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8 Version 2.36
9
10 Major new features:
11
12 * Support for DT_RELR relative relocation format has been added to
13 glibc. This is a new ELF dynamic tag that improves the size of
14 relative relocations in shared object files and position independent
15 executables (PIE). DT_RELR generation requires linker support for
16 -z pack-relative-relocs option, which is supported for some targets
17 in recent binutils versions. Lazy binding doesn't apply to DT_RELR.
18
19 * On Linux, the pidfd_open, pidfd_getfd, and pidfd_send_signal functions
20 have been added. The pidfd functionality provides access to a process
21 while avoiding the issue of PID reuse on tranditional Unix systems.
22
23 * On Linux, the process_madvise function has been added. It has the
24 same functionality as madvise but alters the target process identified
25 by the pidfd.
26
27 * On Linux, the process_mrelease function has been added. It allows a
28 caller to release the memory of a dying process. The release of the
29 memory is carried out in the context of the caller, using the caller's
30 CPU affinity, and priority with CPU usage accounted to the caller.
31
32 * The “no-aaaa” DNS stub resolver option has been added. System
33 administrators can use it to suppress AAAA queries made by the stub
34 resolver, including AAAA lookups triggered by NSS-based interfaces
35 such as getaddrinfo. Only DNS lookups are affected: IPv6 data in
36 /etc/hosts is still used, getaddrinfo with AI_PASSIVE will still
37 produce IPv6 addresses, and configured IPv6 name servers are still
38 used. To produce correct Name Error (NXDOMAIN) results, AAAA queries
39 are translated to A queries. The new resolver option is intended
40 primarily for diagnostic purposes, to rule out that AAAA DNS queries
41 have adverse impact. It is incompatible with EDNS0 usage and DNSSEC
42 validation by applications.
43
44 * On Linux, the fsopen, fsmount, move_mount, fsconfig, fspick, and open_tree
45 functions have been added. They are part of the new Linux kernel mount
46 APIs that allow applications to more flexibly configure and operate on
47 filesystem mounts. The new mount APIs are specifically designed to work
48 with namespaces.
49
50 * localedef now accepts locale definition files encoded in UTF-8.
51 Previously, input bytes not within the ASCII range resulted in
52 unpredictable output.
53
54 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
55
56 * Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes
57 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
58 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
59
60 * The Linux kernel version check has been removed along with the
61 LD_ASSUME_KERNEL environment variable. The minimum kernel used to built
62 glibc is still provided through NT_GNU_ABI_TAG ELF note and also printed
63 when libc.so is issued directly.
64
65 * On Linux, The LD_LIBRARY_VERSION environment variable has been removed.
66
67 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
68
69 [Add changes to build and runtime requirements here]
70
71 Security related changes:
72
73 [Add security related changes here]
74
75 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
76
77 [The release manager will add the list generated by
78 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
79
80 \f
81 Version 2.35
82
83 Major new features:
84
85 * Unicode 14.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
86 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 14.0.0, using
87 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
88
89 * Bump r_version in the debugger interface to 2 and add a new field,
90 r_next, support multiple namespaces.
91
92 * Support for the C.UTF-8 locale has been added to glibc. The locale
93 supports full code-point sorting for all valid Unicode code points. A
94 limitation in the framework for fnmatch, regexec, and regcomp requires
95 a compromise to save space and only ASCII-based range expressions are
96 supported for now (see bug 28255). The full size of the locale is
97 only ~400KiB, with 346KiB coming from LC_CTYPE information for
98 Unicode. This locale harmonizes downstream C.UTF-8 already shipping
99 in various downstream distributions. The locale is not built into
100 glibc, and must be installed.
101
102 * <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type, and
103 corresponding <tgmath.h> macros, are added from TS 18661-1:2014, TS
104 18661-3:2015 and draft ISO C2X:
105
106 - fsqrt, fsqrtl, dsqrtl and corresponding fMsqrtfN, fMsqrtfNx,
107 fMxsqrtfN and fMxsqrtfNx functions.
108
109 - ffma, ffmal, dfmal and corresponding fMfmafN, fMfmafNx, fMxfmafN and
110 fMxfmafNx functions.
111
112 * <math.h> functions for floating-point maximum and minimum,
113 corresponding to new operations in IEEE 754-2019, and corresponding
114 <tgmath.h> macros, are added from draft ISO C2X: fmaximum,
115 fmaximum_num, fmaximum_mag, fmaximum_mag_num, fminimum, fminimum_num,
116 fminimum_mag, fminimum_mag_num and corresponding functions for float,
117 long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx.
118
119 * <math.h> macros for single-precision float constants are added as a
120 GNU extension: M_Ef, M_LOG2Ef, M_LOG10Ef, M_LN2f, M_LN10f, M_PIf,
121 M_PI_2f, M_PI_4f, M_1_PIf, M_2_PIf, M_2_SQRTPIf, M_SQRT2f and
122 M_SQRT1_2f.
123
124 * The __STDC_IEC_60559_BFP__ and __STDC_IEC_60559_COMPLEX__ macros are
125 predefined as specified in TS 18661-1:2014.
126
127 * The exp10 functions in <math.h> now have a corresponding type-generic
128 macro in <tgmath.h>.
129
130 * The ISO C2X macro _PRINTF_NAN_LEN_MAX has been added to <stdio.h>.
131
132 * printf-family functions now support the %b format for output of
133 integers in binary, as specified in draft ISO C2X, and the %B variant
134 of that format recommended by draft ISO C2X.
135
136 * A new DSO sorting algorithm has been added in the dynamic linker that uses
137 topological sorting by depth-first search (DFS), solving performance issues
138 of the existing sorting algorithm when encountering particular circular
139 object dependency cases.
140
141 * A new tunable, glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort, can be used to select between
142 the two DSO sorting algorithms. The default setting of '2' uses the
143 new DFS-based algorithm. The setting '1' switches to the old
144 algorithm used in glibc 2.33 and earlier.
145
146 * ABI support for a new function '__memcmpeq'. '__memcmpeq' is meant
147 to be used by compilers for optimizing usage of 'memcmp' when its
148 return value is only used for its boolean status.
149
150 * Support for automatically registering threads with the Linux rseq
151 system call has been added. This system call is implemented starting
152 from Linux 4.18. The Restartable Sequences ABI accelerates user-space
153 operations on per-cpu data. It allows user-space to perform updates
154 on per-cpu data without requiring heavy-weight atomic operations.
155 Automatically registering threads allows all libraries, including
156 libc, to make immediate use of the rseq support by using the
157 documented ABI, via the __rseq_flags, __rseq_offset, and __rseq_size
158 variables. The GNU C Library manual has details on integration of
159 Restartable Sequences.
160
161 * A symbolic link to the dynamic linker is now installed under
162 /usr/bin/ld.so (or more precisely, '${bindir}/ld.so').
163
164 * All programs and the testsuite in glibc are now built as position independent
165 executables (PIE) by default on toolchains and architectures that support it.
166 Further, if the toolchain and architecture supports it, even static programs
167 are built as PIE and the resultant glibc can be used to build static PIE
168 executables. A new option --disable-default-pie has been added to disable
169 this behavior and get a non-PIE build. This option replaces
170 --enable-static-pie, which no longer has any effect on the build
171 configuration.
172
173 * On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.malloc.hugetlb, can be used to
174 either make malloc issue madvise plus MADV_HUGEPAGE on mmap and sbrk
175 or to use huge pages directly with mmap calls with the MAP_HUGETLB
176 flags). The former can improve performance when Transparent Huge Pages
177 is set to 'madvise' mode while the latter uses the system reserved
178 huge pages.
179
180 * The printf family of functions now handles the flagged %#m conversion
181 specifier, printing errno as an error constant (similar to strerrorname_np).
182
183 * The function _dl_find_object has been added. In-process unwinders
184 can use it to efficiently locate unwinding information for a code
185 address.
186
187 * Support for OpenRISC running on Linux has been added. This port requires
188 as least binutils 2.35, GCC 11, and Linux 5.4. Currently only soft-float
189 ABI is supported:
190
191 - or1k-linux-gnu
192
193 The OpenRISC ABI is 32-bit big-endian and uses 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and
194 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
195
196 * A new configure option, --with-rtld-early-cflags, can be used to
197 specify additional compiler flags for building the early startup code
198 of the dynamic linker. On targets which have CPU compatibility
199 checks, this can help to ensure that proper diagnostics are printed if
200 the dynamic loader runs on an incompatible CPU.
201
202 * On Linux, the epoll_pwait2 function has been added. It is similar to
203 epoll_wait with the difference the timeout has nanoseconds resolution.
204
205 * The function posix_spawn_file_actions_addtcsetpgrp_np has been added,
206 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to set the controlling terminal in
207 the new process in a race free manner. This function is a GNU extension.
208
209 * Source fortification (_FORTIFY_SOURCE) level 3 is now available for
210 applications compiling with glibc and gcc 12 and later. Level 3 leverages
211 the __builtin_dynamic_object_size function to deliver additional
212 fortification balanced against additional runtime cost (checking non-constant
213 bounds).
214
215 * The audit libraries will avoid unnecessary slowdown if it is not required
216 PLT tracking (by not implementing the la_pltenter or la_pltexit callbacks).
217
218 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
219
220 * On x86-64, the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC environment variable support
221 has been removed since the first PT_LOAD segment is no longer executable
222 due to defaulting to -z separate-code.
223
224 * The r_version update in the debugger interface makes the glibc binary
225 incompatible with GDB binaries built without the following commits:
226
227 c0154a4a21a gdb: Don't assume r_ldsomap when r_version > 1 on Linux
228 4eb629d50d4 gdbserver: Check r_version < 1 for Linux debugger interface
229
230 when audit modules or dlmopen are used.
231
232 * Intel MPX support (lazy PLT, ld.so profile, and LD_AUDIT) has been removed.
233
234 * The --enable-static-pie option is no longer available. The glibc build
235 configuration script now automatically detects static-pie support in the
236 toolchain and architecture and enables it if available.
237
238 * The catchsegv script and associated libSegFault.so shared object have
239 been removed. There are widely-deployed out-of-process alternatives for
240 catching coredumps and backtraces.
241
242 * Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes
243 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
244 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
245
246 * The LD_TRACE_PRELINKING environment variable has been removed. Similar
247 functionality to obtain the program mapping address can be achieved by
248 using LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS to value of 2.
249
250 * The LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS has been removed. The variable was mainly used to
251 support prelink PIE binaries.
252
253 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
254
255 * The audit module interface version LAV_CURRENT is increased to enable
256 proper bind-now support. The loader now advertises via the la_symbind
257 flags that PLT trace is not possible. New audit modules require the
258 new dynamic loader supporing the latest LAV_CURRENT version. Old audit
259 modules are still loaded for all targets except aarch64.
260
261 * The audit interface on aarch64 is extended to support both the indirect
262 result location register (x8) and NEON Q register. Old audit modules are
263 rejected by the loader. Audit modules must be rebuilt to use the newer
264 structure sizes and the latest module interface version for LAV_CURRENT.
265
266 Security related changes:
267
268 CVE-2022-23219: Passing an overlong file name to the clnt_create
269 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow when
270 using the "unix" protocol. Reported by Martin Sebor.
271
272 CVE-2022-23218: Passing an overlong file name to the svcunix_create
273 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow.
274
275 CVE-2021-3998: Passing a path longer than PATH_MAX to the realpath
276 function could result in a memory leak and potential access of
277 uninitialized memory. Reported by Qualys.
278
279 CVE-2021-3999: Passing a buffer of size exactly 1 byte to the getcwd
280 function may result in an off-by-one buffer underflow and overflow
281 when the current working directory is longer than PATH_MAX and also
282 corresponds to the / directory through an unprivileged mount
283 namespace. Reported by Qualys.
284
285 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
286
287 [12889] nptl: Race condition in pthread_kill
288 [14232] nptl: tst-cancel7 and tst-cancelx7 race condition
289 [14913] libc: [mips] Clean up MIPS 64-bit register-dump.h output
290 [15310] dynamic-link: _dl_sort_fini is O(n^3) causing slow exit when
291 many dsos
292 [15333] libc: Use 64-bit stat functions in installed programs
293 [15533] dynamic-link: LD_AUDIT introduces an avoidable performance
294 degradation
295 [15971] dynamic-link: No interface for debugger access to libraries
296 loaded with dlmopen
297 [17318] locale: [RFE] Provide a C.UTF-8 locale by default
298 [17645] dynamic-link: RFE: Improve performance of dynamic loader for
299 deeply nested DSO dependencies.
300 [19193] nptl: pthread_kill, pthread_cancel return ESRCH for a thread
301 ID whose lifetime has not ended
302 [22542] network: buffer overflow in sunrpc clnt_create
303 (CVE-2022-23219)
304 [22716] malloc: [PATCH] mtrace.pl: use TRACE_PRELINKING instead of
305 TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS
306 [25947] malloc: memory leak in muntrace
307 [26045] math: fmaxf(inf, nan) does not always work
308 [26108] math: exp10() has problems with <tgmath.h>
309 [26779] build: benign use after realloc at localealias.c:329
310 [27609] dynamic-link: [2.32/2.33/2.34 Regression] In elf/dl-open.c
311 (_dl_open) we might use __LM_ID_CALLER to index GL(dl_ns)[]
312 [27945] build: build-many-glibcs.py doesn't configure GCC with
313 --enable-initfini-array
314 [27991] build: x86: sysdeps/x86/configure.ac breaks when
315 libc_cv_include_x86_isa_level is loaded from cache
316 [28036] nptl: Incorrect types for pthread_mutexattr_set/getrobust_np
317 in __REDIRECT_NTH macro
318 [28061] dynamic-link: A failing dlmopen called by an auditor crashed
319 [28062] dynamic-link: Suppress audit calls when a (new) namespace is
320 empty
321 [28126] libc: nftw aborts for paths longer than PATH_MAX
322 [28129] dynamic-link: Unnecessary check DT_DEBUG in ld.so
323 [28153] libc: [test] gmon/tst-gmon-gprof* may have a f3 line when
324 built with ld.lld
325 [28182] libc: _TIME_BITS=64 in C++ has issues with fcntl, ioctl, prctl
326 [28185] math: Inaccurate j0f function (again)
327 [28199] locale: iconvconfig prefix flag behaves differently in glibc
328 2.34
329 [28203] dynamic-link: aarch64: elf_machine_{load_address,dynamic}
330 should drop _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_[0] in favor of __ehdr_start for
331 robustness
332 [28213] librt: NULL pointer dereference in mq_notify (CVE-2021-38604)
333 [28223] libc: mips: clone does not align stack
334 [28253] dynamic-link: Missing colon in LD_SHOW_AUXV output after
335 AT_MINSIGSTKSZ
336 [28256] malloc: Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised
337 value(s) in __GI___tunables_init
338 [28260] build: io/tst-closefrom, misc/tst-close_range, posix/tst-
339 spawn5 fail if stray fds are open
340 [28310] libc: Do not use affinity mask for sysconf
341 (_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF)
342 [28338] time: undefined behavior in __tzfile_compute with oddball TZif
343 file
344 [28340] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes while loading a DSO with a read-
345 only dynamic section
346 [28349] libc: Segfault for ping -R on qemux86 caused by recvmsg()
347 [28350] libc: ping receives SIGABRT on lib32-qemux86-64 caused by
348 recvmsg()
349 [28353] network: Race condition on __opensock
350 [28357] dynamic-link: deadlock between pthread_create and ctors
351 [28358] math: f64xdivf128 and f64xmulf128 spurious underflows
352 [28361] nptl: Fix for bug 12889 causes setxid deadlock
353 [28368] build: -Waddress instances in stdio-common/vfprintf-internal.c
354 [28390] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 14.0.0
355 [28397] math: tgmath.h should not define fmaxmag, fminmag macros for
356 C2X
357 [28400] libc: [2.35 Regression] string/test-strncasecmp: cannot set
358 locale "en_US.UTF-8"
359 [28407] nptl: pthread_kill assumes that kill (getpid ()) is equivalent
360 to tgkill (getpid (), gettid())
361 [28455] dynamic-link: -Wl,--enable-new-dtags doesn't work
362 [28457] dynamic-link: Missing reldepmod4.so dependency for
363 globalmod1.so
364 [28469] time: linux: struct timex is not correctly set for 32-bit
365 systems with TIMESIZE=64
366 [28470] regex: Buffer read overrun in regular expression searching
367 [28475] string: Incorrect access attribute on memfrob
368 [28524] libc: Conversion from ISO-2022-JP-3 with iconv may emit
369 spurious NUL character on state reset
370 [28532] libc: powerpc64[le]: CFI for assembly templated syscalls is
371 incorrect
372 [28550] dynamic-link: FAIL: tst-dso-
373 ordering9_112-ecbda(GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort=1)
374 execution test
375 [28554] build: Undefined generate-md5
376 [28572] libc: Misaligned accesses in test-memcpy and test-mempcpy on
377 hppa
378 [28607] nptl: Masked signals are delivered on thread exit
379 [28624] libc: openjdk 8/9 assume uni processor and gets stuck due to
380 lack of cpu counting /proc fallback with glibc 2.34
381 [28646] string: [2.35 Regression] mock -r fedora-36-x86_64
382 /tmp/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.312.b07-2.fc36.src.rpm& fails to build
383 [28648] dynamic-link: Running ld.so on statically linked binaries
384 crashes
385 [28656] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC no longer works due to
386 binutils changes
387 [28676] dynamic-link: p_align on PT_LOAD segment in DSO isn't honored
388 [28678] nptl: nptl/tst-create1 hangs sporadically
389 [28688] dynamic-link: PT_LOAD p_align check is too strict
390 [28700] nss: "dns [!UNAVAIL=return] files" default for hosts database
391 is not useful
392 [28707] time: assert in tzfile.c __tzfile_read striking with truncated
393 timezones generated by tzcode-2021d and later
394 [28713] math: GCC 12 miscompiles libm
395 [28732] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-dl_find_object
396 [28738] build: LIBC_LINKER_FEATURE doesn't work on linker -z option
397 [28745] dynamic-link: _dl_find_object miscompilation on powerpc64le
398 [28746] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE does not work for stpcpy
399 [28749] libc: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: rtld.c: 1632: dl_main:
400 Assertion `GL(dl_rtld_map).l_libname' failed!
401 [28755] string: overflow bug in wcsncmp_avx2 and wcsncmp_evex
402 [28757] nptl: GDB printer tests failed with new GDB
403 [28765] math: x86_64 libmvec atan2 accuracy
404 [28766] manual: Document libmvec accuracy
405 [28768] network: Buffer overflow in svcunix_create with long pathnames
406 (CVE-2022-23218)
407 [28769] libc: Off-by-one buffer overflow/underflow in getcwd()
408 (CVE-2021-3999)
409 [28770] libc: Unexpected return value from realpath() for too long
410 results (CVE-2021-3998)
411 [28771] libc: %ebx optimization macros are incompatible with .altmacro
412 in Systemtap probes
413 [28780] build: --disable-default-pie doesn't work on static programs
414 [28782] libc: x86-64 ISA level for glibc itself is always
415 x86-64-baseline
416 [28792] glob: possible wrong behaviour with patterns with double [
417 with no closing ]
418 [28837] libc: FAIL: socket/tst-socket-timestamp-compat
419 [28847] locale: Empty mon_decimal_point in LC_MONETARY results in non-
420 empty mon_decimal_point_wc
421
422 \f
423 Version 2.34
424
425 Major new features:
426
427 * In order to support smoother in-place-upgrades and to simplify
428 the implementation of the runtime all functionality formerly
429 implemented in the libraries libpthread, libdl, libutil, libanl has
430 been integrated into libc. New applications do not need to link with
431 -lpthread, -ldl, -lutil, -lanl anymore. For backwards compatibility,
432 empty static archives libpthread.a, libdl.a, libutil.a, libanl.a are
433 provided, so that the linker options keep working. Applications which
434 have been linked against glibc 2.33 or earlier continue to load the
435 corresponding shared objects (which are now empty). The integration
436 of those libraries into libc means that additional symbols become
437 available by default. This can cause applications that contain weak
438 references to take unexpected code paths that would only have been
439 used in previous glibc versions when e.g. preloading libpthread.so.0,
440 potentially exposing application bugs.
