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ee9247c3 1GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
dff8da6b 2Copyright (C) 1992-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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3See the end for copying conditions.
4
a306c790 5Please send GNU C library bug reports via <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
69be6aaf 6using `glibc' in the "product" field.
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8Version 2.40
9
10Major new features:
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12* The <stdbit.h> header type-generic macros have been changed when using
13 GCC 14.1 or later to use __builtin_stdc_bit_ceil etc. built-in functions
14 in order to support unsigned __int128 and/or unsigned _BitInt(N) operands
15 with arbitrary precisions when supported by the target.
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17* The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC23_SOURCE to
18 enable features from the ISO C23 standard. Only some features from
19 this standard are supported by the GNU C Library. The older name
20 _ISOC2X_SOURCE is still supported. Features from C23 are also enabled
21 by _GNU_SOURCE, or by compiling with the GCC options -std=c23,
22 -std=gnu23, -std=c2x or -std=gnu2x.
23
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24* The following ISO C23 function families (introduced in TS
25 18661-4:2015) are now supported in <math.h>. Each family includes
26 functions for float, double, long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx, and a
27 type-generic macro in <tgmath.h>.
28
29 - Logarithmic functions: log2p1.
30
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31* A new tunable, glibc.rtld.enable_secure, used to run a program
32 as if it were a setuid process. This is currently a testing tool to allow
33 more extensive verification tests for AT_SECURE programs and not meant to
34 be a security feature.
35
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36* On Linux, update epoll header to include epoll ioctl definitions and
37 related structure added in Linux kernel 6.9.
38
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39Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
40
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41* Architectures which use a 32-bit seconds-since-epoch field in struct
42 lastlog, struct utmp, struct utmpx (such as i386, powerpc64le, rv32,
43 rv64, x86-64) switched from a signed to an unsigned type for that
44 field. This allows these fields to store timestamps beyond the year
45 2038, until the year 2106. Please note that applications are still
46 expected to migrate off the interfaces declared in <utmp.h> and
47 <utmpx.h> (except for login_tty) due to locking and session management
48 problems.
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50Changes to build and runtime requirements:
51
52 [Add changes to build and runtime requirements here]
53
54Security related changes:
55
56The following CVEs were fixed in this release, details of which can be
57found in the advisories directory of the release tarball:
58
59 [The release manager will add the list generated by
60 scripts/process-advisories.sh just before the release.]
61
62The following bugs are resolved with this release:
63
64 [The release manager will add the list generated by
65 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
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67Version 2.39
68
69Major new features:
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71* A new tunable, glibc.cpu.plt_rewrite, can be used to enable PLT
72 rewrite on x86-64. When enabled with non-lazy binding, the dynamic
73 linker will rewrite indirect branches in PLT with direct branches.
74
a0cfc48e 75* Sync with Linux kernel 6.6 shadow stack interface. The --enable-cet
feeb7297 76 configure option is only supported on x86-64.
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92861d93 78* struct statvfs now has an f_type member, equal to the f_type statfs member;
79 on the Hurd this was always available under a reserved name,
80 and under Linux a spare has been allocated: it was always zero
81 in previous versions of glibc, and zero is not a valid result.
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83* On Linux, the functions posix_spawnattr_getcgroup_np and
84 posix_spawnattr_setcgroup_np have been added, along with the
85 POSIX_SPAWN_SETCGROUP flag. They allow posix_spawn and posix_spawnp
86 to set the cgroupv2 in the new process in a race-free manner. These
87 functions are GNU extensions and require a kernel with clone3 support.
88
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89* On Linux, the pidfd_spawn and pidfd_spawp functions have been added.
90 They have a similar prototype and semantic as posix_spawn, but instead of
91 returning a process ID, they return a file descriptor that can be used
92 along other pidfd functions (like pidfd_send_signal, poll, or waitid).
93 The pidfd functionality avoids the issue of PID reuse with the traditional
94 posix_spawn interface.
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96* On Linux, the pidfd_getpid function has been added. It allows retrieving
97 the process ID associated with the process file descriptor created by
98 pid_spawn, fork_np, or pidfd_open.
99
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100* scanf-family functions now support the wN format length modifiers for
101 arguments pointing to types intN_t, int_leastN_t, uintN_t or
102 uint_leastN_t (for example, %w32d to read int32_t or int_least32_t in
103 decimal, or %w32x to read uint32_t or uint_least32_t in hexadecimal)
104 and the wfN format length modifiers for arguments pointing to types
105 int_fastN_t or uint_fastN_t, as specified in draft ISO C2X.
106
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107* A new tunable, glibc.mem.decorate_maps, can be used to add additional
108 information on underlying memory allocated by the glibc (for instance,
109 on thread stack created by pthread_create or memory allocated by
110 malloc).
111
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112* The <stdbit.h> header has been added from ISO C2X, with
113 stdc_leading_zeros, stdc_leading_ones, stdc_trailing_zeros,
114 stdc_trailing_ones, stdc_first_leading_zero, stdc_first_leading_one,
115 stdc_first_trailing_zero, stdc_first_trailing_one, stdc_count_zeros,
116 stdc_count_ones, stdc_has_single_bit, stdc_bit_width, stdc_bit_floor
117 and stdc_bit_ceil function families, each having functions for
118 unsigned char, unsigned short, unsigned int, unsigned long int and
119 unsigned long long int, and a type-generic macro.
120
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121* On AArch64 new symbols were added to libmvec and now math.h has
122 annotations to allow GCC 9 or newer to auto-vectorize calls to the
123 following scalar math functions when -ffast-math is specified:
124 acos, acosf, asin, asinf, atan, atanf, atan2, atan2f, cos, cosf,
125 exp, expf, exp10, exp10f, exp2, exp2f, expm1, expm1f, log, logf,
126 log10, log10f, log1p, log1pf, log2, log2f, sin, sinf, tan, tanf.
127
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128Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
129
2aa0974d 130* The ldconfig program now skips file names containing ';' or ending in
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131 ".dpkg.tmp" or ".dpkg.new", to avoid examining temporary files created
132 by the RPM and dpkg package managers.
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134* libcrypt has been removed from the GNU C Library. The configure
135 options "--enable-crypt" and "--enable-nss-crypt" are no longer
136 available. <crypt.h>, libcrypt.a, and libcrypt.so.1 will not be
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137 installed. For now <unistd.h> continues to declare the crypt
138 function by default, to avoid introducing vulnerabilities into
139 existing applications due to a missing prototype. This declaration
140 is deprecated and may be removed in a future glibc release.
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141
142 The replacement for libcrypt is libxcrypt, maintained separately from
143 GNU libc, but available under compatible licensing terms, and providing
144 binary backward compatibility with the former libcrypt. It is currently
145 distributed from <https://github.com/besser82/libxcrypt/>.
146
147 As a consequence of this removal, GNU libc no longer makes any use of
148 the NSS cryptography library (Network Security Services; not to be
149 confused with Name Service Switch). Distributors of binary packages
150 of GNU libc are advised to check whether their build processes can be
151 simplified.
152
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153* The dynamic linker calls the malloc and free functions in more cases
154 during TLS access if a shared object with dynamic TLS is loaded and
155 unloaded. This can result in an infinite recursion if a malloc
156 replacement library or its dependencies use dynamic TLS instead of
157 initial-exec TLS.
158
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159* The ia64*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
160
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161Changes to build and runtime requirements:
162
cb7954c4 163* Building on LoongArch requires at a minimum binutils 2.41 for vector
164 instructions.
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165
166Security related changes:
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168The following CVEs were fixed in this release, details of which can be
169found in the advisories directory of the release tarball:
170
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171 GLIBC-SA-2023-0002:
172 getaddrinfo: Stack read overflow in no-aaaa mode (CVE-2023-4527)
173
174 GLIBC-SA-2023-0003:
175 getaddrinfo: Potential use-after-free (CVE-2023-4806)
176
177 GLIBC-SA-2023-0004:
178 tunables: local privilege escalation through buffer overflow
179 (CVE-2023-4911)
180
181 GLIBC-SA-2024-0001:
182 syslog: Heap buffer overflow in __vsyslog_internal (CVE-2023-6246)
183
184 GLIBC-SA-2024-0002:
185 syslog: Heap buffer overflow in __vsyslog_internal (CVE-2023-6779)
186
187 GLIBC-SA-2024-0003:
188 syslog: Integer overflow in __vsyslog_internal (CVE-2023-6780)
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190 GLIBC-SA-2024-0004:
191 ISO-2022-CN-EXT: fix out-of-bound writes when writing escape
192 sequence (CVE-2024-2961)
193
194 GLIBC-SA-2024-0005:
195 nscd: Stack-based buffer overflow in netgroup cache (CVE-2024-33599)
196
197 GLIBC-SA-2024-0006:
198 nscd: Null pointer crashes after notfound response
199 (CVE-2024-33600)
200
201 GLIBC-SA-2024-0007:
202 nscd: netgroup cache may terminate daemon on memory allocation
203 failure (CVE-2024-33601)
204
205 GLIBC-SA-2024-0008:
206 nscd: netgroup cache assumes NSS callback uses in-buffer strings
207 (CVE-2024-33602)
208
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209The following bugs are resolved with this release:
210
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211 [14522] localedata: fy_DE: LC_IDENTIFICATION data looks weird
212 [19305] libc: qsort() should return early if (nmemb <= 1)
213 [19479] localedata: gbm_IN: new Garhwali Locale
214 [19924] dynamic-link: TLS performance degradation after dlopen
215 [19956] localedata: ssy_ER: rename from aa_ER@saaho
216 [21719] libc: stdlib/msort : optimizing merge sort
217 [22526] localedata: th_TH LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
218 [23012] localedata: el_GR: Greece now uses the 24h format for time
219 [23172] localedata: miq_NI: Provide actually abbreviated month names
220 [24006] localedata: Cyclic dependencies via copy in locales
221 [24013] localedata: am_pm definitions for es_ES
222 [24386] localedata: crh_RU: new locale
223 [24877] localedata: [Redundant Data] Remove redundant data between
224 en_NZ and en_AU
225 [25868] localedata: Incorrect trailing spaces in weekday names for
226 nn_NO
227 [26752] localedata: Please add the new locale zgh_MA
228 [27069] dynamic-link: Need a way to tell if a tunable is set by user
229 [27163] localedata: Error on test glk_IR with localedef
230 [27312] localedata: su_ID: new Sundanese locale
231 [27547] manual: "Summary of malloc-Related Functions" shows wrong
232 argument order for `aligned_alloc` and `memalign`
233 [27574] libc: glibc should probably not define __WORDSIZE=64 for
234 __sparcv9
235 [27601] localedata: License information update in
236 localedata/locales/ast_ES
237 [28558] localedata: it_IT LC_MONETARY outdated p_cs_precedes and
238 n_cs_precedes
239 [28787] localedata: Add information for Occitan
240 [29039] dynamic-link: Corrupt DTV after reuse of a TLS module ID
241 following dlclose with unused TLS
242 [29486] localedata: New Zealand locales (en_NZ & mi_NZ) first day of
243 week should be Monday
244 [29504] localedata: Incorrect/misleading Time Format For ms_MY (AM/PM)
245 [29506] localedata: UTF-8 HANGUL SYLLABLE bugs
246 [30349] libc: Support returning a pidfd from posix_spawn()
247 [30412] localedata: d_t_fmt in id_ID uses %r placeholder but am_pm and
248 t_fmt_ampm are undefined
249 [30605] localedata: New locale for Komi language
250 [30649] localedata: [PATCH] Add transliteration of common emojis to
251 smileys
252 [30694] locale: The iconv program no longer tells the user which given
253 encoding name was wrong
254 [30709] nscd: nscd fails to build with cleanup handler if built with
255 -fexceptions
256 [30737] libc: fdopendir() is not robust - returns bogus DIR* instead
257 of flagging an error
258 [30740] build: [m68k] undefined reference to
259 `_wordcopy_fwd_dest_aligned'
260 [30745] libc: Slight bug in cache info codes for x86
261 [30750] network: Unaligned accesses in resolver
262 [30773] math: [m68k] busybox awk is broken (lshift.S related)
263 [30789] libc: [2.38 Regression] sem_open will fail on multithreaded
264 scenarios when semaphore file doesn't exist (O_CREAT)
265 [30800] nscd: Improper assert in prune_cache triggers if clock jumps
266 backwards
267 [30804] libc: F_GETLK, F_SETLK, and F_SETLKW value change for
268 powerpc64 with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
269 [30842] network: Stack read overflow in getaddrinfo in no-aaaa mode
270 (CVE-2023-4527)
271 [30843] network: potential use-after-free in getcanonname
272 (CVE-2023-4806)
273 [30854] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 15.1.0
274 [30884] network: Memory leak in getaddrinfo after fix for bug 30843
275 (CVE-2023-5156)
276 [30932] libc: Fortify Source has false-positives when too many files
277 are open
278 [30945] malloc: Core affinity setting incurs lock contentions between
279 threads
280 [30960] math: signed integer overflow in
281 glibc/sysdeps/s390/fpu/feenablxcpt.c
282 [30964] locale: Number grouping check mishandles multibyte thousands
283 separator
284 [30981] dynamic-link: dlclose does not properly implement force-first
285 handling
286 [30988] math: fesetexcept raises floating-point exception traps on
287 ppc, ppc64, ppc64le
288 [30989] math: fesetexcept raises floating-point exception traps on
289 i386
290 [30990] libc: fesetexceptflag raises floating-point exception traps on
291 i386, x86_64
292 [30998] math: fesetexceptflag clears too many floating-point exception
293 flags on alpha
294 [31019] manual: The documentation of feenableexcept is incomplete
295 [31022] math: feupdateenv (FE_DFL_ENV) crashes on riscv
296 [31035] libc: Library search path terminates on relative non-directory
297 name
298 [31042] libc: [s390x] .init and .fini padding
299 [31068] libc: sysdeps: sparc: invalid data access in memset due to
300 regression
301 [31078] manual: Code example in "Noncanonical Mode Example" has unused
302 'char *name;'
303 [31086] localedata: Errors in Tibetan, Dzongkha data
304 [31113] string: Wrong unwind information for rawmemchr on aarch64
305 [31151] libc: [RISC-V] missing support for profile/audit PLT setup
306 [31163] nss: getaddrinfo returns EAI_NONAME in oom situation
307 [31183] stdio: Wide stream buffer size reduced MB_LEN_MAX bytes after
308 bug 17522 fix
309 [31184] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-tlsgap
310 [31185] dynamic-link: Incorrect thread point access in
311 _dl_tlsdesc_undefweak and _dl_tlsdesc_dynamic
312 [31187] dynamic-link: Some CET tests fail with GCC 14
313 [31204] localedata: Fix decimal point and thousands separator for
314 uz_UZ
315 [31205] localedata: Inconsistent (mon_)grouping formats
316 [31218] dynamic-link: PLT rewrite overflows large displacement on x32
317 [31221] localedata: Add localedata for ISO code "tok" (Toki Pona)
318 [31230] dynamic-link: PLT rewrite failed without SELinux
319 [31239] localedata: anp_IN locale: abbreviated month names are the
320 same as the full month names
321 [31244] nptl: pthread_cancel hangs on sparc32
322 [31257] localedata: Sync with CLDR: “Turkey” -> “Türkiye”
323 [31266] string: sparc: string/tst-memmove-overflow fails on 32-bit
324 sparcv9
325 [31276] libc: Wrong condition for heap allocation in qsort_r
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327Version 2.38
328
329Major new features:
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331* When C2X features are enabled and the base argument is 0 or 2, the
332 following functions support binary integers prefixed by 0b or 0B as
333 input: strtol, strtoll, strtoul, strtoull, strtol_l, strtoll_l,
334 strtoul_l, strtoull_l, strtoimax, strtoumax, strtoq, strtouq, wcstol,
335 wcstoll, wcstoul, wcstoull, wcstol_l, wcstoll_l, wcstoul_l,
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336 wcstoull_l, wcstoimax, wcstoumax, wcstoq, wcstouq. Similarly, the
337 following functions support binary integers prefixed by 0b or 0B as
338 input to the %i format: fscanf, scanf, sscanf, vscanf, vsscanf,
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339 vfscanf, fwscanf, wscanf, swscanf, vfwscanf, vwscanf, vswscanf; those
340 functions also support the %b format for binary integers, with or
341 without such a prefix and independent of standards mode.
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343* PRIb*, PRIB* and SCNb* macros from C2X have been added to
344 <inttypes.h>.
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346* printf-family functions now support the wN format length modifiers for
347 arguments of type intN_t, int_leastN_t, uintN_t or uint_leastN_t (for
348 example, %w32d to print int32_t or int_least32_t in decimal, or %w32x
349 to print uint32_t or uint_least32_t in hexadecimal) and the wfN format
350 length modifiers for arguments of type int_fastN_t or uint_fastN_t, as
351 specified in draft ISO C2X.
352
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353* A new tunable, glibc.pthread.stack_hugetlb, can be used to disable
354 Transparent Huge Pages (THP) in stack allocation at pthread_create.
355
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356* Support for x86_64 running on Hurd has been added. This port requires
357 as least binutils 2.40 and GCC 13:
358
359 - x86_64-gnu
360
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361* Vector math library libmvec support has been added to AArch64. It
362 requires GCC version >= 10.1.0. It can be disabled via
363 "--disable-mathvec", however that is not a supported configuration as
364 it changes the ABI. The symbol names follow the AArch64 vector ABI,
365 they are declared in math.h and have to be called manually at this point.
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367* The strlcpy and strlcat functions have been added. They are derived
368 from OpenBSD, and are expected to be added to a future POSIX version.
369
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370* A new configure option, "--enable-fortify-source", can be used to build the
371 GNU C Library with _FORTIFY_SOURCE. The level of fortification can either be
372 provided, or is set to the highest value supported by the compiler. If not
373 explicitly enabled, then fortify source is forcibly disabled so to keep
374 original behavior unchanged.
375
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376Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
377
d5e321d1 378* libcrypt is no longer built by default; one may use the "--enable-crypt"
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379 option to build libcrypt. libcrypt is likely to be removed from the
380 GNU C Library in a future release, so it is recommended that
381 applications port away from it to an alternative such as libxcrypt.
382
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383* In the Linux kernel for the hppa/parisc architecture some of the
384 MADV_XXX constants were changed to have the same values as the other
385 architectures. New programs compiled with this glibc version and which
386 use the madvise call will require at least Linux kernel version 6.2,
387 alternatively stable kernels from versions 6.1.6, 5.15.87, 5.10.163,
388 5.4.228, 4.19.270 or 4.14.303.
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36f2487f 391 per-thread cache can still be disabled per-application using tunables
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392 (glibc.malloc.tcache_count set to zero).
393
653433cd 394* The configure option "--enable-tunables" has been removed. The tunable
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395 feature is now always enabled.
396
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397Changes to build and runtime requirements:
398
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399* Building libmvec on AArch64 requires at a minimum GCC 10.1.0 for SVE
400 ACLE.
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402Security related changes:
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404 CVE-2023-25139: When the printf family of functions is called with a
405 format specifier that uses an <apostrophe> (enable grouping) and a
406 minimum width specifier, the resulting output could be larger than
407 reasonably expected by a caller that computed a tight bound on the
408 buffer size. The resulting larger than expected output could result
409 in a buffer overflow in the printf family of functions.
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411The following bugs are resolved with this release:
412
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413 [178] string: Please add strlcpy and strlcat (attached)
414 [14697] nptl: Behavior of exit is nonconformant with respect to
415 threads and stdio
416 [15142] stdio: Missing locking in _IO_cleanup
417 [18096] glob: null deref in wordexp/parse_dollars/parse_arith
418 [18906] stdio: fopen: ccs value may affect open mode
419 [24466] stdio: Feature request: provide special printf formats for
420 intXX_t
421 [25457] nss: hosts lookup fails for ipv4mapped ipv6 addresses
422 [28519] libc: system and popen should pass "--" between /bin/sh and
423 argument
424 [29016] stdio: popen() sets errno to ENOMEM when shell does not exist
425 [29591] string: wcsnlen length can overflow in page cross case.
426 [30053] time: strftime %s returns -1 after 2038 on 32 bits systems
427 [30068] stdio: incorrect printf output for integers with thousands
428 separator and width field (CVE-2023-25139)
429 [30111] time: support_descriptors_list fails after 2038 on 32 bits
430 systems
431 [30125] dynamic-link: [regression, bisected] glibc-2.37 creates new
432 symlink for libraries without soname
433 [30130] math: [s390] The _FPU_SETCW macro yields compile error with
434 Clang
435 [30156] time: Potential ntp_gettime abi break
436 [30235] libc: Missing fallback in getlogin if loginuid is unset
437 [30258] dynamic-link: sprof cannot read and display shared object
438 profiling data correctly
439 [30263] libc: Add test coverage for abs(), labs(), and llabs().
440 [30305] math: Incorrect asm constraint in feraiseexcept on x86-64
441 [30402] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-glibcelf
442 [30425] dynamic-link: Symbol lookup during dlclose may fail
443 unnecessarily
444 [30435] dynamic-link: Root dir wrongly marked as nonexist in open_path
445 [30477] libc: [RISCV]: time64 does not work on riscv32
446 [30515] dynamic-link: _dl_find_object incorrectly returns 1 during
447 early startup
448 [30527] network: resolv_conf lock not unlocked on allocation failure
449 [30550] math: powerpc64le: GCC-specific code for isinf() is being used
450 on clang
451 [30555] string: strerror can incorrectly return NULL
452 [30579] malloc: trim_threshold in realloc lead to high memory usage
453 [30662] nscd: Group and password cache use errno in place of errval
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455Version 2.37
456
457Major new features:
458
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459* The getent tool now supports the --no-addrconfig option. The output of
460 getent with --no-addrconfig may contain addresses of families not
461 configured on the current host i.e. as-if you had not passed
462 AI_ADDRCONFIG to getaddrinfo calls.
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464Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
465
90d58fe8 466* The dynamic linker no longer loads shared objects from the "tls"
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467 subdirectories on the library search path or the subdirectory that
468 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, or employs the legacy AT_HWCAP
469 search mechanism, which was deprecated in version 2.33.
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471Security related changes:
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473 CVE-2022-39046: When the syslog function is passed a crafted input
474 string larger than 1024 bytes, it reads uninitialized memory from the
475 heap and prints it to the target log file, potentially revealing a
476 portion of the contents of the heap.
