815 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
3816 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
3817 respectively.
3818
3819 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
3820 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
3821 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
3822 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
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3823
3824 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
3825 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
3826 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
3827
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3828 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
3829 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
0a32e219 3830 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
4378b735 3831
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3832* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
3833 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
3834 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
3835
3836 - rv64imac lp64
3837 - rv64imafdc lp64
3838 - rv64imafdc lp64d
3839
00cdcf5a
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3840Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
3841
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3842* Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
3843 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
d4ae7827 3844 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
4378b735
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3845 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
3846 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
3847 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
3848 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
3849 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
3850 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
3851 fix this.
3852
f1a844ac
FW
3853* Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
3854 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
3855 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
3856
2fc21aaa
FW
3857* Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
3858 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
3859 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
3860 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
3861 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
3862 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
3863 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
3864 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
3865 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
3866 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
3867 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
3868 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
3869 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
3870 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
3871 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
3872 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
3873 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
3874 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
3875 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
3876 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
3877 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
3878 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
3879 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
3880 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
3881 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
3882 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
3883
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3884* On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
3885 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
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3887* libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
3888 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
3889 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
3890 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
3891 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
3892 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
3893 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
3894
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3895* The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
3896 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
3897 exp10l for these functions instead.
3898
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3899* The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
3900 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
3901 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3902
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3903* The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
3904 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
3905 ignored.
3906
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3907* The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
3908 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
3909 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
3910 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
3911
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3912* The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
3913 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
3914
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3915* In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
3916 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
3917
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3918* The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
3919 programs.
3920
ed95f611
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3921* The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
3922
48a8f832
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3923* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
3924 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
3925 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
3926 instead.
3927
3928 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
3929 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
3930 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
3931 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
3932 use, but predates the bits convention.
3933
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3934Changes to build and runtime requirements:
3935
1faaf703
JB
3936* bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
3937 subdirectory.
00cdcf5a
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3938
3939Security related changes:
3940
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3941 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
3942 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
3943 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
3944 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
3945 script.)
00cdcf5a 3946
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3947 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
3948 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
3949 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
3950 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
c369d66e 3951
914c9994
FW
3952 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
3953 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
3954 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
3955 of service.
3956
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3957 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
3958 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
a159b53f
PE
3959 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
3960
37ac8e63
FW
3961 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
3962 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
3963 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
3964 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
3965
8a0b17e4
FW
3966 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
3967 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
3968 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
3969 Qualys.
3970
3ff3dfa5
FW
3971 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
3972 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
3973 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
3974 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
3975 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
3976
3e3c904d
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3977 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
3978 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
3979 current directory.
3980
52a713fd
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3981 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
3982 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
3983 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
3984
4590634f
FW
3985 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
3986 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
3987 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
3988
71aa429b
FW
3989 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
3990 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
3991 small, instead of NULL.
3992
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3993The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3994
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3995 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
3996 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
3997 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
3998 locale
3999 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
4000 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
4001 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
4002 cases
4003 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
4004 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
4005 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
4006 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
4007 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
4008 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
4009 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
4010 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
4011 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
4012 "Bangla"
4013 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
4014 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
4015 width Latin characters
4016 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
4017 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
4018 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
4019 letters
4020 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
4021 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
4022 (CVE-2009-5064)
4023 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
4024 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
4025 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
4026 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
4027 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
4028 if malloc succeeded
4029 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
4030 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
4031 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
4032 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
4033 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
4034 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
4035 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
4036 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
4037 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
4038 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
4039 U+309A
4040 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
4041 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
4042 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
4043 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
4044 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
4045 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
4046 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
4047 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
4048 for Nicaragua
4049 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
4050 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
4051 are not found.
4052 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
4053 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
4054 access
4055 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
4056 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
4057 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
4058 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
4059 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
4060 __regcall calling convention
4061 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
4062 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
4063 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
4064 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
4065 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
4066 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
4067 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
4068 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
4069 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
4070 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
4071 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
4072 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
4073 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
4074 locale
4075 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
4076 protector=all
4077 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
4078 wcwidth
4079 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
4080 consistency check failures
4081 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
4082 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
4083 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
4084 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
4085 PIE
4086 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
4087 locales
4088 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
4089 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
4090 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
4091 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
4092 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
4093 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
4094 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
4095 on memory allocation failure
4096 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
4097 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
4098 the suspect)
4099 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
4100 default (i386)
4101 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
4102 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
4103 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
4104 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
4105 instead of EAI_NODATA
4106 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
4107 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
4108 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
4109 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
4110 implementation
4111 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
4112 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
4113 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
4114 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
4115 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
4116 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
4117 allocation in syscall loops)
4118 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
4119 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
4120 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
4121 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
4122 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
4123 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
4124 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
4125 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
4126 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
4127 occur with -O3
4128 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
4129 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
4130 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
4131 amounts)
4132 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
4133 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
4134 niu_NZ
4135 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
4136 checks
4137 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
4138 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
4139 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
4140 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
4141 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
4142 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
4143 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
4144 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
4145 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
4146 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
4147 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
4148 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
4149 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
4150 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
4151 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
4152 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
4153 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
4154 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
4155 parsing after OOM
4156 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
4157 object
4158 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
4159 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
4160 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
4161 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
4162 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
4163 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
fdb724f9 4164 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf outputs a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
242cbc90
DL
4165 ppc64le
4166 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
4167 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
4168 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
4169 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
4170 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
4171 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
4172 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
4173 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
4174 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
4175 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
4176 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
4177 math_force_eval
4178 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
4179 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
4180 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
4181 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
4182 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
4183 the svid compat wrapper
4184 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
4185 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
4186 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
4187 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
4188 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
4189 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
4190 --verbose.
4191 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
4192 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
4193 to 2.26
4194 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
4195 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
4196 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
4197 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
4198 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
4199 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
4200 (CVE-2017-15804)
4201 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
4202 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
4203 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
4204 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
4205 failure."
4206 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
4207 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
4208 -m32
4209 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
4210 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
4211 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
4212 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
4213 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
4214 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
4215 inside the ASCII printable range
4216 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
4217 -mlong-double-64
4218 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
4219 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
4220 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
4221 Internet
4222 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
4223 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
4224 backslash
4225 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
4226 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
4227 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
4228 heaps in an arena
4229 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
4230 networking interface
4231 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
4232 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
4233 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
4234 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
4235 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
4236 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
4237 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
4238 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
4239 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
4240 order
4241 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
4242 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
4243 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
4244 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
4245 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
4246 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
4247 same as for Croatian
4248 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
4249 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
4250 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
4251 for initial thread"
4252 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
4253 SC_SSIZE_MAX
4254 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
4255 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
4256 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
4257 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
4258 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
4259 (CVE-2017-1000408)
4260 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
4261 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
4262 modified in case of success
4263 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
4264 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
4265 success
4266 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
4267 stack-protector=all
4268 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
4269 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
4270 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
4271 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
4272 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
4273 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
4274 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
4275 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
4276 adding it on top
4277 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
4278 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
4279 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
4280 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
4281 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
4282 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
4283 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
4284 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
4285 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
4286 (CVE-2018-1000001)
4287 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
4288 elision and tunables
4289 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
4290 "invalid" exception
4291 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
4292 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
4293 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
4294 exception
4295 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4296 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
4297 power4
4298 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
4299 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
4300 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
4301 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
4302 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
4303 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
4304 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
4305 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
4306 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
00cdcf5a 4307
58557c22
SP
4308\f
4309Version 2.26
4310
2b2ccd0c
ZW
4311Major new features:
4312
d5c3fafc
DD
4313* A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
4314 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
4315 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
4316 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
4317 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
4318 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
4319 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
4320
925fac77
MF
4321* Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
4322 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
0b38d66a 4323 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
a0e52598
MF
4324 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
4325 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
4326 are rendered with pango, see for example:
4327 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
58557c22 4328
2b2ccd0c
ZW
4329* Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
4330 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
4331 Egmont Koblinger.
e4e79484 4332
2b2ccd0c 4333* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
025b33ae 4334
7e368000
JM
4335 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
4336 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
4337 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
daeb1fa2 4338
7e368000
JM
4339 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
4340 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
4341 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
4342 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
4343 object are still limited to six search domains.
139ace95 4344
7e368000
JM
4345 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
4346 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
4347 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
cd354a38 4348
2b2ccd0c
ZW
4349* The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
4350 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
d8cee557 4351
2b2ccd0c
ZW
4352* New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
4353 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
4354 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
4355 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
f0be25b6 4356
2b2ccd0c
ZW
4357* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
4358 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
4359 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
4360 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
8082d91e 4361
2b2ccd0c
ZW
4362* posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
4363 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
4364 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
4365 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
2e0bbbfb 4366
2b2ccd0c
ZW
4367* errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
4368 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
4369 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
12d2dd70 4370
2b2ccd0c 4371* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
8d6cba41
JM
4372 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
4373 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
4374 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
2c0b90ab 4375
2b2ccd0c 4376 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
8d6cba41
JM
4377 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
4378 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
4379 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
4380 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
4381
4382 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
4383 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
4384 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
4385 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
4386 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
4387 interfaces should be used instead.
f819dbea 4388
2b2ccd0c
ZW
4389Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
4390
4391* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
4392 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
4393 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
4394 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
4395 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
4396 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
4397 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
4398 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
4399
4400* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
4401 removed.
