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ee9247c3 1GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
26420023 2Copyright (C) 1992-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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3See the end for copying conditions.
4
a306c790 5Please send GNU C library bug reports via <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
69be6aaf 6using `glibc' in the "product" field.
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8Version 2.43
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10Major new features:
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0f201f4a 12* The ISO C23 memset_explicit function has been added.
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14* The ISO C23 memalignment function has been added.
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16* As specified in ISO C23, the assert macro is defined to take variable
17 arguments to support expressions with a comma inside a compound
18 literal initializer not surrounded by parentheses.
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20* For ISO C23, the functions bsearch, memchr, strchr, strpbrk, strrchr,
21 strstr, wcschr, wcspbrk, wcsrchr, wcsstr and wmemchr that return
22 pointers into their input arrays now have definitions as macros that
23 return a pointer to a const-qualified type when the input argument is
24 a pointer to a const-qualified type.
25
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26* The C23 typedef names long_double_t, _Float32_t, _Float64_t, and (on
27 platforms supporting _Float128) _Float128_t, introduced in TS
28 18661-3:2015, have been added to <math.h>.
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30* On Linux, the mseal function has been added. It allows for sealing
31 memory mappings to prevent further changes during process execution,
32 such as changes to protection permissions, unmapping, relocation to
33 another location, or shrinking the size.
34
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35* The ISO C23 functions free_sized and free_aligned_sized are now
36 supported in <stdlib.h>.
37
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38* Additional optimized and correctly rounded mathematical functions have
39 been imported from the CORE-MATH project, in particular acosh, asinh,
40 atanh, erf, erfc, lgamma, and tgamma.
41
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42* Optimized implementations for fma, fmaf, remainder, remaindef, frexpf,
43 frexp, frexpl (binary128), and frexpl (intel96) have been added.
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45* The SVID handling for acosf, acoshf, asinhf, atan2f, atanhf, coshf,
46 lgammaf/lgammaf_r, log10f, sinhf, sqrtf, tgammaf, y0/j0, y1/j1, and yn/jn
47 were moved to compat symbols, allowing improvements in performance.
48
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49* The ISO C23 optional time base TIME_MONOTONIC, TIME_ACTIVE, and
50 TIME_THREAD_ACTIVE have been added.
51
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52* Experimental support for building with clang has been added. It requires
53 at least clang version 18, aarch64-linux-gnu or x86_64-linux-gnu
54 targets, and libgcc compatible runtime (including libgcc_s.so for
55 pthread cancellation and backtrace runtime support).
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57* On Linux, the openat2 function has been added. It is an extension of
58 openat and provides a superset of its functionality. It is supported only
59 in LFS mode and it is a cancellable entrypoint.
60
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61Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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63* Support for dumped heaps has been removed - malloc_set_state() now always
64 returns the error code -1.
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66* The uimaxabs function has been renamed to umaxabs, following a change
67 to the name of that function in ISO C2Y. The old function continues
68 to exist as a compatibility symbol for old binaries.
69
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70* The fromfp, fromfpx, ufromfp and ufromfpx functions, and the
71 corresponding functions for other floating-point types, now return
72 their result in the same type as their floating-point argument, rather
73 than intmax_t or uintmax_t, in accordance with a change to the
74 definition of these functions in ISO C23. Existing binaries that use
75 the versions returning intmax_t or uintmax_t will continue to work.
76
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77* The support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes has been removed on all
78 architectures (powerpc, s390x, x86_64).
79
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80Changes to build and runtime requirements:
81
82 [Add changes to build and runtime requirements here]
83
84Security related changes:
85
86The following CVEs were fixed in this release, details of which can be
87found in the advisories directory of the release tarball:
88
89 [The release manager will add the list generated by
90 scripts/process-advisories.sh just before the release.]
91
92The following bugs were resolved with this release:
93
94 [The release manager will add the list generated by
95 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
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97Version 2.42
98
99Major new features:
100
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101* The following ISO C23 function families (introduced in TS
102 18661-4:2015) are now supported in <math.h>. Each family includes
103 functions for float, double, long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx, and a
104 type-generic macro in <tgmath.h>.
105
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106 - Power and absolute-value functions: compoundn, pown, powr, rootn,
107 rsqrt.
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109* On Linux, the pthread_gettid_np function has been added.
110
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111* The ISO C2Y family of unsigned abs functions, i.e. uabs, ulabs,
112 ullabs, and uimaxabs, is now supported.
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114* On Linux, the <termios.h> interface now supports arbitrary baud rates;
115 speed_t is redefined to simply be the baud rate specified as an
116 unsigned int, which matches the kernel interface.
117
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118* The thread-local cache in malloc (tcache) now supports caching of
119 large blocks. This feature can be enabled by setting the tunable
120 glibc.malloc.tcache_max to a larger value (max 4194304). Tcache is
121 also significantly faster for small sizes.
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123* A new configure option, "--enable-sframe", can be used to enable
124 SFrame support of the GNU C Libraries. SFrame is a new stack trace
125 information format which can be used by backtrace. It requires
126 binutils with a minimum version of 2.45.
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128* Support for lightweight stack guard pages via madvise and the
129 MADV_GUARD_INSTALL flag has been added to pthread_create.
130
131* Additional optimized and correctly rounded mathematical functions have
132 been imported from the CORE-MATH project, in particular acospif,
133 asinpif, atanpif, atan2pif, cospif, sinpif, tanpif.
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135* The testsuite has been significantly extended, including coverage of
136 the functionality of the printf and scanf function families in many
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137 variants.
138
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139* The manual has been significantly extended and updated, particularly
140 the threads, terminal, filesystem, resource, and math chapters.
141
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142* Code has been added to detect the x86-64 Intel Arrow Lake, Panther
143 Lake, Clearwater Forest, and Diamond Rapids microarchitectures.
144
145* Regarding S390, support for the new z17 platform has been added.
146
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147Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
148
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149* The glibc.rtld.execstack tunable now supports a compatibility mode to
150 allow programs that require an executable stack through dynamically
151 loaded shared libraries.
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153* On Linux, the <termio.h> header and the definition of struct termio
154 in <sys/ioctl.h> have been removed. The termio interface has been
155 obsolete since the very first version of POSIX.1 in 1988, replaced
156 with <termios.h>.
157
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158* The support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes has been deprecated
159 on all architectures and will be removed in the next release.
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161* On AArch64 Linux targets supporting the Scalable Matrix Extension
162 (SME), setjmp and sigsetjmp will disable the ZA state of SME.
30c7cf66 163
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164Changes to build and runtime requirements:
165
8322e93d 166* GCC 12.1 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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168* GNU Binutils 2.39 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
169
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170Security related changes:
171
172The following CVEs were fixed in this release, details of which can be
173found in the advisories directory of the release tarball:
174
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175 GLIBC-SA-2025-0001:
176 assert: Buffer overflow when printing assertion failure message
177 (CVE-2025-0395)
178
179 GLIBC-SA-2025-0003:
180 power10: strcmp fails to save and restore nonvolatile vector
181 registers (CVE-2025-5702)
182
183 GLIBC-SA-2025-0004:
184 power10: strncmp fails to save and restore nonvolatile vector
185 registers (CVE-2025-5745)
186
187 GLIBC-SA-2025-0005:
188 posix: Fix double-free after allocation failure in regcomp
189 (CVE-2025-8058)
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191The following bugs were resolved with this release:
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193 [5994] stdio: fflush after ungetc on seekable input stream
194 [12724] stdio: fclose violates POSIX 2008 on seekable input streams
195 [25263] dynamic-link: ldd and ld.so fail to resolve $ORIGIN with cross
196 dir symlink
197 [27880] nptl: Please provide a pthread pid accessor
198 [29190] dynamic-link: Symbols with version hash zero lead to crashes,
199 not matched correctly
200 [29459] stdio: fwrite does not return EPIPE when underlying write
201 fails with EPIPE.
202 [31791] nss: [Regression] nss: memory for >8 elements in nsswitch.conf
203 is not freed
204 [32058] libc: qsort leaks memory if C++ exception is thrown from
205 comparison function
206 [32269] dynamic-link: RISC-V IFUNC resolver cannot access gp pointer
207 [32369] stdio: fflush(NULL) doesn't properly flush files opened in
208 read mode
209 [32411] math: THREEp96 seems wrong
210 [32412] dynamic-link: Initial DTV is reallocated using main realloc in
211 auditing mode
212 [32483] locale: ctype.h macros segfault in multithreaded programs with
213 multiple libc.so
214 [32529] stdio: fseek failure on file opened with "rm" mode after
215 ungetc
216 [32535] stdio: fflush failure on file opened with "rm" mode after
217 ungetc
218 [32541] libc: getenv cannot be overridden in static builds
219 [32574] libc: pthread_attr_getstacksize/pthread_attr_getstack return
220 incorrect main stack size
221 [32612] dynamic-link: [aarch64 PAC] _dl_tlsdesc_dynamic can't be
222 unwound through with _Unwind_Backtrace
223 [32626] math: math: log10p1f is not correctly rounded
224 [32627] math: math: sinhf is not correctly rounded
225 [32630] math: math: tanf is not correctly rounded for all rounding
226 modes
227 [32653] dynamic-link: Review options for improving both security and
228 backwards compatibility of glibc 2.41 dlopen / execstack handling
229 [32694] math: wrong clang version 3.4 prereq checks in bits/floatn.h
230 for __float128 support, should be 3.9
231 [32708] libc: Inclusion of sys/mount.h triggers many gcc warnings
232 using -Wshift-overflow=2 -Wsystem-headers
233 [32711] math: math: remainder incorrect sign of zero result
234 [32717] libc: glibc tests fail when bfd is built with --enable-error-
235 execstack=yes
236 [32723] math: [2.41 Regression] /usr/include/bits/floatn.h doesn't
237 work with Intel SYCL compiler
238 [32763] dynamic-link: Static PIE with more than one PT_LOAD segments
239 at offset 0 segfault
240 [32777] crypt: The performance of the rand() function degradation
241 [32781] libc: Inccorect attribute access for sched_getattr
242 [32782] nptl: Race conditions in pthread cancellation causing crash
243 [32786] nptl: pthread_cond_* symbols should probably have had a
244 version bump in 2.41
245 [32795] nptl: aio_suspend_time64 confuses CLOCK_MONOTONIC and
246 CLOCK_REALTIME
247 [32810] dynamic-link: Immediate crash on x86-64 when running with
248 GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.cpu.hwcaps=-XSAVEC
249 [32823] libc: make[2]: *** [../Rules:248:
250 /home/dave/gnu/glibc/objdir/elf/tst-origin] Error 1
251 [32897] dynamic-link: pthread_getattr_np fails when executable stack
252 tunable is set
253 [32918] math: math: atanhf triggers UB
254 [32919] math: math: coshf triggers UB
255 [32920] math: math: logf triggers UB
256 [32921] math: math: sinhf triggers UB
257 [32922] math: math: cbrtf triggers UB
258 [32923] math: math: cospif triggers UB
259 [32924] math: math: erfcf triggers UB
260 [32925] math: math: sinpif triggers UB
261 [32932] libc: riscv: __riscv_hwprobe function attributes are incorrect
262 [32947] libc: stdlib: wrong iovec array size on __libc_message_impl
263 [32980] manual: getopt_long_only does not check long options first, as
264 the manual claims
265 [32981] ports: elf/tst-execstack-prog-static-tunable fails on
266 sparc64-linux-gnu
267 [32987] libc: New tst-dlopen-sgid test FAILs
268 [32996] malloc: i386 TLS helper functions don't preserve XMM registers
269 [33035] libc: [2.27 regression] Linux: __close_nocancel_nostatus
270 clobbers errno
271 [33056] string: Power 10 strcmp clobbers nonvolatile vector registers
272 (CVE-2025-5702)
273 [33059] string: Power 10 memchr clobbers v20
274 [33060] string: Power 10 strncmp clobbers nonvolatile vector registers
275 (CVE-2025-5745)
276 [33088] dynamic-link: __ehdr_start may need run-time relocation
277 [33089] build: [2.42 Regression] GCC 14.2.1 failed to build glibc
278 [33134] libc: mcount_internal shouldn't use vector/r16-r31 registers
279 nor call memcpy/memset
280 [33139] stdio: %n after static dlopen is unreliable if file
281 descriptors are exhausted
282 [33165] build: [2.42 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
283 [33173] math: Wrong IFUNC selector is used for modf/modff
284 [33185] regex: Double-free after memory allocation failure in regcomp
285 bracket expression parsing (CVE-2025-8058)
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286 [33224] dynamic-link: _dl_debug_state hook no longer works (since
287 8329939a37f483a16013dd8af8303cbcb86d92cb)
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289Version 2.41
290
291Major new features:
292
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293* Support for testing a glibc build with a set of C and C++ compilers
294 different from the C and C++ compilers used to build glibc has been
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297
dc650eb7 298 This includes support for testing the glibc build with Clang, e.g.,
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299 $ ../configure TEST_CC="clang" TEST_CXX="clang++"
300
301 Some run-time failures with Clang are expected.
302
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303* The glibc test suite has been extended again significantly, with now
304 6232 separate tests compared to 5408 in glibc-2.40.
305
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306* In /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_OPTIONS environment variable, option
307 flags can now be prefixed with “-” to clear previously set flags.
308 For example, if /etc/resolv.conf contains “options no-aaaa”, a
309 process running with the RES_OPTIONS=-no-aaaa environment variable
310 performs AAAA DNS queries when the glibc DNS stub resolver is used.
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312* The DNS stub resolver now supports the strict-error option. If
313 activated, getaddrinfo for the AF_UNSPEC address family (with dual
314 A/AAAA DNS lookups) attemps to obtain an A/AAAA response pair from
315 another DNS server if one of the responses indicates failure. Without
316 the strict-error option, getaddrinfo returns the A record data it has
317 obtained even if the AAAA query failed. The new strict error mode is
318 incompatible with some DNS environments which do not follow the RFCs,
319 which is why this mode is not enabled by default. A future version
320 of the library may turn it on by default, however.
321
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322* On Linux, the sched_setattr and sched_getattr functions have been
323 added, for supporting parameterized scheduling policies such as
324 SCHED_DEADLINE.
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326* The iconv program now supports converting files in place. The program
327 automatically uses a temporary file if required.
328
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329* Character encoding, character type info, and transliteration tables
330 have been updated to Unicode 16.0.0.
331
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332* The following ISO C23 function families (introduced in TS
333 18661-4:2015) are now supported in <math.h>. Each family includes
334 functions for float, double, long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx, and a
335 type-generic macro in <tgmath.h>.
336
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337 - Trigonometric functions: acospi, asinpi, atan2pi, atanpi, cospi,
338 sinpi, tanpi.
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e442e837 340* The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2Y_SOURCE to
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341 enable features from the draft ISO C2Y standard. Only some features
342 from this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as
343 the draft is under active development, the set of features enabled by
344 this macro is liable to change. Features from C2Y are also enabled
345 by _GNU_SOURCE, or by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2y".
346
347* Optimized and correctly rounded exp10m1f, exp2m1f, expm1f, log10f,
348 log2p1f, log1pf, log10p1f, cbrtf, erff, erfcf, lgammaf, tgammaf,
349 tanf, acosf, acoshf, asinf, asinhf, atanf, atan2f, atanhf, coshf,
350 sinhf, and tanhf functions have been added from the CORE-MATH
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351 project <https://core-math.gitlabpages.inria.fr/>.
352
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353* A benchtest framework is now in place to track the performance of many
354 (mostly numerical) functions.
355
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356* A new tunable, glibc.rtld.execstack, can be used to control whether an
357 executable stack is allowed from the main program, either implicitly
358 due to a mising GNU_STACK ELF header or explicit explicitly because
359 of the executable bit in GNU_STACK. The default is to allow
360 executable stacks.
361
362* Support for the extensible rseq ABI introduced in the Linux kernel
363 version 6.3 has been added. The size and alignment of the rseq area
364 is now determined by auxiliary vector entries when provided by the
365 running kernel. This results in __rseq_size now exposing features
366 past the original ABI which currently include 'node_id' and 'mm_cid'
367 and will also allow exposing new features as they get added to future
368 Linux kernels.
369
370* The GNU C Library now supports the Guarded Control Stack extension
371 that allows to use shadow stacks on AArch64 systems that support this
372 extension. Building the library with standard branch protection
373 enabled while using a toolchain that supports GCS (binutils 2.44 and
374 GCC 15 or later) will enable GCS support in glibc. There is no
375 special configuration flag. GCS-enabled glibc is compatible with all
376 existing executables and shared libraries and will run with and
377 without GCS support in the system. GCS is opt-in and can be
378 controlled at runtime via the glibc.cpu.aarch64_gcs tunable. By
379 default GCS is disabled. Linux kernel supports this since 6.13.
380
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381* Significant effort has been put into improving the code generation
382 and speed of mathematical functions in the vector mathematics library
383 on AArch64, with regard to the Scalable Vector Extension (SVE) and
384 Advanced SIMD (Neon) intrinsics.
385
386* Support for memory protection keys on AArch64 systems with enabled
387 Stage 1 permission overlays feature as introduced in Armv8.9 / 9.4
388 has been added.
389
390* On PowerPC64, support for the return-oriented programming protection
391 instructions added in ISA 3.1 (Power10) has been added, as well as
392 function optimizations for Power10.
393
394* A new architecture type has been introduced internally to better
395 support Hygon x86-64 processors.
396
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397Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting
398compatibility:
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400* abort is now async-signal-safe and its implementation makes longjmp
401 from the SIGABRT handler always abort if set up with setjmp. Use
402 sigsetjmp to keep the old behavior, where the handler does not stop
403 the process execution.
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0ca8785a 405* dlopen and dlmopen no longer make the stack executable if a shared
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406 library requires it, either implicitly because of a missing GNU_STACK
407 ELF header (and default ABI permission having the executable bit set)
408 or explicitly because of the executable bit in GNU_STACK, and the
409 stack is not already executable. Instead, loading such objects will
410 fail.
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412* The nios2*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
413
414* The big-endian ARC port (arceb-linux-gnu) has been removed.
415
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416Changes to build and runtime requirements:
417
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418* On recent Linux kernels with vDSO getrandom support, getrandom does
419 not act as a "shall occur" cancellation point, in which case it might
461cab1d 420 not issue a syscall or trigger a deferred cancellation event.
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422* Testing the GNU C Library requires GNU awk to be compiled with support
423 for high precision arithmetic via the MPFR library.
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425Security related changes:
426
427The following CVEs were fixed in this release, details of which can be
428found in the advisories directory of the release tarball:
429
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430 GLIBC-SA-2025-0001:
431 assert: Buffer overflow when printing assertion failure message
432 (CVE-2025-0395)
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433
434The following bugs were resolved with this release:
435
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436 [6050] locale: iconv(1) buffers all of stdin in memory
437 [10460] locale: iconv does not support in-place conversion
438 [12683] nptl: Race conditions in pthread cancellation
439 [14147] nptl: Async cancellation left active after longjmp out of
440 signal handler
441 [14799] network: RES_OPTIONS cannot disable options enabled in
442 /etc/resolv.conf
443 [17703] locale: iconv(1) EFAULTs reading the second non-mmapable input
444 [20632] stdio: Buffer overflow in wchar IO (_IO_wfile_overflow)
445 [23675] stdio: freopen() with "ccs=<charset>" leaves the stream
446 unoriented
447 [25847] nptl: pthread_cond_signal failed to wake up pthread_cond_wait
448 due to a bug in undoing stealing
449 [26275] libc: abort(3) is not signal-safe
450 [27543] ports: Inconsistent behavior when handling FPSCR on SH
451 [27821] stdio: double call to ungetc causes uninitialized memory
452 reading. (also: ungetc causes memory leak)
453 [29437] libc: arc4random is too slow
454 [30009] build: unterminated options list in benchtest
455 [30081] network: libresolv: timeout when running in single-request
456 mode
457 [30220] math: String to double returns incorrectly rounded value for
458 hexadecimal subnormal
459 [30584] libc: initstate and initstate_r crash when the state argument
460 is unaligned
461 [30647] stdio: scanf functions wrong on nan()
462 [31394] libc: clone on sparc might fail with -EFAULT for no valid
463 reason
464 [31717] dynamic-link: TLS for library gets reallocated when loaded in
465 two contexts.
466 [31799] dynamic-link: -static-pie -Wl,-Ttext-segment=0x50000 doesn't
467 work
468 [31859] locale: Transliteration rules with two input characters like
469 "ḌḌ" "DDH" do not work.
470 [31890] network: DNS stub resolver ignores header-only error responses
471 [31928] build: glibc doesn't compile if the compiler already define
472 _FORTIFY_SOURCE
473 [31968] libc: mremap implementation in C does not handle arguments
474 correctly
475 [31985] dynamic-link: la_objopen not called when ld.so is imported
476 into a private namespace. However, la_objclose is called with an
477 unknown cookie.
478 [31997] libc: exit is not thread-safe, even when all atexit handlers
479 are thread-safe
480 [32026] libc: strerror, strsignal TLS not handled correctly for
481 secondary namespaces (dlmopen, LD_AUDIT)
482 [32033] locale: iconv (the program) does not truncate output file if
483 input is empty
484 [32040] nptl: CPU affinity test skeleton for sched_setaffinity and
485 pthread_setaffinity_np can fail to report failure.
486 [32042] build: Compilation issue for tst-resolv-short-response.c with
487 older GCC
488 [32045] math: nan() / strtod() incorrectly set errno for overflowing
489 nan payload
490 [32046] locale: iconv -c fails to report input encoding errors if
491 output buffer is full
492 [32047] libc: Tunables may incorrectly set Prefer_PMINUB_for_stringop
493 [32050] locale: iconv - - < /dev/null fails with Bad file descriptor
494 [32052] libc: stdlib.h's use of 'sz' identifier causes libstdc++ test
495 failure
496 [32065] dynamic-link: _dl_fini does not call la_objclose for proxy
497 link maps
498 [32066] dynamic-link: dlclose signals la_activity (LA_ACT_DELETE)
499 after la_objclose calls
500 [32078] string: Random __strchrnul_evex512 failures
501 [32124] libc: readdir_r does not relay errors reported by the kernel
502 [32125] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in __syscall_cancel_arch for
503 powerpc64le-linux-gnu
504 [32126] libc: readdir64_r: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
505 [32128] libc: Compat readdir64_r (__old_readdir64_r) does not enforce
506 NAME_MAX limit
507 [32134] stdio: freopen does not clear flags2 (FD_CLOEXEC etc)
508 [32137] libc: libio/tst-stderr-compat, libio/tst-bz24228, math/test-
509 matherr-2, nptl/tst-pthread_kill-exited fails on powerpc-unknown-
510 linux-gnu
511 [32140] stdio: freopen leaks memory on failure
512 [32145] libc: New stdlib/tst-strtod1i, stdlib/tst-strtod3, stdlib/tst-
513 strtod4, stdlib/tst-strtod5i failures on powerpc64le-linux-gnu
514 [32148] stdio: Memory corruption with ancient i386 binaries using
515 stdio
516 [32168] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 16.0.0
517 [32173] libc: sparc: restartable syscalls are broken
518 [32192] build: s390: utf16-utf32-z9.c fails to build w/ -fomit-frame-
519 pointer
520 [32197] locale: FAIL: iconv/tst-iconv_prog-buffer failures
521 [32212] string: x86_64/strcmp caused 25% performance drop by commit
522 84e7c46df
523 [32214] libc: random_bits always returns the same value if getrandom
524 fails
525 [32215] libc: Signal handlers after fork may encounter missing robust
526 mutex list
527 [32228] libc: .preinit_array in /lib/riscv64-linux-gnu/Scrt1.o is not
528 properly aligned
529 [32231] dynamic-link: ldconfig auxcache format change in 2.36
530 [32233] libc: error calls va_end twice.
531 [32234] hurd: missing va_end call in fcntl.c
532 [32245] build: glibc -Wstringop-overflow= build failure on hppa
533 [32280] localedata: Enable transliteration rules with two input
534 characters in scn_IT
535 [32283] libc: Compilation issue for tst-syscall-restart.c with GCC
536 10.2.1
537 [32323] localedata: eo: Incorrect first day of week and first week of
538 year
539 [32344] string: Assembler warnings when building strcpy-evex.S and
540 strncpy-evex.S
541 [32350] hurd: function __xpg_strerror_r crashes for specific arguments
542 [32360] stdio: Compilation issue for tst-printf-format-skeleton.c with
543 GCC 10.2.1
544 [32366] malloc: malloc test failures with GCC 15
545 [32380] locale: dcigettext can cause SIGSEGV when domain name is too
546 long
547 [32414] libc: [x86_64 regression] tst-strtod5i.c:124:(.text+0x47c):
548 undefined reference to `__copysignf128'
549 [32418] math: __XXX math functions are declared, but not provided
550 [32420] build: GCC 6 can't build glibc 2.41
551 [32440] libc: getrandom() in glibc 2.41 (development) returns EINVAL
552 as retcode instead of errno on powerpc64le
553 [32448] libc: iconv reports failure with successful transliteration
554 [32450] libc: system() does not return -1 if a child process can't be
555 created
556 [32465] nss: ./getaddrinfo.c:1884:11: error: variable 'endp' is used
557 uninitialized whenever '||' condition is true [-Werror,-Wsometimes-
558 uninitialized]
559 [32470] dynamic-link: Integer truncation during x86-64 cache size
560 computation
561 [32488] libc: Glibc failed to build with CET enabled
562 [32492] libc: New test failures
563 [32494] build: Compilation issue with GCC 14.2.1
564 [32508] dynamic-link: ldd: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: cannot execute binary
565 file: Exec format error
566 [32512] dynamic-link: failure to build on loong, undefined reference
567 to `stpcpy'
568 [32543] build: x32 glibc is miscompiled
569 [32588] libc: [2.41 regression] bash crashes with 'realloc(): invalid
570 pointer' with `env -i PATH=`
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573
574Major new features:
575
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577 GCC 14.1 or later to use __builtin_stdc_bit_ceil etc. built-in functions
578 in order to support unsigned __int128 and/or unsigned _BitInt(N) operands
579 with arbitrary precisions when supported by the target.
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582 enable features from the ISO C23 standard. Only some features from
583 this standard are supported by the GNU C Library. The older name
584 _ISOC2X_SOURCE is still supported. Features from C23 are also enabled
585 by _GNU_SOURCE, or by compiling with the GCC options -std=c23,
586 -std=gnu23, -std=c2x or -std=gnu2x.