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478The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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480 [12154] network: Cannot resolve hosts which have wildcard aliases
481 [12165] libc: readdir: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
482 [19444] build: build failures with -O1 due to -Wmaybe-uninitialized
483 [24774] nptl: pthread_rwlock_timedwrlock stalls on ARM
484 [24816] nss: nss/tst-nss-files-hosts-long fails when no interface has
485 AF_INET6 address (ie docker)
486 [27087] stdio: PowerPC: Redefinition error with Clang from IEEE
487 redirection headers
488 [28846] network: CMSG_NXTHDR may trigger -Wstrict-overflow warning
489 [28937] dynamic-link: New DSO dependency sorter does not put new map
490 first if in a cycle
491 [29249] libc: csu/libc-tls.c:202: undefined reference to
492 `_startup_fatal_not_constant'
493 [29305] network: Inefficient buffer space usage in nss_dns for
494 gethostbyname and other functions
495 [29375] libc: don't hide MAP_ANONYMOUS behind _GNU_SOURCE
496 [29402] nscd: nscd: No such file or directory
497 [29415] nscd: getaddrinfo with AI_ADDRCONFIG returns addresses with
498 wrong family
499 [29427] dynamic-link: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-printf.c:
500 200: _dl_debug_vdprintf: Assertion `! "invalid format specifier"'
501 failed!
502 [29463] math: math/test-float128-y1 fails on x86_64
503 [29485] build: Make hangs when the test misc/tst-pidfile returns
504 FAIL_UNSUPPORTED
505 [29490] dynamic-link: [bisected] new __brk_call causes dynamic loader
506 segfault on alpha
507 [29499] build: Check failed on misc/tst-glibcsyscalls while building
508 for RISCV64 on a unmatched hardware
509 [29501] build: Check failed on stdlib/tst-strfrom while building for
510 RISCV64 on a unmatched hardware
511 [29502] libc: alpha sys/acct.h out of date
512 [29514] build: Need to use -fPIE not -fpie
513 [29528] dynamic-link: __libc_early_init not called after dlmopen that
514 reuses namespace
515 [29536] libc: syslog fail to create large messages (CVE-2022-39046)
516 [29537] libc: [2.34 regression]: Alignment issue on m68k when using
517 futexes on qemu-user
518 [29539] libc: LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS changed how vDSO library are
519 printed
520 [29544] libc: Regression in syslog(3) calls breaks RFC due to extra
521 whitespace
522 [29564] build: Incorrect way to change MAKEFLAGS in Makerules
523 [29576] build: librtld.os: in function `_dl_start_profile':
524 (.text+0x9444): undefined reference to `strcpy'
525 [29578] libc: Definition of SUN_LEN() is wrong
526 [29583] build: iconv failures on 32bit platform due to missing large
527 file support
528 [29600] dynamic-link: dlmopen hangs after loading certain libraries
529 [29604] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 15.0.0
530 [29605] nscd: Regression in NSCD backend of getaddrinfo
531 [29607] nscd: nscd repeatably crashes calling __strlen_avx2 when hosts
532 cache is enabled
533 [29611] string: Optimized AVX2 string functions unconditionally use
534 BMI2 instructions
535 [29624] malloc: errno is not cleared when entering main
536 [29638] libc: stdlib: arc4random fallback is never used
537 [29657] libc: Incorrect struct stat for 64-bit time on linux/generic
538 platforms
539 [29698] build: Configuring for AArch32 on ARMv8+ disables
540 optimizations
541 [29727] locale: __strtol_internal out-of-bounds read when parsing
542 thousands grouping
543 [29730] libc: broken y2038 support in fstatat on MIPS N64
544 [29746] libc: ppoll() does not switch to __ppoll64 when
545 -D_TIME_BITS=64 and -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 is given on 32bit
546 [29771] libc: Restore IPC_64 support in sysvipc *ctl functions
547 [29780] build: possible parallel make issue in glibc-2.36 (siglist-
548 aux.S: No such file or directory)
549 [29864] libc: __libc_start_main() should obtain program headers
550 address (_dl_phdr) from the auxv, not the ELF header.
551 [29951] time: daylight variable not set correctly if last DST change
552 coincides with offset change
553 [30039] stdio: __vsprintf_internal does not handle unspecified buffer
554 length in fortify mode
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558Major new features:
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560* Support for DT_RELR relative relocation format has been added to
561 glibc. This is a new ELF dynamic tag that improves the size of
562 relative relocations in shared object files and position independent
563 executables (PIE). DT_RELR generation requires linker support for
564 -z pack-relative-relocs option, which is supported for some targets
565 in recent binutils versions. Lazy binding doesn't apply to DT_RELR.
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568 have been added. The pidfd functionality provides access to a process
7f0d9e61 569 while avoiding the issue of PID reuse on traditional Unix systems.
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572 same functionality as madvise but alters the target process identified
573 by the pidfd.
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576 caller to release the memory of a dying process. The release of the
577 memory is carried out in the context of the caller, using the caller's
578 CPU affinity, and priority with CPU usage accounted to the caller.
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581 administrators can use it to suppress AAAA queries made by the stub
582 resolver, including AAAA lookups triggered by NSS-based interfaces
583 such as getaddrinfo. Only DNS lookups are affected: IPv6 data in
584 /etc/hosts is still used, getaddrinfo with AI_PASSIVE will still
585 produce IPv6 addresses, and configured IPv6 name servers are still
586 used. To produce correct Name Error (NXDOMAIN) results, AAAA queries
587 are translated to A queries. The new resolver option is intended
588 primarily for diagnostic purposes, to rule out that AAAA DNS queries
589 have adverse impact. It is incompatible with EDNS0 usage and DNSSEC
590 validation by applications.
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593 and mount_setattr have been added. They are part of the new Linux kernel
594 mount APIs that allow applications to more flexibly configure and operate
595 on filesystem mounts. The new mount APIs are specifically designed to work
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599 Previously, input bytes not within the ASCII range resulted in
600 unpredictable output.
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602* Support for the mbrtoc8 and c8rtomb multibyte/UTF-8 character conversion
603 functions has been added per the ISO C2X N2653 and C++20 P0482R6 proposals.
604 Support for the char8_t typedef has been added per the ISO C2X N2653
605 proposal. The functions are declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the
606 _GNU_SOURCE macro or C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro is defined.
607 The char8_t typedef is declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the
608 _GNU_SOURCE macro is defined and the C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro
609 is not defined (if __cpp_char8_t is defined, then char8_t is a builtin type).
610
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613 quality randomness from the kernel.
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3a380458 615* Support for LoongArch running on Linux has been added. This port requires
616 as least binutils 2.38, GCC 12, and Linux 5.19. Currently only hard-float
617 ABI is supported:
618
619 - loongarch64-linux-gnu
620
621 The LoongArch ABI is 64-bit little-endian.
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625* Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes
626 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
627 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
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630 LD_ASSUME_KERNEL environment variable. The minimum kernel used to built
631 glibc is still provided through NT_GNU_ABI_TAG ELF note and also printed
632 when libc.so is issued directly.
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638 [14932] dynamic-link: dlsym(handle, "foo") and dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "foo")
639 return different result with versioned "foo"
640 [16355] libc: syslog.h's SYSLOG_NAMES namespace violation and utter
641 mess
642 [23293] dynamic-link: aarch64: getauxval is broken when run as ld.so
643 ./exe and ld.so adjusts argv on the stack
644 [24595] nptl: [2.28 Regression]: Deadlock in atfork handler which
645 calls dlclose
646 [25744] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS returns 2 instead of 1 when
647 consuming the second byte of certain double byte characters
648 [25812] stdio: Libio vtable protection is sometimes only partially
649 enforced
650 [27054] libc: pthread_atfork handlers that call pthread_atfork
651 deadlock
652 [27924] dynamic-link: ld.so: Support DT_RELR relative relocation
653 format
654 [28128] build: declare_symbol_alias doesn't work for assembly codes
655 [28566] network: getnameinfo with NI_NOFQDN is not thread safe
656 [28752] nss: Segfault in getpwuid when stat fails
657 [28815] libc: realpath should not copy to resolved buffer on error
658 [28828] stdio: fputwc crashes
659 [28838] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-p_align3
660 [28845] locale: ld-monetary.c should be updated to match ISO C and
661 other standards.
662 [28850] libc: linux: __get_nprocs_sched reads uninitialized memory
663 from the stack
664 [28852] libc: getaddrinfo leaks memory with AI_ALL
665 [28853] libc: tst-spawn6 changes current foreground process group
666 (breaks test isolation)
667 [28857] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-audit24a
668 [28860] build: --enable-kernel=5.1.0 build fails because of missing
669 __convert_scm_timestamps
670 [28865] libc: linux: _SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF and _SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN are
671 inaccurate without /sys and /proc
672 [28868] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader DFS algorithm segfaults on
673 missing libraries
7f0d9e61 674 [28880] libc: Program crashes if date beyond 2038
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676 !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS && !__ASSUME_PSELECT fails on Microblaze
677 [28896] string: strncmp-avx2-rtm and wcsncmp-avx2-rtm fallback on non-
678 rtm variants when avoiding overflow
679 [28922] build: The .d dependency files aren't always generated
680 [28931] libc: hosts lookup broken for SUCCESS=CONTINUE and
681 SUCCESS=MERGE
682 [28936] build: nm: No such file
683 [28950] localedata: Add locale for ISO code "tok" (Toki Pona)
684 [28953] nss: NSS lookup result can be incorrect if function lookup
685 clobbers errno
686 [28970] math: benchtest: libmvec benchmark doesn't build with make
687 bench.
688 [28991] libc: sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF) should read
689 /sys/devices/system/cpu/possible
690 [28993] libc: closefrom() iterates until max int if no access to
691 /proc/self/fd/
692 [28996] libc: realpath fails to copy partial result to resolved buffer
693 on ENOENT and EACCES
694 [29027] math: [ia64] fabs fails with sNAN input
695 [29029] nptl: poll() spuriously returns EINTR during thread
696 cancellation and with cancellation disabled
697 [29030] string: GLIBC 2.35 regression - Fortify crash on certain valid
698 uses of mbsrtowcs (*** buffer overflow detected ***: terminated)
699 [29062] dynamic-link: Memory leak in _dl_find_object_update if object
700 is promoted to global scope
701 [29069] libc: fstatat64_time64_statx wrapper broken on MIPS N32 with
702 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 and -D_TIME_BITS=64
703 [29071] dynamic-link: m68k: Removal of ELF_DURING_STARTUP optimization
704 broke ld.so
705 [29097] time: fchmodat does not handle 64 bit time_t for
706 AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW
707 [29109] libc: posix_spawn() always returns 1 (EPERM) on clone()
708 failure
709 [29141] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 fail for gcc 12/glibc 2.35
710 [29162] string: [PATCH] string.h syntactic error:
711 include/bits/string_fortified.h:110: error: expected ',' or ';'
712 before '__fortified_attr_access'
713 [29165] libc: [Regression] broken argv adjustment
714 [29187] dynamic-link: [regression] broken argv adjustment for nios2
715 [29193] math: sincos produces a different output than sin/cos
716 [29197] string: __strncpy_power9() uses uninitialised register vs18
717 value for filling after \0
718 [29203] libc: daemon is not y2038 aware
719 [29204] libc: getusershell is not 2038 aware
720 [29207] libc: posix_fallocate fallback implementation is not y2038
721 aware
722 [29208] libc: fpathconf(_PC_ASYNC_IO) is not y2038 aware
723 [29209] libc: isfdtype is not y2038 aware
724 [29210] network: ruserpass is not y2038 aware
725 [29211] libc: __open_catalog is not y2038 aware
726 [29213] libc: gconv_parseconfdir is not y2038 aware
727 [29214] nptl: pthread_setcanceltype fails to set type
728 [29225] network: Mistyped define statement in socket/sys/socket.h in
729 line 184
730 [29274] nptl: __read_chk is not a cancellation point
731 [29279] libc: undefined reference to `mbstowcs_chk' after
732 464d189b9622932a75302290625de84931656ec0
733 [29304] libc: mq_timedreceive does not handle 64 bit syscall return
734 correct for !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS
735 [29403] libc: st_atim, st_mtim, st_ctim stat struct members are
736 missing on microblaze with largefile
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739
740Major new features:
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742* Unicode 14.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
743 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 14.0.0, using
744 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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747 r_next, support multiple namespaces.
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749* Support for the C.UTF-8 locale has been added to glibc. The locale
750 supports full code-point sorting for all valid Unicode code points. A
751 limitation in the framework for fnmatch, regexec, and regcomp requires
752 a compromise to save space and only ASCII-based range expressions are
753 supported for now (see bug 28255). The full size of the locale is
754 only ~400KiB, with 346KiB coming from LC_CTYPE information for
755 Unicode. This locale harmonizes downstream C.UTF-8 already shipping
756 in various downstream distributions. The locale is not built into
757 glibc, and must be installed.
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759* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type, and
760 corresponding <tgmath.h> macros, are added from TS 18661-1:2014, TS
761 18661-3:2015 and draft ISO C2X:
762
763 - fsqrt, fsqrtl, dsqrtl and corresponding fMsqrtfN, fMsqrtfNx,
764 fMxsqrtfN and fMxsqrtfNx functions.
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766 - ffma, ffmal, dfmal and corresponding fMfmafN, fMfmafNx, fMxfmafN and
767 fMxfmafNx functions.
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770 corresponding to new operations in IEEE 754-2019, and corresponding
771 <tgmath.h> macros, are added from draft ISO C2X: fmaximum,
772 fmaximum_num, fmaximum_mag, fmaximum_mag_num, fminimum, fminimum_num,
773 fminimum_mag, fminimum_mag_num and corresponding functions for float,
774 long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx.
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776* <math.h> macros for single-precision float constants are added as a
777 GNU extension: M_Ef, M_LOG2Ef, M_LOG10Ef, M_LN2f, M_LN10f, M_PIf,
778 M_PI_2f, M_PI_4f, M_1_PIf, M_2_PIf, M_2_SQRTPIf, M_SQRT2f and
779 M_SQRT1_2f.
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781* The __STDC_IEC_60559_BFP__ and __STDC_IEC_60559_COMPLEX__ macros are
782 predefined as specified in TS 18661-1:2014.
783
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784* The exp10 functions in <math.h> now have a corresponding type-generic
785 macro in <tgmath.h>.
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787* The ISO C2X macro _PRINTF_NAN_LEN_MAX has been added to <stdio.h>.
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789* printf-family functions now support the %b format for output of
790 integers in binary, as specified in draft ISO C2X, and the %B variant
791 of that format recommended by draft ISO C2X.
792
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794 topological sorting by depth-first search (DFS), solving performance issues
795 of the existing sorting algorithm when encountering particular circular
796 object dependency cases.
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799 the two DSO sorting algorithms. The default setting of '2' uses the
800 new DFS-based algorithm. The setting '1' switches to the old
801 algorithm used in glibc 2.33 and earlier.
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804 to be used by compilers for optimizing usage of 'memcmp' when its
805 return value is only used for its boolean status.
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807* Support for automatically registering threads with the Linux rseq
808 system call has been added. This system call is implemented starting
809 from Linux 4.18. The Restartable Sequences ABI accelerates user-space
810 operations on per-cpu data. It allows user-space to perform updates
811 on per-cpu data without requiring heavy-weight atomic operations.
812 Automatically registering threads allows all libraries, including
813 libc, to make immediate use of the rseq support by using the
814 documented ABI, via the __rseq_flags, __rseq_offset, and __rseq_size
815 variables. The GNU C Library manual has details on integration of
816 Restartable Sequences.
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818* A symbolic link to the dynamic linker is now installed under
819 /usr/bin/ld.so (or more precisely, '${bindir}/ld.so').
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822 executables (PIE) by default on toolchains and architectures that support it.
823 Further, if the toolchain and architecture supports it, even static programs
824 are built as PIE and the resultant glibc can be used to build static PIE
825 executables. A new option --disable-default-pie has been added to disable
826 this behavior and get a non-PIE build. This option replaces
827 --enable-static-pie, which no longer has any effect on the build
828 configuration.
829
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832 or to use huge pages directly with mmap calls with the MAP_HUGETLB
833 flags). The former can improve performance when Transparent Huge Pages
834 is set to 'madvise' mode while the latter uses the system reserved
835 huge pages.
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837* The printf family of functions now handles the flagged %#m conversion
838 specifier, printing errno as an error constant (similar to strerrorname_np).
839
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840* The function _dl_find_object has been added. In-process unwinders
841 can use it to efficiently locate unwinding information for a code
842 address.
843
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845 as least binutils 2.35, GCC 11, and Linux 5.4. Currently only soft-float
846 ABI is supported:
847
848 - or1k-linux-gnu
849
850 The OpenRISC ABI is 32-bit big-endian and uses 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and
851 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
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854 specify additional compiler flags for building the early startup code
855 of the dynamic linker. On targets which have CPU compatibility
856 checks, this can help to ensure that proper diagnostics are printed if
857 the dynamic loader runs on an incompatible CPU.
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860 epoll_wait with the difference the timeout has nanoseconds resolution.
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863 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to set the controlling terminal in
864 the new process in a race free manner. This function is a GNU extension.
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867 applications compiling with glibc and gcc 12 and later. Level 3 leverages
868 the __builtin_dynamic_object_size function to deliver additional
869 fortification balanced against additional runtime cost (checking non-constant
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873 PLT tracking (by not implementing the la_pltenter or la_pltexit callbacks).
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878 has been removed since the first PT_LOAD segment is no longer executable
879 due to defaulting to -z separate-code.
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882 incompatible with GDB binaries built without the following commits:
883
884 c0154a4a21a gdb: Don't assume r_ldsomap when r_version > 1 on Linux
885 4eb629d50d4 gdbserver: Check r_version < 1 for Linux debugger interface
886
887 when audit modules or dlmopen are used.
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889* Intel MPX support (lazy PLT, ld.so profile, and LD_AUDIT) has been removed.
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892 configuration script now automatically detects static-pie support in the
893 toolchain and architecture and enables it if available.
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895* The catchsegv script and associated libSegFault.so shared object have
896 been removed. There are widely-deployed out-of-process alternatives for
897 catching coredumps and backtraces.
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900 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
901 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
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904 functionality to obtain the program mapping address can be achieved by
905 using LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS to value of 2.
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907* The LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS has been removed. The variable was mainly used to
908 support prelink PIE binaries.
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913 proper bind-now support. The loader now advertises via the la_symbind
32ffd427 914 flags that PLT trace is not possible. New audit modules require the
7f0d9e61 915 new dynamic loader supporting the latest LAV_CURRENT version. Old audit
32ffd427 916 modules are still loaded for all targets except aarch64.
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919 result location register (x8) and NEON Q register. Old audit modules are
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921 structure sizes and the latest module interface version for LAV_CURRENT.
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923Security related changes:
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926 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow when
927 using the "unix" protocol. Reported by Martin Sebor.
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929 CVE-2022-23218: Passing an overlong file name to the svcunix_create
930 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow.
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933 function could result in a memory leak and potential access of
934 uninitialized memory. Reported by Qualys.
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936 CVE-2021-3999: Passing a buffer of size exactly 1 byte to the getcwd
937 function may result in an off-by-one buffer underflow and overflow
938 when the current working directory is longer than PATH_MAX and also
939 corresponds to the / directory through an unprivileged mount
940 namespace. Reported by Qualys.
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945 [14232] nptl: tst-cancel7 and tst-cancelx7 race condition
946 [14913] libc: [mips] Clean up MIPS 64-bit register-dump.h output
947 [15310] dynamic-link: _dl_sort_fini is O(n^3) causing slow exit when
948 many dsos
949 [15333] libc: Use 64-bit stat functions in installed programs
950 [15533] dynamic-link: LD_AUDIT introduces an avoidable performance
951 degradation
952 [15971] dynamic-link: No interface for debugger access to libraries
953 loaded with dlmopen
954 [17318] locale: [RFE] Provide a C.UTF-8 locale by default
955 [17645] dynamic-link: RFE: Improve performance of dynamic loader for
956 deeply nested DSO dependencies.
