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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.
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a306c790 5Please send GNU C library bug reports via <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
69be6aaf 6using `glibc' in the "product" field.
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8Version 2.43
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10Major new features:
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0f201f4a 12* The ISO C23 memset_explicit function has been added.
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14* The ISO C23 memalignment function has been added.
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16* As specified in ISO C23, the assert macro is defined to take variable
17 arguments to support expressions with a comma inside a compound
18 literal initializer not surrounded by parentheses.
19
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20* For ISO C23, the functions bsearch, memchr, strchr, strpbrk, strrchr,
21 strstr, wcschr, wcspbrk, wcsrchr, wcsstr and wmemchr that return
22 pointers into their input arrays now have definitions as macros that
23 return a pointer to a const-qualified type when the input argument is
24 a pointer to a const-qualified type.
25
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26* The C23 typedef names long_double_t, _Float32_t, _Float64_t, and (on
27 platforms supporting _Float128) _Float128_t, introduced in TS
28 18661-3:2015, have been added to <math.h>.
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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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38Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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40* Support for dumped heaps has been removed - malloc_set_state() now always
41 returns the error code -1.
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43* The uimaxabs function has been renamed to umaxabs, following a change
44 to the name of that function in ISO C2Y. The old function continues
45 to exist as a compatibility symbol for old binaries.
46
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47* The fromfp, fromfpx, ufromfp and ufromfpx functions, and the
48 corresponding functions for other floating-point types, now return
49 their result in the same type as their floating-point argument, rather
50 than intmax_t or uintmax_t, in accordance with a change to the
51 definition of these functions in ISO C23. Existing binaries that use
52 the versions returning intmax_t or uintmax_t will continue to work.
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54* The support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes has been removed on all
55 architectures (powerpc, s390x, x86_64).
56
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57Changes to build and runtime requirements:
58
59 [Add changes to build and runtime requirements here]
60
61Security related changes:
62
63The following CVEs were fixed in this release, details of which can be
64found in the advisories directory of the release tarball:
65
66 [The release manager will add the list generated by
67 scripts/process-advisories.sh just before the release.]
68
69The following bugs were resolved with this release:
70
71 [The release manager will add the list generated by
72 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
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74Version 2.42
75
76Major new features:
77
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78* The following ISO C23 function families (introduced in TS
79 18661-4:2015) are now supported in <math.h>. Each family includes
80 functions for float, double, long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx, and a
81 type-generic macro in <tgmath.h>.
82
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83 - Power and absolute-value functions: compoundn, pown, powr, rootn,
84 rsqrt.
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86* On Linux, the pthread_gettid_np function has been added.
87
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88* The ISO C2Y family of unsigned abs functions, i.e. uabs, ulabs,
89 ullabs, and uimaxabs, is now supported.
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91* On Linux, the <termios.h> interface now supports arbitrary baud rates;
92 speed_t is redefined to simply be the baud rate specified as an
93 unsigned int, which matches the kernel interface.
94
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95* The thread-local cache in malloc (tcache) now supports caching of
96 large blocks. This feature can be enabled by setting the tunable
97 glibc.malloc.tcache_max to a larger value (max 4194304). Tcache is
98 also significantly faster for small sizes.
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100* A new configure option, "--enable-sframe", can be used to enable
101 SFrame support of the GNU C Libraries. SFrame is a new stack trace
102 information format which can be used by backtrace. It requires
103 binutils with a minimum version of 2.45.
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105* Support for lightweight stack guard pages via madvise and the
106 MADV_GUARD_INSTALL flag has been added to pthread_create.
107
108* Additional optimized and correctly rounded mathematical functions have
109 been imported from the CORE-MATH project, in particular acospif,
110 asinpif, atanpif, atan2pif, cospif, sinpif, tanpif.
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112* The testsuite has been significantly extended, including coverage of
113 the functionality of the printf and scanf function families in many
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114 variants.
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116* The manual has been significantly extended and updated, particularly
117 the threads, terminal, filesystem, resource, and math chapters.
118
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119* Code has been added to detect the x86-64 Intel Arrow Lake, Panther
120 Lake, Clearwater Forest, and Diamond Rapids microarchitectures.
121
122* Regarding S390, support for the new z17 platform has been added.
123
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124Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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126* The glibc.rtld.execstack tunable now supports a compatibility mode to
127 allow programs that require an executable stack through dynamically
128 loaded shared libraries.
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130* On Linux, the <termio.h> header and the definition of struct termio
131 in <sys/ioctl.h> have been removed. The termio interface has been
132 obsolete since the very first version of POSIX.1 in 1988, replaced
133 with <termios.h>.
134
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135* The support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes has been deprecated
136 on all architectures and will be removed in the next release.
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138* On AArch64 Linux targets supporting the Scalable Matrix Extension
139 (SME), setjmp and sigsetjmp will disable the ZA state of SME.
30c7cf66 140
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141Changes to build and runtime requirements:
142
8322e93d 143* GCC 12.1 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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145* GNU Binutils 2.39 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
146
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147Security related changes:
148
149The following CVEs were fixed in this release, details of which can be
150found in the advisories directory of the release tarball:
151
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152 GLIBC-SA-2025-0001:
153 assert: Buffer overflow when printing assertion failure message
154 (CVE-2025-0395)
155
156 GLIBC-SA-2025-0003:
157 power10: strcmp fails to save and restore nonvolatile vector
158 registers (CVE-2025-5702)
159
160 GLIBC-SA-2025-0004:
161 power10: strncmp fails to save and restore nonvolatile vector
162 registers (CVE-2025-5745)
163
164 GLIBC-SA-2025-0005:
165 posix: Fix double-free after allocation failure in regcomp
166 (CVE-2025-8058)
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168The following bugs were resolved with this release:
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170 [5994] stdio: fflush after ungetc on seekable input stream
171 [12724] stdio: fclose violates POSIX 2008 on seekable input streams
172 [25263] dynamic-link: ldd and ld.so fail to resolve $ORIGIN with cross
173 dir symlink
174 [27880] nptl: Please provide a pthread pid accessor
175 [29190] dynamic-link: Symbols with version hash zero lead to crashes,
176 not matched correctly
177 [29459] stdio: fwrite does not return EPIPE when underlying write
178 fails with EPIPE.
179 [31791] nss: [Regression] nss: memory for >8 elements in nsswitch.conf
180 is not freed
181 [32058] libc: qsort leaks memory if C++ exception is thrown from
182 comparison function
183 [32269] dynamic-link: RISC-V IFUNC resolver cannot access gp pointer
184 [32369] stdio: fflush(NULL) doesn't properly flush files opened in
185 read mode
186 [32411] math: THREEp96 seems wrong
187 [32412] dynamic-link: Initial DTV is reallocated using main realloc in
188 auditing mode
189 [32483] locale: ctype.h macros segfault in multithreaded programs with
190 multiple libc.so
191 [32529] stdio: fseek failure on file opened with "rm" mode after
192 ungetc
193 [32535] stdio: fflush failure on file opened with "rm" mode after
194 ungetc
195 [32541] libc: getenv cannot be overridden in static builds
196 [32574] libc: pthread_attr_getstacksize/pthread_attr_getstack return
197 incorrect main stack size
198 [32612] dynamic-link: [aarch64 PAC] _dl_tlsdesc_dynamic can't be
199 unwound through with _Unwind_Backtrace
200 [32626] math: math: log10p1f is not correctly rounded
201 [32627] math: math: sinhf is not correctly rounded
202 [32630] math: math: tanf is not correctly rounded for all rounding
203 modes
204 [32653] dynamic-link: Review options for improving both security and
205 backwards compatibility of glibc 2.41 dlopen / execstack handling
206 [32694] math: wrong clang version 3.4 prereq checks in bits/floatn.h
207 for __float128 support, should be 3.9
208 [32708] libc: Inclusion of sys/mount.h triggers many gcc warnings
209 using -Wshift-overflow=2 -Wsystem-headers
210 [32711] math: math: remainder incorrect sign of zero result
211 [32717] libc: glibc tests fail when bfd is built with --enable-error-
212 execstack=yes
213 [32723] math: [2.41 Regression] /usr/include/bits/floatn.h doesn't
214 work with Intel SYCL compiler
215 [32763] dynamic-link: Static PIE with more than one PT_LOAD segments
216 at offset 0 segfault
217 [32777] crypt: The performance of the rand() function degradation
218 [32781] libc: Inccorect attribute access for sched_getattr
219 [32782] nptl: Race conditions in pthread cancellation causing crash
220 [32786] nptl: pthread_cond_* symbols should probably have had a
221 version bump in 2.41
222 [32795] nptl: aio_suspend_time64 confuses CLOCK_MONOTONIC and
223 CLOCK_REALTIME
224 [32810] dynamic-link: Immediate crash on x86-64 when running with
225 GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.cpu.hwcaps=-XSAVEC
226 [32823] libc: make[2]: *** [../Rules:248:
227 /home/dave/gnu/glibc/objdir/elf/tst-origin] Error 1
228 [32897] dynamic-link: pthread_getattr_np fails when executable stack
229 tunable is set
230 [32918] math: math: atanhf triggers UB
231 [32919] math: math: coshf triggers UB
232 [32920] math: math: logf triggers UB
233 [32921] math: math: sinhf triggers UB
234 [32922] math: math: cbrtf triggers UB
235 [32923] math: math: cospif triggers UB
236 [32924] math: math: erfcf triggers UB
237 [32925] math: math: sinpif triggers UB
238 [32932] libc: riscv: __riscv_hwprobe function attributes are incorrect
239 [32947] libc: stdlib: wrong iovec array size on __libc_message_impl
240 [32980] manual: getopt_long_only does not check long options first, as
241 the manual claims
242 [32981] ports: elf/tst-execstack-prog-static-tunable fails on
243 sparc64-linux-gnu
244 [32987] libc: New tst-dlopen-sgid test FAILs
245 [32996] malloc: i386 TLS helper functions don't preserve XMM registers
246 [33035] libc: [2.27 regression] Linux: __close_nocancel_nostatus
247 clobbers errno
248 [33056] string: Power 10 strcmp clobbers nonvolatile vector registers
249 (CVE-2025-5702)
250 [33059] string: Power 10 memchr clobbers v20
251 [33060] string: Power 10 strncmp clobbers nonvolatile vector registers
252 (CVE-2025-5745)
253 [33088] dynamic-link: __ehdr_start may need run-time relocation
254 [33089] build: [2.42 Regression] GCC 14.2.1 failed to build glibc
255 [33134] libc: mcount_internal shouldn't use vector/r16-r31 registers
256 nor call memcpy/memset
257 [33139] stdio: %n after static dlopen is unreliable if file
258 descriptors are exhausted
259 [33165] build: [2.42 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
260 [33173] math: Wrong IFUNC selector is used for modf/modff
261 [33185] regex: Double-free after memory allocation failure in regcomp
262 bracket expression parsing (CVE-2025-8058)
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263 [33224] dynamic-link: _dl_debug_state hook no longer works (since
264 8329939a37f483a16013dd8af8303cbcb86d92cb)
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266Version 2.41
267
268Major new features:
269
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270* Support for testing a glibc build with a set of C and C++ compilers
271 different from the C and C++ compilers used to build glibc has been
dc650eb7 272 added:
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274
dc650eb7 275 This includes support for testing the glibc build with Clang, e.g.,
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276 $ ../configure TEST_CC="clang" TEST_CXX="clang++"
277
278 Some run-time failures with Clang are expected.
279
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280* The glibc test suite has been extended again significantly, with now
281 6232 separate tests compared to 5408 in glibc-2.40.
282
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283* In /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_OPTIONS environment variable, option
284 flags can now be prefixed with “-” to clear previously set flags.
285 For example, if /etc/resolv.conf contains “options no-aaaa”, a
286 process running with the RES_OPTIONS=-no-aaaa environment variable
287 performs AAAA DNS queries when the glibc DNS stub resolver is used.
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289* The DNS stub resolver now supports the strict-error option. If
290 activated, getaddrinfo for the AF_UNSPEC address family (with dual
291 A/AAAA DNS lookups) attemps to obtain an A/AAAA response pair from
292 another DNS server if one of the responses indicates failure. Without
293 the strict-error option, getaddrinfo returns the A record data it has
294 obtained even if the AAAA query failed. The new strict error mode is
295 incompatible with some DNS environments which do not follow the RFCs,
296 which is why this mode is not enabled by default. A future version
297 of the library may turn it on by default, however.
298
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299* On Linux, the sched_setattr and sched_getattr functions have been
300 added, for supporting parameterized scheduling policies such as
301 SCHED_DEADLINE.
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303* The iconv program now supports converting files in place. The program
304 automatically uses a temporary file if required.
305
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306* Character encoding, character type info, and transliteration tables
307 have been updated to Unicode 16.0.0.
308
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309* The following ISO C23 function families (introduced in TS
310 18661-4:2015) are now supported in <math.h>. Each family includes
311 functions for float, double, long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx, and a
312 type-generic macro in <tgmath.h>.
313
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314 - Trigonometric functions: acospi, asinpi, atan2pi, atanpi, cospi,
315 sinpi, tanpi.
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e442e837 317* The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2Y_SOURCE to
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318 enable features from the draft ISO C2Y standard. Only some features
319 from this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as
320 the draft is under active development, the set of features enabled by
321 this macro is liable to change. Features from C2Y are also enabled
322 by _GNU_SOURCE, or by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2y".
323
324* Optimized and correctly rounded exp10m1f, exp2m1f, expm1f, log10f,
325 log2p1f, log1pf, log10p1f, cbrtf, erff, erfcf, lgammaf, tgammaf,
326 tanf, acosf, acoshf, asinf, asinhf, atanf, atan2f, atanhf, coshf,
327 sinhf, and tanhf functions have been added from the CORE-MATH
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328 project <https://core-math.gitlabpages.inria.fr/>.
329
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330* A benchtest framework is now in place to track the performance of many
331 (mostly numerical) functions.
332
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333* A new tunable, glibc.rtld.execstack, can be used to control whether an
334 executable stack is allowed from the main program, either implicitly
335 due to a mising GNU_STACK ELF header or explicit explicitly because
336 of the executable bit in GNU_STACK. The default is to allow
337 executable stacks.
338
339* Support for the extensible rseq ABI introduced in the Linux kernel
340 version 6.3 has been added. The size and alignment of the rseq area
341 is now determined by auxiliary vector entries when provided by the
342 running kernel. This results in __rseq_size now exposing features
343 past the original ABI which currently include 'node_id' and 'mm_cid'
344 and will also allow exposing new features as they get added to future
345 Linux kernels.
346
347* The GNU C Library now supports the Guarded Control Stack extension
348 that allows to use shadow stacks on AArch64 systems that support this
349 extension. Building the library with standard branch protection
350 enabled while using a toolchain that supports GCS (binutils 2.44 and
351 GCC 15 or later) will enable GCS support in glibc. There is no
352 special configuration flag. GCS-enabled glibc is compatible with all
353 existing executables and shared libraries and will run with and
354 without GCS support in the system. GCS is opt-in and can be
355 controlled at runtime via the glibc.cpu.aarch64_gcs tunable. By
356 default GCS is disabled. Linux kernel supports this since 6.13.
357
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358* Significant effort has been put into improving the code generation
359 and speed of mathematical functions in the vector mathematics library
360 on AArch64, with regard to the Scalable Vector Extension (SVE) and
361 Advanced SIMD (Neon) intrinsics.
362
363* Support for memory protection keys on AArch64 systems with enabled
364 Stage 1 permission overlays feature as introduced in Armv8.9 / 9.4
365 has been added.
366
367* On PowerPC64, support for the return-oriented programming protection
368 instructions added in ISA 3.1 (Power10) has been added, as well as
369 function optimizations for Power10.
370
371* A new architecture type has been introduced internally to better
372 support Hygon x86-64 processors.
373
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374Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting
375compatibility:
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377* abort is now async-signal-safe and its implementation makes longjmp
378 from the SIGABRT handler always abort if set up with setjmp. Use
379 sigsetjmp to keep the old behavior, where the handler does not stop
380 the process execution.
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0ca8785a 382* dlopen and dlmopen no longer make the stack executable if a shared
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383 library requires it, either implicitly because of a missing GNU_STACK
384 ELF header (and default ABI permission having the executable bit set)
385 or explicitly because of the executable bit in GNU_STACK, and the
386 stack is not already executable. Instead, loading such objects will
387 fail.
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389* The nios2*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
390
391* The big-endian ARC port (arceb-linux-gnu) has been removed.
392
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393Changes to build and runtime requirements:
394
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395* On recent Linux kernels with vDSO getrandom support, getrandom does
396 not act as a "shall occur" cancellation point, in which case it might
461cab1d 397 not issue a syscall or trigger a deferred cancellation event.
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399* Testing the GNU C Library requires GNU awk to be compiled with support
400 for high precision arithmetic via the MPFR library.
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402Security related changes:
403
404The following CVEs were fixed in this release, details of which can be
405found in the advisories directory of the release tarball:
406
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407 GLIBC-SA-2025-0001:
408 assert: Buffer overflow when printing assertion failure message
409 (CVE-2025-0395)
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410
411The following bugs were resolved with this release:
412
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413 [6050] locale: iconv(1) buffers all of stdin in memory
414 [10460] locale: iconv does not support in-place conversion
415 [12683] nptl: Race conditions in pthread cancellation
416 [14147] nptl: Async cancellation left active after longjmp out of
417 signal handler
418 [14799] network: RES_OPTIONS cannot disable options enabled in
419 /etc/resolv.conf
420 [17703] locale: iconv(1) EFAULTs reading the second non-mmapable input
421 [20632] stdio: Buffer overflow in wchar IO (_IO_wfile_overflow)
422 [23675] stdio: freopen() with "ccs=<charset>" leaves the stream
423 unoriented
424 [25847] nptl: pthread_cond_signal failed to wake up pthread_cond_wait
425 due to a bug in undoing stealing
426 [26275] libc: abort(3) is not signal-safe
427 [27543] ports: Inconsistent behavior when handling FPSCR on SH
428 [27821] stdio: double call to ungetc causes uninitialized memory
429 reading. (also: ungetc causes memory leak)
430 [29437] libc: arc4random is too slow
431 [30009] build: unterminated options list in benchtest
432 [30081] network: libresolv: timeout when running in single-request
433 mode
434 [30220] math: String to double returns incorrectly rounded value for
435 hexadecimal subnormal
436 [30584] libc: initstate and initstate_r crash when the state argument
437 is unaligned
438 [30647] stdio: scanf functions wrong on nan()
439 [31394] libc: clone on sparc might fail with -EFAULT for no valid
440 reason
441 [31717] dynamic-link: TLS for library gets reallocated when loaded in
442 two contexts.
443 [31799] dynamic-link: -static-pie -Wl,-Ttext-segment=0x50000 doesn't
444 work
445 [31859] locale: Transliteration rules with two input characters like
446 "ḌḌ" "DDH" do not work.
447 [31890] network: DNS stub resolver ignores header-only error responses
448 [31928] build: glibc doesn't compile if the compiler already define
449 _FORTIFY_SOURCE
450 [31968] libc: mremap implementation in C does not handle arguments
451 correctly
452 [31985] dynamic-link: la_objopen not called when ld.so is imported
453 into a private namespace. However, la_objclose is called with an
454 unknown cookie.
455 [31997] libc: exit is not thread-safe, even when all atexit handlers
456 are thread-safe
457 [32026] libc: strerror, strsignal TLS not handled correctly for
458 secondary namespaces (dlmopen, LD_AUDIT)
459 [32033] locale: iconv (the program) does not truncate output file if
460 input is empty
461 [32040] nptl: CPU affinity test skeleton for sched_setaffinity and
462 pthread_setaffinity_np can fail to report failure.
463 [32042] build: Compilation issue for tst-resolv-short-response.c with
464 older GCC
465 [32045] math: nan() / strtod() incorrectly set errno for overflowing
466 nan payload
467 [32046] locale: iconv -c fails to report input encoding errors if
468 output buffer is full
469 [32047] libc: Tunables may incorrectly set Prefer_PMINUB_for_stringop
470 [32050] locale: iconv - - < /dev/null fails with Bad file descriptor
471 [32052] libc: stdlib.h's use of 'sz' identifier causes libstdc++ test
472 failure
473 [32065] dynamic-link: _dl_fini does not call la_objclose for proxy
474 link maps
475 [32066] dynamic-link: dlclose signals la_activity (LA_ACT_DELETE)
476 after la_objclose calls
477 [32078] string: Random __strchrnul_evex512 failures
478 [32124] libc: readdir_r does not relay errors reported by the kernel
479 [32125] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in __syscall_cancel_arch for
480 powerpc64le-linux-gnu
481 [32126] libc: readdir64_r: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
482 [32128] libc: Compat readdir64_r (__old_readdir64_r) does not enforce
483 NAME_MAX limit
484 [32134] stdio: freopen does not clear flags2 (FD_CLOEXEC etc)
485 [32137] libc: libio/tst-stderr-compat, libio/tst-bz24228, math/test-
486 matherr-2, nptl/tst-pthread_kill-exited fails on powerpc-unknown-
487 linux-gnu
488 [32140] stdio: freopen leaks memory on failure
489 [32145] libc: New stdlib/tst-strtod1i, stdlib/tst-strtod3, stdlib/tst-
490 strtod4, stdlib/tst-strtod5i failures on powerpc64le-linux-gnu
491 [32148] stdio: Memory corruption with ancient i386 binaries using
492 stdio
493 [32168] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 16.0.0
494 [32173] libc: sparc: restartable syscalls are broken
495 [32192] build: s390: utf16-utf32-z9.c fails to build w/ -fomit-frame-
496 pointer
497 [32197] locale: FAIL: iconv/tst-iconv_prog-buffer failures
498 [32212] string: x86_64/strcmp caused 25% performance drop by commit
499 84e7c46df
500 [32214] libc: random_bits always returns the same value if getrandom
501 fails
502 [32215] libc: Signal handlers after fork may encounter missing robust
503 mutex list
504 [32228] libc: .preinit_array in /lib/riscv64-linux-gnu/Scrt1.o is not
505 properly aligned
506 [32231] dynamic-link: ldconfig auxcache format change in 2.36
507 [32233] libc: error calls va_end twice.
508 [32234] hurd: missing va_end call in fcntl.c
509 [32245] build: glibc -Wstringop-overflow= build failure on hppa
510 [32280] localedata: Enable transliteration rules with two input
511 characters in scn_IT
512 [32283] libc: Compilation issue for tst-syscall-restart.c with GCC
513 10.2.1
514 [32323] localedata: eo: Incorrect first day of week and first week of
515 year
516 [32344] string: Assembler warnings when building strcpy-evex.S and
517 strncpy-evex.S
518 [32350] hurd: function __xpg_strerror_r crashes for specific arguments
519 [32360] stdio: Compilation issue for tst-printf-format-skeleton.c with
520 GCC 10.2.1
521 [32366] malloc: malloc test failures with GCC 15
522 [32380] locale: dcigettext can cause SIGSEGV when domain name is too
523 long
524 [32414] libc: [x86_64 regression] tst-strtod5i.c:124:(.text+0x47c):
525 undefined reference to `__copysignf128'
526 [32418] math: __XXX math functions are declared, but not provided
527 [32420] build: GCC 6 can't build glibc 2.41
528 [32440] libc: getrandom() in glibc 2.41 (development) returns EINVAL
529 as retcode instead of errno on powerpc64le
530 [32448] libc: iconv reports failure with successful transliteration
531 [32450] libc: system() does not return -1 if a child process can't be
532 created
533 [32465] nss: ./getaddrinfo.c:1884:11: error: variable 'endp' is used
534 uninitialized whenever '||' condition is true [-Werror,-Wsometimes-
535 uninitialized]
536 [32470] dynamic-link: Integer truncation during x86-64 cache size
537 computation
538 [32488] libc: Glibc failed to build with CET enabled
539 [32492] libc: New test failures
540 [32494] build: Compilation issue with GCC 14.2.1
541 [32508] dynamic-link: ldd: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: cannot execute binary
542 file: Exec format error
543 [32512] dynamic-link: failure to build on loong, undefined reference
544 to `stpcpy'
545 [32543] build: x32 glibc is miscompiled
546 [32588] libc: [2.41 regression] bash crashes with 'realloc(): invalid
547 pointer' with `env -i PATH=`
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550
551Major new features:
552
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554 GCC 14.1 or later to use __builtin_stdc_bit_ceil etc. built-in functions
555 in order to support unsigned __int128 and/or unsigned _BitInt(N) operands
556 with arbitrary precisions when supported by the target.
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559 enable features from the ISO C23 standard. Only some features from
560 this standard are supported by the GNU C Library. The older name
561 _ISOC2X_SOURCE is still supported. Features from C23 are also enabled
562 by _GNU_SOURCE, or by compiling with the GCC options -std=c23,
563 -std=gnu23, -std=c2x or -std=gnu2x.
564
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566 18661-4:2015) are now supported in <math.h>. Each family includes
567 functions for float, double, long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx, and a
568 type-generic macro in <tgmath.h>.
569
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571
55eb99e9 572 - Logarithmic functions: log2p1, log10p1, logp1.
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575 as if it were a setuid process. This is currently a testing tool to allow
576 more extensive verification tests for AT_SECURE programs and not meant to
577 be a security feature.
578
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580 and the related structure added in Linux kernel 6.9.
581
582* The fortify functionality has been significantly enhanced for building
583 programs with clang against the GNU C Library.
584
585* Many functions have been added to the vector library for aarch64:
586 acosh, asinh, atanh, cbrt, cosh, erf, erfc, hypot, pow, sinh, tanh
587
588* On x86, memset can now use non-temporal stores to improve the performance
589 of large writes. This behaviour is controlled by a new tunable
590 x86_memset_non_temporal_threshold.
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593
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595 lastlog, struct utmp, struct utmpx (such as i386, powerpc64le, rv32,
596 rv64, x86-64) switched from a signed to an unsigned type for that
597 field. This allows these fields to store timestamps beyond the year
598 2038, until the year 2106. Please note that applications are still
599 expected to migrate off the interfaces declared in <utmp.h> and
600 <utmpx.h> (except for login_tty) due to locking and session management
601 problems.
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604 initially), not the size of struct rseq (32 bytes initially).
