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8 Version 2.39
9
10 Major new features:
11
12 [Add new features here]
13
14 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
15
16 [Add deprecations, removals and changes affecting compatibility here]
17
18 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
19
20 [Add changes to build and runtime requirements here]
21
22 Security related changes:
23
24 [Add security related changes here]
25
26 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
27
28 [The release manager will add the list generated by
29 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
30 \f
31 Version 2.38
32
33 Major new features:
34
35 * When C2X features are enabled and the base argument is 0 or 2, the
36 following functions support binary integers prefixed by 0b or 0B as
37 input: strtol, strtoll, strtoul, strtoull, strtol_l, strtoll_l,
38 strtoul_l, strtoull_l, strtoimax, strtoumax, strtoq, strtouq, wcstol,
39 wcstoll, wcstoul, wcstoull, wcstol_l, wcstoll_l, wcstoul_l,
40 wcstoull_l, wcstoimax, wcstoumax, wcstoq, wcstouq. Similarly, the
41 following functions support binary integers prefixed by 0b or 0B as
42 input to the %i format: fscanf, scanf, sscanf, vscanf, vsscanf,
43 vfscanf, fwscanf, wscanf, swscanf, vfwscanf, vwscanf, vswscanf; those
44 functions also support the %b format for binary integers, with or
45 without such a prefix and independent of standards mode.
46
47 * PRIb*, PRIB* and SCNb* macros from C2X have been added to
48 <inttypes.h>.
49
50 * printf-family functions now support the wN format length modifiers for
51 arguments of type intN_t, int_leastN_t, uintN_t or uint_leastN_t (for
52 example, %w32d to print int32_t or int_least32_t in decimal, or %w32x
53 to print uint32_t or uint_least32_t in hexadecimal) and the wfN format
54 length modifiers for arguments of type int_fastN_t or uint_fastN_t, as
55 specified in draft ISO C2X.
56
57 * A new tunable, glibc.pthread.stack_hugetlb, can be used to disable
58 Transparent Huge Pages (THP) in stack allocation at pthread_create.
59
60 * Support for x86_64 running on Hurd has been added. This port requires
61 as least binutils 2.40 and GCC 13:
62
63 - x86_64-gnu
64
65 * Vector math library libmvec support has been added to AArch64. It
66 requires GCC version >= 10.1.0. It can be disabled via
67 "--disable-mathvec", however that is not a supported configuration as
68 it changes the ABI. The symbol names follow the AArch64 vector ABI,
69 they are declared in math.h and have to be called manually at this point.
70
71 * The strlcpy and strlcat functions have been added. They are derived
72 from OpenBSD, and are expected to be added to a future POSIX version.
73
74 * A new configure option, "--enable-fortify-source", can be used to build the
75 GNU C Library with _FORTIFY_SOURCE. The level of fortification can either be
76 provided, or is set to the highest value supported by the compiler. If not
77 explicitly enabled, then fortify source is forcibly disabled so to keep
78 original behavior unchanged.
79
80 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
81
82 * libcrypt is no longer built by default; one may use the "--enable-crypt"
83 option to build libcrypt. libcrypt is likely to be removed from the
84 GNU C Library in a future release, so it is recommended that
85 applications port away from it to an alternative such as libxcrypt.
86
87 * In the Linux kernel for the hppa/parisc architecture some of the
88 MADV_XXX constants were changed to have the same values as the other
89 architectures. New programs compiled with this glibc version and which
90 use the madvise call will require at least Linux kernel version 6.2,
91 alternatively stable kernels from versions 6.1.6, 5.15.87, 5.10.163,
92 5.4.228, 4.19.270 or 4.14.303.
93
94 * The "--disable-experimental-malloc" option is no longer available. The
95 per-thread cache can still be disabled per-application using tunables
96 (glibc.malloc.tcache_count set to zero).
97
98 * The configure option "--enable-tunables" has been removed. The tunable
99 feature is now always enabled.
100
101 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
102
103 * Building libmvec on AArch64 requires at a minimum GCC 10.1.0 for SVE
104 ACLE.
105
106 Security related changes:
107
108 CVE-2023-25139: When the printf family of functions is called with a
109 format specifier that uses an <apostrophe> (enable grouping) and a
110 minimum width specifier, the resulting output could be larger than
111 reasonably expected by a caller that computed a tight bound on the
112 buffer size. The resulting larger than expected output could result
113 in a buffer overflow in the printf family of functions.
114
115 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
116
117 [178] string: Please add strlcpy and strlcat (attached)
118 [14697] nptl: Behavior of exit is nonconformant with respect to
119 threads and stdio
120 [15142] stdio: Missing locking in _IO_cleanup
121 [18096] glob: null deref in wordexp/parse_dollars/parse_arith
122 [18906] stdio: fopen: ccs value may affect open mode
123 [24466] stdio: Feature request: provide special printf formats for
124 intXX_t
125 [25457] nss: hosts lookup fails for ipv4mapped ipv6 addresses
126 [28519] libc: system and popen should pass "--" between /bin/sh and
127 argument
128 [29016] stdio: popen() sets errno to ENOMEM when shell does not exist
129 [29591] string: wcsnlen length can overflow in page cross case.
130 [30053] time: strftime %s returns -1 after 2038 on 32 bits systems
131 [30068] stdio: incorrect printf output for integers with thousands
132 separator and width field (CVE-2023-25139)
133 [30111] time: support_descriptors_list fails after 2038 on 32 bits
134 systems
135 [30125] dynamic-link: [regression, bisected] glibc-2.37 creates new
136 symlink for libraries without soname
137 [30130] math: [s390] The _FPU_SETCW macro yields compile error with
138 Clang
139 [30156] time: Potential ntp_gettime abi break
140 [30235] libc: Missing fallback in getlogin if loginuid is unset
141 [30258] dynamic-link: sprof cannot read and display shared object
142 profiling data correctly
143 [30263] libc: Add test coverage for abs(), labs(), and llabs().