957 [19193] nptl: pthread_kill, pthread_cancel return ESRCH for a thread
958 ID whose lifetime has not ended
959 [22542] network: buffer overflow in sunrpc clnt_create
960 (CVE-2022-23219)
961 [22716] malloc: [PATCH] mtrace.pl: use TRACE_PRELINKING instead of
962 TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS
963 [25947] malloc: memory leak in muntrace
964 [26045] math: fmaxf(inf, nan) does not always work
965 [26108] math: exp10() has problems with <tgmath.h>
966 [26779] build: benign use after realloc at localealias.c:329
967 [27609] dynamic-link: [2.32/2.33/2.34 Regression] In elf/dl-open.c
968 (_dl_open) we might use __LM_ID_CALLER to index GL(dl_ns)[]
969 [27945] build: build-many-glibcs.py doesn't configure GCC with
970 --enable-initfini-array
971 [27991] build: x86: sysdeps/x86/configure.ac breaks when
972 libc_cv_include_x86_isa_level is loaded from cache
973 [28036] nptl: Incorrect types for pthread_mutexattr_set/getrobust_np
974 in __REDIRECT_NTH macro
975 [28061] dynamic-link: A failing dlmopen called by an auditor crashed
976 [28062] dynamic-link: Suppress audit calls when a (new) namespace is
977 empty
978 [28126] libc: nftw aborts for paths longer than PATH_MAX
979 [28129] dynamic-link: Unnecessary check DT_DEBUG in ld.so
980 [28153] libc: [test] gmon/tst-gmon-gprof* may have a f3 line when
981 built with ld.lld
982 [28182] libc: _TIME_BITS=64 in C++ has issues with fcntl, ioctl, prctl
983 [28185] math: Inaccurate j0f function (again)
984 [28199] locale: iconvconfig prefix flag behaves differently in glibc
985 2.34
986 [28203] dynamic-link: aarch64: elf_machine_{load_address,dynamic}
987 should drop _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_[0] in favor of __ehdr_start for
988 robustness
989 [28213] librt: NULL pointer dereference in mq_notify (CVE-2021-38604)
990 [28223] libc: mips: clone does not align stack
991 [28253] dynamic-link: Missing colon in LD_SHOW_AUXV output after
992 AT_MINSIGSTKSZ
993 [28256] malloc: Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised
994 value(s) in __GI___tunables_init
995 [28260] build: io/tst-closefrom, misc/tst-close_range, posix/tst-
996 spawn5 fail if stray fds are open
997 [28310] libc: Do not use affinity mask for sysconf
998 (_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF)
999 [28338] time: undefined behavior in __tzfile_compute with oddball TZif
1000 file
1001 [28340] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes while loading a DSO with a read-
1002 only dynamic section
1003 [28349] libc: Segfault for ping -R on qemux86 caused by recvmsg()
1004 [28350] libc: ping receives SIGABRT on lib32-qemux86-64 caused by
1005 recvmsg()
1006 [28353] network: Race condition on __opensock
1007 [28357] dynamic-link: deadlock between pthread_create and ctors
1008 [28358] math: f64xdivf128 and f64xmulf128 spurious underflows
1009 [28361] nptl: Fix for bug 12889 causes setxid deadlock
1010 [28368] build: -Waddress instances in stdio-common/vfprintf-internal.c
1011 [28390] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 14.0.0
1012 [28397] math: tgmath.h should not define fmaxmag, fminmag macros for
1013 C2X
1014 [28400] libc: [2.35 Regression] string/test-strncasecmp: cannot set
1015 locale "en_US.UTF-8"
1016 [28407] nptl: pthread_kill assumes that kill (getpid ()) is equivalent
1017 to tgkill (getpid (), gettid())
1018 [28455] dynamic-link: -Wl,--enable-new-dtags doesn't work
1019 [28457] dynamic-link: Missing reldepmod4.so dependency for
1020 globalmod1.so
1021 [28469] time: linux: struct timex is not correctly set for 32-bit
1022 systems with TIMESIZE=64
1023 [28470] regex: Buffer read overrun in regular expression searching
1024 [28475] string: Incorrect access attribute on memfrob
1025 [28524] libc: Conversion from ISO-2022-JP-3 with iconv may emit
1026 spurious NUL character on state reset
1027 [28532] libc: powerpc64[le]: CFI for assembly templated syscalls is
1028 incorrect
1029 [28550] dynamic-link: FAIL: tst-dso-
1030 ordering9_112-ecbda(GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort=1)
1031 execution test
1032 [28554] build: Undefined generate-md5
1033 [28572] libc: Misaligned accesses in test-memcpy and test-mempcpy on
1034 hppa
1035 [28607] nptl: Masked signals are delivered on thread exit
1036 [28624] libc: openjdk 8/9 assume uni processor and gets stuck due to
1037 lack of cpu counting /proc fallback with glibc 2.34
1038 [28646] string: [2.35 Regression] mock -r fedora-36-x86_64
1039 /tmp/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.312.b07-2.fc36.src.rpm& fails to build
1040 [28648] dynamic-link: Running ld.so on statically linked binaries
1041 crashes
1042 [28656] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC no longer works due to
1043 binutils changes
1044 [28676] dynamic-link: p_align on PT_LOAD segment in DSO isn't honored
1045 [28678] nptl: nptl/tst-create1 hangs sporadically
1046 [28688] dynamic-link: PT_LOAD p_align check is too strict
1047 [28700] nss: "dns [!UNAVAIL=return] files" default for hosts database
1048 is not useful
1049 [28707] time: assert in tzfile.c __tzfile_read striking with truncated
1050 timezones generated by tzcode-2021d and later
1051 [28713] math: GCC 12 miscompiles libm
1052 [28732] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-dl_find_object
1053 [28738] build: LIBC_LINKER_FEATURE doesn't work on linker -z option
1054 [28745] dynamic-link: _dl_find_object miscompilation on powerpc64le
1055 [28746] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE does not work for stpcpy
1056 [28749] libc: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: rtld.c: 1632: dl_main:
1057 Assertion `GL(dl_rtld_map).l_libname' failed!
1058 [28755] string: overflow bug in wcsncmp_avx2 and wcsncmp_evex
1059 [28757] nptl: GDB printer tests failed with new GDB
1060 [28765] math: x86_64 libmvec atan2 accuracy
1061 [28766] manual: Document libmvec accuracy
1062 [28768] network: Buffer overflow in svcunix_create with long pathnames
1063 (CVE-2022-23218)
1064 [28769] libc: Off-by-one buffer overflow/underflow in getcwd()
1065 (CVE-2021-3999)
1066 [28770] libc: Unexpected return value from realpath() for too long
1067 results (CVE-2021-3998)
1068 [28771] libc: %ebx optimization macros are incompatible with .altmacro
1069 in Systemtap probes
1070 [28780] build: --disable-default-pie doesn't work on static programs
1071 [28782] libc: x86-64 ISA level for glibc itself is always
1072 x86-64-baseline
1073 [28792] glob: possible wrong behaviour with patterns with double [
1074 with no closing ]
1075 [28837] libc: FAIL: socket/tst-socket-timestamp-compat
1076 [28847] locale: Empty mon_decimal_point in LC_MONETARY results in non-
1077 empty mon_decimal_point_wc
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1080Version 2.34
1081
1082Major new features:
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1084* In order to support smoother in-place-upgrades and to simplify
1085 the implementation of the runtime all functionality formerly
1086 implemented in the libraries libpthread, libdl, libutil, libanl has
1087 been integrated into libc. New applications do not need to link with
1088 -lpthread, -ldl, -lutil, -lanl anymore. For backwards compatibility,
1089 empty static archives libpthread.a, libdl.a, libutil.a, libanl.a are
1090 provided, so that the linker options keep working. Applications which
1091 have been linked against glibc 2.33 or earlier continue to load the
1092 corresponding shared objects (which are now empty). The integration
1093 of those libraries into libc means that additional symbols become
1094 available by default. This can cause applications that contain weak
1095 references to take unexpected code paths that would only have been
1096 used in previous glibc versions when e.g. preloading libpthread.so.0,
1097 potentially exposing application bugs.
1098
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1100 PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is no longer constant and is redefined to
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1102 sets for modern architectural features like Arm SVE.
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1104* Add _SC_MINSIGSTKSZ and _SC_SIGSTKSZ. When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE
1105 or _GNU_SOURCE are defined, MINSIGSTKSZ and SIGSTKSZ are no longer
57fb02b2 1106 constant on Linux. MINSIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf(_SC_MINSIGSTKSZ)
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1108 dynamic sized register sets for modern architectural features like
1109 Arm SVE.
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1111* The dynamic linker implements the --list-diagnostics option, printing
1112 a dump of information related to IFUNC resolver operation and
1113 glibc-hwcaps subdirectory selection.
1114
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1115* On Linux, the function execveat has been added. It operates similar to
1116 execve and it is is already used to implement fexecve without requiring
1117 /proc to be mounted. However, different than fexecve, if the syscall is not
1118 supported by the kernel an error is returned instead of trying a fallback.
1119
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1121
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1122* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_EXT__, from draft ISO
1123 C2X, is supported to enable declarations of functions defined in Annex F
1124 of C2X. Those declarations are also enabled when
1125 __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, as specified in TS 18661-1, is
1126 defined, and when _GNU_SOURCE is defined.
1127
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1129 --disable-scv configure option.
1130
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1132 is traditionally 32-bit. Although time_t still defaults to 32-bit on
1133 these configurations, this default may change in future versions.
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1134 This is enabled with the _TIME_BITS preprocessor macro set to 64 and is
1135 only supported when LFS (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) is also enabled. It is
1136 only enabled for Linux and the full support requires a minimum kernel
1137 version of 5.1.
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1139* The main gconv-modules file in glibc now contains only a small set of
1140 essential converter modules and the rest have been moved into a supplementary
1141 configuration file gconv-modules-extra.conf in the gconv-modules.d directory
1142 in the same GCONV_PATH. Similarly, external converter modules directories
1143 may have supplementary configuration files in a gconv-modules.d directory
1144 with names ending with .conf to logically classify the converter modules in
1145 that directory.
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1147* On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.pthread.stack_cache_size, can be used
1148 to configure the size of the thread stack cache.
1149
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7f0d9e61 1151 since Austin Group issue 62 dropped the async-signal-safe requirement for
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1153 function does not run any atfork function neither resets any internal state
1154 or lock (such as the malloc one), and only sets up a minimal state required
1155 to call async-signal-safe functions (such as raise or execve). This function
1156 is currently a GNU extension.
1157
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1159 closing a range of file descriptors on recent kernels (version 5.9).
1160
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1162 greater than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
1163 although it is also present in other systems.
60744950 1164
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1165* The posix_spawn_file_actions_addclosefrom_np function has been added,
1166 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to close all file descriptors greater
1167 than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
1168 although Solaris also provides a similar function.
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1170* When invoked explicitly, the dynamic linker now uses the kernel to
1171 execute programs that do not have any dynamic dependency (that is,
1172 they are statically linked). This feature is Linux-specific.
1173
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1174Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1175
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1176* The function pthread_mutex_consistent_np has been deprecated; programs
1177 should use the equivalent standard function pthread_mutex_consistent
1178 instead.
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1180* The function pthread_mutexattr_getrobust_np has been deprecated;
1181 programs should use the equivalent standard function
1182 pthread_mutexattr_getrobust instead.
1183
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1184* The function pthread_mutexattr_setrobust_np has been deprecated;
1185 programs should use the equivalent standard function
1186 pthread_mutexattr_setrobust instead.
1187
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1188* The function pthread_yield has been deprecated; programs should use
1189 the equivalent standard function sched_yield instead.
1190
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1191* The function inet_neta declared in <arpa/inet.h> has been deprecated.
1192
1193* Various rarely-used functions declared in <resolv.h> and
1194 <arpa/nameser.h> have been deprecated. Applications are encouraged to
1195 use dedicated DNS processing libraries if applicable. For <resolv.h>,
1196 this affects the functions dn_count_labels, fp_nquery, fp_query,
1197 fp_resstat, hostalias, loc_aton, loc_ntoa, p_cdname, p_cdnname,
1198 p_class, p_fqname, p_fqnname, p_option, p_query, p_rcode, p_time,
1199 p_type, putlong, putshort, res_hostalias, res_isourserver,
1200 res_nameinquery, res_queriesmatch, res_randomid, sym_ntop, sym_ntos,
1201 sym_ston. For <arpa/nameser.h>, the functions ns_datetosecs,
1202 ns_format_ttl, ns_makecanon, ns_parse_ttl, ns_samedomain, ns_samename,
1203 ns_sprintrr, ns_sprintrrf, ns_subdomain have been deprecated.
1204
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1206 in order to prepare for libresolv moving entirely into libc (see earlier
1207 entry for merging libraries into libc). The symbols __dn_comp,
1208 __dn_expand, __dn_skipname, __res_dnok, __res_hnok, __res_mailok,
1209 __res_mkquery, __res_nmkquery, __res_nquery, __res_nquerydomain,
1210 __res_nsearch, __res_nsend, __res_ownok, __res_query, __res_querydomain,
1211 __res_search, __res_send formerly in libresolv have been renamed and no
1212 longer have a __ prefix. They are now available in libc.
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1215 pthread_cancel will always send the internal SIGCANCEL on a cancellation
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1218 is enabled) or ignore the cancellation internal signal. However there are
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1220 see a spurious EINTR error when cancellation interrupts a blocking syscall.
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1222* Previously, glibc installed its various shared objects under versioned
1223 file names such as libc-2.33.so. The ABI sonames (e.g., libc.so.6)
1224 were provided as symbolic links. Starting with glibc 2.34, the shared
1225 objects are installed under their ABI sonames directly, without
1226 symbolic links. This increases compatibility with distribution
1227 package managers that delete removed files late during the package
1228 upgrade or downgrade process.
1229
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1230* The symbols mallwatch and tr_break are now deprecated and no longer used in
1231 mtrace. Similar functionality can be achieved by using conditional
1232 breakpoints within mtrace functions from within gdb.
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1235 implementation __default_morecore have been removed from the API. Existing
1236 applications will continue to link against these symbols but the interfaces
1237 no longer have any effect on malloc.
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1239* Debugging features in malloc such as the MALLOC_CHECK_ environment variable
1240 (or the glibc.malloc.check tunable), mtrace() and mcheck() have now been
1241 disabled by default in the main C library. Users looking to use these
1242 features now need to preload a new debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so to get
1243 this functionality back.
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1245* The deprecated functions malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state have been
1246 moved from the core C library into libc_malloc_debug.so. Legacy applications
1247 that still use these functions will now need to preload libc_malloc_debug.so
1248 in their environment using the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
1249
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1251 __memalign_hook and __free_hook are now removed from the API. Compatibility
1252 symbols are present to support legacy programs but new applications can no
1253 longer link to these symbols. These hooks no longer have any effect on glibc
1254 functionality. The malloc debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so currently
1255 supports hooks and can be preloaded to get this functionality back for older
1256 programs. However this is a transitional measure and may be removed in a
1257 future release of the GNU C Library. Users may port away from these hooks by
1258 writing and preloading their own malloc interposition library.
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1263 file shared memory file system to be mounted at /dev/shm. These functions
1264 no longer search among the system's mount points for a suitable
1265 replacement if /dev/shm is not available.
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1267Security related changes:
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1270 a request for netgroup lookup, may crash due to a double-free,
1271 potentially resulting in degraded service or Denial of Service on the
1272 local system. Reported by Chris Schanzle.
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1274 CVE-2021-33574: The mq_notify function has a potential use-after-free
1275 issue when using a notification type of SIGEV_THREAD and a thread
1276 attribute with a non-default affinity mask.
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1279 parameter number when processing the expansion resulting in a crash.
1280 Reported by Philippe Antoine.
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1284 [4737] libc: fork is not async-signal-safe
1285 [5781] math: Slow dbl-64 sin/cos/sincos for special values
1286 [10353] libc: Methods for deleting all file descriptors greater than
1287 given integer (closefrom)
1288 [14185] glob: fnmatch() fails when '*' wildcard is applied on the file
1289 name containing multi-byte character(s)
1290 [14469] math: Inaccurate j0f function
1291 [14470] math: Inaccurate j1f function
1292 [14471] math: Inaccurate y0f function
1293 [14472] math: Inaccurate y1f function
1294 [14744] nptl: kill -32 $pid or kill -33 $pid on a process cancels a
1295 random thread
1296 [15271] dynamic-link: dlmopen()ed shared library with LM_ID_NEWLM
1297 crashes if it fails dlsym() twice
1298 [15648] nptl: multiple definition of `__lll_lock_wait_private'
1299 [16063] nptl: Provide a pthread_once variant in libc directly
1300 [17144] libc: syslog is not thread-safe if NO_SIGPIPE is not defined
1301 [17145] libc: syslog with LOG_CONS leaks console file descriptor
1302 [17183] manual: description of ENTRY struct in <search.h> in glibc
1303 manual is incorrect
1304 [18435] nptl: pthread_once hangs when init routine throws an exception
1305 [18524] nptl: Missing calloc error checking in
1306 __cxa_thread_atexit_impl
1307 [19329] dynamic-link: dl-tls.c assert failure at concurrent
1308 pthread_create and dlopen
1309 [19366] nptl: returning from a thread should disable cancellation
1310 [19511] nptl: 8MB memory leak in pthread_create in case of failure
1311 when non-root user changes priority
1312 [20802] dynamic-link: getauxval NULL pointer dereference after static
1313 dlopen
1314 [20813] nptl: pthread_exit is inconsistent between libc and libpthread
1315 [22057] malloc: malloc_usable_size is broken with mcheck
1316 [22668] locale: LC_COLLATE: the last character of ellipsis is not
1317 ordered correctly
1318 [23323] libc: [RFE] CSU startup hardening.
1319 [23328] malloc: Remove malloc hooks and ensure related APIs return no
1320 data.
1321 [23462] dynamic-link: Static binary with dynamic string tokens ($LIB,
1322 $PLATFORM, $ORIGIN) crashes
1323 [23489] libc: "gcc -lmcheck" aborts on free when using posix_memalign
1324 [23554] nptl: pthread_getattr_np reports wrong stack size with
1325 MULTI_PAGE_ALIASING
1326 [24106] libc: Bash interpreter in ldd script is taken from host
1327 [24773] dynamic-link: dlerror in an secondary namespace does not use
1328 the right free implementation
1329 [25036] localedata: Update collation order for Swedish
1330 [25383] libc: where_is_shmfs/__shm_directory/SHM_GET_NAME may cause
1331 shm_open to pick wrong directory
1332 [25680] dynamic-link: ifuncmain9picstatic and ifuncmain9picstatic
1333 crash in IFUNC resolver due to stack canary (--enable-stack-
1334 protector=all)
1335 [26874] build: -Warray-bounds in _IO_wdefault_doallocate
1336 [26983] math: [x86_64] x86_64 tgamma has too large ULP error
1337 [27111] dynamic-link: pthread_create and tls access use link_map
1338 objects that may be concurrently freed by dlclose
1339 [27132] malloc: memusagestat is linked to system librt, leading to
1340 undefined symbols on major version upgrade
1341 [27136] dynamic-link: dtv setup at thread creation may leave an entry
1342 uninitialized
1343 [27249] libc: libSegFault.so does not output signal number properly
1344 [27304] nptl: pthread_cond_destroy does not pass private flag to futex
1345 system calls
1346 [27318] dynamic-link: glibc fails to load binaries when built with
1347 -march=sandybridge: CPU ISA level is lower than required
1348 [27343] nss: initgroups() SIGSEGVs when called on a system without
1349 nsswich.conf (in a chroot)
1350 [27346] dynamic-link: x86: PTWRITE feature check is missing
1351 [27389] network: NSS chroot hardening causes regressions in chroot
1352 deployments
1353 [27403] dynamic-link: aarch64: tlsdesc htab is not freed on dlclose
1354 [27444] libc: sysconf reports unsupported option (-1) for
1355 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_LINESIZE on X86 since v2.33
1356 [27462] nscd: double-free in nscd (CVE-2021-27645)
1357 [27468] malloc: aarch64: realloc crash with heap tagging: FAIL:
1358 malloc/tst-malloc-thread-fail
1359 [27498] dynamic-link: __dl_iterate_phdr lacks unwinding information
1360 [27511] libc: S390 memmove assumes Vector Facility when MIE Facility 3
1361 is present
1362 [27522] glob: glob, glob64 incorrectly marked as __THROW
1363 [27555] dynamic-link: Static tests fail with --enable-stack-
1364 protector=all
1365 [27559] libc: fstat(AT_FDCWD) succeeds (it shouldn't) and returns
1366 information for the current directory
1367 [27577] dynamic-link: elf/ld.so --help doesn't work
1368 [27605] libc: tunables can't control xsave/xsavec selection in
1369 dl_runtime_resolve_*
1370 [27623] libc: powerpc: Missing registers in sc[v] clobbers list
1371 [27645] libc: [linux] sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSOR...) breaks down on
1372 containers
1373 [27646] dynamic-link: Linker error for non-existing NSS symbols (e.g.
1374 _nss_files_getcanonname_r) from within a dlmopen namespace.
1375 [27648] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-select
1376 [27650] stdio: vfscanf returns too early if a match is longer than
1377 INT_MAX
1378 [27651] libc: Performance regression after updating to 2.33
1379 [27655] string: Wrong size calculation in string/test-strnlen.c
1380 [27706] libc: select fails to update timeout on error
1381 [27709] libc: arm: FAIL: debug/tst-longjmp_chk2
1382 [27721] dynamic-link: x86: ld_audit ignores bind now for TLSDESC and
1383 tries resolving them lazily
1384 [27744] nptl: Support different libpthread/ld.so load orders in
1385 libthread_db
1386 [27749] libc: Data race __run_exit_handlers
1387 [27761] libc: getconf: Segmentation fault when passing '-vq' as
1388 argument
1389 [27832] nss: makedb.c:797:7: error: 'writev' specified size 4294967295
1390 exceeds maximum object size 2147483647
1391 [27870] malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ causes realloc(valid_ptr, TOO_LARGE) to
1392 not set ENOMEM
1393 [27872] build: Obsolete configure option --enable-stackguard-
1394 randomization
1395 [27873] build: tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo fail when building on AMD cpu
1396 [27882] localedata: Use U+00AF MACRON in more EBCDIC charsets
1397 [27892] libc: powerpc: scv ABI error handling fails to check
1398 IS_ERR_VALUE
1399 [27896] nptl: mq_notify does not handle separately allocated thread
1400 attributes (CVE-2021-33574)
1401 [27901] libc: TEST_STACK_ALIGN doesn't work
1402 [27902] libc: The x86-64 clone wrapper fails to align child stack
1403 [27914] nptl: Install SIGSETXID handler with SA_ONSTACK
1404 [27939] libc: aarch64: clone does not align the stack
1405 [27968] libc: s390x: clone does not align the stack
1406 [28011] libc: Wild read in wordexp (parse_param) (CVE-2021-35942)
1407 [28024] string: s390(31bit): Wrong result of memchr (MEMCHR_Z900_G5)
1408 with n >= 0x80000000
1409 [28028] malloc: malloc: tcache shutdown sequence does not work if the
1410 thread never allocated anything
1411 [28033] libc: Need to check RTM_ALWAYS_ABORT for RTM
1412 [28064] string: x86_64:wcslen implementation list has wcsnlen
1413 [28067] libc: FAIL: posix/tst-spawn5
1414 [28068] malloc: FAIL: malloc/tst-mallocalign1-mcheck
1415 [28071] time: clock_gettime, gettimeofday, time lost vDSO acceleration
1416 on older kernels
1417 [28075] nis: Out-of-bounds static buffer read in nis_local_domain
1418 [28089] build: tst-tls20 fails when linker defaults to --as-needed
1419 [28090] build: elf/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo-static fails on certain
1420 AMD64 cpus
1421 [28091] network: ns_name_skip may return 0 for domain names without
1422 terminator
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1426
1427Major new features:
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1429* The dynamic linker accepts the --list-tunables argument which prints
1430 all the supported tunables. This option is disable if glibc is
1431 configured with tunables disabled (--enable-tunables=no).
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1434 to change argv[0] string.