587
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589 18661-4:2015) are now supported in <math.h>. Each family includes
590 functions for float, double, long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx, and a
591 type-generic macro in <tgmath.h>.
592
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594
55eb99e9 595 - Logarithmic functions: log2p1, log10p1, logp1.
79c52daf 596
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598 as if it were a setuid process. This is currently a testing tool to allow
599 more extensive verification tests for AT_SECURE programs and not meant to
600 be a security feature.
601
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603 and the related structure added in Linux kernel 6.9.
604
605* The fortify functionality has been significantly enhanced for building
606 programs with clang against the GNU C Library.
607
608* Many functions have been added to the vector library for aarch64:
609 acosh, asinh, atanh, cbrt, cosh, erf, erfc, hypot, pow, sinh, tanh
610
611* On x86, memset can now use non-temporal stores to improve the performance
612 of large writes. This behaviour is controlled by a new tunable
613 x86_memset_non_temporal_threshold.
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616
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618 lastlog, struct utmp, struct utmpx (such as i386, powerpc64le, rv32,
619 rv64, x86-64) switched from a signed to an unsigned type for that
620 field. This allows these fields to store timestamps beyond the year
621 2038, until the year 2106. Please note that applications are still
622 expected to migrate off the interfaces declared in <utmp.h> and
623 <utmpx.h> (except for login_tty) due to locking and session management
624 problems.
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627 initially), not the size of struct rseq (32 bytes initially).
628
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629Security related changes:
630
631The following CVEs were fixed in this release, details of which can be
632found in the advisories directory of the release tarball:
633
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634 GLIBC-SA-2024-0004:
635 ISO-2022-CN-EXT: fix out-of-bound writes when writing escape
636 sequence (CVE-2024-2961)
637
638 GLIBC-SA-2024-0005:
639 nscd: Stack-based buffer overflow in netgroup cache (CVE-2024-33599)
640
641 GLIBC-SA-2024-0006:
642 nscd: Null pointer crash after notfound response (CVE-2024-33600)
643
644 GLIBC-SA-2024-0007:
645 nscd: netgroup cache may terminate daemon on memory allocation
646 failure (CVE-2024-33601)
647
648 GLIBC-SA-2024-0008:
649 nscd: netgroup cache assumes NSS callback uses in-buffer strings
650 (CVE-2024-33602)
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652The following bugs are resolved with this release:
653
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654 [19622] network: Support aliasing with struct sockaddr
655 [21271] localedata: cv_RU: update translations
656 [23774] localedata: lv_LV collates Y/y incorrectly
657 [23865] string: wcsstr is quadratic-time
658 [25119] localedata: Change Czech weekday names to lowercase
659 [27777] stdio: fclose does a linear search, takes ages when many FILE*
660 are opened
661 [29770] libc: prctl does not match manual page ABI on powerpc64le-
662 linux-gnu
663 [29845] localedata: Update hr_HR locale currency to €
664 [30701] time: getutxent misbehaves on 32-bit x86 when _TIME_BITS=64
665 [31316] build: Fails test misc/tst-dirname "Didn't expect signal from
666 child: got `Illegal instruction'" on non SSE CPUs
667 [31317] dynamic-link: [RISCV] static PIE crashes during self
668 relocation
669 [31325] libc: mips: clone3 is wrong for o32
670 [31335] math: Compile glibc with -march=x86-64-v3 should disable FMA4
671 multi-arch version
672 [31339] libc: arm32 loader crash after cleanup in 2.36
673 [31340] manual: A bad sentence in section 22.3.5 (resource.texi)
674 [31357] dynamic-link: $(objpfx)tst-rtld-list-diagnostics.out rule
675 doesn't work with test wrapper
676 [31370] localedata: wcwidth() does not treat
677 DEFAULT_IGNORABLE_CODE_POINTs as zero-width
678 [31371] dynamic-link: x86-64: APX and Tile registers aren't preserved
679 in ld.so trampoline
680 [31372] dynamic-link: _dl_tlsdesc_dynamic doesn't preserve all caller-
681 saved registers
682 [31383] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 and __fortified_attr_access vs size of
683 0 and zero size types
684 [31385] build: sort-makefile-lines.py doesn't check variable with _
685 nor with "^# variable"
686 [31402] libc: clone (NULL, NULL, ...) clobbers %r7 register on
687 s390{,x}
688 [31405] libc: Improve dl_iterate_phdr using _dl_find_object
689 [31411] localedata: Add Latgalian locale
690 [31412] build: GCC 6 failed to build i386 glibc on Fedora 39
691 [31429] build: Glibc failed to build with -march=x86-64-v3
692 [31468] libc: sigisemptyset returns true when the set contains signals
693 larger than 34
694 [31476] network: Automatic activation of single-request options break
695 resolv.conf reloading
696 [31479] libc: Missing #include <sys/rseq.h> in sched_getcpu.c may
697 result in a loss of rseq acceleration
698 [31501] dynamic-link: _dl_tlsdesc_dynamic_xsavec may clobber %rbx
699 [31518] manual: documentation: FLT_MAX_10_EXP questionable text, evtl.
700 wrong,
701 [31530] localedata: Locale file for Moksha - mdf_RU
702 [31553] malloc: elf/tst-decorate-maps fails on ppc64el
703 [31596] libc: On the llvm-arm32 platform, dlopen("not_exist.so", -1)
704 triggers segmentation fault
705 [31600] math: math: x86 ceill traps when FE_INEXACT is enabled
706 [31601] math: math: x86 floor traps when FE_INEXACT is enabled
707 [31603] math: math: x86 trunc traps when FE_INEXACT is enabled
708 [31612] libc: arc4random fails to fallback to /dev/urandom if
709 getrandom is not present
710 [31629] build: powerpc64: Configuring with "--with-cpu=power10" and
711 'CFLAGS=-O2 -mcpu=power9' fails to build glibc
712 [31640] dynamic-link: POWER10 ld.so crashes in
713 elf_machine_load_address with GCC 14
714 [31661] libc: NPROCESSORS_CONF and NPROCESSORS_ONLN not available in
715 getconf
716 [31676] dynamic-link: Configuring with CC="gcc -march=x86-64-v3"
717 --with-rtld-early-cflags=-march=x86-64 results in linker failure
718 [31677] nscd: nscd: netgroup cache: invalid memcpy under low
719 memory/storage conditions
720 [31678] nscd: nscd: Null pointer dereferences after failed netgroup
721 cache insertion
722 [31679] nscd: nscd: netgroup cache may terminate daemon on memory
723 allocation failure
724 [31680] nscd: nscd: netgroup cache assumes NSS callback uses in-buffer
725 strings
726 [31682] math: [PowerPC] Floating point exception error for math test
727 test-ceil-except-2 test-floor-except-2 test-trunc-except-2
728 [31686] dynamic-link: Stack-based buffer overflow in
729 parse_tunables_string
730 [31695] libc: pidfd_spawn/pidfd_spawnp leak an fd if clone3 succeeds
731 but execve fails
732 [31719] dynamic-link: --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests doesn't work
733 with -Wl,--enable-new-dtags
734 [31730] libc: backtrace_symbols_fd prints different strings than
735 backtrace_symbols returns
736 [31753] build: FAIL: link-static-libc with GCC 6/7/8
737 [31755] libc: procutils_read_file doesn't start with a leading
738 underscore
739 [31756] libc: write_profiling is only in libc.a
740 [31757] build: Should XXXf128_do_not_use functions be excluded?
741 [31759] math: Extra nearbyint symbols in libm.a
742 [31760] math: Missing math functions
743 [31764] build: _res_opcodes should be a compat symbol only
744 [31765] dynamic-link: _dl_mcount_wrapper is exported without prototype
745 [31766] stdio: _IO_stderr_ _IO_stdin_ _IO_stdout should be compat
746 symbols
747 [31768] string: Extra stpncpy symbol in libc.a
748 [31770] libc: clone3 is in libc.a
749 [31774] libc: Missing __isnanf128 in libc.a
750 [31775] math: Missing exp10 exp10f32x exp10f64 fmod fmodf fmodf32
751 fmodf32x fmodf64 in libm.a
752 [31777] string: Extra memchr strlen symbols in libc.a
753 [31781] math: Missing math functions in libm.a
754 [31782] build: Test build failure with recent GCC trunk (x86/tst-cpu-
755 features-supports.c:69:3: error: parameter to builtin not valid:
756 avx5124fmaps)
757 [31785] string: loongarch: Extra strnlen symbols in libc.a
758 [31786] string: powerpc: Extra strchrnul and strncasecmp_l symbols in
759 libc.a
760 [31787] math: powerpc: Extra llrintf, llrintf, llrintf32, and
761 llrintf32 symbols in libc.a
762 [31788] libc: microblaze: Extra cacheflush symbol in libc.a
763 [31789] libc: powerpc: Extra versionsort symbol in libc.a
764 [31790] libc: s390: Extra getutent32, getutent32_r, getutid32,
765 getutid32_r, getutline32, getutline32_r, getutmp32, getutmpx32,
766 getutxent32, getutxid32, getutxline32, pututline32, pututxline32,
767 updwtmp32, updwtmpx32 in libc.a
768 [31797] build: g++ -static requirement should be able to opt-out
769 [31798] libc: pidfd_getpid.c is miscompiled by GCC 6.4
770 [31802] time: difftime is pure not const
771 [31808] time: The supported time_t range is not documented.
772 [31840] stdio: Memory leak in _IO_new_fdopen (fdopen) on seek failure
773 [31867] build: "CPU ISA level is lower than required" on SSE2-free
774 CPUs
775 [31876] time: "Date and time" documentation fixes for POSIX.1-2024 etc
776 [31883] build: ISA level support configure check relies on bashism /
777 is otherwise broken for arithmetic
778 [31892] build: Always install mtrace.
779 [31917] libc: clang mq_open fortify wrapper does not handle 4 argument
780 correctly
781 [31927] libc: clang open fortify wrapper does not handle argument
782 correctly
783 [31931] time: tzset may fault on very short TZ string
784 [31934] string: wcsncmp crash on s390x on vlbb instruction
785 [31963] stdio: Crash in _IO_link_in within __gcov_exit
786 [31965] dynamic-link: rseq extension mechanism does not work as
787 intended
788 [31980] build: elf/tst-tunables-enable_secure-env fails on ppc
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791
792Major new features:
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795 rewrite on x86-64. When enabled with non-lazy binding, the dynamic
796 linker will rewrite indirect branches in PLT with direct branches.
797
a0cfc48e 798* Sync with Linux kernel 6.6 shadow stack interface. The --enable-cet
feeb7297 799 configure option is only supported on x86-64.
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92861d93 801* struct statvfs now has an f_type member, equal to the f_type statfs member;
802 on the Hurd this was always available under a reserved name,
803 and under Linux a spare has been allocated: it was always zero
804 in previous versions of glibc, and zero is not a valid result.
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807 posix_spawnattr_setcgroup_np have been added, along with the
808 POSIX_SPAWN_SETCGROUP flag. They allow posix_spawn and posix_spawnp
809 to set the cgroupv2 in the new process in a race-free manner. These
810 functions are GNU extensions and require a kernel with clone3 support.
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813 They have a similar prototype and semantic as posix_spawn, but instead of
814 returning a process ID, they return a file descriptor that can be used
815 along other pidfd functions (like pidfd_send_signal, poll, or waitid).
816 The pidfd functionality avoids the issue of PID reuse with the traditional
817 posix_spawn interface.
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820 the process ID associated with the process file descriptor created by
821 pid_spawn, fork_np, or pidfd_open.
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824 arguments pointing to types intN_t, int_leastN_t, uintN_t or
825 uint_leastN_t (for example, %w32d to read int32_t or int_least32_t in
826 decimal, or %w32x to read uint32_t or uint_least32_t in hexadecimal)
827 and the wfN format length modifiers for arguments pointing to types
828 int_fastN_t or uint_fastN_t, as specified in draft ISO C2X.
829
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831 information on underlying memory allocated by the glibc (for instance,
832 on thread stack created by pthread_create or memory allocated by
833 malloc).
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836 stdc_leading_zeros, stdc_leading_ones, stdc_trailing_zeros,
837 stdc_trailing_ones, stdc_first_leading_zero, stdc_first_leading_one,
838 stdc_first_trailing_zero, stdc_first_trailing_one, stdc_count_zeros,
839 stdc_count_ones, stdc_has_single_bit, stdc_bit_width, stdc_bit_floor
840 and stdc_bit_ceil function families, each having functions for
841 unsigned char, unsigned short, unsigned int, unsigned long int and
842 unsigned long long int, and a type-generic macro.
843
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845 annotations to allow GCC 9 or newer to auto-vectorize calls to the
846 following scalar math functions when -ffast-math is specified:
847 acos, acosf, asin, asinf, atan, atanf, atan2, atan2f, cos, cosf,
848 exp, expf, exp10, exp10f, exp2, exp2f, expm1, expm1f, log, logf,
849 log10, log10f, log1p, log1pf, log2, log2f, sin, sinf, tan, tanf.
850
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852
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855 by the RPM and dpkg package managers.
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858 options "--enable-crypt" and "--enable-nss-crypt" are no longer
859 available. <crypt.h>, libcrypt.a, and libcrypt.so.1 will not be
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861 function by default, to avoid introducing vulnerabilities into
862 existing applications due to a missing prototype. This declaration
863 is deprecated and may be removed in a future glibc release.
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865 The replacement for libcrypt is libxcrypt, maintained separately from
866 GNU libc, but available under compatible licensing terms, and providing
867 binary backward compatibility with the former libcrypt. It is currently
868 distributed from <https://github.com/besser82/libxcrypt/>.
869
870 As a consequence of this removal, GNU libc no longer makes any use of
871 the NSS cryptography library (Network Security Services; not to be
872 confused with Name Service Switch). Distributors of binary packages
873 of GNU libc are advised to check whether their build processes can be
874 simplified.
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877 during TLS access if a shared object with dynamic TLS is loaded and
878 unloaded. This can result in an infinite recursion if a malloc
879 replacement library or its dependencies use dynamic TLS instead of
880 initial-exec TLS.
881
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883
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885
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887 instructions.
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889Security related changes:
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892found in the advisories directory of the release tarball:
893
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894 GLIBC-SA-2023-0002:
895 getaddrinfo: Stack read overflow in no-aaaa mode (CVE-2023-4527)
896
897 GLIBC-SA-2023-0003:
898 getaddrinfo: Potential use-after-free (CVE-2023-4806)
899
900 GLIBC-SA-2023-0004:
901 tunables: local privilege escalation through buffer overflow
902 (CVE-2023-4911)
903
904 GLIBC-SA-2024-0001:
905 syslog: Heap buffer overflow in __vsyslog_internal (CVE-2023-6246)
906
907 GLIBC-SA-2024-0002:
908 syslog: Heap buffer overflow in __vsyslog_internal (CVE-2023-6779)
909
910 GLIBC-SA-2024-0003:
911 syslog: Integer overflow in __vsyslog_internal (CVE-2023-6780)
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914 ISO-2022-CN-EXT: fix out-of-bound writes when writing escape
915 sequence (CVE-2024-2961)
916
917 GLIBC-SA-2024-0005:
918 nscd: Stack-based buffer overflow in netgroup cache (CVE-2024-33599)
919
920 GLIBC-SA-2024-0006:
921 nscd: Null pointer crashes after notfound response
922 (CVE-2024-33600)
923
924 GLIBC-SA-2024-0007:
925 nscd: netgroup cache may terminate daemon on memory allocation
926 failure (CVE-2024-33601)
927
928 GLIBC-SA-2024-0008:
929 nscd: netgroup cache assumes NSS callback uses in-buffer strings
930 (CVE-2024-33602)
931
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933
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934 [14522] localedata: fy_DE: LC_IDENTIFICATION data looks weird
935 [19305] libc: qsort() should return early if (nmemb <= 1)
936 [19479] localedata: gbm_IN: new Garhwali Locale
937 [19924] dynamic-link: TLS performance degradation after dlopen
938 [19956] localedata: ssy_ER: rename from aa_ER@saaho
939 [21719] libc: stdlib/msort : optimizing merge sort
940 [22526] localedata: th_TH LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
941 [23012] localedata: el_GR: Greece now uses the 24h format for time
942 [23172] localedata: miq_NI: Provide actually abbreviated month names
943 [24006] localedata: Cyclic dependencies via copy in locales
944 [24013] localedata: am_pm definitions for es_ES
945 [24386] localedata: crh_RU: new locale
946 [24877] localedata: [Redundant Data] Remove redundant data between
947 en_NZ and en_AU
948 [25868] localedata: Incorrect trailing spaces in weekday names for
949 nn_NO
950 [26752] localedata: Please add the new locale zgh_MA
951 [27069] dynamic-link: Need a way to tell if a tunable is set by user
952 [27163] localedata: Error on test glk_IR with localedef
953 [27312] localedata: su_ID: new Sundanese locale
954 [27547] manual: "Summary of malloc-Related Functions" shows wrong
955 argument order for `aligned_alloc` and `memalign`
956 [27574] libc: glibc should probably not define __WORDSIZE=64 for
957 __sparcv9
958 [27601] localedata: License information update in
959 localedata/locales/ast_ES
960 [28558] localedata: it_IT LC_MONETARY outdated p_cs_precedes and
961 n_cs_precedes
962 [28787] localedata: Add information for Occitan
963 [29039] dynamic-link: Corrupt DTV after reuse of a TLS module ID
964 following dlclose with unused TLS
965 [29486] localedata: New Zealand locales (en_NZ & mi_NZ) first day of
966 week should be Monday
967 [29504] localedata: Incorrect/misleading Time Format For ms_MY (AM/PM)
968 [29506] localedata: UTF-8 HANGUL SYLLABLE bugs
969 [30349] libc: Support returning a pidfd from posix_spawn()
970 [30412] localedata: d_t_fmt in id_ID uses %r placeholder but am_pm and
971 t_fmt_ampm are undefined
972 [30605] localedata: New locale for Komi language
973 [30649] localedata: [PATCH] Add transliteration of common emojis to
974 smileys
975 [30694] locale: The iconv program no longer tells the user which given
976 encoding name was wrong
977 [30709] nscd: nscd fails to build with cleanup handler if built with
978 -fexceptions
979 [30737] libc: fdopendir() is not robust - returns bogus DIR* instead
980 of flagging an error
981 [30740] build: [m68k] undefined reference to
982 `_wordcopy_fwd_dest_aligned'
983 [30745] libc: Slight bug in cache info codes for x86
984 [30750] network: Unaligned accesses in resolver
985 [30773] math: [m68k] busybox awk is broken (lshift.S related)
986 [30789] libc: [2.38 Regression] sem_open will fail on multithreaded
987 scenarios when semaphore file doesn't exist (O_CREAT)
988 [30800] nscd: Improper assert in prune_cache triggers if clock jumps
989 backwards
990 [30804] libc: F_GETLK, F_SETLK, and F_SETLKW value change for
991 powerpc64 with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
992 [30842] network: Stack read overflow in getaddrinfo in no-aaaa mode
993 (CVE-2023-4527)
994 [30843] network: potential use-after-free in getcanonname
995 (CVE-2023-4806)
996 [30854] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 15.1.0
997 [30884] network: Memory leak in getaddrinfo after fix for bug 30843
998 (CVE-2023-5156)
999 [30932] libc: Fortify Source has false-positives when too many files
1000 are open
1001 [30945] malloc: Core affinity setting incurs lock contentions between
1002 threads
1003 [30960] math: signed integer overflow in
1004 glibc/sysdeps/s390/fpu/feenablxcpt.c
1005 [30964] locale: Number grouping check mishandles multibyte thousands
1006 separator
1007 [30981] dynamic-link: dlclose does not properly implement force-first
1008 handling
1009 [30988] math: fesetexcept raises floating-point exception traps on
1010 ppc, ppc64, ppc64le
1011 [30989] math: fesetexcept raises floating-point exception traps on
1012 i386
1013 [30990] libc: fesetexceptflag raises floating-point exception traps on
1014 i386, x86_64
1015 [30998] math: fesetexceptflag clears too many floating-point exception
1016 flags on alpha
1017 [31019] manual: The documentation of feenableexcept is incomplete
1018 [31022] math: feupdateenv (FE_DFL_ENV) crashes on riscv
1019 [31035] libc: Library search path terminates on relative non-directory
1020 name
1021 [31042] libc: [s390x] .init and .fini padding
1022 [31068] libc: sysdeps: sparc: invalid data access in memset due to
1023 regression
1024 [31078] manual: Code example in "Noncanonical Mode Example" has unused
1025 'char *name;'
1026 [31086] localedata: Errors in Tibetan, Dzongkha data
1027 [31113] string: Wrong unwind information for rawmemchr on aarch64
1028 [31151] libc: [RISC-V] missing support for profile/audit PLT setup
1029 [31163] nss: getaddrinfo returns EAI_NONAME in oom situation
1030 [31183] stdio: Wide stream buffer size reduced MB_LEN_MAX bytes after
1031 bug 17522 fix
1032 [31184] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-tlsgap
1033 [31185] dynamic-link: Incorrect thread point access in
1034 _dl_tlsdesc_undefweak and _dl_tlsdesc_dynamic
1035 [31187] dynamic-link: Some CET tests fail with GCC 14
1036 [31204] localedata: Fix decimal point and thousands separator for
1037 uz_UZ
1038 [31205] localedata: Inconsistent (mon_)grouping formats
1039 [31218] dynamic-link: PLT rewrite overflows large displacement on x32
1040 [31221] localedata: Add localedata for ISO code "tok" (Toki Pona)
1041 [31230] dynamic-link: PLT rewrite failed without SELinux
1042 [31239] localedata: anp_IN locale: abbreviated month names are the
1043 same as the full month names
1044 [31244] nptl: pthread_cancel hangs on sparc32
1045 [31257] localedata: Sync with CLDR: “Turkey” -> “Türkiye”
1046 [31266] string: sparc: string/tst-memmove-overflow fails on 32-bit
1047 sparcv9
1048 [31276] libc: Wrong condition for heap allocation in qsort_r
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1055 following functions support binary integers prefixed by 0b or 0B as
1056 input: strtol, strtoll, strtoul, strtoull, strtol_l, strtoll_l,
1057 strtoul_l, strtoull_l, strtoimax, strtoumax, strtoq, strtouq, wcstol,
1058 wcstoll, wcstoul, wcstoull, wcstol_l, wcstoll_l, wcstoul_l,
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1060 following functions support binary integers prefixed by 0b or 0B as
1061 input to the %i format: fscanf, scanf, sscanf, vscanf, vsscanf,
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1063 functions also support the %b format for binary integers, with or
1064 without such a prefix and independent of standards mode.
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1067 <inttypes.h>.
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1070 arguments of type intN_t, int_leastN_t, uintN_t or uint_leastN_t (for
1071 example, %w32d to print int32_t or int_least32_t in decimal, or %w32x
1072 to print uint32_t or uint_least32_t in hexadecimal) and the wfN format
1073 length modifiers for arguments of type int_fastN_t or uint_fastN_t, as
1074 specified in draft ISO C2X.
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1077 Transparent Huge Pages (THP) in stack allocation at pthread_create.
1078
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1080 as least binutils 2.40 and GCC 13:
1081
1082 - x86_64-gnu
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1085 requires GCC version >= 10.1.0. It can be disabled via
1086 "--disable-mathvec", however that is not a supported configuration as
1087 it changes the ABI. The symbol names follow the AArch64 vector ABI,
1088 they are declared in math.h and have to be called manually at this point.
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1091 from OpenBSD, and are expected to be added to a future POSIX version.
1092
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1094 GNU C Library with _FORTIFY_SOURCE. The level of fortification can either be
1095 provided, or is set to the highest value supported by the compiler. If not
1096 explicitly enabled, then fortify source is forcibly disabled so to keep
1097 original behavior unchanged.
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1100
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1103 GNU C Library in a future release, so it is recommended that
1104 applications port away from it to an alternative such as libxcrypt.
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1107 MADV_XXX constants were changed to have the same values as the other
1108 architectures. New programs compiled with this glibc version and which
1109 use the madvise call will require at least Linux kernel version 6.2,
1110 alternatively stable kernels from versions 6.1.6, 5.15.87, 5.10.163,
1111 5.4.228, 4.19.270 or 4.14.303.
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1128 format specifier that uses an <apostrophe> (enable grouping) and a
1129 minimum width specifier, the resulting output could be larger than
1130 reasonably expected by a caller that computed a tight bound on the
1131 buffer size. The resulting larger than expected output could result
1132 in a buffer overflow in the printf family of functions.
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1134The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1135
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1137 [14697] nptl: Behavior of exit is nonconformant with respect to
1138 threads and stdio
1139 [15142] stdio: Missing locking in _IO_cleanup
1140 [18096] glob: null deref in wordexp/parse_dollars/parse_arith
1141 [18906] stdio: fopen: ccs value may affect open mode
1142 [24466] stdio: Feature request: provide special printf formats for
1143 intXX_t
1144 [25457] nss: hosts lookup fails for ipv4mapped ipv6 addresses
1145 [28519] libc: system and popen should pass "--" between /bin/sh and
1146 argument
1147 [29016] stdio: popen() sets errno to ENOMEM when shell does not exist
1148 [29591] string: wcsnlen length can overflow in page cross case.
1149 [30053] time: strftime %s returns -1 after 2038 on 32 bits systems
1150 [30068] stdio: incorrect printf output for integers with thousands
1151 separator and width field (CVE-2023-25139)
1152 [30111] time: support_descriptors_list fails after 2038 on 32 bits
1153 systems
1154 [30125] dynamic-link: [regression, bisected] glibc-2.37 creates new
1155 symlink for libraries without soname
1156 [30130] math: [s390] The _FPU_SETCW macro yields compile error with
1157 Clang
1158 [30156] time: Potential ntp_gettime abi break
1159 [30235] libc: Missing fallback in getlogin if loginuid is unset
1160 [30258] dynamic-link: sprof cannot read and display shared object
1161 profiling data correctly
1162 [30263] libc: Add test coverage for abs(), labs(), and llabs().