144 [30305] math: Incorrect asm constraint in feraiseexcept on x86-64
145 [30402] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-glibcelf
146 [30425] dynamic-link: Symbol lookup during dlclose may fail
147 unnecessarily
148 [30435] dynamic-link: Root dir wrongly marked as nonexist in open_path
149 [30477] libc: [RISCV]: time64 does not work on riscv32
150 [30515] dynamic-link: _dl_find_object incorrectly returns 1 during
151 early startup
152 [30527] network: resolv_conf lock not unlocked on allocation failure
153 [30550] math: powerpc64le: GCC-specific code for isinf() is being used
154 on clang
155 [30555] string: strerror can incorrectly return NULL
156 [30579] malloc: trim_threshold in realloc lead to high memory usage
157 [30662] nscd: Group and password cache use errno in place of errval
158 \f
159 Version 2.37
160
161 Major new features:
162
163 * The getent tool now supports the --no-addrconfig option. The output of
164 getent with --no-addrconfig may contain addresses of families not
165 configured on the current host i.e. as-if you had not passed
166 AI_ADDRCONFIG to getaddrinfo calls.
167
168 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
169
170 * The dynamic linker no longer loads shared objects from the "tls"
171 subdirectories on the library search path or the subdirectory that
172 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, or employs the legacy AT_HWCAP
173 search mechanism, which was deprecated in version 2.33.
174
175 Security related changes:
176
177 CVE-2022-39046: When the syslog function is passed a crafted input
178 string larger than 1024 bytes, it reads uninitialized memory from the
179 heap and prints it to the target log file, potentially revealing a
180 portion of the contents of the heap.
181
182 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
183
184 [12154] network: Cannot resolve hosts which have wildcard aliases
185 [12165] libc: readdir: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
186 [19444] build: build failures with -O1 due to -Wmaybe-uninitialized
187 [24774] nptl: pthread_rwlock_timedwrlock stalls on ARM
188 [24816] nss: nss/tst-nss-files-hosts-long fails when no interface has
189 AF_INET6 address (ie docker)
190 [27087] stdio: PowerPC: Redefinition error with Clang from IEEE
191 redirection headers
192 [28846] network: CMSG_NXTHDR may trigger -Wstrict-overflow warning
193 [28937] dynamic-link: New DSO dependency sorter does not put new map
194 first if in a cycle
195 [29249] libc: csu/libc-tls.c:202: undefined reference to
196 `_startup_fatal_not_constant'
197 [29305] network: Inefficient buffer space usage in nss_dns for
198 gethostbyname and other functions
199 [29375] libc: don't hide MAP_ANONYMOUS behind _GNU_SOURCE
200 [29402] nscd: nscd: No such file or directory
201 [29415] nscd: getaddrinfo with AI_ADDRCONFIG returns addresses with
202 wrong family
203 [29427] dynamic-link: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-printf.c:
204 200: _dl_debug_vdprintf: Assertion `! "invalid format specifier"'
205 failed!
206 [29463] math: math/test-float128-y1 fails on x86_64
207 [29485] build: Make hangs when the test misc/tst-pidfile returns
208 FAIL_UNSUPPORTED
209 [29490] dynamic-link: [bisected] new __brk_call causes dynamic loader
210 segfault on alpha
211 [29499] build: Check failed on misc/tst-glibcsyscalls while building
212 for RISCV64 on a unmatched hardware
213 [29501] build: Check failed on stdlib/tst-strfrom while building for
214 RISCV64 on a unmatched hardware
215 [29502] libc: alpha sys/acct.h out of date
216 [29514] build: Need to use -fPIE not -fpie
217 [29528] dynamic-link: __libc_early_init not called after dlmopen that
218 reuses namespace
219 [29536] libc: syslog fail to create large messages (CVE-2022-39046)
220 [29537] libc: [2.34 regression]: Alignment issue on m68k when using
221 futexes on qemu-user
222 [29539] libc: LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS changed how vDSO library are
223 printed
224 [29544] libc: Regression in syslog(3) calls breaks RFC due to extra
225 whitespace
226 [29564] build: Incorrect way to change MAKEFLAGS in Makerules
227 [29576] build: librtld.os: in function `_dl_start_profile':
228 (.text+0x9444): undefined reference to `strcpy'
229 [29578] libc: Definition of SUN_LEN() is wrong
230 [29583] build: iconv failures on 32bit platform due to missing large
231 file support
232 [29600] dynamic-link: dlmopen hangs after loading certain libraries
233 [29604] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 15.0.0
234 [29605] nscd: Regression in NSCD backend of getaddrinfo
235 [29607] nscd: nscd repeatably crashes calling __strlen_avx2 when hosts
236 cache is enabled
237 [29611] string: Optimized AVX2 string functions unconditionally use
238 BMI2 instructions
239 [29624] malloc: errno is not cleared when entering main
240 [29638] libc: stdlib: arc4random fallback is never used
241 [29657] libc: Incorrect struct stat for 64-bit time on linux/generic
242 platforms
243 [29698] build: Configuring for AArch32 on ARMv8+ disables
244 optimizations
245 [29727] locale: __strtol_internal out-of-bounds read when parsing
246 thousands grouping
247 [29730] libc: broken y2038 support in fstatat on MIPS N64
248 [29746] libc: ppoll() does not switch to __ppoll64 when
249 -D_TIME_BITS=64 and -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 is given on 32bit
250 [29771] libc: Restore IPC_64 support in sysvipc *ctl functions
251 [29780] build: possible parallel make issue in glibc-2.36 (siglist-
252 aux.S: No such file or directory)
253 [29864] libc: __libc_start_main() should obtain program headers
254 address (_dl_phdr) from the auxv, not the ELF header.
255 [29951] time: daylight variable not set correctly if last DST change
256 coincides with offset change
257 [30039] stdio: __vsprintf_internal does not handle unspecified buffer
258 length in fortify mode
259 \f
260 Version 2.36
261
262 Major new features:
263
264 * Support for DT_RELR relative relocation format has been added to
265 glibc. This is a new ELF dynamic tag that improves the size of
266 relative relocations in shared object files and position independent
267 executables (PIE). DT_RELR generation requires linker support for
268 -z pack-relative-relocs option, which is supported for some targets
269 in recent binutils versions. Lazy binding doesn't apply to DT_RELR.
270
271 * On Linux, the pidfd_open, pidfd_getfd, and pidfd_send_signal functions
272 have been added. The pidfd functionality provides access to a process
273 while avoiding the issue of PID reuse on traditional Unix systems.
274
275 * On Linux, the process_madvise function has been added. It has the
276 same functionality as madvise but alters the target process identified
277 by the pidfd.