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1437 from subdirectories under the glibc-hwcaps directory on the library
1438 search path if the system's capabilities meet the requirements for
1439 that subdirectory. Initially supported subdirectories include
1440 "power9" and "power10" for the powerpc64le-linux-gnu architecture,
1441 "z13", "z14", "z15" for s390x-linux-gnu, and "x86-64-v2", "x86-64-v3",
1442 "x86-64-v4" for x86_64-linux-gnu. In the x86_64-linux-gnu case, the
1443 subdirectory names correspond to the vendor-independent x86-64
1444 microarchitecture levels defined in the x86-64 psABI supplement.
1445
1446* The new --help option of the dynamic linker provides usage and
1447 information and library search path diagnostics.
1448
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1450 but with larger field widths to accurately report values that are
1451 larger than fit in an integer.
1452
96203980 1453* Add <sys/platform/x86.h> to provide query macros for x86 CPU features.
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1455* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been expanded to run on
1456 32-bit hardware. This is supported for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
1457
1458 - rv32imac ilp32
1459 - rv32imafdc ilp32
1460 - rv32imafdc ilp32d
1461
1462 The 32-bit RISC-V port requires at least Linux 5.4, GCC 7.1 and binutils
1463 2.28.
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1466 glibc may use additional checks that may have an additional performance
1467 overhead. At present these checks are available only on LLVM 9 and later.
1468 The latest GCC available at this time (10.2) does not support this level of
1469 fortification.
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1474 mallinfo2 instead.
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1476* When dlopen is used in statically linked programs, alternative library
1477 implementations from HWCAP subdirectories are no longer loaded.
1478 Instead, the default implementation is used.
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1481 removed. To support old binaries, the vtimes function continues to exist
1482 as a compatibility symbol. Applications should use the getrlimit or
1483 prlimit.
1484
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1485* Following a change in the tzdata 2018a release upstream, the zdump
1486 program is now installed in the /usr/bin subdirectory. Previously,
1487 the /usr/sbin subdirectory was used.
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1490 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ that is defined by the compiler, instead of being
1491 hardcoded to double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
1492 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
1493 libraries that use this type in their interfaces. The new definition
1494 improves consistency with compiler behavior in many scenarios.
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1497 "tls" subdirectories on the library search path, the subdirectory that
1498 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, and also stop employing
1499 the legacy AT_HWCAP search mechanism. Applications should switch to
1500 the new glibc-hwcaps mechanism instead; if they do not do that, only
1501 the baseline version (directly from the search path directory) will be
1502 loaded.
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1507 the intended access modes for pseudo-terminals. glibc no longer
7f0d9e61 1508 attempts to adjust permissions of terminal devices. The previous glibc
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1510 corresponded to what most systems used, so that grantpt did not
1511 perform any adjustments.
1512
1513* On Linux, the posix_openpt and getpt functions no longer attempt to
1514 use legacy (BSD) pseudo-terminals and assume that if /dev/ptmx exists
1515 (and pseudo-terminals are supported), a devpts file system is mounted
1516 on /dev/pts. Current systems already meet these requirements.
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1521
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1524 This assertion was triggered by certain valid inputs in which the
1525 converted output contains a combined sequence of two wide characters
1526 crossing a buffer boundary. Reported by Tavis Ormandy.
1527
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1528 CVE-2020-27618: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
1529 invoked with input containing redundant shift sequences in the IBM1364,
1530 IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, or IBM1399 character sets.
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1532 CVE-2020-29562: An assertion failure has been fixed in the iconv function
1533 when invoked with UCS4 input containing an invalid character.
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1536 invoked with EUC-KR input containing invalid multibyte input sequences.
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1541 [16124] dynamic-link: ld.so should allow to change argv[0]
1542 [17924] malloc: 'free' should not set errno
1543 [18683] libc: Linux faccessat implementation can incorrectly ignore
1544 AT_EACCESS
1545 [22899] libc: Use 64-bit readdir() in generic POSIX getcwd()
597d0267 1546 [23091] hurd: missing waitid support
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1548 "haswell" platform subdirectory
1549 [24080] dynamic-link: Definition of "haswell" platform is inconsistent
1550 with GCC
1551 [24202] libc: m68k setjmp() saves incorrect 'a5' register in --enable-
1552 stack-protector=all
1553 [24941] libc: Make grantpt usable after multi-threaded fork in more
1554 cases
1555 [24970] libc: realpath mishandles EOVERFLOW; stat not needed anyway
1556 [24973] locale: iconv encounters segmentation fault when converting
1557 0x00 0xfe in EUC-KR to UTF-8 (CVE-2019-25013)
1558 [25399] string: undefined reference to `__warn_memset_zero_len' when
1559 changing gnuc version
1560 [25859] libc: glibc parser for /sys/devices/system/cpu/online is
1561 incorrect
1562 [25938] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should store meaning of hwcap mask
1563 bits
1564 [25971] libc: s390 bits/hwcap.h out of sync with kernel
1565 [26053] libc: unlockpt fails with ENOTTY for non-ptmx descriptors
1566 [26100] libc: Race in syslog(3) with regards to tag printing.
1567 [26124] libc: Export <cpu-features.h>
1568 [26130] nscd: Inconsistent nscd cache during pruning
7f0d9e61 1569 [26203] libc: GLRO(dl_x86_cpu_features) may not be initialized
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1571 several IBM character sets (CVE-2020-27618)
1572 [26341] libc: realpath cyclically call __alloca(path_max) to consume
1573 too much stack space
1574 [26343] manual: invalid documented return type for strerrorname_np(),
1575 strerrordesc_np(), sigdescr_np(), sigabbrev_np()
1576 [26376] libc: Namespace violation in stdio.h and sys/stat.h if build
1577 with optimization.
1578 [26383] locale: bind_textdomain_codeset doesn't accept //TRANSLIT
1579 anymore
1580 [26394] time: [2.33 Regression] FAIL: nptl/tst-join14
1581 [26534] math: libm.so 2.32 SIGILL in pow() due to FMA4 instruction on
1582 non-FMA4 system
1583 [26552] dynamic-link: CPU_FEATURE_USABLE_P should be more conservative
1584 [26553] libc: mtx_init allows type set to "mtx_recursive" only
1585 [26555] string: strerrorname_np does not return the documented value
1586 [26592] libc: pointer arithmetic overflows in realpath
1587 [26600] network: Transaction ID collisions cause slow DNS lookups in
1588 getaddrinfo
1589 [26606] libc: [2.33 Regression] pselect is broken on x32
1590 [26615] libc: powerpc: libc segfaults when LD_PRELOADed with libgcc
1591 [26620] glob: fnmatch with collating symbols results in segmentation
1592 fault
1593 [26625] libc: [2.33 Regression] CET is disabled
1594 [26636] libc: 32-bit shmctl(IPC_INFO) crashes when shminfo struct is
1595 at the end of a memory mapping
1596 [26637] libc: semctl SEM_STAT_ANY fails to pass the buffer specified
1597 by the caller to the kernel
1598 [26639] libc: msgctl IPC_INFO and MSG_INFO return garbage
1599 [26647] build: [-Werror=array-parameter=] due to different
1600 declarations for __sigsetjmp
1601 [26648] libc: mkstemp is likely to fail on systems with non-stricly-
1602 monotonic clocks
1603 [26649] stdio: printf should handle non-normal x86 long double numbers
1604 gracefully (CVE-2020-29573)
1605 [26686] build: -Warray-parameter instances building with GCC 11
1606 [26687] build: -Warray-bounds instances building with GCC 11
1607 [26690] stdio: Aliasing violation in __vfscanf_internal
1608 [26691] nptl: Use a minimum guard size of 64 KiB on aarch64
1609 [26726] build: GCC warning calling new_composite_name with an array of
1610 one element
1611 [26736] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-sysvshm-linux
1612 [26737] libc: Random FAIL: rt/tst-shm
1613 [26791] libc: Missing O_CLOEXEC in sysconf.c
1614 [26798] dynamic-link: aarch64: variant PCS symbols may be incorrectly
1615 lazy bound
1616 [26801] nptl: pthread_mutex_clocklock with CLOCK_MONOTONIC can fail on
1617 PI mutexes
1618 [26818] string: aarch64: string tests may run ifunc variants that are
1619 not safe
1620 [26821] libc: Memory leak test failures on Fedora 33
1621 [26824] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-cpu-features-supports with recent trunk:
1622 FSGSBASE/LM/RDRAND check failure
1623 [26833] time: adjtime() with delta == NULL segfaults on armv7 32bit
1624 platform
1625 [26853] libc: aarch64: Missing unwind information in statically linked
1626 startup code
1627 [26923] locale: Assertion failure in iconv when converting invalid
1628 UCS4 (CVE-2020-29562)
1629 [26926] dynamic-link: aarch64: library dependencies are not bti
1630 protected
1631 [26932] libc: sh: Multiple floating point functions defined as stubs
1632 only since 2.31
1633 [26964] nptl: pthread_mutex_timedlock returning EAGAIN after futex is
1634 locked
1635 [26988] dynamic-link: aarch64: BTI mprotect address is not page
1636 aligned
1637 [27002] build: libc_freeres_fn build failure with GCC 11
1638 [27004] dynamic-link: ld.so is miscompiled by GCC 11
1639 [27008] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should have endianness markup
1640 [27042] libc: [alpha] anonymous union in struct stat confuses
1641 detection logic
1642 [27053] libc: Conformance regression in system(3) (and probably also
1643 pclose(3))
1644 [27072] dynamic-link: static pie ifunc resolvers run before hwcap is
1645 setup
1646 [27077] network: Do not reload /etc/nsswitch.conf from chroot
1647 [27083] libc: Unsafe unbounded alloca in addmntent
1648 [27104] dynamic-link: The COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_MAX handshake does not
1649 work
1650 [27130] string: "rep movsb" performance issue
1651 [27150] libc: alpha: wait4() is unavailable in static linking
1652 [27177] dynamic-link:
1653 GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.cpu.x86_ibt=on:glibc.cpu.x86_shstk=on doesn't
1654 work
1655 [27222] dynamic-link: Incorrect sysdeps/x86/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo.c
1656 [27237] malloc: deadlock in malloc/tst-malloc-stats-cancellation
1657 [27256] locale: Assertion failure in ISO-2022-JP-3 gconv module
1658 related to combining characters (CVE-2021-3326)
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1662
1663Major new features:
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1665* Unicode 13.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1666 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 13.0.0, using
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1668
1669* New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq)
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1671* Support for Synopsys ARC HS cores (ARCv2 ISA) running Linux has been
1672 added. This port requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-8.3 and Linux-5.1.
1673 Three ABIs are supported:
1674
1675 - arc-linux-gnu
1676 - arc-linux-gnuhf
1677 - arceb-linux-gnu
1678
4d3a77c7 1679 The arc* ABIs are little-endian while arceb is big-endian. All ABIs use
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1680 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
1681
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1683 DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
1684
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4d3a77c7 1686 using -mabi=ieeelongdouble to compile C code on supported GCC
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1688 this option.
1689
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1691 several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This
1692 should help GCC 10 issue better warnings.
1693
4d3a77c7 1694* On Linux, functions pthread_attr_setsigmask_np and
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1695 pthread_attr_getsigmask_np have been added. They allow applications
1696 to specify the signal mask of a thread created with pthread_create.
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1698* The GNU C Library now provides the header file <sys/single_threaded.h>
1699 which declares the variable __libc_single_threaded. Applications are
1700 encouraged to use this variable for single-thread optimizations,
1701 instead of weak references to symbols historically defined in
1702 libpthread.
1703
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1706 SIGHUP) while sigdescr_np returns a string describing the signal number
1707 (e.g "Hangup" for SIGHUP). Different than strsignal, sigdescr_np does not
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1709 NULL for an invalid signal number.
1710
1711 They should be used instead of sys_siglist or sys_sigabbrev and they
1712 are both thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
1713
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1715 strerroname_np function returns error number name (e.g. "EINVAL" for EINVAL)
1716 while strerrordesc_np returns a string describing the error number
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1718 strerrordesc_np does not attempt to translate the return description, both
1719 functions return NULL for an invalid error number.
1720
1721 They should be used instead of sys_errlist and sys_nerr, both are
1722 thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
1723
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1725 in glibc when it is built with a GCC that is configured with
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1727 flag is passed when building both GCC target libraries and glibc,
1728 in either case a custom GCC is needed). This includes branch target
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1729 identification (BTI) and pointer authentication for return addresses
1730 (PAC-RET). They require armv8.5-a and armv8.3-a architecture
1731 extensions respectively for the protection to be effective,
1732 otherwise the used instructions are nops. User code can use PAC-RET
1733 without libc support, but BTI requires a libc that is built with BTI
1734 support, otherwise runtime objects linked into user code will not be
1735 BTI compatible.
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1740 from glibc. This includes the rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and the Sun
1741 RPC header files. Backward compatibility for old programs is kept
1742 only for architectures and ABIs that have been added in or before
1743 glibc 2.31. New programs need to use TI-RPC
1744 <http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=summary> and
1745 rpcsvc-proto <https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto>.
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1748 as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules "nis"
1749 and "nisplus" are not built at all and libnsl's headers aren't
1750 installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs
1751 that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement
1752 implementations based on TI-RPC, which additionally support IPv6, are
1753 available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not
4d3a77c7 1754 affect the "compat" NSS module, which does not depend on libnsl
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1758 removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
1759 exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
1760 but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system
1761 call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5.
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1763* The sstk function is no longer available to newly linked binaries.
1764 Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function
1765 was not declared in any header file.
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1767* The legacy signal handling functions siginterrupt, sigpause, sighold,
1768 sigrelse, sigignore and sigset, and the sigmask macro have been
1769 deprecated. Applications should use the sigsuspend, sigprocmask and
1770 sigaction functions instead.
1771
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1773 already supported this format for almost 20 years.
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1776 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
1777 have been removed from <string.h>. They are exported solely as
1778 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
1779 strsignal instead.
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1782 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
4d3a77c7 1783 have been removed from <stdio.h>. They are exported solely as
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1785 strerror or strerror_r instead.
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1788 calling thread, meaning that the returned string pointer may be invalided
1789 or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same thread or
1790 if the thread is terminated. It makes strerror MT-safe.
1791
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1792* Using weak references to libpthread functions such as pthread_create
1793 or pthread_key_create to detect the singled-threaded nature of a
1794 program is an obsolescent feature. Future versions of glibc will
1795 define pthread_create within libc.so.6 itself, so such checks will
1796 always flag the program as multi-threaded. Applications should check
1797 the __libc_single_threaded variable declared in
1798 <sys/single_threaded.h> instead.
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1801 secure RPC). The contents of the /etc/publickey file will be ignored,
1802 regardless of the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of
1803 storing RPC keys only supported the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES
1804 flavor of secure RPC.)
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1807 implementation __default_morecore have been deprecated. Applications
1808 should use malloc interposition to change malloc behavior, and mmap to
1809 allocate anonymous memory. A future version of glibc may require that
1810 applications which use the malloc hooks must preload a special shared
1811 object, to enable the hooks.
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1814 future version of glibc. System administrators are encouraged to
1815 switch to other approaches for networked account databases, such as
1816 LDAP.
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1821 long double redirects.
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1823Security related changes:
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1826 invoked with the -c option and when processing invalid multi-byte input
1827 sequences. Reported by Jan Engelhardt.
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1829 CVE-2020-10029: Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack
1830 corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido
1831 Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
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1833 CVE-2020-1752: A use-after-free vulnerability in the glob function when
1834 expanding ~user has been fixed.
1835
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1836 CVE-2020-6096: A signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy and
1837 memmove functions has been fixed. Discovered by Jason Royes and Samual
1838 Dytrych of the Cisco Security Assessment and Penetration Team (See
1839 TALOS-2020-1019).
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1843 [9809] localedata: ckb_IQ: new Kurdish Sorani locale
1844 [10441] manual: Backtraces code example lacks error checking
1845 [10815] librt: [timer_create / SIGEV_THREAD] signalmask of
1846 timer_sigev_thread dangerous
1847 [14231] stdio: stdio-common tests memory requirements
1848 [14578] libc: /proc-based emulation for lchmod, fchmodat
1849 [16272] dynamic-link: dlopen()ing a DT_FILTER library crashes if
1850 filtee has constructor
1851 [19519] locale: iconv(1) with -c option hangs on illegal multi-byte
1852 sequences (CVE-2016-10228)
1853 [19737] admin: Doc page “20.5.2 Infinity and NaN” has incorrect HTML
1854 character entities for infinity & pi
1855 [20338] libc: Parsing of /etc/gshadow can return bad pointers causing
1856 segfaults in applications
1857 [20543] libc: Please move from .gnu.linkonce to comdat
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1859 ICMP6_FILTER_SETPASS with -Wsign-conversion
1860 [22525] localedata: or_IN LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1861 [23294] math: Complex _FloatN functions are redirected to the wrong
1862 function with -mlong-double-64
1863 [23296] libc: Data race in setting function descriptor during lazy
1864 binding
1865 [23668] dynamic-link: ldconfig: Default to the new format for
1866 ld.so.cache
1867 [23819] hurd: hurd: Add C11 thread support
1868 [23990] build: test-container error out on failure to exec child.
1869 [23991] build: shell-container typo in run_command_array
1870 [24638] manual: Error in example of parsing a template string
1871 [24654] manual: Wrong declaration of wcschr in libc manual
1872 [24943] dynamic-link: Support DT_AUDIT, DT_DEPAUDIT in the dynamic
1873 linker
1874 [25051] dynamic-link: aarch64, powerpc64 uses surplus static tls for
1875 dynamically loaded dsos
1876 [25098] nptl: nptl: ctype classification functions are not AS-Safe
1877 [25219] libc: improve out-of-bounds checking with GCC 10 attribute
1878 access
1879 [25262] libc: getcontext/setcontext/swapcontext unnecessarily save and
1880 restore EAX, ECX and EDX
1881 [25397] dynamic-link: Legacy bitmap doesn't cover jitted code
1882 [25414] glob: 'glob' use-after-free bug (CVE-2020-1752)
1883 [25420] network: Race condition in resolv_conf.c can result in caching
1884 stale configuration forever
1885 [25487] math: sinl() stack corruption from crafted input
1886 (CVE-2020-10029)
1887 [25506] build: configure: broken detection of STT_GNU_IFUNC when GCC
1888 defaults to PIE
1889 [25523] libc: MIPS/Linux inline syscall template is miscompiled
1890 [25620] libc: Signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy()
1891 (CVE-2020-6096)
1892 [25623] libc: test-sysvmsg, test-sysvsem, test-sysvshm fail with 2.31
1893 on 32 bit and old kernel
1894 [25635] libc: arm: Wrong sysdep order selection for soft-fp
1895 [25639] localedata: Some names of days and months wrongly spelt in
1896 Occitan
1897 [25657] libc: sigprocmask() and sigisemptyset() manipulate different
1898 amount of sigset_t bytes
1899 [25691] stdio: printf: memory leak when printing long multibyte
1900 strings
1901 [25715] libc: system() returns wrong errors when posix_spawn fails
1902 [25733] malloc: mallopt(M_MXFAST) can set global_max_fast to 0
1903 [25734] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS fails to reset conversion
1904 state for conversions that produce two Unicode code points
1905 [25765] nptl: Incorrect futex syscall in __pthread_disable_asynccancel
1906 for linux x86_64 leads to livelock
1907 [25788] dynamic-link: [i386] -fno-omit-frame-pointer in CFLAGS causes
1908 test failures, invalid instruction in ld.so
1909 [25790] glob: Typo in tst-fnmatch.input
1910 [25810] libc: x32: Incorrect syscall entries with pointer, off_t and
1911 size_t
1912 [25819] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 13.0.0
1913 [25824] libc: Abnormal function of strnlen in aarch64
1914 [25887] dynamic-link: Wasted space in _dl_x86_feature_1[1]
1915 [25896] libc: Incorrect prctl
1916 [25902] libc: Bad LOADARGS_N
1917 [25905] dynamic-link: VSX registers are corrupted during PLT
1918 resolution when glibc is built with --disable-multi-arch and --with-
1919 cpu=power9
1920 [25933] string: Off by one error in __strncmp_avx2 when
1921 length=VEC_SIZE*4 and strings are at page boundaries can cause a
1922 segfault
1923 [25942] nptl: Deadlock on stack_cache_lock between __nptl_setxid and
1924 exiting detached thread
1925 [25966] libc: Incorrect access of __x86_shared_non_temporal_threshold
1926 for x32
1927 [25976] nss: internal_end*ent in nss_compat may clobber errno, hiding
1928 ERANGE
1929 [25999] nptl: Use-after-free issue in pthread_getaddr_default_np
1930 [26073] math: getpayload() has wrong return value
1931 [26076] dynamic-link: dlmopen crashes after failing to load
1932 dependencies in audit mode
1933 [26120] localedata: column width of of some Korean
1934 JUNGSEONG/JONGSEONG characters wrong (should be 0)
1935 [26128] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFLUSHOPT
1936 [26133] libc: Incorrect need_arch_feature_F16C
1937 [26137] libc: strtod() triggers exception FE_INEXACT on reasonable
1938 input
1939 [26149] libc: PKU is usable only if OSPKE is set
1940 [26173] libc: powerpc64*: Add @notoc to calls to functions that do not
1941 preserve r2
1942 [26208] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFSH
1943 [26210] network: Incorrect use of hidden symbols for global sunrpc
1944 variables
1945 [26211] stdio: printf integer overflow calculating allocation size
1946 [26214] stdio: printf_fp double free
1947 [26215] stdio: printf_fp memory leak
1948 [26232] time: FAIL: support/tst-timespec for 32-bit targets
1949 [26258] nss: nss_compat should not read input files with mmap
1950 [26332] string: Incorrect cache line size load causes memory
1951 corruption in memset
1952
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1954Version 2.31
1955
1956Major new features:
1957
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1958* The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
1959 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
1960 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
1961 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
1962 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
1963 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
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1965* The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
1966 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
1967 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
1968 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
1969
69ca4b54 1970* The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
3ef5e118 1971 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
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1972 CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME. This function is a GNU extension.
1973
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1974* New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar).
1975
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1976* The DNS stub resolver will optionally send the AD (authenticated data) bit
1977 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
1978 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
1979 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
1980 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
1981 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
1982 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
1983 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
1984
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1985Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1986
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1987* The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
1988 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
1989 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
1990 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
1991 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
1992 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
0b8c2f95 1993
12cbde1d 1994* The obsolete function stime is no longer available to newly linked
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1995 binaries, and its declaration has been removed from <time.h>.