605
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606Security related changes:
607
608The following CVEs were fixed in this release, details of which can be
609found in the advisories directory of the release tarball:
610
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611 GLIBC-SA-2024-0004:
612 ISO-2022-CN-EXT: fix out-of-bound writes when writing escape
613 sequence (CVE-2024-2961)
614
615 GLIBC-SA-2024-0005:
616 nscd: Stack-based buffer overflow in netgroup cache (CVE-2024-33599)
617
618 GLIBC-SA-2024-0006:
619 nscd: Null pointer crash after notfound response (CVE-2024-33600)
620
621 GLIBC-SA-2024-0007:
622 nscd: netgroup cache may terminate daemon on memory allocation
623 failure (CVE-2024-33601)
624
625 GLIBC-SA-2024-0008:
626 nscd: netgroup cache assumes NSS callback uses in-buffer strings
627 (CVE-2024-33602)
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629The following bugs are resolved with this release:
630
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631 [19622] network: Support aliasing with struct sockaddr
632 [21271] localedata: cv_RU: update translations
633 [23774] localedata: lv_LV collates Y/y incorrectly
634 [23865] string: wcsstr is quadratic-time
635 [25119] localedata: Change Czech weekday names to lowercase
636 [27777] stdio: fclose does a linear search, takes ages when many FILE*
637 are opened
638 [29770] libc: prctl does not match manual page ABI on powerpc64le-
639 linux-gnu
640 [29845] localedata: Update hr_HR locale currency to €
641 [30701] time: getutxent misbehaves on 32-bit x86 when _TIME_BITS=64
642 [31316] build: Fails test misc/tst-dirname "Didn't expect signal from
643 child: got `Illegal instruction'" on non SSE CPUs
644 [31317] dynamic-link: [RISCV] static PIE crashes during self
645 relocation
646 [31325] libc: mips: clone3 is wrong for o32
647 [31335] math: Compile glibc with -march=x86-64-v3 should disable FMA4
648 multi-arch version
649 [31339] libc: arm32 loader crash after cleanup in 2.36
650 [31340] manual: A bad sentence in section 22.3.5 (resource.texi)
651 [31357] dynamic-link: $(objpfx)tst-rtld-list-diagnostics.out rule
652 doesn't work with test wrapper
653 [31370] localedata: wcwidth() does not treat
654 DEFAULT_IGNORABLE_CODE_POINTs as zero-width
655 [31371] dynamic-link: x86-64: APX and Tile registers aren't preserved
656 in ld.so trampoline
657 [31372] dynamic-link: _dl_tlsdesc_dynamic doesn't preserve all caller-
658 saved registers
659 [31383] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 and __fortified_attr_access vs size of
660 0 and zero size types
661 [31385] build: sort-makefile-lines.py doesn't check variable with _
662 nor with "^# variable"
663 [31402] libc: clone (NULL, NULL, ...) clobbers %r7 register on
664 s390{,x}
665 [31405] libc: Improve dl_iterate_phdr using _dl_find_object
666 [31411] localedata: Add Latgalian locale
667 [31412] build: GCC 6 failed to build i386 glibc on Fedora 39
668 [31429] build: Glibc failed to build with -march=x86-64-v3
669 [31468] libc: sigisemptyset returns true when the set contains signals
670 larger than 34
671 [31476] network: Automatic activation of single-request options break
672 resolv.conf reloading
673 [31479] libc: Missing #include <sys/rseq.h> in sched_getcpu.c may
674 result in a loss of rseq acceleration
675 [31501] dynamic-link: _dl_tlsdesc_dynamic_xsavec may clobber %rbx
676 [31518] manual: documentation: FLT_MAX_10_EXP questionable text, evtl.
677 wrong,
678 [31530] localedata: Locale file for Moksha - mdf_RU
679 [31553] malloc: elf/tst-decorate-maps fails on ppc64el
680 [31596] libc: On the llvm-arm32 platform, dlopen("not_exist.so", -1)
681 triggers segmentation fault
682 [31600] math: math: x86 ceill traps when FE_INEXACT is enabled
683 [31601] math: math: x86 floor traps when FE_INEXACT is enabled
684 [31603] math: math: x86 trunc traps when FE_INEXACT is enabled
685 [31612] libc: arc4random fails to fallback to /dev/urandom if
686 getrandom is not present
687 [31629] build: powerpc64: Configuring with "--with-cpu=power10" and
688 'CFLAGS=-O2 -mcpu=power9' fails to build glibc
689 [31640] dynamic-link: POWER10 ld.so crashes in
690 elf_machine_load_address with GCC 14
691 [31661] libc: NPROCESSORS_CONF and NPROCESSORS_ONLN not available in
692 getconf
693 [31676] dynamic-link: Configuring with CC="gcc -march=x86-64-v3"
694 --with-rtld-early-cflags=-march=x86-64 results in linker failure
695 [31677] nscd: nscd: netgroup cache: invalid memcpy under low
696 memory/storage conditions
697 [31678] nscd: nscd: Null pointer dereferences after failed netgroup
698 cache insertion
699 [31679] nscd: nscd: netgroup cache may terminate daemon on memory
700 allocation failure
701 [31680] nscd: nscd: netgroup cache assumes NSS callback uses in-buffer
702 strings
703 [31682] math: [PowerPC] Floating point exception error for math test
704 test-ceil-except-2 test-floor-except-2 test-trunc-except-2
705 [31686] dynamic-link: Stack-based buffer overflow in
706 parse_tunables_string
707 [31695] libc: pidfd_spawn/pidfd_spawnp leak an fd if clone3 succeeds
708 but execve fails
709 [31719] dynamic-link: --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests doesn't work
710 with -Wl,--enable-new-dtags
711 [31730] libc: backtrace_symbols_fd prints different strings than
712 backtrace_symbols returns
713 [31753] build: FAIL: link-static-libc with GCC 6/7/8
714 [31755] libc: procutils_read_file doesn't start with a leading
715 underscore
716 [31756] libc: write_profiling is only in libc.a
717 [31757] build: Should XXXf128_do_not_use functions be excluded?
718 [31759] math: Extra nearbyint symbols in libm.a
719 [31760] math: Missing math functions
720 [31764] build: _res_opcodes should be a compat symbol only
721 [31765] dynamic-link: _dl_mcount_wrapper is exported without prototype
722 [31766] stdio: _IO_stderr_ _IO_stdin_ _IO_stdout should be compat
723 symbols
724 [31768] string: Extra stpncpy symbol in libc.a
725 [31770] libc: clone3 is in libc.a
726 [31774] libc: Missing __isnanf128 in libc.a
727 [31775] math: Missing exp10 exp10f32x exp10f64 fmod fmodf fmodf32
728 fmodf32x fmodf64 in libm.a
729 [31777] string: Extra memchr strlen symbols in libc.a
730 [31781] math: Missing math functions in libm.a
731 [31782] build: Test build failure with recent GCC trunk (x86/tst-cpu-
732 features-supports.c:69:3: error: parameter to builtin not valid:
733 avx5124fmaps)
734 [31785] string: loongarch: Extra strnlen symbols in libc.a
735 [31786] string: powerpc: Extra strchrnul and strncasecmp_l symbols in
736 libc.a
737 [31787] math: powerpc: Extra llrintf, llrintf, llrintf32, and
738 llrintf32 symbols in libc.a
739 [31788] libc: microblaze: Extra cacheflush symbol in libc.a
740 [31789] libc: powerpc: Extra versionsort symbol in libc.a
741 [31790] libc: s390: Extra getutent32, getutent32_r, getutid32,
742 getutid32_r, getutline32, getutline32_r, getutmp32, getutmpx32,
743 getutxent32, getutxid32, getutxline32, pututline32, pututxline32,
744 updwtmp32, updwtmpx32 in libc.a
745 [31797] build: g++ -static requirement should be able to opt-out
746 [31798] libc: pidfd_getpid.c is miscompiled by GCC 6.4
747 [31802] time: difftime is pure not const
748 [31808] time: The supported time_t range is not documented.
749 [31840] stdio: Memory leak in _IO_new_fdopen (fdopen) on seek failure
750 [31867] build: "CPU ISA level is lower than required" on SSE2-free
751 CPUs
752 [31876] time: "Date and time" documentation fixes for POSIX.1-2024 etc
753 [31883] build: ISA level support configure check relies on bashism /
754 is otherwise broken for arithmetic
755 [31892] build: Always install mtrace.
756 [31917] libc: clang mq_open fortify wrapper does not handle 4 argument
757 correctly
758 [31927] libc: clang open fortify wrapper does not handle argument
759 correctly
760 [31931] time: tzset may fault on very short TZ string
761 [31934] string: wcsncmp crash on s390x on vlbb instruction
762 [31963] stdio: Crash in _IO_link_in within __gcov_exit
763 [31965] dynamic-link: rseq extension mechanism does not work as
764 intended
765 [31980] build: elf/tst-tunables-enable_secure-env fails on ppc
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768
769Major new features:
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772 rewrite on x86-64. When enabled with non-lazy binding, the dynamic
773 linker will rewrite indirect branches in PLT with direct branches.
774
a0cfc48e 775* Sync with Linux kernel 6.6 shadow stack interface. The --enable-cet
feeb7297 776 configure option is only supported on x86-64.
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92861d93 778* struct statvfs now has an f_type member, equal to the f_type statfs member;
779 on the Hurd this was always available under a reserved name,
780 and under Linux a spare has been allocated: it was always zero
781 in previous versions of glibc, and zero is not a valid result.
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784 posix_spawnattr_setcgroup_np have been added, along with the
785 POSIX_SPAWN_SETCGROUP flag. They allow posix_spawn and posix_spawnp
786 to set the cgroupv2 in the new process in a race-free manner. These
787 functions are GNU extensions and require a kernel with clone3 support.
788
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790 They have a similar prototype and semantic as posix_spawn, but instead of
791 returning a process ID, they return a file descriptor that can be used
792 along other pidfd functions (like pidfd_send_signal, poll, or waitid).
793 The pidfd functionality avoids the issue of PID reuse with the traditional
794 posix_spawn interface.
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797 the process ID associated with the process file descriptor created by
798 pid_spawn, fork_np, or pidfd_open.
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801 arguments pointing to types intN_t, int_leastN_t, uintN_t or
802 uint_leastN_t (for example, %w32d to read int32_t or int_least32_t in
803 decimal, or %w32x to read uint32_t or uint_least32_t in hexadecimal)
804 and the wfN format length modifiers for arguments pointing to types
805 int_fastN_t or uint_fastN_t, as specified in draft ISO C2X.
806
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808 information on underlying memory allocated by the glibc (for instance,
809 on thread stack created by pthread_create or memory allocated by
810 malloc).
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813 stdc_leading_zeros, stdc_leading_ones, stdc_trailing_zeros,
814 stdc_trailing_ones, stdc_first_leading_zero, stdc_first_leading_one,
815 stdc_first_trailing_zero, stdc_first_trailing_one, stdc_count_zeros,
816 stdc_count_ones, stdc_has_single_bit, stdc_bit_width, stdc_bit_floor
817 and stdc_bit_ceil function families, each having functions for
818 unsigned char, unsigned short, unsigned int, unsigned long int and
819 unsigned long long int, and a type-generic macro.
820
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822 annotations to allow GCC 9 or newer to auto-vectorize calls to the
823 following scalar math functions when -ffast-math is specified:
824 acos, acosf, asin, asinf, atan, atanf, atan2, atan2f, cos, cosf,
825 exp, expf, exp10, exp10f, exp2, exp2f, expm1, expm1f, log, logf,
826 log10, log10f, log1p, log1pf, log2, log2f, sin, sinf, tan, tanf.
827
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829
2aa0974d 830* The ldconfig program now skips file names containing ';' or ending in
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832 by the RPM and dpkg package managers.
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835 options "--enable-crypt" and "--enable-nss-crypt" are no longer
836 available. <crypt.h>, libcrypt.a, and libcrypt.so.1 will not be
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838 function by default, to avoid introducing vulnerabilities into
839 existing applications due to a missing prototype. This declaration
840 is deprecated and may be removed in a future glibc release.
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842 The replacement for libcrypt is libxcrypt, maintained separately from
843 GNU libc, but available under compatible licensing terms, and providing
844 binary backward compatibility with the former libcrypt. It is currently
845 distributed from <https://github.com/besser82/libxcrypt/>.
846
847 As a consequence of this removal, GNU libc no longer makes any use of
848 the NSS cryptography library (Network Security Services; not to be
849 confused with Name Service Switch). Distributors of binary packages
850 of GNU libc are advised to check whether their build processes can be
851 simplified.
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854 during TLS access if a shared object with dynamic TLS is loaded and
855 unloaded. This can result in an infinite recursion if a malloc
856 replacement library or its dependencies use dynamic TLS instead of
857 initial-exec TLS.
858
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860
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862
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864 instructions.
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869found in the advisories directory of the release tarball:
870
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871 GLIBC-SA-2023-0002:
872 getaddrinfo: Stack read overflow in no-aaaa mode (CVE-2023-4527)
873
874 GLIBC-SA-2023-0003:
875 getaddrinfo: Potential use-after-free (CVE-2023-4806)
876
877 GLIBC-SA-2023-0004:
878 tunables: local privilege escalation through buffer overflow
879 (CVE-2023-4911)
880
881 GLIBC-SA-2024-0001:
882 syslog: Heap buffer overflow in __vsyslog_internal (CVE-2023-6246)
883
884 GLIBC-SA-2024-0002:
885 syslog: Heap buffer overflow in __vsyslog_internal (CVE-2023-6779)
886
887 GLIBC-SA-2024-0003:
888 syslog: Integer overflow in __vsyslog_internal (CVE-2023-6780)
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891 ISO-2022-CN-EXT: fix out-of-bound writes when writing escape
892 sequence (CVE-2024-2961)
893
894 GLIBC-SA-2024-0005:
895 nscd: Stack-based buffer overflow in netgroup cache (CVE-2024-33599)
896
897 GLIBC-SA-2024-0006:
898 nscd: Null pointer crashes after notfound response
899 (CVE-2024-33600)
900
901 GLIBC-SA-2024-0007:
902 nscd: netgroup cache may terminate daemon on memory allocation
903 failure (CVE-2024-33601)
904
905 GLIBC-SA-2024-0008:
906 nscd: netgroup cache assumes NSS callback uses in-buffer strings
907 (CVE-2024-33602)
908
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910
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911 [14522] localedata: fy_DE: LC_IDENTIFICATION data looks weird
912 [19305] libc: qsort() should return early if (nmemb <= 1)
913 [19479] localedata: gbm_IN: new Garhwali Locale
914 [19924] dynamic-link: TLS performance degradation after dlopen
915 [19956] localedata: ssy_ER: rename from aa_ER@saaho
916 [21719] libc: stdlib/msort : optimizing merge sort
917 [22526] localedata: th_TH LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
918 [23012] localedata: el_GR: Greece now uses the 24h format for time
919 [23172] localedata: miq_NI: Provide actually abbreviated month names
920 [24006] localedata: Cyclic dependencies via copy in locales
921 [24013] localedata: am_pm definitions for es_ES
922 [24386] localedata: crh_RU: new locale
923 [24877] localedata: [Redundant Data] Remove redundant data between
924 en_NZ and en_AU
925 [25868] localedata: Incorrect trailing spaces in weekday names for
926 nn_NO
927 [26752] localedata: Please add the new locale zgh_MA
928 [27069] dynamic-link: Need a way to tell if a tunable is set by user
929 [27163] localedata: Error on test glk_IR with localedef
930 [27312] localedata: su_ID: new Sundanese locale
931 [27547] manual: "Summary of malloc-Related Functions" shows wrong
932 argument order for `aligned_alloc` and `memalign`
933 [27574] libc: glibc should probably not define __WORDSIZE=64 for
934 __sparcv9
935 [27601] localedata: License information update in
936 localedata/locales/ast_ES
937 [28558] localedata: it_IT LC_MONETARY outdated p_cs_precedes and
938 n_cs_precedes
939 [28787] localedata: Add information for Occitan
940 [29039] dynamic-link: Corrupt DTV after reuse of a TLS module ID
941 following dlclose with unused TLS
942 [29486] localedata: New Zealand locales (en_NZ & mi_NZ) first day of
943 week should be Monday
944 [29504] localedata: Incorrect/misleading Time Format For ms_MY (AM/PM)
945 [29506] localedata: UTF-8 HANGUL SYLLABLE bugs
946 [30349] libc: Support returning a pidfd from posix_spawn()
947 [30412] localedata: d_t_fmt in id_ID uses %r placeholder but am_pm and
948 t_fmt_ampm are undefined
949 [30605] localedata: New locale for Komi language
950 [30649] localedata: [PATCH] Add transliteration of common emojis to
951 smileys
952 [30694] locale: The iconv program no longer tells the user which given
953 encoding name was wrong
954 [30709] nscd: nscd fails to build with cleanup handler if built with
955 -fexceptions
956 [30737] libc: fdopendir() is not robust - returns bogus DIR* instead
957 of flagging an error
958 [30740] build: [m68k] undefined reference to
959 `_wordcopy_fwd_dest_aligned'
960 [30745] libc: Slight bug in cache info codes for x86
961 [30750] network: Unaligned accesses in resolver
962 [30773] math: [m68k] busybox awk is broken (lshift.S related)
963 [30789] libc: [2.38 Regression] sem_open will fail on multithreaded
964 scenarios when semaphore file doesn't exist (O_CREAT)
965 [30800] nscd: Improper assert in prune_cache triggers if clock jumps
966 backwards
967 [30804] libc: F_GETLK, F_SETLK, and F_SETLKW value change for
968 powerpc64 with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
969 [30842] network: Stack read overflow in getaddrinfo in no-aaaa mode
970 (CVE-2023-4527)
971 [30843] network: potential use-after-free in getcanonname
972 (CVE-2023-4806)
973 [30854] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 15.1.0
974 [30884] network: Memory leak in getaddrinfo after fix for bug 30843
975 (CVE-2023-5156)
976 [30932] libc: Fortify Source has false-positives when too many files
977 are open
978 [30945] malloc: Core affinity setting incurs lock contentions between
979 threads
980 [30960] math: signed integer overflow in
981 glibc/sysdeps/s390/fpu/feenablxcpt.c
982 [30964] locale: Number grouping check mishandles multibyte thousands
983 separator
984 [30981] dynamic-link: dlclose does not properly implement force-first
985 handling
986 [30988] math: fesetexcept raises floating-point exception traps on
987 ppc, ppc64, ppc64le
988 [30989] math: fesetexcept raises floating-point exception traps on
989 i386
990 [30990] libc: fesetexceptflag raises floating-point exception traps on
991 i386, x86_64
992 [30998] math: fesetexceptflag clears too many floating-point exception
993 flags on alpha
994 [31019] manual: The documentation of feenableexcept is incomplete
995 [31022] math: feupdateenv (FE_DFL_ENV) crashes on riscv
996 [31035] libc: Library search path terminates on relative non-directory
997 name
998 [31042] libc: [s390x] .init and .fini padding
999 [31068] libc: sysdeps: sparc: invalid data access in memset due to
1000 regression
1001 [31078] manual: Code example in "Noncanonical Mode Example" has unused
1002 'char *name;'
1003 [31086] localedata: Errors in Tibetan, Dzongkha data
1004 [31113] string: Wrong unwind information for rawmemchr on aarch64
1005 [31151] libc: [RISC-V] missing support for profile/audit PLT setup
1006 [31163] nss: getaddrinfo returns EAI_NONAME in oom situation
1007 [31183] stdio: Wide stream buffer size reduced MB_LEN_MAX bytes after
1008 bug 17522 fix
1009 [31184] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-tlsgap
1010 [31185] dynamic-link: Incorrect thread point access in
1011 _dl_tlsdesc_undefweak and _dl_tlsdesc_dynamic
1012 [31187] dynamic-link: Some CET tests fail with GCC 14
1013 [31204] localedata: Fix decimal point and thousands separator for
1014 uz_UZ
1015 [31205] localedata: Inconsistent (mon_)grouping formats
1016 [31218] dynamic-link: PLT rewrite overflows large displacement on x32
1017 [31221] localedata: Add localedata for ISO code "tok" (Toki Pona)
1018 [31230] dynamic-link: PLT rewrite failed without SELinux
1019 [31239] localedata: anp_IN locale: abbreviated month names are the
1020 same as the full month names
1021 [31244] nptl: pthread_cancel hangs on sparc32
1022 [31257] localedata: Sync with CLDR: “Turkey” -> “Türkiye”
1023 [31266] string: sparc: string/tst-memmove-overflow fails on 32-bit
1024 sparcv9
1025 [31276] libc: Wrong condition for heap allocation in qsort_r
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1032 following functions support binary integers prefixed by 0b or 0B as
1033 input: strtol, strtoll, strtoul, strtoull, strtol_l, strtoll_l,
1034 strtoul_l, strtoull_l, strtoimax, strtoumax, strtoq, strtouq, wcstol,
1035 wcstoll, wcstoul, wcstoull, wcstol_l, wcstoll_l, wcstoul_l,
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1037 following functions support binary integers prefixed by 0b or 0B as
1038 input to the %i format: fscanf, scanf, sscanf, vscanf, vsscanf,
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1040 functions also support the %b format for binary integers, with or
1041 without such a prefix and independent of standards mode.
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1044 <inttypes.h>.
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1047 arguments of type intN_t, int_leastN_t, uintN_t or uint_leastN_t (for
1048 example, %w32d to print int32_t or int_least32_t in decimal, or %w32x
1049 to print uint32_t or uint_least32_t in hexadecimal) and the wfN format
1050 length modifiers for arguments of type int_fastN_t or uint_fastN_t, as
1051 specified in draft ISO C2X.
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1054 Transparent Huge Pages (THP) in stack allocation at pthread_create.
1055
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1057 as least binutils 2.40 and GCC 13:
1058
1059 - x86_64-gnu
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1062 requires GCC version >= 10.1.0. It can be disabled via
1063 "--disable-mathvec", however that is not a supported configuration as
1064 it changes the ABI. The symbol names follow the AArch64 vector ABI,
1065 they are declared in math.h and have to be called manually at this point.
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1068 from OpenBSD, and are expected to be added to a future POSIX version.
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1071 GNU C Library with _FORTIFY_SOURCE. The level of fortification can either be
1072 provided, or is set to the highest value supported by the compiler. If not
1073 explicitly enabled, then fortify source is forcibly disabled so to keep
1074 original behavior unchanged.
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1080 GNU C Library in a future release, so it is recommended that
1081 applications port away from it to an alternative such as libxcrypt.
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1084 MADV_XXX constants were changed to have the same values as the other
1085 architectures. New programs compiled with this glibc version and which
1086 use the madvise call will require at least Linux kernel version 6.2,
1087 alternatively stable kernels from versions 6.1.6, 5.15.87, 5.10.163,
1088 5.4.228, 4.19.270 or 4.14.303.
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1093
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1102Security related changes:
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1105 format specifier that uses an <apostrophe> (enable grouping) and a
1106 minimum width specifier, the resulting output could be larger than
1107 reasonably expected by a caller that computed a tight bound on the
1108 buffer size. The resulting larger than expected output could result
1109 in a buffer overflow in the printf family of functions.
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1111The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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1114 [14697] nptl: Behavior of exit is nonconformant with respect to
1115 threads and stdio
1116 [15142] stdio: Missing locking in _IO_cleanup
1117 [18096] glob: null deref in wordexp/parse_dollars/parse_arith
1118 [18906] stdio: fopen: ccs value may affect open mode
1119 [24466] stdio: Feature request: provide special printf formats for
1120 intXX_t
1121 [25457] nss: hosts lookup fails for ipv4mapped ipv6 addresses
1122 [28519] libc: system and popen should pass "--" between /bin/sh and
1123 argument
1124 [29016] stdio: popen() sets errno to ENOMEM when shell does not exist
1125 [29591] string: wcsnlen length can overflow in page cross case.
1126 [30053] time: strftime %s returns -1 after 2038 on 32 bits systems
1127 [30068] stdio: incorrect printf output for integers with thousands
1128 separator and width field (CVE-2023-25139)
1129 [30111] time: support_descriptors_list fails after 2038 on 32 bits
1130 systems
1131 [30125] dynamic-link: [regression, bisected] glibc-2.37 creates new
1132 symlink for libraries without soname
1133 [30130] math: [s390] The _FPU_SETCW macro yields compile error with
1134 Clang
1135 [30156] time: Potential ntp_gettime abi break
1136 [30235] libc: Missing fallback in getlogin if loginuid is unset
1137 [30258] dynamic-link: sprof cannot read and display shared object
1138 profiling data correctly
1139 [30263] libc: Add test coverage for abs(), labs(), and llabs().
1140 [30305] math: Incorrect asm constraint in feraiseexcept on x86-64
1141 [30402] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-glibcelf
1142 [30425] dynamic-link: Symbol lookup during dlclose may fail
1143 unnecessarily
1144 [30435] dynamic-link: Root dir wrongly marked as nonexist in open_path
1145 [30477] libc: [RISCV]: time64 does not work on riscv32
1146 [30515] dynamic-link: _dl_find_object incorrectly returns 1 during
1147 early startup
1148 [30527] network: resolv_conf lock not unlocked on allocation failure
1149 [30550] math: powerpc64le: GCC-specific code for isinf() is being used
1150 on clang
1151 [30555] string: strerror can incorrectly return NULL
1152 [30579] malloc: trim_threshold in realloc lead to high memory usage
1153 [30662] nscd: Group and password cache use errno in place of errval
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1157Major new features:
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1160 getent with --no-addrconfig may contain addresses of families not
1161 configured on the current host i.e. as-if you had not passed
1162 AI_ADDRCONFIG to getaddrinfo calls.
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1164Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1165
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1168 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, or employs the legacy AT_HWCAP
1169 search mechanism, which was deprecated in version 2.33.
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1173 CVE-2022-39046: When the syslog function is passed a crafted input
1174 string larger than 1024 bytes, it reads uninitialized memory from the
1175 heap and prints it to the target log file, potentially revealing a
1176 portion of the contents of the heap.
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1178The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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1181 [12165] libc: readdir: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
1182 [19444] build: build failures with -O1 due to -Wmaybe-uninitialized
1183 [24774] nptl: pthread_rwlock_timedwrlock stalls on ARM
1184 [24816] nss: nss/tst-nss-files-hosts-long fails when no interface has
1185 AF_INET6 address (ie docker)
1186 [27087] stdio: PowerPC: Redefinition error with Clang from IEEE
1187 redirection headers
1188 [28846] network: CMSG_NXTHDR may trigger -Wstrict-overflow warning
1189 [28937] dynamic-link: New DSO dependency sorter does not put new map
1190 first if in a cycle
1191 [29249] libc: csu/libc-tls.c:202: undefined reference to
1192 `_startup_fatal_not_constant'
1193 [29305] network: Inefficient buffer space usage in nss_dns for
1194 gethostbyname and other functions
1195 [29375] libc: don't hide MAP_ANONYMOUS behind _GNU_SOURCE
1196 [29402] nscd: nscd: No such file or directory
1197 [29415] nscd: getaddrinfo with AI_ADDRCONFIG returns addresses with
1198 wrong family
1199 [29427] dynamic-link: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-printf.c:
1200 200: _dl_debug_vdprintf: Assertion `! "invalid format specifier"'
1201 failed!