278
279 * On Linux, the process_mrelease function has been added. It allows a
280 caller to release the memory of a dying process. The release of the
281 memory is carried out in the context of the caller, using the caller's
282 CPU affinity, and priority with CPU usage accounted to the caller.
283
284 * The “no-aaaa” DNS stub resolver option has been added. System
285 administrators can use it to suppress AAAA queries made by the stub
286 resolver, including AAAA lookups triggered by NSS-based interfaces
287 such as getaddrinfo. Only DNS lookups are affected: IPv6 data in
288 /etc/hosts is still used, getaddrinfo with AI_PASSIVE will still
289 produce IPv6 addresses, and configured IPv6 name servers are still
290 used. To produce correct Name Error (NXDOMAIN) results, AAAA queries
291 are translated to A queries. The new resolver option is intended
292 primarily for diagnostic purposes, to rule out that AAAA DNS queries
293 have adverse impact. It is incompatible with EDNS0 usage and DNSSEC
294 validation by applications.
295
296 * On Linux, the fsopen, fsmount, move_mount, fsconfig, fspick, open_tree,
297 and mount_setattr have been added. They are part of the new Linux kernel
298 mount APIs that allow applications to more flexibly configure and operate
299 on filesystem mounts. The new mount APIs are specifically designed to work
300 with namespaces.
301
302 * localedef now accepts locale definition files encoded in UTF-8.
303 Previously, input bytes not within the ASCII range resulted in
304 unpredictable output.
305
306 * Support for the mbrtoc8 and c8rtomb multibyte/UTF-8 character conversion
307 functions has been added per the ISO C2X N2653 and C++20 P0482R6 proposals.
308 Support for the char8_t typedef has been added per the ISO C2X N2653
309 proposal. The functions are declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the
310 _GNU_SOURCE macro or C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro is defined.
311 The char8_t typedef is declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the
312 _GNU_SOURCE macro is defined and the C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro
313 is not defined (if __cpp_char8_t is defined, then char8_t is a builtin type).
314
315 * The functions arc4random, arc4random_buf, and arc4random_uniform have been
316 added. The functions wrap getrandom and/or /dev/urandom to return high-
317 quality randomness from the kernel.
318
319 * Support for LoongArch running on Linux has been added. This port requires
320 as least binutils 2.38, GCC 12, and Linux 5.19. Currently only hard-float
321 ABI is supported:
322
323 - loongarch64-linux-gnu
324
325 The LoongArch ABI is 64-bit little-endian.
326
327 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
328
329 * Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes
330 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
331 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
332
333 * The Linux kernel version check has been removed along with the
334 LD_ASSUME_KERNEL environment variable. The minimum kernel used to built
335 glibc is still provided through NT_GNU_ABI_TAG ELF note and also printed
336 when libc.so is issued directly.
337
338 * On Linux, The LD_LIBRARY_VERSION environment variable has been removed.
339
340 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
341
342 [14932] dynamic-link: dlsym(handle, "foo") and dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "foo")
343 return different result with versioned "foo"
344 [16355] libc: syslog.h's SYSLOG_NAMES namespace violation and utter
345 mess
346 [23293] dynamic-link: aarch64: getauxval is broken when run as ld.so
347 ./exe and ld.so adjusts argv on the stack
348 [24595] nptl: [2.28 Regression]: Deadlock in atfork handler which
349 calls dlclose
350 [25744] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS returns 2 instead of 1 when
351 consuming the second byte of certain double byte characters
352 [25812] stdio: Libio vtable protection is sometimes only partially
353 enforced
354 [27054] libc: pthread_atfork handlers that call pthread_atfork
355 deadlock
356 [27924] dynamic-link: ld.so: Support DT_RELR relative relocation
357 format
358 [28128] build: declare_symbol_alias doesn't work for assembly codes
359 [28566] network: getnameinfo with NI_NOFQDN is not thread safe
360 [28752] nss: Segfault in getpwuid when stat fails
361 [28815] libc: realpath should not copy to resolved buffer on error
362 [28828] stdio: fputwc crashes
363 [28838] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-p_align3
364 [28845] locale: ld-monetary.c should be updated to match ISO C and
365 other standards.
366 [28850] libc: linux: __get_nprocs_sched reads uninitialized memory
367 from the stack
368 [28852] libc: getaddrinfo leaks memory with AI_ALL
369 [28853] libc: tst-spawn6 changes current foreground process group
370 (breaks test isolation)
371 [28857] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-audit24a
372 [28860] build: --enable-kernel=5.1.0 build fails because of missing
373 __convert_scm_timestamps
374 [28865] libc: linux: _SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF and _SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN are
375 inaccurate without /sys and /proc
376 [28868] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader DFS algorithm segfaults on
377 missing libraries
378 [28880] libc: Program crashes if date beyond 2038
379 [28883] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/select.c: __select64
380 !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS && !__ASSUME_PSELECT fails on Microblaze
381 [28896] string: strncmp-avx2-rtm and wcsncmp-avx2-rtm fallback on non-
382 rtm variants when avoiding overflow
383 [28922] build: The .d dependency files aren't always generated
384 [28931] libc: hosts lookup broken for SUCCESS=CONTINUE and
385 SUCCESS=MERGE
386 [28936] build: nm: No such file
387 [28950] localedata: Add locale for ISO code "tok" (Toki Pona)
388 [28953] nss: NSS lookup result can be incorrect if function lookup
389 clobbers errno
390 [28970] math: benchtest: libmvec benchmark doesn't build with make
391 bench.