1996 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
1997
1998* We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
1999 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
2000 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
2001 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
2002
2003* The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
2004 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
2005 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
2006 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
2007 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
2008 made this no longer practical.
2009
2010 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
2011 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
2012 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
2013 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
2014 release.)
2015
2016 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
2017 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
2018 with the current time, use the localtime function.
2019
2020 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
2021 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
2022 using clock_gettime instead.
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2024* The settimeofday function can still be used to set a system-wide time
2025 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
2026 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
2027 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
2028 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
2029
2030 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
2031 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
2032 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
2033 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
2034
2035 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
2036 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
2037 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
2038 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
2039 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
2040 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
2041
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2042 settimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. Programs that set
2043 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
2044 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
2045 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
2046 offset API.
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2048* SPARC ISA v7 is no longer supported. v8 is still supported, but only if
2049 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
2050 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
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2052 As the oldest 64-bit SPARC ISA is v9, this only affects 32-bit
2053 configurations.
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2055* If a lazy binding failure happens during dlopen, during the execution of
2056 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
2057 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
2058 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
2059 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
2060
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2061* For MIPS hard-float ABIs, the GNU C Library will be configured to need an
2062 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
2063 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
2064 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
2065 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
2066 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
2067 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
2068 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
2069
2070 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
2071 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
2072
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2073* System call wrappers for time system calls now use the new time64 system
2074 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
2075 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
2076 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
2077 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
2078 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
2079
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2080Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2081
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2083 working (non-stub) system call wrappers on all architectures except 64-bit
2084 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
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2086* The ChangeLog file is no longer present in the toplevel directory of the
2087 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
2088 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
2089
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2090Security related changes:
2091
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2092 CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an
2093 out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context.
2094
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2095 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
2096 environment variable during program execution after a security
2097 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
2098 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
2099 program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
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2100
2101The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2102
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2103 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
2104 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
2105 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
2106 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
2107 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
2108 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
2109 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
2110 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
2111 linking failure
2112 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
2113 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
2114 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
2115 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
2116 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
2117 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
2118 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
2119 constructors/destructors is not fatal
2120 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
2121 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
2122 7408-2005
2123 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
2124 with localedef
2125 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
2126 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
2127 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
2128 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
2129 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
2130 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
2131 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
2132 utmp entries
2133 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
2134 ABSOLUTE ABI
2135 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
2136 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
2137 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
2138 (stringop-overflow error)
2139 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
2140 functions other can lead to crashes
2141 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
2142 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
2143 unconditionally
2144 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
2145 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
2146 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
2147 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
2148 still can fail with an error
2149 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
2150 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
2151 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
2152 initialized correctly
2153 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
2154 -frewrite-includes
2155 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
2156 value to an unsigned
2157 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
2158 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
2159 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
2160 protection
2161 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
2162 ifunc variant.
2163 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
2164 al. for Clang++
2165 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
2166 (Slovenian)
2167 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
2168 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
2169 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
2170 with -std=c11
2171 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
2172 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
2173 part
2174 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
2175 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
2176 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
2177 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
2178 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
2179 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
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2182Version 2.30
2183
2184Major new features:
2185
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2186* Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2187 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
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2188 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2189
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2190* The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
2191 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
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2193* The twalk_r function has been added. It is similar to the existing
2194 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
2195 to the callback function.
2196
51ea67d5 2197* On Linux, the getdents64, gettid, and tgkill functions have been added.
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2199* Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
2200 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
2201 nan_TW, lzh_TW.
2202
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2203* The entry for the new Japanese era has been added for ja_JP locale.
2204
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2205* Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
2206 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
2207 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
2208 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
2209 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
2210
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2211* The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
2212 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
2213 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
2214 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
2215 link time reference, is gone.
2216
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2217* Add new POSIX-proposed pthread_cond_clockwait, pthread_mutex_clocklock,
2218 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
2219 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
2220 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
2221 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
2222 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
2223 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
2224 the clock choice at initialization time).
2225
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2226* On AArch64 the GNU IFUNC resolver call ABI changed: old resolvers still
2227 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
2228 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
2229
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2230Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2231
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2232* The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
2233 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
2234 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
2235 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
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2236 copy_file_range function can no longer rely on glibc to provide a fallback
2237 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
2238 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
2239 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
2240 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
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2242* The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime,
2243 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
2244 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
2245 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
2246 since glibc 2.17.
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2248* The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
2249 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
2250
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2251* Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
2252 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
2253
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2254* The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
2255 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
2256
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2257* With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
2258 BIND_NOW flag.
2259
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2260* Support for the PowerPC SPE ISA extension (powerpc-*-*gnuspe*
2261 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
2262 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
2263
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2264* On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
2265 header have been removed.
2266
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2267* The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
2268 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
2269 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
2270 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
2271
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2273
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2274* GCC 6.2 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
2275
2276 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
2277 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
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2279Security related changes:
2280
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2281 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
2282 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
2283 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
2284 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
2285 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
2286 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
2287 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
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2289 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
2290 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
2291 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
2292
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2295 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
2296 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
2297 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
2298 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
2299 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
2300 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
2301 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
2302 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
2303 invalid input drops valid char
2304 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
2305 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
2306 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
2307 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
2308 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
2309 malloc.h.
2310 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
2311 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
2312 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
2313 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
2314 functions
2315 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
2316 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
2317 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
2318 for long double = double
2319 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
2320 long double = double
2321 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
2322 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
2323 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
2324 long timeouts
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2326 [24059] nss: nss_files: get_next_alias calls fgets_unlocked without
2327 checking for NULL.
2328 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
2329 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
2330 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
2331 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
2332 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
2333 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
2334 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
2335 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
2336 not the default "nor"
2337 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
2338 false positives, change to modern flexible array
2339 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
2340 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
2341 compiler barriers.
2342 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
2343 unnecessary librt dependencies
2344 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
2345 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
2346 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
2347 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
2348 unsorted chunk
2349 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
2350 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
2351 to R_SPARC_H44
2352 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
2353 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
2354 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
2355 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
2356 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
2357 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
2358 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
2359 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
2360 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
2361 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
2362 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
2363 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
2364 was not used
2365 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
2366 tests
2367 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
2368 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
2369 time_t changes
2370 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
2371 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
2372 kernels and break testing
2373 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
2374 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
2375 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
2376 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
2377 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
2378 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
2379 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
2380 -O3 -march=skylake
2381 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
2382 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
2383 crash
2384 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
2385 linked glibc
2386 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
2387 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
2388 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
2389 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
2390 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
2391 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
2392 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
2393 always implemented in the same library
2394 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
2395 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
2396 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
2397 testroot
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2401
2402Major new features:
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2405 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
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2407* A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
2408 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
2409 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
2410 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
2411 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
2412 configured location.
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2416* The reallocarray function is now declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE, not just
2417 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
2418
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2419* For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
2420 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
2421 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
2422 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
2423 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
2424 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
2425 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
2426 process actually does not use HTM).
2427
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2428* The functions posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np and
2429 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
2430 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
2431 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
2432 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
2433 of the same name.
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2435* The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
2436 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
2437 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
5fc3eca7 2438 inconsistent mutex state after a fork call in a multi-threaded process.
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2439 In both popen and system there is no direct access to user-defined mutexes.
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2441* Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
2442 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
2443 supported:
2444 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
2445 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
2446
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2448 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
2449 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
2450 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
2451 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
2452 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
2453 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
2454
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2456 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
2457 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
2458
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2460
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2461* The glibc.tune tunable namespace has been renamed to glibc.cpu and the
2462 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
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2464* The type of the pr_uid and pr_gid members of struct elf_prpsinfo, defined
2465 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
2466 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
2467 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
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2469* For the MIPS n32 ABI, the type of the pr_sigpend and pr_sighold members of
2470 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
2471 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
2472 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
2473 structures.
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2475* An archaic GNU extension to scanf, under which '%as', '%aS', and '%a[...]'
2476 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
2477 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
2478 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
2479 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
2480 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
2481
2482 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
2483 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
2484 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
2485 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
2486 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
2487
2488 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
2489 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
2490 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
2491
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2493
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2497 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
2498
2499 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
2500 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
2501
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2504 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
2505 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
2506 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
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2508 CVE-2019-6488: On x32, the size_t parameter may be passed in the lower
2509 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
2510 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
2511 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
2512 Reported by H.J. Lu.
2513
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2514 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
2515 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
2516 or command injection issues in applications.
2517
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2520 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
2521 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
2522 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
2523 thousands
2524 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
2525 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
2526 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
2527 --param options)
2528 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
2529 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
2530 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
2531 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
2532 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
2533 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
2534 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
2535 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
2536 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
2537 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
2538 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
2539 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
2540 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
2541 pointer argument is non-NULL
2542 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
2543 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
2544 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
2545 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
2546 multithreads call popen
2547 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
2548 and pthread_create fails.
2549 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
2550 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
2551 constructor
2552 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
2553 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
2554 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
2555 source tree
2556 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
2557 float
2558 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
2559 one error
2560 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
2561 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
2562 linker
2563 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
2564 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
2565 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
2566 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
2567 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
2568 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
2569 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
2570 filesystems
2571 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
2572 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
2573 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
2574 functions
2575 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
2576 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
2577 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
2578 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
2579 have wrong type
2580 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
2581 wrong type
2582 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
2583 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
2584 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
2585 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
2586 threads
2587 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
2588 start.S
2589 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
2590 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
2591 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
2592 powerpc64le
2593 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
2594 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
2595 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
2596 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
2597 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
2598 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
2599 strftime
2600 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
2601 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
2602 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
2603 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
2604 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
2605 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
2606 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
2607 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
2608 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
2609 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
2610 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
2611 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
2612 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
2613 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
2614 tcache size
2615 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
2616 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
2617 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
2618 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
2619 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
2620 (CVE-2018-19591)
2621 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
2622 nearest rounding mode
2623 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
2624 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
2625 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
2626 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
2627 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
2628 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
2629 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
2630 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
2631 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
2632 error
2633 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
2634 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
2635 using GCC 8
2636 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
2637 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
2638 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
2639 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
2640 ppc64le
2641 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
2642 expected result
2643 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
2644 x32 (CVE-2019-6488)
2645 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
2646 sigaltstack
2647 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
2648 answers will be rejected)
2649 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
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2653
2654Major new features:
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2656* The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
2657 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
2658 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
2659 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
2660 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
2661 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
2662 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
2663 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
2664 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
2665 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
2666 archive or binary locales.
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2668* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for Intel CET, AKA
2669 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
2670 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
2671 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
2672 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
2673 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
2674 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
2675 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
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2676 Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
2677 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
2678 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
2679 validated for i686.
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2681* The GNU C Library now has correct support for ABSOLUTE symbols
2682 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
2683 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
2684 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
2685 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
2686 field) to indicate such support is required.
2687
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2688* Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2689 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
2690 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2691
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2692* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
2693 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
2694
2695 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
2696 fMxaddfNx functions.
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2698 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
2699 fMxsubfNx functions.
2700
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2701 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
2702 fMxmulfNx functions.
2703
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2704 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
2705 fMxdivfNx functions.
2706
e607a352 2707* Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
df467d22 2708 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
9145f033 2709 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
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2711 and Kashubian.
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61c4aad7 2713* Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
e607a352 2714 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
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2716* Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
2717 patches.
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2719* The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
2720 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
2721 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
2722 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
2723 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
2724 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
2725 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
2726 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
2727
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2728* The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
2729 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
2730 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
2731 the fstatat64 function.
2732
7f9f1ecb
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2733* IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
2734 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
2735 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
2736 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
2737 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
2738 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
2739 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
2740 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
2741 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
2742
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2743* Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
2744 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
2745 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
2746 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
2747 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
2748 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
2749 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
2750 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
2751 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
2752 results in a load failure now.
2753
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2754* Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The
2755 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
2756 <threads.h>:
2757
2758 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
2759 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
2760
2761 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
2762 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
2763
2764 - call_once for function call synchronization.
2765
2766 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
2767 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
2768
2769 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
2770
2771 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
2772
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2773Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2774
18ea73ad
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2775* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
2776 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
2777 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
2778
2779* The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
2780 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
2781 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
2782 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
2783 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
2784 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
2785
2786* All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
2787 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
2788 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
2789 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
2790 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
2791 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
2792 (Bug #1190.)
2793
2794* The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
2795 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
2796 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
2797 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
2798 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
2799 further explanation.
2800
2801 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
2802 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
2803 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
e16deca6 2804
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2805* The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
2806
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2807* The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
2808 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
2809 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
2810
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2811* The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
2812 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
2813 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
2814 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
2815
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2816* The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
2817 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
2818 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
2819 for this function instead.
2820
7f9f1ecb
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2821* The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
2822 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
2823 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
2824
2825* The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
2826 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
2827 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
2828 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
2829
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2830* The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
2831 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
2832 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
2833 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
2834 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
2835
b10a0acc
ZW
2836* The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
2837 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
2838 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
2839 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
2840 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
2841 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
2842 such as libgcrypt.
2843
2844* Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
2845 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
2846 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
2847 enabled.
2848
2849* The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
2850 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
2851 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
2852
e69d994a
ZW
2853* We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
2854 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
2855 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
2856 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
2857 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
2858 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
2859
2860 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
2861 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
2862 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
2863 behavior in a future release.
2864
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2865Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2866
f2873d2d 2867 GNU make 4.0 or later is now required to build glibc.
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2868
2869Security related changes:
2870
7f9f1ecb
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2871 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
2872 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
2873 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
2874 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
086ee48e 2875
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2876 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
2877 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
2878
2879 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
2880 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
2881 Izbyshev.
2882
2883 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
2884 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
2885 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
2886
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2887The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2888
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2889 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
2890 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
2891 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
2892 when __WORDSIZE != 64
2893 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
2894 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
2895 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
2896 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
2897 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
2898 14651
2899 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
2900 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
2901 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
2902 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
2903 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
2904 conversion is given
2905 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
2906 date
2907 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
2908 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
2909 scope with -O1 and higher
2910 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
2911 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
2912 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
2913 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
2914 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
2915 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
2916 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
2917 horrible machine code)
2918 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
2919 last constant.
2920 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
2921 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
2922 symbols
2923 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
2924 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
2925 defined
2926 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
2927 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
2928 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
2929 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
2930 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
2931 fpscr.c'
2932 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
2933 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
2934 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
2935 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
2936 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
2937 the base address
2938 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
2939 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
2940 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
2941 open_verify
2942 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
2943 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
2944 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
2945 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
2946 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
2947 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
2948 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
2949 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
2950 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
2951 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
2952 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
2953 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
2954 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
2955 dlopen
2956 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
2957 AT_SECURE=1
2958 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
2959 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
2960 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
2961 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
2962 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
2963 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
2964 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
2965 for Spanish with CLDR
2966 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
2967 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
2968 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
2969 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
2970 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
2971 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
2972 es_BO
2973 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
2974 CLOCKS_PER_SECOND
2975 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
2976 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
2977 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
2978 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
2979 dlopen failures
2980 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
2981 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
2982 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
2983 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
2984 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
2985 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
2986 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
2987 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
2988 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
2989 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
2990 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
2991 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
2992 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
2993 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
2994 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
2995 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
2996 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
2997 makecontext
2998 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
2999 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
3000 required
3001 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
3002 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
3003 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
3004 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
3005 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
3006 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
3007 disabled
3008 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
3009 failure
3010 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
3011 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
3012 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
3013 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
3014 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
3015 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
3016 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
3017 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
3018 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
3019 and libc build with -Os)
3020 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
3021 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
3022 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
3023 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
3024 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
3025 that changes /etc/passwd
3026 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
3027 (CVE-2018-11237)
3028 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
3029 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
3030 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
3031 posix/regcomp.c
3032 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
3033 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
3034 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
3035 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
3036 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
3037 AT_SECURE
3038 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
3039 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
3040 parser.c
3041 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
3042 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
3043 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
3044 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
3045 directed rounding
3046 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
3047 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
3048 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
3049 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
3050 lookup
3051 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
3052 interposition
3053 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
3054 DSO boundaries.
3055 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
3056 <linux/time.h>
3057 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
3058 checking
3059 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
3060 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
3061 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
3062 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
3063 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
3064 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
3065 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
3066 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
3067 processors
3068 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
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3070\f
3071Version 2.27
3072
3073Major new features:
3074
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3075* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
3076 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
bd7bbb26 3077 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
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3078 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
3079 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
3080 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
3081 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
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3082 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
3083 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
9d7a3741 3084
ac817e08 3085* Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
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3086 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
3087 H.J. Lu from Intel.
20c7b195 3088
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3089* Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
3090
4cf82d23 3091* Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
72aa6233 3092
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3093* In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
3094 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
3095 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
3096 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
3097 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
3098 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
3099 from a security and performance perspective.
3100
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3101* The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
3102 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
3103 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
3104 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
3105
81325b12 3106* On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
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3107 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
3108 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
3109 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
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3110 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
3111
a23aa5b7 3112* On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
40ca951b 3113 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
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3114 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
3115 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
3116 _Float128.
3117
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3118* The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
3119 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
3120 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
0d93b7fd 3121
4bab0224 3122* glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
59d2cbb1 3123
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3124* Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
3125 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
3126 pkey_get.
3127
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3128* The copy_file_range function was added.
3129
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3130* Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
3131
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3132* The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
3133 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
3134 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
3135
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3136* Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
3137 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
3138 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
3139 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
3140 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
3141 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
3142 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
3143
3144 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
3145 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
3146 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
3147 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
3148 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
3149 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
3150 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
3151
3152 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
3153 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
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3154 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
3155 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
3156 respectively.
3157
3158 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
3159 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
3160 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
3161 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
22390764
RL
3162
3163 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
3164 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
3165 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
3166
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3167 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
3168 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
0a32e219 3169 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
4378b735 3170
40ca951b
PD
3171* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
3172 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
3173 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
3174
3175 - rv64imac lp64
3176 - rv64imafdc lp64
3177 - rv64imafdc lp64d
3178
00cdcf5a
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3179Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
3180
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3181* Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
3182 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
d4ae7827 3183 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
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3184 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
3185 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
3186 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
3187 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
3188 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
3189 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
3190 fix this.
3191
f1a844ac
FW
3192* Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
3193 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
3194 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
3195
2fc21aaa
FW
3196* Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
3197 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
3198 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
3199 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
3200 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
3201 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
3202 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
3203 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
3204 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
3205 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
3206 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
3207 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
3208 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
3209 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
3210 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
3211 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
3212 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
3213 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
3214 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
3215 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
3216 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
3217 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
3218 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
3219 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
3220 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
3221 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
3222
60e2846e
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3223* On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
3224 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
00cdcf5a 3225
813378e9
JM
3226* libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
3227 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
3228 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
3229 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
3230 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
3231 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
3232 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
3233
5a80d39d
JM
3234* The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
3235 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
3236 exp10l for these functions instead.
3237
4fa9b3bf
JM
3238* The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
3239 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
3240 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3241
644d3857
JM
3242* The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
3243 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
3244 ignored.
3245
8df5d347
JM
3246* The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
3247 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
3248 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
3249 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
3250
c0a25aa9
FW
3251* The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
3252 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
3253
34eb4157
FW
3254* In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
3255 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
3256
754034c4
JM
3257* The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
3258 programs.
3259
ed95f611
AZ
3260* The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
3261
48a8f832
ZW
3262* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
3263 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
3264 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
3265 instead.
3266
3267 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
3268 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
3269 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
3270 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
3271 use, but predates the bits convention.
3272
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3273Changes to build and runtime requirements:
3274
1faaf703
JB
3275* bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
3276 subdirectory.
00cdcf5a
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3277
3278Security related changes:
3279
403143e1
FW
3280 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
3281 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
3282 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
3283 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
3284 script.)
00cdcf5a 3285
822f523b
FW
3286 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
3287 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
3288 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
3289 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
c369d66e 3290
914c9994
FW
3291 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
3292 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
3293 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
3294 of service.
3295
15e84c63
AJ
3296 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
3297 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
a159b53f
PE
3298 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
3299
37ac8e63
FW
3300 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
3301 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
3302 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
3303 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
3304
8a0b17e4
FW
3305 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
3306 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
3307 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
3308 Qualys.
3309
3ff3dfa5
FW
3310 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
3311 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
3312 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
3313 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
3314 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
3315
3e3c904d
AJ
3316 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
3317 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
3318 current directory.
3319
52a713fd
DL
3320 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
3321 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
3322 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
3323
4590634f
FW
3324 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
3325 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
3326 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
3327
71aa429b
FW
3328 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
3329 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
3330 small, instead of NULL.
3331
00cdcf5a
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3332The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3333
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DL
3334 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
3335 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
3336 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
3337 locale
3338 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
3339 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
3340 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
3341 cases
3342 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
3343 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
3344 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
3345 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
3346 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
3347 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
3348 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
3349 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
3350 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
3351 "Bangla"
3352 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
3353 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
3354 width Latin characters
3355 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
3356 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
3357 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
3358 letters
3359 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
3360 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
3361 (CVE-2009-5064)
3362 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
3363 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
3364 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
3365 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
3366 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
3367 if malloc succeeded
3368 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
3369 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
3370 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
3371 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
3372 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
3373 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
3374 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
3375 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
3376 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
3377 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
3378 U+309A
3379 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
3380 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
3381 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
3382 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
3383 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
3384 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
3385 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
3386 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
3387 for Nicaragua
3388 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
3389 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
3390 are not found.