1163 [30305] math: Incorrect asm constraint in feraiseexcept on x86-64
1164 [30402] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-glibcelf
1165 [30425] dynamic-link: Symbol lookup during dlclose may fail
1166 unnecessarily
1167 [30435] dynamic-link: Root dir wrongly marked as nonexist in open_path
1168 [30477] libc: [RISCV]: time64 does not work on riscv32
1169 [30515] dynamic-link: _dl_find_object incorrectly returns 1 during
1170 early startup
1171 [30527] network: resolv_conf lock not unlocked on allocation failure
1172 [30550] math: powerpc64le: GCC-specific code for isinf() is being used
1173 on clang
1174 [30555] string: strerror can incorrectly return NULL
1175 [30579] malloc: trim_threshold in realloc lead to high memory usage
1176 [30662] nscd: Group and password cache use errno in place of errval
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1180Major new features:
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1183 getent with --no-addrconfig may contain addresses of families not
1184 configured on the current host i.e. as-if you had not passed
1185 AI_ADDRCONFIG to getaddrinfo calls.
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1187Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1188
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1190 subdirectories on the library search path or the subdirectory that
1191 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, or employs the legacy AT_HWCAP
1192 search mechanism, which was deprecated in version 2.33.
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1197 string larger than 1024 bytes, it reads uninitialized memory from the
1198 heap and prints it to the target log file, potentially revealing a
1199 portion of the contents of the heap.
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1201The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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1204 [12165] libc: readdir: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
1205 [19444] build: build failures with -O1 due to -Wmaybe-uninitialized
1206 [24774] nptl: pthread_rwlock_timedwrlock stalls on ARM
1207 [24816] nss: nss/tst-nss-files-hosts-long fails when no interface has
1208 AF_INET6 address (ie docker)
1209 [27087] stdio: PowerPC: Redefinition error with Clang from IEEE
1210 redirection headers
1211 [28846] network: CMSG_NXTHDR may trigger -Wstrict-overflow warning
1212 [28937] dynamic-link: New DSO dependency sorter does not put new map
1213 first if in a cycle
1214 [29249] libc: csu/libc-tls.c:202: undefined reference to
1215 `_startup_fatal_not_constant'
1216 [29305] network: Inefficient buffer space usage in nss_dns for
1217 gethostbyname and other functions
1218 [29375] libc: don't hide MAP_ANONYMOUS behind _GNU_SOURCE
1219 [29402] nscd: nscd: No such file or directory
1220 [29415] nscd: getaddrinfo with AI_ADDRCONFIG returns addresses with
1221 wrong family
1222 [29427] dynamic-link: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-printf.c:
1223 200: _dl_debug_vdprintf: Assertion `! "invalid format specifier"'
1224 failed!
1225 [29463] math: math/test-float128-y1 fails on x86_64
1226 [29485] build: Make hangs when the test misc/tst-pidfile returns
1227 FAIL_UNSUPPORTED
1228 [29490] dynamic-link: [bisected] new __brk_call causes dynamic loader
1229 segfault on alpha
1230 [29499] build: Check failed on misc/tst-glibcsyscalls while building
1231 for RISCV64 on a unmatched hardware
1232 [29501] build: Check failed on stdlib/tst-strfrom while building for
1233 RISCV64 on a unmatched hardware
1234 [29502] libc: alpha sys/acct.h out of date
1235 [29514] build: Need to use -fPIE not -fpie
1236 [29528] dynamic-link: __libc_early_init not called after dlmopen that
1237 reuses namespace
1238 [29536] libc: syslog fail to create large messages (CVE-2022-39046)
1239 [29537] libc: [2.34 regression]: Alignment issue on m68k when using
1240 futexes on qemu-user
1241 [29539] libc: LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS changed how vDSO library are
1242 printed
1243 [29544] libc: Regression in syslog(3) calls breaks RFC due to extra
1244 whitespace
1245 [29564] build: Incorrect way to change MAKEFLAGS in Makerules
1246 [29576] build: librtld.os: in function `_dl_start_profile':
1247 (.text+0x9444): undefined reference to `strcpy'
1248 [29578] libc: Definition of SUN_LEN() is wrong
1249 [29583] build: iconv failures on 32bit platform due to missing large
1250 file support
1251 [29600] dynamic-link: dlmopen hangs after loading certain libraries
1252 [29604] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 15.0.0
1253 [29605] nscd: Regression in NSCD backend of getaddrinfo
1254 [29607] nscd: nscd repeatably crashes calling __strlen_avx2 when hosts
1255 cache is enabled
1256 [29611] string: Optimized AVX2 string functions unconditionally use
1257 BMI2 instructions
1258 [29624] malloc: errno is not cleared when entering main
1259 [29638] libc: stdlib: arc4random fallback is never used
1260 [29657] libc: Incorrect struct stat for 64-bit time on linux/generic
1261 platforms
1262 [29698] build: Configuring for AArch32 on ARMv8+ disables
1263 optimizations
1264 [29727] locale: __strtol_internal out-of-bounds read when parsing
1265 thousands grouping
1266 [29730] libc: broken y2038 support in fstatat on MIPS N64
1267 [29746] libc: ppoll() does not switch to __ppoll64 when
1268 -D_TIME_BITS=64 and -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 is given on 32bit
1269 [29771] libc: Restore IPC_64 support in sysvipc *ctl functions
1270 [29780] build: possible parallel make issue in glibc-2.36 (siglist-
1271 aux.S: No such file or directory)
1272 [29864] libc: __libc_start_main() should obtain program headers
1273 address (_dl_phdr) from the auxv, not the ELF header.
1274 [29951] time: daylight variable not set correctly if last DST change
1275 coincides with offset change
1276 [30039] stdio: __vsprintf_internal does not handle unspecified buffer
1277 length in fortify mode
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1281Major new features:
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1284 glibc. This is a new ELF dynamic tag that improves the size of
1285 relative relocations in shared object files and position independent
1286 executables (PIE). DT_RELR generation requires linker support for
1287 -z pack-relative-relocs option, which is supported for some targets
1288 in recent binutils versions. Lazy binding doesn't apply to DT_RELR.
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1291 have been added. The pidfd functionality provides access to a process
7f0d9e61 1292 while avoiding the issue of PID reuse on traditional Unix systems.
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1295 same functionality as madvise but alters the target process identified
1296 by the pidfd.
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1299 caller to release the memory of a dying process. The release of the
1300 memory is carried out in the context of the caller, using the caller's
1301 CPU affinity, and priority with CPU usage accounted to the caller.
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1304 administrators can use it to suppress AAAA queries made by the stub
1305 resolver, including AAAA lookups triggered by NSS-based interfaces
1306 such as getaddrinfo. Only DNS lookups are affected: IPv6 data in
1307 /etc/hosts is still used, getaddrinfo with AI_PASSIVE will still
1308 produce IPv6 addresses, and configured IPv6 name servers are still
1309 used. To produce correct Name Error (NXDOMAIN) results, AAAA queries
1310 are translated to A queries. The new resolver option is intended
1311 primarily for diagnostic purposes, to rule out that AAAA DNS queries
1312 have adverse impact. It is incompatible with EDNS0 usage and DNSSEC
1313 validation by applications.
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1316 and mount_setattr have been added. They are part of the new Linux kernel
1317 mount APIs that allow applications to more flexibly configure and operate
1318 on filesystem mounts. The new mount APIs are specifically designed to work
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1322 Previously, input bytes not within the ASCII range resulted in
1323 unpredictable output.
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1326 functions has been added per the ISO C2X N2653 and C++20 P0482R6 proposals.
1327 Support for the char8_t typedef has been added per the ISO C2X N2653
1328 proposal. The functions are declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the
1329 _GNU_SOURCE macro or C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro is defined.
1330 The char8_t typedef is declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the
1331 _GNU_SOURCE macro is defined and the C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro
1332 is not defined (if __cpp_char8_t is defined, then char8_t is a builtin type).
1333
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1336 quality randomness from the kernel.
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3a380458 1338* Support for LoongArch running on Linux has been added. This port requires
1339 as least binutils 2.38, GCC 12, and Linux 5.19. Currently only hard-float
1340 ABI is supported:
1341
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1349 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
1350 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
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1353 LD_ASSUME_KERNEL environment variable. The minimum kernel used to built
1354 glibc is still provided through NT_GNU_ABI_TAG ELF note and also printed
1355 when libc.so is issued directly.
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1362 return different result with versioned "foo"
1363 [16355] libc: syslog.h's SYSLOG_NAMES namespace violation and utter
1364 mess
1365 [23293] dynamic-link: aarch64: getauxval is broken when run as ld.so
1366 ./exe and ld.so adjusts argv on the stack
1367 [24595] nptl: [2.28 Regression]: Deadlock in atfork handler which
1368 calls dlclose
1369 [25744] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS returns 2 instead of 1 when
1370 consuming the second byte of certain double byte characters
1371 [25812] stdio: Libio vtable protection is sometimes only partially
1372 enforced
1373 [27054] libc: pthread_atfork handlers that call pthread_atfork
1374 deadlock
1375 [27924] dynamic-link: ld.so: Support DT_RELR relative relocation
1376 format
1377 [28128] build: declare_symbol_alias doesn't work for assembly codes
1378 [28566] network: getnameinfo with NI_NOFQDN is not thread safe
1379 [28752] nss: Segfault in getpwuid when stat fails
1380 [28815] libc: realpath should not copy to resolved buffer on error
1381 [28828] stdio: fputwc crashes
1382 [28838] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-p_align3
1383 [28845] locale: ld-monetary.c should be updated to match ISO C and
1384 other standards.
1385 [28850] libc: linux: __get_nprocs_sched reads uninitialized memory
1386 from the stack
1387 [28852] libc: getaddrinfo leaks memory with AI_ALL
1388 [28853] libc: tst-spawn6 changes current foreground process group
1389 (breaks test isolation)
1390 [28857] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-audit24a
1391 [28860] build: --enable-kernel=5.1.0 build fails because of missing
1392 __convert_scm_timestamps
1393 [28865] libc: linux: _SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF and _SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN are
1394 inaccurate without /sys and /proc
1395 [28868] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader DFS algorithm segfaults on
1396 missing libraries
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1399 !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS && !__ASSUME_PSELECT fails on Microblaze
1400 [28896] string: strncmp-avx2-rtm and wcsncmp-avx2-rtm fallback on non-
1401 rtm variants when avoiding overflow
1402 [28922] build: The .d dependency files aren't always generated
1403 [28931] libc: hosts lookup broken for SUCCESS=CONTINUE and
1404 SUCCESS=MERGE
1405 [28936] build: nm: No such file
1406 [28950] localedata: Add locale for ISO code "tok" (Toki Pona)
1407 [28953] nss: NSS lookup result can be incorrect if function lookup
1408 clobbers errno
1409 [28970] math: benchtest: libmvec benchmark doesn't build with make
1410 bench.
1411 [28991] libc: sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF) should read
1412 /sys/devices/system/cpu/possible
1413 [28993] libc: closefrom() iterates until max int if no access to
1414 /proc/self/fd/
1415 [28996] libc: realpath fails to copy partial result to resolved buffer
1416 on ENOENT and EACCES
1417 [29027] math: [ia64] fabs fails with sNAN input
1418 [29029] nptl: poll() spuriously returns EINTR during thread
1419 cancellation and with cancellation disabled
1420 [29030] string: GLIBC 2.35 regression - Fortify crash on certain valid
1421 uses of mbsrtowcs (*** buffer overflow detected ***: terminated)
1422 [29062] dynamic-link: Memory leak in _dl_find_object_update if object
1423 is promoted to global scope
1424 [29069] libc: fstatat64_time64_statx wrapper broken on MIPS N32 with
1425 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 and -D_TIME_BITS=64
1426 [29071] dynamic-link: m68k: Removal of ELF_DURING_STARTUP optimization
1427 broke ld.so
1428 [29097] time: fchmodat does not handle 64 bit time_t for
1429 AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW
1430 [29109] libc: posix_spawn() always returns 1 (EPERM) on clone()
1431 failure
1432 [29141] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 fail for gcc 12/glibc 2.35
1433 [29162] string: [PATCH] string.h syntactic error:
1434 include/bits/string_fortified.h:110: error: expected ',' or ';'
1435 before '__fortified_attr_access'
1436 [29165] libc: [Regression] broken argv adjustment
1437 [29187] dynamic-link: [regression] broken argv adjustment for nios2
1438 [29193] math: sincos produces a different output than sin/cos
1439 [29197] string: __strncpy_power9() uses uninitialised register vs18
1440 value for filling after \0
1441 [29203] libc: daemon is not y2038 aware
1442 [29204] libc: getusershell is not 2038 aware
1443 [29207] libc: posix_fallocate fallback implementation is not y2038
1444 aware
1445 [29208] libc: fpathconf(_PC_ASYNC_IO) is not y2038 aware
1446 [29209] libc: isfdtype is not y2038 aware
1447 [29210] network: ruserpass is not y2038 aware
1448 [29211] libc: __open_catalog is not y2038 aware
1449 [29213] libc: gconv_parseconfdir is not y2038 aware
1450 [29214] nptl: pthread_setcanceltype fails to set type
1451 [29225] network: Mistyped define statement in socket/sys/socket.h in
1452 line 184
1453 [29274] nptl: __read_chk is not a cancellation point
1454 [29279] libc: undefined reference to `mbstowcs_chk' after
1455 464d189b9622932a75302290625de84931656ec0
1456 [29304] libc: mq_timedreceive does not handle 64 bit syscall return
1457 correct for !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS
1458 [29403] libc: st_atim, st_mtim, st_ctim stat struct members are
1459 missing on microblaze with largefile
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1462
1463Major new features:
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1465* Unicode 14.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1466 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 14.0.0, using
1467 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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1470 r_next, support multiple namespaces.
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1472* Support for the C.UTF-8 locale has been added to glibc. The locale
1473 supports full code-point sorting for all valid Unicode code points. A
1474 limitation in the framework for fnmatch, regexec, and regcomp requires
1475 a compromise to save space and only ASCII-based range expressions are
1476 supported for now (see bug 28255). The full size of the locale is
1477 only ~400KiB, with 346KiB coming from LC_CTYPE information for
1478 Unicode. This locale harmonizes downstream C.UTF-8 already shipping
1479 in various downstream distributions. The locale is not built into
1480 glibc, and must be installed.
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1482* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type, and
1483 corresponding <tgmath.h> macros, are added from TS 18661-1:2014, TS
1484 18661-3:2015 and draft ISO C2X:
1485
1486 - fsqrt, fsqrtl, dsqrtl and corresponding fMsqrtfN, fMsqrtfNx,
1487 fMxsqrtfN and fMxsqrtfNx functions.
1488
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1489 - ffma, ffmal, dfmal and corresponding fMfmafN, fMfmafNx, fMxfmafN and
1490 fMxfmafNx functions.
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1492* <math.h> functions for floating-point maximum and minimum,
1493 corresponding to new operations in IEEE 754-2019, and corresponding
1494 <tgmath.h> macros, are added from draft ISO C2X: fmaximum,
1495 fmaximum_num, fmaximum_mag, fmaximum_mag_num, fminimum, fminimum_num,
1496 fminimum_mag, fminimum_mag_num and corresponding functions for float,
1497 long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx.
1498
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1499* <math.h> macros for single-precision float constants are added as a
1500 GNU extension: M_Ef, M_LOG2Ef, M_LOG10Ef, M_LN2f, M_LN10f, M_PIf,
1501 M_PI_2f, M_PI_4f, M_1_PIf, M_2_PIf, M_2_SQRTPIf, M_SQRT2f and
1502 M_SQRT1_2f.
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1504* The __STDC_IEC_60559_BFP__ and __STDC_IEC_60559_COMPLEX__ macros are
1505 predefined as specified in TS 18661-1:2014.
1506
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1507* The exp10 functions in <math.h> now have a corresponding type-generic
1508 macro in <tgmath.h>.
1509
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1510* The ISO C2X macro _PRINTF_NAN_LEN_MAX has been added to <stdio.h>.
1511
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1512* printf-family functions now support the %b format for output of
1513 integers in binary, as specified in draft ISO C2X, and the %B variant
1514 of that format recommended by draft ISO C2X.
1515
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1516* A new DSO sorting algorithm has been added in the dynamic linker that uses
1517 topological sorting by depth-first search (DFS), solving performance issues
1518 of the existing sorting algorithm when encountering particular circular
1519 object dependency cases.
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1522 the two DSO sorting algorithms. The default setting of '2' uses the
1523 new DFS-based algorithm. The setting '1' switches to the old
1524 algorithm used in glibc 2.33 and earlier.
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1527 to be used by compilers for optimizing usage of 'memcmp' when its
1528 return value is only used for its boolean status.
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1530* Support for automatically registering threads with the Linux rseq
1531 system call has been added. This system call is implemented starting
1532 from Linux 4.18. The Restartable Sequences ABI accelerates user-space
1533 operations on per-cpu data. It allows user-space to perform updates
1534 on per-cpu data without requiring heavy-weight atomic operations.
1535 Automatically registering threads allows all libraries, including
1536 libc, to make immediate use of the rseq support by using the
1537 documented ABI, via the __rseq_flags, __rseq_offset, and __rseq_size
1538 variables. The GNU C Library manual has details on integration of
1539 Restartable Sequences.
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1541* A symbolic link to the dynamic linker is now installed under
1542 /usr/bin/ld.so (or more precisely, '${bindir}/ld.so').
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1544* All programs and the testsuite in glibc are now built as position independent
1545 executables (PIE) by default on toolchains and architectures that support it.
1546 Further, if the toolchain and architecture supports it, even static programs
1547 are built as PIE and the resultant glibc can be used to build static PIE
1548 executables. A new option --disable-default-pie has been added to disable
1549 this behavior and get a non-PIE build. This option replaces
1550 --enable-static-pie, which no longer has any effect on the build
1551 configuration.
1552
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1555 or to use huge pages directly with mmap calls with the MAP_HUGETLB
1556 flags). The former can improve performance when Transparent Huge Pages
1557 is set to 'madvise' mode while the latter uses the system reserved
1558 huge pages.
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1560* The printf family of functions now handles the flagged %#m conversion
1561 specifier, printing errno as an error constant (similar to strerrorname_np).
1562
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1563* The function _dl_find_object has been added. In-process unwinders
1564 can use it to efficiently locate unwinding information for a code
1565 address.
1566
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1567* Support for OpenRISC running on Linux has been added. This port requires
1568 as least binutils 2.35, GCC 11, and Linux 5.4. Currently only soft-float
1569 ABI is supported:
1570
1571 - or1k-linux-gnu
1572
1573 The OpenRISC ABI is 32-bit big-endian and uses 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and
1574 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
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1576* A new configure option, --with-rtld-early-cflags, can be used to
1577 specify additional compiler flags for building the early startup code
1578 of the dynamic linker. On targets which have CPU compatibility
1579 checks, this can help to ensure that proper diagnostics are printed if
1580 the dynamic loader runs on an incompatible CPU.
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1582* On Linux, the epoll_pwait2 function has been added. It is similar to
1583 epoll_wait with the difference the timeout has nanoseconds resolution.
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1585* The function posix_spawn_file_actions_addtcsetpgrp_np has been added,
1586 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to set the controlling terminal in
1587 the new process in a race free manner. This function is a GNU extension.
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1589* Source fortification (_FORTIFY_SOURCE) level 3 is now available for
1590 applications compiling with glibc and gcc 12 and later. Level 3 leverages
1591 the __builtin_dynamic_object_size function to deliver additional
1592 fortification balanced against additional runtime cost (checking non-constant
1593 bounds).
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1596 PLT tracking (by not implementing the la_pltenter or la_pltexit callbacks).
1597
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1598Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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1600* On x86-64, the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC environment variable support
1601 has been removed since the first PT_LOAD segment is no longer executable
1602 due to defaulting to -z separate-code.
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1604* The r_version update in the debugger interface makes the glibc binary
1605 incompatible with GDB binaries built without the following commits:
1606
1607 c0154a4a21a gdb: Don't assume r_ldsomap when r_version > 1 on Linux
1608 4eb629d50d4 gdbserver: Check r_version < 1 for Linux debugger interface
1609
1610 when audit modules or dlmopen are used.
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1612* Intel MPX support (lazy PLT, ld.so profile, and LD_AUDIT) has been removed.
1613
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1614* The --enable-static-pie option is no longer available. The glibc build
1615 configuration script now automatically detects static-pie support in the
1616 toolchain and architecture and enables it if available.
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1618* The catchsegv script and associated libSegFault.so shared object have
1619 been removed. There are widely-deployed out-of-process alternatives for
1620 catching coredumps and backtraces.
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1622* Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes
1623 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
1624 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
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1627 functionality to obtain the program mapping address can be achieved by
1628 using LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS to value of 2.
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1630* The LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS has been removed. The variable was mainly used to
1631 support prelink PIE binaries.
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1633Changes to build and runtime requirements:
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1635* The audit module interface version LAV_CURRENT is increased to enable
1636 proper bind-now support. The loader now advertises via the la_symbind
32ffd427 1637 flags that PLT trace is not possible. New audit modules require the
7f0d9e61 1638 new dynamic loader supporting the latest LAV_CURRENT version. Old audit
32ffd427 1639 modules are still loaded for all targets except aarch64.
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1642 result location register (x8) and NEON Q register. Old audit modules are
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1644 structure sizes and the latest module interface version for LAV_CURRENT.
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1646Security related changes:
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1648 CVE-2022-23219: Passing an overlong file name to the clnt_create
1649 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow when
1650 using the "unix" protocol. Reported by Martin Sebor.
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1652 CVE-2022-23218: Passing an overlong file name to the svcunix_create
1653 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow.
1654
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1655 CVE-2021-3998: Passing a path longer than PATH_MAX to the realpath
1656 function could result in a memory leak and potential access of
1657 uninitialized memory. Reported by Qualys.
1658
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1659 CVE-2021-3999: Passing a buffer of size exactly 1 byte to the getcwd
1660 function may result in an off-by-one buffer underflow and overflow
1661 when the current working directory is longer than PATH_MAX and also
1662 corresponds to the / directory through an unprivileged mount
1663 namespace. Reported by Qualys.
1664
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1667 [12889] nptl: Race condition in pthread_kill
1668 [14232] nptl: tst-cancel7 and tst-cancelx7 race condition
1669 [14913] libc: [mips] Clean up MIPS 64-bit register-dump.h output
1670 [15310] dynamic-link: _dl_sort_fini is O(n^3) causing slow exit when
1671 many dsos
1672 [15333] libc: Use 64-bit stat functions in installed programs
1673 [15533] dynamic-link: LD_AUDIT introduces an avoidable performance
1674 degradation
1675 [15971] dynamic-link: No interface for debugger access to libraries
1676 loaded with dlmopen
1677 [17318] locale: [RFE] Provide a C.UTF-8 locale by default
1678 [17645] dynamic-link: RFE: Improve performance of dynamic loader for
1679 deeply nested DSO dependencies.
1680 [19193] nptl: pthread_kill, pthread_cancel return ESRCH for a thread
1681 ID whose lifetime has not ended
1682 [22542] network: buffer overflow in sunrpc clnt_create
1683 (CVE-2022-23219)
1684 [22716] malloc: [PATCH] mtrace.pl: use TRACE_PRELINKING instead of
1685 TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS
1686 [25947] malloc: memory leak in muntrace
1687 [26045] math: fmaxf(inf, nan) does not always work
1688 [26108] math: exp10() has problems with <tgmath.h>
1689 [26779] build: benign use after realloc at localealias.c:329
1690 [27609] dynamic-link: [2.32/2.33/2.34 Regression] In elf/dl-open.c
1691 (_dl_open) we might use __LM_ID_CALLER to index GL(dl_ns)[]
1692 [27945] build: build-many-glibcs.py doesn't configure GCC with
1693 --enable-initfini-array
1694 [27991] build: x86: sysdeps/x86/configure.ac breaks when
1695 libc_cv_include_x86_isa_level is loaded from cache
1696 [28036] nptl: Incorrect types for pthread_mutexattr_set/getrobust_np
1697 in __REDIRECT_NTH macro
1698 [28061] dynamic-link: A failing dlmopen called by an auditor crashed
1699 [28062] dynamic-link: Suppress audit calls when a (new) namespace is
1700 empty
1701 [28126] libc: nftw aborts for paths longer than PATH_MAX
1702 [28129] dynamic-link: Unnecessary check DT_DEBUG in ld.so
1703 [28153] libc: [test] gmon/tst-gmon-gprof* may have a f3 line when
1704 built with ld.lld
1705 [28182] libc: _TIME_BITS=64 in C++ has issues with fcntl, ioctl, prctl
1706 [28185] math: Inaccurate j0f function (again)
1707 [28199] locale: iconvconfig prefix flag behaves differently in glibc
1708 2.34
1709 [28203] dynamic-link: aarch64: elf_machine_{load_address,dynamic}
1710 should drop _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_[0] in favor of __ehdr_start for
1711 robustness
1712 [28213] librt: NULL pointer dereference in mq_notify (CVE-2021-38604)
1713 [28223] libc: mips: clone does not align stack
1714 [28253] dynamic-link: Missing colon in LD_SHOW_AUXV output after
1715 AT_MINSIGSTKSZ
1716 [28256] malloc: Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised
1717 value(s) in __GI___tunables_init
1718 [28260] build: io/tst-closefrom, misc/tst-close_range, posix/tst-
1719 spawn5 fail if stray fds are open
1720 [28310] libc: Do not use affinity mask for sysconf
1721 (_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF)
1722 [28338] time: undefined behavior in __tzfile_compute with oddball TZif
1723 file
1724 [28340] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes while loading a DSO with a read-
1725 only dynamic section
1726 [28349] libc: Segfault for ping -R on qemux86 caused by recvmsg()
1727 [28350] libc: ping receives SIGABRT on lib32-qemux86-64 caused by
1728 recvmsg()
1729 [28353] network: Race condition on __opensock
1730 [28357] dynamic-link: deadlock between pthread_create and ctors
1731 [28358] math: f64xdivf128 and f64xmulf128 spurious underflows
1732 [28361] nptl: Fix for bug 12889 causes setxid deadlock
1733 [28368] build: -Waddress instances in stdio-common/vfprintf-internal.c
1734 [28390] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 14.0.0
1735 [28397] math: tgmath.h should not define fmaxmag, fminmag macros for
1736 C2X
1737 [28400] libc: [2.35 Regression] string/test-strncasecmp: cannot set
1738 locale "en_US.UTF-8"
1739 [28407] nptl: pthread_kill assumes that kill (getpid ()) is equivalent
1740 to tgkill (getpid (), gettid())
1741 [28455] dynamic-link: -Wl,--enable-new-dtags doesn't work
1742 [28457] dynamic-link: Missing reldepmod4.so dependency for
1743 globalmod1.so
1744 [28469] time: linux: struct timex is not correctly set for 32-bit
1745 systems with TIMESIZE=64
1746 [28470] regex: Buffer read overrun in regular expression searching
1747 [28475] string: Incorrect access attribute on memfrob
1748 [28524] libc: Conversion from ISO-2022-JP-3 with iconv may emit
1749 spurious NUL character on state reset
1750 [28532] libc: powerpc64[le]: CFI for assembly templated syscalls is
1751 incorrect
1752 [28550] dynamic-link: FAIL: tst-dso-
1753 ordering9_112-ecbda(GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort=1)
1754 execution test
1755 [28554] build: Undefined generate-md5
1756 [28572] libc: Misaligned accesses in test-memcpy and test-mempcpy on
1757 hppa
1758 [28607] nptl: Masked signals are delivered on thread exit
1759 [28624] libc: openjdk 8/9 assume uni processor and gets stuck due to
1760 lack of cpu counting /proc fallback with glibc 2.34
1761 [28646] string: [2.35 Regression] mock -r fedora-36-x86_64
1762 /tmp/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.312.b07-2.fc36.src.rpm& fails to build
1763 [28648] dynamic-link: Running ld.so on statically linked binaries
1764 crashes
1765 [28656] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC no longer works due to
1766 binutils changes
1767 [28676] dynamic-link: p_align on PT_LOAD segment in DSO isn't honored
1768 [28678] nptl: nptl/tst-create1 hangs sporadically
1769 [28688] dynamic-link: PT_LOAD p_align check is too strict
1770 [28700] nss: "dns [!UNAVAIL=return] files" default for hosts database
1771 is not useful
1772 [28707] time: assert in tzfile.c __tzfile_read striking with truncated
1773 timezones generated by tzcode-2021d and later
1774 [28713] math: GCC 12 miscompiles libm
1775 [28732] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-dl_find_object
1776 [28738] build: LIBC_LINKER_FEATURE doesn't work on linker -z option
1777 [28745] dynamic-link: _dl_find_object miscompilation on powerpc64le
1778 [28746] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE does not work for stpcpy
1779 [28749] libc: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: rtld.c: 1632: dl_main:
1780 Assertion `GL(dl_rtld_map).l_libname' failed!
1781 [28755] string: overflow bug in wcsncmp_avx2 and wcsncmp_evex
1782 [28757] nptl: GDB printer tests failed with new GDB
1783 [28765] math: x86_64 libmvec atan2 accuracy
1784 [28766] manual: Document libmvec accuracy
1785 [28768] network: Buffer overflow in svcunix_create with long pathnames
1786 (CVE-2022-23218)
1787 [28769] libc: Off-by-one buffer overflow/underflow in getcwd()
1788 (CVE-2021-3999)
1789 [28770] libc: Unexpected return value from realpath() for too long
1790 results (CVE-2021-3998)
1791 [28771] libc: %ebx optimization macros are incompatible with .altmacro
1792 in Systemtap probes
1793 [28780] build: --disable-default-pie doesn't work on static programs
1794 [28782] libc: x86-64 ISA level for glibc itself is always
1795 x86-64-baseline
1796 [28792] glob: possible wrong behaviour with patterns with double [
1797 with no closing ]
1798 [28837] libc: FAIL: socket/tst-socket-timestamp-compat
1799 [28847] locale: Empty mon_decimal_point in LC_MONETARY results in non-
1800 empty mon_decimal_point_wc
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1805Major new features:
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1808 the implementation of the runtime all functionality formerly
1809 implemented in the libraries libpthread, libdl, libutil, libanl has
1810 been integrated into libc. New applications do not need to link with
1811 -lpthread, -ldl, -lutil, -lanl anymore. For backwards compatibility,
1812 empty static archives libpthread.a, libdl.a, libutil.a, libanl.a are
1813 provided, so that the linker options keep working. Applications which
1814 have been linked against glibc 2.33 or earlier continue to load the
1815 corresponding shared objects (which are now empty). The integration
1816 of those libraries into libc means that additional symbols become
1817 available by default. This can cause applications that contain weak
1818 references to take unexpected code paths that would only have been
1819 used in previous glibc versions when e.g. preloading libpthread.so.0,
1820 potentially exposing application bugs.