392 [28991] libc: sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF) should read
393 /sys/devices/system/cpu/possible
394 [28993] libc: closefrom() iterates until max int if no access to
395 /proc/self/fd/
396 [28996] libc: realpath fails to copy partial result to resolved buffer
397 on ENOENT and EACCES
398 [29027] math: [ia64] fabs fails with sNAN input
399 [29029] nptl: poll() spuriously returns EINTR during thread
400 cancellation and with cancellation disabled
401 [29030] string: GLIBC 2.35 regression - Fortify crash on certain valid
402 uses of mbsrtowcs (*** buffer overflow detected ***: terminated)
403 [29062] dynamic-link: Memory leak in _dl_find_object_update if object
404 is promoted to global scope
405 [29069] libc: fstatat64_time64_statx wrapper broken on MIPS N32 with
406 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 and -D_TIME_BITS=64
407 [29071] dynamic-link: m68k: Removal of ELF_DURING_STARTUP optimization
408 broke ld.so
409 [29097] time: fchmodat does not handle 64 bit time_t for
410 AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW
411 [29109] libc: posix_spawn() always returns 1 (EPERM) on clone()
412 failure
413 [29141] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 fail for gcc 12/glibc 2.35
414 [29162] string: [PATCH] string.h syntactic error:
415 include/bits/string_fortified.h:110: error: expected ',' or ';'
416 before '__fortified_attr_access'
417 [29165] libc: [Regression] broken argv adjustment
418 [29187] dynamic-link: [regression] broken argv adjustment for nios2
419 [29193] math: sincos produces a different output than sin/cos
420 [29197] string: __strncpy_power9() uses uninitialised register vs18
421 value for filling after \0
422 [29203] libc: daemon is not y2038 aware
423 [29204] libc: getusershell is not 2038 aware
424 [29207] libc: posix_fallocate fallback implementation is not y2038
425 aware
426 [29208] libc: fpathconf(_PC_ASYNC_IO) is not y2038 aware
427 [29209] libc: isfdtype is not y2038 aware
428 [29210] network: ruserpass is not y2038 aware
429 [29211] libc: __open_catalog is not y2038 aware
430 [29213] libc: gconv_parseconfdir is not y2038 aware
431 [29214] nptl: pthread_setcanceltype fails to set type
432 [29225] network: Mistyped define statement in socket/sys/socket.h in
433 line 184
434 [29274] nptl: __read_chk is not a cancellation point
435 [29279] libc: undefined reference to `mbstowcs_chk' after
436 464d189b9622932a75302290625de84931656ec0
437 [29304] libc: mq_timedreceive does not handle 64 bit syscall return
438 correct for !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS
439 [29403] libc: st_atim, st_mtim, st_ctim stat struct members are
440 missing on microblaze with largefile
441 \f
442 Version 2.35
443
444 Major new features:
445
446 * Unicode 14.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
447 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 14.0.0, using
448 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
449
450 * Bump r_version in the debugger interface to 2 and add a new field,
451 r_next, support multiple namespaces.
452
453 * Support for the C.UTF-8 locale has been added to glibc. The locale
454 supports full code-point sorting for all valid Unicode code points. A
455 limitation in the framework for fnmatch, regexec, and regcomp requires
456 a compromise to save space and only ASCII-based range expressions are
457 supported for now (see bug 28255). The full size of the locale is
458 only ~400KiB, with 346KiB coming from LC_CTYPE information for
459 Unicode. This locale harmonizes downstream C.UTF-8 already shipping
460 in various downstream distributions. The locale is not built into
461 glibc, and must be installed.
462
463 * <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type, and
464 corresponding <tgmath.h> macros, are added from TS 18661-1:2014, TS
465 18661-3:2015 and draft ISO C2X:
466
467 - fsqrt, fsqrtl, dsqrtl and corresponding fMsqrtfN, fMsqrtfNx,
468 fMxsqrtfN and fMxsqrtfNx functions.
469
470 - ffma, ffmal, dfmal and corresponding fMfmafN, fMfmafNx, fMxfmafN and
471 fMxfmafNx functions.
472
473 * <math.h> functions for floating-point maximum and minimum,
474 corresponding to new operations in IEEE 754-2019, and corresponding
475 <tgmath.h> macros, are added from draft ISO C2X: fmaximum,
476 fmaximum_num, fmaximum_mag, fmaximum_mag_num, fminimum, fminimum_num,
477 fminimum_mag, fminimum_mag_num and corresponding functions for float,
478 long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx.
479
480 * <math.h> macros for single-precision float constants are added as a
481 GNU extension: M_Ef, M_LOG2Ef, M_LOG10Ef, M_LN2f, M_LN10f, M_PIf,
482 M_PI_2f, M_PI_4f, M_1_PIf, M_2_PIf, M_2_SQRTPIf, M_SQRT2f and
483 M_SQRT1_2f.
484
485 * The __STDC_IEC_60559_BFP__ and __STDC_IEC_60559_COMPLEX__ macros are
486 predefined as specified in TS 18661-1:2014.
487
488 * The exp10 functions in <math.h> now have a corresponding type-generic
489 macro in <tgmath.h>.
490
491 * The ISO C2X macro _PRINTF_NAN_LEN_MAX has been added to <stdio.h>.
492
493 * printf-family functions now support the %b format for output of
494 integers in binary, as specified in draft ISO C2X, and the %B variant
495 of that format recommended by draft ISO C2X.
496
497 * A new DSO sorting algorithm has been added in the dynamic linker that uses
498 topological sorting by depth-first search (DFS), solving performance issues
499 of the existing sorting algorithm when encountering particular circular
500 object dependency cases.
501
502 * A new tunable, glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort, can be used to select between
503 the two DSO sorting algorithms. The default setting of '2' uses the
504 new DFS-based algorithm. The setting '1' switches to the old
505 algorithm used in glibc 2.33 and earlier.
506
507 * ABI support for a new function '__memcmpeq'. '__memcmpeq' is meant
508 to be used by compilers for optimizing usage of 'memcmp' when its
509 return value is only used for its boolean status.
510
511 * Support for automatically registering threads with the Linux rseq
512 system call has been added. This system call is implemented starting
513 from Linux 4.18. The Restartable Sequences ABI accelerates user-space
514 operations on per-cpu data. It allows user-space to perform updates
515 on per-cpu data without requiring heavy-weight atomic operations.
516 Automatically registering threads allows all libraries, including
517 libc, to make immediate use of the rseq support by using the
518 documented ABI, via the __rseq_flags, __rseq_offset, and __rseq_size
519 variables. The GNU C Library manual has details on integration of
520 Restartable Sequences.
521
522 * A symbolic link to the dynamic linker is now installed under
523 /usr/bin/ld.so (or more precisely, '${bindir}/ld.so').
524
525 * All programs and the testsuite in glibc are now built as position independent
526 executables (PIE) by default on toolchains and architectures that support it.
527 Further, if the toolchain and architecture supports it, even static programs
528 are built as PIE and the resultant glibc can be used to build static PIE
529 executables. A new option --disable-default-pie has been added to disable
530 this behavior and get a non-PIE build. This option replaces
531 --enable-static-pie, which no longer has any effect on the build
532 configuration.