4402
4403* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
7e368000 4404 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
2b2ccd0c
ZW
4405 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
4406 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
4407
4408* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
4409 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
4410 default.
4411
4412 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
4413 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
4414 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
7e368000
JM
4415 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
4416 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
2b2ccd0c
ZW
4417
4418 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
4419 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
4420 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
4421 name service modules, to be built and installed.
4422
4423* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
4424 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
4425 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
4426 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
4427
4428* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
4429 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
5b757a51 4430
6781d8e6
FW
4431* The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
4432 exported by accident.
4433
2b2ccd0c
ZW
4434* <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
4435 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
4436 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
4437
4438* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
4439 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
4440 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
4441 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
4442
4443* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
4444
4445* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
4446
4447* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
4448 free instead.
4449
4450* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
4451 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
4452
4453* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
4454 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
4455
4456* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
4457 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
4458 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
4459 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
4460 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
4461 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
4462 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
4463 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
4464
4465* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
4466 synced with the kernel:
4467
4468 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
4469 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
4470
4471 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
4472 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
4473 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
4474
4475 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
4476 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
4477
4478Changes to build and runtime requirements:
4479
4480* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
4481 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
4482 x86-32 and x86-64.)
4483
7e368000 4484* GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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4486* On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
4487 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
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4488
4489 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
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4490 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
4491 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
4492 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2b2ccd0c 4493 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
aef16cc8 4494
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4495Security related changes:
4496
e14a2772 4497* The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
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4498 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
4499
4500* LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
4501 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
4502
4503* Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
4504 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
4505 (CVE-2010-3192).
4506
4507* A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
4508 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
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4509
4510The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4511
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4512 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
4513 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
4514 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
4515 fields
4516 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
4517 (CVE-2010-3192)
4518 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
4519 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
4520 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
4521 ld.bfd is available
4522 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
4523 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
4524 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
4525 x86 and other generic code
4526 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
4527 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
4528 incorrect
4529 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
4530 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
4531 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
4532 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
4533 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
4534 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
4535 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
4536 resolver
4537 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
4538 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
4539 order of 0D36 and 0D37
4540 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
4541 chillu characters
4542 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
4543 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
4544 receiving data
4545 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
4546 whitespace
4547 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
4548 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
4549 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
4550 for Peru
4551 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
4552 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
4553 failures consistently
4554 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
4555 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
4556 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
4557 frame-pointer on i386
4558 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
4559 register
7f0d9e61 4560 [21075] libc: unused assignment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
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4561 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
4562 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
4563 generic c code is used
4564 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
4565 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
4566 around 4000
4567 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
4568 (CVE-2017-12133)
4569 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
4570 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
4571 with -lieee
4572 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
4573 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
4574 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
4575 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
4576 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
4577 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
4578 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
4579 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
4580 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
4581 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
4582 remove()
4583 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
4584 checked for errors.
4585 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
4586 new posix_spawn implementation
4587 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
4588 leads to lower CPU frequency
4589 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
4590 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
4591 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
4592 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
4593 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
4594 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
4595 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
4596 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
4597 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
4598 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
4599 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
4600 not support gethostbyname4_r
4601 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
4602 switching
4603 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
4604 arenas
4605 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
4606 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
4607 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
4608 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
4609 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
4610 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
4611 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
4612 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
4613 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
4614 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
4615 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
4616 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
4617 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
4618 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
4619 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
4620 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
4621 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
4622 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
4623 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
4624 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
4625 retry value
4626 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
4627 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
4628 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
4629 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
4630 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
4631 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
4632 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
4633 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
4634 [21537] libc:
4635 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
4636 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
4637 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
4638 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
4639 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
4640 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
4641 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
4642 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
4643 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
4644 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
4645 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
4646 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
4647 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
4648 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
4649 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
4650 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
4651 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
4652 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
4653 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
4654 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
4655 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
4656 issue on x86-64
4657 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
4658 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
4659 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
4660 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
4661 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
4662 construction
4663 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
4664 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
4665 between_2_3
4666 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
4667 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
4668 conditions
4669 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
4670 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
4671 Hindi Locale
4672 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
4673 posix/sched_cpucount.c
4674 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
4675 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
4676 locale
4677 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
4678 leading to relocation crash
4679 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
4680 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
4681 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
4682 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
4683 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
4684 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
4685 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
4686 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
4687 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
4688 locale
4689 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
4690 locale
4691 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
4692 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
4693 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
4694 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
4695 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
4696 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
4697 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
4698 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
4699 strings
4700 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
4701 protector=all
4702 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
4703 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
4704 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
4705 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
4706 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
4707 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
4708 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
4709 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
4710 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
4711 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
4712 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
4713 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
4714 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
4715 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
4716 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
4717 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
4718 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
4719 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
4720 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
4721 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
4722 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
4723 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
4724 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
4725 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
4726 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
4727 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
4728 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
4729 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
4730 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
4731 with unicode 9.0
4732 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
4733 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
4734 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
4735 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
4736 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
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4739Version 2.25
4740
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4741* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
4742 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
4743 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
4744 Library.
e720d3d9 4745
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4746* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
4747 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
a5ac5676 4748 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
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4749 the GNU C Library.
4750
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4751* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
4752 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
4753 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
4754 the GNU C Library.
4755
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4756* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
4757 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
4758 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
4759 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
4760 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
4761 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
4762 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
4763 will not.
4764
4765 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
4766 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
4767 many years.
4768
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4769* The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
4770 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
4771 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
4772
4773 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
4774 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
4775 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
4776 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
4777 problem.
4778
ec94343f 4779* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
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4780 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
4781 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
5146356f 4782
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4783* Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
4784 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
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4785 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
4786 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
4787 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
4788 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
4789 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
4790 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
4791 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
4792 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
4793 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
4794 WINT_WIDTH.
a292f45a 4795
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4796* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
4797
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4798 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
4799
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4800 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
4801 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
4802 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
41c67149 4803
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4804 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
4805 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
4806
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4807 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
4808 fminmagf, fminmagl.
4809
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4810 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
4811
29cb9293 4812 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
d942e95c 4813
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4814 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
4815 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
5e9d98a3 4816
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4817 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
4818
eb3c12c7 4819 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
457663a7 4820 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
f8e8b8ed 4821
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4822* The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
4823 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
4824
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4825* Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
4826 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
4827 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
4828
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4829* The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
4830 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
4831 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
4832 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
4833 effects of the memory clear).
4834
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4835* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
4836 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
4837 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
4838 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
4839
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4840* On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
4841 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
4842 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
4843 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
4844 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
4845 if they are compiled or used with those options.
6962682f 4846
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4847* The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
4848 have been added.
4849
705a79f8
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4850* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
4851 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
4852 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
4853 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
4854 as large as several megabytes.
4855
4d728087
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4856* The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
4857 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
4858 been removed.
4859
e863cce5
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4860* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
4861 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
4862 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
4863 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
4864 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
4865 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
4866 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
4867
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4868* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
4869 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
4870 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
4871 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
4872
099191b1 4873* The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
5140d036
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4874 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
4875 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
4876 Internet.
4877
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4878* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
4879 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
4880 They were already unimplemented.
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4882* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
4883 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
4884 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
4885 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
4886
3a2a1d2c
FW
4887* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
4888 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
4889 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
4890 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
4891 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
4892
be728303
FW
4893* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
4894 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
4895 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
4896 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
4897 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
4898
6815a33d
FW
4899* The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
4900 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
4901 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
4902 did not reflect that.
4903
022dfdce
SL
4904* For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
4905 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
4906 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
4907 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
4908 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
4909 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
4910 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
4911 'gcc/config.gcc'.
4912
23b5cae1
MG
4913* GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
4914 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
4915 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
4916 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
4917
7715d3ab
SP
4918* Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
4919 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
4920 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
4921 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
4922
0cea3587
SP
4923* A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
4924 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
4925 guarantees.
4926
4927* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
4928 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
4929 make state changes.
4930
e720d3d9
CD
4931Security related changes:
4932
fc82b0a2 4933* On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
4d047efd
FW
4934 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
4935 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
4936 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
056dd72a 4937 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
e720d3d9 4938
fc82b0a2
FW
4939* The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
4940 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
4941 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
4942 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
4943 (CVE-2015-5180)
4944
e720d3d9
CD
4945The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4946
fdb724f9 4947 [4099] stdio: Overly aggressive caching by stream i/o functions.
4e054e6b
SP
4948 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
4949 protector-all
4950 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
4951 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
4952 before it started waiting
4953 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
4954 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
4955 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
4956 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
4957 wrong type
4958 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
4959 library linked with pthread
4960 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
4961 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
4962 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
4963 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
4964 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
4965 after being __libc_memalign()'d
4966 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
7f0d9e61 4967 when it shouldn't
4e054e6b
SP
4968 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
4969 not
4970 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
4971 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
4972 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
4973 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
4974 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
4975 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
4976 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
4977 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
4978 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
4979 termination
4980 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
4981 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
4982 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
4983 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
4984 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
4985 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
4986 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
4987 causes a segmentation fault
4988 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
4989 linking
4990 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
4991 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
4992 uninitialized GOT
4993 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
4994 versions
4995 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
4996 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
4997 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
4998 is always true.