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1823 PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is no longer constant and is redefined to
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1825 sets for modern architectural features like Arm SVE.
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1827* Add _SC_MINSIGSTKSZ and _SC_SIGSTKSZ. When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE
1828 or _GNU_SOURCE are defined, MINSIGSTKSZ and SIGSTKSZ are no longer
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1831 dynamic sized register sets for modern architectural features like
1832 Arm SVE.
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1835 a dump of information related to IFUNC resolver operation and
1836 glibc-hwcaps subdirectory selection.
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1839 execve and it is is already used to implement fexecve without requiring
1840 /proc to be mounted. However, different than fexecve, if the syscall is not
1841 supported by the kernel an error is returned instead of trying a fallback.
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1846 C2X, is supported to enable declarations of functions defined in Annex F
1847 of C2X. Those declarations are also enabled when
1848 __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, as specified in TS 18661-1, is
1849 defined, and when _GNU_SOURCE is defined.
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1852 --disable-scv configure option.
1853
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1855 is traditionally 32-bit. Although time_t still defaults to 32-bit on
1856 these configurations, this default may change in future versions.
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1858 only supported when LFS (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) is also enabled. It is
1859 only enabled for Linux and the full support requires a minimum kernel
1860 version of 5.1.
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1863 essential converter modules and the rest have been moved into a supplementary
1864 configuration file gconv-modules-extra.conf in the gconv-modules.d directory
1865 in the same GCONV_PATH. Similarly, external converter modules directories
1866 may have supplementary configuration files in a gconv-modules.d directory
1867 with names ending with .conf to logically classify the converter modules in
1868 that directory.
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1871 to configure the size of the thread stack cache.
1872
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1876 function does not run any atfork function neither resets any internal state
1877 or lock (such as the malloc one), and only sets up a minimal state required
1878 to call async-signal-safe functions (such as raise or execve). This function
1879 is currently a GNU extension.
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1882 closing a range of file descriptors on recent kernels (version 5.9).
1883
60744950 1884* The function closefrom has been added. It closes all file descriptors
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1886 although it is also present in other systems.
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1889 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to close all file descriptors greater
1890 than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
1891 although Solaris also provides a similar function.
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1894 execute programs that do not have any dynamic dependency (that is,
1895 they are statically linked). This feature is Linux-specific.
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1899* The function pthread_mutex_consistent_np has been deprecated; programs
1900 should use the equivalent standard function pthread_mutex_consistent
1901 instead.
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1903* The function pthread_mutexattr_getrobust_np has been deprecated;
1904 programs should use the equivalent standard function
1905 pthread_mutexattr_getrobust instead.
1906
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1907* The function pthread_mutexattr_setrobust_np has been deprecated;
1908 programs should use the equivalent standard function
1909 pthread_mutexattr_setrobust instead.
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1912 the equivalent standard function sched_yield instead.
1913
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1914* The function inet_neta declared in <arpa/inet.h> has been deprecated.
1915
1916* Various rarely-used functions declared in <resolv.h> and
1917 <arpa/nameser.h> have been deprecated. Applications are encouraged to
1918 use dedicated DNS processing libraries if applicable. For <resolv.h>,
1919 this affects the functions dn_count_labels, fp_nquery, fp_query,
1920 fp_resstat, hostalias, loc_aton, loc_ntoa, p_cdname, p_cdnname,
1921 p_class, p_fqname, p_fqnname, p_option, p_query, p_rcode, p_time,
1922 p_type, putlong, putshort, res_hostalias, res_isourserver,
1923 res_nameinquery, res_queriesmatch, res_randomid, sym_ntop, sym_ntos,
1924 sym_ston. For <arpa/nameser.h>, the functions ns_datetosecs,
1925 ns_format_ttl, ns_makecanon, ns_parse_ttl, ns_samedomain, ns_samename,
1926 ns_sprintrr, ns_sprintrrf, ns_subdomain have been deprecated.
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1929 in order to prepare for libresolv moving entirely into libc (see earlier
1930 entry for merging libraries into libc). The symbols __dn_comp,
1931 __dn_expand, __dn_skipname, __res_dnok, __res_hnok, __res_mailok,
1932 __res_mkquery, __res_nmkquery, __res_nquery, __res_nquerydomain,
1933 __res_nsearch, __res_nsend, __res_ownok, __res_query, __res_querydomain,
1934 __res_search, __res_send formerly in libresolv have been renamed and no
1935 longer have a __ prefix. They are now available in libc.
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1938 pthread_cancel will always send the internal SIGCANCEL on a cancellation
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1941 is enabled) or ignore the cancellation internal signal. However there are
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1943 see a spurious EINTR error when cancellation interrupts a blocking syscall.
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1946 file names such as libc-2.33.so. The ABI sonames (e.g., libc.so.6)
1947 were provided as symbolic links. Starting with glibc 2.34, the shared
1948 objects are installed under their ABI sonames directly, without
1949 symbolic links. This increases compatibility with distribution
1950 package managers that delete removed files late during the package
1951 upgrade or downgrade process.
1952
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1954 mtrace. Similar functionality can be achieved by using conditional
1955 breakpoints within mtrace functions from within gdb.
1956
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1957* The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
1958 implementation __default_morecore have been removed from the API. Existing
1959 applications will continue to link against these symbols but the interfaces
1960 no longer have any effect on malloc.
1961
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1963 (or the glibc.malloc.check tunable), mtrace() and mcheck() have now been
1964 disabled by default in the main C library. Users looking to use these
1965 features now need to preload a new debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so to get
1966 this functionality back.
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1969 moved from the core C library into libc_malloc_debug.so. Legacy applications
1970 that still use these functions will now need to preload libc_malloc_debug.so
1971 in their environment using the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
1972
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1974 __memalign_hook and __free_hook are now removed from the API. Compatibility
1975 symbols are present to support legacy programs but new applications can no
1976 longer link to these symbols. These hooks no longer have any effect on glibc
1977 functionality. The malloc debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so currently
1978 supports hooks and can be preloaded to get this functionality back for older
1979 programs. However this is a transitional measure and may be removed in a
1980 future release of the GNU C Library. Users may port away from these hooks by
1981 writing and preloading their own malloc interposition library.
1982
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1986 file shared memory file system to be mounted at /dev/shm. These functions
1987 no longer search among the system's mount points for a suitable
1988 replacement if /dev/shm is not available.
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1990Security related changes:
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1993 a request for netgroup lookup, may crash due to a double-free,
1994 potentially resulting in degraded service or Denial of Service on the
1995 local system. Reported by Chris Schanzle.
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1998 issue when using a notification type of SIGEV_THREAD and a thread
1999 attribute with a non-default affinity mask.
2000
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2002 parameter number when processing the expansion resulting in a crash.
2003 Reported by Philippe Antoine.
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2007 [4737] libc: fork is not async-signal-safe
2008 [5781] math: Slow dbl-64 sin/cos/sincos for special values
2009 [10353] libc: Methods for deleting all file descriptors greater than
2010 given integer (closefrom)
2011 [14185] glob: fnmatch() fails when '*' wildcard is applied on the file
2012 name containing multi-byte character(s)
2013 [14469] math: Inaccurate j0f function
2014 [14470] math: Inaccurate j1f function
2015 [14471] math: Inaccurate y0f function
2016 [14472] math: Inaccurate y1f function
2017 [14744] nptl: kill -32 $pid or kill -33 $pid on a process cancels a
2018 random thread
2019 [15271] dynamic-link: dlmopen()ed shared library with LM_ID_NEWLM
2020 crashes if it fails dlsym() twice
2021 [15648] nptl: multiple definition of `__lll_lock_wait_private'
2022 [16063] nptl: Provide a pthread_once variant in libc directly
2023 [17144] libc: syslog is not thread-safe if NO_SIGPIPE is not defined
2024 [17145] libc: syslog with LOG_CONS leaks console file descriptor
2025 [17183] manual: description of ENTRY struct in <search.h> in glibc
2026 manual is incorrect
2027 [18435] nptl: pthread_once hangs when init routine throws an exception
2028 [18524] nptl: Missing calloc error checking in
2029 __cxa_thread_atexit_impl
2030 [19329] dynamic-link: dl-tls.c assert failure at concurrent
2031 pthread_create and dlopen
2032 [19366] nptl: returning from a thread should disable cancellation
2033 [19511] nptl: 8MB memory leak in pthread_create in case of failure
2034 when non-root user changes priority
2035 [20802] dynamic-link: getauxval NULL pointer dereference after static
2036 dlopen
2037 [20813] nptl: pthread_exit is inconsistent between libc and libpthread
2038 [22057] malloc: malloc_usable_size is broken with mcheck
2039 [22668] locale: LC_COLLATE: the last character of ellipsis is not
2040 ordered correctly
2041 [23323] libc: [RFE] CSU startup hardening.
2042 [23328] malloc: Remove malloc hooks and ensure related APIs return no
2043 data.
2044 [23462] dynamic-link: Static binary with dynamic string tokens ($LIB,
2045 $PLATFORM, $ORIGIN) crashes
2046 [23489] libc: "gcc -lmcheck" aborts on free when using posix_memalign
2047 [23554] nptl: pthread_getattr_np reports wrong stack size with
2048 MULTI_PAGE_ALIASING
2049 [24106] libc: Bash interpreter in ldd script is taken from host
2050 [24773] dynamic-link: dlerror in an secondary namespace does not use
2051 the right free implementation
2052 [25036] localedata: Update collation order for Swedish
2053 [25383] libc: where_is_shmfs/__shm_directory/SHM_GET_NAME may cause
2054 shm_open to pick wrong directory
2055 [25680] dynamic-link: ifuncmain9picstatic and ifuncmain9picstatic
2056 crash in IFUNC resolver due to stack canary (--enable-stack-
2057 protector=all)
2058 [26874] build: -Warray-bounds in _IO_wdefault_doallocate
2059 [26983] math: [x86_64] x86_64 tgamma has too large ULP error
2060 [27111] dynamic-link: pthread_create and tls access use link_map
2061 objects that may be concurrently freed by dlclose
2062 [27132] malloc: memusagestat is linked to system librt, leading to
2063 undefined symbols on major version upgrade
2064 [27136] dynamic-link: dtv setup at thread creation may leave an entry
2065 uninitialized
2066 [27249] libc: libSegFault.so does not output signal number properly
2067 [27304] nptl: pthread_cond_destroy does not pass private flag to futex
2068 system calls
2069 [27318] dynamic-link: glibc fails to load binaries when built with
2070 -march=sandybridge: CPU ISA level is lower than required
2071 [27343] nss: initgroups() SIGSEGVs when called on a system without
2072 nsswich.conf (in a chroot)
2073 [27346] dynamic-link: x86: PTWRITE feature check is missing
2074 [27389] network: NSS chroot hardening causes regressions in chroot
2075 deployments
2076 [27403] dynamic-link: aarch64: tlsdesc htab is not freed on dlclose
2077 [27444] libc: sysconf reports unsupported option (-1) for
2078 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_LINESIZE on X86 since v2.33
2079 [27462] nscd: double-free in nscd (CVE-2021-27645)
2080 [27468] malloc: aarch64: realloc crash with heap tagging: FAIL:
2081 malloc/tst-malloc-thread-fail
2082 [27498] dynamic-link: __dl_iterate_phdr lacks unwinding information
2083 [27511] libc: S390 memmove assumes Vector Facility when MIE Facility 3
2084 is present
2085 [27522] glob: glob, glob64 incorrectly marked as __THROW
2086 [27555] dynamic-link: Static tests fail with --enable-stack-
2087 protector=all
2088 [27559] libc: fstat(AT_FDCWD) succeeds (it shouldn't) and returns
2089 information for the current directory
2090 [27577] dynamic-link: elf/ld.so --help doesn't work
2091 [27605] libc: tunables can't control xsave/xsavec selection in
2092 dl_runtime_resolve_*
2093 [27623] libc: powerpc: Missing registers in sc[v] clobbers list
2094 [27645] libc: [linux] sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSOR...) breaks down on
2095 containers
2096 [27646] dynamic-link: Linker error for non-existing NSS symbols (e.g.
2097 _nss_files_getcanonname_r) from within a dlmopen namespace.
2098 [27648] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-select
2099 [27650] stdio: vfscanf returns too early if a match is longer than
2100 INT_MAX
2101 [27651] libc: Performance regression after updating to 2.33
2102 [27655] string: Wrong size calculation in string/test-strnlen.c
2103 [27706] libc: select fails to update timeout on error
2104 [27709] libc: arm: FAIL: debug/tst-longjmp_chk2
2105 [27721] dynamic-link: x86: ld_audit ignores bind now for TLSDESC and
2106 tries resolving them lazily
2107 [27744] nptl: Support different libpthread/ld.so load orders in
2108 libthread_db
2109 [27749] libc: Data race __run_exit_handlers
2110 [27761] libc: getconf: Segmentation fault when passing '-vq' as
2111 argument
2112 [27832] nss: makedb.c:797:7: error: 'writev' specified size 4294967295
2113 exceeds maximum object size 2147483647
2114 [27870] malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ causes realloc(valid_ptr, TOO_LARGE) to
2115 not set ENOMEM
2116 [27872] build: Obsolete configure option --enable-stackguard-
2117 randomization
2118 [27873] build: tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo fail when building on AMD cpu
2119 [27882] localedata: Use U+00AF MACRON in more EBCDIC charsets
2120 [27892] libc: powerpc: scv ABI error handling fails to check
2121 IS_ERR_VALUE
2122 [27896] nptl: mq_notify does not handle separately allocated thread
2123 attributes (CVE-2021-33574)
2124 [27901] libc: TEST_STACK_ALIGN doesn't work
2125 [27902] libc: The x86-64 clone wrapper fails to align child stack
2126 [27914] nptl: Install SIGSETXID handler with SA_ONSTACK
2127 [27939] libc: aarch64: clone does not align the stack
2128 [27968] libc: s390x: clone does not align the stack
2129 [28011] libc: Wild read in wordexp (parse_param) (CVE-2021-35942)
2130 [28024] string: s390(31bit): Wrong result of memchr (MEMCHR_Z900_G5)
2131 with n >= 0x80000000
2132 [28028] malloc: malloc: tcache shutdown sequence does not work if the
2133 thread never allocated anything
2134 [28033] libc: Need to check RTM_ALWAYS_ABORT for RTM
2135 [28064] string: x86_64:wcslen implementation list has wcsnlen
2136 [28067] libc: FAIL: posix/tst-spawn5
2137 [28068] malloc: FAIL: malloc/tst-mallocalign1-mcheck
2138 [28071] time: clock_gettime, gettimeofday, time lost vDSO acceleration
2139 on older kernels
2140 [28075] nis: Out-of-bounds static buffer read in nis_local_domain
2141 [28089] build: tst-tls20 fails when linker defaults to --as-needed
2142 [28090] build: elf/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo-static fails on certain
2143 AMD64 cpus
2144 [28091] network: ns_name_skip may return 0 for domain names without
2145 terminator
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2148Version 2.33
2149
2150Major new features:
2151
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2152* The dynamic linker accepts the --list-tunables argument which prints
2153 all the supported tunables. This option is disable if glibc is
2154 configured with tunables disabled (--enable-tunables=no).
2155
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2156* The dynamic linker accepts the --argv0 argument and provides opportunity
2157 to change argv[0] string.
2158
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2159* The dynamic linker loads optimized implementations of shared objects
2160 from subdirectories under the glibc-hwcaps directory on the library
2161 search path if the system's capabilities meet the requirements for
2162 that subdirectory. Initially supported subdirectories include
2163 "power9" and "power10" for the powerpc64le-linux-gnu architecture,
2164 "z13", "z14", "z15" for s390x-linux-gnu, and "x86-64-v2", "x86-64-v3",
2165 "x86-64-v4" for x86_64-linux-gnu. In the x86_64-linux-gnu case, the
2166 subdirectory names correspond to the vendor-independent x86-64
2167 microarchitecture levels defined in the x86-64 psABI supplement.
2168
2169* The new --help option of the dynamic linker provides usage and
2170 information and library search path diagnostics.
2171
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2173 but with larger field widths to accurately report values that are
2174 larger than fit in an integer.
2175
96203980 2176* Add <sys/platform/x86.h> to provide query macros for x86 CPU features.
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2178* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been expanded to run on
2179 32-bit hardware. This is supported for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
2180
2181 - rv32imac ilp32
2182 - rv32imafdc ilp32
2183 - rv32imafdc ilp32d
2184
2185 The 32-bit RISC-V port requires at least Linux 5.4, GCC 7.1 and binutils
2186 2.28.
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2189 glibc may use additional checks that may have an additional performance
2190 overhead. At present these checks are available only on LLVM 9 and later.
2191 The latest GCC available at this time (10.2) does not support this level of
2192 fortification.
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2194Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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2197 mallinfo2 instead.
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2199* When dlopen is used in statically linked programs, alternative library
2200 implementations from HWCAP subdirectories are no longer loaded.
2201 Instead, the default implementation is used.
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2204 removed. To support old binaries, the vtimes function continues to exist
2205 as a compatibility symbol. Applications should use the getrlimit or
2206 prlimit.
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2209 program is now installed in the /usr/bin subdirectory. Previously,
2210 the /usr/sbin subdirectory was used.
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2213 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ that is defined by the compiler, instead of being
2214 hardcoded to double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
2215 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
2216 libraries that use this type in their interfaces. The new definition
2217 improves consistency with compiler behavior in many scenarios.
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2220 "tls" subdirectories on the library search path, the subdirectory that
2221 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, and also stop employing
2222 the legacy AT_HWCAP search mechanism. Applications should switch to
2223 the new glibc-hwcaps mechanism instead; if they do not do that, only
2224 the baseline version (directly from the search path directory) will be
2225 loaded.
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2230 the intended access modes for pseudo-terminals. glibc no longer
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2233 corresponded to what most systems used, so that grantpt did not
2234 perform any adjustments.
2235
2236* On Linux, the posix_openpt and getpt functions no longer attempt to
2237 use legacy (BSD) pseudo-terminals and assume that if /dev/ptmx exists
2238 (and pseudo-terminals are supported), a devpts file system is mounted
2239 on /dev/pts. Current systems already meet these requirements.
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2244
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2248 converted output contains a combined sequence of two wide characters
2249 crossing a buffer boundary. Reported by Tavis Ormandy.
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2252 invoked with input containing redundant shift sequences in the IBM1364,
2253 IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, or IBM1399 character sets.
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2256 when invoked with UCS4 input containing an invalid character.
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2259 invoked with EUC-KR input containing invalid multibyte input sequences.
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2264 [16124] dynamic-link: ld.so should allow to change argv[0]
2265 [17924] malloc: 'free' should not set errno
2266 [18683] libc: Linux faccessat implementation can incorrectly ignore
2267 AT_EACCESS
2268 [22899] libc: Use 64-bit readdir() in generic POSIX getcwd()
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2271 "haswell" platform subdirectory
2272 [24080] dynamic-link: Definition of "haswell" platform is inconsistent
2273 with GCC
2274 [24202] libc: m68k setjmp() saves incorrect 'a5' register in --enable-
2275 stack-protector=all
2276 [24941] libc: Make grantpt usable after multi-threaded fork in more
2277 cases
2278 [24970] libc: realpath mishandles EOVERFLOW; stat not needed anyway
2279 [24973] locale: iconv encounters segmentation fault when converting
2280 0x00 0xfe in EUC-KR to UTF-8 (CVE-2019-25013)
2281 [25399] string: undefined reference to `__warn_memset_zero_len' when
2282 changing gnuc version
2283 [25859] libc: glibc parser for /sys/devices/system/cpu/online is
2284 incorrect
2285 [25938] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should store meaning of hwcap mask
2286 bits
2287 [25971] libc: s390 bits/hwcap.h out of sync with kernel
2288 [26053] libc: unlockpt fails with ENOTTY for non-ptmx descriptors
2289 [26100] libc: Race in syslog(3) with regards to tag printing.
2290 [26124] libc: Export <cpu-features.h>
2291 [26130] nscd: Inconsistent nscd cache during pruning
7f0d9e61 2292 [26203] libc: GLRO(dl_x86_cpu_features) may not be initialized
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2294 several IBM character sets (CVE-2020-27618)
2295 [26341] libc: realpath cyclically call __alloca(path_max) to consume
2296 too much stack space
2297 [26343] manual: invalid documented return type for strerrorname_np(),
2298 strerrordesc_np(), sigdescr_np(), sigabbrev_np()
2299 [26376] libc: Namespace violation in stdio.h and sys/stat.h if build
2300 with optimization.