533
534 * On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.malloc.hugetlb, can be used to
535 either make malloc issue madvise plus MADV_HUGEPAGE on mmap and sbrk
536 or to use huge pages directly with mmap calls with the MAP_HUGETLB
537 flags). The former can improve performance when Transparent Huge Pages
538 is set to 'madvise' mode while the latter uses the system reserved
539 huge pages.
540
541 * The printf family of functions now handles the flagged %#m conversion
542 specifier, printing errno as an error constant (similar to strerrorname_np).
543
544 * The function _dl_find_object has been added. In-process unwinders
545 can use it to efficiently locate unwinding information for a code
546 address.
547
548 * Support for OpenRISC running on Linux has been added. This port requires
549 as least binutils 2.35, GCC 11, and Linux 5.4. Currently only soft-float
550 ABI is supported:
551
552 - or1k-linux-gnu
553
554 The OpenRISC ABI is 32-bit big-endian and uses 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and
555 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
556
557 * A new configure option, --with-rtld-early-cflags, can be used to
558 specify additional compiler flags for building the early startup code
559 of the dynamic linker. On targets which have CPU compatibility
560 checks, this can help to ensure that proper diagnostics are printed if
561 the dynamic loader runs on an incompatible CPU.
562
563 * On Linux, the epoll_pwait2 function has been added. It is similar to
564 epoll_wait with the difference the timeout has nanoseconds resolution.
565
566 * The function posix_spawn_file_actions_addtcsetpgrp_np has been added,
567 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to set the controlling terminal in
568 the new process in a race free manner. This function is a GNU extension.
569
570 * Source fortification (_FORTIFY_SOURCE) level 3 is now available for
571 applications compiling with glibc and gcc 12 and later. Level 3 leverages
572 the __builtin_dynamic_object_size function to deliver additional
573 fortification balanced against additional runtime cost (checking non-constant
574 bounds).
575
576 * The audit libraries will avoid unnecessary slowdown if it is not required
577 PLT tracking (by not implementing the la_pltenter or la_pltexit callbacks).
578
579 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
580
581 * On x86-64, the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC environment variable support
582 has been removed since the first PT_LOAD segment is no longer executable
583 due to defaulting to -z separate-code.
584
585 * The r_version update in the debugger interface makes the glibc binary
586 incompatible with GDB binaries built without the following commits:
587
588 c0154a4a21a gdb: Don't assume r_ldsomap when r_version > 1 on Linux
589 4eb629d50d4 gdbserver: Check r_version < 1 for Linux debugger interface
590
591 when audit modules or dlmopen are used.
592
593 * Intel MPX support (lazy PLT, ld.so profile, and LD_AUDIT) has been removed.
594
595 * The --enable-static-pie option is no longer available. The glibc build
596 configuration script now automatically detects static-pie support in the
597 toolchain and architecture and enables it if available.
598
599 * The catchsegv script and associated libSegFault.so shared object have
600 been removed. There are widely-deployed out-of-process alternatives for
601 catching coredumps and backtraces.
602
603 * Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes
604 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
605 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
606
607 * The LD_TRACE_PRELINKING environment variable has been removed. Similar
608 functionality to obtain the program mapping address can be achieved by
609 using LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS to value of 2.
610
611 * The LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS has been removed. The variable was mainly used to
612 support prelink PIE binaries.
613
614 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
615
616 * The audit module interface version LAV_CURRENT is increased to enable
617 proper bind-now support. The loader now advertises via the la_symbind
618 flags that PLT trace is not possible. New audit modules require the
619 new dynamic loader supporting the latest LAV_CURRENT version. Old audit
620 modules are still loaded for all targets except aarch64.
621
622 * The audit interface on aarch64 is extended to support both the indirect
623 result location register (x8) and NEON Q register. Old audit modules are
624 rejected by the loader. Audit modules must be rebuilt to use the newer
625 structure sizes and the latest module interface version for LAV_CURRENT.
626
627 Security related changes:
628
629 CVE-2022-23219: Passing an overlong file name to the clnt_create
630 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow when
631 using the "unix" protocol. Reported by Martin Sebor.
632
633 CVE-2022-23218: Passing an overlong file name to the svcunix_create
634 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow.
635
636 CVE-2021-3998: Passing a path longer than PATH_MAX to the realpath
637 function could result in a memory leak and potential access of
638 uninitialized memory. Reported by Qualys.
639
640 CVE-2021-3999: Passing a buffer of size exactly 1 byte to the getcwd
641 function may result in an off-by-one buffer underflow and overflow
642 when the current working directory is longer than PATH_MAX and also
643 corresponds to the / directory through an unprivileged mount
644 namespace. Reported by Qualys.
645
646 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
647
648 [12889] nptl: Race condition in pthread_kill
649 [14232] nptl: tst-cancel7 and tst-cancelx7 race condition
650 [14913] libc: [mips] Clean up MIPS 64-bit register-dump.h output
651 [15310] dynamic-link: _dl_sort_fini is O(n^3) causing slow exit when
652 many dsos
653 [15333] libc: Use 64-bit stat functions in installed programs
654 [15533] dynamic-link: LD_AUDIT introduces an avoidable performance
655 degradation
656 [15971] dynamic-link: No interface for debugger access to libraries
657 loaded with dlmopen
658 [17318] locale: [RFE] Provide a C.UTF-8 locale by default
659 [17645] dynamic-link: RFE: Improve performance of dynamic loader for
660 deeply nested DSO dependencies.