441
442 * When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE are defined,
443 PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is no longer constant and is redefined to
444 sysconf(_SC_THREAD_STACK_MIN). This supports dynamic sized register
445 sets for modern architectural features like Arm SVE.
446
447 * Add _SC_MINSIGSTKSZ and _SC_SIGSTKSZ. When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE
448 or _GNU_SOURCE are defined, MINSIGSTKSZ and SIGSTKSZ are no longer
449 constant on Linux. MINSIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf(_SC_MINSIGSTKSZ)
450 and SIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf (_SC_SIGSTKSZ). This supports
451 dynamic sized register sets for modern architectural features like
452 Arm SVE.
453
454 * The dynamic linker implements the --list-diagnostics option, printing
455 a dump of information related to IFUNC resolver operation and
456 glibc-hwcaps subdirectory selection.
457
458 * On Linux, the function execveat has been added. It operates similar to
459 execve and it is is already used to implement fexecve without requiring
460 /proc to be mounted. However, different than fexecve, if the syscall is not
461 supported by the kernel an error is returned instead of trying a fallback.
462
463 * The ISO C2X function timespec_getres has been added.
464
465 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_EXT__, from draft ISO
466 C2X, is supported to enable declarations of functions defined in Annex F
467 of C2X. Those declarations are also enabled when
468 __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, as specified in TS 18661-1, is
469 defined, and when _GNU_SOURCE is defined.
470
471 * On powerpc64*, glibc can now be compiled without scv support using the
472 --disable-scv configure option.
473
474 * Add support for 64-bit time_t on configurations like x86 where time_t
475 is traditionally 32-bit. Although time_t still defaults to 32-bit on
476 these configurations, this default may change in future versions.
477 This is enabled with the _TIME_BITS preprocessor macro set to 64 and is
478 only supported when LFS (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) is also enabled. It is
479 only enabled for Linux and the full support requires a minimum kernel
480 version of 5.1.
481
482 * The main gconv-modules file in glibc now contains only a small set of
483 essential converter modules and the rest have been moved into a supplementary
484 configuration file gconv-modules-extra.conf in the gconv-modules.d directory
485 in the same GCONV_PATH. Similarly, external converter modules directories
486 may have supplementary configuration files in a gconv-modules.d directory
487 with names ending with .conf to logically classify the converter modules in
488 that directory.
489
490 * On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.pthread.stack_cache_size, can be used
491 to configure the size of the thread stack cache.
492
493 * The function _Fork has been added as an async-signal-safe fork replacement
494 since Austin Group issue 62 droped the async-signal-safe requirement for
495 fork (and it will be included in the future POSIX standard). The new _Fork
496 function does not run any atfork function neither resets any internal state
497 or lock (such as the malloc one), and only sets up a minimal state required
498 to call async-signal-safe functions (such as raise or execve). This function
499 is currently a GNU extension.
500
501 * On Linux, the close_range function has been added. It allows efficiently
502 closing a range of file descriptors on recent kernels (version 5.9).
503
504 * The function closefrom has been added. It closes all file descriptors
505 greater than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
506 although it is also present in other systems.
507
508 * The posix_spawn_file_actions_addclosefrom_np function has been added,
509 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to close all file descriptors greater
510 than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
511 although Solaris also provides a similar function.
512
513 * When invoked explicitly, the dynamic linker now uses the kernel to
514 execute programs that do not have any dynamic dependency (that is,
515 they are statically linked). This feature is Linux-specific.
516
517 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
518
519 * The function pthread_mutex_consistent_np has been deprecated; programs
520 should use the equivalent standard function pthread_mutex_consistent
521 instead.
522
523 * The function pthread_mutexattr_getrobust_np has been deprecated;
524 programs should use the equivalent standard function
525 pthread_mutexattr_getrobust instead.
526
527 * The function pthread_mutexattr_setrobust_np has been deprecated;
528 programs should use the equivalent standard function
529 pthread_mutexattr_setrobust instead.
530
531 * The function pthread_yield has been deprecated; programs should use
532 the equivalent standard function sched_yield instead.
533
534 * The function inet_neta declared in <arpa/inet.h> has been deprecated.
535
536 * Various rarely-used functions declared in <resolv.h> and
537 <arpa/nameser.h> have been deprecated. Applications are encouraged to
538 use dedicated DNS processing libraries if applicable. For <resolv.h>,
539 this affects the functions dn_count_labels, fp_nquery, fp_query,
540 fp_resstat, hostalias, loc_aton, loc_ntoa, p_cdname, p_cdnname,
541 p_class, p_fqname, p_fqnname, p_option, p_query, p_rcode, p_time,
542 p_type, putlong, putshort, res_hostalias, res_isourserver,
543 res_nameinquery, res_queriesmatch, res_randomid, sym_ntop, sym_ntos,
544 sym_ston. For <arpa/nameser.h>, the functions ns_datetosecs,
545 ns_format_ttl, ns_makecanon, ns_parse_ttl, ns_samedomain, ns_samename,
546 ns_sprintrr, ns_sprintrrf, ns_subdomain have been deprecated.
547
548 * Various symbols previously defined in libresolv have been moved to libc
549 in order to prepare for libresolv moving entirely into libc (see earlier
550 entry for merging libraries into libc). The symbols __dn_comp,
551 __dn_expand, __dn_skipname, __res_dnok, __res_hnok, __res_mailok,
552 __res_mkquery, __res_nmkquery, __res_nquery, __res_nquerydomain,
553 __res_nsearch, __res_nsend, __res_ownok, __res_query, __res_querydomain,
554 __res_search, __res_send formerly in libresolv have been renamed and no
555 longer have a __ prefix. They are now available in libc.
556
557 * The pthread cancellation handler is now installed with SA_RESTART and
558 pthread_cancel will always send the internal SIGCANCEL on a cancellation
559 request. It should not be visible to applications since the cancellation
560 handler should either act upon cancellation (if asynchronous cancellation
561 is enabled) or ignore the cancellation internal signal. However there are
562 buggy kernel interfaces (for instance some CIFS versions) that could still
563 see a spurious EINTR error when cancellation interrupts a blocking syscall.
564
565 * Previously, glibc installed its various shared objects under versioned
566 file names such as libc-2.33.so. The ABI sonames (e.g., libc.so.6)
567 were provided as symbolic links. Starting with glibc 2.34, the shared
568 objects are installed under their ABI sonames directly, without
569 symbolic links. This increases compatibility with distribution
570 package managers that delete removed files late during the package
571 upgrade or downgrade process.
572
573 * The symbols mallwatch and tr_break are now deprecated and no longer used in
574 mtrace. Similar functionality can be achieved by using conditional
575 breakpoints within mtrace functions from within gdb.
576
577 * The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
578 implementation __default_morecore have been removed from the API. Existing
579 applications will continue to link against these symbols but the interfaces
580 no longer have any effect on malloc.
581
582 * Debugging features in malloc such as the MALLOC_CHECK_ environment variable
583 (or the glibc.malloc.check tunable), mtrace() and mcheck() have now been
584 disabled by default in the main C library. Users looking to use these
585 features now need to preload a new debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so to get
586 this functionality back.
587
588 * The deprecated functions malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state have been
589 moved from the core C library into libc_malloc_debug.so. Legacy applications
590 that still use these functions will now need to preload libc_malloc_debug.so
591 in their environment using the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
592
593 * The deprecated memory allocation hooks __malloc_hook, __realloc_hook,
594 __memalign_hook and __free_hook are now removed from the API. Compatibility
595 symbols are present to support legacy programs but new applications can no
596 longer link to these symbols. These hooks no longer have any effect on glibc
597 functionality. The malloc debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so currently
598 supports hooks and can be preloaded to get this functionality back for older
599 programs. However this is a transitional measure and may be removed in a
600 future release of the GNU C Library. Users may port away from these hooks by
601 writing and preloading their own malloc interposition library.
602
603 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
604
605 * On Linux, the shm_open, sem_open, and related functions now expect the
606 file shared memory file system to be mounted at /dev/shm. These functions
607 no longer search among the system's mount points for a suitable
608 replacement if /dev/shm is not available.
609
610 Security related changes:
611
612 CVE-2021-27645: The nameserver caching daemon (nscd), when processing
613 a request for netgroup lookup, may crash due to a double-free,
614 potentially resulting in degraded service or Denial of Service on the
615 local system. Reported by Chris Schanzle.
616
617 CVE-2021-33574: The mq_notify function has a potential use-after-free
618 issue when using a notification type of SIGEV_THREAD and a thread
619 attribute with a non-default affinity mask.
620
621 CVE-2021-35942: The wordexp function may overflow the positional
622 parameter number when processing the expansion resulting in a crash.
623 Reported by Philippe Antoine.
624
625 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
626
627 [4737] libc: fork is not async-signal-safe
628 [5781] math: Slow dbl-64 sin/cos/sincos for special values
629 [10353] libc: Methods for deleting all file descriptors greater than
630 given integer (closefrom)
631 [14185] glob: fnmatch() fails when '*' wildcard is applied on the file
632 name containing multi-byte character(s)
633 [14469] math: Inaccurate j0f function
634 [14470] math: Inaccurate j1f function
635 [14471] math: Inaccurate y0f function
636 [14472] math: Inaccurate y1f function
637 [14744] nptl: kill -32 $pid or kill -33 $pid on a process cancels a
638 random thread
639 [15271] dynamic-link: dlmopen()ed shared library with LM_ID_NEWLM
640 crashes if it fails dlsym() twice
641 [15648] nptl: multiple definition of `__lll_lock_wait_private'
642 [16063] nptl: Provide a pthread_once variant in libc directly
643 [17144] libc: syslog is not thread-safe if NO_SIGPIPE is not defined
644 [17145] libc: syslog with LOG_CONS leaks console file descriptor
645 [17183] manual: description of ENTRY struct in <search.h> in glibc
646 manual is incorrect
647 [18435] nptl: pthread_once hangs when init routine throws an exception
648 [18524] nptl: Missing calloc error checking in
649 __cxa_thread_atexit_impl
650 [19329] dynamic-link: dl-tls.c assert failure at concurrent
651 pthread_create and dlopen
652 [19366] nptl: returning from a thread should disable cancellation
653 [19511] nptl: 8MB memory leak in pthread_create in case of failure
654 when non-root user changes priority
655 [20802] dynamic-link: getauxval NULL pointer dereference after static
656 dlopen
657 [20813] nptl: pthread_exit is inconsistent between libc and libpthread
658 [22057] malloc: malloc_usable_size is broken with mcheck
659 [22668] locale: LC_COLLATE: the last character of ellipsis is not
660 ordered correctly
661 [23323] libc: [RFE] CSU startup hardening.
662 [23328] malloc: Remove malloc hooks and ensure related APIs return no
663 data.
664 [23462] dynamic-link: Static binary with dynamic string tokens ($LIB,
665 $PLATFORM, $ORIGIN) crashes
666 [23489] libc: "gcc -lmcheck" aborts on free when using posix_memalign
667 [23554] nptl: pthread_getattr_np reports wrong stack size with
668 MULTI_PAGE_ALIASING
669 [24106] libc: Bash interpreter in ldd script is taken from host
670 [24773] dynamic-link: dlerror in an secondary namespace does not use
671 the right free implementation
672 [25036] localedata: Update collation order for Swedish
673 [25383] libc: where_is_shmfs/__shm_directory/SHM_GET_NAME may cause
674 shm_open to pick wrong directory
675 [25680] dynamic-link: ifuncmain9picstatic and ifuncmain9picstatic
676 crash in IFUNC resolver due to stack canary (--enable-stack-
677 protector=all)
678 [26874] build: -Warray-bounds in _IO_wdefault_doallocate
679 [26983] math: [x86_64] x86_64 tgamma has too large ULP error
680 [27111] dynamic-link: pthread_create and tls access use link_map
681 objects that may be concurrently freed by dlclose
682 [27132] malloc: memusagestat is linked to system librt, leading to
683 undefined symbols on major version upgrade
684 [27136] dynamic-link: dtv setup at thread creation may leave an entry
685 uninitialized
686 [27249] libc: libSegFault.so does not output signal number properly
687 [27304] nptl: pthread_cond_destroy does not pass private flag to futex
688 system calls
689 [27318] dynamic-link: glibc fails to load binaries when built with
690 -march=sandybridge: CPU ISA level is lower than required
691 [27343] nss: initgroups() SIGSEGVs when called on a system without
692 nsswich.conf (in a chroot)
693 [27346] dynamic-link: x86: PTWRITE feature check is missing
694 [27389] network: NSS chroot hardening causes regressions in chroot
695 deployments
696 [27403] dynamic-link: aarch64: tlsdesc htab is not freed on dlclose
697 [27444] libc: sysconf reports unsupported option (-1) for
698 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_LINESIZE on X86 since v2.33
699 [27462] nscd: double-free in nscd (CVE-2021-27645)
700 [27468] malloc: aarch64: realloc crash with heap tagging: FAIL:
701 malloc/tst-malloc-thread-fail
702 [27498] dynamic-link: __dl_iterate_phdr lacks unwinding information
703 [27511] libc: S390 memmove assumes Vector Facility when MIE Facility 3
704 is present
705 [27522] glob: glob, glob64 incorrectly marked as __THROW
706 [27555] dynamic-link: Static tests fail with --enable-stack-
707 protector=all
708 [27559] libc: fstat(AT_FDCWD) succeeds (it shouldn't) and returns
709 information for the current directory
710 [27577] dynamic-link: elf/ld.so --help doesn't work
711 [27605] libc: tunables can't control xsave/xsavec selection in
712 dl_runtime_resolve_*
713 [27623] libc: powerpc: Missing registers in sc[v] clobbers list
714 [27645] libc: [linux] sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSOR...) breaks down on
715 containers
716 [27646] dynamic-link: Linker error for non-existing NSS symbols (e.g.
717 _nss_files_getcanonname_r) from within a dlmopen namespace.
718 [27648] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-select
719 [27650] stdio: vfscanf returns too early if a match is longer than
720 INT_MAX
721 [27651] libc: Performance regression after updating to 2.33
722 [27655] string: Wrong size calculation in string/test-strnlen.c
723 [27706] libc: select fails to update timeout on error
724 [27709] libc: arm: FAIL: debug/tst-longjmp_chk2
725 [27721] dynamic-link: x86: ld_audit ignores bind now for TLSDESC and
726 tries resolving them lazily
727 [27744] nptl: Support different libpthread/ld.so load orders in
728 libthread_db
729 [27749] libc: Data race __run_exit_handlers
730 [27761] libc: getconf: Segmentation fault when passing '-vq' as
731 argument
732 [27832] nss: makedb.c:797:7: error: 'writev' specified size 4294967295
733 exceeds maximum object size 2147483647
734 [27870] malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ causes realloc(valid_ptr, TOO_LARGE) to
735 not set ENOMEM
736 [27872] build: Obsolete configure option --enable-stackguard-
737 randomization
738 [27873] build: tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo fail when building on AMD cpu
739 [27882] localedata: Use U+00AF MACRON in more EBCDIC charsets
740 [27892] libc: powerpc: scv ABI error handling fails to check
741 IS_ERR_VALUE
742 [27896] nptl: mq_notify does not handle separately allocated thread
743 attributes (CVE-2021-33574)
744 [27901] libc: TEST_STACK_ALIGN doesn't work
745 [27902] libc: The x86-64 clone wrapper fails to align child stack
746 [27914] nptl: Install SIGSETXID handler with SA_ONSTACK
747 [27939] libc: aarch64: clone does not align the stack
748 [27968] libc: s390x: clone does not align the stack
749 [28011] libc: Wild read in wordexp (parse_param) (CVE-2021-35942)
750 [28024] string: s390(31bit): Wrong result of memchr (MEMCHR_Z900_G5)
751 with n >= 0x80000000
752 [28028] malloc: malloc: tcache shutdown sequence does not work if the
753 thread never allocated anything
754 [28033] libc: Need to check RTM_ALWAYS_ABORT for RTM
755 [28064] string: x86_64:wcslen implementation list has wcsnlen
756 [28067] libc: FAIL: posix/tst-spawn5
757 [28068] malloc: FAIL: malloc/tst-mallocalign1-mcheck
758 [28071] time: clock_gettime, gettimeofday, time lost vDSO acceleration
759 on older kernels
760 [28075] nis: Out-of-bounds static buffer read in nis_local_domain
761 [28089] build: tst-tls20 fails when linker defaults to --as-needed
762 [28090] build: elf/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo-static fails on certain
763 AMD64 cpus
764 [28091] network: ns_name_skip may return 0 for domain names without
765 terminator
766
767 \f
768 Version 2.33
769
770 Major new features:
771
772 * The dynamic linker accepts the --list-tunables argument which prints
773 all the supported tunables. This option is disable if glibc is
774 configured with tunables disabled (--enable-tunables=no).