1202 [29463] math: math/test-float128-y1 fails on x86_64
1203 [29485] build: Make hangs when the test misc/tst-pidfile returns
1204 FAIL_UNSUPPORTED
1205 [29490] dynamic-link: [bisected] new __brk_call causes dynamic loader
1206 segfault on alpha
1207 [29499] build: Check failed on misc/tst-glibcsyscalls while building
1208 for RISCV64 on a unmatched hardware
1209 [29501] build: Check failed on stdlib/tst-strfrom while building for
1210 RISCV64 on a unmatched hardware
1211 [29502] libc: alpha sys/acct.h out of date
1212 [29514] build: Need to use -fPIE not -fpie
1213 [29528] dynamic-link: __libc_early_init not called after dlmopen that
1214 reuses namespace
1215 [29536] libc: syslog fail to create large messages (CVE-2022-39046)
1216 [29537] libc: [2.34 regression]: Alignment issue on m68k when using
1217 futexes on qemu-user
1218 [29539] libc: LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS changed how vDSO library are
1219 printed
1220 [29544] libc: Regression in syslog(3) calls breaks RFC due to extra
1221 whitespace
1222 [29564] build: Incorrect way to change MAKEFLAGS in Makerules
1223 [29576] build: librtld.os: in function `_dl_start_profile':
1224 (.text+0x9444): undefined reference to `strcpy'
1225 [29578] libc: Definition of SUN_LEN() is wrong
1226 [29583] build: iconv failures on 32bit platform due to missing large
1227 file support
1228 [29600] dynamic-link: dlmopen hangs after loading certain libraries
1229 [29604] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 15.0.0
1230 [29605] nscd: Regression in NSCD backend of getaddrinfo
1231 [29607] nscd: nscd repeatably crashes calling __strlen_avx2 when hosts
1232 cache is enabled
1233 [29611] string: Optimized AVX2 string functions unconditionally use
1234 BMI2 instructions
1235 [29624] malloc: errno is not cleared when entering main
1236 [29638] libc: stdlib: arc4random fallback is never used
1237 [29657] libc: Incorrect struct stat for 64-bit time on linux/generic
1238 platforms
1239 [29698] build: Configuring for AArch32 on ARMv8+ disables
1240 optimizations
1241 [29727] locale: __strtol_internal out-of-bounds read when parsing
1242 thousands grouping
1243 [29730] libc: broken y2038 support in fstatat on MIPS N64
1244 [29746] libc: ppoll() does not switch to __ppoll64 when
1245 -D_TIME_BITS=64 and -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 is given on 32bit
1246 [29771] libc: Restore IPC_64 support in sysvipc *ctl functions
1247 [29780] build: possible parallel make issue in glibc-2.36 (siglist-
1248 aux.S: No such file or directory)
1249 [29864] libc: __libc_start_main() should obtain program headers
1250 address (_dl_phdr) from the auxv, not the ELF header.
1251 [29951] time: daylight variable not set correctly if last DST change
1252 coincides with offset change
1253 [30039] stdio: __vsprintf_internal does not handle unspecified buffer
1254 length in fortify mode
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1258Major new features:
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1261 glibc. This is a new ELF dynamic tag that improves the size of
1262 relative relocations in shared object files and position independent
1263 executables (PIE). DT_RELR generation requires linker support for
1264 -z pack-relative-relocs option, which is supported for some targets
1265 in recent binutils versions. Lazy binding doesn't apply to DT_RELR.
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1268 have been added. The pidfd functionality provides access to a process
7f0d9e61 1269 while avoiding the issue of PID reuse on traditional Unix systems.
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1272 same functionality as madvise but alters the target process identified
1273 by the pidfd.
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1276 caller to release the memory of a dying process. The release of the
1277 memory is carried out in the context of the caller, using the caller's
1278 CPU affinity, and priority with CPU usage accounted to the caller.
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1281 administrators can use it to suppress AAAA queries made by the stub
1282 resolver, including AAAA lookups triggered by NSS-based interfaces
1283 such as getaddrinfo. Only DNS lookups are affected: IPv6 data in
1284 /etc/hosts is still used, getaddrinfo with AI_PASSIVE will still
1285 produce IPv6 addresses, and configured IPv6 name servers are still
1286 used. To produce correct Name Error (NXDOMAIN) results, AAAA queries
1287 are translated to A queries. The new resolver option is intended
1288 primarily for diagnostic purposes, to rule out that AAAA DNS queries
1289 have adverse impact. It is incompatible with EDNS0 usage and DNSSEC
1290 validation by applications.
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1293 and mount_setattr have been added. They are part of the new Linux kernel
1294 mount APIs that allow applications to more flexibly configure and operate
1295 on filesystem mounts. The new mount APIs are specifically designed to work
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1299 Previously, input bytes not within the ASCII range resulted in
1300 unpredictable output.
1301
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1303 functions has been added per the ISO C2X N2653 and C++20 P0482R6 proposals.
1304 Support for the char8_t typedef has been added per the ISO C2X N2653
1305 proposal. The functions are declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the
1306 _GNU_SOURCE macro or C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro is defined.
1307 The char8_t typedef is declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the
1308 _GNU_SOURCE macro is defined and the C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro
1309 is not defined (if __cpp_char8_t is defined, then char8_t is a builtin type).
1310
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1313 quality randomness from the kernel.
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3a380458 1315* Support for LoongArch running on Linux has been added. This port requires
1316 as least binutils 2.38, GCC 12, and Linux 5.19. Currently only hard-float
1317 ABI is supported:
1318
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1326 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
1327 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
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1330 LD_ASSUME_KERNEL environment variable. The minimum kernel used to built
1331 glibc is still provided through NT_GNU_ABI_TAG ELF note and also printed
1332 when libc.so is issued directly.
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1339 return different result with versioned "foo"
1340 [16355] libc: syslog.h's SYSLOG_NAMES namespace violation and utter
1341 mess
1342 [23293] dynamic-link: aarch64: getauxval is broken when run as ld.so
1343 ./exe and ld.so adjusts argv on the stack
1344 [24595] nptl: [2.28 Regression]: Deadlock in atfork handler which
1345 calls dlclose
1346 [25744] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS returns 2 instead of 1 when
1347 consuming the second byte of certain double byte characters
1348 [25812] stdio: Libio vtable protection is sometimes only partially
1349 enforced
1350 [27054] libc: pthread_atfork handlers that call pthread_atfork
1351 deadlock
1352 [27924] dynamic-link: ld.so: Support DT_RELR relative relocation
1353 format
1354 [28128] build: declare_symbol_alias doesn't work for assembly codes
1355 [28566] network: getnameinfo with NI_NOFQDN is not thread safe
1356 [28752] nss: Segfault in getpwuid when stat fails
1357 [28815] libc: realpath should not copy to resolved buffer on error
1358 [28828] stdio: fputwc crashes
1359 [28838] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-p_align3
1360 [28845] locale: ld-monetary.c should be updated to match ISO C and
1361 other standards.
1362 [28850] libc: linux: __get_nprocs_sched reads uninitialized memory
1363 from the stack
1364 [28852] libc: getaddrinfo leaks memory with AI_ALL
1365 [28853] libc: tst-spawn6 changes current foreground process group
1366 (breaks test isolation)
1367 [28857] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-audit24a
1368 [28860] build: --enable-kernel=5.1.0 build fails because of missing
1369 __convert_scm_timestamps
1370 [28865] libc: linux: _SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF and _SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN are
1371 inaccurate without /sys and /proc
1372 [28868] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader DFS algorithm segfaults on
1373 missing libraries
7f0d9e61 1374 [28880] libc: Program crashes if date beyond 2038
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1376 !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS && !__ASSUME_PSELECT fails on Microblaze
1377 [28896] string: strncmp-avx2-rtm and wcsncmp-avx2-rtm fallback on non-
1378 rtm variants when avoiding overflow
1379 [28922] build: The .d dependency files aren't always generated
1380 [28931] libc: hosts lookup broken for SUCCESS=CONTINUE and
1381 SUCCESS=MERGE
1382 [28936] build: nm: No such file
1383 [28950] localedata: Add locale for ISO code "tok" (Toki Pona)
1384 [28953] nss: NSS lookup result can be incorrect if function lookup
1385 clobbers errno
1386 [28970] math: benchtest: libmvec benchmark doesn't build with make
1387 bench.
1388 [28991] libc: sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF) should read
1389 /sys/devices/system/cpu/possible
1390 [28993] libc: closefrom() iterates until max int if no access to
1391 /proc/self/fd/
1392 [28996] libc: realpath fails to copy partial result to resolved buffer
1393 on ENOENT and EACCES
1394 [29027] math: [ia64] fabs fails with sNAN input
1395 [29029] nptl: poll() spuriously returns EINTR during thread
1396 cancellation and with cancellation disabled
1397 [29030] string: GLIBC 2.35 regression - Fortify crash on certain valid
1398 uses of mbsrtowcs (*** buffer overflow detected ***: terminated)
1399 [29062] dynamic-link: Memory leak in _dl_find_object_update if object
1400 is promoted to global scope
1401 [29069] libc: fstatat64_time64_statx wrapper broken on MIPS N32 with
1402 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 and -D_TIME_BITS=64
1403 [29071] dynamic-link: m68k: Removal of ELF_DURING_STARTUP optimization
1404 broke ld.so
1405 [29097] time: fchmodat does not handle 64 bit time_t for
1406 AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW
1407 [29109] libc: posix_spawn() always returns 1 (EPERM) on clone()
1408 failure
1409 [29141] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 fail for gcc 12/glibc 2.35
1410 [29162] string: [PATCH] string.h syntactic error:
1411 include/bits/string_fortified.h:110: error: expected ',' or ';'
1412 before '__fortified_attr_access'
1413 [29165] libc: [Regression] broken argv adjustment
1414 [29187] dynamic-link: [regression] broken argv adjustment for nios2
1415 [29193] math: sincos produces a different output than sin/cos
1416 [29197] string: __strncpy_power9() uses uninitialised register vs18
1417 value for filling after \0
1418 [29203] libc: daemon is not y2038 aware
1419 [29204] libc: getusershell is not 2038 aware
1420 [29207] libc: posix_fallocate fallback implementation is not y2038
1421 aware
1422 [29208] libc: fpathconf(_PC_ASYNC_IO) is not y2038 aware
1423 [29209] libc: isfdtype is not y2038 aware
1424 [29210] network: ruserpass is not y2038 aware
1425 [29211] libc: __open_catalog is not y2038 aware
1426 [29213] libc: gconv_parseconfdir is not y2038 aware
1427 [29214] nptl: pthread_setcanceltype fails to set type
1428 [29225] network: Mistyped define statement in socket/sys/socket.h in
1429 line 184
1430 [29274] nptl: __read_chk is not a cancellation point
1431 [29279] libc: undefined reference to `mbstowcs_chk' after
1432 464d189b9622932a75302290625de84931656ec0
1433 [29304] libc: mq_timedreceive does not handle 64 bit syscall return
1434 correct for !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS
1435 [29403] libc: st_atim, st_mtim, st_ctim stat struct members are
1436 missing on microblaze with largefile
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1439
1440Major new features:
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1442* Unicode 14.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1443 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 14.0.0, using
1444 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1445
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1446* Bump r_version in the debugger interface to 2 and add a new field,
1447 r_next, support multiple namespaces.
1448
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1449* Support for the C.UTF-8 locale has been added to glibc. The locale
1450 supports full code-point sorting for all valid Unicode code points. A
1451 limitation in the framework for fnmatch, regexec, and regcomp requires
1452 a compromise to save space and only ASCII-based range expressions are
1453 supported for now (see bug 28255). The full size of the locale is
1454 only ~400KiB, with 346KiB coming from LC_CTYPE information for
1455 Unicode. This locale harmonizes downstream C.UTF-8 already shipping
1456 in various downstream distributions. The locale is not built into
1457 glibc, and must be installed.
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1459* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type, and
1460 corresponding <tgmath.h> macros, are added from TS 18661-1:2014, TS
1461 18661-3:2015 and draft ISO C2X:
1462
1463 - fsqrt, fsqrtl, dsqrtl and corresponding fMsqrtfN, fMsqrtfNx,
1464 fMxsqrtfN and fMxsqrtfNx functions.
1465
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1466 - ffma, ffmal, dfmal and corresponding fMfmafN, fMfmafNx, fMxfmafN and
1467 fMxfmafNx functions.
1468
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1469* <math.h> functions for floating-point maximum and minimum,
1470 corresponding to new operations in IEEE 754-2019, and corresponding
1471 <tgmath.h> macros, are added from draft ISO C2X: fmaximum,
1472 fmaximum_num, fmaximum_mag, fmaximum_mag_num, fminimum, fminimum_num,
1473 fminimum_mag, fminimum_mag_num and corresponding functions for float,
1474 long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx.
1475
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1476* <math.h> macros for single-precision float constants are added as a
1477 GNU extension: M_Ef, M_LOG2Ef, M_LOG10Ef, M_LN2f, M_LN10f, M_PIf,
1478 M_PI_2f, M_PI_4f, M_1_PIf, M_2_PIf, M_2_SQRTPIf, M_SQRT2f and
1479 M_SQRT1_2f.
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1481* The __STDC_IEC_60559_BFP__ and __STDC_IEC_60559_COMPLEX__ macros are
1482 predefined as specified in TS 18661-1:2014.
1483
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1484* The exp10 functions in <math.h> now have a corresponding type-generic
1485 macro in <tgmath.h>.
1486
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1487* The ISO C2X macro _PRINTF_NAN_LEN_MAX has been added to <stdio.h>.
1488
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1489* printf-family functions now support the %b format for output of
1490 integers in binary, as specified in draft ISO C2X, and the %B variant
1491 of that format recommended by draft ISO C2X.
1492
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1493* A new DSO sorting algorithm has been added in the dynamic linker that uses
1494 topological sorting by depth-first search (DFS), solving performance issues
1495 of the existing sorting algorithm when encountering particular circular
1496 object dependency cases.
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1499 the two DSO sorting algorithms. The default setting of '2' uses the
1500 new DFS-based algorithm. The setting '1' switches to the old
1501 algorithm used in glibc 2.33 and earlier.
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1503* ABI support for a new function '__memcmpeq'. '__memcmpeq' is meant
1504 to be used by compilers for optimizing usage of 'memcmp' when its
1505 return value is only used for its boolean status.
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1507* Support for automatically registering threads with the Linux rseq
1508 system call has been added. This system call is implemented starting
1509 from Linux 4.18. The Restartable Sequences ABI accelerates user-space
1510 operations on per-cpu data. It allows user-space to perform updates
1511 on per-cpu data without requiring heavy-weight atomic operations.
1512 Automatically registering threads allows all libraries, including
1513 libc, to make immediate use of the rseq support by using the
1514 documented ABI, via the __rseq_flags, __rseq_offset, and __rseq_size
1515 variables. The GNU C Library manual has details on integration of
1516 Restartable Sequences.
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1518* A symbolic link to the dynamic linker is now installed under
1519 /usr/bin/ld.so (or more precisely, '${bindir}/ld.so').
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1521* All programs and the testsuite in glibc are now built as position independent
1522 executables (PIE) by default on toolchains and architectures that support it.
1523 Further, if the toolchain and architecture supports it, even static programs
1524 are built as PIE and the resultant glibc can be used to build static PIE
1525 executables. A new option --disable-default-pie has been added to disable
1526 this behavior and get a non-PIE build. This option replaces
1527 --enable-static-pie, which no longer has any effect on the build
1528 configuration.
1529
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1532 or to use huge pages directly with mmap calls with the MAP_HUGETLB
1533 flags). The former can improve performance when Transparent Huge Pages
1534 is set to 'madvise' mode while the latter uses the system reserved
1535 huge pages.
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1537* The printf family of functions now handles the flagged %#m conversion
1538 specifier, printing errno as an error constant (similar to strerrorname_np).
1539
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1540* The function _dl_find_object has been added. In-process unwinders
1541 can use it to efficiently locate unwinding information for a code
1542 address.
1543
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1544* Support for OpenRISC running on Linux has been added. This port requires
1545 as least binutils 2.35, GCC 11, and Linux 5.4. Currently only soft-float
1546 ABI is supported:
1547
1548 - or1k-linux-gnu
1549
1550 The OpenRISC ABI is 32-bit big-endian and uses 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and
1551 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
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1553* A new configure option, --with-rtld-early-cflags, can be used to
1554 specify additional compiler flags for building the early startup code
1555 of the dynamic linker. On targets which have CPU compatibility
1556 checks, this can help to ensure that proper diagnostics are printed if
1557 the dynamic loader runs on an incompatible CPU.
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1559* On Linux, the epoll_pwait2 function has been added. It is similar to
1560 epoll_wait with the difference the timeout has nanoseconds resolution.
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1562* The function posix_spawn_file_actions_addtcsetpgrp_np has been added,
1563 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to set the controlling terminal in
1564 the new process in a race free manner. This function is a GNU extension.
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1566* Source fortification (_FORTIFY_SOURCE) level 3 is now available for
1567 applications compiling with glibc and gcc 12 and later. Level 3 leverages
1568 the __builtin_dynamic_object_size function to deliver additional
1569 fortification balanced against additional runtime cost (checking non-constant
1570 bounds).
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1573 PLT tracking (by not implementing the la_pltenter or la_pltexit callbacks).
1574
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1575Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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1578 has been removed since the first PT_LOAD segment is no longer executable
1579 due to defaulting to -z separate-code.
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1581* The r_version update in the debugger interface makes the glibc binary
1582 incompatible with GDB binaries built without the following commits:
1583
1584 c0154a4a21a gdb: Don't assume r_ldsomap when r_version > 1 on Linux
1585 4eb629d50d4 gdbserver: Check r_version < 1 for Linux debugger interface
1586
1587 when audit modules or dlmopen are used.
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1589* Intel MPX support (lazy PLT, ld.so profile, and LD_AUDIT) has been removed.
1590
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1591* The --enable-static-pie option is no longer available. The glibc build
1592 configuration script now automatically detects static-pie support in the
1593 toolchain and architecture and enables it if available.
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1595* The catchsegv script and associated libSegFault.so shared object have
1596 been removed. There are widely-deployed out-of-process alternatives for
1597 catching coredumps and backtraces.
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1599* Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes
1600 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
1601 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
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1603* The LD_TRACE_PRELINKING environment variable has been removed. Similar
1604 functionality to obtain the program mapping address can be achieved by
1605 using LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS to value of 2.
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1607* The LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS has been removed. The variable was mainly used to
1608 support prelink PIE binaries.
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1610Changes to build and runtime requirements:
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1612* The audit module interface version LAV_CURRENT is increased to enable
1613 proper bind-now support. The loader now advertises via the la_symbind
32ffd427 1614 flags that PLT trace is not possible. New audit modules require the
7f0d9e61 1615 new dynamic loader supporting the latest LAV_CURRENT version. Old audit
32ffd427 1616 modules are still loaded for all targets except aarch64.
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1619 result location register (x8) and NEON Q register. Old audit modules are
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1621 structure sizes and the latest module interface version for LAV_CURRENT.
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1623Security related changes:
1624
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1625 CVE-2022-23219: Passing an overlong file name to the clnt_create
1626 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow when
1627 using the "unix" protocol. Reported by Martin Sebor.
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1629 CVE-2022-23218: Passing an overlong file name to the svcunix_create
1630 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow.
1631
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1632 CVE-2021-3998: Passing a path longer than PATH_MAX to the realpath
1633 function could result in a memory leak and potential access of
1634 uninitialized memory. Reported by Qualys.
1635
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1636 CVE-2021-3999: Passing a buffer of size exactly 1 byte to the getcwd
1637 function may result in an off-by-one buffer underflow and overflow
1638 when the current working directory is longer than PATH_MAX and also
1639 corresponds to the / directory through an unprivileged mount
1640 namespace. Reported by Qualys.
1641
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1644 [12889] nptl: Race condition in pthread_kill
1645 [14232] nptl: tst-cancel7 and tst-cancelx7 race condition
1646 [14913] libc: [mips] Clean up MIPS 64-bit register-dump.h output
1647 [15310] dynamic-link: _dl_sort_fini is O(n^3) causing slow exit when
1648 many dsos
1649 [15333] libc: Use 64-bit stat functions in installed programs
1650 [15533] dynamic-link: LD_AUDIT introduces an avoidable performance
1651 degradation
1652 [15971] dynamic-link: No interface for debugger access to libraries
1653 loaded with dlmopen
1654 [17318] locale: [RFE] Provide a C.UTF-8 locale by default
1655 [17645] dynamic-link: RFE: Improve performance of dynamic loader for
1656 deeply nested DSO dependencies.
1657 [19193] nptl: pthread_kill, pthread_cancel return ESRCH for a thread
1658 ID whose lifetime has not ended
1659 [22542] network: buffer overflow in sunrpc clnt_create
1660 (CVE-2022-23219)
1661 [22716] malloc: [PATCH] mtrace.pl: use TRACE_PRELINKING instead of
1662 TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS
1663 [25947] malloc: memory leak in muntrace
1664 [26045] math: fmaxf(inf, nan) does not always work
1665 [26108] math: exp10() has problems with <tgmath.h>
1666 [26779] build: benign use after realloc at localealias.c:329
1667 [27609] dynamic-link: [2.32/2.33/2.34 Regression] In elf/dl-open.c
1668 (_dl_open) we might use __LM_ID_CALLER to index GL(dl_ns)[]
1669 [27945] build: build-many-glibcs.py doesn't configure GCC with
1670 --enable-initfini-array
1671 [27991] build: x86: sysdeps/x86/configure.ac breaks when
1672 libc_cv_include_x86_isa_level is loaded from cache
1673 [28036] nptl: Incorrect types for pthread_mutexattr_set/getrobust_np
1674 in __REDIRECT_NTH macro
1675 [28061] dynamic-link: A failing dlmopen called by an auditor crashed
1676 [28062] dynamic-link: Suppress audit calls when a (new) namespace is
1677 empty
1678 [28126] libc: nftw aborts for paths longer than PATH_MAX
1679 [28129] dynamic-link: Unnecessary check DT_DEBUG in ld.so
1680 [28153] libc: [test] gmon/tst-gmon-gprof* may have a f3 line when
1681 built with ld.lld
1682 [28182] libc: _TIME_BITS=64 in C++ has issues with fcntl, ioctl, prctl
1683 [28185] math: Inaccurate j0f function (again)
1684 [28199] locale: iconvconfig prefix flag behaves differently in glibc
1685 2.34
1686 [28203] dynamic-link: aarch64: elf_machine_{load_address,dynamic}
1687 should drop _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_[0] in favor of __ehdr_start for
1688 robustness
1689 [28213] librt: NULL pointer dereference in mq_notify (CVE-2021-38604)
1690 [28223] libc: mips: clone does not align stack
1691 [28253] dynamic-link: Missing colon in LD_SHOW_AUXV output after
1692 AT_MINSIGSTKSZ
1693 [28256] malloc: Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised
1694 value(s) in __GI___tunables_init
1695 [28260] build: io/tst-closefrom, misc/tst-close_range, posix/tst-
1696 spawn5 fail if stray fds are open
1697 [28310] libc: Do not use affinity mask for sysconf
1698 (_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF)
1699 [28338] time: undefined behavior in __tzfile_compute with oddball TZif
1700 file
1701 [28340] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes while loading a DSO with a read-
1702 only dynamic section
1703 [28349] libc: Segfault for ping -R on qemux86 caused by recvmsg()
1704 [28350] libc: ping receives SIGABRT on lib32-qemux86-64 caused by
1705 recvmsg()
1706 [28353] network: Race condition on __opensock
1707 [28357] dynamic-link: deadlock between pthread_create and ctors
1708 [28358] math: f64xdivf128 and f64xmulf128 spurious underflows
1709 [28361] nptl: Fix for bug 12889 causes setxid deadlock
1710 [28368] build: -Waddress instances in stdio-common/vfprintf-internal.c
1711 [28390] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 14.0.0
1712 [28397] math: tgmath.h should not define fmaxmag, fminmag macros for
1713 C2X
1714 [28400] libc: [2.35 Regression] string/test-strncasecmp: cannot set
1715 locale "en_US.UTF-8"
1716 [28407] nptl: pthread_kill assumes that kill (getpid ()) is equivalent
1717 to tgkill (getpid (), gettid())
1718 [28455] dynamic-link: -Wl,--enable-new-dtags doesn't work
1719 [28457] dynamic-link: Missing reldepmod4.so dependency for
1720 globalmod1.so
1721 [28469] time: linux: struct timex is not correctly set for 32-bit
1722 systems with TIMESIZE=64
1723 [28470] regex: Buffer read overrun in regular expression searching
1724 [28475] string: Incorrect access attribute on memfrob
1725 [28524] libc: Conversion from ISO-2022-JP-3 with iconv may emit
1726 spurious NUL character on state reset
1727 [28532] libc: powerpc64[le]: CFI for assembly templated syscalls is
1728 incorrect
1729 [28550] dynamic-link: FAIL: tst-dso-
1730 ordering9_112-ecbda(GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort=1)
1731 execution test
1732 [28554] build: Undefined generate-md5
1733 [28572] libc: Misaligned accesses in test-memcpy and test-mempcpy on
1734 hppa
1735 [28607] nptl: Masked signals are delivered on thread exit
1736 [28624] libc: openjdk 8/9 assume uni processor and gets stuck due to
1737 lack of cpu counting /proc fallback with glibc 2.34
1738 [28646] string: [2.35 Regression] mock -r fedora-36-x86_64
1739 /tmp/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.312.b07-2.fc36.src.rpm& fails to build
1740 [28648] dynamic-link: Running ld.so on statically linked binaries
1741 crashes
1742 [28656] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC no longer works due to
1743 binutils changes
1744 [28676] dynamic-link: p_align on PT_LOAD segment in DSO isn't honored
1745 [28678] nptl: nptl/tst-create1 hangs sporadically
1746 [28688] dynamic-link: PT_LOAD p_align check is too strict
1747 [28700] nss: "dns [!UNAVAIL=return] files" default for hosts database
1748 is not useful
1749 [28707] time: assert in tzfile.c __tzfile_read striking with truncated
1750 timezones generated by tzcode-2021d and later
1751 [28713] math: GCC 12 miscompiles libm
1752 [28732] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-dl_find_object
1753 [28738] build: LIBC_LINKER_FEATURE doesn't work on linker -z option
1754 [28745] dynamic-link: _dl_find_object miscompilation on powerpc64le
1755 [28746] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE does not work for stpcpy
1756 [28749] libc: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: rtld.c: 1632: dl_main:
1757 Assertion `GL(dl_rtld_map).l_libname' failed!
1758 [28755] string: overflow bug in wcsncmp_avx2 and wcsncmp_evex
1759 [28757] nptl: GDB printer tests failed with new GDB
1760 [28765] math: x86_64 libmvec atan2 accuracy
1761 [28766] manual: Document libmvec accuracy
1762 [28768] network: Buffer overflow in svcunix_create with long pathnames
1763 (CVE-2022-23218)
1764 [28769] libc: Off-by-one buffer overflow/underflow in getcwd()
1765 (CVE-2021-3999)
1766 [28770] libc: Unexpected return value from realpath() for too long
1767 results (CVE-2021-3998)
1768 [28771] libc: %ebx optimization macros are incompatible with .altmacro
1769 in Systemtap probes
1770 [28780] build: --disable-default-pie doesn't work on static programs
1771 [28782] libc: x86-64 ISA level for glibc itself is always
1772 x86-64-baseline
1773 [28792] glob: possible wrong behaviour with patterns with double [
1774 with no closing ]
1775 [28837] libc: FAIL: socket/tst-socket-timestamp-compat
1776 [28847] locale: Empty mon_decimal_point in LC_MONETARY results in non-
1777 empty mon_decimal_point_wc
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1780Version 2.34
1781
1782Major new features:
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1785 the implementation of the runtime all functionality formerly
1786 implemented in the libraries libpthread, libdl, libutil, libanl has
1787 been integrated into libc. New applications do not need to link with
1788 -lpthread, -ldl, -lutil, -lanl anymore. For backwards compatibility,
1789 empty static archives libpthread.a, libdl.a, libutil.a, libanl.a are
1790 provided, so that the linker options keep working. Applications which
1791 have been linked against glibc 2.33 or earlier continue to load the
1792 corresponding shared objects (which are now empty). The integration
1793 of those libraries into libc means that additional symbols become
1794 available by default. This can cause applications that contain weak
1795 references to take unexpected code paths that would only have been
1796 used in previous glibc versions when e.g. preloading libpthread.so.0,
1797 potentially exposing application bugs.