661 [19193] nptl: pthread_kill, pthread_cancel return ESRCH for a thread
662 ID whose lifetime has not ended
663 [22542] network: buffer overflow in sunrpc clnt_create
664 (CVE-2022-23219)
665 [22716] malloc: [PATCH] mtrace.pl: use TRACE_PRELINKING instead of
666 TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS
667 [25947] malloc: memory leak in muntrace
668 [26045] math: fmaxf(inf, nan) does not always work
669 [26108] math: exp10() has problems with <tgmath.h>
670 [26779] build: benign use after realloc at localealias.c:329
671 [27609] dynamic-link: [2.32/2.33/2.34 Regression] In elf/dl-open.c
672 (_dl_open) we might use __LM_ID_CALLER to index GL(dl_ns)[]
673 [27945] build: build-many-glibcs.py doesn't configure GCC with
674 --enable-initfini-array
675 [27991] build: x86: sysdeps/x86/configure.ac breaks when
676 libc_cv_include_x86_isa_level is loaded from cache
677 [28036] nptl: Incorrect types for pthread_mutexattr_set/getrobust_np
678 in __REDIRECT_NTH macro
679 [28061] dynamic-link: A failing dlmopen called by an auditor crashed
680 [28062] dynamic-link: Suppress audit calls when a (new) namespace is
681 empty
682 [28126] libc: nftw aborts for paths longer than PATH_MAX
683 [28129] dynamic-link: Unnecessary check DT_DEBUG in ld.so
684 [28153] libc: [test] gmon/tst-gmon-gprof* may have a f3 line when
685 built with ld.lld
686 [28182] libc: _TIME_BITS=64 in C++ has issues with fcntl, ioctl, prctl
687 [28185] math: Inaccurate j0f function (again)
688 [28199] locale: iconvconfig prefix flag behaves differently in glibc
689 2.34
690 [28203] dynamic-link: aarch64: elf_machine_{load_address,dynamic}
691 should drop _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_[0] in favor of __ehdr_start for
692 robustness
693 [28213] librt: NULL pointer dereference in mq_notify (CVE-2021-38604)
694 [28223] libc: mips: clone does not align stack
695 [28253] dynamic-link: Missing colon in LD_SHOW_AUXV output after
696 AT_MINSIGSTKSZ
697 [28256] malloc: Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised
698 value(s) in __GI___tunables_init
699 [28260] build: io/tst-closefrom, misc/tst-close_range, posix/tst-
700 spawn5 fail if stray fds are open
701 [28310] libc: Do not use affinity mask for sysconf
702 (_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF)
703 [28338] time: undefined behavior in __tzfile_compute with oddball TZif
704 file
705 [28340] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes while loading a DSO with a read-
706 only dynamic section
707 [28349] libc: Segfault for ping -R on qemux86 caused by recvmsg()
708 [28350] libc: ping receives SIGABRT on lib32-qemux86-64 caused by
709 recvmsg()
710 [28353] network: Race condition on __opensock
711 [28357] dynamic-link: deadlock between pthread_create and ctors
712 [28358] math: f64xdivf128 and f64xmulf128 spurious underflows
713 [28361] nptl: Fix for bug 12889 causes setxid deadlock
714 [28368] build: -Waddress instances in stdio-common/vfprintf-internal.c
715 [28390] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 14.0.0
716 [28397] math: tgmath.h should not define fmaxmag, fminmag macros for
717 C2X
718 [28400] libc: [2.35 Regression] string/test-strncasecmp: cannot set
719 locale "en_US.UTF-8"
720 [28407] nptl: pthread_kill assumes that kill (getpid ()) is equivalent
721 to tgkill (getpid (), gettid())
722 [28455] dynamic-link: -Wl,--enable-new-dtags doesn't work
723 [28457] dynamic-link: Missing reldepmod4.so dependency for
724 globalmod1.so
725 [28469] time: linux: struct timex is not correctly set for 32-bit
726 systems with TIMESIZE=64
727 [28470] regex: Buffer read overrun in regular expression searching
728 [28475] string: Incorrect access attribute on memfrob
729 [28524] libc: Conversion from ISO-2022-JP-3 with iconv may emit
730 spurious NUL character on state reset
731 [28532] libc: powerpc64[le]: CFI for assembly templated syscalls is
732 incorrect
733 [28550] dynamic-link: FAIL: tst-dso-
734 ordering9_112-ecbda(GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort=1)
735 execution test
736 [28554] build: Undefined generate-md5
737 [28572] libc: Misaligned accesses in test-memcpy and test-mempcpy on
738 hppa
739 [28607] nptl: Masked signals are delivered on thread exit
740 [28624] libc: openjdk 8/9 assume uni processor and gets stuck due to
741 lack of cpu counting /proc fallback with glibc 2.34
742 [28646] string: [2.35 Regression] mock -r fedora-36-x86_64
743 /tmp/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.312.b07-2.fc36.src.rpm& fails to build
744 [28648] dynamic-link: Running ld.so on statically linked binaries
745 crashes
746 [28656] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC no longer works due to
747 binutils changes
748 [28676] dynamic-link: p_align on PT_LOAD segment in DSO isn't honored
749 [28678] nptl: nptl/tst-create1 hangs sporadically
750 [28688] dynamic-link: PT_LOAD p_align check is too strict
751 [28700] nss: "dns [!UNAVAIL=return] files" default for hosts database
752 is not useful
753 [28707] time: assert in tzfile.c __tzfile_read striking with truncated
754 timezones generated by tzcode-2021d and later
755 [28713] math: GCC 12 miscompiles libm
756 [28732] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-dl_find_object
757 [28738] build: LIBC_LINKER_FEATURE doesn't work on linker -z option
758 [28745] dynamic-link: _dl_find_object miscompilation on powerpc64le
759 [28746] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE does not work for stpcpy
760 [28749] libc: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: rtld.c: 1632: dl_main:
761 Assertion `GL(dl_rtld_map).l_libname' failed!
762 [28755] string: overflow bug in wcsncmp_avx2 and wcsncmp_evex
763 [28757] nptl: GDB printer tests failed with new GDB
764 [28765] math: x86_64 libmvec atan2 accuracy
765 [28766] manual: Document libmvec accuracy
766 [28768] network: Buffer overflow in svcunix_create with long pathnames
767 (CVE-2022-23218)
768 [28769] libc: Off-by-one buffer overflow/underflow in getcwd()
769 (CVE-2021-3999)
770 [28770] libc: Unexpected return value from realpath() for too long
771 results (CVE-2021-3998)
772 [28771] libc: %ebx optimization macros are incompatible with .altmacro
773 in Systemtap probes
774 [28780] build: --disable-default-pie doesn't work on static programs
775 [28782] libc: x86-64 ISA level for glibc itself is always
776 x86-64-baseline
777 [28792] glob: possible wrong behaviour with patterns with double [
778 with no closing ]
779 [28837] libc: FAIL: socket/tst-socket-timestamp-compat
780 [28847] locale: Empty mon_decimal_point in LC_MONETARY results in non-
781 empty mon_decimal_point_wc
782
783 \f
784 Version 2.34
785
786 Major new features:
787
788 * In order to support smoother in-place-upgrades and to simplify
789 the implementation of the runtime all functionality formerly
790 implemented in the libraries libpthread, libdl, libutil, libanl has
791 been integrated into libc. New applications do not need to link with
792 -lpthread, -ldl, -lutil, -lanl anymore. For backwards compatibility,
793 empty static archives libpthread.a, libdl.a, libutil.a, libanl.a are
794 provided, so that the linker options keep working. Applications which
795 have been linked against glibc 2.33 or earlier continue to load the
796 corresponding shared objects (which are now empty). The integration
797 of those libraries into libc means that additional symbols become
798 available by default. This can cause applications that contain weak
799 references to take unexpected code paths that would only have been
800 used in previous glibc versions when e.g. preloading libpthread.so.0,
801 potentially exposing application bugs.