775
776 * The dynamic linker accepts the --argv0 argument and provides opportunity
777 to change argv[0] string.
778
779 * The dynamic linker loads optimized implementations of shared objects
780 from subdirectories under the glibc-hwcaps directory on the library
781 search path if the system's capabilities meet the requirements for
782 that subdirectory. Initially supported subdirectories include
783 "power9" and "power10" for the powerpc64le-linux-gnu architecture,
784 "z13", "z14", "z15" for s390x-linux-gnu, and "x86-64-v2", "x86-64-v3",
785 "x86-64-v4" for x86_64-linux-gnu. In the x86_64-linux-gnu case, the
786 subdirectory names correspond to the vendor-independent x86-64
787 microarchitecture levels defined in the x86-64 psABI supplement.
788
789 * The new --help option of the dynamic linker provides usage and
790 information and library search path diagnostics.
791
792 * The mallinfo2 function is added to report statistics as per mallinfo,
793 but with larger field widths to accurately report values that are
794 larger than fit in an integer.
795
796 * Add <sys/platform/x86.h> to provide query macros for x86 CPU features.
797
798 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been expanded to run on
799 32-bit hardware. This is supported for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
800
801 - rv32imac ilp32
802 - rv32imafdc ilp32
803 - rv32imafdc ilp32d
804
805 The 32-bit RISC-V port requires at least Linux 5.4, GCC 7.1 and binutils
806 2.28.
807
808 * A new fortification level _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 is available. At this level,
809 glibc may use additional checks that may have an additional performance
810 overhead. At present these checks are available only on LLVM 9 and later.
811 The latest GCC available at this time (10.2) does not support this level of
812 fortification.
813
814 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
815
816 * The mallinfo function is marked deprecated. Callers should call
817 mallinfo2 instead.
818
819 * When dlopen is used in statically linked programs, alternative library
820 implementations from HWCAP subdirectories are no longer loaded.
821 Instead, the default implementation is used.
822
823 * The deprecated <sys/vtimes.h> header and the function vtimes have been
824 removed. To support old binaries, the vtimes function continues to exist
825 as a compatibility symbol. Applications should use the getrlimit or
826 prlimit.
827
828 * Following a change in the tzdata 2018a release upstream, the zdump
829 program is now installed in the /usr/bin subdirectory. Previously,
830 the /usr/sbin subdirectory was used.
831
832 * On s390(x), the type float_t is now derived from the macro
833 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ that is defined by the compiler, instead of being
834 hardcoded to double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
835 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
836 libraries that use this type in their interfaces. The new definition
837 improves consistency with compiler behavior in many scenarios.
838
839 * A future version of glibc will stop loading shared objects from the
840 "tls" subdirectories on the library search path, the subdirectory that
841 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, and also stop employing
842 the legacy AT_HWCAP search mechanism. Applications should switch to
843 the new glibc-hwcaps mechanism instead; if they do not do that, only
844 the baseline version (directly from the search path directory) will be
845 loaded.
846
847 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
848
849 * On Linux, the system administrator needs to configure /dev/pts with
850 the intended access modes for pseudo-terminals. glibc no longer
851 attemps to adjust permissions of terminal devices. The previous glibc
852 defaults ("tty" group, user read/write and group write) already
853 corresponded to what most systems used, so that grantpt did not
854 perform any adjustments.
855
856 * On Linux, the posix_openpt and getpt functions no longer attempt to
857 use legacy (BSD) pseudo-terminals and assume that if /dev/ptmx exists
858 (and pseudo-terminals are supported), a devpts file system is mounted
859 on /dev/pts. Current systems already meet these requirements.
860
861 * s390x requires GCC 7.1 or newer. See gcc Bug 98269.
862
863 Security related changes:
864
865 CVE-2021-3326: An assertion failure during conversion from the
866 ISO-20220-JP-3 character set using the iconv function has been fixed.
867 This assertion was triggered by certain valid inputs in which the
868 converted output contains a combined sequence of two wide characters
869 crossing a buffer boundary. Reported by Tavis Ormandy.
870
871 CVE-2020-27618: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
872 invoked with input containing redundant shift sequences in the IBM1364,
873 IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, or IBM1399 character sets.
874
875 CVE-2020-29562: An assertion failure has been fixed in the iconv function
876 when invoked with UCS4 input containing an invalid character.
877
878 CVE-2019-25013: A buffer overflow has been fixed in the iconv function when
879 invoked with EUC-KR input containing invalid multibyte input sequences.
880
881 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
882
883 [10635] libc: realpath portability patches
884 [16124] dynamic-link: ld.so should allow to change argv[0]
885 [17924] malloc: 'free' should not set errno
886 [18683] libc: Linux faccessat implementation can incorrectly ignore
887 AT_EACCESS
888 [22899] libc: Use 64-bit readdir() in generic POSIX getcwd()
889 [23091] hurd: missing waitid support
890 [23249] libc: Epyc and other current AMD CPUs do not select the
891 "haswell" platform subdirectory
892 [24080] dynamic-link: Definition of "haswell" platform is inconsistent
893 with GCC
894 [24202] libc: m68k setjmp() saves incorrect 'a5' register in --enable-
895 stack-protector=all
896 [24941] libc: Make grantpt usable after multi-threaded fork in more
897 cases
898 [24970] libc: realpath mishandles EOVERFLOW; stat not needed anyway
899 [24973] locale: iconv encounters segmentation fault when converting
900 0x00 0xfe in EUC-KR to UTF-8 (CVE-2019-25013)
901 [25399] string: undefined reference to `__warn_memset_zero_len' when
902 changing gnuc version
903 [25859] libc: glibc parser for /sys/devices/system/cpu/online is
904 incorrect
905 [25938] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should store meaning of hwcap mask
906 bits
907 [25971] libc: s390 bits/hwcap.h out of sync with kernel
908 [26053] libc: unlockpt fails with ENOTTY for non-ptmx descriptors
909 [26100] libc: Race in syslog(3) with regards to tag printing.
910 [26124] libc: Export <cpu-features.h>
911 [26130] nscd: Inconsistent nscd cache during pruning
912 [26203] libc: GLRO(dl_x86_cpu_features) may not be intialized
913 [26224] locale: iconv hangs when converting some invalid inputs from
914 several IBM character sets (CVE-2020-27618)
915 [26341] libc: realpath cyclically call __alloca(path_max) to consume
916 too much stack space
917 [26343] manual: invalid documented return type for strerrorname_np(),
918 strerrordesc_np(), sigdescr_np(), sigabbrev_np()
919 [26376] libc: Namespace violation in stdio.h and sys/stat.h if build
920 with optimization.
921 [26383] locale: bind_textdomain_codeset doesn't accept //TRANSLIT
922 anymore
923 [26394] time: [2.33 Regression] FAIL: nptl/tst-join14
924 [26534] math: libm.so 2.32 SIGILL in pow() due to FMA4 instruction on
925 non-FMA4 system
926 [26552] dynamic-link: CPU_FEATURE_USABLE_P should be more conservative
927 [26553] libc: mtx_init allows type set to "mtx_recursive" only
928 [26555] string: strerrorname_np does not return the documented value
929 [26592] libc: pointer arithmetic overflows in realpath
930 [26600] network: Transaction ID collisions cause slow DNS lookups in
931 getaddrinfo
932 [26606] libc: [2.33 Regression] pselect is broken on x32
933 [26615] libc: powerpc: libc segfaults when LD_PRELOADed with libgcc
934 [26620] glob: fnmatch with collating symbols results in segmentation
935 fault
936 [26625] libc: [2.33 Regression] CET is disabled
937 [26636] libc: 32-bit shmctl(IPC_INFO) crashes when shminfo struct is
938 at the end of a memory mapping
939 [26637] libc: semctl SEM_STAT_ANY fails to pass the buffer specified
940 by the caller to the kernel
941 [26639] libc: msgctl IPC_INFO and MSG_INFO return garbage
942 [26647] build: [-Werror=array-parameter=] due to different
943 declarations for __sigsetjmp
944 [26648] libc: mkstemp is likely to fail on systems with non-stricly-
945 monotonic clocks
946 [26649] stdio: printf should handle non-normal x86 long double numbers
947 gracefully (CVE-2020-29573)
948 [26686] build: -Warray-parameter instances building with GCC 11
949 [26687] build: -Warray-bounds instances building with GCC 11
950 [26690] stdio: Aliasing violation in __vfscanf_internal
951 [26691] nptl: Use a minimum guard size of 64 KiB on aarch64
952 [26726] build: GCC warning calling new_composite_name with an array of
953 one element
954 [26736] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-sysvshm-linux
955 [26737] libc: Random FAIL: rt/tst-shm
956 [26791] libc: Missing O_CLOEXEC in sysconf.c
957 [26798] dynamic-link: aarch64: variant PCS symbols may be incorrectly
958 lazy bound
959 [26801] nptl: pthread_mutex_clocklock with CLOCK_MONOTONIC can fail on
960 PI mutexes
961 [26818] string: aarch64: string tests may run ifunc variants that are
962 not safe
963 [26821] libc: Memory leak test failures on Fedora 33
964 [26824] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-cpu-features-supports with recent trunk:
965 FSGSBASE/LM/RDRAND check failure
966 [26833] time: adjtime() with delta == NULL segfaults on armv7 32bit
967 platform
968 [26853] libc: aarch64: Missing unwind information in statically linked
969 startup code
970 [26923] locale: Assertion failure in iconv when converting invalid
971 UCS4 (CVE-2020-29562)
972 [26926] dynamic-link: aarch64: library dependencies are not bti
973 protected
974 [26932] libc: sh: Multiple floating point functions defined as stubs
975 only since 2.31
976 [26964] nptl: pthread_mutex_timedlock returning EAGAIN after futex is
977 locked
978 [26988] dynamic-link: aarch64: BTI mprotect address is not page
979 aligned
980 [27002] build: libc_freeres_fn build failure with GCC 11
981 [27004] dynamic-link: ld.so is miscompiled by GCC 11
982 [27008] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should have endianness markup
983 [27042] libc: [alpha] anonymous union in struct stat confuses
984 detection logic
985 [27053] libc: Conformance regression in system(3) (and probably also
986 pclose(3))
987 [27072] dynamic-link: static pie ifunc resolvers run before hwcap is
988 setup
989 [27077] network: Do not reload /etc/nsswitch.conf from chroot
990 [27083] libc: Unsafe unbounded alloca in addmntent
991 [27104] dynamic-link: The COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_MAX handshake does not
992 work
993 [27130] string: "rep movsb" performance issue
994 [27150] libc: alpha: wait4() is unavailable in static linking
995 [27177] dynamic-link:
996 GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.cpu.x86_ibt=on:glibc.cpu.x86_shstk=on doesn't
997 work
998 [27222] dynamic-link: Incorrect sysdeps/x86/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo.c
999 [27237] malloc: deadlock in malloc/tst-malloc-stats-cancellation
1000 [27256] locale: Assertion failure in ISO-2022-JP-3 gconv module
1001 related to combining characters (CVE-2021-3326)
1002
1003 \f
1004 Version 2.32
1005
1006 Major new features:
1007
1008 * Unicode 13.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1009 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 13.0.0, using
1010 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1011
1012 * New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq)
1013
1014 * Support for Synopsys ARC HS cores (ARCv2 ISA) running Linux has been
1015 added. This port requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-8.3 and Linux-5.1.
1016 Three ABIs are supported:
1017
1018 - arc-linux-gnu
1019 - arc-linux-gnuhf
1020 - arceb-linux-gnu
1021
1022 The arc* ABIs are little-endian while arceb is big-endian. All ABIs use
1023 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
1024
1025 * The GNU C Library now loads audit modules listed in the DT_AUDIT and
1026 DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
1027
1028 * powerpc64le supports IEEE128 long double libm/libc redirects when
1029 using -mabi=ieeelongdouble to compile C code on supported GCC
1030 toolchains. It is recommended to use GCC 8 or newer when testing
1031 this option.
1032
1033 * To help detect buffer overflows and other out-of-bounds accesses
1034 several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This
1035 should help GCC 10 issue better warnings.
1036
1037 * On Linux, functions pthread_attr_setsigmask_np and
1038 pthread_attr_getsigmask_np have been added. They allow applications
1039 to specify the signal mask of a thread created with pthread_create.
1040
1041 * The GNU C Library now provides the header file <sys/single_threaded.h>
1042 which declares the variable __libc_single_threaded. Applications are
1043 encouraged to use this variable for single-thread optimizations,
1044 instead of weak references to symbols historically defined in
1045 libpthread.
1046
1047 * The functions sigabbrev_np and sigdescr_np have been added. The
1048 sigabbrev_np function returns the abbreviated signal name (e.g. "HUP" for
1049 SIGHUP) while sigdescr_np returns a string describing the signal number
1050 (e.g "Hangup" for SIGHUP). Different than strsignal, sigdescr_np does not
1051 attempt to translate the return description, both functions return
1052 NULL for an invalid signal number.
1053
1054 They should be used instead of sys_siglist or sys_sigabbrev and they
1055 are both thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
1056
1057 * The functions strerrorname_np and strerrordesc_np have been added. The
1058 strerroname_np function returns error number name (e.g. "EINVAL" for EINVAL)
1059 while strerrordesc_np returns a string describing the error number
1060 (e.g "Invalid argument" for EINVAL). Different than strerror,
1061 strerrordesc_np does not attempt to translate the return description, both
1062 functions return NULL for an invalid error number.
1063
1064 They should be used instead of sys_errlist and sys_nerr, both are
1065 thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
1066
1067 * AArch64 now supports standard branch protection security hardening
1068 in glibc when it is built with a GCC that is configured with
1069 --enable-standard-branch-protection (or if -mbranch-protection=standard
1070 flag is passed when building both GCC target libraries and glibc,
1071 in either case a custom GCC is needed). This includes branch target
1072 identification (BTI) and pointer authentication for return addresses
1073 (PAC-RET). They require armv8.5-a and armv8.3-a architecture
1074 extensions respectively for the protection to be effective,
1075 otherwise the used instructions are nops. User code can use PAC-RET
1076 without libc support, but BTI requires a libc that is built with BTI
1077 support, otherwise runtime objects linked into user code will not be
1078 BTI compatible.
1079
1080 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1081
1082 * Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc. Sun RPC is removed
1083 from glibc. This includes the rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and the Sun
1084 RPC header files. Backward compatibility for old programs is kept
1085 only for architectures and ABIs that have been added in or before
1086 glibc 2.31. New programs need to use TI-RPC
1087 <http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=summary> and
1088 rpcsvc-proto <https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto>.
1089
1090 * Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-nsl. libnsl is only built
1091 as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules "nis"
1092 and "nisplus" are not built at all and libnsl's headers aren't
1093 installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs
1094 that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement
1095 implementations based on TI-RPC, which additionally support IPv6, are
1096 available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not
1097 affect the "compat" NSS module, which does not depend on libnsl
1098 since 2.27 and thus can be used without NIS.
1099
1100 * The deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
1101 removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
1102 exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
1103 but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system
1104 call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5.
1105
1106 * The sstk function is no longer available to newly linked binaries.
1107 Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function
1108 was not declared in any header file.
1109
1110 * The legacy signal handling functions siginterrupt, sigpause, sighold,
1111 sigrelse, sigignore and sigset, and the sigmask macro have been
1112 deprecated. Applications should use the sigsuspend, sigprocmask and
1113 sigaction functions instead.
1114
1115 * ldconfig now defaults to the new format for ld.so.cache. glibc has
1116 already supported this format for almost 20 years.
1117
1118 * The deprecated arrays sys_siglist, _sys_siglist, and sys_sigabbrev
1119 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
1120 have been removed from <string.h>. They are exported solely as
1121 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
1122 strsignal instead.
1123
1124 * The deprecated symbols sys_errlist, _sys_errlist, sys_nerr, and _sys_nerr
1125 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
1126 have been removed from <stdio.h>. They are exported solely as
1127 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
1128 strerror or strerror_r instead.
1129
1130 * Both strerror and strerror_l now share the same internal buffer in the
1131 calling thread, meaning that the returned string pointer may be invalided
1132 or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same thread or
1133 if the thread is terminated. It makes strerror MT-safe.
1134
1135 * Using weak references to libpthread functions such as pthread_create
1136 or pthread_key_create to detect the singled-threaded nature of a
1137 program is an obsolescent feature. Future versions of glibc will
1138 define pthread_create within libc.so.6 itself, so such checks will
1139 always flag the program as multi-threaded. Applications should check
1140 the __libc_single_threaded variable declared in
1141 <sys/single_threaded.h> instead.
1142
1143 * The "files" NSS module no longer supports the "key" database (used for
1144 secure RPC). The contents of the /etc/publickey file will be ignored,
1145 regardless of the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of
1146 storing RPC keys only supported the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES
1147 flavor of secure RPC.)
1148
1149 * The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
1150 implementation __default_morecore have been deprecated. Applications
1151 should use malloc interposition to change malloc behavior, and mmap to
1152 allocate anonymous memory. A future version of glibc may require that
1153 applications which use the malloc hooks must preload a special shared
1154 object, to enable the hooks.
1155
1156 * The hesiod NSS module has been deprecated and will be removed in a
1157 future version of glibc. System administrators are encouraged to
1158 switch to other approaches for networked account databases, such as
1159 LDAP.
1160
1161 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1162
1163 * powerpc64le requires GCC 7.4 or newer. This is required for supporting
1164 long double redirects.
1165
1166 Security related changes:
1167
1168 CVE-2016-10228: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
1169 invoked with the -c option and when processing invalid multi-byte input
1170 sequences. Reported by Jan Engelhardt.