2301 [26383] locale: bind_textdomain_codeset doesn't accept //TRANSLIT
2302 anymore
2303 [26394] time: [2.33 Regression] FAIL: nptl/tst-join14
2304 [26534] math: libm.so 2.32 SIGILL in pow() due to FMA4 instruction on
2305 non-FMA4 system
2306 [26552] dynamic-link: CPU_FEATURE_USABLE_P should be more conservative
2307 [26553] libc: mtx_init allows type set to "mtx_recursive" only
2308 [26555] string: strerrorname_np does not return the documented value
2309 [26592] libc: pointer arithmetic overflows in realpath
2310 [26600] network: Transaction ID collisions cause slow DNS lookups in
2311 getaddrinfo
2312 [26606] libc: [2.33 Regression] pselect is broken on x32
2313 [26615] libc: powerpc: libc segfaults when LD_PRELOADed with libgcc
2314 [26620] glob: fnmatch with collating symbols results in segmentation
2315 fault
2316 [26625] libc: [2.33 Regression] CET is disabled
2317 [26636] libc: 32-bit shmctl(IPC_INFO) crashes when shminfo struct is
2318 at the end of a memory mapping
2319 [26637] libc: semctl SEM_STAT_ANY fails to pass the buffer specified
2320 by the caller to the kernel
2321 [26639] libc: msgctl IPC_INFO and MSG_INFO return garbage
2322 [26647] build: [-Werror=array-parameter=] due to different
2323 declarations for __sigsetjmp
2324 [26648] libc: mkstemp is likely to fail on systems with non-stricly-
2325 monotonic clocks
2326 [26649] stdio: printf should handle non-normal x86 long double numbers
2327 gracefully (CVE-2020-29573)
2328 [26686] build: -Warray-parameter instances building with GCC 11
2329 [26687] build: -Warray-bounds instances building with GCC 11
2330 [26690] stdio: Aliasing violation in __vfscanf_internal
2331 [26691] nptl: Use a minimum guard size of 64 KiB on aarch64
2332 [26726] build: GCC warning calling new_composite_name with an array of
2333 one element
2334 [26736] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-sysvshm-linux
2335 [26737] libc: Random FAIL: rt/tst-shm
2336 [26791] libc: Missing O_CLOEXEC in sysconf.c
2337 [26798] dynamic-link: aarch64: variant PCS symbols may be incorrectly
2338 lazy bound
2339 [26801] nptl: pthread_mutex_clocklock with CLOCK_MONOTONIC can fail on
2340 PI mutexes
2341 [26818] string: aarch64: string tests may run ifunc variants that are
2342 not safe
2343 [26821] libc: Memory leak test failures on Fedora 33
2344 [26824] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-cpu-features-supports with recent trunk:
2345 FSGSBASE/LM/RDRAND check failure
2346 [26833] time: adjtime() with delta == NULL segfaults on armv7 32bit
2347 platform
2348 [26853] libc: aarch64: Missing unwind information in statically linked
2349 startup code
2350 [26923] locale: Assertion failure in iconv when converting invalid
2351 UCS4 (CVE-2020-29562)
2352 [26926] dynamic-link: aarch64: library dependencies are not bti
2353 protected
2354 [26932] libc: sh: Multiple floating point functions defined as stubs
2355 only since 2.31
2356 [26964] nptl: pthread_mutex_timedlock returning EAGAIN after futex is
2357 locked
2358 [26988] dynamic-link: aarch64: BTI mprotect address is not page
2359 aligned
2360 [27002] build: libc_freeres_fn build failure with GCC 11
2361 [27004] dynamic-link: ld.so is miscompiled by GCC 11
2362 [27008] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should have endianness markup
2363 [27042] libc: [alpha] anonymous union in struct stat confuses
2364 detection logic
2365 [27053] libc: Conformance regression in system(3) (and probably also
2366 pclose(3))
2367 [27072] dynamic-link: static pie ifunc resolvers run before hwcap is
2368 setup
2369 [27077] network: Do not reload /etc/nsswitch.conf from chroot
2370 [27083] libc: Unsafe unbounded alloca in addmntent
2371 [27104] dynamic-link: The COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_MAX handshake does not
2372 work
2373 [27130] string: "rep movsb" performance issue
2374 [27150] libc: alpha: wait4() is unavailable in static linking
2375 [27177] dynamic-link:
2376 GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.cpu.x86_ibt=on:glibc.cpu.x86_shstk=on doesn't
2377 work
2378 [27222] dynamic-link: Incorrect sysdeps/x86/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo.c
2379 [27237] malloc: deadlock in malloc/tst-malloc-stats-cancellation
2380 [27256] locale: Assertion failure in ISO-2022-JP-3 gconv module
2381 related to combining characters (CVE-2021-3326)
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2384Version 2.32
2385
2386Major new features:
2387
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2388* Unicode 13.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2389 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 13.0.0, using
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2390 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2391
2392* New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq)
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2394* Support for Synopsys ARC HS cores (ARCv2 ISA) running Linux has been
2395 added. This port requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-8.3 and Linux-5.1.
2396 Three ABIs are supported:
2397
2398 - arc-linux-gnu
2399 - arc-linux-gnuhf
2400 - arceb-linux-gnu
2401
4d3a77c7 2402 The arc* ABIs are little-endian while arceb is big-endian. All ABIs use
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2403 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
2404
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2405* The GNU C Library now loads audit modules listed in the DT_AUDIT and
2406 DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
2407
051be01f 2408* powerpc64le supports IEEE128 long double libm/libc redirects when
4d3a77c7 2409 using -mabi=ieeelongdouble to compile C code on supported GCC
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2410 toolchains. It is recommended to use GCC 8 or newer when testing
2411 this option.
2412
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2413* To help detect buffer overflows and other out-of-bounds accesses
2414 several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This
2415 should help GCC 10 issue better warnings.
2416
4d3a77c7 2417* On Linux, functions pthread_attr_setsigmask_np and
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2418 pthread_attr_getsigmask_np have been added. They allow applications
2419 to specify the signal mask of a thread created with pthread_create.
2420
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2421* The GNU C Library now provides the header file <sys/single_threaded.h>
2422 which declares the variable __libc_single_threaded. Applications are
2423 encouraged to use this variable for single-thread optimizations,
2424 instead of weak references to symbols historically defined in
2425 libpthread.
2426
bfe05aa2 2427* The functions sigabbrev_np and sigdescr_np have been added. The
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2428 sigabbrev_np function returns the abbreviated signal name (e.g. "HUP" for
2429 SIGHUP) while sigdescr_np returns a string describing the signal number
2430 (e.g "Hangup" for SIGHUP). Different than strsignal, sigdescr_np does not
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2431 attempt to translate the return description, both functions return
2432 NULL for an invalid signal number.
2433
2434 They should be used instead of sys_siglist or sys_sigabbrev and they
2435 are both thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
2436
325081b9 2437* The functions strerrorname_np and strerrordesc_np have been added. The
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2438 strerroname_np function returns error number name (e.g. "EINVAL" for EINVAL)
2439 while strerrordesc_np returns a string describing the error number
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AZ
2440 (e.g "Invalid argument" for EINVAL). Different than strerror,
2441 strerrordesc_np does not attempt to translate the return description, both
2442 functions return NULL for an invalid error number.
2443
2444 They should be used instead of sys_errlist and sys_nerr, both are
2445 thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
2446
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2447* AArch64 now supports standard branch protection security hardening
2448 in glibc when it is built with a GCC that is configured with
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2449 --enable-standard-branch-protection (or if -mbranch-protection=standard
2450 flag is passed when building both GCC target libraries and glibc,
2451 in either case a custom GCC is needed). This includes branch target
a2a83bf6
SN
2452 identification (BTI) and pointer authentication for return addresses
2453 (PAC-RET). They require armv8.5-a and armv8.3-a architecture
2454 extensions respectively for the protection to be effective,
2455 otherwise the used instructions are nops. User code can use PAC-RET
2456 without libc support, but BTI requires a libc that is built with BTI
2457 support, otherwise runtime objects linked into user code will not be
2458 BTI compatible.
2459
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2460Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2461
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2462* Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc. Sun RPC is removed
2463 from glibc. This includes the rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and the Sun
2464 RPC header files. Backward compatibility for old programs is kept
2465 only for architectures and ABIs that have been added in or before
2466 glibc 2.31. New programs need to use TI-RPC
2467 <http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=summary> and
2468 rpcsvc-proto <https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto>.
2469
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2470* Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-nsl. libnsl is only built
2471 as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules "nis"
2472 and "nisplus" are not built at all and libnsl's headers aren't
2473 installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs
2474 that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement
2475 implementations based on TI-RPC, which additionally support IPv6, are
2476 available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not
4d3a77c7 2477 affect the "compat" NSS module, which does not depend on libnsl
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2478 since 2.27 and thus can be used without NIS.
2479
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2480* The deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
2481 removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
2482 exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
2483 but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system
2484 call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5.
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2486* The sstk function is no longer available to newly linked binaries.
2487 Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function
2488 was not declared in any header file.
2489
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2490* The legacy signal handling functions siginterrupt, sigpause, sighold,
2491 sigrelse, sigignore and sigset, and the sigmask macro have been
2492 deprecated. Applications should use the sigsuspend, sigprocmask and
2493 sigaction functions instead.
2494
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2495* ldconfig now defaults to the new format for ld.so.cache. glibc has
2496 already supported this format for almost 20 years.
2497
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2498* The deprecated arrays sys_siglist, _sys_siglist, and sys_sigabbrev
2499 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
2500 have been removed from <string.h>. They are exported solely as
2501 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
2502 strsignal instead.
2503
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2504* The deprecated symbols sys_errlist, _sys_errlist, sys_nerr, and _sys_nerr
2505 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
4d3a77c7 2506 have been removed from <stdio.h>. They are exported solely as
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2507 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
2508 strerror or strerror_r instead.
2509
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AZ
2510* Both strerror and strerror_l now share the same internal buffer in the
2511 calling thread, meaning that the returned string pointer may be invalided
2512 or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same thread or
2513 if the thread is terminated. It makes strerror MT-safe.
2514
89c25529
FW
2515* Using weak references to libpthread functions such as pthread_create
2516 or pthread_key_create to detect the singled-threaded nature of a
2517 program is an obsolescent feature. Future versions of glibc will
2518 define pthread_create within libc.so.6 itself, so such checks will
2519 always flag the program as multi-threaded. Applications should check
2520 the __libc_single_threaded variable declared in
2521 <sys/single_threaded.h> instead.
2522
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2523* The "files" NSS module no longer supports the "key" database (used for
2524 secure RPC). The contents of the /etc/publickey file will be ignored,
2525 regardless of the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of
2526 storing RPC keys only supported the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES
2527 flavor of secure RPC.)
94d9c76e 2528
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FW
2529* The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
2530 implementation __default_morecore have been deprecated. Applications
2531 should use malloc interposition to change malloc behavior, and mmap to
2532 allocate anonymous memory. A future version of glibc may require that
2533 applications which use the malloc hooks must preload a special shared
2534 object, to enable the hooks.
2535
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2536* The hesiod NSS module has been deprecated and will be removed in a
2537 future version of glibc. System administrators are encouraged to
2538 switch to other approaches for networked account databases, such as
2539 LDAP.
2540
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2541Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2542
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2543* powerpc64le requires GCC 7.4 or newer. This is required for supporting
2544 long double redirects.
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2545
2546Security related changes:
2547
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2548 CVE-2016-10228: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
2549 invoked with the -c option and when processing invalid multi-byte input
2550 sequences. Reported by Jan Engelhardt.
2551
15ab1952
AJ
2552 CVE-2020-10029: Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack
2553 corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido
2554 Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
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2556 CVE-2020-1752: A use-after-free vulnerability in the glob function when
2557 expanding ~user has been fixed.
2558
17400c4b
AJ
2559 CVE-2020-6096: A signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy and
2560 memmove functions has been fixed. Discovered by Jason Royes and Samual
2561 Dytrych of the Cisco Security Assessment and Penetration Team (See
2562 TALOS-2020-1019).
2563
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2564The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2565
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2566 [9809] localedata: ckb_IQ: new Kurdish Sorani locale
2567 [10441] manual: Backtraces code example lacks error checking
2568 [10815] librt: [timer_create / SIGEV_THREAD] signalmask of
2569 timer_sigev_thread dangerous
2570 [14231] stdio: stdio-common tests memory requirements
2571 [14578] libc: /proc-based emulation for lchmod, fchmodat
2572 [16272] dynamic-link: dlopen()ing a DT_FILTER library crashes if
2573 filtee has constructor
2574 [19519] locale: iconv(1) with -c option hangs on illegal multi-byte
2575 sequences (CVE-2016-10228)
2576 [19737] admin: Doc page “20.5.2 Infinity and NaN” has incorrect HTML
2577 character entities for infinity & pi
2578 [20338] libc: Parsing of /etc/gshadow can return bad pointers causing
2579 segfaults in applications
2580 [20543] libc: Please move from .gnu.linkonce to comdat
7f0d9e61 2581 [22489] network: gcc warns about implicit conversion in
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2582 ICMP6_FILTER_SETPASS with -Wsign-conversion
2583 [22525] localedata: or_IN LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2584 [23294] math: Complex _FloatN functions are redirected to the wrong
2585 function with -mlong-double-64
2586 [23296] libc: Data race in setting function descriptor during lazy
2587 binding
2588 [23668] dynamic-link: ldconfig: Default to the new format for
2589 ld.so.cache
2590 [23819] hurd: hurd: Add C11 thread support
2591 [23990] build: test-container error out on failure to exec child.
2592 [23991] build: shell-container typo in run_command_array
2593 [24638] manual: Error in example of parsing a template string
2594 [24654] manual: Wrong declaration of wcschr in libc manual
2595 [24943] dynamic-link: Support DT_AUDIT, DT_DEPAUDIT in the dynamic
2596 linker
2597 [25051] dynamic-link: aarch64, powerpc64 uses surplus static tls for
2598 dynamically loaded dsos
2599 [25098] nptl: nptl: ctype classification functions are not AS-Safe
2600 [25219] libc: improve out-of-bounds checking with GCC 10 attribute
2601 access
2602 [25262] libc: getcontext/setcontext/swapcontext unnecessarily save and
2603 restore EAX, ECX and EDX
2604 [25397] dynamic-link: Legacy bitmap doesn't cover jitted code
2605 [25414] glob: 'glob' use-after-free bug (CVE-2020-1752)
2606 [25420] network: Race condition in resolv_conf.c can result in caching
2607 stale configuration forever
2608 [25487] math: sinl() stack corruption from crafted input
2609 (CVE-2020-10029)
2610 [25506] build: configure: broken detection of STT_GNU_IFUNC when GCC
2611 defaults to PIE
2612 [25523] libc: MIPS/Linux inline syscall template is miscompiled
2613 [25620] libc: Signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy()
2614 (CVE-2020-6096)
2615 [25623] libc: test-sysvmsg, test-sysvsem, test-sysvshm fail with 2.31
2616 on 32 bit and old kernel
2617 [25635] libc: arm: Wrong sysdep order selection for soft-fp
2618 [25639] localedata: Some names of days and months wrongly spelt in
2619 Occitan
2620 [25657] libc: sigprocmask() and sigisemptyset() manipulate different
2621 amount of sigset_t bytes
2622 [25691] stdio: printf: memory leak when printing long multibyte
2623 strings
2624 [25715] libc: system() returns wrong errors when posix_spawn fails
2625 [25733] malloc: mallopt(M_MXFAST) can set global_max_fast to 0
2626 [25734] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS fails to reset conversion
2627 state for conversions that produce two Unicode code points
2628 [25765] nptl: Incorrect futex syscall in __pthread_disable_asynccancel
2629 for linux x86_64 leads to livelock
2630 [25788] dynamic-link: [i386] -fno-omit-frame-pointer in CFLAGS causes
2631 test failures, invalid instruction in ld.so
2632 [25790] glob: Typo in tst-fnmatch.input
2633 [25810] libc: x32: Incorrect syscall entries with pointer, off_t and
2634 size_t
2635 [25819] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 13.0.0
2636 [25824] libc: Abnormal function of strnlen in aarch64
2637 [25887] dynamic-link: Wasted space in _dl_x86_feature_1[1]
2638 [25896] libc: Incorrect prctl
2639 [25902] libc: Bad LOADARGS_N
2640 [25905] dynamic-link: VSX registers are corrupted during PLT
2641 resolution when glibc is built with --disable-multi-arch and --with-
2642 cpu=power9
2643 [25933] string: Off by one error in __strncmp_avx2 when
2644 length=VEC_SIZE*4 and strings are at page boundaries can cause a
2645 segfault
2646 [25942] nptl: Deadlock on stack_cache_lock between __nptl_setxid and
2647 exiting detached thread
2648 [25966] libc: Incorrect access of __x86_shared_non_temporal_threshold
2649 for x32
2650 [25976] nss: internal_end*ent in nss_compat may clobber errno, hiding
2651 ERANGE
2652 [25999] nptl: Use-after-free issue in pthread_getaddr_default_np
2653 [26073] math: getpayload() has wrong return value
2654 [26076] dynamic-link: dlmopen crashes after failing to load
2655 dependencies in audit mode
2656 [26120] localedata: column width of of some Korean
2657 JUNGSEONG/JONGSEONG characters wrong (should be 0)
2658 [26128] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFLUSHOPT
2659 [26133] libc: Incorrect need_arch_feature_F16C
2660 [26137] libc: strtod() triggers exception FE_INEXACT on reasonable
2661 input
2662 [26149] libc: PKU is usable only if OSPKE is set
2663 [26173] libc: powerpc64*: Add @notoc to calls to functions that do not
2664 preserve r2
2665 [26208] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFSH
2666 [26210] network: Incorrect use of hidden symbols for global sunrpc
2667 variables
2668 [26211] stdio: printf integer overflow calculating allocation size
2669 [26214] stdio: printf_fp double free
2670 [26215] stdio: printf_fp memory leak
2671 [26232] time: FAIL: support/tst-timespec for 32-bit targets
2672 [26258] nss: nss_compat should not read input files with mmap
2673 [26332] string: Incorrect cache line size load causes memory
2674 corruption in memset
2675
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2677Version 2.31
2678
2679Major new features:
2680
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2681* The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
2682 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
2683 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
2684 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
2685 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
2686 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
0b8c2f95 2687
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2688* The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
2689 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
2690 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
2691 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
2692
69ca4b54 2693* The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
3ef5e118 2694 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
69ca4b54
MC
2695 CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME. This function is a GNU extension.
2696
c5fbd7c3
TM
2697* New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar).
2698
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2699* The DNS stub resolver will optionally send the AD (authenticated data) bit
2700 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
2701 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
2702 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
2703 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
2704 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
2705 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
2706 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
2707
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2708Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2709
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2710* The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
2711 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
2712 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
2713 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
2714 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
2715 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
0b8c2f95 2716
12cbde1d 2717* The obsolete function stime is no longer available to newly linked
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2718 binaries, and its declaration has been removed from <time.h>.
2719 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
2720
2721* We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
2722 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
2723 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
2724 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
2725
2726* The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
2727 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
2728 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
2729 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
2730 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
2731 made this no longer practical.
2732
2733 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
2734 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
2735 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
2736 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
2737 release.)
2738
2739 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
2740 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
2741 with the current time, use the localtime function.
2742
2743 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
2744 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
2745 using clock_gettime instead.
12cbde1d 2746
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2747* The settimeofday function can still be used to set a system-wide time
2748 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
2749 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
2750 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
2751 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
2752
2753 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
2754 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
2755 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
2756 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
2757
2758 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
2759 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
2760 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
2761 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
2762 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
2763 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
2764
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2765 settimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. Programs that set
2766 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
2767 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
2768 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
2769 offset API.
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2771* SPARC ISA v7 is no longer supported. v8 is still supported, but only if
2772 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
2773 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
2b5fea83 2774
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2775 As the oldest 64-bit SPARC ISA is v9, this only affects 32-bit
2776 configurations.
5d9b7b9f 2777
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2778* If a lazy binding failure happens during dlopen, during the execution of
2779 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
2780 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
2781 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
2782 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
2783
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2784* For MIPS hard-float ABIs, the GNU C Library will be configured to need an
2785 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
2786 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
2787 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
2788 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
2789 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
2790 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
2791 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
2792
2793 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
2794 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
2795
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2796* System call wrappers for time system calls now use the new time64 system
2797 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
2798 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
2799 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
2800 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
2801 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
2802
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2803Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2804
a1bd5f86 2805* It is no longer necessary to have recent Linux kernel headers to build
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2806 working (non-stub) system call wrappers on all architectures except 64-bit
2807 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
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2809* The ChangeLog file is no longer present in the toplevel directory of the
2810 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
2811 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
2812
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2813Security related changes:
2814
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2815 CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an
2816 out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context.
2817
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2818 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
2819 environment variable during program execution after a security
2820 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
2821 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
2822 program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
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2823
2824The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2825
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2826 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
2827 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
2828 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
2829 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
2830 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
2831 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
2832 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
2833 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
2834 linking failure
2835 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
2836 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
2837 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
2838 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
2839 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
2840 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
2841 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
2842 constructors/destructors is not fatal
2843 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
2844 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
2845 7408-2005
2846 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
2847 with localedef
2848 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
2849 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
2850 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
2851 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
2852 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
2853 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
2854 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
2855 utmp entries
2856 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
2857 ABSOLUTE ABI
2858 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
2859 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
2860 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
2861 (stringop-overflow error)
2862 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
2863 functions other can lead to crashes
2864 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
2865 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
2866 unconditionally
2867 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
2868 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
2869 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
2870 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
2871 still can fail with an error
2872 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
2873 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
2874 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
2875 initialized correctly
2876 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
2877 -frewrite-includes
2878 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
2879 value to an unsigned
2880 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
2881 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
2882 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
2883 protection
2884 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
2885 ifunc variant.
2886 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
2887 al. for Clang++
2888 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
2889 (Slovenian)
2890 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
2891 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
2892 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
2893 with -std=c11
2894 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
2895 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
2896 part
2897 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
2898 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
2899 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
2900 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
2901 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
2902 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
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2905Version 2.30
2906
2907Major new features:
2908
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2909* Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2910 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
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2911 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2912
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2913* The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
2914 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
de44ab67 2915
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2916* The twalk_r function has been added. It is similar to the existing
2917 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
2918 to the callback function.
2919
51ea67d5 2920* On Linux, the getdents64, gettid, and tgkill functions have been added.
1d0fc213 2921
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2922* Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
2923 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
2924 nan_TW, lzh_TW.
2925
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2926* The entry for the new Japanese era has been added for ja_JP locale.
2927
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2928* Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
2929 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
2930 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
2931 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
2932 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
2933
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2934* The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
2935 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
2936 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
2937 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
2938 link time reference, is gone.
2939
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2940* Add new POSIX-proposed pthread_cond_clockwait, pthread_mutex_clocklock,
2941 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
2942 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
2943 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
2944 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
2945 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
2946 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
2947 the clock choice at initialization time).
2948
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2949* On AArch64 the GNU IFUNC resolver call ABI changed: old resolvers still
2950 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
2951 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
2952
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2953Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2954
5a659ccc
FW
2955* The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
2956 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
2957 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
2958 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
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2959 copy_file_range function can no longer rely on glibc to provide a fallback
2960 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
2961 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
2962 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
2963 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
5a659ccc 2964
f289e656
FW
2965* The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime,
2966 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
2967 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
2968 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
2969 since glibc 2.17.
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2971* The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
2972 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
2973
3f8b44be
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2974* Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
2975 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
2976
33322186
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2977* The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
2978 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
2979
94a4e9e4
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2980* With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
2981 BIND_NOW flag.
2982
a053e878
ZW
2983* Support for the PowerPC SPE ISA extension (powerpc-*-*gnuspe*
2984 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
2985 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
2986
6b33f373
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2987* On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
2988 header have been removed.
2989
744e8296
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2990* The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
2991 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
2992 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
2993 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
2994
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2995Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2996
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2997* GCC 6.2 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
2998
2999 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
3000 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
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3001
3002Security related changes:
3003
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3004 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
3005 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
3006 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
3007 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
3008 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
3009 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
3010 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
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3012 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
3013 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
3014 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
3015
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3016The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3017
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3018 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
3019 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
3020 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
3021 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
3022 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
3023 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
3024 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
3025 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
3026 invalid input drops valid char
3027 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
3028 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
3029 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
3030 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
3031 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
3032 malloc.h.
3033 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
3034 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
3035 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
3036 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
3037 functions
3038 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
3039 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
3040 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
3041 for long double = double
3042 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
3043 long double = double
3044 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
3045 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
3046 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
3047 long timeouts
fdb724f9 3048 [24051] stdio: puts and putchar output to _IO_stdout instead of stdout
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3049 [24059] nss: nss_files: get_next_alias calls fgets_unlocked without
3050 checking for NULL.
3051 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
3052 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
3053 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
3054 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
3055 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
3056 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
3057 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
3058 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
3059 not the default "nor"
3060 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
3061 false positives, change to modern flexible array
3062 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
3063 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
3064 compiler barriers.
3065 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
3066 unnecessary librt dependencies
3067 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
3068 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
3069 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
3070 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
3071 unsorted chunk
3072 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
3073 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
3074 to R_SPARC_H44
3075 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
3076 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
3077 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
3078 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
3079 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
3080 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
3081 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
3082 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
3083 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
3084 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
3085 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
3086 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
3087 was not used
3088 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
3089 tests
3090 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
3091 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
3092 time_t changes
3093 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
3094 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
3095 kernels and break testing
3096 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
3097 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
3098 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
3099 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
3100 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
3101 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
3102 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
3103 -O3 -march=skylake
3104 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
3105 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
3106 crash
3107 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
3108 linked glibc
3109 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
3110 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
3111 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
3112 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
3113 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
3114 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
3115 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
3116 always implemented in the same library
3117 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
3118 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
3119 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
3120 testroot
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3123Version 2.29
3124
3125Major new features:
3126
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3127* The getcpu wrapper function has been added, which returns the currently
3128 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
3129
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3130* A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
3131 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
3132 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
3133 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
3134 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
3135 configured location.
437faa96 3136
424c4f60 3137* Optimized generic exp, exp2, log, log2, pow, sinf, cosf, sincosf and tanf.
3bded567 3138
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3139* The reallocarray function is now declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE, not just
3140 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
3141
f0458cf4
AZ
3142* For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
3143 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
3144 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
3145 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
3146 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
3147 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
3148 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
3149 process actually does not use HTM).
3150
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3151* The functions posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np and
3152 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
3153 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
3154 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
3155 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
3156 of the same name.
4a938cb2 3157
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3158* The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
3159 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
3160 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
5fc3eca7 3161 inconsistent mutex state after a fork call in a multi-threaded process.
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3162 In both popen and system there is no direct access to user-defined mutexes.
3163
5f72b005
MH
3164* Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
3165 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
3166 supported:
3167 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
3168 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
3169
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3170* strftime's default formatting of a locale's alternative year (%Ey)
3171 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
3172 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
3173 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
3174 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
3175 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
3176 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
3177
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3178* As a GNU extension, the '_' and '-' flags can now be applied to
3179 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
3180 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
3181
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3182Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
3183
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3184* The glibc.tune tunable namespace has been renamed to glibc.cpu and the
3185 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
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3187* The type of the pr_uid and pr_gid members of struct elf_prpsinfo, defined
3188 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
3189 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
3190 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
3191
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3192* For the MIPS n32 ABI, the type of the pr_sigpend and pr_sighold members of
3193 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
3194 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
3195 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
3196 structures.
3197
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3198* An archaic GNU extension to scanf, under which '%as', '%aS', and '%a[...]'
3199 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
3200 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
3201 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
3202 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
3203 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
3204
3205 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
3206 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
3207 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
3208 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
3209 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
3210
3211 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
3212 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
3213 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
3214
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3215Changes to build and runtime requirements:
3216
c6982f7e 3217* Python 3.4 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
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3219* On most architectures, GCC 5 or later is required to build the GNU C
3220 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
3221
3222 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
3223 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
3224
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3225Security related changes:
3226
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3227 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
3228 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
3229 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
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3231 CVE-2019-6488: On x32, the size_t parameter may be passed in the lower
3232 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
3233 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
3234 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
3235 Reported by H.J. Lu.
3236
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3237 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
3238 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
3239 or command injection issues in applications.