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1800 PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is no longer constant and is redefined to
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1802 sets for modern architectural features like Arm SVE.
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1804* Add _SC_MINSIGSTKSZ and _SC_SIGSTKSZ. When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE
1805 or _GNU_SOURCE are defined, MINSIGSTKSZ and SIGSTKSZ are no longer
57fb02b2 1806 constant on Linux. MINSIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf(_SC_MINSIGSTKSZ)
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1808 dynamic sized register sets for modern architectural features like
1809 Arm SVE.
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1812 a dump of information related to IFUNC resolver operation and
1813 glibc-hwcaps subdirectory selection.
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1816 execve and it is is already used to implement fexecve without requiring
1817 /proc to be mounted. However, different than fexecve, if the syscall is not
1818 supported by the kernel an error is returned instead of trying a fallback.
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1823 C2X, is supported to enable declarations of functions defined in Annex F
1824 of C2X. Those declarations are also enabled when
1825 __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, as specified in TS 18661-1, is
1826 defined, and when _GNU_SOURCE is defined.
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1829 --disable-scv configure option.
1830
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1832 is traditionally 32-bit. Although time_t still defaults to 32-bit on
1833 these configurations, this default may change in future versions.
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1835 only supported when LFS (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) is also enabled. It is
1836 only enabled for Linux and the full support requires a minimum kernel
1837 version of 5.1.
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1840 essential converter modules and the rest have been moved into a supplementary
1841 configuration file gconv-modules-extra.conf in the gconv-modules.d directory
1842 in the same GCONV_PATH. Similarly, external converter modules directories
1843 may have supplementary configuration files in a gconv-modules.d directory
1844 with names ending with .conf to logically classify the converter modules in
1845 that directory.
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1848 to configure the size of the thread stack cache.
1849
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1852 fork (and it will be included in the future POSIX standard). The new _Fork
1853 function does not run any atfork function neither resets any internal state
1854 or lock (such as the malloc one), and only sets up a minimal state required
1855 to call async-signal-safe functions (such as raise or execve). This function
1856 is currently a GNU extension.
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1859 closing a range of file descriptors on recent kernels (version 5.9).
1860
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1863 although it is also present in other systems.
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1866 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to close all file descriptors greater
1867 than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
1868 although Solaris also provides a similar function.
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1871 execute programs that do not have any dynamic dependency (that is,
1872 they are statically linked). This feature is Linux-specific.
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1876* The function pthread_mutex_consistent_np has been deprecated; programs
1877 should use the equivalent standard function pthread_mutex_consistent
1878 instead.
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1880* The function pthread_mutexattr_getrobust_np has been deprecated;
1881 programs should use the equivalent standard function
1882 pthread_mutexattr_getrobust instead.
1883
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1884* The function pthread_mutexattr_setrobust_np has been deprecated;
1885 programs should use the equivalent standard function
1886 pthread_mutexattr_setrobust instead.
1887
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1889 the equivalent standard function sched_yield instead.
1890
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1891* The function inet_neta declared in <arpa/inet.h> has been deprecated.
1892
1893* Various rarely-used functions declared in <resolv.h> and
1894 <arpa/nameser.h> have been deprecated. Applications are encouraged to
1895 use dedicated DNS processing libraries if applicable. For <resolv.h>,
1896 this affects the functions dn_count_labels, fp_nquery, fp_query,
1897 fp_resstat, hostalias, loc_aton, loc_ntoa, p_cdname, p_cdnname,
1898 p_class, p_fqname, p_fqnname, p_option, p_query, p_rcode, p_time,
1899 p_type, putlong, putshort, res_hostalias, res_isourserver,
1900 res_nameinquery, res_queriesmatch, res_randomid, sym_ntop, sym_ntos,
1901 sym_ston. For <arpa/nameser.h>, the functions ns_datetosecs,
1902 ns_format_ttl, ns_makecanon, ns_parse_ttl, ns_samedomain, ns_samename,
1903 ns_sprintrr, ns_sprintrrf, ns_subdomain have been deprecated.
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1906 in order to prepare for libresolv moving entirely into libc (see earlier
1907 entry for merging libraries into libc). The symbols __dn_comp,
1908 __dn_expand, __dn_skipname, __res_dnok, __res_hnok, __res_mailok,
1909 __res_mkquery, __res_nmkquery, __res_nquery, __res_nquerydomain,
1910 __res_nsearch, __res_nsend, __res_ownok, __res_query, __res_querydomain,
1911 __res_search, __res_send formerly in libresolv have been renamed and no
1912 longer have a __ prefix. They are now available in libc.
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1915 pthread_cancel will always send the internal SIGCANCEL on a cancellation
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1918 is enabled) or ignore the cancellation internal signal. However there are
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1920 see a spurious EINTR error when cancellation interrupts a blocking syscall.
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1923 file names such as libc-2.33.so. The ABI sonames (e.g., libc.so.6)
1924 were provided as symbolic links. Starting with glibc 2.34, the shared
1925 objects are installed under their ABI sonames directly, without
1926 symbolic links. This increases compatibility with distribution
1927 package managers that delete removed files late during the package
1928 upgrade or downgrade process.
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1930* The symbols mallwatch and tr_break are now deprecated and no longer used in
1931 mtrace. Similar functionality can be achieved by using conditional
1932 breakpoints within mtrace functions from within gdb.
1933
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1934* The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
1935 implementation __default_morecore have been removed from the API. Existing
1936 applications will continue to link against these symbols but the interfaces
1937 no longer have any effect on malloc.
1938
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1940 (or the glibc.malloc.check tunable), mtrace() and mcheck() have now been
1941 disabled by default in the main C library. Users looking to use these
1942 features now need to preload a new debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so to get
1943 this functionality back.
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1946 moved from the core C library into libc_malloc_debug.so. Legacy applications
1947 that still use these functions will now need to preload libc_malloc_debug.so
1948 in their environment using the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
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1951 __memalign_hook and __free_hook are now removed from the API. Compatibility
1952 symbols are present to support legacy programs but new applications can no
1953 longer link to these symbols. These hooks no longer have any effect on glibc
1954 functionality. The malloc debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so currently
1955 supports hooks and can be preloaded to get this functionality back for older
1956 programs. However this is a transitional measure and may be removed in a
1957 future release of the GNU C Library. Users may port away from these hooks by
1958 writing and preloading their own malloc interposition library.
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1963 file shared memory file system to be mounted at /dev/shm. These functions
1964 no longer search among the system's mount points for a suitable
1965 replacement if /dev/shm is not available.
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1967Security related changes:
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1970 a request for netgroup lookup, may crash due to a double-free,
1971 potentially resulting in degraded service or Denial of Service on the
1972 local system. Reported by Chris Schanzle.
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1974 CVE-2021-33574: The mq_notify function has a potential use-after-free
1975 issue when using a notification type of SIGEV_THREAD and a thread
1976 attribute with a non-default affinity mask.
1977
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1979 parameter number when processing the expansion resulting in a crash.
1980 Reported by Philippe Antoine.
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1984 [4737] libc: fork is not async-signal-safe
1985 [5781] math: Slow dbl-64 sin/cos/sincos for special values
1986 [10353] libc: Methods for deleting all file descriptors greater than
1987 given integer (closefrom)
1988 [14185] glob: fnmatch() fails when '*' wildcard is applied on the file
1989 name containing multi-byte character(s)
1990 [14469] math: Inaccurate j0f function
1991 [14470] math: Inaccurate j1f function
1992 [14471] math: Inaccurate y0f function
1993 [14472] math: Inaccurate y1f function
1994 [14744] nptl: kill -32 $pid or kill -33 $pid on a process cancels a
1995 random thread
1996 [15271] dynamic-link: dlmopen()ed shared library with LM_ID_NEWLM
1997 crashes if it fails dlsym() twice
1998 [15648] nptl: multiple definition of `__lll_lock_wait_private'
1999 [16063] nptl: Provide a pthread_once variant in libc directly
2000 [17144] libc: syslog is not thread-safe if NO_SIGPIPE is not defined
2001 [17145] libc: syslog with LOG_CONS leaks console file descriptor
2002 [17183] manual: description of ENTRY struct in <search.h> in glibc
2003 manual is incorrect
2004 [18435] nptl: pthread_once hangs when init routine throws an exception
2005 [18524] nptl: Missing calloc error checking in
2006 __cxa_thread_atexit_impl
2007 [19329] dynamic-link: dl-tls.c assert failure at concurrent
2008 pthread_create and dlopen
2009 [19366] nptl: returning from a thread should disable cancellation
2010 [19511] nptl: 8MB memory leak in pthread_create in case of failure
2011 when non-root user changes priority
2012 [20802] dynamic-link: getauxval NULL pointer dereference after static
2013 dlopen
2014 [20813] nptl: pthread_exit is inconsistent between libc and libpthread
2015 [22057] malloc: malloc_usable_size is broken with mcheck
2016 [22668] locale: LC_COLLATE: the last character of ellipsis is not
2017 ordered correctly
2018 [23323] libc: [RFE] CSU startup hardening.
2019 [23328] malloc: Remove malloc hooks and ensure related APIs return no
2020 data.
2021 [23462] dynamic-link: Static binary with dynamic string tokens ($LIB,
2022 $PLATFORM, $ORIGIN) crashes
2023 [23489] libc: "gcc -lmcheck" aborts on free when using posix_memalign
2024 [23554] nptl: pthread_getattr_np reports wrong stack size with
2025 MULTI_PAGE_ALIASING
2026 [24106] libc: Bash interpreter in ldd script is taken from host
2027 [24773] dynamic-link: dlerror in an secondary namespace does not use
2028 the right free implementation
2029 [25036] localedata: Update collation order for Swedish
2030 [25383] libc: where_is_shmfs/__shm_directory/SHM_GET_NAME may cause
2031 shm_open to pick wrong directory
2032 [25680] dynamic-link: ifuncmain9picstatic and ifuncmain9picstatic
2033 crash in IFUNC resolver due to stack canary (--enable-stack-
2034 protector=all)
2035 [26874] build: -Warray-bounds in _IO_wdefault_doallocate
2036 [26983] math: [x86_64] x86_64 tgamma has too large ULP error
2037 [27111] dynamic-link: pthread_create and tls access use link_map
2038 objects that may be concurrently freed by dlclose
2039 [27132] malloc: memusagestat is linked to system librt, leading to
2040 undefined symbols on major version upgrade
2041 [27136] dynamic-link: dtv setup at thread creation may leave an entry
2042 uninitialized
2043 [27249] libc: libSegFault.so does not output signal number properly
2044 [27304] nptl: pthread_cond_destroy does not pass private flag to futex
2045 system calls
2046 [27318] dynamic-link: glibc fails to load binaries when built with
2047 -march=sandybridge: CPU ISA level is lower than required
2048 [27343] nss: initgroups() SIGSEGVs when called on a system without
2049 nsswich.conf (in a chroot)
2050 [27346] dynamic-link: x86: PTWRITE feature check is missing
2051 [27389] network: NSS chroot hardening causes regressions in chroot
2052 deployments
2053 [27403] dynamic-link: aarch64: tlsdesc htab is not freed on dlclose
2054 [27444] libc: sysconf reports unsupported option (-1) for
2055 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_LINESIZE on X86 since v2.33
2056 [27462] nscd: double-free in nscd (CVE-2021-27645)
2057 [27468] malloc: aarch64: realloc crash with heap tagging: FAIL:
2058 malloc/tst-malloc-thread-fail
2059 [27498] dynamic-link: __dl_iterate_phdr lacks unwinding information
2060 [27511] libc: S390 memmove assumes Vector Facility when MIE Facility 3
2061 is present
2062 [27522] glob: glob, glob64 incorrectly marked as __THROW
2063 [27555] dynamic-link: Static tests fail with --enable-stack-
2064 protector=all
2065 [27559] libc: fstat(AT_FDCWD) succeeds (it shouldn't) and returns
2066 information for the current directory
2067 [27577] dynamic-link: elf/ld.so --help doesn't work
2068 [27605] libc: tunables can't control xsave/xsavec selection in
2069 dl_runtime_resolve_*
2070 [27623] libc: powerpc: Missing registers in sc[v] clobbers list
2071 [27645] libc: [linux] sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSOR...) breaks down on
2072 containers
2073 [27646] dynamic-link: Linker error for non-existing NSS symbols (e.g.
2074 _nss_files_getcanonname_r) from within a dlmopen namespace.
2075 [27648] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-select
2076 [27650] stdio: vfscanf returns too early if a match is longer than
2077 INT_MAX
2078 [27651] libc: Performance regression after updating to 2.33
2079 [27655] string: Wrong size calculation in string/test-strnlen.c
2080 [27706] libc: select fails to update timeout on error
2081 [27709] libc: arm: FAIL: debug/tst-longjmp_chk2
2082 [27721] dynamic-link: x86: ld_audit ignores bind now for TLSDESC and
2083 tries resolving them lazily
2084 [27744] nptl: Support different libpthread/ld.so load orders in
2085 libthread_db
2086 [27749] libc: Data race __run_exit_handlers
2087 [27761] libc: getconf: Segmentation fault when passing '-vq' as
2088 argument
2089 [27832] nss: makedb.c:797:7: error: 'writev' specified size 4294967295
2090 exceeds maximum object size 2147483647
2091 [27870] malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ causes realloc(valid_ptr, TOO_LARGE) to
2092 not set ENOMEM
2093 [27872] build: Obsolete configure option --enable-stackguard-
2094 randomization
2095 [27873] build: tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo fail when building on AMD cpu
2096 [27882] localedata: Use U+00AF MACRON in more EBCDIC charsets
2097 [27892] libc: powerpc: scv ABI error handling fails to check
2098 IS_ERR_VALUE
2099 [27896] nptl: mq_notify does not handle separately allocated thread
2100 attributes (CVE-2021-33574)
2101 [27901] libc: TEST_STACK_ALIGN doesn't work
2102 [27902] libc: The x86-64 clone wrapper fails to align child stack
2103 [27914] nptl: Install SIGSETXID handler with SA_ONSTACK
2104 [27939] libc: aarch64: clone does not align the stack
2105 [27968] libc: s390x: clone does not align the stack
2106 [28011] libc: Wild read in wordexp (parse_param) (CVE-2021-35942)
2107 [28024] string: s390(31bit): Wrong result of memchr (MEMCHR_Z900_G5)
2108 with n >= 0x80000000
2109 [28028] malloc: malloc: tcache shutdown sequence does not work if the
2110 thread never allocated anything
2111 [28033] libc: Need to check RTM_ALWAYS_ABORT for RTM
2112 [28064] string: x86_64:wcslen implementation list has wcsnlen
2113 [28067] libc: FAIL: posix/tst-spawn5
2114 [28068] malloc: FAIL: malloc/tst-mallocalign1-mcheck
2115 [28071] time: clock_gettime, gettimeofday, time lost vDSO acceleration
2116 on older kernels
2117 [28075] nis: Out-of-bounds static buffer read in nis_local_domain
2118 [28089] build: tst-tls20 fails when linker defaults to --as-needed
2119 [28090] build: elf/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo-static fails on certain
2120 AMD64 cpus
2121 [28091] network: ns_name_skip may return 0 for domain names without
2122 terminator
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2125Version 2.33
2126
2127Major new features:
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2129* The dynamic linker accepts the --list-tunables argument which prints
2130 all the supported tunables. This option is disable if glibc is
2131 configured with tunables disabled (--enable-tunables=no).
2132
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2133* The dynamic linker accepts the --argv0 argument and provides opportunity
2134 to change argv[0] string.
2135
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2136* The dynamic linker loads optimized implementations of shared objects
2137 from subdirectories under the glibc-hwcaps directory on the library
2138 search path if the system's capabilities meet the requirements for
2139 that subdirectory. Initially supported subdirectories include
2140 "power9" and "power10" for the powerpc64le-linux-gnu architecture,
2141 "z13", "z14", "z15" for s390x-linux-gnu, and "x86-64-v2", "x86-64-v3",
2142 "x86-64-v4" for x86_64-linux-gnu. In the x86_64-linux-gnu case, the
2143 subdirectory names correspond to the vendor-independent x86-64
2144 microarchitecture levels defined in the x86-64 psABI supplement.
2145
2146* The new --help option of the dynamic linker provides usage and
2147 information and library search path diagnostics.
2148
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2149* The mallinfo2 function is added to report statistics as per mallinfo,
2150 but with larger field widths to accurately report values that are
2151 larger than fit in an integer.
2152
96203980 2153* Add <sys/platform/x86.h> to provide query macros for x86 CPU features.
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2155* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been expanded to run on
2156 32-bit hardware. This is supported for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
2157
2158 - rv32imac ilp32
2159 - rv32imafdc ilp32
2160 - rv32imafdc ilp32d
2161
2162 The 32-bit RISC-V port requires at least Linux 5.4, GCC 7.1 and binutils
2163 2.28.
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2166 glibc may use additional checks that may have an additional performance
2167 overhead. At present these checks are available only on LLVM 9 and later.
2168 The latest GCC available at this time (10.2) does not support this level of
2169 fortification.
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2174 mallinfo2 instead.
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2176* When dlopen is used in statically linked programs, alternative library
2177 implementations from HWCAP subdirectories are no longer loaded.
2178 Instead, the default implementation is used.
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2181 removed. To support old binaries, the vtimes function continues to exist
2182 as a compatibility symbol. Applications should use the getrlimit or
2183 prlimit.
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2185* Following a change in the tzdata 2018a release upstream, the zdump
2186 program is now installed in the /usr/bin subdirectory. Previously,
2187 the /usr/sbin subdirectory was used.
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2190 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ that is defined by the compiler, instead of being
2191 hardcoded to double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
2192 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
2193 libraries that use this type in their interfaces. The new definition
2194 improves consistency with compiler behavior in many scenarios.
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2196* A future version of glibc will stop loading shared objects from the
2197 "tls" subdirectories on the library search path, the subdirectory that
2198 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, and also stop employing
2199 the legacy AT_HWCAP search mechanism. Applications should switch to
2200 the new glibc-hwcaps mechanism instead; if they do not do that, only
2201 the baseline version (directly from the search path directory) will be
2202 loaded.
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2207 the intended access modes for pseudo-terminals. glibc no longer
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2210 corresponded to what most systems used, so that grantpt did not
2211 perform any adjustments.
2212
2213* On Linux, the posix_openpt and getpt functions no longer attempt to
2214 use legacy (BSD) pseudo-terminals and assume that if /dev/ptmx exists
2215 (and pseudo-terminals are supported), a devpts file system is mounted
2216 on /dev/pts. Current systems already meet these requirements.
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2220Security related changes:
2221
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934c48a0 2223 ISO-20220-JP-3 character set using the iconv function has been fixed.
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2225 converted output contains a combined sequence of two wide characters
2226 crossing a buffer boundary. Reported by Tavis Ormandy.
2227
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2228 CVE-2020-27618: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
2229 invoked with input containing redundant shift sequences in the IBM1364,
2230 IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, or IBM1399 character sets.
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2232 CVE-2020-29562: An assertion failure has been fixed in the iconv function
2233 when invoked with UCS4 input containing an invalid character.
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2236 invoked with EUC-KR input containing invalid multibyte input sequences.
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2241 [16124] dynamic-link: ld.so should allow to change argv[0]
2242 [17924] malloc: 'free' should not set errno
2243 [18683] libc: Linux faccessat implementation can incorrectly ignore
2244 AT_EACCESS
2245 [22899] libc: Use 64-bit readdir() in generic POSIX getcwd()
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2248 "haswell" platform subdirectory
2249 [24080] dynamic-link: Definition of "haswell" platform is inconsistent
2250 with GCC
2251 [24202] libc: m68k setjmp() saves incorrect 'a5' register in --enable-
2252 stack-protector=all
2253 [24941] libc: Make grantpt usable after multi-threaded fork in more
2254 cases
2255 [24970] libc: realpath mishandles EOVERFLOW; stat not needed anyway
2256 [24973] locale: iconv encounters segmentation fault when converting
2257 0x00 0xfe in EUC-KR to UTF-8 (CVE-2019-25013)
2258 [25399] string: undefined reference to `__warn_memset_zero_len' when
2259 changing gnuc version
2260 [25859] libc: glibc parser for /sys/devices/system/cpu/online is
2261 incorrect
2262 [25938] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should store meaning of hwcap mask
2263 bits
2264 [25971] libc: s390 bits/hwcap.h out of sync with kernel
2265 [26053] libc: unlockpt fails with ENOTTY for non-ptmx descriptors
2266 [26100] libc: Race in syslog(3) with regards to tag printing.
2267 [26124] libc: Export <cpu-features.h>
2268 [26130] nscd: Inconsistent nscd cache during pruning
7f0d9e61 2269 [26203] libc: GLRO(dl_x86_cpu_features) may not be initialized
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2271 several IBM character sets (CVE-2020-27618)
2272 [26341] libc: realpath cyclically call __alloca(path_max) to consume
2273 too much stack space
2274 [26343] manual: invalid documented return type for strerrorname_np(),
2275 strerrordesc_np(), sigdescr_np(), sigabbrev_np()
2276 [26376] libc: Namespace violation in stdio.h and sys/stat.h if build
2277 with optimization.
2278 [26383] locale: bind_textdomain_codeset doesn't accept //TRANSLIT
2279 anymore
2280 [26394] time: [2.33 Regression] FAIL: nptl/tst-join14
2281 [26534] math: libm.so 2.32 SIGILL in pow() due to FMA4 instruction on
2282 non-FMA4 system
2283 [26552] dynamic-link: CPU_FEATURE_USABLE_P should be more conservative
2284 [26553] libc: mtx_init allows type set to "mtx_recursive" only
2285 [26555] string: strerrorname_np does not return the documented value
2286 [26592] libc: pointer arithmetic overflows in realpath
2287 [26600] network: Transaction ID collisions cause slow DNS lookups in
2288 getaddrinfo
2289 [26606] libc: [2.33 Regression] pselect is broken on x32
2290 [26615] libc: powerpc: libc segfaults when LD_PRELOADed with libgcc
2291 [26620] glob: fnmatch with collating symbols results in segmentation
2292 fault
2293 [26625] libc: [2.33 Regression] CET is disabled
2294 [26636] libc: 32-bit shmctl(IPC_INFO) crashes when shminfo struct is
2295 at the end of a memory mapping
2296 [26637] libc: semctl SEM_STAT_ANY fails to pass the buffer specified
2297 by the caller to the kernel
2298 [26639] libc: msgctl IPC_INFO and MSG_INFO return garbage
2299 [26647] build: [-Werror=array-parameter=] due to different
2300 declarations for __sigsetjmp
2301 [26648] libc: mkstemp is likely to fail on systems with non-stricly-
2302 monotonic clocks
2303 [26649] stdio: printf should handle non-normal x86 long double numbers
2304 gracefully (CVE-2020-29573)
2305 [26686] build: -Warray-parameter instances building with GCC 11
2306 [26687] build: -Warray-bounds instances building with GCC 11
2307 [26690] stdio: Aliasing violation in __vfscanf_internal
2308 [26691] nptl: Use a minimum guard size of 64 KiB on aarch64
2309 [26726] build: GCC warning calling new_composite_name with an array of
2310 one element
2311 [26736] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-sysvshm-linux
2312 [26737] libc: Random FAIL: rt/tst-shm
2313 [26791] libc: Missing O_CLOEXEC in sysconf.c
2314 [26798] dynamic-link: aarch64: variant PCS symbols may be incorrectly
2315 lazy bound
2316 [26801] nptl: pthread_mutex_clocklock with CLOCK_MONOTONIC can fail on
2317 PI mutexes
2318 [26818] string: aarch64: string tests may run ifunc variants that are
2319 not safe
2320 [26821] libc: Memory leak test failures on Fedora 33
2321 [26824] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-cpu-features-supports with recent trunk:
2322 FSGSBASE/LM/RDRAND check failure
2323 [26833] time: adjtime() with delta == NULL segfaults on armv7 32bit
2324 platform
2325 [26853] libc: aarch64: Missing unwind information in statically linked
2326 startup code
2327 [26923] locale: Assertion failure in iconv when converting invalid
2328 UCS4 (CVE-2020-29562)
2329 [26926] dynamic-link: aarch64: library dependencies are not bti
2330 protected
2331 [26932] libc: sh: Multiple floating point functions defined as stubs
2332 only since 2.31
2333 [26964] nptl: pthread_mutex_timedlock returning EAGAIN after futex is
2334 locked
2335 [26988] dynamic-link: aarch64: BTI mprotect address is not page
2336 aligned
2337 [27002] build: libc_freeres_fn build failure with GCC 11
2338 [27004] dynamic-link: ld.so is miscompiled by GCC 11
2339 [27008] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should have endianness markup
2340 [27042] libc: [alpha] anonymous union in struct stat confuses
2341 detection logic
2342 [27053] libc: Conformance regression in system(3) (and probably also
2343 pclose(3))
2344 [27072] dynamic-link: static pie ifunc resolvers run before hwcap is
2345 setup
2346 [27077] network: Do not reload /etc/nsswitch.conf from chroot
2347 [27083] libc: Unsafe unbounded alloca in addmntent
2348 [27104] dynamic-link: The COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_MAX handshake does not
2349 work
2350 [27130] string: "rep movsb" performance issue
2351 [27150] libc: alpha: wait4() is unavailable in static linking
2352 [27177] dynamic-link:
2353 GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.cpu.x86_ibt=on:glibc.cpu.x86_shstk=on doesn't
2354 work
2355 [27222] dynamic-link: Incorrect sysdeps/x86/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo.c
2356 [27237] malloc: deadlock in malloc/tst-malloc-stats-cancellation
2357 [27256] locale: Assertion failure in ISO-2022-JP-3 gconv module
2358 related to combining characters (CVE-2021-3326)
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2361Version 2.32
2362
2363Major new features:
2364
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2365* Unicode 13.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2366 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 13.0.0, using
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2367 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2368
2369* New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq)
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2371* Support for Synopsys ARC HS cores (ARCv2 ISA) running Linux has been
2372 added. This port requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-8.3 and Linux-5.1.