1171
1172 CVE-2020-10029: Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack
1173 corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido
1174 Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
1175
1176 CVE-2020-1752: A use-after-free vulnerability in the glob function when
1177 expanding ~user has been fixed.
1178
1179 CVE-2020-6096: A signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy and
1180 memmove functions has been fixed. Discovered by Jason Royes and Samual
1181 Dytrych of the Cisco Security Assessment and Penetration Team (See
1182 TALOS-2020-1019).
1183
1184 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1185
1186 [9809] localedata: ckb_IQ: new Kurdish Sorani locale
1187 [10441] manual: Backtraces code example lacks error checking
1188 [10815] librt: [timer_create / SIGEV_THREAD] signalmask of
1189 timer_sigev_thread dangerous
1190 [14231] stdio: stdio-common tests memory requirements
1191 [14578] libc: /proc-based emulation for lchmod, fchmodat
1192 [16272] dynamic-link: dlopen()ing a DT_FILTER library crashes if
1193 filtee has constructor
1194 [19519] locale: iconv(1) with -c option hangs on illegal multi-byte
1195 sequences (CVE-2016-10228)
1196 [19737] admin: Doc page “20.5.2 Infinity and NaN” has incorrect HTML
1197 character entities for infinity & pi
1198 [20338] libc: Parsing of /etc/gshadow can return bad pointers causing
1199 segfaults in applications
1200 [20543] libc: Please move from .gnu.linkonce to comdat
1201 [22489] network: gcc warns about implicit convertion in
1202 ICMP6_FILTER_SETPASS with -Wsign-conversion
1203 [22525] localedata: or_IN LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1204 [23294] math: Complex _FloatN functions are redirected to the wrong
1205 function with -mlong-double-64
1206 [23296] libc: Data race in setting function descriptor during lazy
1207 binding
1208 [23668] dynamic-link: ldconfig: Default to the new format for
1209 ld.so.cache
1210 [23819] hurd: hurd: Add C11 thread support
1211 [23990] build: test-container error out on failure to exec child.
1212 [23991] build: shell-container typo in run_command_array
1213 [24638] manual: Error in example of parsing a template string
1214 [24654] manual: Wrong declaration of wcschr in libc manual
1215 [24943] dynamic-link: Support DT_AUDIT, DT_DEPAUDIT in the dynamic
1216 linker
1217 [25051] dynamic-link: aarch64, powerpc64 uses surplus static tls for
1218 dynamically loaded dsos
1219 [25098] nptl: nptl: ctype classification functions are not AS-Safe
1220 [25219] libc: improve out-of-bounds checking with GCC 10 attribute
1221 access
1222 [25262] libc: getcontext/setcontext/swapcontext unnecessarily save and
1223 restore EAX, ECX and EDX
1224 [25397] dynamic-link: Legacy bitmap doesn't cover jitted code
1225 [25414] glob: 'glob' use-after-free bug (CVE-2020-1752)
1226 [25420] network: Race condition in resolv_conf.c can result in caching
1227 stale configuration forever
1228 [25487] math: sinl() stack corruption from crafted input
1229 (CVE-2020-10029)
1230 [25506] build: configure: broken detection of STT_GNU_IFUNC when GCC
1231 defaults to PIE
1232 [25523] libc: MIPS/Linux inline syscall template is miscompiled
1233 [25620] libc: Signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy()
1234 (CVE-2020-6096)
1235 [25623] libc: test-sysvmsg, test-sysvsem, test-sysvshm fail with 2.31
1236 on 32 bit and old kernel
1237 [25635] libc: arm: Wrong sysdep order selection for soft-fp
1238 [25639] localedata: Some names of days and months wrongly spelt in
1239 Occitan
1240 [25657] libc: sigprocmask() and sigisemptyset() manipulate different
1241 amount of sigset_t bytes
1242 [25691] stdio: printf: memory leak when printing long multibyte
1243 strings
1244 [25715] libc: system() returns wrong errors when posix_spawn fails
1245 [25733] malloc: mallopt(M_MXFAST) can set global_max_fast to 0
1246 [25734] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS fails to reset conversion
1247 state for conversions that produce two Unicode code points
1248 [25765] nptl: Incorrect futex syscall in __pthread_disable_asynccancel
1249 for linux x86_64 leads to livelock
1250 [25788] dynamic-link: [i386] -fno-omit-frame-pointer in CFLAGS causes
1251 test failures, invalid instruction in ld.so
1252 [25790] glob: Typo in tst-fnmatch.input
1253 [25810] libc: x32: Incorrect syscall entries with pointer, off_t and
1254 size_t
1255 [25819] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 13.0.0
1256 [25824] libc: Abnormal function of strnlen in aarch64
1257 [25887] dynamic-link: Wasted space in _dl_x86_feature_1[1]
1258 [25896] libc: Incorrect prctl
1259 [25902] libc: Bad LOADARGS_N
1260 [25905] dynamic-link: VSX registers are corrupted during PLT
1261 resolution when glibc is built with --disable-multi-arch and --with-
1262 cpu=power9
1263 [25933] string: Off by one error in __strncmp_avx2 when
1264 length=VEC_SIZE*4 and strings are at page boundaries can cause a
1265 segfault
1266 [25942] nptl: Deadlock on stack_cache_lock between __nptl_setxid and
1267 exiting detached thread
1268 [25966] libc: Incorrect access of __x86_shared_non_temporal_threshold
1269 for x32
1270 [25976] nss: internal_end*ent in nss_compat may clobber errno, hiding
1271 ERANGE
1272 [25999] nptl: Use-after-free issue in pthread_getaddr_default_np
1273 [26073] math: getpayload() has wrong return value
1274 [26076] dynamic-link: dlmopen crashes after failing to load
1275 dependencies in audit mode
1276 [26120] localedata: column width of of some Korean
1277 JUNGSEONG/JONGSEONG characters wrong (should be 0)
1278 [26128] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFLUSHOPT
1279 [26133] libc: Incorrect need_arch_feature_F16C
1280 [26137] libc: strtod() triggers exception FE_INEXACT on reasonable
1281 input
1282 [26149] libc: PKU is usable only if OSPKE is set
1283 [26173] libc: powerpc64*: Add @notoc to calls to functions that do not
1284 preserve r2
1285 [26208] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFSH
1286 [26210] network: Incorrect use of hidden symbols for global sunrpc
1287 variables
1288 [26211] stdio: printf integer overflow calculating allocation size
1289 [26214] stdio: printf_fp double free
1290 [26215] stdio: printf_fp memory leak
1291 [26232] time: FAIL: support/tst-timespec for 32-bit targets
1292 [26258] nss: nss_compat should not read input files with mmap
1293 [26332] string: Incorrect cache line size load causes memory
1294 corruption in memset
1295
1296 \f
1297 Version 2.31
1298
1299 Major new features:
1300
1301 * The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
1302 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
1303 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
1304 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
1305 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
1306 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
1307
1308 * The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
1309 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
1310 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
1311 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
1312
1313 * The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
1314 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
1315 CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME. This function is a GNU extension.
1316
1317 * New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar).
1318
1319 * The DNS stub resolver will optionally send the AD (authenticated data) bit
1320 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
1321 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
1322 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
1323 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
1324 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
1325 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
1326 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
1327
1328 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1329
1330 * The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
1331 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
1332 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
1333 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
1334 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
1335 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
1336
1337 * The obsolete function stime is no longer available to newly linked
1338 binaries, and its declaration has been removed from <time.h>.
1339 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
1340
1341 * We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
1342 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
1343 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
1344 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
1345
1346 * The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
1347 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
1348 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
1349 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
1350 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
1351 made this no longer practical.
1352
1353 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
1354 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
1355 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
1356 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
1357 release.)
1358
1359 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
1360 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
1361 with the current time, use the localtime function.
1362
1363 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
1364 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
1365 using clock_gettime instead.
1366
1367 * The settimeofday function can still be used to set a system-wide time
1368 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
1369 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
1370 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
1371 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
1372
1373 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
1374 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
1375 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
1376 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
1377
1378 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
1379 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
1380 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
1381 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
1382 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
1383 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
1384
1385 settimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. Programs that set
1386 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
1387 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
1388 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
1389 offset API.
1390
1391 * SPARC ISA v7 is no longer supported. v8 is still supported, but only if
1392 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
1393 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
1394
1395 As the oldest 64-bit SPARC ISA is v9, this only affects 32-bit
1396 configurations.
1397
1398 * If a lazy binding failure happens during dlopen, during the execution of
1399 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
1400 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
1401 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
1402 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
1403
1404 * For MIPS hard-float ABIs, the GNU C Library will be configured to need an
1405 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
1406 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
1407 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
1408 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
1409 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
1410 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
1411 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
1412
1413 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
1414 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
1415
1416 * System call wrappers for time system calls now use the new time64 system
1417 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
1418 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
1419 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
1420 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
1421 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
1422
1423 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1424
1425 * It is no longer necessary to have recent Linux kernel headers to build
1426 working (non-stub) system call wrappers on all architectures except 64-bit
1427 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
1428
1429 * The ChangeLog file is no longer present in the toplevel directory of the
1430 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
1431 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
1432
1433 Security related changes:
1434
1435 CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an
1436 out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context.
1437
1438 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
1439 environment variable during program execution after a security
1440 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
1441 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
1442 program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
1443
1444 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1445
1446 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
1447 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
1448 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
1449 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
1450 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
1451 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
1452 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
1453 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
1454 linking failure
1455 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
1456 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
1457 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
1458 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
1459 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
1460 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
1461 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
1462 constructors/destructors is not fatal
1463 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
1464 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
1465 7408-2005
1466 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
1467 with localedef
1468 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
1469 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
1470 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
1471 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
1472 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
1473 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
1474 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
1475 utmp entries
1476 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
1477 ABSOLUTE ABI
1478 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
1479 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
1480 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
1481 (stringop-overflow error)
1482 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
1483 functions other can lead to crashes
1484 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
1485 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
1486 unconditionally
1487 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
1488 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
1489 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
1490 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
1491 still can fail with an error
1492 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
1493 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
1494 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
1495 initialized correctly
1496 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
1497 -frewrite-includes
1498 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
1499 value to an unsigned
1500 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
1501 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
1502 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
1503 protection
1504 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
1505 ifunc variant.
1506 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
1507 al. for Clang++
1508 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
1509 (Slovenian)
1510 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
1511 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
1512 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
1513 with -std=c11
1514 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
1515 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
1516 part
1517 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
1518 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
1519 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
1520 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
1521 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
1522 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
1523
1524 \f
1525 Version 2.30
1526
1527 Major new features:
1528
1529 * Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1530 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
1531 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1532
1533 * The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
1534 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
1535
1536 * The twalk_r function has been added. It is similar to the existing
1537 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
1538 to the callback function.
1539
1540 * On Linux, the getdents64, gettid, and tgkill functions have been added.
1541
1542 * Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
1543 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
1544 nan_TW, lzh_TW.
1545
1546 * The entry for the new Japanese era has been added for ja_JP locale.
1547
1548 * Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
1549 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
1550 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
1551 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
1552 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
1553
1554 * The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
1555 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
1556 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
1557 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
1558 link time reference, is gone.
1559
1560 * Add new POSIX-proposed pthread_cond_clockwait, pthread_mutex_clocklock,
1561 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
1562 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
1563 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
1564 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
1565 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
1566 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
1567 the clock choice at initialization time).
1568
1569 * On AArch64 the GNU IFUNC resolver call ABI changed: old resolvers still
1570 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
1571 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
1572
1573 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1574
1575 * The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
1576 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
1577 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
1578 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
1579 copy_file_range function can no longer rely on glibc to provide a fallback
1580 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
1581 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
1582 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
1583 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
1584
1585 * The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime,
1586 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
1587 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
1588 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
1589 since glibc 2.17.
1590
1591 * The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
1592 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
1593
1594 * Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
1595 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
1596
1597 * The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
1598 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
1599
1600 * With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
1601 BIND_NOW flag.
1602
1603 * Support for the PowerPC SPE ISA extension (powerpc-*-*gnuspe*
1604 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
1605 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
1606
1607 * On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
1608 header have been removed.
1609
1610 * The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
1611 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
1612 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
1613 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
1614
1615 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1616
1617 * GCC 6.2 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
1618
1619 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
1620 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
1621
1622 Security related changes:
1623
1624 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
1625 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
1626 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
1627 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
1628 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
1629 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
1630 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
1631
1632 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
1633 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
1634 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
1635
1636 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1637
1638 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
1639 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
1640 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
1641 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
1642 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
1643 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
1644 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
1645 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
1646 invalid input drops valid char
1647 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
1648 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
1649 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
1650 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
1651 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
1652 malloc.h.
1653 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
1654 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
1655 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
1656 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
1657 functions
1658 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
1659 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
1660 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
1661 for long double = double
1662 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
1663 long double = double
1664 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
1665 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
1666 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
1667 long timeouts
1668 [24051] stdio: puts and putchar output to _IO_stdout instead of stdout
1669 [24059] nss: nss_files: get_next_alias calls fgets_unlocked without
1670 checking for NULL.
1671 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
1672 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
1673 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
1674 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
1675 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
1676 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
1677 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
1678 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
1679 not the default "nor"
1680 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
1681 false positives, change to modern flexible array
1682 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
1683 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
1684 compiler barriers.
1685 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
1686 unnecessary librt dependencies
1687 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
1688 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
1689 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
1690 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
1691 unsorted chunk
1692 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
1693 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
1694 to R_SPARC_H44
1695 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
1696 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
1697 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
1698 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
1699 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
1700 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
1701 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
1702 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
1703 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
1704 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
1705 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
1706 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
1707 was not used
1708 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
1709 tests
1710 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
1711 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
1712 time_t changes
1713 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
1714 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
1715 kernels and break testing
1716 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
1717 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
1718 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
1719 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
1720 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
1721 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
1722 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
1723 -O3 -march=skylake
1724 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
1725 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
1726 crash
1727 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
1728 linked glibc
1729 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
1730 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
1731 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
1732 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
1733 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
1734 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
1735 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
1736 always implemented in the same library
1737 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
1738 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
1739 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
1740 testroot
1741
1742 \f
1743 Version 2.29
1744
1745 Major new features:
1746
1747 * The getcpu wrapper function has been added, which returns the currently
1748 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
1749
1750 * A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
1751 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
1752 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
1753 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
1754 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
1755 configured location.
1756
1757 * Optimized generic exp, exp2, log, log2, pow, sinf, cosf, sincosf and tanf.
1758
1759 * The reallocarray function is now declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE, not just
1760 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
1761
1762 * For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
1763 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
1764 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
1765 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
1766 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
1767 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
1768 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
1769 process actually does not use HTM).
1770
1771 * The functions posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np and
1772 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
1773 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
1774 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
1775 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
1776 of the same name.
1777
1778 * The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
1779 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
1780 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
1781 inconsistent mutex state after a fork call in a multi-threaded process.
1782 In both popen and system there is no direct access to user-defined mutexes.
1783
1784 * Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
1785 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
1786 supported:
1787 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
1788 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
1789
1790 * strftime's default formatting of a locale's alternative year (%Ey)
1791 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
1792 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
1793 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
1794 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
1795 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
1796 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
1797
1798 * As a GNU extension, the '_' and '-' flags can now be applied to
1799 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
1800 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
1801
1802 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1803
1804 * The glibc.tune tunable namespace has been renamed to glibc.cpu and the
1805 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
1806
1807 * The type of the pr_uid and pr_gid members of struct elf_prpsinfo, defined
1808 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
1809 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
1810 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
1811
1812 * For the MIPS n32 ABI, the type of the pr_sigpend and pr_sighold members of
1813 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
1814 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
1815 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
1816 structures.
1817
1818 * An archaic GNU extension to scanf, under which '%as', '%aS', and '%a[...]'
1819 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
1820 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
1821 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
1822 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
1823 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
1824
1825 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
1826 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
1827 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
1828 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
1829 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
1830
1831 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
1832 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
1833 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
1834
1835 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1836
1837 * Python 3.4 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
1838
1839 * On most architectures, GCC 5 or later is required to build the GNU C
1840 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
1841
1842 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
1843 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
1844
1845 Security related changes:
1846
1847 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
1848 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
1849 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
1850
1851 CVE-2019-6488: On x32, the size_t parameter may be passed in the lower
1852 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
1853 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
1854 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
1855 Reported by H.J. Lu.
1856
1857 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
1858 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
1859 or command injection issues in applications.
1860
1861 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1862
1863 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
1864 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
1865 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
1866 thousands
1867 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
1868 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
1869 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
1870 --param options)
1871 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
1872 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
1873 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
1874 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
1875 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
1876 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
1877 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
1878 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
1879 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
1880 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
1881 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
1882 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
1883 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
1884 pointer argument is non-NULL
1885 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
1886 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
1887 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
1888 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
1889 multithreads call popen
1890 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
1891 and pthread_create fails.
1892 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
1893 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
1894 constructor
1895 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
1896 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
1897 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
1898 source tree
1899 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
1900 float
1901 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
1902 one error
1903 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
1904 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
1905 linker
1906 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
1907 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
1908 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
1909 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
1910 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
1911 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
1912 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
1913 filesystems
1914 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
1915 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
1916 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
1917 functions
1918 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
1919 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
1920 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
1921 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
1922 have wrong type
1923 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
1924 wrong type
1925 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
1926 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
1927 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
1928 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
1929 threads
1930 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
1931 start.S
1932 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
1933 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
1934 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
1935 powerpc64le
1936 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
1937 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
1938 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
1939 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
1940 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
1941 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
1942 strftime
1943 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
1944 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
1945 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
1946 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
1947 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
1948 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
1949 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
1950 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
1951 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
1952 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
1953 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
1954 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
1955 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
1956 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
1957 tcache size
1958 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
1959 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
1960 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
1961 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
1962 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
1963 (CVE-2018-19591)
1964 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
1965 nearest rounding mode
1966 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
1967 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
1968 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
1969 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
1970 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
1971 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
1972 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
1973 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
1974 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
1975 error
1976 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
1977 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
1978 using GCC 8
1979 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
1980 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
1981 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
1982 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
1983 ppc64le
1984 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
1985 expected result
1986 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
1987 x32 (CVE-2019-6488)
1988 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
1989 sigaltstack
1990 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
1991 answers will be rejected)
1992 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
1993
1994 \f
1995 Version 2.28
1996
1997 Major new features:
1998
1999 * The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
2000 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
2001 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
2002 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
2003 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
2004 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
2005 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
2006 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
2007 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
2008 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
2009 archive or binary locales.