3391 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
3392 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
3393 access
3394 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
3395 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
3396 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
3397 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
3398 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
3399 __regcall calling convention
3400 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
3401 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
3402 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
3403 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
3404 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
3405 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
3406 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
3407 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
3408 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
3409 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
3410 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
3411 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
3412 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
3413 locale
3414 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
3415 protector=all
3416 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
3417 wcwidth
3418 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
3419 consistency check failures
3420 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
3421 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
3422 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
3423 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
3424 PIE
3425 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
3426 locales
3427 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
3428 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
3429 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
3430 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
3431 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
3432 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
3433 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
3434 on memory allocation failure
3435 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
3436 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
3437 the suspect)
3438 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
3439 default (i386)
3440 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
3441 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
3442 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
3443 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
3444 instead of EAI_NODATA
3445 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
3446 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
3447 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
3448 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
3449 implementation
3450 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
3451 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
3452 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
3453 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
3454 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
3455 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
3456 allocation in syscall loops)
3457 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
3458 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
3459 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
3460 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
3461 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
3462 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
3463 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
3464 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
3465 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
3466 occur with -O3
3467 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
3468 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
3469 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
3470 amounts)
3471 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
3472 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
3473 niu_NZ
3474 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
3475 checks
3476 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
3477 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
3478 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
3479 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
3480 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
3481 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
3482 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
3483 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
3484 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
3485 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
3486 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
3487 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
3488 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
3489 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
3490 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
3491 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
3492 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
3493 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
3494 parsing after OOM
3495 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
3496 object
3497 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
3498 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
3499 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
3500 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
3501 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
3502 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
fdb724f9 3503 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf outputs a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
242cbc90
DL
3504 ppc64le
3505 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
3506 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
3507 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
3508 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
3509 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
3510 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
3511 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
3512 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
3513 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
3514 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
3515 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
3516 math_force_eval
3517 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
3518 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
3519 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
3520 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
3521 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
3522 the svid compat wrapper
3523 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
3524 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
3525 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
3526 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
3527 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
3528 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
3529 --verbose.
3530 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
3531 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
3532 to 2.26
3533 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
3534 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
3535 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
3536 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
3537 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
3538 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
3539 (CVE-2017-15804)
3540 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
3541 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
3542 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
3543 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
3544 failure."
3545 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
3546 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
3547 -m32
3548 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
3549 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
3550 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
3551 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
3552 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
3553 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
3554 inside the ASCII printable range
3555 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
3556 -mlong-double-64
3557 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
3558 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
3559 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
3560 Internet
3561 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
3562 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
3563 backslash
3564 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
3565 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
3566 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
3567 heaps in an arena
3568 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
3569 networking interface
3570 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
3571 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
3572 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
3573 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
3574 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
3575 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
3576 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
3577 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
3578 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
3579 order
3580 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3581 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3582 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3583 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3584 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3585 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
3586 same as for Croatian
3587 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
3588 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
3589 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
3590 for initial thread"
3591 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
3592 SC_SSIZE_MAX
3593 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
3594 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
3595 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3596 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
3597 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
3598 (CVE-2017-1000408)
3599 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
3600 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
3601 modified in case of success
3602 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
3603 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
3604 success
3605 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
3606 stack-protector=all
3607 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
3608 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
3609 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
3610 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
3611 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
3612 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
3613 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
3614 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
3615 adding it on top
3616 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
3617 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
3618 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
3619 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
3620 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
3621 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
3622 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
3623 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
3624 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
3625 (CVE-2018-1000001)
3626 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
3627 elision and tunables
3628 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
3629 "invalid" exception
3630 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
3631 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
3632 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
3633 exception
3634 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3635 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
3636 power4
3637 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
3638 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
3639 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
3640 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
3641 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
3642 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
3643 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
3644 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
3645 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
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3648Version 2.26
3649
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3650Major new features:
3651
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3652* A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
3653 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
3654 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
3655 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
3656 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
3657 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
3658 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
3659
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3660* Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
3661 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
0b38d66a 3662 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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3663 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
3664 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
3665 are rendered with pango, see for example:
3666 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
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3668* Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
3669 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
3670 Egmont Koblinger.
e4e79484 3671
2b2ccd0c 3672* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
025b33ae 3673
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3674 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
3675 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
3676 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
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3678 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
3679 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
3680 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
3681 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
3682 object are still limited to six search domains.
139ace95 3683
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3684 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
3685 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
3686 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
cd354a38 3687
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3688* The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
3689 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
d8cee557 3690
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3691* New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
3692 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
3693 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
3694 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
f0be25b6 3695
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3696* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
3697 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
3698 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
3699 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
8082d91e 3700
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3701* posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
3702 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
3703 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
3704 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
2e0bbbfb 3705
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3706* errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
3707 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
3708 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
12d2dd70 3709
2b2ccd0c 3710* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
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3711 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
3712 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
3713 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
2c0b90ab 3714
2b2ccd0c 3715 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
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3716 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
3717 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
3718 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
3719 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
3720
3721 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
3722 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
3723 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
3724 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
3725 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
3726 interfaces should be used instead.
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3728Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
3729
3730* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
3731 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
3732 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
3733 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
3734 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
3735 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
3736 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
3737 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
3738
3739* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
3740 removed.
3741
3742* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
7e368000 3743 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
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3744 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
3745 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
3746
3747* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
3748 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
3749 default.
3750
3751 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
3752 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
3753 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
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3754 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
3755 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
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3756
3757 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
3758 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
3759 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
3760 name service modules, to be built and installed.
3761
3762* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
3763 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
3764 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
3765 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
3766
3767* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
3768 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
5b757a51 3769
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3770* The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
3771 exported by accident.
3772
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3773* <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
3774 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
3775 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
3776
3777* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
3778 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
3779 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
3780 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
3781
3782* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
3783
3784* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
3785
3786* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
3787 free instead.
3788
3789* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
3790 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3791
3792* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
3793 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3794
3795* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
3796 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
3797 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
3798 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
3799 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
3800 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
3801 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
3802 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
3803
3804* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
3805 synced with the kernel:
3806
3807 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
3808 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
3809
3810 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
3811 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
3812 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
3813
3814 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
3815 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
3816
3817Changes to build and runtime requirements:
3818
3819* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
3820 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
3821 x86-32 and x86-64.)
3822
7e368000 3823* GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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3825* On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
3826 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
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3827
3828 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
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3829 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
3830 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
3831 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2b2ccd0c 3832 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
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3834Security related changes:
3835
e14a2772 3836* The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
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3837 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
3838
3839* LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
3840 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
3841
3842* Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
3843 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
3844 (CVE-2010-3192).
3845
3846* A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
3847 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
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3848
3849The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3850
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3851 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
3852 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
3853 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
3854 fields
3855 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
3856 (CVE-2010-3192)
3857 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
3858 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
3859 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
3860 ld.bfd is available
3861 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
3862 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
3863 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
3864 x86 and other generic code
3865 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
3866 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
3867 incorrect
3868 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
3869 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
3870 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
3871 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
3872 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
3873 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
3874 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
3875 resolver
3876 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
3877 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
3878 order of 0D36 and 0D37
3879 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
3880 chillu characters
3881 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
3882 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
3883 receiving data
3884 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
3885 whitespace
3886 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
3887 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
3888 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
3889 for Peru
3890 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
3891 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
3892 failures consistently
3893 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
3894 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
3895 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
3896 frame-pointer on i386
3897 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
3898 register
7f0d9e61 3899 [21075] libc: unused assignment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
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3900 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
3901 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
3902 generic c code is used
3903 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
3904 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
3905 around 4000
3906 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
3907 (CVE-2017-12133)
3908 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
3909 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
3910 with -lieee
3911 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
3912 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
3913 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
3914 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
3915 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
3916 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
3917 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
3918 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
3919 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
3920 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
3921 remove()
3922 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
3923 checked for errors.
3924 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
3925 new posix_spawn implementation
3926 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
3927 leads to lower CPU frequency
3928 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
3929 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
3930 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
3931 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
3932 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
3933 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
3934 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
3935 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
3936 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
3937 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
3938 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
3939 not support gethostbyname4_r
3940 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
3941 switching
3942 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
3943 arenas
3944 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
3945 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
3946 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
3947 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
3948 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
3949 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
3950 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
3951 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
3952 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
3953 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
3954 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
3955 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
3956 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
3957 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
3958 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
3959 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
3960 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
3961 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
3962 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
3963 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
3964 retry value
3965 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
3966 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
3967 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
3968 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
3969 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
3970 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
3971 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
3972 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
3973 [21537] libc:
3974 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
3975 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
3976 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
3977 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
3978 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
3979 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
3980 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
3981 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
3982 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
3983 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
3984 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
3985 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
3986 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
3987 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
3988 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
3989 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
3990 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
3991 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
3992 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
3993 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
3994 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
3995 issue on x86-64
3996 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
3997 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
3998 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
3999 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
4000 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
4001 construction
4002 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
4003 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
4004 between_2_3
4005 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
4006 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
4007 conditions
4008 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
4009 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
4010 Hindi Locale
4011 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
4012 posix/sched_cpucount.c
4013 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
4014 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
4015 locale
4016 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
4017 leading to relocation crash
4018 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
4019 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
4020 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
4021 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
4022 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
4023 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
4024 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
4025 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
4026 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
4027 locale
4028 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
4029 locale
4030 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
4031 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
4032 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
4033 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
4034 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
4035 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
4036 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
4037 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
4038 strings
4039 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
4040 protector=all
4041 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
4042 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
4043 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
4044 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
4045 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
4046 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
4047 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
4048 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
4049 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
4050 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
4051 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
4052 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
4053 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
4054 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
4055 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
4056 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
4057 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
4058 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
4059 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
4060 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
4061 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
4062 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
4063 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
4064 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
4065 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
4066 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
4067 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
4068 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
4069 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
4070 with unicode 9.0
4071 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
4072 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
4073 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
4074 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
4075 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
58557c22 4076
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4078Version 2.25
4079
48789000
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4080* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
4081 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
4082 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
4083 Library.
e720d3d9 4084
bf91be88
JM
4085* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
4086 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
a5ac5676 4087 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
bf91be88
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4088 the GNU C Library.
4089
412cb261
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4090* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
4091 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
4092 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
4093 the GNU C Library.
4094
c0307377
ZW
4095* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
4096 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
4097 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
4098 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
4099 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
4100 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
4101 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
4102 will not.
4103
4104 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
4105 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
4106 many years.
4107
dbab6577
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4108* The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
4109 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
4110 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
4111
4112 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
4113 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
4114 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
4115 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
4116 problem.
4117
ec94343f 4118* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
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4119 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
4120 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
5146356f 4121
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4122* Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
4123 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
5b17fd0d
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4124 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
4125 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
4126 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
4127 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
4128 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
4129 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
4130 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
4131 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
4132 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
4133 WINT_WIDTH.
a292f45a 4134
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4135* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
4136
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4137 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
4138
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4139 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
4140 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
4141 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
41c67149 4142
55a38f82
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4143 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
4144 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
4145
525f8039
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4146 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
4147 fminmagf, fminmagl.
4148
1e7c8fcc
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4149 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
4150
29cb9293 4151 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
d942e95c 4152
cc6a8d74
JM
4153 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
4154 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
5e9d98a3 4155
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4156 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
4157
eb3c12c7 4158 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
457663a7 4159 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
f8e8b8ed 4160
f3b904d9
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4161* The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
4162 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
4163
cecbc796
NA
4164* Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
4165 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
4166 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
4167
ea1bd74d
ZW
4168* The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
4169 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
4170 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
4171 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
4172 effects of the memory clear).
4173
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4174* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
4175 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
4176 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
4177 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
4178
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4179* On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
4180 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
4181 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
4182 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
4183 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
4184 if they are compiled or used with those options.
6962682f 4185
92dcaa3e
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4186* The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
4187 have been added.
4188
705a79f8
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4189* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
4190 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
4191 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
4192 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
4193 as large as several megabytes.
4194
4d728087
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4195* The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
4196 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
4197 been removed.
4198
e863cce5
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4199* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
4200 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
4201 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
4202 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
4203 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
4204 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
4205 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
4206
7ec47a85
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4207* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
4208 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
4209 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
4210 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
4211
099191b1 4212* The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
5140d036
FW
4213 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
4214 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
4215 Internet.
4216
bbe989ee
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4217* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
4218 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
4219 They were already unimplemented.
bfbd1de1 4220
b76e0659
FW
4221* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
4222 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
4223 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
4224 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
4225
3a2a1d2c
FW
4226* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
4227 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
4228 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
4229 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
4230 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
4231
be728303
FW
4232* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
4233 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
4234 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
4235 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
4236 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
4237
6815a33d
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4238* The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
4239 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
4240 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
4241 did not reflect that.
4242
022dfdce
SL
4243* For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
4244 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
4245 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
4246 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
4247 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
4248 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
4249 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
4250 'gcc/config.gcc'.
4251
23b5cae1
MG
4252* GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
4253 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
4254 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
4255 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
4256
7715d3ab
SP
4257* Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
4258 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
4259 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
4260 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
4261
0cea3587
SP
4262* A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
4263 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
4264 guarantees.
4265
4266* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
4267 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
4268 make state changes.
4269
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4270Security related changes:
4271
fc82b0a2 4272* On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
4d047efd
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4273 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
4274 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
4275 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
056dd72a 4276 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
e720d3d9 4277
fc82b0a2
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4278* The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
4279 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
4280 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
4281 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
4282 (CVE-2015-5180)
4283
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4284The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4285
fdb724f9 4286 [4099] stdio: Overly aggressive caching by stream i/o functions.
4e054e6b
SP
4287 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
4288 protector-all
4289 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
4290 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
4291 before it started waiting
4292 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
4293 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
4294 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
4295 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
4296 wrong type
4297 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
4298 library linked with pthread
4299 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
4300 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
4301 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
4302 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
4303 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
4304 after being __libc_memalign()'d
4305 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
7f0d9e61 4306 when it shouldn't
4e054e6b
SP
4307 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
4308 not
4309 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
4310 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
4311 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
4312 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
4313 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
4314 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
4315 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
4316 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
4317 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
4318 termination
4319 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
4320 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
4321 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
4322 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
4323 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
4324 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
4325 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
4326 causes a segmentation fault
4327 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
4328 linking
4329 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
4330 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
4331 uninitialized GOT
4332 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
4333 versions
4334 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
4335 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
4336 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
4337 is always true.
4338 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
4339 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
4340 modes
4341 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
4342 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
4343 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
4344 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
4345 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
4346 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
4347 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
4348 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
4349 libpthread.a
4350 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
4351 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
4352 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
4353 _res_hconf
4354 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
4355 information.
4356 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
4357 penalty
4358 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
4359 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
4360 cause transition penalty
4361 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
4362 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
4363 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
4364 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
4365 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
4366 mcount.oS)
4367 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
4368 Checking
4369 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
4370 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
4371 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
4372 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
4373 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
4374 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
4375 multi-arch
4376 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
4377 (RES_USEBSTRING)
4378 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
4379 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
4380 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
4381 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
4382 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
4383 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
4384 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
4385 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
4386 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
4387 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
4388 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
4389 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
4390 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
4391 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
4392 glibc
4393 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
4394 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
4395 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
4396 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
4397 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
4398 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
4399 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
4400 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
4401 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
4402 U+20AC), not same as GBK
4403 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
4404 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
4405 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
4406 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
4407 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
4408 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
4409 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
4410 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
4411 RES_USE_INET6
4412 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
4413 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
4414 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
4415 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
4416 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
4417 wrong condition
4418 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
4419 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
4420 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
4421 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
4422 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
4423 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
4424 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
4425 clang
4426 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
4427 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
4428 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
4429 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
4430 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
e720d3d9 4431\f
11fca961
AZ
4432Version 2.24
4433
5b4ecd3f
JM
4434* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
4435 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
4436 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
4437 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
4438 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
4439 architectures.
4440
b6ebba70
MF
4441* The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
4442 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
4443 been included in previous releases.
11fca961 4444
7584a3f9
FW
4445* The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
4446 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
4447
b49ab5f4
FW
4448* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
4449 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
4450 instead of “union wait”.
4451
ced8f893
SG
4452* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
4453 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
4454 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
4455 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
4456 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
4457 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
4458 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
4459
2ba3cfa1
FW
4460* The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
4461 API.
4462
b7a9b7b0
MF
4463* The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
4464 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
4465 drop it.
6a54bcda 4466
41a359e2
RS
4467* nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
4468 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
4469 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
4470 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
4471 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
4472 extensions.
4473
11fca961
AZ
4474Security related changes:
4475
f5b3338d
FW
4476* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
4477 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
4478 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
4479
4ab2ab03
FW
4480* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
4481 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
4482 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
4483 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
11fca961 4484
5171f307
FW
4485* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
4486 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
4487 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
4488
bc779a1a
FW
4489* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
4490 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
4491 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
4492
fab38231
FW
4493* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
4494 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
4495 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
4496 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
4497
11fca961
AZ
4498The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4499
3c4f81ec
CD
4500 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
4501 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
4502 of MS-DOS.
4503 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
4504 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
4505 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
4506 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
4507 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
4508 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
4509 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
4510 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
4511 CLDR data
4512 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
4513 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
4514 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
4515 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
4516 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
4517 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
4518 romanisation
4519 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
4520 and +/-
4521 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
4522 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
4523 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
4524 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
4525 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
4526 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
4527 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
4528 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
4529 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
4530 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
4531 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
4532 all locales
4533 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
4534 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
4535 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
4536 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
4537 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
4538 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
4539 execute
4540 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
4541 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
4542 -Wsystem-headers
4543 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
4544 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
4545 Romanian locale data
4546 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
4547 symbol
4548 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
4549 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
4550 language
4551 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
4552 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
4553 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
4554 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
4555 machine
4556 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
4557 description
4558 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
4559 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
4560 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
4561 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
4562 when using RTLD_NEXT
4563 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
4564 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
4565 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
4566 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
4567 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
4568 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
4569 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
4570 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
4571 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
4572 Excavator core
4573 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4574 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4575 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4576 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
4577 double range
4578 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
4579 part zero incorrect
4580 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
4581 equality tests
4582 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
4583 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
4584 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
4585 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
4586 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
4587 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
4588 glibc-2.22
4589 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
4590 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
4591 'tst-numeric.c'
4592 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
4593 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
4594 low part
4595 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
4596 result
4597 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
4598 unaligned stack
4599 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
4600 pointers and lengths in error-case.
4601 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
4602 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
4603 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
4604 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
4605 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
4606 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
4607 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
4608 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
4609 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
4610 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
4611 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
4612 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
4613 modes
4614 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
4615 server addresses
4616 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
4617 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
4618 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
4619 response to getaddrinfo
4620 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
4621 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
4622 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
4623 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
4624 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
4625 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
4626 sometimes incorrect
4627 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
4628 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
4629 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
4630 record types
4631 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
4632 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
4633 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
4634 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
4635 (CVE-2016-3075)
4636 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
4637 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
4638 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
4639 resolving symbols
4640 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
4641 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
4642 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
4643 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
4644 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
4645 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
4646 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
4647 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
4648 gethosts
4649 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
4650 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
4651 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
4652 (CVE-2016-3706)
4653 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
4654 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
4655 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
4656 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
4657 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
4658 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
4659 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
4660 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
4661 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
4662 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
4663 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
4664 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
4665 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
4666 executable
4667 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
4668 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
4669 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
4670 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
4671 XPG3
4672 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
4673 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
4674 (CVE-2016-4429)
4675 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
4676 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
4677 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
4678 AS not supporting AVX512
4679 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
4680 sNaN argument
4681 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4682 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
4683 argument
4684 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
4685 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
4686 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
4687 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
4688 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
4689 eax=0x80000001
4690 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
4691 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
4692 subnormals
4693 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
4694 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
4695 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
4696 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4697 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4698 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
4699 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4700 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
4701 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
4702 input
4703 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4704 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4705 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4706 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4707 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4708 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4709 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4710 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
4711 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
4712 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
4713 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
4714 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
4715 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
4716 double rounding
4717 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
4718 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
4719 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
4720 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
4721 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
4722 (Only arm/linux)
4723 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
4724 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
4725 fallbacks
4726 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
4727 "invalid" exceptions
4728 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
4729 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
4730 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
4731 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
4732 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
4733 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
4734 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
4735 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
4736 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
11fca961 4737\f
aeb47bbc
DM
4738Version 2.23
4739
23256f5e
MF
4740* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
4741 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
4742 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
4743 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
4744 89, 16061, and 18568.
4745
2359035a
FW
4746* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
4747 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
4748 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
4749 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
4750 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
4751 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
4752 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
4753
8b7b7f75
MW
4754* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
4755 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
4756 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
4757
2eecc8af
FW
4758* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
4759 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
4760 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
4761 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
4762 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
4763 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
4764 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
4765
a62719ba
FW
4766* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
4767 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
4768 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
4769 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
7f0d9e61 4770 the concurrent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 4771 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
a62719ba
FW
4772 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
4773 Ericsson.)
a014cecd 4774
bc148ca1
MF
4775* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
4776 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
4777 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
4778 independent of the GNU C Library.
4779
1c70b6f1
ZW
4780* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
4781 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
1efad39b 4782
eed3e1eb
JM
4783* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
4784 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
4785 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
4786 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
4787 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
4788 Linux kernel.
4789
1efad39b
SL
4790* Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
4791 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
b08b4218 4792
d709042a
JM
4793* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
4794 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
4795 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
4796 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
4797 defining their own copy.
4798
b08b4218
JM
4799* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
4800 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
4801 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
f268ab5f 4802
8f5e8b01
JM
4803Security related changes:
4804
6400ae6e
FW
4805* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
4806 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
4807
4808* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
4809 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
4810 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
4811 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
4812 (CVE-2015-8777)
4813
4814* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
4815 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
4816
4817* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
4818 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
4819
8f5e8b01
JM
4820* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
4821 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 4822 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
8f5e8b01 4823
e9db92d3
CD
4824* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
4825 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
4826 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
4827 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
4828 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
4829 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
4830 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
4831 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
4832 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
4833 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
4834 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
4835 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
4836 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
4837
ad372e29 4838The following bugs are resolved with this release:
f268ab5f 4839
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4840 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
4841 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
4842 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
4843 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
4844 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
4845 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
4846 use `mkstemp'
4847 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
7f0d9e61 4848 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doesn't set errno on
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4849 overflow/underflow errors
4850 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
4851 overflow/underflow
4852 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
4853 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
4854 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
4855 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
4856 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
4857 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
4858 are not contiguous
4859 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
4860 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
4861 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
4862 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
4863 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
4864 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
4865 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
4866 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
4867 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
4868 all exceptions
4869 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
4870 arguments
4871 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
4872 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
4873 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
4874 should include
4875 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
4876 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
4877 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
4878 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
4879 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
4880 GNU/Linux
4881 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
4882 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
4883 arguments
4884 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
4885 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
4886 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
4887 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
4888 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
4889 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
4890 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
4891 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
4892 rounding results
4893 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
4894 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
4895 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
4896 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
4897 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
4898 fails
4899 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
4900 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
4901 block boundary
4902 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
4903 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
4904 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
4905 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
4906 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
4907 4.7?