3240
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3241The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3242
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3243 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
3244 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
3245 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
3246 thousands
3247 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
3248 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
3249 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
3250 --param options)
3251 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
3252 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
3253 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
3254 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
3255 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
3256 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
3257 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
3258 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
3259 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
3260 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
3261 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
3262 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
3263 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
3264 pointer argument is non-NULL
3265 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
3266 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
3267 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
3268 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
3269 multithreads call popen
3270 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
3271 and pthread_create fails.
3272 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
3273 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
3274 constructor
3275 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
3276 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
3277 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
3278 source tree
3279 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
3280 float
3281 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
3282 one error
3283 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
3284 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
3285 linker
3286 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
3287 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
3288 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
3289 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
3290 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
3291 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
3292 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
3293 filesystems
3294 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
3295 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
3296 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
3297 functions
3298 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
3299 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
3300 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
3301 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
3302 have wrong type
3303 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
3304 wrong type
3305 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
3306 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
3307 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
3308 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
3309 threads
3310 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
3311 start.S
3312 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
3313 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
3314 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
3315 powerpc64le
3316 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
3317 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
3318 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
3319 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
3320 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
3321 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
3322 strftime
3323 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
3324 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
3325 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
3326 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
3327 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
3328 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
3329 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
3330 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
3331 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
3332 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
3333 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
3334 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
3335 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
3336 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
3337 tcache size
3338 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
3339 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
3340 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
3341 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
3342 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
3343 (CVE-2018-19591)
3344 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
3345 nearest rounding mode
3346 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
3347 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
3348 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
3349 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
3350 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
3351 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
3352 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
3353 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
3354 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
3355 error
3356 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
3357 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
3358 using GCC 8
3359 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
3360 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
3361 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
3362 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
3363 ppc64le
3364 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
3365 expected result
3366 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
3367 x32 (CVE-2019-6488)
3368 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
3369 sigaltstack
3370 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
3371 answers will be rejected)
3372 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
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3375Version 2.28
3376
3377Major new features:
3378
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3379* The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
3380 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
3381 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
3382 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
3383 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
3384 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
3385 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
3386 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
3387 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
3388 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
3389 archive or binary locales.
3390
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3391* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for Intel CET, AKA
3392 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
3393 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
3394 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
3395 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
3396 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
3397 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
3398 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
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3399 Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
3400 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
3401 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
3402 validated for i686.
e6c69509 3403
9449a295
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3404* The GNU C Library now has correct support for ABSOLUTE symbols
3405 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
3406 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
3407 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
3408 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
3409 field) to indicate such support is required.
3410
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3411* Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
3412 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
3413 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
3414
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3415* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
3416 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
3417
3418 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
3419 fMxaddfNx functions.
086ee48e 3420
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3421 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
3422 fMxsubfNx functions.
3423
69a01461
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3424 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
3425 fMxmulfNx functions.
3426
632a6cbe
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3427 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
3428 fMxdivfNx functions.
3429
e607a352 3430* Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
df467d22 3431 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
9145f033 3432 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
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3433 support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
3434 and Kashubian.
c553cd6f 3435
61c4aad7 3436* Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
e607a352 3437 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
a1e0c5fa 3438
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3439* Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
3440 patches.
3441
d6da5cb6
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3442* The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
3443 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
3444 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
3445 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
3446 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
3447 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
3448 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
3449 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
3450
fd70af45
FW
3451* The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
3452 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
3453 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
3454 the fstatat64 function.
3455
7f9f1ecb
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3456* IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
3457 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
3458 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
3459 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
3460 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
3461 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
3462 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
3463 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
3464 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
3465
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3466* Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
3467 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
3468 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
3469 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
3470 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
3471 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
3472 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
3473 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
3474 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
3475 results in a load failure now.
3476
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3477* Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The
3478 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
3479 <threads.h>:
3480
3481 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
3482 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
3483
3484 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
3485 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
3486
3487 - call_once for function call synchronization.
3488
3489 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
3490 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
3491
3492 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
3493
3494 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
3495
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3496Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
3497
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3498* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
3499 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
3500 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
3501
3502* The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
3503 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
3504 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
3505 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
3506 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
3507 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
3508
3509* All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
3510 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
3511 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
3512 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
3513 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
3514 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
3515 (Bug #1190.)
3516
3517* The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
3518 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
3519 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
3520 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
3521 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
3522 further explanation.
3523
3524 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
3525 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
3526 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
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3528* The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
3529
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3530* The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
3531 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
3532 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
3533
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3534* The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
3535 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
3536 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
3537 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
3538
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3539* The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
3540 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
3541 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
3542 for this function instead.
3543
7f9f1ecb
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3544* The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
3545 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
3546 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
3547
3548* The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
3549 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
3550 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
3551 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
3552
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3553* The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
3554 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
3555 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
3556 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
3557 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
3558
b10a0acc
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3559* The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
3560 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
3561 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
3562 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
3563 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
3564 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
3565 such as libgcrypt.
3566
3567* Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
3568 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
3569 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
3570 enabled.
3571
3572* The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
3573 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
3574 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
3575
e69d994a
ZW
3576* We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
3577 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
3578 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
3579 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
3580 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
3581 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
3582
3583 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
3584 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
3585 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
3586 behavior in a future release.
3587
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3588Changes to build and runtime requirements:
3589
f2873d2d 3590 GNU make 4.0 or later is now required to build glibc.
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3591
3592Security related changes:
3593
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3594 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
3595 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
3596 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
3597 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
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3599 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
3600 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
3601
3602 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
3603 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
3604 Izbyshev.
3605
3606 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
3607 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
3608 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
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3610The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3611
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3612 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
3613 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
3614 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
3615 when __WORDSIZE != 64
3616 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
3617 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
3618 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
3619 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
3620 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
3621 14651
3622 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
3623 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
3624 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
3625 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
3626 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
3627 conversion is given
3628 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
3629 date
3630 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
3631 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
3632 scope with -O1 and higher
3633 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
3634 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
3635 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
3636 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
3637 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
3638 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
3639 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
3640 horrible machine code)
3641 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
3642 last constant.
3643 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
3644 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
3645 symbols
3646 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
3647 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
3648 defined
3649 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
3650 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
3651 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
3652 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
3653 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
3654 fpscr.c'
3655 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
3656 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
3657 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
3658 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
3659 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
3660 the base address
3661 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
3662 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
3663 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
3664 open_verify
3665 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
3666 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
3667 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
3668 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
3669 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
3670 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
3671 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
3672 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
3673 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
3674 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
3675 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
3676 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
3677 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
3678 dlopen
3679 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
3680 AT_SECURE=1
3681 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
3682 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
3683 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
3684 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
3685 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
3686 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
3687 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
3688 for Spanish with CLDR
3689 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
3690 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
3691 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
3692 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
3693 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
3694 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
3695 es_BO
3696 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
3697 CLOCKS_PER_SECOND
3698 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
3699 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
3700 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
3701 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
3702 dlopen failures
3703 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
3704 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
3705 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
3706 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
3707 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
3708 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
3709 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
3710 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
3711 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
3712 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
3713 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
3714 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
3715 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
3716 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
3717 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
3718 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
3719 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
3720 makecontext
3721 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
3722 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
3723 required
3724 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
3725 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
3726 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
3727 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
3728 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
3729 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
3730 disabled
3731 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
3732 failure
3733 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
3734 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
3735 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
3736 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
3737 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
3738 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
3739 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
3740 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
3741 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
3742 and libc build with -Os)
3743 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
3744 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
3745 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
3746 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
3747 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
3748 that changes /etc/passwd
3749 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
3750 (CVE-2018-11237)
3751 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
3752 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
3753 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
3754 posix/regcomp.c
3755 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
3756 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
3757 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
3758 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
3759 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
3760 AT_SECURE
3761 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
3762 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
3763 parser.c
3764 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
3765 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
3766 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
3767 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
3768 directed rounding
3769 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
3770 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
3771 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
3772 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
3773 lookup
3774 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
3775 interposition
3776 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
3777 DSO boundaries.
3778 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
3779 <linux/time.h>
3780 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
3781 checking
3782 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
3783 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
3784 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
3785 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
3786 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
3787 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
3788 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
3789 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
3790 processors
3791 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
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3793\f
3794Version 2.27
3795
3796Major new features:
3797
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3798* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
3799 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
bd7bbb26 3800 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
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3801 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
3802 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
3803 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
3804 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
25fb7dd6
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3805 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
3806 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
9d7a3741 3807
ac817e08 3808* Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
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3809 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
3810 H.J. Lu from Intel.
20c7b195 3811
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3812* Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
3813
4cf82d23 3814* Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
72aa6233 3815
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3816* In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
3817 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
3818 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
3819 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
3820 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
3821 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
3822 from a security and performance perspective.
3823
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3824* The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
3825 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
3826 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
3827 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
3828
81325b12 3829* On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
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3830 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
3831 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
3832 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
81325b12
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3833 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
3834
a23aa5b7 3835* On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
40ca951b 3836 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
a23aa5b7
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3837 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
3838 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
3839 _Float128.
3840
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3841* The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
3842 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
3843 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
0d93b7fd 3844
4bab0224 3845* glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
59d2cbb1 3846
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3847* Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
3848 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
3849 pkey_get.
3850
bad7a0c8
FW
3851* The copy_file_range function was added.
3852
e6a1c5dc
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3853* Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
3854
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3855* The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
3856 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
3857 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
3858
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3859* Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
3860 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
3861 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
3862 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
3863 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
3864 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
3865 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
3866
3867 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
3868 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
3869 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
3870 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
3871 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
3872 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
3873 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
3874
3875 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
3876 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
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3877 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
3878 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
3879 respectively.
3880
3881 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
3882 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
3883 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
3884 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
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3885
3886 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
3887 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
3888 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
3889
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3890 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
3891 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
0a32e219 3892 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
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3894* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
3895 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
3896 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
3897
3898 - rv64imac lp64
3899 - rv64imafdc lp64
3900 - rv64imafdc lp64d
3901
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3902Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
3903
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3904* Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
3905 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
d4ae7827 3906 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
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3907 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
3908 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
3909 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
3910 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
3911 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
3912 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
3913 fix this.
3914
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3915* Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
3916 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
3917 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
3918
2fc21aaa
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3919* Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
3920 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
3921 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
3922 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
3923 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
3924 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
3925 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
3926 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
3927 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
3928 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
3929 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
3930 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
3931 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
3932 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
3933 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
3934 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
3935 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
3936 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
3937 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
3938 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
3939 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
3940 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
3941 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
3942 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
3943 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
3944 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
3945
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3946* On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
3947 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
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3949* libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
3950 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
3951 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
3952 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
3953 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
3954 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
3955 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
3956
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3957* The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
3958 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
3959 exp10l for these functions instead.
3960
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3961* The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
3962 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
3963 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3964
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3965* The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
3966 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
3967 ignored.
3968
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3969* The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
3970 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
3971 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
3972 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
3973
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3974* The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
3975 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
3976
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3977* In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
3978 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
3979
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3980* The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
3981 programs.
3982
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3983* The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
3984
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3985* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
3986 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
3987 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
3988 instead.
3989
3990 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
3991 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
3992 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
3993 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
3994 use, but predates the bits convention.
3995
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3996Changes to build and runtime requirements:
3997
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3998* bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
3999 subdirectory.
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4000
4001Security related changes:
4002
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4003 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
4004 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
4005 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
4006 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
4007 script.)
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4009 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
4010 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
4011 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
4012 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
c369d66e 4013
914c9994
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4014 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
4015 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
4016 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
4017 of service.
4018
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4019 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
4020 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
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4021 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
4022
37ac8e63
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4023 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
4024 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
4025 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
4026 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
4027
8a0b17e4
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4028 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
4029 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
4030 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
4031 Qualys.
4032
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4033 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
4034 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
4035 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
4036 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
4037 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
4038
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4039 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
4040 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
4041 current directory.
4042
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4043 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
4044 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
4045 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
4046
4590634f
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4047 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
4048 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
4049 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
4050
71aa429b
FW
4051 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
4052 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
4053 small, instead of NULL.
4054
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4055The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4056
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4057 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
4058 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
4059 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
4060 locale
4061 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
4062 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
4063 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
4064 cases
4065 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
4066 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
4067 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
4068 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
4069 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
4070 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
4071 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
4072 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
4073 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
4074 "Bangla"
4075 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
4076 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
4077 width Latin characters
4078 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
4079 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
4080 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
4081 letters
4082 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
4083 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
4084 (CVE-2009-5064)
4085 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
4086 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
4087 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
4088 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
4089 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
4090 if malloc succeeded
4091 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
4092 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
4093 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
4094 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
4095 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
4096 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
4097 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
4098 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
4099 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
4100 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
4101 U+309A
4102 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
4103 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
4104 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
4105 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
4106 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
4107 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
4108 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
4109 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
4110 for Nicaragua
4111 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
4112 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
4113 are not found.
4114 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
4115 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
4116 access
4117 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
4118 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
4119 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
4120 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
4121 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
4122 __regcall calling convention
4123 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
4124 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
4125 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
4126 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
4127 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
4128 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
4129 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
4130 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
4131 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
4132 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
4133 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
4134 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
4135 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
4136 locale
4137 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
4138 protector=all
4139 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
4140 wcwidth
4141 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
4142 consistency check failures
4143 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
4144 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
4145 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
4146 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
4147 PIE
4148 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
4149 locales
4150 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
4151 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
4152 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
4153 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
4154 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
4155 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
4156 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
4157 on memory allocation failure
4158 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
4159 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
4160 the suspect)
4161 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
4162 default (i386)
4163 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
4164 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
4165 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
4166 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
4167 instead of EAI_NODATA
4168 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
4169 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
4170 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
4171 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
4172 implementation
4173 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
4174 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
4175 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
4176 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
4177 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
4178 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
4179 allocation in syscall loops)
4180 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
4181 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
4182 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
4183 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
4184 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
4185 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
4186 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
4187 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
4188 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
4189 occur with -O3
4190 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
4191 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
4192 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
4193 amounts)
4194 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
4195 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
4196 niu_NZ
4197 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
4198 checks
4199 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
4200 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
4201 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
4202 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
4203 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
4204 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
4205 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
4206 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
4207 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
4208 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
4209 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
4210 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
4211 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
4212 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
4213 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
4214 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
4215 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
4216 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
4217 parsing after OOM
4218 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
4219 object
4220 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
4221 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
4222 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
4223 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
4224 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
4225 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
fdb724f9 4226 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf outputs a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
242cbc90
DL
4227 ppc64le
4228 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
4229 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
4230 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
4231 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
4232 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
4233 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
4234 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
4235 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
4236 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
4237 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
4238 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
4239 math_force_eval
4240 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
4241 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
4242 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
4243 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
4244 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
4245 the svid compat wrapper
4246 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
4247 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
4248 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
4249 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
4250 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
4251 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
4252 --verbose.
4253 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
4254 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
4255 to 2.26
4256 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
4257 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
4258 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
4259 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
4260 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
4261 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
4262 (CVE-2017-15804)
4263 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
4264 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
4265 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
4266 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
4267 failure."
4268 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
4269 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
4270 -m32
4271 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
4272 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
4273 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
4274 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
4275 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
4276 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
4277 inside the ASCII printable range
4278 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
4279 -mlong-double-64
4280 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
4281 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
4282 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
4283 Internet
4284 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
4285 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
4286 backslash
4287 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
4288 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
4289 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
4290 heaps in an arena
4291 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
4292 networking interface
4293 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
4294 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
4295 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
4296 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
4297 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
4298 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
4299 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
4300 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
4301 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
4302 order
4303 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
4304 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
4305 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
4306 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
4307 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
4308 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
4309 same as for Croatian
4310 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
4311 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
4312 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
4313 for initial thread"
4314 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
4315 SC_SSIZE_MAX
4316 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
4317 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
4318 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
4319 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
4320 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
4321 (CVE-2017-1000408)
4322 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
4323 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
4324 modified in case of success
4325 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
4326 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
4327 success
4328 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
4329 stack-protector=all
4330 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
4331 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
4332 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
4333 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
4334 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
4335 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
4336 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
4337 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
4338 adding it on top
4339 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
4340 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
4341 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
4342 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
4343 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
4344 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
4345 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
4346 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
4347 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
4348 (CVE-2018-1000001)
4349 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
4350 elision and tunables
4351 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
4352 "invalid" exception
4353 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
4354 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
4355 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
4356 exception
4357 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4358 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
4359 power4
4360 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
4361 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
4362 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
4363 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
4364 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
4365 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
4366 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
4367 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
4368 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
00cdcf5a 4369
58557c22
SP
4370\f
4371Version 2.26
4372
2b2ccd0c
ZW
4373Major new features:
4374
d5c3fafc
DD
4375* A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
4376 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
4377 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
4378 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
4379 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
4380 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
4381 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
4382
925fac77
MF
4383* Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
4384 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
0b38d66a 4385 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
a0e52598
MF
4386 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
4387 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
4388 are rendered with pango, see for example:
4389 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
58557c22 4390
2b2ccd0c
ZW
4391* Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
4392 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
4393 Egmont Koblinger.
e4e79484 4394
2b2ccd0c 4395* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
025b33ae 4396
7e368000
JM
4397 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
4398 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
4399 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
daeb1fa2 4400
7e368000
JM
4401 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
4402 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
4403 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
4404 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
4405 object are still limited to six search domains.
139ace95 4406
7e368000
JM
4407 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
4408 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
4409 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
cd354a38 4410
2b2ccd0c
ZW
4411* The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
4412 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
d8cee557 4413
2b2ccd0c
ZW
4414* New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
4415 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
4416 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
4417 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
f0be25b6 4418
2b2ccd0c
ZW
4419* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
4420 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
4421 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
4422 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
8082d91e 4423
2b2ccd0c
ZW
4424* posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
4425 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
4426 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
4427 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
2e0bbbfb 4428
2b2ccd0c
ZW
4429* errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
4430 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
4431 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
12d2dd70 4432
2b2ccd0c 4433* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
8d6cba41
JM
4434 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
4435 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
4436 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
2c0b90ab 4437
2b2ccd0c 4438 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
8d6cba41
JM
4439 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
4440 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
4441 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
4442 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
4443
4444 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
4445 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
4446 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
4447 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
4448 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
4449 interfaces should be used instead.
f819dbea 4450
2b2ccd0c
ZW
4451Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
4452
4453* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
4454 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
4455 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
4456 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
4457 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
4458 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
4459 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
4460 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
4461
4462* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
4463 removed.
4464
4465* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
7e368000 4466 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
2b2ccd0c
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4467 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
4468 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
4469
4470* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
4471 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
4472 default.
4473
4474 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
4475 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
4476 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
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4477 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
4478 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
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4479
4480 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
4481 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
4482 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
4483 name service modules, to be built and installed.
4484
4485* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
4486 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
4487 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
4488 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
4489
4490* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
4491 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
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4493* The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
4494 exported by accident.
4495
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4496* <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
4497 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
4498 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
4499
4500* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
4501 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
4502 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
4503 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
4504
4505* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
4506
4507* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
4508
4509* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
4510 free instead.
4511
4512* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
4513 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
4514
4515* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
4516 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
4517
4518* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
4519 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
4520 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
4521 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
4522 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
4523 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
4524 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
4525 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
4526
4527* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
4528 synced with the kernel:
4529
4530 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
4531 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
4532
4533 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
4534 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
4535 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
4536
4537 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
4538 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
4539
4540Changes to build and runtime requirements:
4541
4542* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
4543 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
4544 x86-32 and x86-64.)
4545
7e368000 4546* GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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4548* On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
4549 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
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4550
4551 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
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4552 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
4553 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
4554 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2b2ccd0c 4555 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
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4557Security related changes:
4558
e14a2772 4559* The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
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4560 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
4561
4562* LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
4563 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
4564
4565* Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
4566 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
4567 (CVE-2010-3192).
4568
4569* A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
4570 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
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4571
4572The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4573
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4574 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
4575 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
4576 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
4577 fields
4578 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
4579 (CVE-2010-3192)
4580 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
4581 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
4582 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
4583 ld.bfd is available
4584 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
4585 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
4586 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
4587 x86 and other generic code
4588 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
4589 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
4590 incorrect
4591 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
4592 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
4593 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
4594 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
4595 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
4596 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
4597 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
4598 resolver
4599 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
4600 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
4601 order of 0D36 and 0D37
4602 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
4603 chillu characters
4604 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
4605 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
4606 receiving data
4607 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
4608 whitespace
4609 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
4610 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
4611 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
4612 for Peru
4613 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
4614 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
4615 failures consistently
4616 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
4617 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
4618 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
4619 frame-pointer on i386
4620 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
4621 register
7f0d9e61 4622 [21075] libc: unused assignment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
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4623 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
4624 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
4625 generic c code is used
4626 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
4627 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
4628 around 4000
4629 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
4630 (CVE-2017-12133)
4631 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
4632 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
4633 with -lieee
4634 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
4635 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
4636 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
4637 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
4638 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
4639 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
4640 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
4641 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
4642 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
4643 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
4644 remove()
4645 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
4646 checked for errors.
4647 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
4648 new posix_spawn implementation
4649 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
4650 leads to lower CPU frequency
4651 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
4652 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
4653 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
4654 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
4655 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
4656 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
4657 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
4658 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
4659 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
4660 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
4661 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
4662 not support gethostbyname4_r
4663 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
4664 switching
4665 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
4666 arenas
4667 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
4668 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
4669 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
4670 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
4671 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
4672 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
4673 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
4674 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
4675 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
4676 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
4677 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
4678 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
4679 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
4680 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
4681 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
4682 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
4683 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
4684 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
4685 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
4686 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
4687 retry value
4688 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
4689 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
4690 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
4691 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
4692 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
4693 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
4694 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
4695 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
4696 [21537] libc:
4697 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
4698 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
4699 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
4700 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
4701 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
4702 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
4703 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
4704 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
4705 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
4706 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
4707 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
4708 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
4709 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
4710 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
4711 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
4712 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
4713 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
4714 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
4715 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
4716 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
4717 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
4718 issue on x86-64
4719 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
4720 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
4721 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
4722 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
4723 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
4724 construction
4725 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
4726 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
4727 between_2_3
4728 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
4729 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
4730 conditions
4731 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
4732 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
4733 Hindi Locale
4734 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
4735 posix/sched_cpucount.c
4736 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
4737 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
4738 locale
4739 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
4740 leading to relocation crash
4741 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
4742 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
4743 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
4744 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
4745 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
4746 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
4747 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
4748 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
4749 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
4750 locale
4751 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
4752 locale
4753 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
4754 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
4755 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
4756 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
4757 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
4758 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
4759 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
4760 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
4761 strings
4762 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
4763 protector=all
4764 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
4765 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
4766 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
4767 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
4768 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
4769 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
4770 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
4771 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
4772 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
4773 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
4774 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
4775 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
4776 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
4777 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
4778 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
4779 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
4780 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
4781 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
4782 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
4783 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
4784 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
4785 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
4786 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
4787 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
4788 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
4789 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
4790 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
4791 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
4792 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
4793 with unicode 9.0
4794 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
4795 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
4796 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
4797 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
4798 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
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4801Version 2.25
4802
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4803* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
4804 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
4805 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
4806 Library.
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4808* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
4809 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
a5ac5676 4810 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
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4811 the GNU C Library.
4812
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4813* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
4814 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
4815 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
4816 the GNU C Library.
4817
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4818* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
4819 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
4820 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
4821 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
4822 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
4823 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
4824 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
4825 will not.
4826
4827 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
4828 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
4829 many years.
4830
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4831* The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
4832 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
4833 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
4834
4835 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
4836 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
4837 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
4838 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
4839 problem.
4840
ec94343f 4841* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
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4842 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
4843 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
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4845* Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
4846 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
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4847 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
4848 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
4849 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
4850 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
4851 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
4852 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
4853 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
4854 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
4855 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
4856 WINT_WIDTH.
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4858* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
4859
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4860 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
4861
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4862 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
4863 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
4864 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
41c67149 4865
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4866 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
4867 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
4868
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4869 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
4870 fminmagf, fminmagl.
4871
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4872 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
4873
29cb9293 4874 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
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4876 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
4877 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
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4879 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
4880
eb3c12c7 4881 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
457663a7 4882 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
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4884* The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
4885 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
4886
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4887* Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
4888 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
4889 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
4890
ea1bd74d
ZW
4891* The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
4892 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
4893 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
4894 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
4895 effects of the memory clear).
4896
b0216d3e
JM
4897* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
4898 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
4899 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
4900 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
4901
f3b904d9
JM
4902* On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
4903 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
4904 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
4905 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
4906 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
4907 if they are compiled or used with those options.
6962682f 4908
92dcaa3e
FW
4909* The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
4910 have been added.
4911
705a79f8
FW
4912* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
4913 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
4914 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
4915 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
4916 as large as several megabytes.
4917
4d728087
FW
4918* The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
4919 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
4920 been removed.
4921
e863cce5
FW
4922* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
4923 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
4924 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
4925 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
4926 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
4927 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
4928 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
4929
7ec47a85
FW
4930* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
4931 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
4932 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
4933 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
4934
099191b1 4935* The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
5140d036
FW
4936 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
4937 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
4938 Internet.
4939
bbe989ee
FW
4940* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
4941 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
4942 They were already unimplemented.
bfbd1de1 4943
b76e0659
FW
4944* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
4945 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
4946 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
4947 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
4948
3a2a1d2c
FW
4949* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
4950 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
4951 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
4952 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
4953 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
4954
be728303
FW
4955* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
4956 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
4957 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
4958 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
4959 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
4960
6815a33d
FW
4961* The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
4962 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
4963 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
4964 did not reflect that.
4965
022dfdce
SL
4966* For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
4967 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
4968 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
4969 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
4970 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
4971 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
4972 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
4973 'gcc/config.gcc'.
4974
23b5cae1
MG
4975* GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
4976 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
4977 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
4978 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
4979
7715d3ab
SP
4980* Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
4981 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
4982 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
4983 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
4984
0cea3587
SP
4985* A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
4986 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
4987 guarantees.
4988
4989* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
4990 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
4991 make state changes.
4992
e720d3d9
CD
4993Security related changes:
4994
fc82b0a2 4995* On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
4d047efd
FW
4996 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
4997 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
4998 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
056dd72a 4999 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
e720d3d9 5000
fc82b0a2
FW
5001* The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
5002 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
5003 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
5004 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
5005 (CVE-2015-5180)
5006
e720d3d9
CD
5007The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5008
fdb724f9 5009 [4099] stdio: Overly aggressive caching by stream i/o functions.