4999 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
5000 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
5001 modes
5002 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
5003 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
5004 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
5005 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
5006 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
5007 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
5008 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
5009 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
5010 libpthread.a
5011 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
5012 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
5013 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
5014 _res_hconf
5015 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
5016 information.
5017 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
5018 penalty
5019 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
5020 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
5021 cause transition penalty
5022 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
5023 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
5024 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
5025 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
5026 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
5027 mcount.oS)
5028 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
5029 Checking
5030 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
5031 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
5032 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
5033 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
5034 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
5035 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
5036 multi-arch
5037 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
5038 (RES_USEBSTRING)
5039 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
5040 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
5041 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
5042 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
5043 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
5044 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
5045 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
5046 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
5047 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
5048 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
5049 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
5050 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
5051 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
5052 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
5053 glibc
5054 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
5055 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
5056 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
5057 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
5058 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
5059 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
5060 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
5061 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
5062 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
5063 U+20AC), not same as GBK
5064 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
5065 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
5066 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
5067 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
5068 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
5069 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
5070 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
5071 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
5072 RES_USE_INET6
5073 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
5074 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
5075 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
5076 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
5077 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
5078 wrong condition
5079 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
5080 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
5081 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
5082 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
5083 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
5084 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
5085 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
5086 clang
5087 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
5088 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
5089 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
5090 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
5091 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
e720d3d9 5092\f
11fca961
AZ
5093Version 2.24
5094
5b4ecd3f
JM
5095* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
5096 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
5097 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
5098 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
5099 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
5100 architectures.
5101
b6ebba70
MF
5102* The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
5103 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
5104 been included in previous releases.
11fca961 5105
7584a3f9
FW
5106* The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
5107 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
5108
b49ab5f4
FW
5109* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
5110 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
5111 instead of “union wait”.
5112
ced8f893
SG
5113* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
5114 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
5115 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
5116 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
5117 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
5118 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
5119 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
5120
2ba3cfa1
FW
5121* The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
5122 API.
5123
b7a9b7b0
MF
5124* The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
5125 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
5126 drop it.
6a54bcda 5127
41a359e2
RS
5128* nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
5129 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
5130 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
5131 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
5132 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
5133 extensions.
5134
11fca961
AZ
5135Security related changes:
5136
f5b3338d
FW
5137* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
5138 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
5139 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
5140
4ab2ab03
FW
5141* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
5142 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
5143 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
5144 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
11fca961 5145
5171f307
FW
5146* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
5147 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
5148 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
5149
bc779a1a
FW
5150* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
5151 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
5152 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
5153
fab38231
FW
5154* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
5155 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
5156 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
5157 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
5158
11fca961
AZ
5159The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5160
3c4f81ec
CD
5161 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
5162 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
5163 of MS-DOS.
5164 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
5165 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
5166 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
5167 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
5168 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
5169 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
5170 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
5171 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
5172 CLDR data
5173 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
5174 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
5175 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
5176 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
5177 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
5178 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
5179 romanisation
5180 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
5181 and +/-
5182 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
5183 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
5184 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
5185 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
5186 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
5187 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
5188 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
5189 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
5190 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
5191 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
5192 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
5193 all locales
5194 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
5195 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
5196 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
5197 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
5198 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
5199 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
5200 execute
5201 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
5202 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
5203 -Wsystem-headers
5204 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
5205 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
5206 Romanian locale data
5207 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
5208 symbol
5209 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
5210 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
5211 language
5212 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
5213 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
5214 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
5215 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
5216 machine
5217 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
5218 description
5219 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
5220 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
5221 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
5222 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
5223 when using RTLD_NEXT
5224 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
5225 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
5226 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
5227 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
5228 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
5229 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
5230 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
5231 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
5232 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
5233 Excavator core
5234 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
5235 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
5236 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
5237 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
5238 double range
5239 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
5240 part zero incorrect
5241 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
5242 equality tests
5243 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
5244 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
5245 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
5246 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
5247 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
5248 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
5249 glibc-2.22
5250 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
5251 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
5252 'tst-numeric.c'
5253 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
5254 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
5255 low part
5256 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
5257 result
5258 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
5259 unaligned stack
5260 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
5261 pointers and lengths in error-case.
5262 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
5263 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
5264 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
5265 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
5266 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
5267 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
5268 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
5269 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
5270 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
5271 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
5272 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
5273 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
5274 modes
5275 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
5276 server addresses
5277 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
5278 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
5279 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
5280 response to getaddrinfo
5281 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
5282 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
5283 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
5284 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
5285 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
5286 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
5287 sometimes incorrect
5288 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
5289 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
5290 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
5291 record types
5292 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
5293 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
5294 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
5295 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
5296 (CVE-2016-3075)
5297 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
5298 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
5299 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
5300 resolving symbols
5301 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
5302 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
5303 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
5304 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
5305 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
5306 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
5307 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
5308 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
5309 gethosts
5310 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
5311 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
5312 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
5313 (CVE-2016-3706)
5314 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
5315 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
5316 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
5317 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
5318 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
5319 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
5320 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
5321 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
5322 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
5323 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
5324 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
5325 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
5326 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
5327 executable
5328 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
5329 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
5330 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
5331 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
5332 XPG3
5333 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
5334 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
5335 (CVE-2016-4429)
5336 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
5337 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
5338 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
5339 AS not supporting AVX512
5340 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
5341 sNaN argument
5342 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
5343 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
5344 argument
5345 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
5346 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
5347 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
5348 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
5349 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
5350 eax=0x80000001
5351 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
5352 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
5353 subnormals
5354 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
5355 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
5356 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
5357 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
5358 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
5359 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
5360 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
5361 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
5362 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
5363 input
5364 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
5365 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
5366 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
5367 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
5368 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
5369 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
5370 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
5371 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
5372 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
5373 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
5374 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
5375 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
5376 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
5377 double rounding
5378 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
5379 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
5380 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
5381 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
5382 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
5383 (Only arm/linux)
5384 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
5385 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
5386 fallbacks
5387 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
5388 "invalid" exceptions
5389 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
5390 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
5391 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
5392 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
5393 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
5394 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
5395 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
5396 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
5397 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
11fca961 5398\f
aeb47bbc
DM
5399Version 2.23
5400
23256f5e
MF
5401* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
5402 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
5403 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
5404 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
5405 89, 16061, and 18568.
5406
2359035a
FW
5407* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
5408 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
5409 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
5410 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
5411 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
5412 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
5413 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
5414
8b7b7f75
MW
5415* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
5416 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
5417 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
5418
2eecc8af
FW
5419* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
5420 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
5421 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
5422 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
5423 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
5424 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
5425 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
5426
a62719ba
FW
5427* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
5428 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
5429 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
5430 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
7f0d9e61 5431 the concurrent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 5432 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
a62719ba
FW
5433 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
5434 Ericsson.)
a014cecd 5435
bc148ca1
MF
5436* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
5437 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
5438 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
5439 independent of the GNU C Library.
5440
1c70b6f1
ZW
5441* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
5442 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
1efad39b 5443
eed3e1eb
JM
5444* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
5445 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
5446 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
5447 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
5448 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
5449 Linux kernel.
5450
1efad39b
SL
5451* Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
5452 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
b08b4218 5453
d709042a
JM
5454* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
5455 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
5456 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
5457 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
5458 defining their own copy.
5459
b08b4218
JM
5460* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
5461 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
5462 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
f268ab5f 5463
8f5e8b01
JM
5464Security related changes:
5465
6400ae6e
FW
5466* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
5467 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
5468
5469* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
5470 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
5471 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
5472 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
5473 (CVE-2015-8777)
5474
5475* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
5476 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
5477
5478* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
5479 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
5480
8f5e8b01
JM
5481* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
5482 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 5483 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
8f5e8b01 5484
e9db92d3
CD
5485* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
5486 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
5487 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
5488 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
5489 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
5490 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
5491 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
5492 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
5493 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
5494 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
5495 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
5496 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
5497 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
5498
ad372e29 5499The following bugs are resolved with this release:
f268ab5f 5500
ad372e29
AZ
5501 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
5502 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
5503 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
5504 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
5505 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
5506 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
5507 use `mkstemp'
5508 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
7f0d9e61 5509 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doesn't set errno on
ad372e29
AZ
5510 overflow/underflow errors
5511 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
5512 overflow/underflow
5513 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
5514 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
5515 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
5516 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
5517 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
5518 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
5519 are not contiguous
5520 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
5521 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
5522 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
5523 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
5524 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
5525 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
5526 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
5527 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
5528 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
5529 all exceptions
5530 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
5531 arguments
5532 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
5533 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
5534 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
5535 should include
5536 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
5537 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
5538 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
5539 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
5540 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
5541 GNU/Linux
5542 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
5543 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
5544 arguments
5545 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
5546 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
5547 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
5548 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
5549 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
5550 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
5551 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
5552 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
5553 rounding results
5554 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
5555 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
5556 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
5557 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
5558 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
5559 fails
5560 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
5561 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
5562 block boundary
5563 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
5564 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
5565 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
5566 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
5567 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
5568 4.7?