4908 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
4909 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
4910 (related to lock elision)
4911 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
4912 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
4913 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
4914 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
4915 (CVE-2015-8779)
4916 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
4917 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
4918 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
4919 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
4920 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
4921 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
4922 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
4923 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
4924 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
4925 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
4926 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
4927 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
4928 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
4929 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
4930 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
4931 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
4932 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
4933 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
4934 contains a vector instruction exception.
4935 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
4936 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
4937 locales
4938 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
4939 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
4940 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
4941 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
4942 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
4943 missing break ?
4944 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
4945 32bit processes
4946 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
4947 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
4948 infinity
4949 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
4950 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
4951 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
4952 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
4953 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
4954 be forced unloaded
4955 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
4956 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
4957 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
4958 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
4959 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
4960 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
4961 statically too large
4962 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
4963 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
4964 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
4965 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
4966 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
4967 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
4968 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
4969 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
4970 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
4971 FUTEX_SHARED
4972 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
4973 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
4974 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
4975 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
4976 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
4977 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
4978 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
4979 opendir()
4980 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
4981 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
4982 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
4983 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
4984 signgam
4985 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
4986 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
4987 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
4988 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
4989 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
4990 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
4991 dependencies
4992 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
4993 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
4994 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
4995 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
4996 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
4997 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
4998 (CVE-2015-8776)
4999 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
5000 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
5001 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
5002 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
5003 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
5004 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
5005 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
5006 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
5007 contention
5008 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
5009 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
5010 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
5011 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
5012 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
5013 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
5014 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
5015 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
5016 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
5017 rounding modes
5018 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
5019 ILP32
5020 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
5021 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
5022 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
5023 threshold
5024 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
5025 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
5026 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
7f0d9e61 5027 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assembler
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5028 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
5029 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
5030 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
5031 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
5032 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
5033 pthread_setaffinity_np
5034 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
5035 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
5036 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
5037 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
5038 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
5039 prelink
5040 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
5041 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
5042 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
5043 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
5044 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
5045 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
5046 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
5047 bits/mathcalls.h
5048 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
5049 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
5050 for C99-based standards
5051 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
5052 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
5053 math-only
5054 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
5055 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
5056 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
5057 disabled
5058 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
5059 "inexact" exceptions
5060 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
5061 arguments
5062 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
5063 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
5064 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
5065 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
5066 rules
5067 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
5068 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
5069 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
5070 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
5071 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
5072 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
5073 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
5074 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
5075 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
5076 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
5077 from 32bit
5078 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
5079 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
5080 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
5081 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
5082 subnormals
5083 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
5084 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
5085 error on 32-bit architectures
5086 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
5087 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
5088 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
5089 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
5090 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
5091 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
5092 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
5093 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
5094 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
5095 -Os
5096 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
5097 CPU's.
5098 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
5099 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
5100 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
5101 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
5102 architectures
5103 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
aeb47bbc 5104\f
1c7a4a51
JM
5105Version 2.22
5106
5107* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5108
3df5cd98 5109 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
0e569d30
MF
5110 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
5111 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
5112 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
5113 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
5114 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
5115 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
5116 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
5117 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
5118 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
5119 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
5120 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
5121 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
5122 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
5123 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
5124 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
5125 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
5126 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
6fdd5d65
FW
5127 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
5128 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
2959eda9 5129
f7fba805
SL
5130* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
5131 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
5132
2959eda9
AS
5133* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
5134 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
5135 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
5136 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
5137 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
5138 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4a4839c9 5139
42261ad7
FW
5140* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
5141 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
5142 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
5143 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
5144 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
5145
afcd9480
AM
5146* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
5147 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
5148 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
5149
4a4839c9
AO
5150* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
5151 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
5152 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
5153 17998.
5154
b13b96ca
AS
5155* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
5156 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
5157 condition in some applications.
21933112
AS
5158
5159* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
a6336cc4
AS
5160 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
5161 pow, powf.
21933112
AS
5162 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
5163 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
037e4b99
AS
5164 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
5165 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 5166 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
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5167
5168* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
5169 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
5170 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
5171 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
7fde904c
MF
5172
5173* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
5174 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
5175 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
7493ab25
RM
5176
5177* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
5178 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
2ec11c2b
ZW
5179
5180* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
5181 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
5182 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
5183
a03ba363 5184 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
2ec11c2b
ZW
5185 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
5186 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
1c7a4a51 5187\f
58b930ae
SP
5188Version 2.21
5189
5190* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5191
042e1521 5192 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
5bd80bfe
PP
5193 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
5194 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
5195 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
5196 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
5197 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
5198 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
5199 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
5200 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
5201 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
5202 17892.
5203
46d54873
FW
5204* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
5205 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
5206 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
5207 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
5208 intended.
042e1521
CD
5209
5210* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
5211 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
5212 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
5213 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
5214 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
5215 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
a39208bd 5216
522e6ee3
CLT
5217* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
5218
d3b00f46
AZ
5219* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
5220 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 5221 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
96d6fd6c 5222
8d2c0a59
AZ
5223* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
5224 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
5225 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
5226 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
5227 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
5228 effects being visible outside transactions.
5229
dc400d7b
RE
5230* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
5231 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
ec582ca0 5232
0f9dfe04
L
5233* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
5234
a39208bd
CD
5235* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
5236 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
ebda2f17 5237 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
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CD
5238 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
5239 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
fb89b46d 5240
a5357b7c
JL
5241* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
5242 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
5243
e54db0ea
AM
5244* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
5245 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
5246 format.
11e3417a 5247
4863355a
JM
5248* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
5249 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
5250 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
5251
a4ecc9eb
JM
5252* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
5253 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
5254
0d560bbf 5255* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
0781a777
RM
5256
5257* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
5258 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
5259 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
5260 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
6d248857
WN
5261
5262* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
5263 with newer versions of bison.
28c38448
MF
5264
5265* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
5266 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
5267 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
5268 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
5269 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
5270 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
5271 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
5272 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
5273 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
5274 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
5275 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
5276 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
5277 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
5278
5279 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
5280 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
5281 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
5282 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
5283 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
58b930ae 5284\f
d5b396c1
AM
5285Version 2.20
5286
5287* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5288
6a9350c8
JM
5289 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
5290 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
5291 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
5292 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
5293 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
5294 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
5295 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
5296 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
5297 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
5298 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
5299 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
5300 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
5301 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
5302 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
5303 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
0961f7e1 5304
95ee7fb1
SL
5305* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
5306 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
5307 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
5308 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
5309 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 5310 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
95ee7fb1
SL
5311 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
5312 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
5313 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
5314 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
5315
0961f7e1
JL
5316* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
5317 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
5318 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
5319 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
5320 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
f3d338c9 5321
f940b965
RE
5322* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5323
d0f5b3f8
JM
5324* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
5325 can be used with is 2.6.32.
5326
d6fe5e58
JM
5327* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
5328 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
5329 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
5330 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
5331 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
5332 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
5333
464263cc
JM
5334* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
5335 from ports.
c941736c
JM
5336
5337* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
5338 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
5339 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
5340 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
5341 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
5342 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
5343 test macros defined.
f63c86fe
WN
5344
5345* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5a414ff7
DV
5346
5347* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
5348 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
5349 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
5350 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
5351 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
5352 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
5353 is not built.
d03efb2f
AM
5354
5355* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
5356 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
5357 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
5358 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
5359 invocation.
cfd2ea50
JM
5360
5361* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
5362 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
5363 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
f083450f
RM
5364
5365* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
5366 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
5367 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
5368 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
4e8f95a0
FW
5369
5370* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
5371 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
5372 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
5373 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
5374 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
5375 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
5376 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
5377 additional checks.
9a8a5720
RM
5378
5379* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
5380 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
5381 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
5382 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
5383 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
5384 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
5385 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
5386 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
5387 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
a1a6a401
FW
5388
5389* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
5390 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
5391 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
5392 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
5393 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 5394 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
41488498
FW
5395
5396* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
5397 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
5398 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
5399 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
6c1fd795
DM
5400\f
5401Version 2.19
5402
5403* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5404
fd2f9486
JM
5405 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
5406 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
5407 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
5408 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
5409 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
5410 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
5411 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
5412 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
5413 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
5414 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
ed27ed83
JM
5415 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
5416 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
5417 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
5418 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
5419 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
798212a0
PP
5420 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
5421 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
5422 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
141f3a77 5423
11520a57
CD
5424* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
5425 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
5426
2fe16229
CD
5427* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
5428 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
5429 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
08d76093
CD
5430 extension which uses __block.
5431
303e567a
SP
5432* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
5433 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
5434 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
5435 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
5436 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
5437
141f3a77
SP
5438* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
5439 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
5440 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
5441 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
5442 if malloc fails.
c61b4d41
CD
5443
5444* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
5445 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
5446 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
5447 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
5448 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
91ce4085
FW
5449
5450* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
5451 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
5452 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
5453
ba0d798c
WN
5454* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
5455 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
5456 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
5457 #15856, #15857).
5458
7cbcdb36
SP
5459* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
5460 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
5461
82bab04b 5462* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 5463 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
ddd9fb8f 5464
c5f840fd
MB
5465* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
5466
3e181dda
CD
5467* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
5468 supported locales.
ddd9fb8f 5469
3e181dda 5470* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
7447ccd9 5471
8a05c252
CL
5472* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
5473
6055173a
JM
5474* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
5475 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
5476 for which the C library was built.
5477
b125d3e5
JM
5478* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
5479 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
5480 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
5481 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
5482 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
5483 in the following circumstances:
5484
5485 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
5486
5487 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
5488 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
5489
d4f66d37
JM
5490* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
5491 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
5492
3e181dda
CD
5493* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
5494 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
e35696c3 5495
ffb89e53
AO
5496* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
5497
5d29ccce
SP
5498* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
5499 transcendental functions have been introduced.
5500
8b7d57cd 5501* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
b125d3e5
JM
5502
5503* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 5504
fd712ef3 5505* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 5506
c688b419
JM
5507* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
5508 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
5509 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
5510 disable some of those declarations.
5511
7011c262 5512* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
029c7b25
JM
5513 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
5514 that did nothing) has also been removed.
0a57b83e
AO
5515
5516* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
5517 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
ee4ec1d7
AK
5518
5519* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
5520 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
5521 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
5522 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
5523 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
5524 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
5525 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
5526 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
5527 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
5528 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
5529 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
5530 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
5531 require recompilation.
2c8bfe7d
DM
5532\f
5533Version 2.18
5534
5535* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5536
17db6e8d 5537 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
0432680e
PY
5538 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
5539 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
8c17cb1f
JM
5540 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
5541 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
5542 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
5543 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
5544 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
5545 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
5546 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
5547 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
5548 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
5549 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
5550 15755, 15759.
e4608715
CD
5551
5552* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
5553 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
5554 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
5555 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
5556 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
5557 understands and accepts the risks.
1cef1b19 5558
5b535ac4
AS
5559* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
5560 #15078).
5561
1cef1b19
AS
5562* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
5563 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
7fffbdff 5564
55e4107b
SP
5565* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
5566 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
5567 destructor calls to glibc.
5568
e5c74c63
SP
5569* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
5570 output.
5571
5572* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
5573 non-x86 architectures.
5574
e7521973
JM
5575* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
5576
5577* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
5578
5579* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
5580 Richard Henderson.
5581
5582* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
5583
5584* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
5585 Richard Henderson.
5586
5587* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
5588 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
5589
8cfdb7e0
SP
5590* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
5591
57267616
TS
5592* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
5593 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
58206c68 5594
c204ab28
SP
5595* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
5596 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
61dd6208 5597
0748546f
PE
5598* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
5599 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
5600 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
5601
61dd6208
SP
5602* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
5603 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
5604 attributes of a process.
a7cb9d67
AK
5605
5606* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
5607 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
5608 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
5609 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
5610 mutexes.
be063fa4
RA
5611
5612* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
5613 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
5614
5615* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
370ca3d2
JM
5616\f
5617Version 2.17
5618
5619* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5620
80ceeaee 5621 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
b4180a5e
AJ
5622 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
5623 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
5624 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
5625 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
5626 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
5627 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
5628 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
5629 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
5630 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
5631 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
5632 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
5633 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
5634 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
5635 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
14bc93a9 5636
95b4f1b6
SE
5637* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
5638
14bc93a9
JL
5639* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
5640 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
7a845b2c 5641
b54eb3cb
JM
5642* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
5643 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
5644
7e2bd01f
MS
5645* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
5646
08f43f9b
AK
5647* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
5648 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
5649 zEnterprise z196.
5650 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
5651
84b3fd84
FW
5652* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
5653 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
5654 the internal function __secure_getenv.
5655
815e6fa3
GB
5656* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
5657 Implemented by Gary Benson.
5658
400726de
MK
5659* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
5660 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
5661
7aab07e4 5662* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 5663 can be used with is 2.6.16.
7aab07e4 5664
15d0da8c
WS
5665* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
5666 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
5667
3cc3ef96
RM
5668* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
5669 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
c53d909c
RM
5670 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
5671 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3cc3ef96 5672
b54eb3cb
JM
5673* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
5674 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
5675
85429b1a 5676* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 5677 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
85429b1a
DM
5678 default.
5679
b54eb3cb
JM
5680* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
5681 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
5682 information in --help and --version output.
5683
050af9c4
SP
5684* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
5685 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
5686 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
5687
89a3ad0b
AO
5688* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
5689 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
5690 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
5691 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
5692 when the mode is enabled.
5693
6e6249d0
RM
5694* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
5695 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
5696 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
5697 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
5698 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
5699 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
5700 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5a04f376 5701
d9286582
NK
5702* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
5703 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
8d44e150
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5704\f
5705Version 2.16
5706
5707* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5708
a8133e19
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5709 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
5710 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
5711 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
5712 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
5713 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
5714 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
5715 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
5716 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
5717 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
5718 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
5719 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
5720 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
5721 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
5722 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
5723 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
5724 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
5725 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
5726 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
5727 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
5728 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
5729 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
5730 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
5731 14277, 14278.
380d7e87 5732
a086b4d6
L
5733* Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
5734 configuring glibc with:
5735 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
8f7a75d7 5736 Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
a086b4d6
L
5737 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5738
380d7e87
UD
5739* ISO C11 support:
5740
5741 + define static_assert
5742
5743 + do not declare gets
5744
5745 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
5746
5747 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
5748 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
5749 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
5750 implementation.
8d44e150 5751
74033a25 5752 + timespec_get added
544563c9
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5753
5754 + uchar.h support added
d75a0a62 5755
ac097f5c
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5756 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
5757
16dd419d
UD
5758 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5759
9dc4e1fb 5760* Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
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5761
5762* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
d9a216c0
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5763
5764* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
5765 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
daa891c0
UD
5766
5767* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
5768 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
021db4be
AJ
5769
5770* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
5771 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
5772 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
5773 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
5774 existing applications.
ffb7875d 5775
21708942 5776* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
ffb7875d
JM
5777 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
5778 before 2.6.
83678f76 5779
edb00e4d
RH
5780* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
5781 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
5782 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
5783
83678f76 5784* New locales: mag_IN
7b44a2df
RM
5785
5786* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
5787 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
5788 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
5789 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
5790 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
47e452cf
JM
5791
5792* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5793
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
5794* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
5795 and Will Schmidt.
47e452cf
JM
5796
5797* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
5798
5799* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
5800 without a previously built glibc.
5801
5802* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
5803 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
5804
5805* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
5806 now supported for ARM processors.
5807
5808* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
5809 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
5810 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
5811
5812* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
5813
5814* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
5815 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
5816 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
5817 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
929cc14e
AJ
5818
5819* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
5820 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
5821 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
5822 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
ee9247c3
CD
5823
5824* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
5825 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
5826 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
5827 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
5828 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
5829
5830* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
5831 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
5832 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
5833 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
ee1a7fab 5834\f
e80fab37 5835Version 2.15
11988f8f 5836
c0244a9d
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5837* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5838
aebae053
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5839 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
5840 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
5841 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
5842 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
5843 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
5844 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
5845 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
c0244a9d 5846
11988f8f
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5847* New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
5848 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
9f2da732
UD
5849
5850* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
5851 and support for initgroups lookups.
5852 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
0b1cbaae
L
5853
5854* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
5855 Contributed by HJ Lu.
8912479f
L
5856
5857* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
5858 Contributed by HJ Lu.
99710781 5859
fc2ee42a
LD
5860* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
5861 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 5862 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 5863
d42964a0 5864* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
693fb948
LD
5865 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5866
1d3e4b61
UD
5867* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
5868 for x86-64 and x86-32.
093ecf92
LD
5869 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5870
c55fbd1e
UD
5871* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
5872 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a0f33f99
UD
5873
5874* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
5875 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
684ae515
UD
5876
5877* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
5878 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
0ac5ae23
UD
5879
5880* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
5881 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
d9a4d2ab
UD
5882
5883* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
5884 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5885
5886* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
5887 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
78239589
UD
5888
5889* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
e188ebba
UD
5890
5891* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
5892 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a1267ba1 5893
f0b264f1
AZ
5894* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
5895 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
2655fd5c 5896
6b64057b 5897* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
e80fab37 5898\f
dded88cd 5899Version 2.14
9f94d2ea 5900
50934221
UD
5901* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5902
553149f6 5903 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 5904 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 5905 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 5906 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
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5907 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
5908 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
5909 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
4769ae77
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5910 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
5911 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 5912 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
50934221 5913
7b57bfe5
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5914* The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
5915 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
5916 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 5917 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
018b9e36
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5918
5919 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
a0446976
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5920 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
5921 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
7b57bfe5
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5922 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5923
c6489db3 5924* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
f1f929d7 5925 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
83fe108b 5926
72d1dddb 5927* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 5928 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
bc469bea
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5929
5930* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
a9171047
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5931
5932* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
5933 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7d17596c
UD
5934
5935* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
5936 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
5937 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
5938 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
9f94d2ea 5939\f
4828935d
LM
5940Version 2.13
5941
ac2b484c
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5942* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5943
c30b7ee2
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5944 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
5945 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
5946 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
5947 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
5948 12378, 12394, 12397
ac2b484c 5949
10b3bedc 5950* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
c08fb0d7 5951
ac2b484c 5952* POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
8d50becc 5953
e9f82e0d
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5954* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
5955 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 5956 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4828935d 5957\f
ee1a7fab
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5958Version 2.12
5959
d36b9613
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5960* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5961
2e0fb521
DL
5962 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
5963 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
5964 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
5965 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
fc97f36d
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5966 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
5967 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
5968 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 5969 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
86a4c67f
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5970
5971* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
d36b9613 5972
ee1a7fab
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5973* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
5974
5e4295fb
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5975* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
5976
5977* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
5978 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
5979 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5980
71170aa0
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5981* New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
5982 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
5983 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
5984 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
5985 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5986
d36b9613 5987* New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
b50f8e42
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5988\f
5989Version 2.11
5990
d36b9613
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5991* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5992
5993 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
5994 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
5995 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
5996 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
5997 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
5998 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
5999
3a83202d
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6000* New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
6001 mkostemps64
3d5243d4
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6002 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6003
24ab9c76 6004* Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
b50f8e42
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6005 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6006
b8706f70
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6007* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
6008 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
6009
51a71cf0
UD
6010* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
6011
0122f28e 6012* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
9d36a6c4 6013 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 6014 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
0122f28e
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6015 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
6016
9d36a6c4 6017 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
0122f28e
UD
6018 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6019
9d36a6c4
UD
6020* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
6021 strstr, strcasestr.
6022 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
6023
6024* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
6025 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
6026
0122f28e
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6027* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
6028 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
6029
6030* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
6031 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6032
6033* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
6034 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
6035 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
6036 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
6037 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
6038 necessity is every process again.
6039 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6040
9d36a6c4
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6041* New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
6042 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
6043
6044* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
6045 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
6046
4bc1b896
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6047* Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
6048 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
6049 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6050
9dd5b8a1 6051* New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
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6052\f
6053Version 2.10
6054
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6056
6057 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
6058 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
6059 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
6060 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
6061 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
6062
bb066545 6063* New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
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6065
425ce2ed 6066* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
e109c612 6067 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 6068
1fdd89a7 6069* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
735be400 6070 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
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6073 now in POSIX.
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1f04d005 6075* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6cbe890a 6076 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6079 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6080
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6081* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
6082 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6083
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6084* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
6085 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6086
6087* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
6088 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
6089 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6090
735be400 6091* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
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6095
6096* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
6097 and extend existing format specifiers.
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6099
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6101 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6102
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6103* DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
6104 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
6105 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
6106 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
6107 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
6108 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6110Version 2.9
6111
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6113
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6115 6461, 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712,
6116 6713, 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839,
6117 6843, 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955,
6118 6966, 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
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6122
6123* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
6124 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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6126* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
6127 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6129* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
6130 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
6131 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6132
6133* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
6134 Implemented by Eric Blake.
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6138* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
ebcc1f4d 6139 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6141* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
6142 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
6143 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
6144 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6145
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6146* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
6147 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6149* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
6150 Sinhala)
48b22986 6151 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
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6153* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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6155Version 2.8
6156
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6158
6159 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
6160 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
6161 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
6162 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
6163 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
6164 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
6165 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
6166
e038616f 6167* New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
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6171* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
6172 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
6173
6174* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
6175
6176* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
6177 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6178
6179* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
6180 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6181
6182* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
6183 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
6184 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
6185
6186* Faster memset for x86-64.
6187 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
6188
6189* Faster memcpy on x86.
6190 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6191
6192* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
6193 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3b32d8a2 6194
7f0d9e61 6195* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implementation for some PPC variants.
d990b282 6196 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
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6198Version 2.7
6199
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6200* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6201
6202 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
6203 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
6204 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
6205 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
6206 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
6207
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6208* More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
6209 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
6210
6211* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
6212
6213* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
6214 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
6215 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
6216
6217* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
6218 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
6219
28919a77 6220* New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
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6221 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6222
6223* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6224
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6225* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
6226 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6227
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6228* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
6229 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
6230
6231* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
6232 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
6233
6234* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6235
6236* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
6237 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6239* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
6240 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
6241 yo_NG.