4e054e6b
SP
5010 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
5011 protector-all
5012 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
5013 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
5014 before it started waiting
5015 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
5016 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
5017 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
5018 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
5019 wrong type
5020 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
5021 library linked with pthread
5022 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
5023 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
5024 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
5025 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
5026 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
5027 after being __libc_memalign()'d
5028 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
7f0d9e61 5029 when it shouldn't
4e054e6b
SP
5030 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
5031 not
5032 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
5033 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
5034 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
5035 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
5036 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
5037 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
5038 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
5039 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
5040 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
5041 termination
5042 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
5043 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
5044 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
5045 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
5046 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
5047 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
5048 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
5049 causes a segmentation fault
5050 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
5051 linking
5052 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
5053 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
5054 uninitialized GOT
5055 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
5056 versions
5057 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
5058 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
5059 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
5060 is always true.
5061 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
5062 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
5063 modes
5064 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
5065 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
5066 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
5067 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
5068 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
5069 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
5070 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
5071 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
5072 libpthread.a
5073 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
5074 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
5075 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
5076 _res_hconf
5077 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
5078 information.
5079 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
5080 penalty
5081 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
5082 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
5083 cause transition penalty
5084 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
5085 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
5086 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
5087 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
5088 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
5089 mcount.oS)
5090 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
5091 Checking
5092 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
5093 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
5094 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
5095 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
5096 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
5097 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
5098 multi-arch
5099 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
5100 (RES_USEBSTRING)
5101 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
5102 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
5103 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
5104 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
5105 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
5106 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
5107 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
5108 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
5109 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
5110 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
5111 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
5112 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
5113 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
5114 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
5115 glibc
5116 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
5117 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
5118 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
5119 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
5120 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
5121 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
5122 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
5123 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
5124 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
5125 U+20AC), not same as GBK
5126 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
5127 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
5128 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
5129 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
5130 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
5131 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
5132 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
5133 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
5134 RES_USE_INET6
5135 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
5136 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
5137 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
5138 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
5139 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
5140 wrong condition
5141 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
5142 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
5143 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
5144 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
5145 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
5146 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
5147 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
5148 clang
5149 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
5150 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
5151 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
5152 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
5153 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
e720d3d9 5154\f
11fca961
AZ
5155Version 2.24
5156
5b4ecd3f
JM
5157* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
5158 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
5159 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
5160 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
5161 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
5162 architectures.
5163
b6ebba70
MF
5164* The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
5165 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
5166 been included in previous releases.
11fca961 5167
7584a3f9
FW
5168* The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
5169 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
5170
b49ab5f4
FW
5171* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
5172 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
5173 instead of “union wait”.
5174
ced8f893
SG
5175* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
5176 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
5177 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
5178 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
5179 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
5180 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
5181 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
5182
2ba3cfa1
FW
5183* The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
5184 API.
5185
b7a9b7b0
MF
5186* The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
5187 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
5188 drop it.
6a54bcda 5189
41a359e2
RS
5190* nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
5191 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
5192 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
5193 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
5194 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
5195 extensions.
5196
11fca961
AZ
5197Security related changes:
5198
f5b3338d
FW
5199* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
5200 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
5201 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
5202
4ab2ab03
FW
5203* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
5204 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
5205 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
5206 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
11fca961 5207
5171f307
FW
5208* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
5209 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
5210 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
5211
bc779a1a
FW
5212* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
5213 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
5214 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
5215
fab38231
FW
5216* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
5217 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
5218 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
5219 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
5220
11fca961
AZ
5221The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5222
3c4f81ec
CD
5223 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
5224 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
5225 of MS-DOS.
5226 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
5227 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
5228 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
5229 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
5230 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
5231 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
5232 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
5233 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
5234 CLDR data
5235 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
5236 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
5237 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
5238 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
5239 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
5240 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
5241 romanisation
5242 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
5243 and +/-
5244 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
5245 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
5246 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
5247 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
5248 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
5249 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
5250 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
5251 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
5252 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
5253 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
5254 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
5255 all locales
5256 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
5257 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
5258 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
5259 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
5260 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
5261 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
5262 execute
5263 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
5264 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
5265 -Wsystem-headers
5266 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
5267 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
5268 Romanian locale data
5269 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
5270 symbol
5271 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
5272 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
5273 language
5274 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
5275 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
5276 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
5277 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
5278 machine
5279 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
5280 description
5281 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
5282 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
5283 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
5284 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
5285 when using RTLD_NEXT
5286 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
5287 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
5288 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
5289 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
5290 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
5291 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
5292 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
5293 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
5294 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
5295 Excavator core
5296 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
5297 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
5298 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
5299 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
5300 double range
5301 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
5302 part zero incorrect
5303 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
5304 equality tests
5305 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
5306 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
5307 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
5308 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
5309 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
5310 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
5311 glibc-2.22
5312 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
5313 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
5314 'tst-numeric.c'
5315 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
5316 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
5317 low part
5318 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
5319 result
5320 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
5321 unaligned stack
5322 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
5323 pointers and lengths in error-case.
5324 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
5325 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
5326 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
5327 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
5328 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
5329 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
5330 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
5331 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
5332 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
5333 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
5334 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
5335 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
5336 modes
5337 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
5338 server addresses
5339 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
5340 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
5341 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
5342 response to getaddrinfo
5343 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
5344 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
5345 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
5346 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
5347 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
5348 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
5349 sometimes incorrect
5350 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
5351 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
5352 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
5353 record types
5354 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
5355 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
5356 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
5357 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
5358 (CVE-2016-3075)
5359 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
5360 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
5361 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
5362 resolving symbols
5363 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
5364 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
5365 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
5366 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
5367 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
5368 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
5369 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
5370 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
5371 gethosts
5372 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
5373 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
5374 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
5375 (CVE-2016-3706)
5376 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
5377 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
5378 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
5379 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
5380 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
5381 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
5382 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
5383 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
5384 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
5385 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
5386 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
5387 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
5388 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
5389 executable
5390 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
5391 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
5392 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
5393 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
5394 XPG3
5395 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
5396 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
5397 (CVE-2016-4429)
5398 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
5399 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
5400 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
5401 AS not supporting AVX512
5402 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
5403 sNaN argument
5404 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
5405 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
5406 argument
5407 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
5408 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
5409 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
5410 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
5411 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
5412 eax=0x80000001
5413 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
5414 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
5415 subnormals
5416 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
5417 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
5418 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
5419 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
5420 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
5421 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
5422 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
5423 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
5424 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
5425 input
5426 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
5427 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
5428 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
5429 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
5430 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
5431 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
5432 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
5433 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
5434 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
5435 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
5436 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
5437 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
5438 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
5439 double rounding
5440 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
5441 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
5442 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
5443 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
5444 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
5445 (Only arm/linux)
5446 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
5447 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
5448 fallbacks
5449 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
5450 "invalid" exceptions
5451 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
5452 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
5453 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
5454 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
5455 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
5456 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
5457 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
5458 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
5459 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
11fca961 5460\f
aeb47bbc
DM
5461Version 2.23
5462
23256f5e
MF
5463* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
5464 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
5465 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
5466 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
5467 89, 16061, and 18568.
5468
2359035a
FW
5469* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
5470 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
5471 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
5472 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
5473 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
5474 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
5475 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
5476
8b7b7f75
MW
5477* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
5478 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
5479 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
5480
2eecc8af
FW
5481* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
5482 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
5483 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
5484 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
5485 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
5486 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
5487 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
5488
a62719ba
FW
5489* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
5490 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
5491 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
5492 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
7f0d9e61 5493 the concurrent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 5494 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
a62719ba
FW
5495 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
5496 Ericsson.)
a014cecd 5497
bc148ca1
MF
5498* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
5499 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
5500 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
5501 independent of the GNU C Library.
5502
1c70b6f1
ZW
5503* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
5504 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
1efad39b 5505
eed3e1eb
JM
5506* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
5507 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
5508 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
5509 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
5510 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
5511 Linux kernel.
5512
1efad39b
SL
5513* Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
5514 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
b08b4218 5515
d709042a
JM
5516* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
5517 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
5518 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
5519 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
5520 defining their own copy.
5521
b08b4218
JM
5522* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
5523 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
5524 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
f268ab5f 5525
8f5e8b01
JM
5526Security related changes:
5527
6400ae6e
FW
5528* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
5529 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
5530
5531* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
5532 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
5533 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
5534 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
5535 (CVE-2015-8777)
5536
5537* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
5538 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
5539
5540* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
5541 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
5542
8f5e8b01
JM
5543* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
5544 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 5545 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
8f5e8b01 5546
e9db92d3
CD
5547* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
5548 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
5549 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
5550 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
5551 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
5552 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
5553 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
5554 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
5555 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
5556 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
5557 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
5558 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
5559 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
5560
ad372e29 5561The following bugs are resolved with this release:
f268ab5f 5562
ad372e29
AZ
5563 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
5564 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
5565 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
5566 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
5567 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
5568 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
5569 use `mkstemp'
5570 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
7f0d9e61 5571 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doesn't set errno on
ad372e29
AZ
5572 overflow/underflow errors
5573 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
5574 overflow/underflow
5575 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
5576 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
5577 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
5578 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
5579 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
5580 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
5581 are not contiguous
5582 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
5583 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
5584 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
5585 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
5586 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
5587 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
5588 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
5589 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
5590 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
5591 all exceptions
5592 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
5593 arguments
5594 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
5595 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
5596 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
5597 should include
5598 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
5599 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
5600 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
5601 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
5602 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
5603 GNU/Linux
5604 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
5605 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
5606 arguments
5607 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
5608 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
5609 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
5610 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
5611 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
5612 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
5613 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
5614 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
5615 rounding results
5616 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
5617 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
5618 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
5619 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
5620 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
5621 fails
5622 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
5623 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
5624 block boundary
5625 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
5626 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
5627 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
5628 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
5629 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
5630 4.7?
5631 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
5632 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
5633 (related to lock elision)
5634 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
5635 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
5636 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
5637 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
5638 (CVE-2015-8779)
5639 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
5640 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
5641 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
5642 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
5643 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
5644 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
5645 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
5646 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
5647 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
5648 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
5649 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
5650 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
5651 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
5652 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
5653 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
5654 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
5655 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
5656 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
5657 contains a vector instruction exception.
5658 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
5659 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
5660 locales
5661 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
5662 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
5663 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
5664 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
5665 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
5666 missing break ?
5667 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
5668 32bit processes
5669 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
5670 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
5671 infinity
5672 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
5673 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
5674 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
5675 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
5676 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
5677 be forced unloaded
5678 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
5679 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
5680 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
5681 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
5682 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
5683 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
5684 statically too large
5685 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
5686 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
5687 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
5688 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
5689 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
5690 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
5691 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
5692 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
5693 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
5694 FUTEX_SHARED
5695 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
5696 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
5697 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
5698 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
5699 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
5700 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
5701 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
5702 opendir()
5703 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
5704 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
5705 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
5706 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
5707 signgam
5708 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
5709 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
5710 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
5711 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
5712 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
5713 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
5714 dependencies
5715 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
5716 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
5717 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
5718 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
5719 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
5720 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
5721 (CVE-2015-8776)
5722 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
5723 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
5724 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
5725 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
5726 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
5727 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
5728 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
5729 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
5730 contention
5731 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
5732 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
5733 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
5734 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
5735 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
5736 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
5737 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
5738 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
5739 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
5740 rounding modes
5741 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
5742 ILP32
5743 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
5744 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
5745 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
5746 threshold
5747 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
5748 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
5749 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
7f0d9e61 5750 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assembler
ad372e29
AZ
5751 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
5752 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
5753 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
5754 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
5755 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
5756 pthread_setaffinity_np
5757 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
5758 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
5759 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
5760 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
5761 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
5762 prelink
5763 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
5764 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
5765 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
5766 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
5767 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
5768 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
5769 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
5770 bits/mathcalls.h
5771 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
5772 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
5773 for C99-based standards
5774 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
5775 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
5776 math-only
5777 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
5778 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
5779 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
5780 disabled
5781 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
5782 "inexact" exceptions
5783 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
5784 arguments
5785 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
5786 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
5787 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
5788 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
5789 rules
5790 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
5791 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
5792 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
5793 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
5794 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
5795 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
5796 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
5797 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
5798 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
5799 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
5800 from 32bit
5801 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
5802 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
5803 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
5804 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
5805 subnormals
5806 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
5807 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
5808 error on 32-bit architectures
5809 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
5810 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
5811 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
5812 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
5813 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
5814 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
5815 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
5816 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
5817 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
5818 -Os
5819 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
5820 CPU's.
5821 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
5822 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
5823 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
5824 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
5825 architectures
5826 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
aeb47bbc 5827\f
1c7a4a51
JM
5828Version 2.22
5829
5830* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5831
3df5cd98 5832 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
0e569d30
MF
5833 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
5834 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
5835 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
5836 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
5837 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
5838 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
5839 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
5840 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
5841 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
5842 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
5843 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
5844 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
5845 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
5846 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
5847 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
5848 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
5849 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
6fdd5d65
FW
5850 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
5851 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
2959eda9 5852
f7fba805
SL
5853* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
5854 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
5855
2959eda9
AS
5856* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
5857 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
5858 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
5859 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
5860 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
5861 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4a4839c9 5862
42261ad7
FW
5863* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
5864 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
5865 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
5866 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
5867 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
5868
afcd9480
AM
5869* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
5870 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
5871 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
5872
4a4839c9
AO
5873* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
5874 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
5875 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
5876 17998.
5877
b13b96ca
AS
5878* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
5879 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
5880 condition in some applications.
21933112
AS
5881
5882* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
a6336cc4
AS
5883 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
5884 pow, powf.
21933112
AS
5885 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
5886 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
037e4b99
AS
5887 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
5888 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 5889 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
fdb7d390
AZ
5890
5891* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
5892 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
5893 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
5894 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
7fde904c
MF
5895
5896* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
5897 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
5898 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
7493ab25
RM
5899
5900* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
5901 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
2ec11c2b
ZW
5902
5903* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
5904 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
5905 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
5906
a03ba363 5907 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
2ec11c2b
ZW
5908 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
5909 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
1c7a4a51 5910\f
58b930ae
SP
5911Version 2.21
5912
5913* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5914
042e1521 5915 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
5bd80bfe
PP
5916 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
5917 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
5918 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
5919 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
5920 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
5921 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
5922 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
5923 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
5924 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
5925 17892.
5926
46d54873
FW
5927* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
5928 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
5929 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
5930 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
5931 intended.
042e1521
CD
5932
5933* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
5934 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
5935 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
5936 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
5937 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
5938 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
a39208bd 5939
522e6ee3
CLT
5940* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
5941
d3b00f46
AZ
5942* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
5943 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 5944 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
96d6fd6c 5945
8d2c0a59
AZ
5946* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
5947 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
5948 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
5949 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
5950 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
5951 effects being visible outside transactions.
5952
dc400d7b
RE
5953* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
5954 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
ec582ca0 5955
0f9dfe04
L
5956* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
5957
a39208bd
CD
5958* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
5959 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
ebda2f17 5960 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
a39208bd
CD
5961 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
5962 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
fb89b46d 5963
a5357b7c
JL
5964* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
5965 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
5966
e54db0ea
AM
5967* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
5968 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
5969 format.
11e3417a 5970
4863355a
JM
5971* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
5972 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
5973 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
5974
a4ecc9eb
JM
5975* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
5976 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
5977
0d560bbf 5978* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
0781a777
RM
5979
5980* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
5981 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
5982 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
5983 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
6d248857
WN
5984
5985* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
5986 with newer versions of bison.
28c38448
MF
5987
5988* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
5989 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
5990 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
5991 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
5992 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
5993 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
5994 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
5995 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
5996 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
5997 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
5998 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
5999 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
6000 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
6001
6002 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
6003 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
6004 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
6005 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
6006 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
58b930ae 6007\f
d5b396c1
AM
6008Version 2.20
6009
6010* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6011
6a9350c8
JM
6012 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
6013 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
6014 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
6015 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
6016 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
6017 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
6018 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
6019 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
6020 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
6021 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
6022 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
6023 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
6024 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
6025 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
6026 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
0961f7e1 6027
95ee7fb1
SL
6028* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
6029 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
6030 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
6031 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
6032 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 6033 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
95ee7fb1
SL
6034 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
6035 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
6036 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
6037 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
6038
0961f7e1
JL
6039* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
6040 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
6041 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
6042 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
6043 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
f3d338c9 6044
f940b965
RE
6045* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
6046
d0f5b3f8
JM
6047* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6048 can be used with is 2.6.32.
6049
d6fe5e58
JM
6050* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
6051 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
6052 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
6053 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
6054 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
6055 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
6056
464263cc
JM
6057* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
6058 from ports.
c941736c
JM
6059
6060* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
6061 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
6062 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
6063 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
6064 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
6065 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
6066 test macros defined.
f63c86fe
WN
6067
6068* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5a414ff7
DV
6069
6070* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
6071 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
6072 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
6073 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
6074 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
6075 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
6076 is not built.
d03efb2f
AM
6077
6078* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
6079 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
6080 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
6081 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
6082 invocation.
cfd2ea50
JM
6083
6084* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
6085 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
6086 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
f083450f
RM
6087
6088* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
6089 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
6090 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
6091 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
4e8f95a0
FW
6092
6093* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
6094 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
6095 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
6096 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
6097 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
6098 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
6099 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
6100 additional checks.
9a8a5720
RM
6101
6102* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
6103 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
6104 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
6105 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
6106 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
6107 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
6108 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
6109 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
6110 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
a1a6a401
FW
6111
6112* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
6113 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
6114 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
6115 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
6116 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 6117 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
41488498
FW
6118
6119* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
6120 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
6121 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
6122 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
6c1fd795
DM
6123\f
6124Version 2.19
6125
6126* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6127
fd2f9486
JM
6128 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
6129 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
6130 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
6131 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
6132 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
6133 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
6134 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
6135 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
6136 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
6137 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
ed27ed83
JM
6138 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
6139 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
6140 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
6141 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
6142 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
798212a0
PP
6143 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
6144 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
6145 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
141f3a77 6146
11520a57
CD
6147* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
6148 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
6149
2fe16229
CD
6150* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
6151 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
6152 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
08d76093
CD
6153 extension which uses __block.
6154
303e567a
SP
6155* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
6156 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
6157 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
6158 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
6159 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
6160
141f3a77
SP
6161* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
6162 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
6163 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
6164 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
6165 if malloc fails.
c61b4d41
CD
6166
6167* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
6168 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
6169 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
6170 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
6171 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
91ce4085
FW
6172
6173* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
6174 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
6175 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
6176
ba0d798c
WN
6177* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
6178 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
6179 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
6180 #15856, #15857).
6181
7cbcdb36
SP
6182* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
6183 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
6184
82bab04b 6185* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 6186 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
ddd9fb8f 6187
c5f840fd
MB
6188* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
6189
3e181dda
CD
6190* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
6191 supported locales.
ddd9fb8f 6192
3e181dda 6193* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
7447ccd9 6194
8a05c252
CL
6195* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
6196
6055173a
JM
6197* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
6198 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
6199 for which the C library was built.
6200
b125d3e5
JM
6201* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
6202 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
6203 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
6204 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
6205 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
6206 in the following circumstances:
6207
6208 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
6209
6210 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
6211 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
6212
d4f66d37
JM
6213* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
6214 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
6215
3e181dda
CD
6216* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
6217 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
e35696c3 6218
ffb89e53
AO
6219* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
6220
5d29ccce
SP
6221* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
6222 transcendental functions have been introduced.
6223
8b7d57cd 6224* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
b125d3e5
JM
6225
6226* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 6227
fd712ef3 6228* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 6229
c688b419
JM
6230* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
6231 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
6232 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
6233 disable some of those declarations.
6234
7011c262 6235* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
029c7b25
JM
6236 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
6237 that did nothing) has also been removed.
0a57b83e
AO
6238
6239* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
6240 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
ee4ec1d7
AK
6241
6242* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
6243 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
6244 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
6245 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
6246 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
6247 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
6248 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
6249 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
6250 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
6251 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
6252 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
6253 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
6254 require recompilation.
2c8bfe7d
DM
6255\f
6256Version 2.18
6257
6258* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6259
17db6e8d 6260 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
0432680e
PY
6261 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
6262 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
8c17cb1f
JM
6263 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
6264 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
6265 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
6266 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
6267 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
6268 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
6269 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
6270 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
6271 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
6272 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
6273 15755, 15759.
e4608715
CD
6274
6275* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
6276 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
6277 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
6278 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
6279 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
6280 understands and accepts the risks.
1cef1b19 6281
5b535ac4
AS
6282* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
6283 #15078).
6284
1cef1b19
AS
6285* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
6286 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
7fffbdff 6287
55e4107b
SP
6288* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
6289 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
6290 destructor calls to glibc.
6291
e5c74c63
SP
6292* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
6293 output.
6294
6295* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
6296 non-x86 architectures.
6297
e7521973
JM
6298* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
6299
6300* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
6301
6302* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
6303 Richard Henderson.
6304
6305* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
6306
6307* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
6308 Richard Henderson.
6309
6310* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
6311 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
6312
8cfdb7e0
SP
6313* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
6314
57267616
TS
6315* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
6316 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
58206c68 6317
c204ab28
SP
6318* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
6319 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
61dd6208 6320
0748546f
PE
6321* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
6322 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
6323 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
6324
61dd6208
SP
6325* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
6326 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
6327 attributes of a process.
a7cb9d67
AK
6328
6329* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
6330 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
6331 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
6332 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
6333 mutexes.
be063fa4
RA
6334
6335* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
6336 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
6337
6338* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
370ca3d2
JM
6339\f
6340Version 2.17
6341
6342* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6343
80ceeaee 6344 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
b4180a5e
AJ
6345 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
6346 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
6347 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
6348 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
6349 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
6350 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
6351 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
6352 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
6353 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
6354 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
6355 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
6356 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
6357 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
6358 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
14bc93a9 6359
95b4f1b6
SE
6360* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
6361
14bc93a9
JL
6362* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
6363 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
7a845b2c 6364
b54eb3cb
JM
6365* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
6366 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
6367
7e2bd01f
MS
6368* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
6369
08f43f9b
AK
6370* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
6371 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
6372 zEnterprise z196.
6373 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
6374
84b3fd84
FW
6375* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
6376 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
6377 the internal function __secure_getenv.
6378
815e6fa3
GB
6379* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
6380 Implemented by Gary Benson.
6381
400726de
MK
6382* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
6383 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
6384
7aab07e4 6385* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 6386 can be used with is 2.6.16.
7aab07e4 6387
15d0da8c
WS
6388* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
6389 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
6390
3cc3ef96
RM
6391* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
6392 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
c53d909c
RM
6393 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
6394 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3cc3ef96 6395
b54eb3cb
JM
6396* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
6397 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
6398
85429b1a 6399* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 6400 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
85429b1a
DM
6401 default.
6402
b54eb3cb
JM
6403* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
6404 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
6405 information in --help and --version output.
6406
050af9c4
SP
6407* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
6408 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
6409 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
6410
89a3ad0b
AO
6411* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
6412 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
6413 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
6414 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
6415 when the mode is enabled.
6416
6e6249d0
RM
6417* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
6418 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
6419 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
6420 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
6421 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
6422 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
6423 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5a04f376 6424
d9286582
NK
6425* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
6426 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
8d44e150
UD
6427\f
6428Version 2.16
6429
6430* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6431
a8133e19
JM
6432 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
6433 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
6434 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
6435 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
6436 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
6437 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
6438 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
6439 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
6440 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
6441 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
6442 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
6443 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
6444 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
6445 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
6446 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
6447 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
6448 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
6449 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
6450 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
6451 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
6452 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
6453 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
6454 14277, 14278.
380d7e87 6455
a086b4d6
L
6456* Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
6457 configuring glibc with:
6458 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
8f7a75d7 6459 Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
a086b4d6
L
6460 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
6461
380d7e87
UD
6462* ISO C11 support:
6463
6464 + define static_assert
6465
6466 + do not declare gets
6467
6468 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
6469
6470 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
6471 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
6472 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
6473 implementation.
8d44e150 6474
74033a25 6475 + timespec_get added
544563c9
UD
6476
6477 + uchar.h support added
d75a0a62 6478
ac097f5c
UD
6479 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
6480
16dd419d
UD
6481 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6482
9dc4e1fb 6483* Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
33808bf1
UD
6484
6485* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
d9a216c0
UD
6486
6487* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
6488 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
daa891c0
UD
6489
6490* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
6491 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
021db4be
AJ
6492
6493* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
6494 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
6495 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
6496 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
6497 existing applications.
ffb7875d 6498
21708942 6499* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
ffb7875d
JM
6500 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
6501 before 2.6.
83678f76 6502
edb00e4d
RH
6503* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
6504 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
6505 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
6506
83678f76 6507* New locales: mag_IN
7b44a2df
RM
6508
6509* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
6510 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
6511 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
6512 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
6513 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
47e452cf
JM
6514
6515* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
6516
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
6517* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
6518 and Will Schmidt.
47e452cf
JM
6519
6520* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
6521
6522* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
6523 without a previously built glibc.
6524
6525* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
6526 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
6527
6528* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
6529 now supported for ARM processors.
6530
6531* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
6532 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
6533 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
6534
6535* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
6536
6537* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
6538 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
6539 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
6540 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
929cc14e
AJ
6541
6542* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
6543 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
6544 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
6545 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
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6547* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
6548 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
6549 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
6550 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
6551 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
6552
6553* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
6554 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
6555 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
6556 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
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6560* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6561
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6562 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
6563 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
6564 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
6565 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
6566 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
6567 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
6568 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
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6570* New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
6571 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6573* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
6574 and support for initgroups lookups.
6575 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6577* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
6578 Contributed by HJ Lu.
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6579
6580* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
6581 Contributed by HJ Lu.
99710781 6582
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6583* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
6584 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 6585 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 6586
d42964a0 6587* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
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6588 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
6589
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6590* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
6591 for x86-64 and x86-32.