2373 Three ABIs are supported:
2374
2375 - arc-linux-gnu
2376 - arc-linux-gnuhf
2377 - arceb-linux-gnu
2378
4d3a77c7 2379 The arc* ABIs are little-endian while arceb is big-endian. All ABIs use
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2380 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
2381
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2382* The GNU C Library now loads audit modules listed in the DT_AUDIT and
2383 DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
2384
051be01f 2385* powerpc64le supports IEEE128 long double libm/libc redirects when
4d3a77c7 2386 using -mabi=ieeelongdouble to compile C code on supported GCC
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2387 toolchains. It is recommended to use GCC 8 or newer when testing
2388 this option.
2389
901ac843
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2390* To help detect buffer overflows and other out-of-bounds accesses
2391 several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This
2392 should help GCC 10 issue better warnings.
2393
4d3a77c7 2394* On Linux, functions pthread_attr_setsigmask_np and
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2395 pthread_attr_getsigmask_np have been added. They allow applications
2396 to specify the signal mask of a thread created with pthread_create.
2397
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2398* The GNU C Library now provides the header file <sys/single_threaded.h>
2399 which declares the variable __libc_single_threaded. Applications are
2400 encouraged to use this variable for single-thread optimizations,
2401 instead of weak references to symbols historically defined in
2402 libpthread.
2403
bfe05aa2 2404* The functions sigabbrev_np and sigdescr_np have been added. The
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2405 sigabbrev_np function returns the abbreviated signal name (e.g. "HUP" for
2406 SIGHUP) while sigdescr_np returns a string describing the signal number
2407 (e.g "Hangup" for SIGHUP). Different than strsignal, sigdescr_np does not
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2408 attempt to translate the return description, both functions return
2409 NULL for an invalid signal number.
2410
2411 They should be used instead of sys_siglist or sys_sigabbrev and they
2412 are both thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
2413
325081b9 2414* The functions strerrorname_np and strerrordesc_np have been added. The
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2415 strerroname_np function returns error number name (e.g. "EINVAL" for EINVAL)
2416 while strerrordesc_np returns a string describing the error number
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2417 (e.g "Invalid argument" for EINVAL). Different than strerror,
2418 strerrordesc_np does not attempt to translate the return description, both
2419 functions return NULL for an invalid error number.
2420
2421 They should be used instead of sys_errlist and sys_nerr, both are
2422 thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
2423
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2424* AArch64 now supports standard branch protection security hardening
2425 in glibc when it is built with a GCC that is configured with
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2426 --enable-standard-branch-protection (or if -mbranch-protection=standard
2427 flag is passed when building both GCC target libraries and glibc,
2428 in either case a custom GCC is needed). This includes branch target
a2a83bf6
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2429 identification (BTI) and pointer authentication for return addresses
2430 (PAC-RET). They require armv8.5-a and armv8.3-a architecture
2431 extensions respectively for the protection to be effective,
2432 otherwise the used instructions are nops. User code can use PAC-RET
2433 without libc support, but BTI requires a libc that is built with BTI
2434 support, otherwise runtime objects linked into user code will not be
2435 BTI compatible.
2436
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2437Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2438
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2439* Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc. Sun RPC is removed
2440 from glibc. This includes the rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and the Sun
2441 RPC header files. Backward compatibility for old programs is kept
2442 only for architectures and ABIs that have been added in or before
2443 glibc 2.31. New programs need to use TI-RPC
2444 <http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=summary> and
2445 rpcsvc-proto <https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto>.
2446
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2447* Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-nsl. libnsl is only built
2448 as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules "nis"
2449 and "nisplus" are not built at all and libnsl's headers aren't
2450 installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs
2451 that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement
2452 implementations based on TI-RPC, which additionally support IPv6, are
2453 available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not
4d3a77c7 2454 affect the "compat" NSS module, which does not depend on libnsl
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2455 since 2.27 and thus can be used without NIS.
2456
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FW
2457* The deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
2458 removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
2459 exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
2460 but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system
2461 call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5.
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2463* The sstk function is no longer available to newly linked binaries.
2464 Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function
2465 was not declared in any header file.
2466
02802faf
FW
2467* The legacy signal handling functions siginterrupt, sigpause, sighold,
2468 sigrelse, sigignore and sigset, and the sigmask macro have been
2469 deprecated. Applications should use the sigsuspend, sigprocmask and
2470 sigaction functions instead.
2471
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2472* ldconfig now defaults to the new format for ld.so.cache. glibc has
2473 already supported this format for almost 20 years.
2474
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2475* The deprecated arrays sys_siglist, _sys_siglist, and sys_sigabbrev
2476 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
2477 have been removed from <string.h>. They are exported solely as
2478 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
2479 strsignal instead.
2480
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2481* The deprecated symbols sys_errlist, _sys_errlist, sys_nerr, and _sys_nerr
2482 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
4d3a77c7 2483 have been removed from <stdio.h>. They are exported solely as
f13d2601
AZ
2484 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
2485 strerror or strerror_r instead.
2486
28aff047
AZ
2487* Both strerror and strerror_l now share the same internal buffer in the
2488 calling thread, meaning that the returned string pointer may be invalided
2489 or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same thread or
2490 if the thread is terminated. It makes strerror MT-safe.
2491
89c25529
FW
2492* Using weak references to libpthread functions such as pthread_create
2493 or pthread_key_create to detect the singled-threaded nature of a
2494 program is an obsolescent feature. Future versions of glibc will
2495 define pthread_create within libc.so.6 itself, so such checks will
2496 always flag the program as multi-threaded. Applications should check
2497 the __libc_single_threaded variable declared in
2498 <sys/single_threaded.h> instead.
2499
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2500* The "files" NSS module no longer supports the "key" database (used for
2501 secure RPC). The contents of the /etc/publickey file will be ignored,
2502 regardless of the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of
2503 storing RPC keys only supported the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES
2504 flavor of secure RPC.)
94d9c76e 2505
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FW
2506* The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
2507 implementation __default_morecore have been deprecated. Applications
2508 should use malloc interposition to change malloc behavior, and mmap to
2509 allocate anonymous memory. A future version of glibc may require that
2510 applications which use the malloc hooks must preload a special shared
2511 object, to enable the hooks.
2512
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2513* The hesiod NSS module has been deprecated and will be removed in a
2514 future version of glibc. System administrators are encouraged to
2515 switch to other approaches for networked account databases, such as
2516 LDAP.
2517
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2518Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2519
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2520* powerpc64le requires GCC 7.4 or newer. This is required for supporting
2521 long double redirects.
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2522
2523Security related changes:
2524
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2525 CVE-2016-10228: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
2526 invoked with the -c option and when processing invalid multi-byte input
2527 sequences. Reported by Jan Engelhardt.
2528
15ab1952
AJ
2529 CVE-2020-10029: Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack
2530 corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido
2531 Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
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AJ
2533 CVE-2020-1752: A use-after-free vulnerability in the glob function when
2534 expanding ~user has been fixed.
2535
17400c4b
AJ
2536 CVE-2020-6096: A signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy and
2537 memmove functions has been fixed. Discovered by Jason Royes and Samual
2538 Dytrych of the Cisco Security Assessment and Penetration Team (See
2539 TALOS-2020-1019).
2540
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2541The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2542
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2543 [9809] localedata: ckb_IQ: new Kurdish Sorani locale
2544 [10441] manual: Backtraces code example lacks error checking
2545 [10815] librt: [timer_create / SIGEV_THREAD] signalmask of
2546 timer_sigev_thread dangerous
2547 [14231] stdio: stdio-common tests memory requirements
2548 [14578] libc: /proc-based emulation for lchmod, fchmodat
2549 [16272] dynamic-link: dlopen()ing a DT_FILTER library crashes if
2550 filtee has constructor
2551 [19519] locale: iconv(1) with -c option hangs on illegal multi-byte
2552 sequences (CVE-2016-10228)
2553 [19737] admin: Doc page “20.5.2 Infinity and NaN” has incorrect HTML
2554 character entities for infinity & pi
2555 [20338] libc: Parsing of /etc/gshadow can return bad pointers causing
2556 segfaults in applications
2557 [20543] libc: Please move from .gnu.linkonce to comdat
7f0d9e61 2558 [22489] network: gcc warns about implicit conversion in
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2559 ICMP6_FILTER_SETPASS with -Wsign-conversion
2560 [22525] localedata: or_IN LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2561 [23294] math: Complex _FloatN functions are redirected to the wrong
2562 function with -mlong-double-64
2563 [23296] libc: Data race in setting function descriptor during lazy
2564 binding
2565 [23668] dynamic-link: ldconfig: Default to the new format for
2566 ld.so.cache
2567 [23819] hurd: hurd: Add C11 thread support
2568 [23990] build: test-container error out on failure to exec child.
2569 [23991] build: shell-container typo in run_command_array
2570 [24638] manual: Error in example of parsing a template string
2571 [24654] manual: Wrong declaration of wcschr in libc manual
2572 [24943] dynamic-link: Support DT_AUDIT, DT_DEPAUDIT in the dynamic
2573 linker
2574 [25051] dynamic-link: aarch64, powerpc64 uses surplus static tls for
2575 dynamically loaded dsos
2576 [25098] nptl: nptl: ctype classification functions are not AS-Safe
2577 [25219] libc: improve out-of-bounds checking with GCC 10 attribute
2578 access
2579 [25262] libc: getcontext/setcontext/swapcontext unnecessarily save and
2580 restore EAX, ECX and EDX
2581 [25397] dynamic-link: Legacy bitmap doesn't cover jitted code
2582 [25414] glob: 'glob' use-after-free bug (CVE-2020-1752)
2583 [25420] network: Race condition in resolv_conf.c can result in caching
2584 stale configuration forever
2585 [25487] math: sinl() stack corruption from crafted input
2586 (CVE-2020-10029)
2587 [25506] build: configure: broken detection of STT_GNU_IFUNC when GCC
2588 defaults to PIE
2589 [25523] libc: MIPS/Linux inline syscall template is miscompiled
2590 [25620] libc: Signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy()
2591 (CVE-2020-6096)
2592 [25623] libc: test-sysvmsg, test-sysvsem, test-sysvshm fail with 2.31
2593 on 32 bit and old kernel
2594 [25635] libc: arm: Wrong sysdep order selection for soft-fp
2595 [25639] localedata: Some names of days and months wrongly spelt in
2596 Occitan
2597 [25657] libc: sigprocmask() and sigisemptyset() manipulate different
2598 amount of sigset_t bytes
2599 [25691] stdio: printf: memory leak when printing long multibyte
2600 strings
2601 [25715] libc: system() returns wrong errors when posix_spawn fails
2602 [25733] malloc: mallopt(M_MXFAST) can set global_max_fast to 0
2603 [25734] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS fails to reset conversion
2604 state for conversions that produce two Unicode code points
2605 [25765] nptl: Incorrect futex syscall in __pthread_disable_asynccancel
2606 for linux x86_64 leads to livelock
2607 [25788] dynamic-link: [i386] -fno-omit-frame-pointer in CFLAGS causes
2608 test failures, invalid instruction in ld.so
2609 [25790] glob: Typo in tst-fnmatch.input
2610 [25810] libc: x32: Incorrect syscall entries with pointer, off_t and
2611 size_t
2612 [25819] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 13.0.0
2613 [25824] libc: Abnormal function of strnlen in aarch64
2614 [25887] dynamic-link: Wasted space in _dl_x86_feature_1[1]
2615 [25896] libc: Incorrect prctl
2616 [25902] libc: Bad LOADARGS_N
2617 [25905] dynamic-link: VSX registers are corrupted during PLT
2618 resolution when glibc is built with --disable-multi-arch and --with-
2619 cpu=power9
2620 [25933] string: Off by one error in __strncmp_avx2 when
2621 length=VEC_SIZE*4 and strings are at page boundaries can cause a
2622 segfault
2623 [25942] nptl: Deadlock on stack_cache_lock between __nptl_setxid and
2624 exiting detached thread
2625 [25966] libc: Incorrect access of __x86_shared_non_temporal_threshold
2626 for x32
2627 [25976] nss: internal_end*ent in nss_compat may clobber errno, hiding
2628 ERANGE
2629 [25999] nptl: Use-after-free issue in pthread_getaddr_default_np
2630 [26073] math: getpayload() has wrong return value
2631 [26076] dynamic-link: dlmopen crashes after failing to load
2632 dependencies in audit mode
2633 [26120] localedata: column width of of some Korean
2634 JUNGSEONG/JONGSEONG characters wrong (should be 0)
2635 [26128] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFLUSHOPT
2636 [26133] libc: Incorrect need_arch_feature_F16C
2637 [26137] libc: strtod() triggers exception FE_INEXACT on reasonable
2638 input
2639 [26149] libc: PKU is usable only if OSPKE is set
2640 [26173] libc: powerpc64*: Add @notoc to calls to functions that do not
2641 preserve r2
2642 [26208] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFSH
2643 [26210] network: Incorrect use of hidden symbols for global sunrpc
2644 variables
2645 [26211] stdio: printf integer overflow calculating allocation size
2646 [26214] stdio: printf_fp double free
2647 [26215] stdio: printf_fp memory leak
2648 [26232] time: FAIL: support/tst-timespec for 32-bit targets
2649 [26258] nss: nss_compat should not read input files with mmap
2650 [26332] string: Incorrect cache line size load causes memory
2651 corruption in memset
2652
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2654Version 2.31
2655
2656Major new features:
2657
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2658* The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
2659 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
2660 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
2661 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
2662 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
2663 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
0b8c2f95 2664
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2665* The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
2666 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
2667 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
2668 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
2669
69ca4b54 2670* The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
3ef5e118 2671 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
69ca4b54
MC
2672 CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME. This function is a GNU extension.
2673
c5fbd7c3
TM
2674* New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar).
2675
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2676* The DNS stub resolver will optionally send the AD (authenticated data) bit
2677 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
2678 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
2679 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
2680 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
2681 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
2682 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
2683 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
2684
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2685Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2686
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2687* The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
2688 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
2689 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
2690 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
2691 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
2692 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
0b8c2f95 2693
12cbde1d 2694* The obsolete function stime is no longer available to newly linked
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2695 binaries, and its declaration has been removed from <time.h>.
2696 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
2697
2698* We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
2699 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
2700 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
2701 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
2702
2703* The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
2704 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
2705 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
2706 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
2707 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
2708 made this no longer practical.
2709
2710 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
2711 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
2712 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
2713 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
2714 release.)
2715
2716 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
2717 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
2718 with the current time, use the localtime function.
2719
2720 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
2721 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
2722 using clock_gettime instead.
12cbde1d 2723
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2724* The settimeofday function can still be used to set a system-wide time
2725 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
2726 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
2727 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
2728 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
2729
2730 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
2731 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
2732 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
2733 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
2734
2735 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
2736 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
2737 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
2738 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
2739 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
2740 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
2741
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2742 settimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. Programs that set
2743 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
2744 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
2745 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
2746 offset API.
c3f9aef0 2747
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2748* SPARC ISA v7 is no longer supported. v8 is still supported, but only if
2749 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
2750 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
2b5fea83 2751
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2752 As the oldest 64-bit SPARC ISA is v9, this only affects 32-bit
2753 configurations.
5d9b7b9f 2754
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2755* If a lazy binding failure happens during dlopen, during the execution of
2756 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
2757 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
2758 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
2759 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
2760
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2761* For MIPS hard-float ABIs, the GNU C Library will be configured to need an
2762 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
2763 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
2764 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
2765 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
2766 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
2767 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
2768 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
2769
2770 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
2771 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
2772
2cd01a1d
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2773* System call wrappers for time system calls now use the new time64 system
2774 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
2775 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
2776 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
2777 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
2778 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
2779
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2780Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2781
a1bd5f86 2782* It is no longer necessary to have recent Linux kernel headers to build
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2783 working (non-stub) system call wrappers on all architectures except 64-bit
2784 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
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SP
2786* The ChangeLog file is no longer present in the toplevel directory of the
2787 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
2788 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
2789
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2790Security related changes:
2791
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2792 CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an
2793 out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context.
2794
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2795 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
2796 environment variable during program execution after a security
2797 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
2798 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
2799 program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
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2801The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2802
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2803 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
2804 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
2805 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
2806 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
2807 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
2808 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
2809 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
2810 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
2811 linking failure
2812 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
2813 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
2814 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
2815 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
2816 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
2817 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
2818 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
2819 constructors/destructors is not fatal
2820 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
2821 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
2822 7408-2005
2823 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
2824 with localedef
2825 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
2826 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
2827 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
2828 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
2829 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
2830 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
2831 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
2832 utmp entries
2833 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
2834 ABSOLUTE ABI
2835 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
2836 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
2837 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
2838 (stringop-overflow error)
2839 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
2840 functions other can lead to crashes
2841 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
2842 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
2843 unconditionally
2844 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
2845 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
2846 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
2847 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
2848 still can fail with an error
2849 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
2850 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
2851 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
2852 initialized correctly
2853 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
2854 -frewrite-includes
2855 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
2856 value to an unsigned
2857 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
2858 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
2859 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
2860 protection
2861 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
2862 ifunc variant.
2863 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
2864 al. for Clang++
2865 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
2866 (Slovenian)
2867 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
2868 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
2869 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
2870 with -std=c11
2871 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
2872 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
2873 part
2874 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
2875 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
2876 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
2877 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
2878 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
2879 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
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2882Version 2.30
2883
2884Major new features:
2885
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2886* Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2887 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
86bdd49d
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2888 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2889
8692ebdb
DN
2890* The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
2891 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
de44ab67 2892
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2893* The twalk_r function has been added. It is similar to the existing
2894 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
2895 to the callback function.
2896
51ea67d5 2897* On Linux, the getdents64, gettid, and tgkill functions have been added.
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2899* Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
2900 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
2901 nan_TW, lzh_TW.
2902
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2903* The entry for the new Japanese era has been added for ja_JP locale.
2904
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2905* Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
2906 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
2907 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
2908 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
2909 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
2910
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2911* The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
2912 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
2913 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
2914 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
2915 link time reference, is gone.
2916
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2917* Add new POSIX-proposed pthread_cond_clockwait, pthread_mutex_clocklock,
2918 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
2919 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
2920 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
2921 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
2922 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
2923 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
2924 the clock choice at initialization time).
2925
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2926* On AArch64 the GNU IFUNC resolver call ABI changed: old resolvers still
2927 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
2928 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
2929
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2930Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2931
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2932* The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
2933 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
2934 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
2935 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
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2936 copy_file_range function can no longer rely on glibc to provide a fallback
2937 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
2938 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
2939 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
2940 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
5a659ccc 2941
f289e656
FW
2942* The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime,
2943 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
2944 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
2945 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
2946 since glibc 2.17.
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2948* The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
2949 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
2950
3f8b44be
FW
2951* Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
2952 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
2953
33322186
FW
2954* The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
2955 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
2956
94a4e9e4
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2957* With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
2958 BIND_NOW flag.
2959
a053e878
ZW
2960* Support for the PowerPC SPE ISA extension (powerpc-*-*gnuspe*
2961 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
2962 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
2963
6b33f373
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2964* On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
2965 header have been removed.
2966
744e8296
FW
2967* The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
2968 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
2969 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
2970 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
2971
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2972Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2973
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2974* GCC 6.2 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
2975
2976 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
2977 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
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2978
2979Security related changes:
2980
3f635fb4
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2981 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
2982 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
2983 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
2984 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
2985 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
2986 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
2987 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
de44ab67 2988
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2989 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
2990 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
2991 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
2992
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2993The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2994
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2995 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
2996 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
2997 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
2998 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
2999 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
3000 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
3001 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
3002 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
3003 invalid input drops valid char
3004 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
3005 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
3006 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
3007 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
3008 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
3009 malloc.h.
3010 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
3011 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
3012 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
3013 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
3014 functions
3015 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
3016 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
3017 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
3018 for long double = double
3019 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
3020 long double = double
3021 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
3022 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
3023 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
3024 long timeouts
fdb724f9 3025 [24051] stdio: puts and putchar output to _IO_stdout instead of stdout
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3026 [24059] nss: nss_files: get_next_alias calls fgets_unlocked without
3027 checking for NULL.
3028 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
3029 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
3030 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
3031 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
3032 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
3033 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
3034 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
3035 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
3036 not the default "nor"
3037 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
3038 false positives, change to modern flexible array
3039 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
3040 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
3041 compiler barriers.
3042 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
3043 unnecessary librt dependencies
3044 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
3045 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
3046 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
3047 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
3048 unsorted chunk
3049 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
3050 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
3051 to R_SPARC_H44
3052 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
3053 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
3054 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
3055 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
3056 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
3057 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
3058 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
3059 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
3060 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
3061 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
3062 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
3063 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
3064 was not used
3065 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
3066 tests
3067 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
3068 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
3069 time_t changes
3070 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
3071 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
3072 kernels and break testing
3073 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
3074 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
3075 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
3076 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
3077 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
3078 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
3079 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
3080 -O3 -march=skylake
3081 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
3082 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
3083 crash
3084 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
3085 linked glibc
3086 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
3087 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
3088 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
3089 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
3090 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
3091 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
3092 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
3093 always implemented in the same library
3094 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
3095 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
3096 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
3097 testroot
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3100Version 2.29
3101
3102Major new features:
3103
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3104* The getcpu wrapper function has been added, which returns the currently
3105 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
3106
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3107* A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
3108 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
3109 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
3110 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
3111 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
3112 configured location.
437faa96 3113
424c4f60 3114* Optimized generic exp, exp2, log, log2, pow, sinf, cosf, sincosf and tanf.
3bded567 3115
2bda273a
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3116* The reallocarray function is now declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE, not just
3117 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
3118
f0458cf4
AZ
3119* For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
3120 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
3121 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
3122 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
3123 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
3124 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
3125 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
3126 process actually does not use HTM).
3127
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3128* The functions posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np and
3129 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
3130 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
3131 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
3132 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
3133 of the same name.
4a938cb2 3134
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3135* The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
3136 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
3137 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
5fc3eca7 3138 inconsistent mutex state after a fork call in a multi-threaded process.
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3139 In both popen and system there is no direct access to user-defined mutexes.
3140
5f72b005
MH
3141* Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
3142 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
3143 supported:
3144 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
3145 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
3146
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3147* strftime's default formatting of a locale's alternative year (%Ey)
3148 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
3149 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
3150 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
3151 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
3152 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
3153 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
3154
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3155* As a GNU extension, the '_' and '-' flags can now be applied to
3156 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
3157 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
3158
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3159Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
3160
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3161* The glibc.tune tunable namespace has been renamed to glibc.cpu and the
3162 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
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3164* The type of the pr_uid and pr_gid members of struct elf_prpsinfo, defined
3165 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
3166 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
3167 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
3168
3f7f1d18
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3169* For the MIPS n32 ABI, the type of the pr_sigpend and pr_sighold members of
3170 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
3171 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
3172 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
3173 structures.
3174
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3175* An archaic GNU extension to scanf, under which '%as', '%aS', and '%a[...]'
3176 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
3177 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
3178 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
3179 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
3180 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
3181
3182 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
3183 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
3184 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
3185 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
3186 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
3187
3188 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
3189 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
3190 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
3191
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3192Changes to build and runtime requirements:
3193
c6982f7e 3194* Python 3.4 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
437faa96 3195
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3196* On most architectures, GCC 5 or later is required to build the GNU C
3197 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
3198
3199 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
3200 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
3201
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3202Security related changes:
3203
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3204 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
3205 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
3206 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
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3208 CVE-2019-6488: On x32, the size_t parameter may be passed in the lower
3209 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
3210 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
3211 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
3212 Reported by H.J. Lu.
3213
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3214 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
3215 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
3216 or command injection issues in applications.
3217
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3218The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3219
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3220 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
3221 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
3222 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
3223 thousands
3224 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
3225 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
3226 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
3227 --param options)
3228 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
3229 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
3230 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
3231 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
3232 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
3233 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
3234 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
3235 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
3236 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
3237 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
3238 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
3239 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
3240 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
3241 pointer argument is non-NULL
3242 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
3243 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
3244 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
3245 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
3246 multithreads call popen
3247 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
3248 and pthread_create fails.