5569 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
5570 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
5571 (related to lock elision)
5572 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
5573 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
5574 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
5575 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
5576 (CVE-2015-8779)
5577 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
5578 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
5579 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
5580 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
5581 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
5582 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
5583 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
5584 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
5585 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
5586 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
5587 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
5588 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
5589 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
5590 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
5591 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
5592 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
5593 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
5594 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
5595 contains a vector instruction exception.
5596 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
5597 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
5598 locales
5599 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
5600 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
5601 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
5602 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
5603 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
5604 missing break ?
5605 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
5606 32bit processes
5607 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
5608 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
5609 infinity
5610 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
5611 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
5612 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
5613 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
5614 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
5615 be forced unloaded
5616 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
5617 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
5618 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
5619 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
5620 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
5621 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
5622 statically too large
5623 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
5624 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
5625 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
5626 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
5627 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
5628 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
5629 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
5630 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
5631 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
5632 FUTEX_SHARED
5633 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
5634 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
5635 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
5636 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
5637 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
5638 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
5639 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
5640 opendir()
5641 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
5642 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
5643 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
5644 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
5645 signgam
5646 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
5647 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
5648 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
5649 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
5650 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
5651 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
5652 dependencies
5653 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
5654 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
5655 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
5656 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
5657 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
5658 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
5659 (CVE-2015-8776)
5660 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
5661 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
5662 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
5663 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
5664 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
5665 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
5666 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
5667 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
5668 contention
5669 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
5670 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
5671 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
5672 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
5673 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
5674 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
5675 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
5676 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
5677 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
5678 rounding modes
5679 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
5680 ILP32
5681 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
5682 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
5683 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
5684 threshold
5685 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
5686 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
5687 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
7f0d9e61 5688 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assembler
ad372e29
AZ
5689 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
5690 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
5691 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
5692 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
5693 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
5694 pthread_setaffinity_np
5695 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
5696 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
5697 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
5698 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
5699 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
5700 prelink
5701 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
5702 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
5703 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
5704 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
5705 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
5706 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
5707 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
5708 bits/mathcalls.h
5709 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
5710 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
5711 for C99-based standards
5712 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
5713 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
5714 math-only
5715 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
5716 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
5717 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
5718 disabled
5719 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
5720 "inexact" exceptions
5721 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
5722 arguments
5723 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
5724 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
5725 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
5726 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
5727 rules
5728 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
5729 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
5730 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
5731 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
5732 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
5733 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
5734 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
5735 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
5736 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
5737 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
5738 from 32bit
5739 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
5740 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
5741 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
5742 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
5743 subnormals
5744 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
5745 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
5746 error on 32-bit architectures
5747 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
5748 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
5749 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
5750 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
5751 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
5752 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
5753 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
5754 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
5755 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
5756 -Os
5757 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
5758 CPU's.
5759 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
5760 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
5761 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
5762 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
5763 architectures
5764 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
aeb47bbc 5765\f
1c7a4a51
JM
5766Version 2.22
5767
5768* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5769
3df5cd98 5770 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
0e569d30
MF
5771 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
5772 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
5773 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
5774 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
5775 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
5776 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
5777 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
5778 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
5779 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
5780 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
5781 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
5782 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
5783 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
5784 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
5785 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
5786 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
5787 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
6fdd5d65
FW
5788 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
5789 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
2959eda9 5790
f7fba805
SL
5791* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
5792 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
5793
2959eda9
AS
5794* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
5795 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
5796 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
5797 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
5798 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
5799 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4a4839c9 5800
42261ad7
FW
5801* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
5802 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
5803 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
5804 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
5805 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
5806
afcd9480
AM
5807* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
5808 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
5809 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
5810
4a4839c9
AO
5811* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
5812 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
5813 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
5814 17998.
5815
b13b96ca
AS
5816* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
5817 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
5818 condition in some applications.
21933112
AS
5819
5820* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
a6336cc4
AS
5821 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
5822 pow, powf.
21933112
AS
5823 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
5824 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
037e4b99
AS
5825 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
5826 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 5827 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
fdb7d390
AZ
5828
5829* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
5830 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
5831 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
5832 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
7fde904c
MF
5833
5834* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
5835 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
5836 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
7493ab25
RM
5837
5838* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
5839 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
2ec11c2b
ZW
5840
5841* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
5842 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
5843 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
5844
a03ba363 5845 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
2ec11c2b
ZW
5846 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
5847 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
1c7a4a51 5848\f
58b930ae
SP
5849Version 2.21
5850
5851* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5852
042e1521 5853 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
5bd80bfe
PP
5854 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
5855 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
5856 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
5857 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
5858 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
5859 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
5860 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
5861 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
5862 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
5863 17892.
5864
46d54873
FW
5865* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
5866 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
5867 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
5868 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
5869 intended.
042e1521
CD
5870
5871* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
5872 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
5873 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
5874 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
5875 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
5876 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
a39208bd 5877
522e6ee3
CLT
5878* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
5879
d3b00f46
AZ
5880* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
5881 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 5882 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
96d6fd6c 5883
8d2c0a59
AZ
5884* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
5885 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
5886 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
5887 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
5888 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
5889 effects being visible outside transactions.
5890
dc400d7b
RE
5891* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
5892 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
ec582ca0 5893
0f9dfe04
L
5894* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
5895
a39208bd
CD
5896* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
5897 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
ebda2f17 5898 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
a39208bd
CD
5899 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
5900 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
fb89b46d 5901
a5357b7c
JL
5902* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
5903 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
5904
e54db0ea
AM
5905* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
5906 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
5907 format.
11e3417a 5908
4863355a
JM
5909* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
5910 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
5911 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
5912
a4ecc9eb
JM
5913* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
5914 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
5915
0d560bbf 5916* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
0781a777
RM
5917
5918* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
5919 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
5920 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
5921 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
6d248857
WN
5922
5923* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
5924 with newer versions of bison.
28c38448
MF
5925
5926* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
5927 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
5928 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
5929 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
5930 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
5931 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
5932 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
5933 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
5934 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
5935 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
5936 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
5937 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
5938 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
5939
5940 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
5941 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
5942 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
5943 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
5944 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
58b930ae 5945\f
d5b396c1
AM
5946Version 2.20
5947
5948* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5949
6a9350c8
JM
5950 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
5951 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
5952 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
5953 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
5954 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
5955 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
5956 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
5957 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
5958 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
5959 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
5960 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
5961 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
5962 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
5963 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
5964 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
0961f7e1 5965
95ee7fb1
SL
5966* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
5967 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
5968 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
5969 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
5970 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 5971 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
95ee7fb1
SL
5972 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
5973 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
5974 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
5975 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
5976
0961f7e1
JL
5977* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
5978 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
5979 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
5980 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
5981 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
f3d338c9 5982
f940b965
RE
5983* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5984
d0f5b3f8
JM
5985* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
5986 can be used with is 2.6.32.
5987
d6fe5e58
JM
5988* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
5989 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
5990 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
5991 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
5992 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
5993 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
5994
464263cc
JM
5995* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
5996 from ports.
c941736c
JM
5997
5998* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
5999 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
6000 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
6001 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
6002 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
6003 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
6004 test macros defined.
f63c86fe
WN
6005
6006* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5a414ff7
DV
6007
6008* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
6009 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
6010 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
6011 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
6012 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
6013 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
6014 is not built.
d03efb2f
AM
6015
6016* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
6017 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
6018 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
6019 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
6020 invocation.
cfd2ea50
JM
6021
6022* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
6023 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
6024 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
f083450f
RM
6025
6026* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
6027 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
6028 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
6029 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
4e8f95a0
FW
6030
6031* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
6032 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
6033 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
6034 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
6035 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
6036 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
6037 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
6038 additional checks.
9a8a5720
RM
6039
6040* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
6041 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
6042 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
6043 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
6044 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
6045 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
6046 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
6047 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
6048 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
a1a6a401
FW
6049
6050* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
6051 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
6052 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
6053 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
6054 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 6055 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
41488498
FW
6056
6057* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
6058 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
6059 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
6060 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
6c1fd795
DM
6061\f
6062Version 2.19
6063
6064* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6065
fd2f9486
JM
6066 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
6067 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
6068 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
6069 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
6070 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
6071 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
6072 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
6073 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
6074 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
6075 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
ed27ed83
JM
6076 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
6077 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
6078 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
6079 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
6080 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
798212a0
PP
6081 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
6082 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
6083 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
141f3a77 6084
11520a57
CD
6085* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
6086 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
6087
2fe16229
CD
6088* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
6089 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
6090 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
08d76093
CD
6091 extension which uses __block.