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6592 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
6593
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6594* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
6595 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6596
6597* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
6598 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6600* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
6601 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6603* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
6604 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6606* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
6607 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6608
6609* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
6610 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6612* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
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6614* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
6615 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6617* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
6618 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
2655fd5c 6619
6b64057b 6620* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
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6624* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6625
553149f6 6626 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 6627 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 6628 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 6629 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
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6631 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
6632 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
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6633 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
6634 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 6635 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
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6637* The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
6638 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
6639 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 6640 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
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6641
6642 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
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6643 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
6644 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
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6645 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6646
c6489db3 6647* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
f1f929d7 6648 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
83fe108b 6649
72d1dddb 6650* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 6651 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
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6653* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
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6655* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
6656 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6658* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
6659 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
6660 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
6661 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
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6664
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6665* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6666
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6667 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
6668 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
6669 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
6670 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
6671 12378, 12394, 12397
ac2b484c 6672
10b3bedc 6673* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
c08fb0d7 6674
ac2b484c 6675* POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
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6677* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
6678 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 6679 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6681Version 2.12
6682
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6683* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6684
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6685 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
6686 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
6687 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
6688 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
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6689 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
6690 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
6691 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 6692 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
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6693
6694* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
d36b9613 6695
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6696* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
6697
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6698* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
6699
6700* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
6701 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
6702 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6703
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6704* New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
6705 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
6706 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
6707 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
6708 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6709
d36b9613 6710* New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
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6712Version 2.11
6713
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6714* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6715
6716 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
6717 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
6718 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
6719 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
6720 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
6721 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
6722
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6723* New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
6724 mkostemps64
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6725 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6726
24ab9c76 6727* Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
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6728 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6729
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6730* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
6731 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
6732
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6733* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
6734
0122f28e 6735* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
9d36a6c4 6736 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 6737 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
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6738 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
6739
9d36a6c4 6740 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
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6741 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6742
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6743* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
6744 strstr, strcasestr.
6745 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
6746
6747* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
6748 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
6749
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6750* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
6751 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
6752
6753* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
6754 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6755
6756* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
6757 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
6758 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
6759 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
6760 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
6761 necessity is every process again.
6762 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6763
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6764* New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
6765 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
6766
6767* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
6768 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
6769
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6770* Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
6771 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
6772 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6773
9dd5b8a1 6774* New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
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6776Version 2.10
6777
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6778* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6779
6780 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
6781 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
6782 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
6783 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
6784 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
6785
bb066545 6786* New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
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6787 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6788
425ce2ed 6789* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
e109c612 6790 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 6791
1fdd89a7 6792* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
735be400 6793 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
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6795* XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
6796 now in POSIX.
77db439e 6797
1f04d005 6798* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6cbe890a 6799 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1f04d005 6800
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6801* New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
6802 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6803
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6804* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
6805 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6806
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6807* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
6808 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6809
6810* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
6811 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
6812 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6813
735be400 6814* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
878b72c5 6815
84aa52d7 6816* Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
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6817 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6818
6819* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
6820 and extend existing format specifiers.
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6821 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6822
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6823* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
6824 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6825
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6826* DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
6827 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
6828 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
6829 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
6830 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
6831 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6834
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6836
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6837 2447, 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447,
6838 6461, 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712,
6839 6713, 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839,
6840 6843, 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955,
6841 6966, 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
d36b9613 6842
b29899ae 6843* Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
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6844 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6845
6846* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
6847 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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6849* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
6850 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6852* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
6853 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
6854 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6855
6856* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
6857 Implemented by Eric Blake.
e038616f 6858
8ec2550e 6859* New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
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6861* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
ebcc1f4d 6862 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
e038616f 6863
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6864* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
6865 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
6866 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
6867 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6868
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6869* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
6870 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6872* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
6873 Sinhala)
48b22986 6874 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
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6876* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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6879
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6880* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6881
6882 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
6883 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
6884 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
6885 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
6886 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
6887 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
6888 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
6889
e038616f 6890* New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
b4354cf4 6891
77751669 6892* New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
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6894* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
6895 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
6896
6897* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
6898
6899* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
6900 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6901
6902* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
6903 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6904
6905* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
6906 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
6907 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
6908
6909* Faster memset for x86-64.
6910 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
6911
6912* Faster memcpy on x86.
6913 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6914
6915* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
6916 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3b32d8a2 6917
7f0d9e61 6918* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implementation for some PPC variants.
d990b282 6919 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
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6922
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6923* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6924
6925 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
6926 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
6927 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
6928 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
6929 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
6930
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6931* More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
6932 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
6933
6934* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
6935
6936* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
6937 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
6938 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
6939
6940* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
6941 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
6942
28919a77 6943* New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
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6944 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6945
6946* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6947
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6948* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
6949 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6950
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6951* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
6952 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
6953
6954* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
6955 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
6956
6957* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6958
6959* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
6960 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6962* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
6963 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
6964 yo_NG.
6965
6966+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
6967 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6972
6973 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
6974 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
6975 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
6976 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
6977 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
6978 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
6979 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
6980 4702, 4858
6981
bce20b9a 6982* New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
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6985
b21fa963 6986* nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6989
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6990* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6991
6992 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
6993 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
6994 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
6995 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
6996 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
6997 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
6998 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
6999 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
7000 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
7001
3af48b5b 7002* For Linux, the sorting of addresses returned by getaddrinfo now also
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7003 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
7004 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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7006* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
7007 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7008
871b9158 7009* New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
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7011* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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7013* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
7014 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
7015 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
457b559e 7016 site might have problems with the default behavior.
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7017 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7018
07bfff20 7019* Iterating over entire database in NIS can be slow. With the
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7020 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
7021 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
7022 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7023
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7024* The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
7025 Ulrich Drepper.
7026
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7027* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
7028
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7029* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
7030 Ulrich Drepper.
7031
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7032* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
7033
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7034* New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
7035 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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7038
7039* More overflow detection functions.
7040
7041* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
7042 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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7044 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
7045 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
7046 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
7047 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
7048 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
7049 by Masahide Washizawa.
7050
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7051* It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
7052 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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7054* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
7055 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
7056 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
7057 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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7059* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
7060 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
7061
7062* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
7063
7064* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
7065 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
7066 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
7067
7068* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
7069 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
7070
7071* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
7072 for compatibility with some other systems.
7073
7074* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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7076Version 2.3.6
7077
7078* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
7079
7080 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
7081 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
7082 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
7083 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
7084 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
7085 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
7086
5a82c748 7087 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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7089* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
7090
7091* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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7093Version 2.3.5
7094
7095* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
7096
7097 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
7098 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
7099 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
7100 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
7101
5a82c748 7102 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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7104Version 2.3.4
7105
7106* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
7107 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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7108
7109* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
7110 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
7111 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7112
7113* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
7114 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
7115
0325dd20 7116* getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
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7117 efficiently.
7118 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7119
7120* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
7121 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
7122 handling data.
7123
7124* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
7125 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
0325dd20 7126 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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7127
7128* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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7129 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7130
7131* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
7132 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
7133 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
7134 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7135
7136* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
7137 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
7138 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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7139 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
7140
7141* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
7142 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
7143 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
7144 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
7145 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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7147Version 2.3.3
7148
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7149* New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
7150 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
7151
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7152* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
7153 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
925c3c5c 7154
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7156 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
7157
7158* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
7159 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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7161* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
7162 by Roland McGrath.
7163
c5af724c 7164* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
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7165 and Ulrich Drepper.
7166
7167* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
7168 RFC 3484.
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7170Version 2.3.2
7171
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7172* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
7173 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
7174 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
7175 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
7176 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
7177 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
7178 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
7179 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
7180 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
7181
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7182* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
7183 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
7184 and are now also available on the Hurd.
7185
7186* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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7187
7188* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
7189 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
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7191* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
7192 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
7193
52a16e58 7194* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
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7196* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
7197 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
9ef0a840 7198
7f0d9e61 7199* With appropriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
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7200 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
7201 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
7202 of weak definition in ld.so.
7203
7204* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
7205 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
7206
7207* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
7208 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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7212* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
7213 charsets.
7214
7215* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
7216 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
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bb0ec5bd 7218* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 7219 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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7220
7221* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
7222 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
8e57fc70 7223
bb0ec5bd 7224* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
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7225 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
7226 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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7227
7228* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
7229 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3b0bdc72 7230
bb0ec5bd 7231* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3b0bdc72 7232 implementation of regex.
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7233
7234* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
7235 Unicode 3.2.
be45f421 7236
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7237* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
7238 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
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7240* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
7241 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
7242 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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7243
7244* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
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7246
7247* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
7248 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
7249 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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7250
7251* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
7252 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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7253
7254* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
7255 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
7256 and Ulrich Drepper.
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7257
7258* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
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7260Version 2.2.6
7261
7262* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
7263 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
7264
7265* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
7266 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
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7268Version 2.2.5
7269
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7270* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
7271 128-bit long double format.
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7273* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
7274 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
a8ae31c2 7275
ad2e4f18 7276* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
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7278* Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
7279
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7280* libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
7281 as well.
7282
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7283* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
7284 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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7285
7286* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
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7288Version 2.2.4
7289
2995f70e 7290* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 7291 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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7292
7293* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
7294 support Unicode 3.1.
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7295
7296* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
7297 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
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69d5f925 7299* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 7300
69d5f925 7301* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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7302 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
7303 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
7304
7305* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
7306 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
7307
7308* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
7309 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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7311* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
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7313Version 2.2.3
7314
1746f2b0 7315* Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
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7316 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
7317 in float, double, and long double format.
7318
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7320 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
7321 128-bit long double format.
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7323* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
7324 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
7325 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
7326 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
7327
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7328* An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
7329 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
7330 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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7332* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
7333 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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7334
7335* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
7336 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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7338* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
7339 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
7340 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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7341
7342* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
7343 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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7345* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
7346 of functions for Linux/x86.
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7348* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
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7350Version 2.2.2
7351
464d97ec 7352* Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
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7353 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
7354 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
7355 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
7356 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
7357 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
7358 other headers.
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7360* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
7361 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
7362
7363* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
7364 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
7365 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
7366 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
7367
7368* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
7369 locales. While
7370
7371 locale -a
7372
7373 only lists the names of the supported locales
7374
7375 locale -a --verbose
7376
7377 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
7378 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
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7381
7382* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
7383 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
7384 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
7385 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
7386 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
7387
7388 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
7389
7390 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
7391
7392 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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7393
7394* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
7395 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
7396 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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7398* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
7399 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
7400
7401* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
7402 changed from the default "C" locale.
7403
7404* The usual bug fixes.
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7407
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7408* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
7409 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
7410 is in progress.
7411
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7413
793bd4d9 7414* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
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7416 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
7417 obviously requires a database library being available.
7418
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7419* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7420
abbffdf9 7421* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
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7423* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
7424 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
7425
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7426* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
7427
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7428* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
7429 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
7430 and Mark Kettenis.
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7431
7432 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
7433 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
7434 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 7435
a00c3ca9 7436 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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7437 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
7438
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7439* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
7440 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
7441 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
7442
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7443* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
7444 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
7445 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
7446 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7447
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7448 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
7449 structures for the wide character tables.
7450
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7451* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7452
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7453* The utmp daemon has been removed.
7454
7455* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
7456
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7457* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
7458 and Yutaka Niibe.
7459
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7460* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
7461
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7462* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
7463
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7464* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7465
7466* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
7467
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7468* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
7469
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7471 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
7472 implemented for Linux.
7473
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7474* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
7475 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
7476 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
7477 versions.
7478
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7479* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
7480 Masahide Washizawa.
7481
8f3f1e09 7482* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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7483\f
7484Version 2.1.3
7485
7486* bug fixes
7487
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7489Version 2.1.2
7490
7491* bug fixes
7492
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7494Version 2.1.1
7495
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7496* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
7497
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7498* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
7499
407d26b7 7500* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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7501
7502* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
7503
407d26b7 7504* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 7505
407d26b7 7506* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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7507
7508* Update timezone data files.
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7510* lots of charmaps corrections
7511
7512* some new locale definitions and charmaps
7513
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7515Version 2.1
7516
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7517* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
7518 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
7519 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
7520 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
7521 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
7522 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
7523
c84142e8 7524* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 7525 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 7526
1fb05e3d 7527* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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7528 symbol level.
7529
7f0d9e61 7530* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierarchical
c84142e8 7531 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
377a515b 7532
cbdee279 7533* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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7534
7535* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 7536 numbers.
377a515b 7537
cbdee279 7538* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
e61abf83 7539
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7540* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
7541 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
e61abf83 7542
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7543* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
7544 library.
7545
e61abf83 7546* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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7547 functions from ISO C 9X.
7548
7549* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
7550 real valued functions.
e61abf83 7551
a5a0310d 7552* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
e61abf83 7553
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7554* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
7555
7556* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 7557
440d13e2 7558* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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7559
7560* Optimized string functions have been added.
7561
7562* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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7563
7564* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
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7566* Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
7567 daemon for NSS (nscd).
7568
7569 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
7570 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
7571
0dee6738 7572 user system wall
48244d09 7573
0dee6738 7574 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 7575
0dee6738 7576 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 7577
0dee6738 7578 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
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7580 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
7581
7582 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
7583
7584 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
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7586 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
7587 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
0dee6738 7588 horribly slow.
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7590 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
7591 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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7592
7593* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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7594
7595* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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7596
7597* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
7598 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
7599
7600* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
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7602* A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
7603 Bambrough.
7604
7605* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
7606 latest draft standards.
7607
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7608* Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
7609
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7610* Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
7611~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
62595351 7612addseverity NEW: Unix98
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7614argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
7615argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
7616argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
7617argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
7618argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
7619argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
7620argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
7621argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
7622argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
7623argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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7624authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
7625authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
7626authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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7627backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
7628backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
7629backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
7630cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
7631cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
7632cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
7633cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
7634cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
7635cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
7636capget NEW: kernel
7637capset NEW: kernel
7638carg NEW: ISO C 9x
7639cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
7640cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
7641casin NEW: ISO C 9x
7642casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
7643casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
7644casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
7645casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
7646casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
7647catan NEW: ISO C 9x
7648catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
7649catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
7650catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
7651catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
7652catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
e980ca92 7653cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
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7654ccos NEW: ISO C 9x
7655ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
7656ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
7657ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
7658ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
7659ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
7660cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
7661cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
7662cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
7663cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
7664cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
7665cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
7666clearerr_locked REMOVED
7667clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
7668clog NEW: ISO C 9x
7669clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
7670clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
7671clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
7672clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
7673clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
7674conj NEW: ISO C 9x
7675conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
7676conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
7677cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
7678cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
7679cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
7680cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
7681cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
7682cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
7683creal NEW: ISO C 9x
7684crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
7685creall NEW: ISO C 9x
7686creat64 NEW: LFS
7687csin NEW: ISO C 9x
7688csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
7689csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
7690csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
7691csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
7692csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
7693csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
7694csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
7695csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
7696ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
7697ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
7698ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
7699ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
7700ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
7701ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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7702des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
7703ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 7704endutxent NEW: Unix98
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7705exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x
7706exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
7707exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
7708exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
7709exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
7710exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
7711fattach NEW: STREAMS
7712fdetach NEW: STREAMS
7713fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
7714fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
7715fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
7716feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
7717fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
7718fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
7719fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
7720feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
7721feof_locked REMOVED
7722feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
7723ferror_locked REMOVED
7724fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
7725fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
7726fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
7727fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
7728feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
7729fflush_locked REMOVED
7730ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
7731ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
7732fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
7733fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
7734fileno_locked REMOVED
7735fma NEW: ISO C 9x
7736fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
7737fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
7738fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
7739fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
7740fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
7741fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
7742fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
7743fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
62595351 7744fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
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7745fopen64 NEW: LFS
7746fputc_locked REMOVED
7747fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
7748fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
7749freopen64 NEW: LFS
7750fseeko NEW: Unix98
7751fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
7752fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
7753fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
7754fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
7755ftello NEW: Unix98
7756ftello64 NEW: LFS
7757ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
7758ftw64 NEW: LFS
7759fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
7760gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
7761gamma_r REMOVED
7762gammaf_r REMOVED
7763gammal_r REMOVED
7764getchar_locked REMOVED
7765getdate NEW: Unix98
7766getdate_err NEW: Unix98
7767getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
7768getmsg NEW: STREAMS
7769getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
e980ca92 7770getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
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7771getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
7772getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
7773getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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7774getutxent NEW: Unix98
7775getutxid NEW: Unix98
7776getutxline NEW: Unix98
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7777glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
7778globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
7779gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
7780gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
7781grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
e980ca92 7782host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
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7783iconv NEW: iconv
7784iconv_close NEW: iconv
7785iconv_open NEW: iconv
7786if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
7787if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
7788if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
7789if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
7790in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
7791in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
7792inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
7793isastream NEW: STREAMS
7794iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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7795key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
7796key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
7797key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
7798key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
7799key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
7800key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
7801key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
7802key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
7803key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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7804llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
7805llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
7806llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
7807llround NEW: ISO C 9x
7808llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
7809llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
7810log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
7811log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
7812log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
7813lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
7814lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
7815lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
7816lround NEW: ISO C 9x
7817lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
7818lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
7819lseek64 NEW: LFS
7820makecontext NEW: Unix98
7821mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
7822mmap64 NEW: LFS
7823moncontrol REMOVED
7824modify_ldt NEW: kernel
7825nan NEW: ISO C 9x
7826nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
7827nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
7828nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
7829nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
7830nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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7831netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
7832netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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7833nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
7834nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
7835nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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7836nftw NEW: Unix98
7837nftw64 NEW: LFS
7838open64 NEW: LFS
e980ca92 7839passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
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7840pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
7841pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
7842pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
7843pread NEW: Unix98
7844pread64 NEW: LFS
7845printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
7846printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
7847profil_counter REMOVED
7848pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
7849pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
7850ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
7851ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
7852putc_locked REMOVED
7853putchar_locked REMOVED
7854putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
7855putmsg NEW: STREAMS
7856putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
62595351 7857pututxline NEW: Unix98
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7858pwrite NEW: Unix98
7859pwrite64 NEW: LFS
7860readdir64 NEW: LFS
7861readdir64_r NEW: LFS
7862remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
7863remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
7864remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
7865round NEW: ISO C 9x
7866roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
7867roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
7868rtime NEW: GNU ext.
7869scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
7870scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
7871scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
7872scandir64 NEW: LFS
7873sendfile NEW: kernel
7874setcontext NEW: Unix98
7875setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 7876setutxent NEW: Unix98
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7877sighold NEW: Unix98
7878sigignore NEW: Unix98
7879sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
7880sigrelse NEW: Unix98
7881sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
7882sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
7883sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
7884sincos NEW: GNU ext.
7885sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
7886sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
7887statfs64 NEW: LFS
7888statvfs NEW: Unix98
7889statvfs64 NEW: LFS
7890strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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7891strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
7892strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
7893strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
e980ca92 7894svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
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7896svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
7897swapcontext NEW: Unix98
7898tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
7899tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
7900tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
7901tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
7902tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
7903tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
7904trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
7905truncate64 NEW: LFS
7906truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
7907truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
7908umount2 NEW: kernel
7909unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 7910updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 7911user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 7912utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 7913versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
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7916wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
7917wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
7918wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
7919wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
7920wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
7921wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
7922wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
7923wcswcs NEW: Unix98
7924wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
7925wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
7926write_profiling REMOVED
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7928xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
7929xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
7930xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
7931xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
7932xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
7933xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
7934xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
7935xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
7936xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
7937xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
7938xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
7939xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 7940xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
e980ca92 7941xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
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7944Version 2.0.6
7945
7946* more bug fixes
7947
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7949Version 2.0.5
7950
7951* more bug fixes
7952
7953* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
7954
7955* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
7956
7957* rewrite of cbrt function
7958
7959* update of timezone data
7960\f
7961Version 2.0.4
7962
7963* more bug fixes
7964\f
7965Version 2.0.3
7966
7967* more bug fixes
c84142e8 7968\f
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7970
7971* more bug fixes
7972
7973* add atoll function
7974
7975* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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7977* fix math functions
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7979Version 2.0.1
7980
7981* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
7982
7983* dynamic loader preserves all registers
7984
7985* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
7986 the ELF dynamic loader.
7987
7988* support for parallel builds is improved
7989\f
40a4b79f 7990Version 2.0
28f540f4 7991
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7992* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
7993 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
7994 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
7995
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7996* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
7997 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
7998 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
7999 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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8000 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
8001 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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8002 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
8003 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
8004 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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8005 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
8006 files in the ELF format.
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8007
8008* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
8009 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
8010
8011* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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8012 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
8013 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
8014 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
8015 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
8016 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
8017 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
8018 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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8019 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
8020 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
8021 about dynamically linked binaries.
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8023* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
8024 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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8025 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
8026 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
8027 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 8028
f7eac6eb 8029* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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8030 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
8031 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
8032 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
8033 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
8034
8035* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
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8037* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
8038 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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8039 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
8040 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
8041 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
8042 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
8043 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
8044 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
8045 NSS services available.
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8047* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
8048 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
8049 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
8050
8051* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
8052 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
8053 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
8054
8055* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
8056 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
8057 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
8058 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
8059
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8060* The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
8061 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
8062 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
8063
8064* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
8065 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
8066 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
8067
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8068* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
8069 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
8070
f7eac6eb 8071* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 8072 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 8073 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
7f0d9e61 8074 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendment 1 specification.
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8075
8076* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
8077 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
8078 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 8079
71733723 8080* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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8081 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
8082 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
8083 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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8084 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
8085 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 8086 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 8087 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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8088
8089* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
8090 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
8091 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
8092 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
8093 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
8094 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
8095 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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8096
8097* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
8098 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
8099 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
8100 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
8101 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
8102 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
8103
8104* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
8105 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
8106
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8107* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
8108 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
8109 NSS scheme used in glibc.
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8111* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
8112
8113* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
8114 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
8115 their use is discouraged.
8116
8117* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
8118 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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8120* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
8121 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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8122
8123* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
8124 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
8125
8126* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
8127 see <dirent.h>.
8128
8129* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
8130 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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8131 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
8132 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
8133 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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8134
8135* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
8136 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
8137 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
8138 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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8139
8140* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
8141 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
8142
8143* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
8144 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
8145 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
8146 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
8147 number generator.
8148
8149* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
8150 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
8151
8152* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
8153 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
8154
71733723 8155* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 8156 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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8157 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
8158 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
c709e372 8159
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8160* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
8161
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8162* David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
8163 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
8164 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
8165
8166* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
8167 for arithmetic and string handling.
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c709e372 8169* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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8170 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
8171 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
8172 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
8173
8174* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
8175 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
8176 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
8177 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
8178 programs already written to use it.)
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8179
8180* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
8181 constants.
8182
8183* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
8184 with 4.4 BSD.
8185
8186* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
8187 a given effective group ID.
8188
8189* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
8190 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
8191 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
8192 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
8193
8194* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 8195 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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8196 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
8197 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
8198 doing the same thing.
8199
8200* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
8201 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
8202
8203* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 8204 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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8205
8206* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
8207
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8208* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
8209 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
8210 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 8211 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 8212 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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8213
8214* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
8215 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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8216
8217* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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8218 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
8219 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
8220 function.
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8221
8222* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
8223
8224* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
8225 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
8226 strings.
8227
8228* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
8229 and writing the utmp file.
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8230
8231* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
8232 Thorsten Kukuk.
8233
8234* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
8235 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
8236 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
8237
8238* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
8239 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
8240
8241* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
8242 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
8243 specification.
8244
8245* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
8246 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
8247 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
8248 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
8249
8250* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
8251 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
8252 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
8253
8254* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
8255 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
8256 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
8257 expression matcher.
8258
8259* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
8260 functionality.
8261
8262* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
8263 by Ulrich Drepper.
8264
8265* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
8266
8267* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
8268 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
8269 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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8270\f
8271Version 1.09
8272
8273* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
8274
8275* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
8276 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
8277
8278* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
8279 want to put themselves in the background.
8280
8281* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
8282 run without an operating system.
8283
8284* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
8285 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
8286
8287* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
8288 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
8289
8290* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
8291
8292* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
8293 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
8294 have YP (aka NIS).
8295
8296* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
8297 conventions.
8298
8299* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
8300 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
8301\f
8302Version 1.08
8303
8304* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
8305 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
8306 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
8307
8308* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
8309 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
8310
8311* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
8312 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
8313
8314* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
8315
8316* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
8317
8318* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
8319 compatibility.
8320
8321* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
8322 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
8323 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
8324
8325* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
8326
8327* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
8328 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
8329 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
8330
8331* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
8332 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
8333 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
8334 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
8335 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
8336 on a block).
8337
8338* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
8339 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
8340 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
8341 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
8342 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
8343 cross-compiler.
8344
8345* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
8346 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
8347\f
8348Version 1.07
8349
8350* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
8351 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
8352
8353* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
8354 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
8355 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
8356
8357* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
8358 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
8359 address of the last character written.
8360
8361* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
8362 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
8363
8364* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
8365 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
8366
8367* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
8368 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
8369 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
8370 you dereference this pointer.
8371
8372* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
8373 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
8374
8375* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
8376 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
8377 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
8378 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
8379
8380* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
8381 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
8382 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
8383 EAGAIN in every system call function.
8384\f
8385Version 1.06
8386
8387* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
8388 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
8389 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
8390 in Emacs or the `info' program.
596dc7b6 8391 Please send comments on the manual to libc-alpha@sourceware.org.
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8393* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
8394
8395* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
8396
8397* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
8398 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
8399
8400* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
8401 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
8402
8403* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
8404 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
8405
8406* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
8407 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
8408 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
8409 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
8410 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
8411
8412* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
8413 to the error code in `errno'.
8414
8415* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
8416 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
8417 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
8418 malloc'd string.
8419
8420* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
8421 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
8422 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
8423
8424* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
8425 uniquely-named temporary file.
8426\f
8427Version 1.05
8428
8429* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
8430 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
8431 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
8432
8433* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
8434 characters.
8435
8436* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
8437 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
8438
8439* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
8440\f
8441Version 1.04
8442
8443* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
8444 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
8445 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
8446 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
8447
8448* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
8449 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
8450 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
8451
8452* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
8453 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
8454
8455* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
8456 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
8457 made itself into a shared library.
8458
8459* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
8460 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
8461
8462* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
8463 with limited length.
8464
8465* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
8466
8467* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
8468
8469* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
8470
8471* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
8472 function for traversing a directory tree.
8473
8474* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
8475 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
8476 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
8477 formatted output directly to an obstack.
8478
8479* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
8480 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
8481
8482* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
8483
8484* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
8485 things to your strings.
8486
8487* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
8488
8489* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
8490 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
8491 supporting those systems.
8492
8493* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
8494 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
8495 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
8496 configuration files.
8497
8498* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
8499 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
8500
8501* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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8502 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
8503 in <strings.h>.)
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8504
8505* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
8506 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
8507 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
8508 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
8509 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
8510 required storage is not available.
8511
8512* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
8513 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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8514
8515* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
8516 latest files released from Berkeley.
8517\f
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8520
8521 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
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