2010
2011 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for Intel CET, AKA
2012 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
2013 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
2014 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
2015 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
2016 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
2017 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
2018 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
2019 Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
2020 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
2021 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
2022 validated for i686.
2023
2024 * The GNU C Library now has correct support for ABSOLUTE symbols
2025 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
2026 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
2027 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
2028 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
2029 field) to indicate such support is required.
2030
2031 * Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2032 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
2033 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2034
2035 * <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
2036 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
2037
2038 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
2039 fMxaddfNx functions.
2040
2041 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
2042 fMxsubfNx functions.
2043
2044 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
2045 fMxmulfNx functions.
2046
2047 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
2048 fMxdivfNx functions.
2049
2050 * Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
2051 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
2052 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
2053 support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
2054 and Kashubian.
2055
2056 * Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
2057 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
2058
2059 * Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
2060 patches.
2061
2062 * The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
2063 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
2064 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
2065 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
2066 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
2067 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
2068 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
2069 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
2070
2071 * The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
2072 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
2073 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
2074 the fstatat64 function.
2075
2076 * IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
2077 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
2078 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
2079 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
2080 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
2081 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
2082 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
2083 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
2084 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
2085
2086 * Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
2087 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
2088 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
2089 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
2090 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
2091 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
2092 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
2093 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
2094 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
2095 results in a load failure now.
2096
2097 * Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The
2098 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
2099 <threads.h>:
2100
2101 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
2102 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
2103
2104 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
2105 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
2106
2107 - call_once for function call synchronization.
2108
2109 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
2110 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
2111
2112 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
2113
2114 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
2115
2116 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2117
2118 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
2119 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
2120 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
2121
2122 * The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
2123 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
2124 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
2125 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
2126 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
2127 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
2128
2129 * All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
2130 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
2131 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
2132 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
2133 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
2134 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
2135 (Bug #1190.)
2136
2137 * The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
2138 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
2139 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
2140 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
2141 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
2142 further explanation.
2143
2144 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
2145 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
2146 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
2147
2148 * The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
2149
2150 * The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
2151 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
2152 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
2153
2154 * The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
2155 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
2156 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
2157 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
2158
2159 * The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
2160 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
2161 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
2162 for this function instead.
2163
2164 * The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
2165 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
2166 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
2167
2168 * The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
2169 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
2170 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
2171 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
2172
2173 * The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
2174 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
2175 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
2176 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
2177 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
2178
2179 * The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
2180 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
2181 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
2182 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
2183 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
2184 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
2185 such as libgcrypt.
2186
2187 * Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
2188 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
2189 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
2190 enabled.
2191
2192 * The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
2193 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
2194 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
2195
2196 * We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
2197 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
2198 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
2199 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
2200 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
2201 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
2202
2203 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
2204 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
2205 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
2206 behavior in a future release.
2207
2208 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2209
2210 GNU make 4.0 or later is now required to build glibc.
2211
2212 Security related changes:
2213
2214 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
2215 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
2216 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
2217 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
2218
2219 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
2220 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
2221
2222 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
2223 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
2224 Izbyshev.
2225
2226 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
2227 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
2228 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
2229
2230 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2231
2232 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
2233 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
2234 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
2235 when __WORDSIZE != 64
2236 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
2237 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
2238 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
2239 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
2240 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
2241 14651
2242 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
2243 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
2244 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
2245 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
2246 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
2247 conversion is given
2248 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
2249 date
2250 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
2251 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
2252 scope with -O1 and higher
2253 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
2254 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
2255 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
2256 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
2257 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
2258 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
2259 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
2260 horrible machine code)
2261 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
2262 last constant.
2263 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
2264 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
2265 symbols
2266 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
2267 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
2268 defined
2269 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
2270 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
2271 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
2272 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
2273 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
2274 fpscr.c'
2275 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
2276 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
2277 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
2278 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
2279 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
2280 the base address
2281 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
2282 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
2283 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
2284 open_verify
2285 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
2286 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
2287 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
2288 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
2289 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
2290 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
2291 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
2292 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
2293 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
2294 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
2295 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
2296 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
2297 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
2298 dlopen
2299 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
2300 AT_SECURE=1
2301 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
2302 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
2303 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
2304 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
2305 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
2306 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
2307 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
2308 for Spanish with CLDR
2309 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
2310 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
2311 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
2312 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
2313 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
2314 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
2315 es_BO
2316 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
2317 CLOCKS_PER_SECOND
2318 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
2319 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
2320 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
2321 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
2322 dlopen failures
2323 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
2324 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
2325 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
2326 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
2327 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
2328 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
2329 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
2330 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
2331 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
2332 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
2333 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
2334 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
2335 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
2336 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
2337 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
2338 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
2339 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
2340 makecontext
2341 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
2342 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
2343 required
2344 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
2345 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
2346 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
2347 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
2348 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
2349 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
2350 disabled
2351 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
2352 failure
2353 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
2354 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
2355 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
2356 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
2357 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
2358 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
2359 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
2360 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
2361 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
2362 and libc build with -Os)
2363 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
2364 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
2365 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
2366 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
2367 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
2368 that changes /etc/passwd
2369 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
2370 (CVE-2018-11237)
2371 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
2372 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
2373 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
2374 posix/regcomp.c
2375 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
2376 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
2377 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
2378 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
2379 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
2380 AT_SECURE
2381 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
2382 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
2383 parser.c
2384 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
2385 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
2386 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
2387 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
2388 directed rounding
2389 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
2390 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
2391 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
2392 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
2393 lookup
2394 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
2395 interposition
2396 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
2397 DSO boundaries.
2398 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
2399 <linux/time.h>
2400 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
2401 checking
2402 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
2403 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
2404 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
2405 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
2406 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
2407 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
2408 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
2409 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
2410 processors
2411 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
2412
2413 \f
2414 Version 2.27
2415
2416 Major new features:
2417
2418 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
2419 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
2420 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
2421 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
2422 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
2423 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
2424 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
2425 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
2426 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
2427
2428 * Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
2429 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
2430 H.J. Lu from Intel.
2431
2432 * Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
2433
2434 * Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
2435
2436 * In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
2437 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
2438 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
2439 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
2440 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
2441 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
2442 from a security and performance perspective.
2443
2444 * The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
2445 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
2446 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
2447 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
2448
2449 * On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
2450 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
2451 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
2452 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
2453 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
2454
2455 * On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
2456 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
2457 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
2458 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
2459 _Float128.
2460
2461 * The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
2462 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
2463 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
2464
2465 * glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
2466
2467 * Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
2468 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
2469 pkey_get.
2470
2471 * The copy_file_range function was added.
2472
2473 * Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
2474
2475 * The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
2476 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
2477 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
2478
2479 * Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
2480 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
2481 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
2482 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
2483 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
2484 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
2485 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
2486
2487 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
2488 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
2489 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
2490 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
2491 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
2492 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
2493 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
2494
2495 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
2496 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
2497 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
2498 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
2499 respectively.
2500
2501 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
2502 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
2503 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
2504 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
2505
2506 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
2507 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
2508 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
2509
2510 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
2511 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
2512 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
2513
2514 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
2515 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
2516 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
2517
2518 - rv64imac lp64
2519 - rv64imafdc lp64
2520 - rv64imafdc lp64d
2521
2522 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2523
2524 * Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
2525 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
2526 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
2527 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
2528 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
2529 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
2530 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
2531 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
2532 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
2533 fix this.
2534
2535 * Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
2536 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
2537 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
2538
2539 * Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
2540 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
2541 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
2542 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
2543 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
2544 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
2545 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
2546 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
2547 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
2548 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
2549 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
2550 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
2551 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
2552 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
2553 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
2554 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
2555 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
2556 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
2557 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
2558 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
2559 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
2560 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
2561 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
2562 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
2563 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
2564 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
2565
2566 * On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
2567 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
2568
2569 * libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
2570 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
2571 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
2572 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
2573 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
2574 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
2575 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
2576
2577 * The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
2578 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
2579 exp10l for these functions instead.
2580
2581 * The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
2582 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
2583 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2584
2585 * The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
2586 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
2587 ignored.
2588
2589 * The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
2590 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
2591 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
2592 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
2593
2594 * The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
2595 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
2596
2597 * In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
2598 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
2599
2600 * The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
2601 programs.
2602
2603 * The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
2604
2605 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
2606 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
2607 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
2608 instead.
2609
2610 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
2611 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
2612 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
2613 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
2614 use, but predates the bits convention.
2615
2616 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2617
2618 * bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
2619 subdirectory.
2620
2621 Security related changes:
2622
2623 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
2624 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
2625 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
2626 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
2627 script.)
2628
2629 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
2630 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
2631 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
2632 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
2633
2634 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
2635 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
2636 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
2637 of service.
2638
2639 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
2640 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
2641 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
2642
2643 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
2644 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
2645 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
2646 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
2647
2648 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
2649 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
2650 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
2651 Qualys.
2652
2653 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
2654 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
2655 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
2656 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
2657 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
2658
2659 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
2660 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
2661 current directory.
2662
2663 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
2664 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
2665 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
2666
2667 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
2668 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
2669 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
2670
2671 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
2672 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
2673 small, instead of NULL.
2674
2675 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2676
2677 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
2678 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
2679 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
2680 locale
2681 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
2682 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
2683 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
2684 cases
2685 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
2686 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
2687 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
2688 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
2689 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
2690 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
2691 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
2692 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
2693 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
2694 "Bangla"
2695 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
2696 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
2697 width Latin characters
2698 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
2699 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
2700 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
2701 letters
2702 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
2703 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
2704 (CVE-2009-5064)
2705 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
2706 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
2707 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
2708 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
2709 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
2710 if malloc succeeded
2711 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
2712 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
2713 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
2714 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
2715 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
2716 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
2717 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
2718 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
2719 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
2720 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
2721 U+309A
2722 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
2723 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
2724 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
2725 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
2726 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
2727 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
2728 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
2729 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
2730 for Nicaragua
2731 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
2732 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
2733 are not found.
2734 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
2735 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
2736 access
2737 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
2738 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
2739 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
2740 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
2741 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
2742 __regcall calling convention
2743 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
2744 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
2745 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
2746 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
2747 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
2748 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
2749 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
2750 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
2751 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
2752 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
2753 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
2754 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
2755 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
2756 locale
2757 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
2758 protector=all
2759 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
2760 wcwidth
2761 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
2762 consistency check failures
2763 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
2764 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
2765 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
2766 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
2767 PIE
2768 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
2769 locales
2770 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
2771 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
2772 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
2773 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
2774 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
2775 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
2776 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
2777 on memory allocation failure
2778 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
2779 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
2780 the suspect)
2781 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
2782 default (i386)
2783 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
2784 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
2785 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
2786 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
2787 instead of EAI_NODATA
2788 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
2789 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
2790 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
2791 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
2792 implementation
2793 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
2794 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
2795 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
2796 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
2797 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
2798 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
2799 allocation in syscall loops)
2800 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
2801 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
2802 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
2803 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
2804 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
2805 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
2806 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
2807 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
2808 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
2809 occur with -O3
2810 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
2811 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
2812 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
2813 amounts)
2814 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
2815 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
2816 niu_NZ
2817 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
2818 checks
2819 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
2820 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
2821 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
2822 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
2823 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
2824 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
2825 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
2826 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
2827 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
2828 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
2829 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
2830 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
2831 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
2832 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
2833 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
2834 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
2835 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
2836 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
2837 parsing after OOM
2838 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
2839 object
2840 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
2841 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
2842 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
2843 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
2844 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
2845 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
2846 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf outputs a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
2847 ppc64le
2848 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
2849 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
2850 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
2851 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
2852 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
2853 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
2854 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
2855 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
2856 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
2857 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
2858 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
2859 math_force_eval
2860 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
2861 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
2862 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
2863 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
2864 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
2865 the svid compat wrapper
2866 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
2867 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
2868 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
2869 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
2870 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
2871 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
2872 --verbose.
2873 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
2874 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
2875 to 2.26
2876 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
2877 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
2878 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
2879 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
2880 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
2881 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
2882 (CVE-2017-15804)
2883 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
2884 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
2885 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
2886 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
2887 failure."
2888 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
2889 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
2890 -m32
2891 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
2892 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
2893 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
2894 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
2895 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
2896 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
2897 inside the ASCII printable range
2898 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
2899 -mlong-double-64
2900 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
2901 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
2902 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
2903 Internet
2904 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
2905 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
2906 backslash
2907 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
2908 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
2909 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
2910 heaps in an arena
2911 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
2912 networking interface
2913 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
2914 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
2915 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
2916 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
2917 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
2918 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
2919 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
2920 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
2921 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
2922 order
2923 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2924 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2925 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2926 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2927 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2928 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
2929 same as for Croatian
2930 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
2931 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
2932 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
2933 for initial thread"
2934 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
2935 SC_SSIZE_MAX
2936 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
2937 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
2938 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2939 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
2940 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
2941 (CVE-2017-1000408)
2942 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
2943 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
2944 modified in case of success
2945 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
2946 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
2947 success
2948 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
2949 stack-protector=all
2950 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
2951 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
2952 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
2953 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
2954 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
2955 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
2956 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
2957 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
2958 adding it on top
2959 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
2960 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
2961 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
2962 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
2963 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
2964 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
2965 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
2966 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
2967 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
2968 (CVE-2018-1000001)
2969 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
2970 elision and tunables
2971 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
2972 "invalid" exception
2973 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
2974 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
2975 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
2976 exception
2977 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2978 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
2979 power4
2980 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
2981 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
2982 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
2983 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
2984 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
2985 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
2986 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
2987 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
2988 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
2989
2990 \f
2991 Version 2.26
2992
2993 Major new features:
2994
2995 * A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
2996 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
2997 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
2998 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
2999 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
3000 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
3001 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
3002
3003 * Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
3004 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
3005 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
3006 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
3007 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
3008 are rendered with pango, see for example:
3009 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
3010
3011 * Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
3012 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
3013 Egmont Koblinger.
3014
3015 * Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
3016
3017 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
3018 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
3019 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
3020
3021 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
3022 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
3023 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
3024 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
3025 object are still limited to six search domains.
3026
3027 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
3028 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
3029 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
3030
3031 * The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
3032 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
3033
3034 * New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
3035 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
3036 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
3037 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
3038
3039 * New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
3040 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
3041 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
3042 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
3043
3044 * posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
3045 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
3046 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
3047 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
3048
3049 * errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
3050 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
3051 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
3052
3053 * On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
3054 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
3055 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
3056 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
3057
3058 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
3059 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
3060 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
3061 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
3062 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
3063
3064 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
3065 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
3066 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
3067 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
3068 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
3069 interfaces should be used instead.
3070
3071 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
3072
3073 * The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
3074 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
3075 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
3076 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
3077 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
3078 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
3079 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
3080 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
3081
3082 * The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
3083 removed.
3084
3085 * Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
3086 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
3087 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
3088 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
3089
3090 * The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
3091 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
3092 default.
3093
3094 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
3095 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
3096 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
3097 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
3098 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
3099
3100 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
3101 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
3102 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
3103 name service modules, to be built and installed.
3104
3105 * The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
3106 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
3107 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
3108 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
3109
3110 * res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
3111 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
3112
3113 * The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
3114 exported by accident.
3115
3116 * <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
3117 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
3118 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
3119
3120 * The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
3121 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
3122 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
3123 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
3124
3125 * The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
3126
3127 * The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
3128
3129 * The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
3130 free instead.
3131
3132 * The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
3133 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3134
3135 * The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
3136 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3137
3138 * On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
3139 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
3140 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
3141 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
3142 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
3143 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
3144 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
3145 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
3146
3147 * On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
3148 synced with the kernel:
3149
3150 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
3151 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
3152
3153 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
3154 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
3155 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
3156
3157 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
3158 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
3159
3160 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
3161
3162 * Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
3163 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
3164 x86-32 and x86-64.)
3165
3166 * GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
3167
3168 * On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
3169 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
3170
3171 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
3172 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
3173 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
3174 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
3175 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
3176
3177 Security related changes:
3178
3179 * The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
3180 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
3181
3182 * LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
3183 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
3184
3185 * Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
3186 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
3187 (CVE-2010-3192).
3188
3189 * A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
3190 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
3191
3192 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3193
3194 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
3195 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
3196 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
3197 fields
3198 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
3199 (CVE-2010-3192)
3200 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
3201 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
3202 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
3203 ld.bfd is available
3204 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
3205 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
3206 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
3207 x86 and other generic code
3208 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
3209 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
3210 incorrect
3211 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
3212 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
3213 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
3214 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
3215 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
3216 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
3217 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
3218 resolver
3219 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
3220 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
3221 order of 0D36 and 0D37
3222 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
3223 chillu characters
3224 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
3225 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
3226 receiving data
3227 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
3228 whitespace
3229 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
3230 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
3231 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
3232 for Peru
3233 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
3234 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
3235 failures consistently
3236 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
3237 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
3238 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
3239 frame-pointer on i386
3240 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
3241 register
3242 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
3243 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
3244 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
3245 generic c code is used
3246 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
3247 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
3248 around 4000
3249 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
3250 (CVE-2017-12133)
3251 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
3252 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
3253 with -lieee
3254 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
3255 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
3256 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
3257 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
3258 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
3259 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
3260 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
3261 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
3262 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
3263 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
3264 remove()
3265 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
3266 checked for errors.