6092
303e567a
SP
6093* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
6094 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
6095 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
6096 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
6097 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
6098
141f3a77
SP
6099* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
6100 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
6101 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
6102 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
6103 if malloc fails.
c61b4d41
CD
6104
6105* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
6106 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
6107 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
6108 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
6109 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
91ce4085
FW
6110
6111* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
6112 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
6113 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
6114
ba0d798c
WN
6115* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
6116 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
6117 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
6118 #15856, #15857).
6119
7cbcdb36
SP
6120* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
6121 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
6122
82bab04b 6123* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 6124 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
ddd9fb8f 6125
c5f840fd
MB
6126* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
6127
3e181dda
CD
6128* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
6129 supported locales.
ddd9fb8f 6130
3e181dda 6131* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
7447ccd9 6132
8a05c252
CL
6133* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
6134
6055173a
JM
6135* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
6136 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
6137 for which the C library was built.
6138
b125d3e5
JM
6139* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
6140 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
6141 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
6142 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
6143 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
6144 in the following circumstances:
6145
6146 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
6147
6148 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
6149 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
6150
d4f66d37
JM
6151* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
6152 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
6153
3e181dda
CD
6154* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
6155 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
e35696c3 6156
ffb89e53
AO
6157* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
6158
5d29ccce
SP
6159* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
6160 transcendental functions have been introduced.
6161
8b7d57cd 6162* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
b125d3e5
JM
6163
6164* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 6165
fd712ef3 6166* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 6167
c688b419
JM
6168* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
6169 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
6170 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
6171 disable some of those declarations.
6172
7011c262 6173* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
029c7b25
JM
6174 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
6175 that did nothing) has also been removed.
0a57b83e
AO
6176
6177* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
6178 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
ee4ec1d7
AK
6179
6180* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
6181 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
6182 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
6183 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
6184 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
6185 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
6186 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
6187 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
6188 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
6189 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
6190 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
6191 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
6192 require recompilation.
2c8bfe7d
DM
6193\f
6194Version 2.18
6195
6196* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6197
17db6e8d 6198 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
0432680e
PY
6199 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
6200 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
8c17cb1f
JM
6201 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
6202 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
6203 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
6204 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
6205 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
6206 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
6207 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
6208 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
6209 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
6210 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
6211 15755, 15759.
e4608715
CD
6212
6213* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
6214 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
6215 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
6216 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
6217 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
6218 understands and accepts the risks.
1cef1b19 6219
5b535ac4
AS
6220* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
6221 #15078).
6222
1cef1b19
AS
6223* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
6224 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
7fffbdff 6225
55e4107b
SP
6226* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
6227 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
6228 destructor calls to glibc.
6229
e5c74c63
SP
6230* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
6231 output.
6232
6233* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
6234 non-x86 architectures.
6235
e7521973
JM
6236* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
6237
6238* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
6239
6240* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
6241 Richard Henderson.
6242
6243* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
6244
6245* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
6246 Richard Henderson.
6247
6248* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
6249 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
6250
8cfdb7e0
SP
6251* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
6252
57267616
TS
6253* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
6254 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
58206c68 6255
c204ab28
SP
6256* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
6257 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
61dd6208 6258
0748546f
PE
6259* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
6260 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
6261 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
6262
61dd6208
SP
6263* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
6264 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
6265 attributes of a process.
a7cb9d67
AK
6266
6267* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
6268 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
6269 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
6270 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
6271 mutexes.
be063fa4
RA
6272
6273* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
6274 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
6275
6276* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
370ca3d2
JM
6277\f
6278Version 2.17
6279
6280* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6281
80ceeaee 6282 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
b4180a5e
AJ
6283 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
6284 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
6285 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
6286 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
6287 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
6288 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
6289 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
6290 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
6291 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
6292 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
6293 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
6294 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
6295 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
6296 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
14bc93a9 6297
95b4f1b6
SE
6298* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
6299
14bc93a9
JL
6300* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
6301 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
7a845b2c 6302
b54eb3cb
JM
6303* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
6304 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
6305
7e2bd01f
MS
6306* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
6307
08f43f9b
AK
6308* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
6309 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
6310 zEnterprise z196.
6311 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
6312
84b3fd84
FW
6313* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
6314 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
6315 the internal function __secure_getenv.
6316
815e6fa3
GB
6317* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
6318 Implemented by Gary Benson.
6319
400726de
MK
6320* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
6321 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
6322
7aab07e4 6323* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 6324 can be used with is 2.6.16.
7aab07e4 6325
15d0da8c
WS
6326* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
6327 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
6328
3cc3ef96
RM
6329* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
6330 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
c53d909c
RM
6331 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
6332 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3cc3ef96 6333
b54eb3cb
JM
6334* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
6335 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
6336
85429b1a 6337* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 6338 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
85429b1a
DM
6339 default.
6340
b54eb3cb
JM
6341* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
6342 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
6343 information in --help and --version output.
6344
050af9c4
SP
6345* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
6346 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
6347 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
6348
89a3ad0b
AO
6349* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
6350 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
6351 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
6352 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
6353 when the mode is enabled.
6354
6e6249d0
RM
6355* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
6356 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
6357 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
6358 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
6359 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
6360 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
6361 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5a04f376 6362
d9286582
NK
6363* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
6364 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
8d44e150
UD
6365\f
6366Version 2.16
6367
6368* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6369
a8133e19
JM
6370 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
6371 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
6372 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
6373 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
6374 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
6375 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
6376 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
6377 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
6378 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
6379 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
6380 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
6381 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
6382 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
6383 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
6384 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
6385 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
6386 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
6387 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
6388 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
6389 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
6390 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
6391 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
6392 14277, 14278.
380d7e87 6393
a086b4d6
L
6394* Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
6395 configuring glibc with:
6396 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
8f7a75d7 6397 Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
a086b4d6
L
6398 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
6399
380d7e87
UD
6400* ISO C11 support:
6401
6402 + define static_assert
6403
6404 + do not declare gets
6405
6406 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
6407
6408 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
6409 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
6410 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
6411 implementation.
8d44e150 6412
74033a25 6413 + timespec_get added
544563c9
UD
6414
6415 + uchar.h support added
d75a0a62 6416
ac097f5c
UD
6417 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
6418
16dd419d
UD
6419 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6420
9dc4e1fb 6421* Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
33808bf1
UD
6422
6423* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
d9a216c0
UD
6424
6425* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
6426 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
daa891c0
UD
6427
6428* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
6429 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
021db4be
AJ
6430
6431* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
6432 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
6433 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
6434 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
6435 existing applications.
ffb7875d 6436
21708942 6437* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
ffb7875d
JM
6438 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
6439 before 2.6.
83678f76 6440
edb00e4d
RH
6441* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
6442 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
6443 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
6444
83678f76 6445* New locales: mag_IN
7b44a2df
RM
6446
6447* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
6448 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
6449 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
6450 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
6451 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
47e452cf
JM
6452
6453* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
6454
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
6455* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
6456 and Will Schmidt.
47e452cf
JM
6457
6458* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
6459
6460* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
6461 without a previously built glibc.
6462
6463* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
6464 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
6465
6466* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
6467 now supported for ARM processors.
6468
6469* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
6470 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
6471 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
6472
6473* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
6474
6475* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
6476 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
6477 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
6478 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
929cc14e
AJ
6479
6480* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
6481 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
6482 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
6483 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
ee9247c3
CD
6484
6485* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
6486 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
6487 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
6488 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
6489 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
6490
6491* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
6492 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
6493 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
6494 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
ee1a7fab 6495\f
e80fab37 6496Version 2.15
11988f8f 6497
c0244a9d
UD
6498* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6499
aebae053
UD
6500 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
6501 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
6502 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
6503 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
6504 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
6505 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
6506 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
c0244a9d 6507
11988f8f
UD
6508* New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
6509 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
9f2da732
UD
6510
6511* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
6512 and support for initgroups lookups.
6513 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
0b1cbaae
L
6514
6515* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
6516 Contributed by HJ Lu.
8912479f
L
6517
6518* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
6519 Contributed by HJ Lu.
99710781 6520
fc2ee42a
LD
6521* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
6522 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 6523 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 6524
d42964a0 6525* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
693fb948
LD
6526 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
6527
1d3e4b61
UD
6528* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
6529 for x86-64 and x86-32.