802
803 * When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE are defined,
804 PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is no longer constant and is redefined to
805 sysconf(_SC_THREAD_STACK_MIN). This supports dynamic sized register
806 sets for modern architectural features like Arm SVE.
807
808 * Add _SC_MINSIGSTKSZ and _SC_SIGSTKSZ. When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE
809 or _GNU_SOURCE are defined, MINSIGSTKSZ and SIGSTKSZ are no longer
810 constant on Linux. MINSIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf(_SC_MINSIGSTKSZ)
811 and SIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf (_SC_SIGSTKSZ). This supports
812 dynamic sized register sets for modern architectural features like
813 Arm SVE.
814
815 * The dynamic linker implements the --list-diagnostics option, printing
816 a dump of information related to IFUNC resolver operation and
817 glibc-hwcaps subdirectory selection.
818
819 * On Linux, the function execveat has been added. It operates similar to
820 execve and it is is already used to implement fexecve without requiring
821 /proc to be mounted. However, different than fexecve, if the syscall is not
822 supported by the kernel an error is returned instead of trying a fallback.
823
824 * The ISO C2X function timespec_getres has been added.
825
826 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_EXT__, from draft ISO
827 C2X, is supported to enable declarations of functions defined in Annex F
828 of C2X. Those declarations are also enabled when
829 __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, as specified in TS 18661-1, is
830 defined, and when _GNU_SOURCE is defined.
831
832 * On powerpc64*, glibc can now be compiled without scv support using the
833 --disable-scv configure option.
834
835 * Add support for 64-bit time_t on configurations like x86 where time_t
836 is traditionally 32-bit. Although time_t still defaults to 32-bit on
837 these configurations, this default may change in future versions.
838 This is enabled with the _TIME_BITS preprocessor macro set to 64 and is
839 only supported when LFS (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) is also enabled. It is
840 only enabled for Linux and the full support requires a minimum kernel
841 version of 5.1.
842
843 * The main gconv-modules file in glibc now contains only a small set of
844 essential converter modules and the rest have been moved into a supplementary
845 configuration file gconv-modules-extra.conf in the gconv-modules.d directory
846 in the same GCONV_PATH. Similarly, external converter modules directories
847 may have supplementary configuration files in a gconv-modules.d directory
848 with names ending with .conf to logically classify the converter modules in
849 that directory.
850
851 * On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.pthread.stack_cache_size, can be used
852 to configure the size of the thread stack cache.
853
854 * The function _Fork has been added as an async-signal-safe fork replacement
855 since Austin Group issue 62 dropped the async-signal-safe requirement for
856 fork (and it will be included in the future POSIX standard). The new _Fork
857 function does not run any atfork function neither resets any internal state
858 or lock (such as the malloc one), and only sets up a minimal state required
859 to call async-signal-safe functions (such as raise or execve). This function
860 is currently a GNU extension.
861
862 * On Linux, the close_range function has been added. It allows efficiently
863 closing a range of file descriptors on recent kernels (version 5.9).
864
865 * The function closefrom has been added. It closes all file descriptors
866 greater than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
867 although it is also present in other systems.
868
869 * The posix_spawn_file_actions_addclosefrom_np function has been added,
870 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to close all file descriptors greater
871 than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
872 although Solaris also provides a similar function.
873
874 * When invoked explicitly, the dynamic linker now uses the kernel to
875 execute programs that do not have any dynamic dependency (that is,
876 they are statically linked). This feature is Linux-specific.
877
878 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
879
880 * The function pthread_mutex_consistent_np has been deprecated; programs
881 should use the equivalent standard function pthread_mutex_consistent
882 instead.
883
884 * The function pthread_mutexattr_getrobust_np has been deprecated;
885 programs should use the equivalent standard function
886 pthread_mutexattr_getrobust instead.
887
888 * The function pthread_mutexattr_setrobust_np has been deprecated;
889 programs should use the equivalent standard function
890 pthread_mutexattr_setrobust instead.
891
892 * The function pthread_yield has been deprecated; programs should use
893 the equivalent standard function sched_yield instead.
894
895 * The function inet_neta declared in <arpa/inet.h> has been deprecated.
896
897 * Various rarely-used functions declared in <resolv.h> and
898 <arpa/nameser.h> have been deprecated. Applications are encouraged to
899 use dedicated DNS processing libraries if applicable. For <resolv.h>,
900 this affects the functions dn_count_labels, fp_nquery, fp_query,
901 fp_resstat, hostalias, loc_aton, loc_ntoa, p_cdname, p_cdnname,
902 p_class, p_fqname, p_fqnname, p_option, p_query, p_rcode, p_time,
903 p_type, putlong, putshort, res_hostalias, res_isourserver,
904 res_nameinquery, res_queriesmatch, res_randomid, sym_ntop, sym_ntos,
905 sym_ston. For <arpa/nameser.h>, the functions ns_datetosecs,
906 ns_format_ttl, ns_makecanon, ns_parse_ttl, ns_samedomain, ns_samename,
907 ns_sprintrr, ns_sprintrrf, ns_subdomain have been deprecated.
908
909 * Various symbols previously defined in libresolv have been moved to libc
910 in order to prepare for libresolv moving entirely into libc (see earlier
911 entry for merging libraries into libc). The symbols __dn_comp,
912 __dn_expand, __dn_skipname, __res_dnok, __res_hnok, __res_mailok,
913 __res_mkquery, __res_nmkquery, __res_nquery, __res_nquerydomain,
914 __res_nsearch, __res_nsend, __res_ownok, __res_query, __res_querydomain,
915 __res_search, __res_send formerly in libresolv have been renamed and no
916 longer have a __ prefix. They are now available in libc.