3249 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
3250 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
3251 constructor
3252 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
3253 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
3254 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
3255 source tree
3256 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
3257 float
3258 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
3259 one error
3260 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
3261 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
3262 linker
3263 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
3264 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
3265 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
3266 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
3267 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
3268 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
3269 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
3270 filesystems
3271 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
3272 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
3273 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
3274 functions
3275 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
3276 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
3277 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
3278 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
3279 have wrong type
3280 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
3281 wrong type
3282 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
3283 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
3284 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
3285 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
3286 threads
3287 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
3288 start.S
3289 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
3290 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
3291 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
3292 powerpc64le
3293 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
3294 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
3295 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
3296 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
3297 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
3298 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
3299 strftime
3300 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
3301 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
3302 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
3303 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
3304 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
3305 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
3306 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
3307 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
3308 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
3309 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
3310 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
3311 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
3312 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
3313 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
3314 tcache size
3315 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
3316 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
3317 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
3318 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
3319 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
3320 (CVE-2018-19591)
3321 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
3322 nearest rounding mode
3323 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
3324 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
3325 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
3326 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
3327 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
3328 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
3329 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
3330 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
3331 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
3332 error
3333 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
3334 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
3335 using GCC 8
3336 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
3337 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
3338 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
3339 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
3340 ppc64le
3341 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
3342 expected result
3343 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
3344 x32 (CVE-2019-6488)
3345 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
3346 sigaltstack
3347 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
3348 answers will be rejected)
3349 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
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3352Version 2.28
3353
3354Major new features:
3355
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3356* The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
3357 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
3358 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
3359 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
3360 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
3361 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
3362 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
3363 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
3364 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
3365 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
3366 archive or binary locales.
3367
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3368* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for Intel CET, AKA
3369 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
3370 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
3371 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
3372 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
3373 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
3374 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
3375 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
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3376 Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
3377 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
3378 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
3379 validated for i686.
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3381* The GNU C Library now has correct support for ABSOLUTE symbols
3382 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
3383 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
3384 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
3385 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
3386 field) to indicate such support is required.
3387
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3388* Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
3389 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
3390 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
3391
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3392* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
3393 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
3394
3395 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
3396 fMxaddfNx functions.
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3398 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
3399 fMxsubfNx functions.
3400
69a01461
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3401 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
3402 fMxmulfNx functions.
3403
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3404 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
3405 fMxdivfNx functions.
3406
e607a352 3407* Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
df467d22 3408 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
9145f033 3409 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
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3410 support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
3411 and Kashubian.
c553cd6f 3412
61c4aad7 3413* Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
e607a352 3414 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
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3416* Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
3417 patches.
3418
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3419* The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
3420 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
3421 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
3422 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
3423 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
3424 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
3425 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
3426 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
3427
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3428* The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
3429 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
3430 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
3431 the fstatat64 function.
3432
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3433* IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
3434 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
3435 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
3436 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
3437 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
3438 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
3439 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
3440 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
3441 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
3442
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3443* Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
3444 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
3445 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
3446 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
3447 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
3448 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
3449 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
3450 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
3451 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
3452 results in a load failure now.
3453
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3454* Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The
3455 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
3456 <threads.h>:
3457
3458 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
3459 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
3460
3461 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
3462 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
3463
3464 - call_once for function call synchronization.
3465
3466 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
3467 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
3468
3469 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
3470
3471 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
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3473Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
3474
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3475* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
3476 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
3477 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
3478
3479* The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
3480 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
3481 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
3482 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
3483 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
3484 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
3485
3486* All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
3487 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
3488 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
3489 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
3490 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
3491 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
3492 (Bug #1190.)
3493
3494* The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
3495 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
3496 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
3497 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
3498 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
3499 further explanation.
3500
3501 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
3502 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
3503 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
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3505* The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
3506
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3507* The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
3508 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
3509 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
3510
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3511* The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
3512 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
3513 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
3514 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
3515
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3516* The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
3517 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
3518 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
3519 for this function instead.
3520
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3521* The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
3522 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
3523 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
3524
3525* The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
3526 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
3527 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
3528 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
3529
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3530* The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
3531 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
3532 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
3533 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
3534 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
3535
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3536* The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
3537 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
3538 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
3539 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
3540 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
3541 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
3542 such as libgcrypt.
3543
3544* Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
3545 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
3546 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
3547 enabled.
3548
3549* The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
3550 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
3551 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
3552
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3553* We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
3554 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
3555 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
3556 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
3557 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
3558 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
3559
3560 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
3561 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
3562 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
3563 behavior in a future release.
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3565Changes to build and runtime requirements:
3566
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3568
3569Security related changes:
3570
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3571 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
3572 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
3573 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
3574 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
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3576 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
3577 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
3578
3579 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
3580 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
3581 Izbyshev.
3582
3583 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
3584 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
3585 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
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3587The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3588
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3589 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
3590 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
3591 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
3592 when __WORDSIZE != 64
3593 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
3594 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
3595 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
3596 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
3597 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
3598 14651
3599 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
3600 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
3601 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
3602 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
3603 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
3604 conversion is given
3605 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
3606 date
3607 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
3608 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
3609 scope with -O1 and higher
3610 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
3611 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
3612 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
3613 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
3614 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
3615 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
3616 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
3617 horrible machine code)
3618 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
3619 last constant.
3620 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
3621 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
3622 symbols
3623 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
3624 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
3625 defined
3626 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
3627 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
3628 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
3629 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
3630 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
3631 fpscr.c'
3632 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
3633 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
3634 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
3635 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
3636 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
3637 the base address
3638 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
3639 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
3640 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
3641 open_verify
3642 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
3643 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
3644 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
3645 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
3646 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
3647 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
3648 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
3649 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
3650 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
3651 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
3652 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
3653 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
3654 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
3655 dlopen
3656 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
3657 AT_SECURE=1
3658 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
3659 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
3660 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
3661 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
3662 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
3663 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
3664 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
3665 for Spanish with CLDR
3666 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
3667 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
3668 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
3669 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
3670 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
3671 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
3672 es_BO
3673 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
3674 CLOCKS_PER_SECOND
3675 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
3676 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
3677 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
3678 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
3679 dlopen failures
3680 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
3681 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
3682 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
3683 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
3684 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
3685 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
3686 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
3687 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
3688 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
3689 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
3690 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
3691 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
3692 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
3693 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
3694 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
3695 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
3696 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
3697 makecontext
3698 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
3699 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
3700 required
3701 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
3702 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
3703 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
3704 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
3705 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
3706 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
3707 disabled
3708 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
3709 failure
3710 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
3711 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
3712 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
3713 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
3714 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
3715 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
3716 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
3717 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
3718 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
3719 and libc build with -Os)
3720 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
3721 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
3722 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
3723 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
3724 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
3725 that changes /etc/passwd
3726 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
3727 (CVE-2018-11237)
3728 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
3729 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
3730 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
3731 posix/regcomp.c
3732 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
3733 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
3734 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
3735 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
3736 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
3737 AT_SECURE
3738 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
3739 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
3740 parser.c
3741 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
3742 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
3743 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
3744 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
3745 directed rounding
3746 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
3747 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
3748 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
3749 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
3750 lookup
3751 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
3752 interposition
3753 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
3754 DSO boundaries.
3755 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
3756 <linux/time.h>
3757 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
3758 checking
3759 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
3760 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
3761 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
3762 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
3763 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
3764 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
3765 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
3766 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
3767 processors
3768 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
086ee48e 3769
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3770\f
3771Version 2.27
3772
3773Major new features:
3774
9d7a3741
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3775* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
3776 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
bd7bbb26 3777 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
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3778 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
3779 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
3780 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
3781 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
25fb7dd6
SN
3782 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
3783 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
9d7a3741 3784
ac817e08 3785* Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
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3786 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
3787 H.J. Lu from Intel.
20c7b195 3788
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3789* Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
3790
4cf82d23 3791* Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
72aa6233 3792
ec2c1fce
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3793* In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
3794 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
3795 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
3796 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
3797 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
3798 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
3799 from a security and performance perspective.
3800
91e7cf98
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3801* The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
3802 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
3803 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
3804 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
3805
81325b12 3806* On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
40ca951b
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3807 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
3808 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
3809 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
81325b12
JM
3810 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
3811
a23aa5b7 3812* On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
40ca951b 3813 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
a23aa5b7
JM
3814 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
3815 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
3816 _Float128.
3817
1f9055ce
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3818* The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
3819 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
3820 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
0d93b7fd 3821
4bab0224 3822* glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
59d2cbb1 3823
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3824* Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
3825 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
3826 pkey_get.
3827
bad7a0c8
FW
3828* The copy_file_range function was added.
3829
e6a1c5dc
PM
3830* Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
3831
7d38eb38
AJ
3832* The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
3833 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
3834 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
3835
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3836* Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
3837 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
3838 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
3839 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
3840 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
3841 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
3842 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
3843
3844 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
3845 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
3846 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
3847 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
3848 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
3849 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
3850 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
3851
3852 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
3853 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
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3854 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
3855 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
3856 respectively.
3857
3858 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
3859 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
3860 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
3861 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
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3862
3863 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
3864 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
3865 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
3866
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3867 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
3868 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
0a32e219 3869 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
4378b735 3870
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3871* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
3872 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
3873 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
3874
3875 - rv64imac lp64
3876 - rv64imafdc lp64
3877 - rv64imafdc lp64d
3878
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3879Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
3880
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3881* Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
3882 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
d4ae7827 3883 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
4378b735
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3884 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
3885 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
3886 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
3887 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
3888 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
3889 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
3890 fix this.
3891
f1a844ac
FW
3892* Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
3893 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
3894 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
3895
2fc21aaa
FW
3896* Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
3897 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
3898 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
3899 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
3900 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
3901 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
3902 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
3903 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
3904 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
3905 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
3906 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
3907 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
3908 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
3909 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
3910 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
3911 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
3912 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
3913 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
3914 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
3915 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
3916 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
3917 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
3918 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
3919 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
3920 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
3921 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
3922
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3923* On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
3924 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
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3926* libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
3927 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
3928 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
3929 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
3930 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
3931 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
3932 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
3933
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3934* The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
3935 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
3936 exp10l for these functions instead.
3937
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3938* The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
3939 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
3940 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3941
644d3857
JM
3942* The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
3943 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
3944 ignored.
3945
8df5d347
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3946* The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
3947 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
3948 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
3949 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
3950
c0a25aa9
FW
3951* The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
3952 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
3953
34eb4157
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3954* In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
3955 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
3956
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3957* The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
3958 programs.
3959
ed95f611
AZ
3960* The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
3961
48a8f832
ZW
3962* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
3963 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
3964 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
3965 instead.
3966
3967 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
3968 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
3969 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
3970 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
3971 use, but predates the bits convention.
3972
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3973Changes to build and runtime requirements:
3974
1faaf703
JB
3975* bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
3976 subdirectory.
00cdcf5a
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3977
3978Security related changes:
3979
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3980 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
3981 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
3982 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
3983 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
3984 script.)
00cdcf5a 3985
822f523b
FW
3986 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
3987 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
3988 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
3989 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
c369d66e 3990
914c9994
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3991 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
3992 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
3993 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
3994 of service.
3995
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3996 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
3997 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
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3998 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
3999
37ac8e63
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4000 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
4001 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
4002 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
4003 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
4004
8a0b17e4
FW
4005 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
4006 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
4007 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
4008 Qualys.
4009
3ff3dfa5
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4010 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
4011 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
4012 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
4013 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
4014 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
4015
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4016 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
4017 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
4018 current directory.
4019
52a713fd
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4020 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
4021 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
4022 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
4023
4590634f
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4024 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
4025 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
4026 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
4027
71aa429b
FW
4028 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
4029 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
4030 small, instead of NULL.
4031
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4032The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4033
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4034 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
4035 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
4036 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
4037 locale
4038 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
4039 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
4040 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
4041 cases
4042 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
4043 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
4044 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
4045 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
4046 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
4047 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
4048 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
4049 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
4050 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
4051 "Bangla"
4052 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
4053 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
4054 width Latin characters
4055 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
4056 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
4057 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
4058 letters
4059 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
4060 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
4061 (CVE-2009-5064)
4062 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
4063 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
4064 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
4065 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
4066 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
4067 if malloc succeeded
4068 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
4069 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
4070 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
4071 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
4072 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
4073 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
4074 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
4075 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
4076 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
4077 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
4078 U+309A
4079 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
4080 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
4081 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
4082 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
4083 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
4084 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
4085 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
4086 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
4087 for Nicaragua
4088 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
4089 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
4090 are not found.
4091 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
4092 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
4093 access
4094 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
4095 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
4096 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
4097 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
4098 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
4099 __regcall calling convention
4100 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
4101 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
4102 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
4103 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
4104 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
4105 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
4106 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
4107 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
4108 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
4109 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
4110 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
4111 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
4112 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
4113 locale
4114 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
4115 protector=all
4116 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
4117 wcwidth
4118 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
4119 consistency check failures
4120 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
4121 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
4122 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
4123 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
4124 PIE
4125 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
4126 locales
4127 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
4128 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
4129 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
4130 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
4131 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
4132 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
4133 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
4134 on memory allocation failure
4135 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
4136 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
4137 the suspect)
4138 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
4139 default (i386)
4140 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
4141 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
4142 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
4143 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
4144 instead of EAI_NODATA
4145 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
4146 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
4147 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
4148 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
4149 implementation
4150 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
4151 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
4152 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
4153 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
4154 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
4155 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
4156 allocation in syscall loops)
4157 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
4158 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
4159 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
4160 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
4161 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
4162 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
4163 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
4164 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
4165 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
4166 occur with -O3
4167 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
4168 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
4169 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
4170 amounts)
4171 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
4172 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
4173 niu_NZ
4174 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
4175 checks
4176 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
4177 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
4178 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
4179 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
4180 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
4181 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
4182 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
4183 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
4184 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
4185 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
4186 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
4187 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
4188 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
4189 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
4190 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
4191 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
4192 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
4193 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
4194 parsing after OOM
4195 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
4196 object
4197 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
4198 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
4199 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
4200 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
4201 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
4202 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
fdb724f9 4203 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf outputs a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
242cbc90
DL
4204 ppc64le
4205 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
4206 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
4207 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
4208 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
4209 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
4210 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
4211 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
4212 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
4213 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
4214 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
4215 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
4216 math_force_eval
4217 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
4218 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
4219 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
4220 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
4221 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
4222 the svid compat wrapper
4223 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
4224 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
4225 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
4226 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
4227 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
4228 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
4229 --verbose.
4230 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
4231 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
4232 to 2.26
4233 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
4234 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
4235 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
4236 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
4237 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
4238 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
4239 (CVE-2017-15804)
4240 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
4241 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
4242 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
4243 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
4244 failure."
4245 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
4246 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
4247 -m32
4248 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
4249 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
4250 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
4251 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
4252 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
4253 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
4254 inside the ASCII printable range
4255 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
4256 -mlong-double-64
4257 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
4258 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
4259 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
4260 Internet
4261 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
4262 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
4263 backslash
4264 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
4265 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
4266 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
4267 heaps in an arena
4268 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
4269 networking interface
4270 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
4271 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
4272 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
4273 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
4274 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
4275 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
4276 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
4277 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
4278 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
4279 order
4280 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
4281 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
4282 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
4283 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
4284 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
4285 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
4286 same as for Croatian
4287 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
4288 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
4289 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
4290 for initial thread"
4291 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
4292 SC_SSIZE_MAX
4293 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
4294 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
4295 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
4296 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
4297 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
4298 (CVE-2017-1000408)
4299 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
4300 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
4301 modified in case of success
4302 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
4303 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
4304 success
4305 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
4306 stack-protector=all
4307 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
4308 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
4309 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
4310 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
4311 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
4312 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
4313 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
4314 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
4315 adding it on top
4316 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
4317 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
4318 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
4319 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
4320 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
4321 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
4322 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
4323 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
4324 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
4325 (CVE-2018-1000001)
4326 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
4327 elision and tunables
4328 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
4329 "invalid" exception
4330 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
4331 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
4332 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
4333 exception
4334 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4335 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
4336 power4
4337 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
4338 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
4339 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
4340 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
4341 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
4342 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
4343 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
4344 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
4345 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
00cdcf5a 4346
58557c22
SP
4347\f
4348Version 2.26
4349
2b2ccd0c
ZW
4350Major new features:
4351
d5c3fafc
DD
4352* A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
4353 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
4354 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
4355 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
4356 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
4357 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
4358 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
4359
925fac77
MF
4360* Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
4361 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
0b38d66a 4362 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
a0e52598
MF
4363 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
4364 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
4365 are rendered with pango, see for example:
4366 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
58557c22 4367
2b2ccd0c
ZW
4368* Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
4369 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
4370 Egmont Koblinger.
e4e79484 4371
2b2ccd0c 4372* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
025b33ae 4373
7e368000
JM
4374 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
4375 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
4376 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
daeb1fa2 4377
7e368000
JM
4378 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
4379 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
4380 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
4381 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
4382 object are still limited to six search domains.
139ace95 4383
7e368000
JM
4384 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
4385 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
4386 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
cd354a38 4387
2b2ccd0c
ZW
4388* The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
4389 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
d8cee557 4390
2b2ccd0c
ZW
4391* New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
4392 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
4393 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
4394 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
f0be25b6 4395
2b2ccd0c
ZW
4396* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
4397 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
4398 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
4399 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
8082d91e 4400
2b2ccd0c
ZW
4401* posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
4402 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
4403 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
4404 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
2e0bbbfb 4405
2b2ccd0c
ZW
4406* errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
4407 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
4408 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
12d2dd70 4409
2b2ccd0c 4410* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
8d6cba41
JM
4411 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
4412 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
4413 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
2c0b90ab 4414
2b2ccd0c 4415 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
8d6cba41
JM
4416 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
4417 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
4418 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
4419 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
4420
4421 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
4422 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
4423 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
4424 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
4425 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
4426 interfaces should be used instead.
f819dbea 4427
2b2ccd0c
ZW
4428Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
4429
4430* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
4431 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
4432 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
4433 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
4434 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
4435 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
4436 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
4437 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
4438
4439* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
4440 removed.
4441
4442* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
7e368000 4443 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
2b2ccd0c
ZW
4444 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
4445 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
4446
4447* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
4448 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
4449 default.
4450
4451 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
4452 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
4453 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
7e368000
JM
4454 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
4455 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
2b2ccd0c
ZW
4456
4457 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
4458 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
4459 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
4460 name service modules, to be built and installed.
4461
4462* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
4463 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
4464 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
4465 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
4466
4467* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
4468 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
5b757a51 4469
6781d8e6
FW
4470* The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
4471 exported by accident.
4472
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4473* <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
4474 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
4475 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
4476
4477* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
4478 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
4479 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
4480 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
4481
4482* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
4483
4484* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
4485
4486* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
4487 free instead.
4488
4489* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
4490 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
4491
4492* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
4493 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
4494
4495* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
4496 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
4497 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
4498 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
4499 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
4500 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
4501 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
4502 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
4503
4504* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
4505 synced with the kernel:
4506
4507 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
4508 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
4509
4510 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
4511 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
4512 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
4513
4514 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
4515 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
4516
4517Changes to build and runtime requirements:
4518
4519* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
4520 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
4521 x86-32 and x86-64.)
4522
7e368000 4523* GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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4525* On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
4526 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
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4527
4528 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
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4529 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
4530 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
4531 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2b2ccd0c 4532 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
aef16cc8 4533
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4534Security related changes:
4535
e14a2772 4536* The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
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4537 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
4538
4539* LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
4540 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
4541
4542* Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
4543 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
4544 (CVE-2010-3192).
4545
4546* A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
4547 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
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4548
4549The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4550
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4551 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
4552 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
4553 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
4554 fields
4555 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
4556 (CVE-2010-3192)
4557 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
4558 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
4559 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
4560 ld.bfd is available
4561 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
4562 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
4563 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
4564 x86 and other generic code
4565 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
4566 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
4567 incorrect
4568 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
4569 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
4570 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
4571 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
4572 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
4573 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
4574 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
4575 resolver
4576 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
4577 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
4578 order of 0D36 and 0D37
4579 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
4580 chillu characters
4581 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
4582 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
4583 receiving data
4584 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
4585 whitespace
4586 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
4587 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
4588 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
4589 for Peru
4590 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
4591 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
4592 failures consistently
4593 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
4594 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
4595 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
4596 frame-pointer on i386
4597 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
4598 register
7f0d9e61 4599 [21075] libc: unused assignment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
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4600 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
4601 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
4602 generic c code is used
4603 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
4604 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
4605 around 4000
4606 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
4607 (CVE-2017-12133)
4608 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
4609 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
4610 with -lieee
4611 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
4612 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
4613 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
4614 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
4615 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
4616 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
4617 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
4618 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
4619 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
4620 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
4621 remove()
4622 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
4623 checked for errors.
4624 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
4625 new posix_spawn implementation
4626 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
4627 leads to lower CPU frequency
4628 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
4629 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
4630 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
4631 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
4632 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
4633 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
4634 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
4635 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
4636 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
4637 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
4638 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
4639 not support gethostbyname4_r
4640 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
4641 switching
4642 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
4643 arenas
4644 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
4645 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
4646 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
4647 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
4648 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
4649 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
4650 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
4651 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
4652 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
4653 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
4654 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
4655 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
4656 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
4657 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
4658 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
4659 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
4660 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
4661 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
4662 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
4663 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
4664 retry value
4665 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
4666 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
4667 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
4668 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
4669 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
4670 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
4671 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
4672 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
4673 [21537] libc:
4674 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
4675 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
4676 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
4677 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
4678 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
4679 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
4680 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
4681 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
4682 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
4683 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
4684 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
4685 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
4686 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
4687 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
4688 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
4689 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
4690 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
4691 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
4692 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
4693 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
4694 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
4695 issue on x86-64
4696 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
4697 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
4698 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
4699 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
4700 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
4701 construction
4702 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
4703 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
4704 between_2_3
4705 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
4706 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
4707 conditions
4708 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
4709 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
4710 Hindi Locale
4711 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
4712 posix/sched_cpucount.c
4713 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
4714 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
4715 locale
4716 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
4717 leading to relocation crash
4718 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
4719 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
4720 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
4721 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
4722 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
4723 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
4724 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
4725 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
4726 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
4727 locale
4728 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
4729 locale
4730 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
4731 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
4732 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
4733 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
4734 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
4735 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
4736 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
4737 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
4738 strings
4739 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
4740 protector=all
4741 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
4742 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
4743 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
4744 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
4745 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
4746 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
4747 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
4748 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
4749 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
4750 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
4751 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
4752 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
4753 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
4754 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
4755 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
4756 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
4757 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
4758 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
4759 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
4760 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
4761 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
4762 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
4763 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
4764 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
4765 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
4766 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
4767 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
4768 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
4769 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
4770 with unicode 9.0
4771 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
4772 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
4773 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
4774 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
4775 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
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4778Version 2.25
4779
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4780* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
4781 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
4782 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
4783 Library.
e720d3d9 4784
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4785* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
4786 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
a5ac5676 4787 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
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4788 the GNU C Library.
4789
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4790* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
4791 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
4792 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
4793 the GNU C Library.
4794
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4795* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
4796 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
4797 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
4798 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
4799 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
4800 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
4801 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
4802 will not.
4803
4804 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
4805 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
4806 many years.
4807
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4808* The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
4809 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
4810 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
4811
4812 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
4813 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
4814 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
4815 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
4816 problem.
4817
ec94343f 4818* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
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4819 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
4820 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
5146356f 4821
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4822* Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
4823 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
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4824 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
4825 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
4826 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
4827 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
4828 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
4829 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
4830 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
4831 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
4832 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
4833 WINT_WIDTH.
a292f45a 4834
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4835* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
4836
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4837 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
4838
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4839 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
4840 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
4841 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
41c67149 4842
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4843 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
4844 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
4845
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4846 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
4847 fminmagf, fminmagl.
4848
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4849 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
4850
29cb9293 4851 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
d942e95c 4852
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4853 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
4854 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
5e9d98a3 4855
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4856 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
4857
eb3c12c7 4858 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
457663a7 4859 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
f8e8b8ed 4860
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4861* The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
4862 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
4863
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4864* Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
4865 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
4866 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
4867
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4868* The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
4869 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
4870 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
4871 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
4872 effects of the memory clear).
4873
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4874* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
4875 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
4876 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
4877 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
4878
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4879* On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
4880 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
4881 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
4882 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
4883 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
4884 if they are compiled or used with those options.
6962682f 4885
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4886* The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
4887 have been added.
4888
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4889* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
4890 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
4891 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
4892 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
4893 as large as several megabytes.
4894
4d728087
FW
4895* The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
4896 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
4897 been removed.
4898
e863cce5
FW
4899* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
4900 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
4901 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
4902 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
4903 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
4904 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
4905 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
4906
7ec47a85
FW
4907* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
4908 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
4909 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
4910 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
4911
099191b1 4912* The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
5140d036
FW
4913 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
4914 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
4915 Internet.
4916
bbe989ee
FW
4917* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
4918 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
4919 They were already unimplemented.
bfbd1de1 4920
b76e0659
FW
4921* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
4922 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
4923 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
4924 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
4925
3a2a1d2c
FW
4926* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
4927 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
4928 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
4929 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
4930 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
4931
be728303
FW
4932* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
4933 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
4934 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
4935 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
4936 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
4937
6815a33d
FW
4938* The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
4939 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
4940 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
4941 did not reflect that.
4942
022dfdce
SL
4943* For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
4944 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
4945 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
4946 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
4947 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
4948 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
4949 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
4950 'gcc/config.gcc'.
4951
23b5cae1
MG
4952* GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
4953 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
4954 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
4955 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
4956
7715d3ab
SP
4957* Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
4958 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
4959 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
4960 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
4961
0cea3587
SP
4962* A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
4963 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
4964 guarantees.
4965
4966* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
4967 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
4968 make state changes.
4969
e720d3d9
CD
4970Security related changes:
4971
fc82b0a2 4972* On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
4d047efd
FW
4973 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
4974 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
4975 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
056dd72a 4976 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
e720d3d9 4977
fc82b0a2
FW
4978* The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
4979 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
4980 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
4981 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
4982 (CVE-2015-5180)
4983
e720d3d9
CD
4984The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4985
fdb724f9 4986 [4099] stdio: Overly aggressive caching by stream i/o functions.
4e054e6b
SP
4987 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
4988 protector-all
4989 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
4990 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
4991 before it started waiting
4992 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
4993 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
4994 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
4995 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
4996 wrong type
4997 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
4998 library linked with pthread
4999 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
5000 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
5001 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
5002 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
5003 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
5004 after being __libc_memalign()'d
5005 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
7f0d9e61 5006 when it shouldn't
4e054e6b
SP
5007 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
5008 not
5009 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
5010 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
5011 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
5012 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
5013 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
5014 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
5015 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
5016 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
5017 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
5018 termination
5019 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
5020 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
5021 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
5022 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
5023 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
5024 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
5025 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
5026 causes a segmentation fault
5027 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
5028 linking
5029 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
5030 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
5031 uninitialized GOT
5032 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
5033 versions
5034 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
5035 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
5036 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
5037 is always true.