093ecf92
LD
6530 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
6531
c55fbd1e
UD
6532* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
6533 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a0f33f99
UD
6534
6535* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
6536 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
684ae515
UD
6537
6538* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
6539 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
0ac5ae23
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6540
6541* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
6542 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6544* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
6545 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6546
6547* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
6548 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6550* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
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6552* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
6553 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6555* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
6556 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
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6b64057b 6558* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
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6562* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6563
553149f6 6564 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 6565 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 6566 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 6567 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
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6569 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
6570 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
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6571 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
6572 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 6573 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
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6575* The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
6576 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
6577 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 6578 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
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6580 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
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6581 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
6582 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
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6583 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6584
c6489db3 6585* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
f1f929d7 6586 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
83fe108b 6587
72d1dddb 6588* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 6589 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
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6591* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
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6593* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
6594 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6596* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
6597 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
6598 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
6599 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
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6602
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6604
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6606 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
6607 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
6608 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
6609 12378, 12394, 12397
ac2b484c 6610
10b3bedc 6611* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
c08fb0d7 6612
ac2b484c 6613* POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
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6615* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
6616 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 6617 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6619Version 2.12
6620
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6622
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6623 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
6624 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
6625 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
6626 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
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6627 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
6628 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
6629 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 6630 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
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6632* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
d36b9613 6633
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6634* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
6635
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6636* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
6637
6638* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
6639 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
6640 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6641
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6643 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
6644 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
6645 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
6646 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6647
d36b9613 6648* New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
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6650Version 2.11
6651
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6652* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6653
6654 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
6655 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
6656 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
6657 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
6658 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
6659 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
6660
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6661* New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
6662 mkostemps64
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6663 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6664
24ab9c76 6665* Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
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6666 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6667
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6668* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
6669 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
6670
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6671* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
6672
0122f28e 6673* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
9d36a6c4 6674 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 6675 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
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6676 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
6677
9d36a6c4 6678 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
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6679 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6680
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6681* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
6682 strstr, strcasestr.
6683 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
6684
6685* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
6686 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
6687
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6688* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
6689 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
6690
6691* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
6692 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6693
6694* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
6695 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
6696 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
6697 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
6698 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
6699 necessity is every process again.
6700 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6701
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6702* New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
6703 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
6704
6705* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
6706 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
6707
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6708* Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
6709 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
6710 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6711
9dd5b8a1 6712* New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
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6714Version 2.10
6715
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6716* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6717
6718 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
6719 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
6720 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
6721 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
6722 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
6723
bb066545 6724* New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
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6725 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6726
425ce2ed 6727* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
e109c612 6728 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 6729
1fdd89a7 6730* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
735be400 6731 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
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6733* XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
6734 now in POSIX.
77db439e 6735
1f04d005 6736* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6cbe890a 6737 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1f04d005 6738
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6739* New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
6740 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6741
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6742* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
6743 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6744
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6745* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
6746 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6747
6748* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
6749 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
6750 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6751
735be400 6752* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
878b72c5 6753
84aa52d7 6754* Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
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6755 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6756
6757* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
6758 and extend existing format specifiers.
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6759 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6760
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6761* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
6762 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6763
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6764* DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
6765 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
6766 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
6767 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
6768 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
6769 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6771Version 2.9
6772
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6773* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6774
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6775 2447, 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447,
6776 6461, 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712,
6777 6713, 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839,
6778 6843, 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955,
6779 6966, 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
d36b9613 6780
b29899ae 6781* Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
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6782 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6783
6784* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
6785 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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6786
6787* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
6788 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6790* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
6791 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
6792 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6793
6794* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
6795 Implemented by Eric Blake.
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8ec2550e 6797* New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
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6798
6799* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
ebcc1f4d 6800 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
e038616f 6801
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6802* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
6803 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
6804 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
6805 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6806
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6807* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
6808 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6810* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
6811 Sinhala)
48b22986 6812 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
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6814* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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6817
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6818* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6819
6820 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
6821 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
6822 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
6823 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
6824 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
6825 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
6826 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
6827
e038616f 6828* New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
b4354cf4 6829
77751669 6830* New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
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6832* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
6833 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
6834
6835* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
6836
6837* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
6838 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6839
6840* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
6841 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6842
6843* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
6844 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
6845 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
6846
6847* Faster memset for x86-64.
6848 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
6849
6850* Faster memcpy on x86.
6851 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6852
6853* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
6854 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3b32d8a2 6855
7f0d9e61 6856* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implementation for some PPC variants.
d990b282 6857 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
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6860
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6861* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6862
6863 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
6864 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
6865 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
6866 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
6867 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
6868
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6869* More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
6870 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
6871
6872* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
6873
6874* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
6875 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
6876 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
6877
6878* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
6879 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
6880
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6882 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6883
6884* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6885
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6886* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
6887 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6888
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6889* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
6890 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
6891
6892* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
6893 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
6894
6895* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6896
6897* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
6898 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6900* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
6901 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
6902 yo_NG.
6903
6904+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
6905 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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11bf311e 6907Version 2.6
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6910
6911 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
6912 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
6913 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
6914 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
6915 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
6916 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
6917 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
6918 4702, 4858
6919
bce20b9a 6920* New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
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6923
b21fa963 6924* nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6926Version 2.5
6927
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6928* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6929
6930 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
6931 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
6932 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
6933 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
6934 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
6935 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
6936 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
6937 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
6938 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
6939
3af48b5b 6940* For Linux, the sorting of addresses returned by getaddrinfo now also
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6941 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
6942 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6944* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
6945 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6946
871b9158 6947* New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
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6948
6949* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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6951* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
6952 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
6953 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
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6955 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6956
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6958 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
6959 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
6960 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6961
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6962* The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
6963 Ulrich Drepper.
6964
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6965* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
6966
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6967* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
6968 Ulrich Drepper.
6969
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6970* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
6971
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6972* New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
6973 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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6975Version 2.4
6976
6977* More overflow detection functions.
6978
6979* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
6980 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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6982 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
6983 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
6984 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
6985 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
6986 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
6987 by Masahide Washizawa.
6988
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6989* It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
6990 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6991
6992* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
6993 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
6994 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
6995 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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6997* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
6998 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
6999
7000* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
7001
7002* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
7003 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
7004 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
7005
7006* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
7007 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
7008
7009* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
7010 for compatibility with some other systems.
7011
7012* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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7014Version 2.3.6
7015
7016* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
7017
7018 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
7019 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
7020 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
7021 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
7022 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
7023 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
7024
5a82c748 7025 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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7026
7027* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
7028
7029* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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7031Version 2.3.5
7032
7033* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
7034
7035 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
7036 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
7037 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
7038 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
7039
5a82c748 7040 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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7042Version 2.3.4
7043
7044* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
7045 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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7046
7047* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
7048 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
7049 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7050
7051* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
7052 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
7053
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7055 efficiently.
7056 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7057
7058* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
7059 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
7060 handling data.
7061
7062* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
7063 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
0325dd20 7064 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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7065
7066* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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7067 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7068
7069* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
7070 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
7071 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
7072 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7073
7074* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
7075 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
7076 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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7077 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
7078
7079* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
7080 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
7081 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
7082 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
7083 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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7085Version 2.3.3
7086
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7087* New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
7088 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
7089
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7090* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
7091 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
925c3c5c 7092
69be6aaf 7093* getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
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7094 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
7095
7096* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
7097 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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7098
7099* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
7100 by Roland McGrath.
7101
c5af724c 7102* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
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7103 and Ulrich Drepper.
7104
7105* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
7106 RFC 3484.
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7108Version 2.3.2
7109
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7110* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
7111 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
7112 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
7113 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
7114 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
7115 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
7116 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
7117 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
7118 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
7119
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7120* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
7121 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
7122 and are now also available on the Hurd.
7123
7124* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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7125
7126* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
7127 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
52a16e58 7128
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7129* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
7130 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
7131
52a16e58 7132* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
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7134* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
7135 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
9ef0a840 7136
7f0d9e61 7137* With appropriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
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7138 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
7139 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
7140 of weak definition in ld.so.
7141
7142* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
7143 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
7144
7145* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
7146 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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7150* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
7151 charsets.
7152
7153* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
7154 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
47e8b443 7155
bb0ec5bd 7156* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 7157 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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7158
7159* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
7160 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
8e57fc70 7161
bb0ec5bd 7162* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
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7163 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
7164 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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7165
7166* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
7167 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3b0bdc72 7168
bb0ec5bd 7169* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3b0bdc72 7170 implementation of regex.
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7171
7172* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
7173 Unicode 3.2.
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7175* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
7176 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
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7178* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
7179 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
7180 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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7181
7182* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
f87277f2 7183 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
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7184
7185* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
7186 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
7187 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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7188
7189* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
7190 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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7191
7192* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
7193 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
7194 and Ulrich Drepper.
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7195
7196* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
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7198Version 2.2.6
7199
7200* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
7201 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
7202
7203* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
7204 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
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7206Version 2.2.5
7207
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7208* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
7209 128-bit long double format.
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7211* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
7212 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
a8ae31c2 7213
ad2e4f18 7214* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
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7216* Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
7217
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7218* libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
7219 as well.
7220
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7221* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
7222 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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7223
7224* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
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7226Version 2.2.4
7227
2995f70e 7228* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 7229 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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7230
7231* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
7232 support Unicode 3.1.
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7233
7234* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
7235 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
045fcd26 7236
69d5f925 7237* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 7238
69d5f925 7239* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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7240 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
7241 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
7242
7243* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
7244 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
7245
7246* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
7247 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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7248
7249* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
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7251Version 2.2.3
7252
1746f2b0 7253* Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
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7254 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
7255 in float, double, and long double format.
7256
f128331c 7257* Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
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7258 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
7259 128-bit long double format.
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7261* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
7262 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
7263 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
7264 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
7265
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7266* An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
7267 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
7268 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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7269
7270* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
7271 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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7272
7273* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
7274 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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7275
7276* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
7277 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
7278 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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7279
7280* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
7281 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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7282
7283* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
7284 of functions for Linux/x86.