3267 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
3268 new posix_spawn implementation
3269 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
3270 leads to lower CPU frequency
3271 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
3272 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
3273 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
3274 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
3275 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
3276 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
3277 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
3278 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
3279 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
3280 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
3281 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
3282 not support gethostbyname4_r
3283 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
3284 switching
3285 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
3286 arenas
3287 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
3288 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
3289 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
3290 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
3291 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
3292 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
3293 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
3294 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
3295 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
3296 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
3297 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
3298 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
3299 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
3300 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
3301 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
3302 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
3303 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
3304 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
3305 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
3306 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
3307 retry value
3308 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
3309 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
3310 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
3311 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
3312 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
3313 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
3314 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
3315 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
3316 [21537] libc:
3317 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
3318 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
3319 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
3320 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
3321 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
3322 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
3323 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
3324 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
3325 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
3326 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
3327 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
3328 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
3329 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
3330 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
3331 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
3332 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
3333 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
3334 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
3335 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
3336 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
3337 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
3338 issue on x86-64
3339 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
3340 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
3341 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
3342 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
3343 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
3344 construction
3345 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
3346 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
3347 between_2_3
3348 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
3349 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
3350 conditions
3351 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
3352 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
3353 Hindi Locale
3354 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
3355 posix/sched_cpucount.c
3356 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
3357 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
3358 locale
3359 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
3360 leading to relocation crash
3361 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
3362 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
3363 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
3364 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
3365 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
3366 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
3367 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
3368 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
3369 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
3370 locale
3371 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
3372 locale
3373 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
3374 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
3375 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
3376 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
3377 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
3378 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
3379 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
3380 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
3381 strings
3382 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
3383 protector=all
3384 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
3385 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
3386 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
3387 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
3388 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
3389 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
3390 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
3391 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
3392 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
3393 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
3394 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
3395 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
3396 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
3397 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
3398 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
3399 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
3400 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
3401 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
3402 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
3403 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
3404 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
3405 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
3406 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
3407 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
3408 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
3409 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
3410 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
3411 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
3412 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
3413 with unicode 9.0
3414 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
3415 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
3416 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
3417 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
3418 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
3419
3420 \f
3421 Version 2.25
3422
3423 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
3424 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
3425 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
3426 Library.
3427
3428 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
3429 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
3430 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
3431 the GNU C Library.
3432
3433 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
3434 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
3435 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
3436 the GNU C Library.
3437
3438 * The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
3439 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
3440 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
3441 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
3442 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
3443 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
3444 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
3445 will not.
3446
3447 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
3448 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
3449 many years.
3450
3451 * The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
3452 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
3453 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
3454
3455 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
3456 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
3457 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
3458 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
3459 problem.
3460
3461 * New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
3462 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
3463 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
3464
3465 * Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
3466 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
3467 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
3468 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
3469 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
3470 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
3471 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
3472 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
3473 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
3474 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
3475 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
3476 WINT_WIDTH.
3477
3478 * New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
3479
3480 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
3481
3482 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
3483 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
3484 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
3485
3486 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
3487 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
3488
3489 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
3490 fminmagf, fminmagl.
3491
3492 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
3493
3494 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
3495
3496 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
3497 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
3498
3499 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
3500
3501 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
3502 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
3503
3504 * The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
3505 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
3506
3507 * Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
3508 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
3509 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
3510
3511 * The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
3512 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
3513 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
3514 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
3515 effects of the memory clear).
3516
3517 * On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
3518 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
3519 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
3520 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
3521
3522 * On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
3523 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
3524 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
3525 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
3526 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
3527 if they are compiled or used with those options.
3528
3529 * The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
3530 have been added.
3531
3532 * The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
3533 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
3534 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
3535 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
3536 as large as several megabytes.
3537
3538 * The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
3539 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
3540 been removed.
3541
3542 * The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
3543 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
3544 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
3545 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
3546 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
3547 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
3548 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
3549
3550 * The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
3551 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
3552 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
3553 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
3554
3555 * The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
3556 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
3557 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
3558 Internet.
3559
3560 * The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
3561 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
3562 They were already unimplemented.
3563
3564 * The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
3565 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
3566 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
3567 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
3568
3569 * DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
3570 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
3571 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
3572 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
3573 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
3574
3575 * The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
3576 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
3577 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
3578 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
3579 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
3580
3581 * The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
3582 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
3583 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
3584 did not reflect that.
3585
3586 * For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
3587 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
3588 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
3589 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
3590 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
3591 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
3592 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
3593 'gcc/config.gcc'.
3594
3595 * GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
3596 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
3597 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
3598 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
3599
3600 * Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
3601 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
3602 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
3603 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
3604
3605 * A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
3606 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
3607 guarantees.
3608
3609 * A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
3610 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
3611 make state changes.
3612
3613 Security related changes:
3614
3615 * On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
3616 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
3617 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
3618 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
3619 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
3620
3621 * The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
3622 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
3623 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
3624 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
3625 (CVE-2015-5180)
3626
3627 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3628
3629 [4099] stdio: Overly aggressive caching by stream i/o functions.
3630 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
3631 protector-all
3632 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
3633 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
3634 before it started waiting
3635 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
3636 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
3637 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
3638 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
3639 wrong type
3640 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
3641 library linked with pthread
3642 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
3643 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
3644 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
3645 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
3646 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
3647 after being __libc_memalign()'d
3648 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
3649 when it shouldnt
3650 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
3651 not
3652 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
3653 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
3654 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
3655 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
3656 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
3657 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
3658 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
3659 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
3660 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
3661 termination
3662 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
3663 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
3664 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
3665 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
3666 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
3667 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
3668 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
3669 causes a segmentation fault
3670 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
3671 linking
3672 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
3673 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
3674 uninitialized GOT
3675 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
3676 versions
3677 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
3678 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
3679 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
3680 is always true.
3681 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
3682 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
3683 modes
3684 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
3685 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
3686 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
3687 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
3688 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
3689 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
3690 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
3691 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
3692 libpthread.a
3693 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
3694 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
3695 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
3696 _res_hconf
3697 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
3698 information.
3699 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
3700 penalty
3701 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
3702 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
3703 cause transition penalty
3704 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
3705 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
3706 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
3707 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
3708 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
3709 mcount.oS)
3710 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
3711 Checking
3712 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
3713 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
3714 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
3715 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
3716 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
3717 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
3718 multi-arch
3719 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
3720 (RES_USEBSTRING)
3721 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
3722 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
3723 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
3724 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
3725 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
3726 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
3727 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
3728 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
3729 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
3730 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
3731 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
3732 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
3733 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
3734 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
3735 glibc
3736 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
3737 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
3738 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
3739 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
3740 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
3741 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
3742 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
3743 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
3744 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
3745 U+20AC), not same as GBK
3746 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
3747 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
3748 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
3749 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
3750 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
3751 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
3752 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
3753 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
3754 RES_USE_INET6
3755 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3756 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
3757 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
3758 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
3759 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
3760 wrong condition
3761 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3762 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
3763 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
3764 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
3765 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
3766 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
3767 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
3768 clang
3769 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
3770 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
3771 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
3772 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
3773 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
3774 \f
3775 Version 2.24
3776
3777 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
3778 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
3779 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
3780 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
3781 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
3782 architectures.
3783
3784 * The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
3785 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
3786 been included in previous releases.
3787
3788 * The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
3789 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
3790
3791 * The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
3792 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
3793 instead of “union wait”.
3794
3795 * A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
3796 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
3797 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
3798 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
3799 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
3800 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
3801 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
3802
3803 * The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
3804 API.
3805
3806 * The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
3807 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
3808 drop it.
3809
3810 * nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
3811 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
3812 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
3813 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
3814 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
3815 extensions.
3816
3817 Security related changes:
3818
3819 * An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
3820 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
3821 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
3822
3823 * Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
3824 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
3825 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
3826 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
3827
3828 * The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
3829 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
3830 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
3831
3832 * The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
3833 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
3834 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
3835
3836 * The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
3837 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
3838 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
3839 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
3840
3841 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3842
3843 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
3844 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
3845 of MS-DOS.
3846 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
3847 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
3848 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
3849 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
3850 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
3851 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
3852 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
3853 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
3854 CLDR data
3855 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
3856 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
3857 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
3858 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
3859 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
3860 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
3861 romanisation
3862 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
3863 and +/-
3864 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
3865 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
3866 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
3867 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
3868 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
3869 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
3870 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
3871 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
3872 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
3873 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
3874 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
3875 all locales
3876 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
3877 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
3878 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
3879 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
3880 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
3881 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
3882 execute
3883 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
3884 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
3885 -Wsystem-headers
3886 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
3887 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
3888 Romanian locale data
3889 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
3890 symbol
3891 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
3892 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
3893 language
3894 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
3895 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
3896 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
3897 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
3898 machine
3899 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
3900 description
3901 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
3902 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
3903 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
3904 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
3905 when using RTLD_NEXT
3906 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
3907 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
3908 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
3909 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
3910 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
3911 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
3912 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
3913 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
3914 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
3915 Excavator core
3916 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3917 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3918 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3919 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
3920 double range
3921 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
3922 part zero incorrect
3923 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
3924 equality tests
3925 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
3926 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
3927 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
3928 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
3929 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
3930 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
3931 glibc-2.22
3932 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
3933 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
3934 'tst-numeric.c'
3935 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
3936 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
3937 low part
3938 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
3939 result
3940 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
3941 unaligned stack
3942 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
3943 pointers and lengths in error-case.
3944 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
3945 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
3946 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
3947 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
3948 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
3949 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
3950 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
3951 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
3952 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
3953 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
3954 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
3955 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
3956 modes
3957 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
3958 server addresses
3959 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
3960 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
3961 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
3962 response to getaddrinfo
3963 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
3964 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
3965 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
3966 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
3967 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
3968 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
3969 sometimes incorrect
3970 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
3971 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
3972 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
3973 record types
3974 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
3975 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
3976 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
3977 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
3978 (CVE-2016-3075)
3979 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
3980 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
3981 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
3982 resolving symbols
3983 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
3984 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
3985 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
3986 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
3987 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
3988 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
3989 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
3990 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
3991 gethosts
3992 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
3993 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
3994 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
3995 (CVE-2016-3706)
3996 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
3997 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
3998 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
3999 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
4000 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
4001 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
4002 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
4003 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
4004 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
4005 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
4006 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
4007 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
4008 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
4009 executable
4010 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
4011 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
4012 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
4013 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
4014 XPG3
4015 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
4016 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
4017 (CVE-2016-4429)
4018 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
4019 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
4020 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
4021 AS not supporting AVX512
4022 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
4023 sNaN argument
4024 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4025 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
4026 argument
4027 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
4028 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
4029 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
4030 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
4031 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
4032 eax=0x80000001
4033 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
4034 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
4035 subnormals
4036 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
4037 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
4038 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
4039 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4040 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4041 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
4042 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4043 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
4044 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
4045 input
4046 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4047 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4048 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4049 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4050 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4051 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4052 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4053 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
4054 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
4055 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
4056 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
4057 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
4058 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
4059 double rounding
4060 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
4061 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
4062 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
4063 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
4064 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
4065 (Only arm/linux)
4066 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
4067 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
4068 fallbacks
4069 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
4070 "invalid" exceptions
4071 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
4072 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
4073 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
4074 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
4075 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
4076 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
4077 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
4078 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
4079 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
4080 \f
4081 Version 2.23
4082
4083 * Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
4084 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
4085 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
4086 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
4087 89, 16061, and 18568.
4088
4089 * sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
4090 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
4091 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
4092 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
4093 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
4094 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
4095 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
4096
4097 * The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
4098 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
4099 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
4100
4101 * getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
4102 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
4103 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
4104 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
4105 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
4106 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
4107 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
4108
4109 * A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
4110 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
4111 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
4112 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
4113 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
4114 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
4115 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
4116 Ericsson.)
4117
4118 * There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
4119 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
4120 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
4121 independent of the GNU C Library.
4122
4123 * The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
4124 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
4125
4126 * The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
4127 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
4128 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
4129 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
4130 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
4131 Linux kernel.
4132
4133 * Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
4134 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
4135
4136 * Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
4137 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
4138 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
4139 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
4140 defining their own copy.
4141
4142 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
4143 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
4144 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
4145
4146 Security related changes:
4147
4148 * An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
4149 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
4150
4151 * The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
4152 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
4153 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
4154 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
4155 (CVE-2015-8777)
4156
4157 * An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
4158 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
4159
4160 * The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
4161 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
4162
4163 * The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
4164 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
4165 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
4166
4167 * A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
4168 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
4169 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
4170 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
4171 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
4172 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
4173 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
4174 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
4175 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
4176 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
4177 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
4178 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
4179 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
4180
4181 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4182
4183 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
4184 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
4185 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
4186 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
4187 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
4188 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
4189 use `mkstemp'
4190 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
4191 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
4192 overflow/underflow errors
4193 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
4194 overflow/underflow
4195 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
4196 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
4197 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
4198 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
4199 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
4200 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
4201 are not contiguous
4202 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
4203 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
4204 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
4205 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
4206 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
4207 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
4208 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
4209 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
4210 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
4211 all exceptions
4212 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
4213 arguments
4214 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
4215 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
4216 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
4217 should include
4218 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
4219 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
4220 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
4221 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
4222 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
4223 GNU/Linux
4224 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
4225 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
4226 arguments
4227 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
4228 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
4229 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
4230 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
4231 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
4232 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
4233 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
4234 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
4235 rounding results
4236 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
4237 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
4238 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
4239 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
4240 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
4241 fails
4242 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
4243 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
4244 block boundary
4245 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
4246 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
4247 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
4248 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
4249 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
4250 4.7?
4251 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
4252 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
4253 (related to lock elision)
4254 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
4255 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
4256 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
4257 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
4258 (CVE-2015-8779)
4259 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
4260 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
4261 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
4262 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
4263 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
4264 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
4265 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
4266 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
4267 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
4268 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
4269 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
4270 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
4271 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
4272 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
4273 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
4274 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
4275 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
4276 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
4277 contains a vector instruction exception.
4278 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
4279 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
4280 locales
4281 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
4282 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
4283 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
4284 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
4285 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
4286 missing break ?
4287 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
4288 32bit processes
4289 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
4290 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
4291 infinity
4292 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
4293 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
4294 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
4295 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
4296 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
4297 be forced unloaded
4298 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
4299 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
4300 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
4301 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
4302 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
4303 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
4304 statically too large
4305 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
4306 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
4307 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
4308 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
4309 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
4310 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
4311 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
4312 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
4313 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
4314 FUTEX_SHARED
4315 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
4316 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
4317 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
4318 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
4319 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
4320 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
4321 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
4322 opendir()
4323 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
4324 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
4325 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
4326 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
4327 signgam
4328 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
4329 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
4330 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
4331 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
4332 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
4333 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
4334 dependencies
4335 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
4336 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
4337 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
4338 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
4339 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
4340 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
4341 (CVE-2015-8776)
4342 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
4343 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
4344 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
4345 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
4346 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
4347 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4348 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
4349 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
4350 contention
4351 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
4352 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
4353 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
4354 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4355 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
4356 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
4357 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
4358 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
4359 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
4360 rounding modes
4361 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
4362 ILP32
4363 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
4364 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
4365 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
4366 threshold
4367 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
4368 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
4369 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
4370 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
4371 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
4372 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
4373 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
4374 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
4375 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
4376 pthread_setaffinity_np
4377 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
4378 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
4379 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
4380 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
4381 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
4382 prelink
4383 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
4384 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
4385 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
4386 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
4387 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4388 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
4389 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
4390 bits/mathcalls.h
4391 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
4392 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
4393 for C99-based standards
4394 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
4395 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
4396 math-only
4397 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
4398 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
4399 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
4400 disabled
4401 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
4402 "inexact" exceptions
4403 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
4404 arguments
4405 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
4406 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
4407 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
4408 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
4409 rules
4410 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
4411 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
4412 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
4413 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
4414 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
4415 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
4416 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
4417 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
4418 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
4419 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
4420 from 32bit
4421 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
4422 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
4423 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
4424 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
4425 subnormals
4426 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
4427 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
4428 error on 32-bit architectures
4429 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
4430 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
4431 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
4432 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
4433 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
4434 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
4435 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
4436 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
4437 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
4438 -Os
4439 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
4440 CPU's.
4441 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
4442 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
4443 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
4444 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
4445 architectures
4446 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
4447 \f
4448 Version 2.22
4449
4450 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4451
4452 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
4453 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
4454 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
4455 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
4456 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
4457 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
4458 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
4459 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
4460 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
4461 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
4462 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
4463 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
4464 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
4465 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
4466 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
4467 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
4468 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
4469 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
4470 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
4471 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
4472
4473 * Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
4474 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
4475
4476 * A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
4477 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
4478 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
4479 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
4480 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
4481 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4482
4483 * The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
4484 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
4485 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
4486 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
4487 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
4488
4489 * A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
4490 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
4491 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
4492
4493 * Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
4494 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
4495 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
4496 17998.
4497
4498 * CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
4499 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
4500 condition in some applications.
4501
4502 * Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
4503 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
4504 pow, powf.
4505 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
4506 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
4507 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
4508 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
4509 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
4510
4511 * A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
4512 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
4513 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
4514 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
4515
4516 * The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
4517 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
4518 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
4519
4520 * Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
4521 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
4522
4523 * The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
4524 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
4525 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
4526
4527 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
4528 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
4529 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
4530 \f
4531 Version 2.21
4532
4533 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4534
4535 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
4536 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
4537 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
4538 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
4539 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
4540 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
4541 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
4542 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
4543 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
4544 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
4545 17892.
4546
4547 * CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
4548 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
4549 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
4550 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
4551 intended.
4552
4553 * A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
4554 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
4555 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
4556 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
4557 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
4558 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
4559
4560 * Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
4561
4562 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
4563 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
4564 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
4565
4566 * Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
4567 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
4568 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
4569 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
4570 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
4571 effects being visible outside transactions.
4572
4573 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
4574 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
4575
4576 * i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
4577
4578 * CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
4579 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
4580 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
4581 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
4582 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
4583
4584 * CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
4585 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
4586
4587 * CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
4588 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
4589 format.
4590
4591 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
4592 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
4593 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
4594
4595 * The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
4596 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
4597
4598 * New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
4599
4600 * The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
4601 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
4602 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
4603 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
4604
4605 * Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
4606 with newer versions of bison.
4607
4608 * Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
4609 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
4610 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
4611 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
4612 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
4613 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
4614 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
4615 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
4616 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
4617 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
4618 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
4619 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
4620 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
4621
4622 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
4623 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
4624 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
4625 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
4626 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
4627 \f
4628 Version 2.20
4629
4630 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4631
4632 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
4633 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
4634 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
4635 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
4636 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
4637 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
4638 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
4639 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
4640 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
4641 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
4642 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
4643 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
4644 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
4645 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
4646 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
4647
4648 * Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
4649 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
4650 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
4651 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
4652 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
4653 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
4654 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
4655 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
4656 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
4657 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
4658
4659 * Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
4660 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
4661 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
4662 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
4663 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
4664
4665 * Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
4666
4667 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
4668 can be used with is 2.6.32.