6242
6243+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
6244 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6248* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6249
6250 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
6251 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
6252 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
6253 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
6254 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
6255 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
6256 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
6257 4702, 4858
6258
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6262
b21fa963 6263* nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6266
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6267* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6268
6269 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
6270 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
6271 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
6272 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
6273 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
6274 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
6275 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
6276 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
6277 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
6278
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6280 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
6281 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6283* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
6284 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6285
871b9158 6286* New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
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6287
6288* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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6290* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
6291 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
6292 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
457b559e 6293 site might have problems with the default behavior.
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6294 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6295
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6297 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
6298 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
6299 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6300
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6301* The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
6302 Ulrich Drepper.
6303
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6304* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
6305
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6306* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
6307 Ulrich Drepper.
6308
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6309* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
6310
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6311* New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
6312 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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6314Version 2.4
6315
6316* More overflow detection functions.
6317
6318* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
6319 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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6321 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
6322 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
6323 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
6324 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
6325 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
6326 by Masahide Washizawa.
6327
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6328* It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
6329 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6331* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
6332 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
6333 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
6334 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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6336* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
6337 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
6338
6339* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
6340
6341* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
6342 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
6343 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
6344
6345* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
6346 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
6347
6348* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
6349 for compatibility with some other systems.
6350
6351* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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6353Version 2.3.6
6354
6355* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6356
6357 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
6358 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
6359 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
6360 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
6361 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
6362 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
6363
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6366* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
6367
6368* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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6370Version 2.3.5
6371
6372* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6373
6374 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
6375 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
6376 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
6377 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
6378
5a82c748 6379 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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6381Version 2.3.4
6382
6383* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
6384 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6385
6386* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
6387 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
6388 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6389
6390* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
6391 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
6392
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6394 efficiently.
6395 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6396
6397* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
6398 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
6399 handling data.
6400
6401* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
6402 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
0325dd20 6403 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6404
6405* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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6406 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6407
6408* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
6409 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
6410 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
6411 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6412
6413* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
6414 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
6415 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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6416 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
6417
6418* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
6419 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
6420 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
6421 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
6422 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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6425
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6427 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
6428
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6430 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
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6434
6435* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
6436 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6438* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
6439 by Roland McGrath.
6440
c5af724c 6441* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
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6443
6444* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
6445 RFC 3484.
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6449* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
6450 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
6451 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
6452 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
6453 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
6454 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
6455 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
6456 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
6457 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
6458
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6460 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
6461 and are now also available on the Hurd.
6462
6463* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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6465* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
6466 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
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6468* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
6469 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
6470
52a16e58 6471* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
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6473* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
6474 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
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7f0d9e61 6476* With appropriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
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6477 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
6478 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
6479 of weak definition in ld.so.
6480
6481* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
6482 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
6483
6484* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
6485 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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6489* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
6490 charsets.
6491
6492* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
6493 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
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bb0ec5bd 6495* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 6496 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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6497
6498* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
6499 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
8e57fc70 6500
bb0ec5bd 6501* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
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6502 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
6503 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6504
6505* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
6506 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3b0bdc72 6507
bb0ec5bd 6508* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3b0bdc72 6509 implementation of regex.
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6510
6511* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
6512 Unicode 3.2.
be45f421 6513
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6514* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
6515 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
be45f421 6516
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6517* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
6518 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
6519 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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6520
6521* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
f87277f2 6522 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
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6523
6524* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
6525 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
6526 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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6527
6528* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
6529 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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6530
6531* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
6532 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
6533 and Ulrich Drepper.
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6534
6535* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
6536\f
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6537Version 2.2.6
6538
6539* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
6540 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
6541
6542* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
6543 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
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6545Version 2.2.5
6546
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6547* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
6548 128-bit long double format.
a8ae31c2 6549
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6550* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
6551 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
a8ae31c2 6552
ad2e4f18 6553* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
a8ae31c2 6554
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6555* Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
6556
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6557* libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
6558 as well.
6559
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6560* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
6561 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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6562
6563* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
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6565Version 2.2.4
6566
2995f70e 6567* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 6568 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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6569
6570* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
6571 support Unicode 3.1.
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6572
6573* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
6574 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
045fcd26 6575
69d5f925 6576* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 6577
69d5f925 6578* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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6579 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
6580 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6581
6582* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
6583 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
6584
6585* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
6586 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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6587
6588* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
33996419 6589\f
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6590Version 2.2.3
6591
1746f2b0 6592* Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
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6593 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
6594 in float, double, and long double format.
6595
f128331c 6596* Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
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6597 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
6598 128-bit long double format.
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6600* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
6601 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
6602 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
6603 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
6604
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6605* An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
6606 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
6607 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6608
6609* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
6610 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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6611
6612* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
6613 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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6614
6615* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
6616 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
6617 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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6618
6619* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
6620 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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6622* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
6623 of functions for Linux/x86.
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6625* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
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6627Version 2.2.2
6628
464d97ec 6629* Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
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6630 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
6631 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
6632 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
6633 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
6634 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
6635 other headers.
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6636
6637* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
6638 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
6639
6640* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
6641 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
6642 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
6643 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6644
6645* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
6646 locales. While
6647
6648 locale -a
6649
6650 only lists the names of the supported locales
6651
6652 locale -a --verbose
6653
6654 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
6655 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
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6657Version 2.2.1
6658
6659* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
6660 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
6661 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
6662 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
6663 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
6664
6665 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
6666
6667 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
6668
6669 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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6670
6671* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
6672 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
6673 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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6674
6675* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
6676 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
6677
6678* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
6679 changed from the default "C" locale.
6680
6681* The usual bug fixes.
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6683Version 2.2
6684
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6685* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
6686 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
6687 is in progress.
6688
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6689* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
6690
793bd4d9 6691* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
2e92188d 6692
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6693 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
6694 obviously requires a database library being available.
6695
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6696* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6697
abbffdf9 6698* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
01c771d0 6699
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6700* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
6701 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
6702
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6703* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
6704
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6705* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
6706 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
6707 and Mark Kettenis.
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6708
6709 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
6710 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
6711 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 6712
a00c3ca9 6713 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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6714 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
6715
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6716* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
6717 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
6718 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
6719
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6720* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
6721 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
6722 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
6723 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6724
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6725 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
6726 structures for the wide character tables.
6727
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6728* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6729
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6730* The utmp daemon has been removed.
6731
6732* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
6733
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6734* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
6735 and Yutaka Niibe.
6736
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6737* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
6738
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6739* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
6740
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6741* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6742
6743* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
6744
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6745* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
6746
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6747* the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
6748 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
6749 implemented for Linux.
6750
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6751* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
6752 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
6753 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
6754 versions.
6755
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6756* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
6757 Masahide Washizawa.
6758
8f3f1e09 6759* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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6761Version 2.1.3
6762
6763* bug fixes
6764
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6766Version 2.1.2
6767
6768* bug fixes
6769
28f540f4 6770\f
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6771Version 2.1.1
6772
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6773* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
6774
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6775* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
6776
407d26b7 6777* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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6778
6779* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
6780
407d26b7 6781* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 6782
407d26b7 6783* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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6784
6785* Update timezone data files.
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6787* lots of charmaps corrections
6788
6789* some new locale definitions and charmaps
6790
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6792Version 2.1
6793
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6794* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
6795 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
6796 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
6797 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
6798 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
6799 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
6800
c84142e8 6801* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 6802 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 6803
1fb05e3d 6804* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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6805 symbol level.
6806
7f0d9e61 6807* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierarchical
c84142e8 6808 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
377a515b 6809
cbdee279 6810* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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6811
6812* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 6813 numbers.
377a515b 6814
cbdee279 6815* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
e61abf83 6816
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6817* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
6818 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
e61abf83 6819
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6820* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
6821 library.
6822
e61abf83 6823* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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6824 functions from ISO C 9X.
6825
6826* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
6827 real valued functions.
e61abf83 6828
a5a0310d 6829* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
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6832
6833* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 6834
440d13e2 6835* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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6836
6837* Optimized string functions have been added.
6838
6839* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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6841* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
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6843* Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
6844 daemon for NSS (nscd).
6845
6846 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
6847 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
6848
0dee6738 6849 user system wall
48244d09 6850
0dee6738 6851 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 6852
0dee6738 6853 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 6854
0dee6738 6855 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
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6857 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
6858
6859 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
6860
6861 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
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6863 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
6864 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
0dee6738 6865 horribly slow.
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6868 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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6870* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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6871
6872* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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6874* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
6875 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
6876
6877* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
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6879* A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
6880 Bambrough.
6881
6882* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
6883 latest draft standards.
6884
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6885* Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
6886
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6887* Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
6888~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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48244d09 6890alphasort64 NEW: LFS
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6891argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
6892argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
6893argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
6894argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
6895argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
6896argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
6897argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
6898argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
6899argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
6900argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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6901authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
6902authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
6903authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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6904backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
6905backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
6906backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
6907cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
6908cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
6909cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
6910cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
6911cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
6912cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
6913capget NEW: kernel
6914capset NEW: kernel
6915carg NEW: ISO C 9x
6916cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
6917cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
6918casin NEW: ISO C 9x
6919casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
6920casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
6921casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6922casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6923casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
6924catan NEW: ISO C 9x
6925catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6926catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
6927catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6928catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6929catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
e980ca92 6930cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
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6932ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
6933ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
6934ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
6935ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
6936ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
6937cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
6938cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
6939cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
6940cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
6941cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
6942cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
6943clearerr_locked REMOVED
6944clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
6945clog NEW: ISO C 9x
6946clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
6947clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
6948clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
6949clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
6950clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
6951conj NEW: ISO C 9x
6952conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
6953conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
6954cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
6955cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
6956cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
6957cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
6958cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
6959cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
6960creal NEW: ISO C 9x
6961crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
6962creall NEW: ISO C 9x
6963creat64 NEW: LFS
6964csin NEW: ISO C 9x
6965csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
6966csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
6967csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6968csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6969csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
6970csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
6971csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
6972csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
6973ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
6974ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6975ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
6976ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6977ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6978ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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6979des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
6980ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 6981endutxent NEW: Unix98
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6982exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x
6983exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
6984exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
6985exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
6986exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
6987exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
6988fattach NEW: STREAMS
6989fdetach NEW: STREAMS
6990fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
6991fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
6992fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
6993feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6994fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6995fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
6996fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
6997feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6998feof_locked REMOVED
6999feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
7000ferror_locked REMOVED
7001fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
7002fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
7003fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
7004fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
7005feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
7006fflush_locked REMOVED
7007ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
7008ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
7009fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
7010fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
7011fileno_locked REMOVED
7012fma NEW: ISO C 9x
7013fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
7014fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
7015fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
7016fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
7017fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
7018fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
7019fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
7020fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
62595351 7021fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
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7023fputc_locked REMOVED
7024fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
7025fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
7026freopen64 NEW: LFS
7027fseeko NEW: Unix98
7028fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
7029fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
7030fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
7031fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
7032ftello NEW: Unix98
7033ftello64 NEW: LFS
7034ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
7035ftw64 NEW: LFS
7036fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
7037gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
7038gamma_r REMOVED
7039gammaf_r REMOVED
7040gammal_r REMOVED
7041getchar_locked REMOVED
7042getdate NEW: Unix98
7043getdate_err NEW: Unix98
7044getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
7045getmsg NEW: STREAMS
7046getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
e980ca92 7047getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
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7049getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
7050getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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7051getutxent NEW: Unix98
7052getutxid NEW: Unix98
7053getutxline NEW: Unix98
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7054glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
7055globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
7056gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
7057gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
7058grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
e980ca92 7059host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
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7060iconv NEW: iconv
7061iconv_close NEW: iconv
7062iconv_open NEW: iconv
7063if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
7064if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
7065if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
7066if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
7067in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
7068in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
7069inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
7070isastream NEW: STREAMS
7071iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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7072key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
7073key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
7074key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
7075key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
7076key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
7077key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
7078key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
7079key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
7080key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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7081llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
7082llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
7083llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
7084llround NEW: ISO C 9x
7085llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
7086llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
7087log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
7088log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
7089log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
7090lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
7091lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
7092lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
7093lround NEW: ISO C 9x
7094lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
7095lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
7096lseek64 NEW: LFS
7097makecontext NEW: Unix98
7098mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
7099mmap64 NEW: LFS
7100moncontrol REMOVED
7101modify_ldt NEW: kernel
7102nan NEW: ISO C 9x
7103nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
7104nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
7105nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
7106nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
7107nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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7108netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
7109netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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7110nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
7111nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
7112nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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7113nftw NEW: Unix98
7114nftw64 NEW: LFS
7115open64 NEW: LFS
e980ca92 7116passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
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7117pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
7118pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
7119pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
7120pread NEW: Unix98
7121pread64 NEW: LFS
7122printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
7123printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
7124profil_counter REMOVED
7125pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
7126pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
7127ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
7128ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
7129putc_locked REMOVED
7130putchar_locked REMOVED
7131putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
7132putmsg NEW: STREAMS
7133putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
62595351 7134pututxline NEW: Unix98
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7135pwrite NEW: Unix98
7136pwrite64 NEW: LFS
7137readdir64 NEW: LFS
7138readdir64_r NEW: LFS
7139remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
7140remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
7141remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
7142round NEW: ISO C 9x
7143roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
7144roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
7145rtime NEW: GNU ext.
7146scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
7147scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
7148scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
7149scandir64 NEW: LFS
7150sendfile NEW: kernel
7151setcontext NEW: Unix98
7152setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 7153setutxent NEW: Unix98
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7154sighold NEW: Unix98
7155sigignore NEW: Unix98
7156sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
7157sigrelse NEW: Unix98
7158sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
7159sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
7160sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
7161sincos NEW: GNU ext.
7162sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
7163sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
7164statfs64 NEW: LFS
7165statvfs NEW: Unix98
7166statvfs64 NEW: LFS
7167strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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7168strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
7169strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
7170strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
e980ca92 7171svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
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7172svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
7173svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
7174swapcontext NEW: Unix98
7175tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
7176tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
7177tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
7178tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
7179tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
7180tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
7181trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
7182truncate64 NEW: LFS
7183truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
7184truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
7185umount2 NEW: kernel
7186unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 7187updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 7188user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 7189utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 7190versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
3ef4002b 7191versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
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7192waitid NEW: Unix98
7193wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
7194wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
7195wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
7196wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
7197wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
7198wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
7199wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
7200wcswcs NEW: Unix98
7201wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
7202wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
7203write_profiling REMOVED
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7204xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
7205xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
7206xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
7207xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
7208xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
7209xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
7210xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
7211xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
7212xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
7213xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
7214xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
7215xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
7216xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 7217xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
e980ca92 7218xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 7219~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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7221Version 2.0.6
7222
7223* more bug fixes
7224
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7226Version 2.0.5
7227
7228* more bug fixes
7229
7230* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
7231
7232* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
7233
7234* rewrite of cbrt function
7235
7236* update of timezone data
7237\f
7238Version 2.0.4
7239
7240* more bug fixes
7241\f
7242Version 2.0.3
7243
7244* more bug fixes
c84142e8 7245\f
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7246Version 2.0.2
7247
7248* more bug fixes
7249
7250* add atoll function
7251
7252* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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7253
7254* fix math functions
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7255\f
7256Version 2.0.1
7257
7258* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
7259
7260* dynamic loader preserves all registers
7261
7262* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
7263 the ELF dynamic loader.
7264
7265* support for parallel builds is improved
7266\f
40a4b79f 7267Version 2.0
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7269* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
7270 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
7271 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
7272
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7273* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
7274 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
7275 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
7276 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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7277 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
7278 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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7279 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
7280 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
7281 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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7282 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
7283 files in the ELF format.
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7284
7285* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
7286 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
7287
7288* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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7289 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
7290 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
7291 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
7292 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
7293 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
7294 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
7295 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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7296 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
7297 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
7298 about dynamically linked binaries.
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7300* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
7301 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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7302 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
7303 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
7304 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 7305
f7eac6eb 7306* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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7307 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
7308 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
7309 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
7310 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
7311
7312* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
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7314* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
7315 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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7316 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
7317 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
7318 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
7319 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
7320 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
7321 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
7322 NSS services available.
5f0e6fc7 7323
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7324* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
7325 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
7326 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
7327
7328* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
7329 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
7330 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
7331
7332* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
7333 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
7334 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
7335 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
7336
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7337* The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
7338 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
7339 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
7340
7341* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
7342 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
7343 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
7344
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7345* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
7346 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
7347
f7eac6eb 7348* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 7349 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 7350 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
7f0d9e61 7351 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendment 1 specification.
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7352
7353* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
7354 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
7355 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 7356
71733723 7357* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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7358 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
7359 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
7360 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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7361 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
7362 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 7363 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 7364 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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7365
7366* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
7367 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
7368 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
7369 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
7370 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
7371 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
7372 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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7373
7374* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
7375 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
7376 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
7377 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
7378 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
7379 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
7380
7381* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
7382 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
7383
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7384* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
7385 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
7386 NSS scheme used in glibc.
28f540f4 7387
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7388* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
7389
7390* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
7391 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
7392 their use is discouraged.
7393
7394* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
7395 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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7397* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
7398 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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7399
7400* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
7401 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
7402
7403* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
7404 see <dirent.h>.
7405
7406* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
7407 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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7408 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
7409 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
7410 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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7411
7412* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
7413 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
7414 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
7415 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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7416
7417* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
7418 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
7419
7420* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
7421 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
7422 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
7423 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
7424 number generator.
7425
7426* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
7427 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
7428
7429* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
7430 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
7431
71733723 7432* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 7433 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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7434 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
7435 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
c709e372 7436
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7437* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
7438
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7439* David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
7440 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
7441 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
7442
7443* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
7444 for arithmetic and string handling.
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c709e372 7446* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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7447 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
7448 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
7449 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
7450
7451* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
7452 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
7453 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
7454 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
7455 programs already written to use it.)
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7456
7457* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
7458 constants.
7459
7460* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
7461 with 4.4 BSD.
7462
7463* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
7464 a given effective group ID.
7465
7466* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
7467 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
7468 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
7469 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
7470
7471* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 7472 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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7473 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
7474 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
7475 doing the same thing.
7476
7477* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
7478 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
7479
7480* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 7481 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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7482
7483* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
7484
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7485* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
7486 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
7487 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 7488 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 7489 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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7490
7491* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
7492 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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7493
7494* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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7495 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
7496 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
7497 function.
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7498
7499* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
7500
7501* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
7502 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
7503 strings.
7504
7505* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
7506 and writing the utmp file.
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7507
7508* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
7509 Thorsten Kukuk.
7510
7511* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
7512 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
7513 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
7514
7515* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
7516 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
7517
7518* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
7519 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
7520 specification.
7521
7522* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
7523 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
7524 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
7525 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
7526
7527* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
7528 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
7529 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
7530
7531* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
7532 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
7533 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
7534 expression matcher.
7535
7536* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
7537 functionality.
7538
7539* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
7540 by Ulrich Drepper.
7541
7542* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
7543
7544* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
7545 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
7546 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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7547\f
7548Version 1.09
7549
7550* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
7551
7552* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
7553 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
7554
7555* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
7556 want to put themselves in the background.
7557
7558* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
7559 run without an operating system.
7560
7561* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
7562 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
7563
7564* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
7565 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
7566
7567* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
7568
7569* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
7570 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
7571 have YP (aka NIS).
7572
7573* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
7574 conventions.
7575
7576* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
7577 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
7578\f
7579Version 1.08
7580
7581* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
7582 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
7583 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
7584
7585* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
7586 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
7587
7588* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
7589 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
7590
7591* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
7592
7593* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
7594
7595* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
7596 compatibility.
7597
7598* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
7599 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
7600 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
7601
7602* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
7603
7604* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
7605 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
7606 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
7607
7608* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
7609 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
7610 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
7611 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
7612 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
7613 on a block).
7614
7615* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
7616 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
7617 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
7618 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
7619 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
7620 cross-compiler.
7621
7622* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
7623 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
7624\f
7625Version 1.07
7626
7627* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
7628 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
7629
7630* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
7631 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
7632 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
7633
7634* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
7635 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
7636 address of the last character written.
7637
7638* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
7639 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
7640
7641* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
7642 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
7643
7644* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
7645 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
7646 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
7647 you dereference this pointer.
7648
7649* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
7650 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
7651
7652* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
7653 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
7654 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
7655 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
7656
7657* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
7658 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
7659 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
7660 EAGAIN in every system call function.
7661\f
7662Version 1.06
7663
7664* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
7665 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
7666 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
7667 in Emacs or the `info' program.
ea278354 7668 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
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7669
7670* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
7671
7672* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
7673
7674* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
7675 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
7676
7677* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
7678 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
7679
7680* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
7681 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
7682
7683* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
7684 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
7685 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
7686 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
7687 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
7688
7689* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
7690 to the error code in `errno'.
7691
7692* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
7693 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
7694 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
7695 malloc'd string.
7696
7697* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
7698 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
7699 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
7700
7701* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
7702 uniquely-named temporary file.
7703\f
7704Version 1.05
7705
7706* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
7707 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
7708 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
7709
7710* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
7711 characters.
7712
7713* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
7714 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
7715
7716* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
7717\f
7718Version 1.04
7719
7720* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
7721 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
7722 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
7723 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
7724
7725* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
7726 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
7727 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
7728
7729* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
7730 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
7731
7732* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
7733 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
7734 made itself into a shared library.
7735
7736* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
7737 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
7738
7739* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
7740 with limited length.
7741
7742* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
7743
7744* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
7745
7746* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
7747
7748* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
7749 function for traversing a directory tree.
7750
7751* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
7752 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
7753 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
7754 formatted output directly to an obstack.
7755
7756* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
7757 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
7758
7759* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
7760
7761* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
7762 things to your strings.
7763
7764* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
7765
7766* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
7767 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
7768 supporting those systems.
7769
7770* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
7771 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
7772 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
7773 configuration files.
7774
7775* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
7776 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
7777
7778* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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7779 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
7780 in <strings.h>.)
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7781
7782* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
7783 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
7784 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
7785 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
7786 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
7787 required storage is not available.
7788
7789* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
7790 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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7791
7792* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
7793 latest files released from Berkeley.
7794\f
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7797
7798 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
7799 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
7800 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
7801 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
7802
7803 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
7804 of this document, or of portions of it,
7805 under the above conditions, provided also that they
7806 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
7807\f
7808Local variables:
7809version-control: never
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