5038 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
5039 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
5040 modes
5041 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
5042 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
5043 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
5044 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
5045 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
5046 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
5047 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
5048 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
5049 libpthread.a
5050 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
5051 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
5052 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
5053 _res_hconf
5054 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
5055 information.
5056 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
5057 penalty
5058 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
5059 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
5060 cause transition penalty
5061 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
5062 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
5063 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
5064 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
5065 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
5066 mcount.oS)
5067 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
5068 Checking
5069 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
5070 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
5071 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
5072 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
5073 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
5074 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
5075 multi-arch
5076 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
5077 (RES_USEBSTRING)
5078 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
5079 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
5080 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
5081 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
5082 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
5083 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
5084 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
5085 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
5086 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
5087 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
5088 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
5089 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
5090 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
5091 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
5092 glibc
5093 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
5094 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
5095 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
5096 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
5097 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
5098 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
5099 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
5100 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
5101 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
5102 U+20AC), not same as GBK
5103 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
5104 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
5105 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
5106 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
5107 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
5108 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
5109 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
5110 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
5111 RES_USE_INET6
5112 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
5113 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
5114 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
5115 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
5116 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
5117 wrong condition
5118 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
5119 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
5120 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
5121 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
5122 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
5123 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
5124 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
5125 clang
5126 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
5127 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
5128 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
5129 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
5130 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
e720d3d9 5131\f
11fca961
AZ
5132Version 2.24
5133
5b4ecd3f
JM
5134* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
5135 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
5136 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
5137 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
5138 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
5139 architectures.
5140
b6ebba70
MF
5141* The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
5142 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
5143 been included in previous releases.
11fca961 5144
7584a3f9
FW
5145* The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
5146 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
5147
b49ab5f4
FW
5148* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
5149 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
5150 instead of “union wait”.
5151
ced8f893
SG
5152* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
5153 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
5154 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
5155 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
5156 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
5157 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
5158 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
5159
2ba3cfa1
FW
5160* The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
5161 API.
5162
b7a9b7b0
MF
5163* The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
5164 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
5165 drop it.
6a54bcda 5166
41a359e2
RS
5167* nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
5168 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
5169 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
5170 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
5171 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
5172 extensions.
5173
11fca961
AZ
5174Security related changes:
5175
f5b3338d
FW
5176* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
5177 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
5178 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
5179
4ab2ab03
FW
5180* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
5181 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
5182 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
5183 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
11fca961 5184
5171f307
FW
5185* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
5186 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
5187 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
5188
bc779a1a
FW
5189* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
5190 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
5191 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
5192
fab38231
FW
5193* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
5194 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
5195 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
5196 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
5197
11fca961
AZ
5198The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5199
3c4f81ec
CD
5200 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
5201 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
5202 of MS-DOS.
5203 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
5204 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
5205 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
5206 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
5207 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
5208 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
5209 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
5210 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
5211 CLDR data
5212 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
5213 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
5214 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
5215 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
5216 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
5217 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
5218 romanisation
5219 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
5220 and +/-
5221 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
5222 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
5223 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
5224 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
5225 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
5226 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
5227 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
5228 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
5229 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
5230 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
5231 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
5232 all locales
5233 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
5234 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
5235 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
5236 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
5237 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
5238 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
5239 execute
5240 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
5241 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
5242 -Wsystem-headers
5243 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
5244 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
5245 Romanian locale data
5246 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
5247 symbol
5248 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
5249 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
5250 language
5251 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
5252 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
5253 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
5254 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
5255 machine
5256 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
5257 description
5258 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
5259 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
5260 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
5261 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
5262 when using RTLD_NEXT
5263 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
5264 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
5265 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
5266 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
5267 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
5268 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
5269 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
5270 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
5271 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
5272 Excavator core
5273 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
5274 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
5275 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
5276 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
5277 double range
5278 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
5279 part zero incorrect
5280 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
5281 equality tests
5282 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
5283 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
5284 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
5285 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
5286 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
5287 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
5288 glibc-2.22
5289 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
5290 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
5291 'tst-numeric.c'
5292 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
5293 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
5294 low part
5295 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
5296 result
5297 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
5298 unaligned stack
5299 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
5300 pointers and lengths in error-case.
5301 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
5302 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
5303 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
5304 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
5305 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
5306 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
5307 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
5308 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
5309 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
5310 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
5311 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
5312 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
5313 modes
5314 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
5315 server addresses
5316 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
5317 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
5318 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
5319 response to getaddrinfo
5320 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
5321 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
5322 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
5323 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
5324 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
5325 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
5326 sometimes incorrect
5327 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
5328 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
5329 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
5330 record types
5331 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
5332 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
5333 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
5334 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
5335 (CVE-2016-3075)
5336 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
5337 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
5338 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
5339 resolving symbols
5340 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
5341 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
5342 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
5343 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
5344 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
5345 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
5346 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
5347 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
5348 gethosts
5349 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
5350 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
5351 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
5352 (CVE-2016-3706)
5353 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
5354 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
5355 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
5356 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
5357 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
5358 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
5359 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
5360 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
5361 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
5362 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
5363 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
5364 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
5365 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
5366 executable
5367 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
5368 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
5369 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
5370 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
5371 XPG3
5372 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
5373 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
5374 (CVE-2016-4429)
5375 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
5376 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
5377 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
5378 AS not supporting AVX512
5379 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
5380 sNaN argument
5381 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
5382 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
5383 argument
5384 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
5385 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
5386 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
5387 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
5388 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
5389 eax=0x80000001
5390 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
5391 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
5392 subnormals
5393 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
5394 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
5395 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
5396 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
5397 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
5398 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
5399 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
5400 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
5401 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
5402 input
5403 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
5404 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
5405 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
5406 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
5407 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
5408 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
5409 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
5410 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
5411 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
5412 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
5413 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
5414 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
5415 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
5416 double rounding
5417 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
5418 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
5419 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
5420 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
5421 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
5422 (Only arm/linux)
5423 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
5424 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
5425 fallbacks
5426 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
5427 "invalid" exceptions
5428 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
5429 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
5430 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
5431 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
5432 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
5433 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
5434 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
5435 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
5436 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
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aeb47bbc
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5438Version 2.23
5439
23256f5e
MF
5440* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
5441 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
5442 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
5443 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
5444 89, 16061, and 18568.
5445
2359035a
FW
5446* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
5447 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
5448 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
5449 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
5450 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
5451 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
5452 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
5453
8b7b7f75
MW
5454* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
5455 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
5456 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
5457
2eecc8af
FW
5458* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
5459 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
5460 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
5461 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
5462 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
5463 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
5464 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
5465
a62719ba
FW
5466* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
5467 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
5468 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
5469 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
7f0d9e61 5470 the concurrent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 5471 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
a62719ba
FW
5472 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
5473 Ericsson.)
a014cecd 5474
bc148ca1
MF
5475* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
5476 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
5477 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
5478 independent of the GNU C Library.
5479
1c70b6f1
ZW
5480* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
5481 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
1efad39b 5482
eed3e1eb
JM
5483* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
5484 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
5485 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
5486 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
5487 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
5488 Linux kernel.
5489
1efad39b
SL
5490* Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
5491 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
b08b4218 5492
d709042a
JM
5493* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
5494 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
5495 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
5496 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
5497 defining their own copy.
5498
b08b4218
JM
5499* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
5500 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
5501 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
f268ab5f 5502
8f5e8b01
JM
5503Security related changes:
5504
6400ae6e
FW
5505* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
5506 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
5507
5508* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
5509 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
5510 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
5511 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
5512 (CVE-2015-8777)
5513
5514* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
5515 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
5516
5517* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
5518 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
5519
8f5e8b01
JM
5520* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
5521 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 5522 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
8f5e8b01 5523
e9db92d3
CD
5524* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
5525 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
5526 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
5527 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
5528 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
5529 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
5530 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
5531 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
5532 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
5533 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
5534 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
5535 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
5536 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
5537
ad372e29 5538The following bugs are resolved with this release:
f268ab5f 5539
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5540 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
5541 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
5542 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
5543 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
5544 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
5545 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
5546 use `mkstemp'
5547 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
7f0d9e61 5548 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doesn't set errno on
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5549 overflow/underflow errors
5550 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
5551 overflow/underflow
5552 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
5553 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
5554 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
5555 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
5556 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
5557 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
5558 are not contiguous
5559 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
5560 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
5561 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
5562 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
5563 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
5564 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
5565 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
5566 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
5567 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
5568 all exceptions
5569 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
5570 arguments
5571 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
5572 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
5573 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
5574 should include
5575 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
5576 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
5577 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
5578 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
5579 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
5580 GNU/Linux
5581 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
5582 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
5583 arguments
5584 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
5585 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
5586 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
5587 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
5588 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
5589 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
5590 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
5591 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
5592 rounding results
5593 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
5594 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
5595 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
5596 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
5597 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
5598 fails
5599 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
5600 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
5601 block boundary
5602 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
5603 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
5604 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
5605 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
5606 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
5607 4.7?
5608 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
5609 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
5610 (related to lock elision)
5611 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
5612 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
5613 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
5614 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
5615 (CVE-2015-8779)
5616 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
5617 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
5618 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
5619 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
5620 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
5621 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
5622 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
5623 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
5624 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
5625 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
5626 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
5627 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
5628 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
5629 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
5630 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
5631 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
5632 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
5633 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
5634 contains a vector instruction exception.
5635 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
5636 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
5637 locales
5638 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
5639 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
5640 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
5641 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
5642 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
5643 missing break ?
5644 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
5645 32bit processes
5646 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
5647 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
5648 infinity
5649 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
5650 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
5651 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
5652 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
5653 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
5654 be forced unloaded
5655 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
5656 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
5657 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
5658 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
5659 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
5660 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
5661 statically too large
5662 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
5663 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
5664 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
5665 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
5666 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
5667 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
5668 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
5669 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
5670 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
5671 FUTEX_SHARED
5672 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
5673 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
5674 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
5675 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
5676 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
5677 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
5678 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
5679 opendir()
5680 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
5681 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
5682 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
5683 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
5684 signgam
5685 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
5686 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
5687 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
5688 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
5689 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
5690 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
5691 dependencies
5692 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
5693 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
5694 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
5695 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
5696 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
5697 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
5698 (CVE-2015-8776)
5699 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
5700 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
5701 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
5702 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
5703 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
5704 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
5705 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
5706 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
5707 contention
5708 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
5709 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
5710 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
5711 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
5712 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
5713 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
5714 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
5715 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
5716 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
5717 rounding modes
5718 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
5719 ILP32
5720 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
5721 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
5722 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
5723 threshold
5724 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
5725 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
5726 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
7f0d9e61 5727 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assembler
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AZ
5728 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
5729 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
5730 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
5731 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
5732 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
5733 pthread_setaffinity_np
5734 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
5735 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
5736 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
5737 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
5738 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
5739 prelink
5740 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
5741 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
5742 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
5743 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
5744 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
5745 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
5746 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
5747 bits/mathcalls.h
5748 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
5749 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
5750 for C99-based standards
5751 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
5752 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
5753 math-only
5754 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
5755 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
5756 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
5757 disabled
5758 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
5759 "inexact" exceptions
5760 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
5761 arguments
5762 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
5763 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
5764 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
5765 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
5766 rules
5767 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
5768 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
5769 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
5770 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
5771 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
5772 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
5773 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
5774 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
5775 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
5776 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
5777 from 32bit
5778 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
5779 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
5780 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
5781 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
5782 subnormals
5783 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
5784 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
5785 error on 32-bit architectures
5786 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
5787 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
5788 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
5789 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
5790 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
5791 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
5792 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
5793 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
5794 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
5795 -Os
5796 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
5797 CPU's.
5798 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
5799 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
5800 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
5801 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
5802 architectures
5803 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
aeb47bbc 5804\f
1c7a4a51
JM
5805Version 2.22
5806
5807* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5808
3df5cd98 5809 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
0e569d30
MF
5810 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
5811 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
5812 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
5813 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
5814 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
5815 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
5816 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
5817 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
5818 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
5819 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
5820 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
5821 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
5822 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
5823 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
5824 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
5825 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
5826 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
6fdd5d65
FW
5827 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
5828 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
2959eda9 5829
f7fba805
SL
5830* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
5831 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
5832
2959eda9
AS
5833* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
5834 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
5835 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
5836 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
5837 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
5838 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4a4839c9 5839
42261ad7
FW
5840* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
5841 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
5842 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
5843 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
5844 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
5845
afcd9480
AM
5846* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
5847 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
5848 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
5849
4a4839c9
AO
5850* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
5851 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
5852 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
5853 17998.
5854
b13b96ca
AS
5855* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
5856 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
5857 condition in some applications.
21933112
AS
5858
5859* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
a6336cc4
AS
5860 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
5861 pow, powf.
21933112
AS
5862 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
5863 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
037e4b99
AS
5864 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
5865 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 5866 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
fdb7d390
AZ
5867
5868* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
5869 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
5870 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
5871 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
7fde904c
MF
5872
5873* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
5874 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
5875 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
7493ab25
RM
5876
5877* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
5878 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
2ec11c2b
ZW
5879
5880* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
5881 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
5882 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
5883
a03ba363 5884 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
2ec11c2b
ZW
5885 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
5886 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
1c7a4a51 5887\f
58b930ae
SP
5888Version 2.21
5889
5890* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5891
042e1521 5892 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
5bd80bfe
PP
5893 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
5894 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
5895 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
5896 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
5897 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
5898 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
5899 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
5900 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
5901 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
5902 17892.
5903
46d54873
FW
5904* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
5905 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
5906 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
5907 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
5908 intended.
042e1521
CD
5909
5910* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
5911 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
5912 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
5913 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
5914 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
5915 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
a39208bd 5916
522e6ee3
CLT
5917* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
5918
d3b00f46
AZ
5919* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
5920 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 5921 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
96d6fd6c 5922
8d2c0a59
AZ
5923* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
5924 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
5925 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
5926 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
5927 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
5928 effects being visible outside transactions.
5929
dc400d7b
RE
5930* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
5931 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
ec582ca0 5932
0f9dfe04
L
5933* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
5934
a39208bd
CD
5935* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
5936 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
ebda2f17 5937 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
a39208bd
CD
5938 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
5939 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
fb89b46d 5940
a5357b7c
JL
5941* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
5942 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
5943
e54db0ea
AM
5944* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
5945 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
5946 format.
11e3417a 5947
4863355a
JM
5948* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
5949 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
5950 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
5951
a4ecc9eb
JM
5952* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
5953 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
5954
0d560bbf 5955* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
0781a777
RM
5956
5957* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
5958 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
5959 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
5960 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
6d248857
WN
5961
5962* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
5963 with newer versions of bison.
28c38448
MF
5964
5965* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
5966 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
5967 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
5968 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
5969 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
5970 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
5971 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
5972 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
5973 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
5974 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
5975 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
5976 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
5977 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
5978
5979 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
5980 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
5981 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
5982 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
5983 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
58b930ae 5984\f
d5b396c1
AM
5985Version 2.20
5986
5987* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5988
6a9350c8
JM
5989 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
5990 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
5991 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
5992 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
5993 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
5994 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
5995 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
5996 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
5997 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
5998 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
5999 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
6000 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
6001 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
6002 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
6003 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
0961f7e1 6004
95ee7fb1
SL
6005* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
6006 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
6007 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
6008 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
6009 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 6010 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
95ee7fb1
SL
6011 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
6012 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
6013 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
6014 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
6015
0961f7e1
JL
6016* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
6017 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
6018 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
6019 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
6020 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
f3d338c9 6021
f940b965
RE
6022* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
6023
d0f5b3f8
JM
6024* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6025 can be used with is 2.6.32.
6026
d6fe5e58
JM
6027* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
6028 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
6029 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
6030 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
6031 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
6032 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
6033
464263cc
JM
6034* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
6035 from ports.
c941736c
JM
6036
6037* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
6038 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
6039 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
6040 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
6041 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
6042 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
6043 test macros defined.
f63c86fe
WN
6044
6045* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5a414ff7
DV
6046
6047* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
6048 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
6049 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
6050 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
6051 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
6052 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
6053 is not built.
d03efb2f
AM
6054
6055* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
6056 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
6057 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
6058 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
6059 invocation.
cfd2ea50
JM
6060
6061* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
6062 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
6063 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
f083450f
RM
6064
6065* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
6066 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
6067 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
6068 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
4e8f95a0
FW
6069
6070* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
6071 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
6072 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
6073 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
6074 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
6075 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
6076 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
6077 additional checks.
9a8a5720
RM
6078
6079* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
6080 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
6081 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
6082 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
6083 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
6084 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
6085 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
6086 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
6087 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
a1a6a401
FW
6088
6089* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
6090 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
6091 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
6092 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
6093 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 6094 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
41488498
FW
6095
6096* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
6097 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
6098 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
6099 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
6c1fd795
DM
6100\f
6101Version 2.19
6102
6103* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6104
fd2f9486
JM
6105 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
6106 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
6107 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
6108 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
6109 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
6110 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
6111 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
6112 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
6113 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
6114 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
ed27ed83
JM
6115 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
6116 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
6117 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
6118 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
6119 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
798212a0
PP
6120 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
6121 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
6122 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
141f3a77 6123
11520a57
CD
6124* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
6125 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
6126
2fe16229
CD
6127* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
6128 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
6129 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
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CD
6130 extension which uses __block.
6131
303e567a
SP
6132* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
6133 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
6134 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
6135 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
6136 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
6137
141f3a77
SP
6138* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
6139 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
6140 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
6141 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
6142 if malloc fails.
c61b4d41
CD
6143
6144* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
6145 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
6146 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
6147 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
6148 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
91ce4085
FW
6149
6150* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
6151 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
6152 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
6153
ba0d798c
WN
6154* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
6155 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
6156 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
6157 #15856, #15857).
6158
7cbcdb36
SP
6159* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
6160 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
6161
82bab04b 6162* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 6163 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
ddd9fb8f 6164
c5f840fd
MB
6165* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
6166
3e181dda
CD
6167* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
6168 supported locales.
ddd9fb8f 6169
3e181dda 6170* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
7447ccd9 6171
8a05c252
CL
6172* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
6173
6055173a
JM
6174* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
6175 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
6176 for which the C library was built.
6177
b125d3e5
JM
6178* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
6179 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
6180 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
6181 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
6182 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
6183 in the following circumstances:
6184
6185 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
6186
6187 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
6188 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
6189
d4f66d37
JM
6190* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
6191 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
6192
3e181dda
CD
6193* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
6194 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
e35696c3 6195
ffb89e53
AO
6196* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
6197
5d29ccce
SP
6198* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
6199 transcendental functions have been introduced.
6200
8b7d57cd 6201* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
b125d3e5
JM
6202
6203* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 6204
fd712ef3 6205* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 6206
c688b419
JM
6207* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
6208 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
6209 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
6210 disable some of those declarations.
6211
7011c262 6212* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
029c7b25
JM
6213 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
6214 that did nothing) has also been removed.
0a57b83e
AO
6215
6216* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
6217 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
ee4ec1d7
AK
6218
6219* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
6220 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
6221 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
6222 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
6223 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
6224 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
6225 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
6226 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
6227 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
6228 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
6229 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
6230 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
6231 require recompilation.
2c8bfe7d
DM
6232\f
6233Version 2.18
6234
6235* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6236
17db6e8d 6237 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
0432680e
PY
6238 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
6239 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
8c17cb1f
JM
6240 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
6241 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
6242 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
6243 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
6244 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
6245 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
6246 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
6247 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
6248 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
6249 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
6250 15755, 15759.
e4608715
CD
6251
6252* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
6253 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
6254 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
6255 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
6256 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
6257 understands and accepts the risks.
1cef1b19 6258
5b535ac4
AS
6259* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
6260 #15078).
6261
1cef1b19
AS
6262* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
6263 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
7fffbdff 6264
55e4107b
SP
6265* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
6266 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
6267 destructor calls to glibc.
6268
e5c74c63
SP
6269* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
6270 output.
6271
6272* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
6273 non-x86 architectures.
6274
e7521973
JM
6275* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
6276
6277* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
6278
6279* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
6280 Richard Henderson.
6281
6282* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
6283
6284* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
6285 Richard Henderson.
6286
6287* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
6288 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
6289
8cfdb7e0
SP
6290* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
6291
57267616
TS
6292* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
6293 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
58206c68 6294
c204ab28
SP
6295* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
6296 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
61dd6208 6297
0748546f
PE
6298* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
6299 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
6300 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
6301
61dd6208
SP
6302* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
6303 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
6304 attributes of a process.
a7cb9d67
AK
6305
6306* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
6307 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
6308 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
6309 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
6310 mutexes.
be063fa4
RA
6311
6312* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
6313 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
6314
6315* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
370ca3d2
JM
6316\f
6317Version 2.17
6318
6319* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6320
80ceeaee 6321 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
b4180a5e
AJ
6322 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
6323 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
6324 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
6325 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
6326 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
6327 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
6328 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
6329 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
6330 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
6331 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
6332 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
6333 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
6334 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
6335 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
14bc93a9 6336
95b4f1b6
SE
6337* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
6338
14bc93a9
JL
6339* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
6340 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
7a845b2c 6341
b54eb3cb
JM
6342* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
6343 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
6344
7e2bd01f
MS
6345* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
6346
08f43f9b
AK
6347* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
6348 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
6349 zEnterprise z196.
6350 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
6351
84b3fd84
FW
6352* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
6353 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
6354 the internal function __secure_getenv.
6355
815e6fa3
GB
6356* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
6357 Implemented by Gary Benson.
6358
400726de
MK
6359* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
6360 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
6361
7aab07e4 6362* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 6363 can be used with is 2.6.16.
7aab07e4 6364
15d0da8c
WS
6365* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
6366 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
6367
3cc3ef96
RM
6368* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
6369 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
c53d909c
RM
6370 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
6371 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3cc3ef96 6372
b54eb3cb
JM
6373* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
6374 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
6375
85429b1a 6376* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 6377 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
85429b1a
DM
6378 default.
6379
b54eb3cb
JM
6380* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
6381 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
6382 information in --help and --version output.
6383
050af9c4
SP
6384* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
6385 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
6386 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
6387
89a3ad0b
AO
6388* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
6389 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
6390 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
6391 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
6392 when the mode is enabled.
6393
6e6249d0
RM
6394* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
6395 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
6396 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
6397 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
6398 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
6399 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
6400 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5a04f376 6401
d9286582
NK
6402* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
6403 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
8d44e150
UD
6404\f
6405Version 2.16
6406
6407* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6408
a8133e19
JM
6409 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
6410 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
6411 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
6412 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
6413 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
6414 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
6415 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
6416 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
6417 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
6418 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
6419 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
6420 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
6421 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
6422 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
6423 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
6424 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
6425 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
6426 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
6427 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
6428 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
6429 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
6430 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
6431 14277, 14278.
380d7e87 6432
a086b4d6
L
6433* Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
6434 configuring glibc with:
6435 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
8f7a75d7 6436 Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
a086b4d6
L
6437 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
6438
380d7e87
UD
6439* ISO C11 support:
6440
6441 + define static_assert
6442
6443 + do not declare gets
6444
6445 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
6446
6447 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
6448 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
6449 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
6450 implementation.
8d44e150 6451
74033a25 6452 + timespec_get added
544563c9
UD
6453
6454 + uchar.h support added
d75a0a62 6455
ac097f5c
UD
6456 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
6457
16dd419d
UD
6458 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6459
9dc4e1fb 6460* Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
33808bf1
UD
6461
6462* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
d9a216c0
UD
6463
6464* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
6465 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
daa891c0
UD
6466
6467* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
6468 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
021db4be
AJ
6469
6470* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
6471 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
6472 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
6473 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
6474 existing applications.
ffb7875d 6475
21708942 6476* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
ffb7875d
JM
6477 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
6478 before 2.6.
83678f76 6479
edb00e4d
RH
6480* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
6481 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
6482 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
6483
83678f76 6484* New locales: mag_IN
7b44a2df
RM
6485
6486* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
6487 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
6488 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
6489 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
6490 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
47e452cf
JM
6491
6492* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
6493
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
6494* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
6495 and Will Schmidt.
47e452cf
JM
6496
6497* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
6498
6499* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
6500 without a previously built glibc.
6501
6502* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
6503 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
6504
6505* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
6506 now supported for ARM processors.
6507
6508* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
6509 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
6510 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
6511
6512* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
6513
6514* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
6515 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
6516 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
6517 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
929cc14e
AJ
6518
6519* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
6520 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
6521 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
6522 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
ee9247c3
CD
6523
6524* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
6525 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
6526 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
6527 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
6528 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
6529
6530* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
6531 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
6532 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
6533 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
ee1a7fab 6534\f
e80fab37 6535Version 2.15
11988f8f 6536
c0244a9d
UD
6537* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6538
aebae053
UD
6539 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
6540 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
6541 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
6542 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
6543 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
6544 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
6545 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
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6548 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6550* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
6551 and support for initgroups lookups.
6552 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6554* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
6555 Contributed by HJ Lu.
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6557* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
6558 Contributed by HJ Lu.
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6560* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
6561 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 6562 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 6563
d42964a0 6564* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
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6566
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6567* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
6568 for x86-64 and x86-32.
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6569 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
6570
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6571* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
6572 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6573
6574* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
6575 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6577* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
6578 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6580* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
6581 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6583* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
6584 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6585
6586* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
6587 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6589* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
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6590
6591* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
6592 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6594* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
6595 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
2655fd5c 6596
6b64057b 6597* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
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6601* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6602
553149f6 6603 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 6604 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 6605 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 6606 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
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6608 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
6609 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
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6610 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
6611 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 6612 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
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6614* The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
6615 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
6616 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 6617 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
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6618
6619 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
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6620 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
6621 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
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6622 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6623
c6489db3 6624* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
f1f929d7 6625 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
83fe108b 6626
72d1dddb 6627* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 6628 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
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6630* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
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6632* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
6633 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6635* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
6636 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
6637 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
6638 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
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6641
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6642* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6643
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6644 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
6645 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
6646 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
6647 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
6648 12378, 12394, 12397
ac2b484c 6649
10b3bedc 6650* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
c08fb0d7 6651
ac2b484c 6652* POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
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6654* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
6655 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 6656 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6658Version 2.12
6659
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6661
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6662 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
6663 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
6664 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
6665 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
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6667 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
6668 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 6669 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
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6670
6671* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
d36b9613 6672
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6673* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
6674
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6675* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
6676
6677* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
6678 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
6679 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6680
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6682 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
6683 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
6684 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
6685 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6686
d36b9613 6687* New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
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6689Version 2.11
6690
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6691* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6692
6693 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
6694 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
6695 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
6696 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
6697 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
6698 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
6699
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6700* New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
6701 mkostemps64
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6702 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6703
24ab9c76 6704* Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
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6705 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6706
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6707* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
6708 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
6709
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6710* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
6711
0122f28e 6712* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
9d36a6c4 6713 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 6714 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
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6715 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
6716
9d36a6c4 6717 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
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6718 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6719
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6720* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
6721 strstr, strcasestr.