4669
4670 * Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
4671 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
4672 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
4673 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
4674 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
4675 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
4676
4677 * The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
4678 from ports.
4679
4680 * The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
4681 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
4682 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
4683 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
4684 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
4685 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
4686 test macros defined.
4687
4688 * Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
4689
4690 * Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
4691 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
4692 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
4693 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
4694 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
4695 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
4696 is not built.
4697
4698 * CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
4699 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
4700 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
4701 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
4702 invocation.
4703
4704 * All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
4705 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
4706 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
4707
4708 * The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
4709 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
4710 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
4711 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
4712
4713 * Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
4714 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
4715 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
4716 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
4717 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
4718 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
4719 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
4720 additional checks.
4721
4722 * On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
4723 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
4724 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
4725 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
4726 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
4727 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
4728 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
4729 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
4730 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
4731
4732 * Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
4733 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
4734 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
4735 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
4736 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
4737 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
4738
4739 * Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
4740 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
4741 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
4742 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
4743 \f
4744 Version 2.19
4745
4746 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4747
4748 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
4749 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
4750 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
4751 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
4752 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
4753 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
4754 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
4755 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
4756 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
4757 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
4758 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
4759 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
4760 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
4761 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
4762 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
4763 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
4764 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
4765 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
4766
4767 * Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
4768 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
4769
4770 * The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
4771 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
4772 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
4773 extension which uses __block.
4774
4775 * CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
4776 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
4777 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
4778 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
4779 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
4780
4781 * CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
4782 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
4783 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
4784 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
4785 if malloc fails.
4786
4787 * CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
4788 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
4789 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
4790 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
4791 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
4792
4793 * CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
4794 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
4795 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
4796
4797 * CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
4798 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
4799 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
4800 #15856, #15857).
4801
4802 * CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
4803 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
4804
4805 * New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
4806 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
4807
4808 * Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
4809
4810 * The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
4811 supported locales.
4812
4813 * ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
4814
4815 * ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
4816
4817 * The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
4818 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
4819 for which the C library was built.
4820
4821 * Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
4822 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
4823 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
4824 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
4825 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
4826 in the following circumstances:
4827
4828 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
4829
4830 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
4831 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
4832
4833 * The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
4834 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
4835
4836 * ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
4837 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
4838
4839 * SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
4840
4841 * SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
4842 transcendental functions have been introduced.
4843
4844 * Support for powerpc64le has been added.
4845
4846 * The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
4847
4848 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
4849
4850 * A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
4851 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
4852 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
4853 disable some of those declarations.
4854
4855 * The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
4856 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
4857 that did nothing) has also been removed.
4858
4859 * Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
4860 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
4861
4862 * Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
4863 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
4864 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
4865 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
4866 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
4867 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
4868 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
4869 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
4870 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
4871 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
4872 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
4873 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
4874 require recompilation.
4875 \f
4876 Version 2.18
4877
4878 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4879
4880 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
4881 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
4882 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
4883 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
4884 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
4885 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
4886 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
4887 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
4888 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
4889 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
4890 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
4891 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
4892 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
4893 15755, 15759.
4894
4895 * CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
4896 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
4897 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
4898 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
4899 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
4900 understands and accepts the risks.
4901
4902 * CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
4903 #15078).
4904
4905 * CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
4906 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
4907
4908 * Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
4909 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
4910 destructor calls to glibc.
4911
4912 * Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
4913 output.
4914
4915 * Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
4916 non-x86 architectures.
4917
4918 * Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
4919
4920 * Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
4921
4922 * Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
4923 Richard Henderson.
4924
4925 * Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
4926
4927 * Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
4928 Richard Henderson.
4929
4930 * Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
4931 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
4932
4933 * Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
4934
4935 * New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
4936 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
4937
4938 * On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
4939 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
4940
4941 * Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
4942 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
4943 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
4944
4945 * Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
4946 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
4947 attributes of a process.
4948
4949 * Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
4950 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
4951 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
4952 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
4953 mutexes.
4954
4955 * Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
4956 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
4957
4958 * Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
4959 \f
4960 Version 2.17
4961
4962 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4963
4964 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
4965 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
4966 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
4967 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
4968 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
4969 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
4970 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
4971 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
4972 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
4973 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
4974 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
4975 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
4976 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
4977 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
4978 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
4979
4980 * Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
4981
4982 * CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
4983 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
4984
4985 * The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
4986 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
4987
4988 * Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
4989
4990 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
4991 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
4992 zEnterprise z196.
4993 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
4994
4995 * The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
4996 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
4997 the internal function __secure_getenv.
4998
4999 * SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
5000 Implemented by Gary Benson.
5001
5002 * Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
5003 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
5004
5005 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
5006 can be used with is 2.6.16.
5007
5008 * Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
5009 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
5010
5011 * New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
5012 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
5013 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
5014 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
5015
5016 * Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
5017 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
5018
5019 * Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
5020 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
5021 default.
5022
5023 * New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
5024 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
5025 information in --help and --version output.
5026
5027 * The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
5028 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
5029 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
5030
5031 * The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
5032 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
5033 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
5034 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
5035 when the mode is enabled.
5036
5037 * The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
5038 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
5039 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
5040 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
5041 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
5042 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
5043 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5044
5045 * New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
5046 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
5047 \f
5048 Version 2.16
5049
5050 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5051
5052 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
5053 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
5054 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
5055 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
5056 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
5057 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
5058 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
5059 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
5060 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
5061 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
5062 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
5063 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
5064 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
5065 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
5066 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
5067 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
5068 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
5069 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
5070 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
5071 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
5072 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
5073 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
5074 14277, 14278.
5075
5076 * Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
5077 configuring glibc with:
5078 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
5079 Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
5080 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5081
5082 * ISO C11 support:
5083
5084 + define static_assert
5085
5086 + do not declare gets
5087
5088 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
5089
5090 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
5091 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
5092 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
5093 implementation.
5094
5095 + timespec_get added
5096
5097 + uchar.h support added
5098
5099 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
5100
5101 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5102
5103 * Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
5104
5105 * Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
5106
5107 * Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
5108 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5109
5110 * More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
5111 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5112
5113 * New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
5114 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
5115 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
5116 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
5117 existing applications.
5118
5119 * Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
5120 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
5121 before 2.6.
5122
5123 * New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
5124 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
5125 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
5126
5127 * New locales: mag_IN
5128
5129 * New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
5130 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
5131 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
5132 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
5133 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
5134
5135 * Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5136
5137 * More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
5138 and Will Schmidt.
5139
5140 * More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
5141
5142 * Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
5143 without a previously built glibc.
5144
5145 * Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
5146 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
5147
5148 * Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
5149 now supported for ARM processors.
5150
5151 * The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
5152 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
5153 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
5154
5155 * Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
5156
5157 * A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
5158 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
5159 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
5160 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
5161
5162 * ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
5163 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
5164 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
5165 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5166
5167 * Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
5168 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
5169 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
5170 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
5171 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
5172
5173 * Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
5174 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
5175 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
5176 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
5177 \f
5178 Version 2.15
5179
5180 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5181
5182 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
5183 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
5184 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
5185 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
5186 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
5187 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
5188 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
5189
5190 * New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
5191 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5192
5193 * Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
5194 and support for initgroups lookups.
5195 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5196
5197 * Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
5198 Contributed by HJ Lu.
5199
5200 * Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
5201 Contributed by HJ Lu.
5202
5203 * Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
5204 on x86-32 and x86-64.
5205 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5206
5207 * Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
5208 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5209
5210 * Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
5211 for x86-64 and x86-32.
5212 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5213
5214 * New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
5215 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5216
5217 * Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
5218 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5219
5220 * nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
5221 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5222
5223 * Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
5224 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5225
5226 * Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
5227 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5228
5229 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
5230 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5231
5232 * New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
5233
5234 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
5235 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5236
5237 * Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
5238 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
5239
5240 * New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
5241 \f
5242 Version 2.14
5243
5244 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5245
5246 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
5247 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
5248 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
5249 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
5250 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
5251 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
5252 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
5253 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
5254 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
5255 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
5256
5257 * The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
5258 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
5259 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
5260 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
5261
5262 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
5263 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
5264 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
5265 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5266
5267 * New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
5268 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
5269
5270 * New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
5271 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
5272
5273 * New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
5274
5275 * New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
5276 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5277
5278 * The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
5279 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
5280 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
5281 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
5282 \f
5283 Version 2.13
5284
5285 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5286
5287 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
5288 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
5289 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
5290 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
5291 12378, 12394, 12397
5292
5293 * New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
5294
5295 * POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
5296
5297 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
5298 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
5299 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5300 \f
5301 Version 2.12
5302
5303 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5304
5305 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
5306 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
5307 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
5308 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
5309 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
5310 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
5311 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5312 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
5313
5314 * New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
5315
5316 * New Linux interface: recvmmsg
5317
5318 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
5319
5320 * The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
5321 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
5322 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5323
5324 * New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
5325 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
5326 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
5327 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
5328 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5329
5330 * New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
5331 \f
5332 Version 2.11
5333
5334 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5335
5336 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
5337 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
5338 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
5339 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
5340 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
5341 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
5342
5343 * New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
5344 mkostemps64
5345 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5346
5347 * Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
5348 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5349
5350 * STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
5351 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5352
5353 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
5354
5355 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
5356 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
5357 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
5358 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5359
5360 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
5361 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5362
5363 * New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
5364 strstr, strcasestr.
5365 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5366
5367 * Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
5368 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
5369
5370 * AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
5371 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5372
5373 * STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
5374 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5375
5376 * Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
5377 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
5378 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
5379 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
5380 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
5381 necessity is every process again.
5382 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5383
5384 * New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
5385 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
5386
5387 * Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
5388 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
5389
5390 * Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
5391 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
5392 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5393
5394 * New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
5395 \f
5396 Version 2.10
5397
5398 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5399
5400 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
5401 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
5402 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
5403 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
5404 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
5405
5406 * New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
5407 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5408
5409 * New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
5410 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5411
5412 * Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
5413 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
5414
5415 * XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
5416 now in POSIX.
5417
5418 * New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
5419 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5420
5421 * New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
5422 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5423
5424 * Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
5425 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5426
5427 * The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
5428 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5429
5430 * The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
5431 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
5432 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5433
5434 * New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
5435
5436 * Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
5437 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5438
5439 * Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
5440 and extend existing format specifiers.
5441 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5442
5443 * Handling for group shadow files has been added.
5444 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5445
5446 * DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
5447 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
5448 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
5449 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
5450 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
5451 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5452 \f
5453 Version 2.9
5454
5455 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5456
5457 2447, 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447,
5458 6461, 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712,
5459 6713, 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839,
5460 6843, 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955,
5461 6966, 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
5462
5463 * Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
5464 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5465
5466 * TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
5467 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
5468
5469 * getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
5470 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5471
5472 * New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
5473 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
5474 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5475
5476 * New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
5477 Implemented by Eric Blake.
5478
5479 * New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
5480
5481 * Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
5482 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5483
5484 * Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
5485 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
5486 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
5487 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5488
5489 * Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
5490 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5491
5492 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
5493 Sinhala)
5494 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
5495
5496 * New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
5497 \f
5498 Version 2.8
5499
5500 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5501
5502 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
5503 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
5504 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
5505 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
5506 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
5507 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
5508 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
5509
5510 * New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
5511
5512 * New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
5513
5514 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
5515 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
5516
5517 * IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
5518
5519 * nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
5520 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5521
5522 * nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
5523 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5524
5525 * More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
5526 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
5527 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5528
5529 * Faster memset for x86-64.
5530 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
5531
5532 * Faster memcpy on x86.
5533 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5534
5535 * ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
5536 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5537
5538 * Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
5539 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
5540 \f
5541 Version 2.7
5542
5543 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5544
5545 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
5546 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
5547 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
5548 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
5549 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
5550
5551 * More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
5552 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5553
5554 * Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5555
5556 * Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
5557 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
5558 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5559
5560 * PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
5561 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
5562
5563 * New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
5564 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5565
5566 * More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5567
5568 * New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
5569 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5570
5571 * Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
5572 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5573
5574 * Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
5575 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
5576
5577 * Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5578
5579 * SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
5580 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5581
5582 * New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
5583 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
5584 yo_NG.
5585
5586 + New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
5587 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5588 \f
5589 Version 2.6
5590
5591 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5592
5593 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
5594 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
5595 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
5596 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
5597 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
5598 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
5599 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
5600 4702, 4858
5601
5602 * New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
5603
5604 * New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
5605
5606 * nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5607 \f
5608 Version 2.5
5609
5610 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5611
5612 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
5613 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
5614 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
5615 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
5616 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
5617 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
5618 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
5619 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
5620 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
5621
5622 * For Linux, the sorting of addresses returned by getaddrinfo now also
5623 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
5624 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5625
5626 * Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
5627 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5628
5629 * New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
5630
5631 * New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
5632
5633 * For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
5634 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
5635 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
5636 site might have problems with the default behavior.
5637 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5638
5639 * Iterating over entire database in NIS can be slow. With the
5640 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
5641 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
5642 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5643
5644 * The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
5645 Ulrich Drepper.
5646
5647 * Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
5648
5649 * Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
5650 Ulrich Drepper.
5651
5652 * Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
5653
5654 * New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
5655 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
5656 \f
5657 Version 2.4
5658
5659 * More overflow detection functions.
5660
5661 * New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
5662 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
5663
5664 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
5665 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
5666 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
5667 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
5668 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
5669 by Masahide Washizawa.
5670
5671 * It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
5672 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5673
5674 * The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
5675 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
5676 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
5677 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
5678
5679 * The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
5680 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
5681
5682 * The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
5683
5684 * New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
5685 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
5686 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
5687
5688 * New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
5689 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
5690
5691 * The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
5692 for compatibility with some other systems.
5693
5694 * Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
5695 \f
5696 Version 2.3.6
5697
5698 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5699
5700 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
5701 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
5702 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
5703 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
5704 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
5705 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
5706
5707 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
5708
5709 * As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
5710
5711 * Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
5712 \f
5713 Version 2.3.5
5714
5715 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5716
5717 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
5718 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
5719 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
5720 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
5721
5722 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
5723 \f
5724 Version 2.3.4
5725
5726 * Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
5727 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5728
5729 * nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
5730 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
5731 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5732
5733 * nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
5734 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
5735
5736 * getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
5737 efficiently.
5738 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5739
5740 * The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
5741 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
5742 handling data.
5743
5744 * The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
5745 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
5746 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5747
5748 * Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
5749 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5750
5751 * Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
5752 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
5753 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
5754 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5755
5756 * Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
5757 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
5758 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
5759 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5760
5761 * Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
5762 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
5763 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
5764 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
5765 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
5766 \f
5767 Version 2.3.3
5768
5769 * New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
5770 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
5771
5772 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
5773 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
5774
5775 * getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
5776 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
5777
5778 * getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
5779 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5780
5781 * support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
5782 by Roland McGrath.
5783
5784 * regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
5785 and Ulrich Drepper.
5786
5787 * getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
5788 RFC 3484.
5789 \f
5790 Version 2.3.2
5791
5792 * Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
5793 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
5794 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
5795 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
5796 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
5797 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
5798 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
5799 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
5800 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
5801
5802 * The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
5803 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
5804 and are now also available on the Hurd.
5805
5806 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
5807
5808 * The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
5809 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
5810
5811 * Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
5812 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
5813
5814 * fexecve is implemented on Linux.
5815
5816 * The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
5817 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
5818
5819 * With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
5820 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
5821 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
5822 of weak definition in ld.so.
5823
5824 * Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
5825 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
5826
5827 * Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
5828 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
5829 \f
5830 Version 2.3
5831
5832 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
5833 charsets.
5834
5835 * iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
5836 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
5837
5838 * localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
5839 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
5840
5841 * Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
5842 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
5843
5844 * Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
5845 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
5846 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5847
5848 * The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
5849 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
5850
5851 * Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
5852 implementation of regex.
5853
5854 * Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
5855 Unicode 3.2.
5856
5857 * Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
5858 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
5859
5860 * The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
5861 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
5862 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
5863
5864 * Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
5865 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
5866
5867 * New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
5868 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
5869 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
5870
5871 * Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
5872 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
5873
5874 * Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
5875 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
5876 and Ulrich Drepper.
5877
5878 * Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
5879 \f
5880 Version 2.2.6
5881
5882 * The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
5883 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
5884
5885 * The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
5886 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
5887 \f
5888 Version 2.2.5
5889
5890 * Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
5891 128-bit long double format.
5892
5893 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
5894 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
5895
5896 * Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
5897
5898 * Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
5899
5900 * libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
5901 as well.
5902
5903 * optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
5904 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
5905
5906 * Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
5907 \f
5908 Version 2.2.4
5909
5910 * Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
5911 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
5912
5913 * Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
5914 support Unicode 3.1.
5915
5916 * Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
5917 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
5918
5919 * Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
5920
5921 * Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
5922 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
5923 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5924
5925 * The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
5926 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
5927
5928 * The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
5929 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
5930
5931 * mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
5932 \f
5933 Version 2.2.3
5934
5935 * Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
5936 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
5937 in float, double, and long double format.
5938
5939 * Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
5940 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
5941 128-bit long double format.
5942
5943 * The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
5944 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
5945 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
5946 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
5947
5948 * An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
5949 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
5950 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5951
5952 * Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
5953 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
5954
5955 * David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
5956 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
5957
5958 * The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
5959 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
5960 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
5961
5962 * Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
5963 family of functions for Linux/S390.
5964
5965 * Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
5966 of functions for Linux/x86.
5967
5968 * Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
5969 \f
5970 Version 2.2.2
5971
5972 * Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
5973 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
5974 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
5975 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
5976 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
5977 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
5978 other headers.
5979
5980 * regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
5981 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
5982
5983 * iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
5984 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
5985 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
5986 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5987
5988 * The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
5989 locales. While
5990
5991 locale -a
5992
5993 only lists the names of the supported locales
5994
5995 locale -a --verbose
5996
5997 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
5998 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5999 \f
6000 Version 2.2.1
6001
6002 * The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
6003 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
6004 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
6005 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
6006 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
6007
6008 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
6009
6010 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
6011
6012 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
6013
6014 * New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
6015 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
6016 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
6017
6018 * Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
6019 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
6020
6021 * The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
6022 changed from the default "C" locale.