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7285
7286* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
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7288Version 2.2.2
7289
464d97ec 7290* Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
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7291 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
7292 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
7293 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
7294 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
7295 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
7296 other headers.
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7298* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
7299 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
7300
7301* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
7302 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
7303 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
7304 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
7305
7306* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
7307 locales. While
7308
7309 locale -a
7310
7311 only lists the names of the supported locales
7312
7313 locale -a --verbose
7314
7315 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
7316 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
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7319
7320* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
7321 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
7322 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
7323 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
7324 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
7325
7326 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
7327
7328 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
7329
7330 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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7331
7332* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
7333 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
7334 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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7335
7336* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
7337 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
7338
7339* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
7340 changed from the default "C" locale.
7341
7342* The usual bug fixes.
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7344Version 2.2
7345
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7346* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
7347 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
7348 is in progress.
7349
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7350* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
7351
793bd4d9 7352* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
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7354 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
7355 obviously requires a database library being available.
7356
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7357* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7358
abbffdf9 7359* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
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7361* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
7362 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
7363
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7364* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
7365
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7366* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
7367 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
7368 and Mark Kettenis.
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7369
7370 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
7371 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
7372 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 7373
a00c3ca9 7374 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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7375 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
7376
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7377* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
7378 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
7379 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
7380
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7381* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
7382 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
7383 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
7384 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7385
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7386 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
7387 structures for the wide character tables.
7388
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7389* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7390
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7391* The utmp daemon has been removed.
7392
7393* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
7394
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7395* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
7396 and Yutaka Niibe.
7397
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7398* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
7399
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7400* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
7401
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7402* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7403
7404* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
7405
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7406* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
7407
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7408* the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
7409 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
7410 implemented for Linux.
7411
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7412* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
7413 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
7414 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
7415 versions.
7416
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7417* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
7418 Masahide Washizawa.
7419
8f3f1e09 7420* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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7422Version 2.1.3
7423
7424* bug fixes
7425
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7427Version 2.1.2
7428
7429* bug fixes
7430
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7432Version 2.1.1
7433
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7434* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
7435
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7436* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
7437
407d26b7 7438* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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7439
7440* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
7441
407d26b7 7442* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 7443
407d26b7 7444* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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7445
7446* Update timezone data files.
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7448* lots of charmaps corrections
7449
7450* some new locale definitions and charmaps
7451
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7453Version 2.1
7454
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7455* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
7456 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
7457 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
7458 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
7459 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
7460 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
7461
c84142e8 7462* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 7463 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 7464
1fb05e3d 7465* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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7466 symbol level.
7467
7f0d9e61 7468* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierarchical
c84142e8 7469 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
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cbdee279 7471* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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7472
7473* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 7474 numbers.
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cbdee279 7476* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
e61abf83 7477
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7478* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
7479 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
e61abf83 7480
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7481* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
7482 library.
7483
e61abf83 7484* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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7485 functions from ISO C 9X.
7486
7487* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
7488 real valued functions.
e61abf83 7489
a5a0310d 7490* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
e61abf83 7491
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7492* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
7493
7494* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 7495
440d13e2 7496* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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7498* Optimized string functions have been added.
7499
7500* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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7501
7502* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
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7505 daemon for NSS (nscd).
7506
7507 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
7508 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
7509
0dee6738 7510 user system wall
48244d09 7511
0dee6738 7512 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 7513
0dee6738 7514 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 7515
0dee6738 7516 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
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7518 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
7519
7520 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
7521
7522 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
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7525 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
0dee6738 7526 horribly slow.
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7529 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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7531* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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7533* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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7534
7535* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
7536 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
7537
7538* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
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7540* A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
7541 Bambrough.
7542
7543* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
7544 latest draft standards.
7545
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7547
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7549~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
62595351 7550addseverity NEW: Unix98
48244d09 7551alphasort64 NEW: LFS
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7552argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
7553argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
7554argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
7555argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
7556argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
7557argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
7558argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
7559argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
7560argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
7561argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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7562authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
7563authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
7564authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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7565backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
7566backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
7567backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
7568cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
7569cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
7570cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
7571cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
7572cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
7573cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
7574capget NEW: kernel
7575capset NEW: kernel
7576carg NEW: ISO C 9x
7577cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
7578cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
7579casin NEW: ISO C 9x
7580casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
7581casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
7582casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
7583casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
7584casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
7585catan NEW: ISO C 9x
7586catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
7587catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
7588catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
7589catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
7590catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
e980ca92 7591cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
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7592ccos NEW: ISO C 9x
7593ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
7594ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
7595ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
7596ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
7597ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
7598cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
7599cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
7600cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
7601cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
7602cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
7603cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
7604clearerr_locked REMOVED
7605clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
7606clog NEW: ISO C 9x
7607clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
7608clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
7609clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
7610clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
7611clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
7612conj NEW: ISO C 9x
7613conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
7614conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
7615cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
7616cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
7617cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
7618cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
7619cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
7620cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
7621creal NEW: ISO C 9x
7622crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
7623creall NEW: ISO C 9x
7624creat64 NEW: LFS
7625csin NEW: ISO C 9x
7626csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
7627csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
7628csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
7629csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
7630csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
7631csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
7632csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
7633csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
7634ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
7635ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
7636ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
7637ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
7638ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
7639ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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7640des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
7641ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 7642endutxent NEW: Unix98
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7643exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x
7644exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
7645exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
7646exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
7647exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
7648exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
7649fattach NEW: STREAMS
7650fdetach NEW: STREAMS
7651fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
7652fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
7653fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
7654feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
7655fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
7656fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
7657fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
7658feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
7659feof_locked REMOVED
7660feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
7661ferror_locked REMOVED
7662fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
7663fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
7664fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
7665fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
7666feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
7667fflush_locked REMOVED
7668ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
7669ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
7670fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
7671fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
7672fileno_locked REMOVED
7673fma NEW: ISO C 9x
7674fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
7675fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
7676fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
7677fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
7678fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
7679fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
7680fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
7681fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
62595351 7682fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
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7683fopen64 NEW: LFS
7684fputc_locked REMOVED
7685fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
7686fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
7687freopen64 NEW: LFS
7688fseeko NEW: Unix98
7689fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
7690fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
7691fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
7692fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
7693ftello NEW: Unix98
7694ftello64 NEW: LFS
7695ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
7696ftw64 NEW: LFS
7697fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
7698gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
7699gamma_r REMOVED
7700gammaf_r REMOVED
7701gammal_r REMOVED
7702getchar_locked REMOVED
7703getdate NEW: Unix98
7704getdate_err NEW: Unix98
7705getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
7706getmsg NEW: STREAMS
7707getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
e980ca92 7708getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
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7709getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
7710getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
7711getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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7712getutxent NEW: Unix98
7713getutxid NEW: Unix98
7714getutxline NEW: Unix98
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7715glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
7716globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
7717gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
7718gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
7719grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
e980ca92 7720host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
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7721iconv NEW: iconv
7722iconv_close NEW: iconv
7723iconv_open NEW: iconv
7724if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
7725if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
7726if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
7727if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
7728in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
7729in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
7730inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
7731isastream NEW: STREAMS
7732iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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7733key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
7734key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
7735key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
7736key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
7737key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
7738key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
7739key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
7740key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
7741key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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7742llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
7743llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
7744llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
7745llround NEW: ISO C 9x
7746llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
7747llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
7748log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
7749log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
7750log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
7751lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
7752lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
7753lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
7754lround NEW: ISO C 9x
7755lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
7756lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
7757lseek64 NEW: LFS
7758makecontext NEW: Unix98
7759mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
7760mmap64 NEW: LFS
7761moncontrol REMOVED
7762modify_ldt NEW: kernel
7763nan NEW: ISO C 9x
7764nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
7765nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
7766nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
7767nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
7768nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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7769netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
7770netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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7771nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
7772nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
7773nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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7774nftw NEW: Unix98
7775nftw64 NEW: LFS
7776open64 NEW: LFS
e980ca92 7777passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
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7778pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
7779pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
7780pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
7781pread NEW: Unix98
7782pread64 NEW: LFS
7783printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
7784printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
7785profil_counter REMOVED
7786pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
7787pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
7788ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
7789ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
7790putc_locked REMOVED
7791putchar_locked REMOVED
7792putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
7793putmsg NEW: STREAMS
7794putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
62595351 7795pututxline NEW: Unix98
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7796pwrite NEW: Unix98
7797pwrite64 NEW: LFS
7798readdir64 NEW: LFS
7799readdir64_r NEW: LFS
7800remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
7801remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
7802remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
7803round NEW: ISO C 9x
7804roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
7805roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
7806rtime NEW: GNU ext.
7807scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
7808scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
7809scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
7810scandir64 NEW: LFS
7811sendfile NEW: kernel
7812setcontext NEW: Unix98
7813setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 7814setutxent NEW: Unix98
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7815sighold NEW: Unix98
7816sigignore NEW: Unix98
7817sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
7818sigrelse NEW: Unix98
7819sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
7820sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
7821sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
7822sincos NEW: GNU ext.