6722 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
6723
6724* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
6725 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
6726
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6727* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
6728 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
6729
6730* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
6731 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6732
6733* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
6734 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
6735 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
6736 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
6737 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
6738 necessity is every process again.
6739 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6740
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6741* New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
6742 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
6743
6744* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
6745 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
6746
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6747* Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
6748 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
6749 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6750
9dd5b8a1 6751* New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
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6753Version 2.10
6754
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6755* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6756
6757 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
6758 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
6759 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
6760 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
6761 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
6762
bb066545 6763* New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
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6764 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6765
425ce2ed 6766* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
e109c612 6767 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 6768
1fdd89a7 6769* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
735be400 6770 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
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6772* XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
6773 now in POSIX.
77db439e 6774
1f04d005 6775* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6cbe890a 6776 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1f04d005 6777
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6778* New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
6779 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6780
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6781* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
6782 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6783
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6784* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
6785 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6786
6787* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
6788 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
6789 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6790
735be400 6791* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
878b72c5 6792
84aa52d7 6793* Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
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6794 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6795
6796* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
6797 and extend existing format specifiers.
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6798 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6799
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6800* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
6801 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6802
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6803* DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
6804 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
6805 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
6806 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
6807 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
6808 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6810Version 2.9
6811
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6812* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6813
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6814 2447, 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447,
6815 6461, 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712,
6816 6713, 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839,
6817 6843, 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955,
6818 6966, 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
d36b9613 6819
b29899ae 6820* Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
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6821 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6822
6823* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
6824 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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6826* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
6827 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6829* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
6830 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
6831 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6832
6833* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
6834 Implemented by Eric Blake.
e038616f 6835
8ec2550e 6836* New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
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6837
6838* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
ebcc1f4d 6839 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
e038616f 6840
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6841* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
6842 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
6843 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
6844 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6845
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6846* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
6847 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6849* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
6850 Sinhala)
48b22986 6851 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
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6853* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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6855Version 2.8
6856
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6857* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6858
6859 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
6860 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
6861 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
6862 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
6863 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
6864 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
6865 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
6866
e038616f 6867* New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
b4354cf4 6868
77751669 6869* New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
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6871* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
6872 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
6873
6874* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
6875
6876* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
6877 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6878
6879* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
6880 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6881
6882* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
6883 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
6884 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
6885
6886* Faster memset for x86-64.
6887 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
6888
6889* Faster memcpy on x86.
6890 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6891
6892* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
6893 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3b32d8a2 6894
7f0d9e61 6895* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implementation for some PPC variants.
d990b282 6896 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
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6899
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6900* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6901
6902 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
6903 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
6904 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
6905 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
6906 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
6907
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6908* More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
6909 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
6910
6911* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
6912
6913* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
6914 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
6915 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
6916
6917* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
6918 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
6919
28919a77 6920* New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
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6921 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6922
6923* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6924
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6925* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
6926 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6927
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6928* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
6929 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
6930
6931* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
6932 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
6933
6934* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6935
6936* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
6937 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6939* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
6940 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
6941 yo_NG.
6942
6943+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
6944 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6949
6950 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
6951 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
6952 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
6953 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
6954 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
6955 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
6956 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
6957 4702, 4858
6958
bce20b9a 6959* New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
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6961* New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
6962
b21fa963 6963* nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6966
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6968
6969 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
6970 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
6971 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
6972 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
6973 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
6974 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
6975 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
6976 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
6977 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
6978
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6981 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6983* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
6984 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6985
871b9158 6986* New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
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6988* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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6990* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
6991 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
6992 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
457b559e 6993 site might have problems with the default behavior.
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6994 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6995
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6997 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
6998 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
6999 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7000
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7002 Ulrich Drepper.
7003
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7004* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
7005
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7006* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
7007 Ulrich Drepper.
7008
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7009* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
7010
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7011* New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
7012 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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7015
7016* More overflow detection functions.
7017
7018* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
7019 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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7021 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
7022 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
7023 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
7024 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
7025 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
7026 by Masahide Washizawa.
7027
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7028* It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
7029 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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7031* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
7032 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
7033 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
7034 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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7036* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
7037 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
7038
7039* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
7040
7041* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
7042 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
7043 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
7044
7045* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
7046 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
7047
7048* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
7049 for compatibility with some other systems.
7050
7051* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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7053Version 2.3.6
7054
7055* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
7056
7057 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
7058 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
7059 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
7060 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
7061 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
7062 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
7063
5a82c748 7064 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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7065
7066* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
7067
7068* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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7070Version 2.3.5
7071
7072* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
7073
7074 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
7075 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
7076 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
7077 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
7078
5a82c748 7079 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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7081Version 2.3.4
7082
7083* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
7084 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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7085
7086* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
7087 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
7088 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7089
7090* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
7091 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
7092
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7094 efficiently.
7095 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7096
7097* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
7098 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
7099 handling data.
7100
7101* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
7102 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
0325dd20 7103 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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7104
7105* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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7106 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7107
7108* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
7109 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
7110 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
7111 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7112
7113* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
7114 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
7115 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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7116 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
7117
7118* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
7119 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
7120 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
7121 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
7122 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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7124Version 2.3.3
7125
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7126* New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
7127 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
7128
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7129* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
7130 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
925c3c5c 7131
69be6aaf 7132* getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
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7133 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
7134
7135* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
7136 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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7137
7138* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
7139 by Roland McGrath.
7140
c5af724c 7141* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
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7142 and Ulrich Drepper.
7143
7144* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
7145 RFC 3484.
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7147Version 2.3.2
7148
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7149* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
7150 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
7151 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
7152 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
7153 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
7154 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
7155 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
7156 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
7157 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
7158
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7159* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
7160 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
7161 and are now also available on the Hurd.
7162
7163* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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7164
7165* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
7166 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
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7168* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
7169 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
7170
52a16e58 7171* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
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7173* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
7174 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
9ef0a840 7175
7f0d9e61 7176* With appropriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
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7177 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
7178 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
7179 of weak definition in ld.so.
7180
7181* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
7182 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
7183
7184* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
7185 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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7189* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
7190 charsets.
7191
7192* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
7193 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
47e8b443 7194
bb0ec5bd 7195* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 7196 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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7197
7198* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
7199 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
8e57fc70 7200
bb0ec5bd 7201* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
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7202 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
7203 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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7204
7205* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
7206 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3b0bdc72 7207
bb0ec5bd 7208* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3b0bdc72 7209 implementation of regex.
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7210
7211* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
7212 Unicode 3.2.
be45f421 7213
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7214* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
7215 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
be45f421 7216
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7217* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
7218 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
7219 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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7220
7221* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
f87277f2 7222 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
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7223
7224* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
7225 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
7226 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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7227
7228* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
7229 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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7230
7231* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
7232 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
7233 and Ulrich Drepper.
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7234
7235* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
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7237Version 2.2.6
7238
7239* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
7240 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
7241
7242* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
7243 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
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7245Version 2.2.5
7246
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7247* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
7248 128-bit long double format.
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7250* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
7251 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
a8ae31c2 7252
ad2e4f18 7253* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
a8ae31c2 7254
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7255* Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
7256
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7257* libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
7258 as well.
7259
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7260* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
7261 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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7262
7263* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
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7265Version 2.2.4
7266
2995f70e 7267* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 7268 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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7269
7270* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
7271 support Unicode 3.1.
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7272
7273* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
7274 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
045fcd26 7275
69d5f925 7276* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 7277
69d5f925 7278* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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7279 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
7280 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
7281
7282* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
7283 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
7284
7285* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
7286 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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7287
7288* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
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7290Version 2.2.3
7291
1746f2b0 7292* Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
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7293 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
7294 in float, double, and long double format.
7295
f128331c 7296* Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
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7297 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
7298 128-bit long double format.
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7300* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
7301 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
7302 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
7303 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
7304
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7305* An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
7306 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
7307 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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7308
7309* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
7310 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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7311
7312* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
7313 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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7315* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
7316 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
7317 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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7318
7319* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
7320 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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7321
7322* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
7323 of functions for Linux/x86.
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7324
7325* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
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7327Version 2.2.2
7328
464d97ec 7329* Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
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7330 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
7331 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
7332 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
7333 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
7334 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
7335 other headers.
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7337* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
7338 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
7339
7340* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
7341 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
7342 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
7343 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
7344
7345* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
7346 locales. While
7347
7348 locale -a
7349
7350 only lists the names of the supported locales
7351
7352 locale -a --verbose
7353
7354 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
7355 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
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7357Version 2.2.1
7358
7359* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
7360 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
7361 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
7362 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
7363 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
7364
7365 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
7366
7367 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
7368
7369 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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7370
7371* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
7372 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
7373 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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7375* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
7376 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
7377
7378* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
7379 changed from the default "C" locale.
7380
7381* The usual bug fixes.
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7383Version 2.2
7384
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7385* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
7386 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
7387 is in progress.
7388
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7389* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
7390
793bd4d9 7391* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
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7393 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
7394 obviously requires a database library being available.
7395
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7396* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7397
abbffdf9 7398* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
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7400* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
7401 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
7402
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7403* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
7404
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7405* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
7406 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
7407 and Mark Kettenis.
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7408
7409 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
7410 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
7411 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 7412
a00c3ca9 7413 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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7414 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
7415
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7416* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
7417 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
7418 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
7419
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7420* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
7421 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
7422 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
7423 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7424
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7425 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
7426 structures for the wide character tables.
7427
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7428* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7429
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7430* The utmp daemon has been removed.
7431
7432* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
7433
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7434* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
7435 and Yutaka Niibe.
7436
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7437* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
7438
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7439* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
7440
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7441* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7442
7443* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
7444
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7445* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
7446
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7447* the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
7448 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
7449 implemented for Linux.
7450
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7451* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
7452 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
7453 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
7454 versions.
7455
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7456* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
7457 Masahide Washizawa.
7458
8f3f1e09 7459* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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7461Version 2.1.3
7462
7463* bug fixes
7464
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7466Version 2.1.2
7467
7468* bug fixes
7469
28f540f4 7470\f
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7471Version 2.1.1
7472
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7473* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
7474
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7475* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
7476
407d26b7 7477* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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7478
7479* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
7480
407d26b7 7481* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 7482
407d26b7 7483* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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7484
7485* Update timezone data files.
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7487* lots of charmaps corrections
7488
7489* some new locale definitions and charmaps
7490
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7492Version 2.1
7493
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7494* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
7495 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
7496 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
7497 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
7498 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
7499 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
7500
c84142e8 7501* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 7502 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 7503
1fb05e3d 7504* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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7505 symbol level.
7506
7f0d9e61 7507* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierarchical
c84142e8 7508 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
377a515b 7509
cbdee279 7510* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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7511
7512* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 7513 numbers.
377a515b 7514
cbdee279 7515* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
e61abf83 7516
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7517* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
7518 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
e61abf83 7519
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7520* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
7521 library.
7522
e61abf83 7523* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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7524 functions from ISO C 9X.
7525
7526* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
7527 real valued functions.
e61abf83 7528
a5a0310d 7529* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
e61abf83 7530
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7531* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
7532
7533* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 7534
440d13e2 7535* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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7536
7537* Optimized string functions have been added.
7538
7539* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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7540
7541* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
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7543* Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
7544 daemon for NSS (nscd).
7545
7546 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
7547 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
7548
0dee6738 7549 user system wall
48244d09 7550
0dee6738 7551 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 7552
0dee6738 7553 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 7554
0dee6738 7555 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
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7557 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
7558
7559 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
7560
7561 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
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7563 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
7564 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
0dee6738 7565 horribly slow.
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7567 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
7568 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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7570* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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7572* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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7573
7574* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
7575 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
7576
7577* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
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7579* A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
7580 Bambrough.
7581
7582* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
7583 latest draft standards.
7584
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7585* Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
7586
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7587* Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
7588~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
62595351 7589addseverity NEW: Unix98
48244d09 7590alphasort64 NEW: LFS
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7591argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
7592argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
7593argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
7594argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
7595argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
7596argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
7597argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
7598argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
7599argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
7600argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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7601authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
7602authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
7603authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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7604backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
7605backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
7606backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
7607cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
7608cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
7609cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
7610cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
7611cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
7612cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
7613capget NEW: kernel
7614capset NEW: kernel
7615carg NEW: ISO C 9x
7616cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
7617cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
7618casin NEW: ISO C 9x
7619casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
7620casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
7621casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
7622casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
7623casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
7624catan NEW: ISO C 9x
7625catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
7626catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
7627catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
7628catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
7629catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
e980ca92 7630cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
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7631ccos NEW: ISO C 9x
7632ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
7633ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
7634ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
7635ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
7636ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
7637cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
7638cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
7639cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
7640cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
7641cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
7642cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
7643clearerr_locked REMOVED
7644clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
7645clog NEW: ISO C 9x
7646clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
7647clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
7648clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
7649clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
7650clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
7651conj NEW: ISO C 9x
7652conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
7653conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
7654cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
7655cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
7656cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
7657cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
7658cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
7659cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
7660creal NEW: ISO C 9x
7661crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
7662creall NEW: ISO C 9x
7663creat64 NEW: LFS
7664csin NEW: ISO C 9x
7665csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
7666csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
7667csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
7668csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
7669csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
7670csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
7671csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
7672csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
7673ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
7674ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
7675ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
7676ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
7677ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
7678ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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7679des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
7680ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 7681endutxent NEW: Unix98
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7682exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x
7683exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
7684exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
7685exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
7686exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
7687exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
7688fattach NEW: STREAMS
7689fdetach NEW: STREAMS
7690fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
7691fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
7692fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
7693feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
7694fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
7695fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
7696fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
7697feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
7698feof_locked REMOVED
7699feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
7700ferror_locked REMOVED
7701fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
7702fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
7703fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
7704fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
7705feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
7706fflush_locked REMOVED
7707ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
7708ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
7709fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
7710fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
7711fileno_locked REMOVED
7712fma NEW: ISO C 9x
7713fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
7714fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
7715fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
7716fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
7717fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
7718fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
7719fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
7720fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
62595351 7721fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
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7722fopen64 NEW: LFS
7723fputc_locked REMOVED
7724fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
7725fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
7726freopen64 NEW: LFS
7727fseeko NEW: Unix98
7728fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
7729fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
7730fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
7731fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
7732ftello NEW: Unix98
7733ftello64 NEW: LFS
7734ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
7735ftw64 NEW: LFS
7736fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
7737gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
7738gamma_r REMOVED
7739gammaf_r REMOVED
7740gammal_r REMOVED
7741getchar_locked REMOVED
7742getdate NEW: Unix98
7743getdate_err NEW: Unix98
7744getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
7745getmsg NEW: STREAMS
7746getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
e980ca92 7747getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
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7748getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
7749getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
7750getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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7751getutxent NEW: Unix98
7752getutxid NEW: Unix98
7753getutxline NEW: Unix98
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7754glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
7755globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
7756gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
7757gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
7758grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
e980ca92 7759host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
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7760iconv NEW: iconv
7761iconv_close NEW: iconv
7762iconv_open NEW: iconv
7763if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
7764if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
7765if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
7766if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
7767in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
7768in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
7769inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
7770isastream NEW: STREAMS
7771iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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7772key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
7773key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
7774key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
7775key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
7776key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
7777key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
7778key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
7779key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
7780key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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7781llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
7782llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
7783llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
7784llround NEW: ISO C 9x
7785llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
7786llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
7787log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
7788log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
7789log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
7790lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
7791lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
7792lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
7793lround NEW: ISO C 9x
7794lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
7795lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
7796lseek64 NEW: LFS
7797makecontext NEW: Unix98
7798mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
7799mmap64 NEW: LFS
7800moncontrol REMOVED
7801modify_ldt NEW: kernel
7802nan NEW: ISO C 9x
7803nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
7804nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
7805nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
7806nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
7807nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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7808netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
7809netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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7810nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
7811nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
7812nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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7813nftw NEW: Unix98
7814nftw64 NEW: LFS
7815open64 NEW: LFS
e980ca92 7816passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
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7817pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
7818pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
7819pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
7820pread NEW: Unix98
7821pread64 NEW: LFS
7822printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
7823printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
7824profil_counter REMOVED
7825pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
7826pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
7827ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
7828ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
7829putc_locked REMOVED
7830putchar_locked REMOVED
7831putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
7832putmsg NEW: STREAMS
7833putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
62595351 7834pututxline NEW: Unix98
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7835pwrite NEW: Unix98
7836pwrite64 NEW: LFS
7837readdir64 NEW: LFS
7838readdir64_r NEW: LFS
7839remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
7840remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
7841remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
7842round NEW: ISO C 9x
7843roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
7844roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
7845rtime NEW: GNU ext.
7846scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
7847scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
7848scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
7849scandir64 NEW: LFS
7850sendfile NEW: kernel
7851setcontext NEW: Unix98
7852setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 7853setutxent NEW: Unix98
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7854sighold NEW: Unix98
7855sigignore NEW: Unix98
7856sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
7857sigrelse NEW: Unix98
7858sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
7859sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
7860sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
7861sincos NEW: GNU ext.
7862sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
7863sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
7864statfs64 NEW: LFS
7865statvfs NEW: Unix98
7866statvfs64 NEW: LFS
7867strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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7868strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
7869strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
7870strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
e980ca92 7871svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
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7872svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
7873svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
7874swapcontext NEW: Unix98
7875tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
7876tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
7877tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
7878tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
7879tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
7880tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
7881trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
7882truncate64 NEW: LFS
7883truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
7884truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
7885umount2 NEW: kernel
7886unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 7887updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 7888user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 7889utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 7890versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
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7892waitid NEW: Unix98
7893wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
7894wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
7895wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
7896wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
7897wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
7898wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
7899wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
7900wcswcs NEW: Unix98
7901wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
7902wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
7903write_profiling REMOVED
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7905xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
7906xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
7907xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
7908xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
7909xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
7910xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
7911xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
7912xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
7913xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
7914xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
7915xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
7916xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 7917xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
e980ca92 7918xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
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7921Version 2.0.6
7922
7923* more bug fixes
7924
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7926Version 2.0.5
7927
7928* more bug fixes
7929
7930* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
7931
7932* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
7933
7934* rewrite of cbrt function
7935
7936* update of timezone data
7937\f
7938Version 2.0.4
7939
7940* more bug fixes
7941\f
7942Version 2.0.3
7943
7944* more bug fixes
c84142e8 7945\f
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7947
7948* more bug fixes
7949
7950* add atoll function
7951
7952* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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7954* fix math functions
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7956Version 2.0.1
7957
7958* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
7959
7960* dynamic loader preserves all registers
7961
7962* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
7963 the ELF dynamic loader.
7964
7965* support for parallel builds is improved
7966\f
40a4b79f 7967Version 2.0
28f540f4 7968
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7969* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
7970 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
7971 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
7972
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7973* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
7974 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
7975 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
7976 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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7977 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
7978 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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7979 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
7980 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
7981 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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7983 files in the ELF format.
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7984
7985* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
7986 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
7987
7988* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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7989 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
7990 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
7991 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
7992 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
7993 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
7994 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
7995 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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7996 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
7997 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
7998 about dynamically linked binaries.
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8000* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
8001 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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8002 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
8003 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
8004 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 8005
f7eac6eb 8006* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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8008 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
8009 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
8010 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
8011
8012* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
f7eac6eb 8013
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8014* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
8015 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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8016 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
8017 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
8018 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
8019 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
8020 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
8021 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
8022 NSS services available.
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8024* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
8025 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
8026 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
8027
8028* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
8029 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
8030 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
8031
8032* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
8033 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
8034 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
8035 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
8036
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8037* The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
8038 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
8039 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
8040
8041* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
8042 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
8043 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
8044
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8045* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
8046 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
8047
f7eac6eb 8048* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 8049 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 8050 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
7f0d9e61 8051 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendment 1 specification.
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8052
8053* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
8054 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
8055 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 8056
71733723 8057* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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8058 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
8059 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
8060 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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8061 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
8062 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 8063 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 8064 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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8065
8066* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
8067 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
8068 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
8069 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
8070 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
8071 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
8072 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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8073
8074* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
8075 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
8076 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
8077 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
8078 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
8079 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
8080
8081* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
8082 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
8083
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8084* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
8085 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
8086 NSS scheme used in glibc.
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8088* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
8089
8090* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
8091 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
8092 their use is discouraged.
8093
8094* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
8095 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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8097* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
8098 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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8099
8100* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
8101 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
8102
8103* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
8104 see <dirent.h>.
8105
8106* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
8107 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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8108 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
8109 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
8110 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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8111
8112* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
8113 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
8114 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
8115 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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8116
8117* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
8118 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
8119
8120* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
8121 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
8122 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
8123 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
8124 number generator.
8125
8126* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
8127 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
8128
8129* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
8130 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
8131
71733723 8132* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 8133 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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8134 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
8135 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
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8137* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
8138
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8139* David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
8140 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
8141 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
8142
8143* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
8144 for arithmetic and string handling.
d3669add 8145
c709e372 8146* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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8147 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
8148 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
8149 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
8150
8151* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
8152 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
8153 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
8154 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
8155 programs already written to use it.)
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8156
8157* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
8158 constants.
8159
8160* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
8161 with 4.4 BSD.
8162
8163* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
8164 a given effective group ID.
8165
8166* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
8167 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
8168 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
8169 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
8170
8171* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 8172 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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8173 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
8174 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
8175 doing the same thing.
8176
8177* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
8178 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
8179
8180* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 8181 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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8182
8183* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
8184
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8185* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
8186 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
8187 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 8188 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 8189 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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8190
8191* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
8192 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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8193
8194* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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8195 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
8196 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
8197 function.
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8198
8199* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
8200
8201* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
8202 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
8203 strings.
8204
8205* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
8206 and writing the utmp file.
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8207
8208* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
8209 Thorsten Kukuk.
8210
8211* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
8212 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
8213 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
8214
8215* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
8216 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
8217
8218* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
8219 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
8220 specification.
8221
8222* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
8223 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
8224 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
8225 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
8226
8227* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
8228 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
8229 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
8230
8231* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
8232 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
8233 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
8234 expression matcher.
8235
8236* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
8237 functionality.
8238
8239* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
8240 by Ulrich Drepper.
8241
8242* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
8243
8244* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
8245 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
8246 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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8247\f
8248Version 1.09
8249
8250* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
8251
8252* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
8253 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
8254
8255* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
8256 want to put themselves in the background.
8257
8258* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
8259 run without an operating system.
8260
8261* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
8262 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
8263
8264* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
8265 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
8266
8267* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
8268
8269* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
8270 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
8271 have YP (aka NIS).
8272
8273* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
8274 conventions.
8275
8276* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
8277 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
8278\f
8279Version 1.08
8280
8281* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
8282 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
8283 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
8284
8285* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
8286 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
8287
8288* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
8289 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
8290
8291* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
8292
8293* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
8294
8295* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
8296 compatibility.
8297
8298* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
8299 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
8300 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
8301
8302* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
8303
8304* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
8305 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
8306 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
8307
8308* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
8309 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
8310 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
8311 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
8312 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
8313 on a block).
8314
8315* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
8316 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
8317 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
8318 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
8319 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
8320 cross-compiler.
8321
8322* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
8323 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
8324\f
8325Version 1.07
8326
8327* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
8328 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
8329
8330* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
8331 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
8332 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
8333
8334* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
8335 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
8336 address of the last character written.
8337
8338* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
8339 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
8340
8341* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
8342 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
8343
8344* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
8345 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
8346 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
8347 you dereference this pointer.
8348
8349* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
8350 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
8351
8352* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
8353 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
8354 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
8355 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
8356
8357* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
8358 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
8359 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
8360 EAGAIN in every system call function.
8361\f
8362Version 1.06
8363
8364* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
8365 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
8366 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
8367 in Emacs or the `info' program.
596dc7b6 8368 Please send comments on the manual to libc-alpha@sourceware.org.
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8369
8370* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
8371
8372* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
8373
8374* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
8375 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
8376
8377* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
8378 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
8379
8380* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
8381 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
8382
8383* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
8384 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
8385 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
8386 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
8387 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
8388
8389* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
8390 to the error code in `errno'.
8391
8392* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
8393 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
8394 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
8395 malloc'd string.
8396
8397* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
8398 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
8399 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
8400
8401* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
8402 uniquely-named temporary file.
8403\f
8404Version 1.05
8405
8406* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
8407 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
8408 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
8409
8410* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
8411 characters.
8412
8413* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
8414 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
8415
8416* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
8417\f
8418Version 1.04
8419
8420* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
8421 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
8422 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
8423 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
8424
8425* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
8426 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
8427 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
8428
8429* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
8430 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
8431
8432* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
8433 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
8434 made itself into a shared library.
8435
8436* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
8437 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
8438
8439* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
8440 with limited length.
8441
8442* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
8443
8444* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
8445
8446* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
8447
8448* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
8449 function for traversing a directory tree.
8450
8451* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
8452 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
8453 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
8454 formatted output directly to an obstack.
8455
8456* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
8457 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
8458
8459* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
8460
8461* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
8462 things to your strings.
8463
8464* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
8465
8466* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
8467 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
8468 supporting those systems.
8469
8470* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
8471 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
8472 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
8473 configuration files.
8474
8475* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
8476 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
8477
8478* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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8479 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
8480 in <strings.h>.)
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8481
8482* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
8483 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
8484 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
8485 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
8486 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
8487 required storage is not available.
8488
8489* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
8490 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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8491
8492* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
8493 latest files released from Berkeley.
8494\f
8495----------------------------------------------------------------------
9fcdec73 8496Copying conditions:
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8497
8498 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
8499 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
8500 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
8501 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
8502
8503 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
8504 of this document, or of portions of it,
8505 under the above conditions, provided also that they
8506 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
8507\f
8508Local variables:
8509version-control: never
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