6023
6024 * The usual bug fixes.
6025 \f
6026 Version 2.2
6027
6028 * Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
6029 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
6030 is in progress.
6031
6032 * Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
6033
6034 * The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
6035
6036 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
6037 obviously requires a database library being available.
6038
6039 * Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6040
6041 * Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
6042
6043 * Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
6044 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
6045
6046 * ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
6047
6048 * The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
6049 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
6050 and Mark Kettenis.
6051
6052 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
6053 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
6054 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
6055
6056 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
6057 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
6058
6059 * Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
6060 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
6061 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
6062
6063 * Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
6064 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
6065 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
6066 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6067
6068 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
6069 structures for the wide character tables.
6070
6071 * Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6072
6073 * The utmp daemon has been removed.
6074
6075 * The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
6076
6077 * A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
6078 and Yutaka Niibe.
6079
6080 * POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
6081
6082 * POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
6083
6084 * POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6085
6086 * POSIX spinlocks are now available.
6087
6088 * Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
6089
6090 * the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
6091 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
6092 implemented for Linux.
6093
6094 * the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
6095 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
6096 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
6097 versions.
6098
6099 * various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
6100 Masahide Washizawa.
6101
6102 * IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
6103 \f
6104 Version 2.1.3
6105
6106 * bug fixes
6107
6108 \f
6109 Version 2.1.2
6110
6111 * bug fixes
6112
6113 \f
6114 Version 2.1.1
6115
6116 * New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
6117
6118 * New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
6119
6120 * Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
6121
6122 * Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
6123
6124 * New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
6125
6126 * Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
6127
6128 * Update timezone data files.
6129
6130 * lots of charmaps corrections
6131
6132 * some new locale definitions and charmaps
6133
6134 \f
6135 Version 2.1
6136
6137 * Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
6138 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
6139 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
6140 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
6141 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
6142 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
6143
6144 * An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
6145 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6146
6147 * Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
6148 symbol level.
6149
6150 * Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
6151 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
6152
6153 * strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
6154
6155 * printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
6156 numbers.
6157
6158 * scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
6159
6160 * the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
6161 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
6162
6163 * about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
6164 library.
6165
6166 * the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
6167 functions from ISO C 9X.
6168
6169 * the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
6170 real valued functions.
6171
6172 * Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
6173
6174 * Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
6175
6176 * Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
6177
6178 * Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
6179
6180 * Optimized string functions have been added.
6181
6182 * The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
6183
6184 * An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
6185
6186 * Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
6187 daemon for NSS (nscd).
6188
6189 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
6190 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
6191
6192 user system wall
6193
6194 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
6195
6196 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
6197
6198 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
6199
6200 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
6201
6202 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
6203
6204 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
6205
6206 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
6207 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
6208 horribly slow.
6209
6210 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
6211 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
6212
6213 * Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
6214
6215 * Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
6216
6217 * The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
6218 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
6219
6220 * rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
6221
6222 * A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
6223 Bambrough.
6224
6225 * Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
6226 latest draft standards.
6227
6228 * Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
6229
6230 * Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
6231 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
6232 addseverity NEW: Unix98
6233 alphasort64 NEW: LFS
6234 argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
6235 argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
6236 argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
6237 argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
6238 argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
6239 argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
6240 argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
6241 argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
6242 argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
6243 argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
6244 authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
6245 authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
6246 authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
6247 backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
6248 backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
6249 backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
6250 cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
6251 cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
6252 cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
6253 cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
6254 cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
6255 cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
6256 capget NEW: kernel
6257 capset NEW: kernel
6258 carg NEW: ISO C 9x
6259 cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
6260 cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
6261 casin NEW: ISO C 9x
6262 casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
6263 casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
6264 casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6265 casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6266 casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
6267 catan NEW: ISO C 9x
6268 catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6269 catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
6270 catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6271 catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6272 catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
6273 cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
6274 ccos NEW: ISO C 9x
6275 ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
6276 ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
6277 ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
6278 ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
6279 ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
6280 cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
6281 cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
6282 cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
6283 cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
6284 cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
6285 cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
6286 clearerr_locked REMOVED
6287 clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
6288 clog NEW: ISO C 9x
6289 clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
6290 clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
6291 clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
6292 clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
6293 clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
6294 conj NEW: ISO C 9x
6295 conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
6296 conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
6297 cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
6298 cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
6299 cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
6300 cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
6301 cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
6302 cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
6303 creal NEW: ISO C 9x
6304 crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
6305 creall NEW: ISO C 9x
6306 creat64 NEW: LFS
6307 csin NEW: ISO C 9x
6308 csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
6309 csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
6310 csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6311 csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6312 csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
6313 csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
6314 csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
6315 csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
6316 ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
6317 ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6318 ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
6319 ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6320 ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6321 ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
6322 des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
6323 ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
6324 endutxent NEW: Unix98
6325 exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x
6326 exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
6327 exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
6328 exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
6329 exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
6330 exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
6331 fattach NEW: STREAMS
6332 fdetach NEW: STREAMS
6333 fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
6334 fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
6335 fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
6336 feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6337 fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6338 fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
6339 fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
6340 feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6341 feof_locked REMOVED
6342 feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6343 ferror_locked REMOVED
6344 fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6345 fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
6346 fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
6347 fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6348 feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6349 fflush_locked REMOVED
6350 ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
6351 ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
6352 fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
6353 fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6354 fileno_locked REMOVED
6355 fma NEW: ISO C 9x
6356 fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
6357 fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
6358 fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
6359 fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
6360 fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
6361 fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
6362 fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
6363 fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
6364 fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
6365 fopen64 NEW: LFS
6366 fputc_locked REMOVED
6367 fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6368 fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6369 freopen64 NEW: LFS
6370 fseeko NEW: Unix98
6371 fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
6372 fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
6373 fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
6374 fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
6375 ftello NEW: Unix98
6376 ftello64 NEW: LFS
6377 ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
6378 ftw64 NEW: LFS
6379 fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6380 gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
6381 gamma_r REMOVED
6382 gammaf_r REMOVED
6383 gammal_r REMOVED
6384 getchar_locked REMOVED
6385 getdate NEW: Unix98
6386 getdate_err NEW: Unix98
6387 getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
6388 getmsg NEW: STREAMS
6389 getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
6390 getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
6391 getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
6392 getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
6393 getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
6394 getutxent NEW: Unix98
6395 getutxid NEW: Unix98
6396 getutxline NEW: Unix98
6397 glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
6398 globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
6399 gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
6400 gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
6401 grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
6402 host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
6403 iconv NEW: iconv
6404 iconv_close NEW: iconv
6405 iconv_open NEW: iconv
6406 if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
6407 if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
6408 if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
6409 if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
6410 in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
6411 in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
6412 inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
6413 isastream NEW: STREAMS
6414 iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
6415 key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
6416 key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
6417 key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
6418 key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
6419 key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
6420 key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
6421 key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
6422 key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
6423 key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
6424 llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
6425 llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6426 llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6427 llround NEW: ISO C 9x
6428 llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6429 llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6430 log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
6431 log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
6432 log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
6433 lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
6434 lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6435 lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6436 lround NEW: ISO C 9x
6437 lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6438 lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6439 lseek64 NEW: LFS
6440 makecontext NEW: Unix98
6441 mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
6442 mmap64 NEW: LFS
6443 moncontrol REMOVED
6444 modify_ldt NEW: kernel
6445 nan NEW: ISO C 9x
6446 nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6447 nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
6448 nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
6449 nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6450 nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6451 netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
6452 netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
6453 nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
6454 nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
6455 nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
6456 nftw NEW: Unix98
6457 nftw64 NEW: LFS
6458 open64 NEW: LFS
6459 passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
6460 pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
6461 pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
6462 pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
6463 pread NEW: Unix98
6464 pread64 NEW: LFS
6465 printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
6466 printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
6467 profil_counter REMOVED
6468 pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
6469 pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
6470 ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
6471 ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
6472 putc_locked REMOVED
6473 putchar_locked REMOVED
6474 putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
6475 putmsg NEW: STREAMS
6476 putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
6477 pututxline NEW: Unix98
6478 pwrite NEW: Unix98
6479 pwrite64 NEW: LFS
6480 readdir64 NEW: LFS
6481 readdir64_r NEW: LFS
6482 remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
6483 remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
6484 remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
6485 round NEW: ISO C 9x
6486 roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6487 roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6488 rtime NEW: GNU ext.
6489 scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
6490 scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
6491 scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
6492 scandir64 NEW: LFS
6493 sendfile NEW: kernel
6494 setcontext NEW: Unix98
6495 setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
6496 setutxent NEW: Unix98
6497 sighold NEW: Unix98
6498 sigignore NEW: Unix98
6499 sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
6500 sigrelse NEW: Unix98
6501 sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
6502 sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
6503 sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
6504 sincos NEW: GNU ext.
6505 sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
6506 sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
6507 statfs64 NEW: LFS
6508 statvfs NEW: Unix98
6509 statvfs64 NEW: LFS
6510 strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
6511 strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
6512 strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
6513 strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
6514 svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
6515 svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
6516 svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
6517 swapcontext NEW: Unix98
6518 tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
6519 tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
6520 tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
6521 tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
6522 tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
6523 tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
6524 trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
6525 truncate64 NEW: LFS
6526 truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
6527 truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
6528 umount2 NEW: kernel
6529 unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
6530 updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
6531 user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
6532 utmpxname NEW: Unix98
6533 versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
6534 versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
6535 waitid NEW: Unix98
6536 wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
6537 wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
6538 wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
6539 wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
6540 wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
6541 wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
6542 wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
6543 wcswcs NEW: Unix98
6544 wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
6545 wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
6546 write_profiling REMOVED
6547 xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
6548 xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
6549 xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
6550 xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
6551 xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
6552 xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
6553 xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
6554 xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
6555 xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
6556 xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
6557 xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
6558 xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
6559 xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
6560 xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
6561 xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
6562 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
6563 \f
6564 Version 2.0.6
6565
6566 * more bug fixes
6567
6568 \f
6569 Version 2.0.5
6570
6571 * more bug fixes
6572
6573 * inet_ntoa is thread-safe
6574
6575 * updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
6576
6577 * rewrite of cbrt function
6578
6579 * update of timezone data
6580 \f
6581 Version 2.0.4
6582
6583 * more bug fixes
6584 \f
6585 Version 2.0.3
6586
6587 * more bug fixes
6588 \f
6589 Version 2.0.2
6590
6591 * more bug fixes
6592
6593 * add atoll function
6594
6595 * fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
6596
6597 * fix math functions
6598 \f
6599 Version 2.0.1
6600
6601 * fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
6602
6603 * dynamic loader preserves all registers
6604
6605 * Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
6606 the ELF dynamic loader.
6607
6608 * support for parallel builds is improved
6609 \f
6610 Version 2.0
6611
6612 * GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
6613 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
6614 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
6615
6616 * The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
6617 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
6618 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
6619 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
6620 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
6621 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
6622 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
6623 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
6624 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
6625 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
6626 files in the ELF format.
6627
6628 * Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
6629 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
6630
6631 * The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
6632 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
6633 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
6634 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
6635 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
6636 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
6637 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
6638 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
6639 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
6640 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
6641 about dynamically linked binaries.
6642
6643 * The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
6644 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
6645 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
6646 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
6647 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
6648
6649 * The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
6650 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
6651 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
6652 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
6653 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
6654
6655 * John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
6656
6657 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
6658 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
6659 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
6660 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
6661 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
6662 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
6663 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
6664 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
6665 NSS services available.
6666
6667 * The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
6668 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
6669 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
6670
6671 * The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
6672 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
6673 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
6674
6675 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
6676 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
6677 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
6678 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
6679
6680 * The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
6681 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
6682 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
6683
6684 * The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
6685 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
6686 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
6687
6688 * The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
6689 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
6690
6691 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
6692 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
6693 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
6694 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
6695
6696 * There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
6697 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
6698 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
6699
6700 * You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
6701 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
6702 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
6703 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
6704 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
6705 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
6706 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
6707 the header file <printf.h> for details.
6708
6709 * The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
6710 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
6711 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
6712 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
6713 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
6714 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
6715 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
6716
6717 * The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
6718 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
6719 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
6720 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
6721 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
6722 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
6723
6724 * The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
6725 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
6726
6727 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
6728 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
6729 NSS scheme used in glibc.
6730
6731 * There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
6732
6733 * There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
6734 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
6735 their use is discouraged.
6736
6737 * The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
6738 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
6739
6740 * New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
6741 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
6742
6743 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
6744 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
6745
6746 * The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
6747 see <dirent.h>.
6748
6749 * The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
6750 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
6751 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
6752 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
6753 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
6754
6755 * The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
6756 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
6757 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
6758 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
6759
6760 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
6761 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
6762
6763 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
6764 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
6765 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
6766 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
6767 number generator.
6768
6769 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
6770 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
6771
6772 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
6773 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
6774
6775 * Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
6776 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
6777 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
6778 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
6779
6780 * Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
6781
6782 * David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
6783 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
6784 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
6785
6786 * Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
6787 for arithmetic and string handling.
6788
6789 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
6790 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
6791 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
6792 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
6793
6794 * For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
6795 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
6796 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
6797 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
6798 programs already written to use it.)
6799
6800 * New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
6801 constants.
6802
6803 * Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
6804 with 4.4 BSD.
6805
6806 * New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
6807 a given effective group ID.
6808
6809 * When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
6810 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
6811 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
6812 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
6813
6814 * New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6815 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
6816 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
6817 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
6818 doing the same thing.
6819
6820 * The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
6821 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
6822
6823 * New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
6824 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
6825
6826 * New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
6827
6828 * We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
6829 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
6830 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6831 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
6832 `-ldb' to get these functions.
6833
6834 * New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
6835 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
6836
6837 * New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
6838 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
6839 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
6840 function.
6841
6842 * New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
6843
6844 * The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
6845 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
6846 strings.
6847
6848 * A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
6849 and writing the utmp file.
6850
6851 * An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
6852 Thorsten Kukuk.
6853
6854 * Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
6855 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
6856 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
6857
6858 * Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
6859 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
6860
6861 * Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
6862 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
6863 specification.
6864
6865 * The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
6866 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
6867 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
6868 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
6869
6870 * Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
6871 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
6872 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
6873
6874 * Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
6875 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
6876 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
6877 expression matcher.
6878
6879 * the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
6880 functionality.
6881
6882 * The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
6883 by Ulrich Drepper.
6884
6885 * David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
6886
6887 * POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
6888 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
6889 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
6890 \f
6891 Version 1.09
6892
6893 * For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
6894
6895 * New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
6896 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
6897
6898 * The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
6899 want to put themselves in the background.
6900
6901 * Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
6902 run without an operating system.
6903
6904 * `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
6905 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
6906
6907 * All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
6908 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
6909
6910 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
6911
6912 * The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
6913 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
6914 have YP (aka NIS).
6915
6916 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
6917 conventions.
6918
6919 * The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
6920 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
6921 \f
6922 Version 1.08
6923
6924 * The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
6925 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
6926 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
6927
6928 * Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
6929 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
6930
6931 * The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
6932 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
6933
6934 * New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
6935
6936 * New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
6937
6938 * New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
6939 compatibility.
6940
6941 * The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
6942 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
6943 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
6944
6945 * The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
6946
6947 * The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
6948 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
6949 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
6950
6951 * The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
6952 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
6953 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
6954 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
6955 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
6956 on a block).
6957
6958 * It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
6959 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
6960 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
6961 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
6962 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
6963 cross-compiler.
6964
6965 * The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
6966 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
6967 \f
6968 Version 1.07
6969
6970 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
6971 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
6972
6973 * You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
6974 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
6975 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
6976
6977 * The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
6978 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
6979 address of the last character written.
6980
6981 * You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
6982 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
6983
6984 * You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
6985 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
6986
6987 * ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
6988 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
6989 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
6990 you dereference this pointer.
6991
6992 * The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
6993 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
6994
6995 * The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
6996 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
6997 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
6998 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
6999
7000 * The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
7001 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
7002 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
7003 EAGAIN in every system call function.
7004 \f
7005 Version 1.06
7006
7007 * The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
7008 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
7009 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
7010 in Emacs or the `info' program.
7011 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
7012
7013 * The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
7014
7015 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
7016
7017 * Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
7018 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
7019
7020 * The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
7021 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
7022
7023 * New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
7024 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
7025
7026 * The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
7027 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
7028 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
7029 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
7030 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
7031
7032 * There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
7033 to the error code in `errno'.
7034
7035 * In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
7036 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
7037 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
7038 malloc'd string.
7039
7040 * The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
7041 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
7042 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
7043
7044 * `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
7045 uniquely-named temporary file.
7046 \f
7047 Version 1.05
7048
7049 * The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
7050 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
7051 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
7052
7053 * The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
7054 characters.
7055
7056 * `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
7057 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
7058
7059 * New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
7060 \f
7061 Version 1.04
7062
7063 * The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
7064 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
7065 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
7066 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
7067
7068 * The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
7069 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
7070 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
7071
7072 * Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
7073 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
7074
7075 * The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
7076 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
7077 made itself into a shared library.
7078
7079 * Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
7080 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
7081
7082 * New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
7083 with limited length.
7084
7085 * New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
7086
7087 * New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
7088
7089 * New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
7090
7091 * Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
7092 function for traversing a directory tree.
7093
7094 * The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
7095 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
7096 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
7097 formatted output directly to an obstack.
7098
7099 * Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
7100 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
7101
7102 * `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
7103
7104 * The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
7105 things to your strings.
7106
7107 * There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
7108
7109 * Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
7110 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
7111 supporting those systems.
7112
7113 * `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
7114 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
7115 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
7116 configuration files.
7117
7118 * The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
7119 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
7120
7121 * The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
7122 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
7123 in <strings.h>.)
7124
7125 * Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
7126 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
7127 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
7128 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
7129 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
7130 required storage is not available.
7131
7132 * The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
7133 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
7134
7135 * The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
7136 latest files released from Berkeley.
7137 \f
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7139 Copying conditions:
7140
7141 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
7142 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
7143 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
7144 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
7145
7146 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
7147 of this document, or of portions of it,
7148 under the above conditions, provided also that they
7149 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
7150 \f
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