7823sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
7824sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
7825statfs64 NEW: LFS
7826statvfs NEW: Unix98
7827statvfs64 NEW: LFS
7828strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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7829strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
7830strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
7831strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
e980ca92 7832svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
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7833svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
7834svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
7835swapcontext NEW: Unix98
7836tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
7837tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
7838tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
7839tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
7840tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
7841tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
7842trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
7843truncate64 NEW: LFS
7844truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
7845truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
7846umount2 NEW: kernel
7847unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 7848updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 7849user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 7850utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 7851versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
3ef4002b 7852versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
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7853waitid NEW: Unix98
7854wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
7855wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
7856wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
7857wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
7858wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
7859wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
7860wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
7861wcswcs NEW: Unix98
7862wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
7863wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
7864write_profiling REMOVED
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7866xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
7867xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
7868xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
7869xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
7870xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
7871xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
7872xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
7873xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
7874xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
7875xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
7876xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
7877xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 7878xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
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7882Version 2.0.6
7883
7884* more bug fixes
7885
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7887Version 2.0.5
7888
7889* more bug fixes
7890
7891* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
7892
7893* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
7894
7895* rewrite of cbrt function
7896
7897* update of timezone data
7898\f
7899Version 2.0.4
7900
7901* more bug fixes
7902\f
7903Version 2.0.3
7904
7905* more bug fixes
c84142e8 7906\f
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7908
7909* more bug fixes
7910
7911* add atoll function
7912
7913* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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7915* fix math functions
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7917Version 2.0.1
7918
7919* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
7920
7921* dynamic loader preserves all registers
7922
7923* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
7924 the ELF dynamic loader.
7925
7926* support for parallel builds is improved
7927\f
40a4b79f 7928Version 2.0
28f540f4 7929
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7930* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
7931 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
7932 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
7933
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7934* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
7935 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
7936 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
7937 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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7938 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
7939 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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7940 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
7941 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
7942 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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7944 files in the ELF format.
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7945
7946* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
7947 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
7948
7949* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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7950 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
7951 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
7952 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
7953 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
7954 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
7955 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
7956 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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7958 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
7959 about dynamically linked binaries.
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7961* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
7962 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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7963 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
7964 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
7965 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 7966
f7eac6eb 7967* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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7969 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
7970 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
7971 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
7972
7973* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
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7976 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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7977 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
7978 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
7979 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
7980 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
7981 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
7982 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
7983 NSS services available.
5f0e6fc7 7984
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7985* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
7986 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
7987 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
7988
7989* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
7990 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
7991 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
7992
7993* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
7994 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
7995 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
7996 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
7997
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7999 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
8000 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
8001
8002* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
8003 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
8004 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
8005
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8007 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
8008
f7eac6eb 8009* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 8010 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 8011 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
7f0d9e61 8012 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendment 1 specification.
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8014* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
8015 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
8016 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 8017
71733723 8018* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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8019 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
8020 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
8021 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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8022 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
8023 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 8024 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 8025 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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8026
8027* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
8028 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
8029 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
8030 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
8031 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
8032 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
8033 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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8034
8035* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
8036 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
8037 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
8038 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
8039 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
8040 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
8041
8042* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
8043 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
8044
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8046 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
8047 NSS scheme used in glibc.
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8049* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
8050
8051* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
8052 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
8053 their use is discouraged.
8054
8055* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
8056 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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8058* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
8059 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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8060
8061* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
8062 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
8063
8064* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
8065 see <dirent.h>.
8066
8067* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
8068 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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8069 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
8070 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
8071 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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8072
8073* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
8074 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
8075 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
8076 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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8077
8078* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
8079 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
8080
8081* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
8082 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
8083 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
8084 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
8085 number generator.
8086
8087* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
8088 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
8089
8090* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
8091 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
8092
71733723 8093* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 8094 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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8095 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
8096 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
c709e372 8097
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8098* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
8099
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8100* David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
8101 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
8102 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
8103
8104* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
8105 for arithmetic and string handling.
d3669add 8106
c709e372 8107* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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8108 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
8109 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
8110 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
8111
8112* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
8113 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
8114 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
8115 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
8116 programs already written to use it.)
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8117
8118* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
8119 constants.
8120
8121* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
8122 with 4.4 BSD.
8123
8124* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
8125 a given effective group ID.
8126
8127* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
8128 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
8129 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
8130 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
8131
8132* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 8133 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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8134 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
8135 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
8136 doing the same thing.
8137
8138* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
8139 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
8140
8141* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 8142 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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8143
8144* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
8145
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8146* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
8147 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
8148 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 8149 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 8150 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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8151
8152* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
8153 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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8154
8155* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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8156 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
8157 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
8158 function.
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8159
8160* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
8161
8162* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
8163 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
8164 strings.
8165
8166* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
8167 and writing the utmp file.
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8168
8169* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
8170 Thorsten Kukuk.
8171
8172* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
8173 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
8174 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
8175
8176* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
8177 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
8178
8179* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
8180 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
8181 specification.
8182
8183* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
8184 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
8185 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
8186 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
8187
8188* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
8189 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
8190 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
8191
8192* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
8193 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
8194 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
8195 expression matcher.
8196
8197* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
8198 functionality.
8199
8200* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
8201 by Ulrich Drepper.
8202
8203* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
8204
8205* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
8206 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
8207 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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8208\f
8209Version 1.09
8210
8211* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
8212
8213* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
8214 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
8215
8216* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
8217 want to put themselves in the background.
8218
8219* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
8220 run without an operating system.
8221
8222* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
8223 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
8224
8225* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
8226 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
8227
8228* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
8229
8230* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
8231 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
8232 have YP (aka NIS).
8233
8234* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
8235 conventions.
8236
8237* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
8238 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
8239\f
8240Version 1.08
8241
8242* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
8243 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
8244 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
8245
8246* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
8247 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
8248
8249* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
8250 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
8251
8252* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
8253
8254* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
8255
8256* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
8257 compatibility.
8258
8259* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
8260 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
8261 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
8262
8263* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
8264
8265* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
8266 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
8267 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
8268
8269* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
8270 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
8271 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
8272 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
8273 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
8274 on a block).
8275
8276* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
8277 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
8278 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
8279 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
8280 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
8281 cross-compiler.
8282
8283* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
8284 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
8285\f
8286Version 1.07
8287
8288* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
8289 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
8290
8291* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
8292 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
8293 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
8294
8295* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
8296 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
8297 address of the last character written.
8298
8299* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
8300 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
8301
8302* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
8303 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
8304
8305* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
8306 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
8307 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
8308 you dereference this pointer.
8309
8310* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
8311 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
8312
8313* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
8314 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
8315 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
8316 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
8317
8318* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
8319 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
8320 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
8321 EAGAIN in every system call function.
8322\f
8323Version 1.06
8324
8325* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
8326 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
8327 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
8328 in Emacs or the `info' program.
596dc7b6 8329 Please send comments on the manual to libc-alpha@sourceware.org.
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8330
8331* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
8332
8333* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
8334
8335* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
8336 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
8337
8338* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
8339 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
8340
8341* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
8342 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
8343
8344* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
8345 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
8346 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
8347 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
8348 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
8349
8350* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
8351 to the error code in `errno'.
8352
8353* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
8354 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
8355 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
8356 malloc'd string.
8357
8358* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
8359 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
8360 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
8361
8362* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
8363 uniquely-named temporary file.
8364\f
8365Version 1.05
8366
8367* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
8368 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
8369 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
8370
8371* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
8372 characters.
8373
8374* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
8375 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
8376
8377* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
8378\f
8379Version 1.04
8380
8381* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
8382 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
8383 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
8384 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
8385
8386* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
8387 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
8388 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
8389
8390* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
8391 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
8392
8393* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
8394 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
8395 made itself into a shared library.
8396
8397* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
8398 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
8399
8400* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
8401 with limited length.
8402
8403* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
8404
8405* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
8406
8407* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
8408
8409* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
8410 function for traversing a directory tree.
8411
8412* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
8413 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
8414 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
8415 formatted output directly to an obstack.
8416
8417* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
8418 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
8419
8420* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
8421
8422* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
8423 things to your strings.
8424
8425* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
8426
8427* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
8428 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
8429 supporting those systems.
8430
8431* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
8432 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
8433 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
8434 configuration files.
8435
8436* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
8437 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
8438
8439* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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8440 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
8441 in <strings.h>.)
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8442
8443* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
8444 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
8445 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
8446 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
8447 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
8448 required storage is not available.
8449
8450* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
8451 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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8452
8453* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
8454 latest files released from Berkeley.
8455\f
8456----------------------------------------------------------------------
9fcdec73 8457Copying conditions:
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8458
8459 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
8460 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
8461 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
8462 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
8463
8464 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
8465 of this document, or of portions of it,
8466 under the above conditions, provided also that they
8467 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
8468\f
8469Local variables:
8470version-control: never
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