917
918 * The pthread cancellation handler is now installed with SA_RESTART and
919 pthread_cancel will always send the internal SIGCANCEL on a cancellation
920 request. It should not be visible to applications since the cancellation
921 handler should either act upon cancellation (if asynchronous cancellation
922 is enabled) or ignore the cancellation internal signal. However there are
923 buggy kernel interfaces (for instance some CIFS versions) that could still
924 see a spurious EINTR error when cancellation interrupts a blocking syscall.
925
926 * Previously, glibc installed its various shared objects under versioned
927 file names such as libc-2.33.so. The ABI sonames (e.g., libc.so.6)
928 were provided as symbolic links. Starting with glibc 2.34, the shared
929 objects are installed under their ABI sonames directly, without
930 symbolic links. This increases compatibility with distribution
931 package managers that delete removed files late during the package
932 upgrade or downgrade process.
933
934 * The symbols mallwatch and tr_break are now deprecated and no longer used in
935 mtrace. Similar functionality can be achieved by using conditional
936 breakpoints within mtrace functions from within gdb.
937
938 * The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
939 implementation __default_morecore have been removed from the API. Existing
940 applications will continue to link against these symbols but the interfaces
941 no longer have any effect on malloc.
942
943 * Debugging features in malloc such as the MALLOC_CHECK_ environment variable
944 (or the glibc.malloc.check tunable), mtrace() and mcheck() have now been
945 disabled by default in the main C library. Users looking to use these
946 features now need to preload a new debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so to get
947 this functionality back.
948
949 * The deprecated functions malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state have been
950 moved from the core C library into libc_malloc_debug.so. Legacy applications
951 that still use these functions will now need to preload libc_malloc_debug.so
952 in their environment using the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
953
954 * The deprecated memory allocation hooks __malloc_hook, __realloc_hook,
955 __memalign_hook and __free_hook are now removed from the API. Compatibility
956 symbols are present to support legacy programs but new applications can no
957 longer link to these symbols. These hooks no longer have any effect on glibc
958 functionality. The malloc debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so currently
959 supports hooks and can be preloaded to get this functionality back for older
960 programs. However this is a transitional measure and may be removed in a
961 future release of the GNU C Library. Users may port away from these hooks by
962 writing and preloading their own malloc interposition library.
963
964 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
965
966 * On Linux, the shm_open, sem_open, and related functions now expect the
967 file shared memory file system to be mounted at /dev/shm. These functions
968 no longer search among the system's mount points for a suitable
969 replacement if /dev/shm is not available.
970
971 Security related changes:
972
973 CVE-2021-27645: The nameserver caching daemon (nscd), when processing
974 a request for netgroup lookup, may crash due to a double-free,
975 potentially resulting in degraded service or Denial of Service on the
976 local system. Reported by Chris Schanzle.
977
978 CVE-2021-33574: The mq_notify function has a potential use-after-free
979 issue when using a notification type of SIGEV_THREAD and a thread
980 attribute with a non-default affinity mask.
981
982 CVE-2021-35942: The wordexp function may overflow the positional
983 parameter number when processing the expansion resulting in a crash.
984 Reported by Philippe Antoine.
985
986 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
987
988 [4737] libc: fork is not async-signal-safe
989 [5781] math: Slow dbl-64 sin/cos/sincos for special values
990 [10353] libc: Methods for deleting all file descriptors greater than
991 given integer (closefrom)
992 [14185] glob: fnmatch() fails when '*' wildcard is applied on the file
993 name containing multi-byte character(s)
994 [14469] math: Inaccurate j0f function
995 [14470] math: Inaccurate j1f function
996 [14471] math: Inaccurate y0f function
997 [14472] math: Inaccurate y1f function
998 [14744] nptl: kill -32 $pid or kill -33 $pid on a process cancels a
999 random thread
1000 [15271] dynamic-link: dlmopen()ed shared library with LM_ID_NEWLM
1001 crashes if it fails dlsym() twice
1002 [15648] nptl: multiple definition of `__lll_lock_wait_private'
1003 [16063] nptl: Provide a pthread_once variant in libc directly
1004 [17144] libc: syslog is not thread-safe if NO_SIGPIPE is not defined
1005 [17145] libc: syslog with LOG_CONS leaks console file descriptor
1006 [17183] manual: description of ENTRY struct in <search.h> in glibc
1007 manual is incorrect
1008 [18435] nptl: pthread_once hangs when init routine throws an exception
1009 [18524] nptl: Missing calloc error checking in
1010 __cxa_thread_atexit_impl
1011 [19329] dynamic-link: dl-tls.c assert failure at concurrent
1012 pthread_create and dlopen
1013 [19366] nptl: returning from a thread should disable cancellation
1014 [19511] nptl: 8MB memory leak in pthread_create in case of failure
1015 when non-root user changes priority
1016 [20802] dynamic-link: getauxval NULL pointer dereference after static
1017 dlopen
1018 [20813] nptl: pthread_exit is inconsistent between libc and libpthread
1019 [22057] malloc: malloc_usable_size is broken with mcheck
1020 [22668] locale: LC_COLLATE: the last character of ellipsis is not
1021 ordered correctly
1022 [23323] libc: [RFE] CSU startup hardening.
1023 [23328] malloc: Remove malloc hooks and ensure related APIs return no
1024 data.
1025 [23462] dynamic-link: Static binary with dynamic string tokens ($LIB,
1026 $PLATFORM, $ORIGIN) crashes
1027 [23489] libc: "gcc -lmcheck" aborts on free when using posix_memalign
1028 [23554] nptl: pthread_getattr_np reports wrong stack size with
1029 MULTI_PAGE_ALIASING
1030 [24106] libc: Bash interpreter in ldd script is taken from host
1031 [24773] dynamic-link: dlerror in an secondary namespace does not use
1032 the right free implementation
1033 [25036] localedata: Update collation order for Swedish
1034 [25383] libc: where_is_shmfs/__shm_directory/SHM_GET_NAME may cause
1035 shm_open to pick wrong directory
1036 [25680] dynamic-link: ifuncmain9picstatic and ifuncmain9picstatic
1037 crash in IFUNC resolver due to stack canary (--enable-stack-
1038 protector=all)
1039 [26874] build: -Warray-bounds in _IO_wdefault_doallocate
1040 [26983] math: [x86_64] x86_64 tgamma has too large ULP error
1041 [27111] dynamic-link: pthread_create and tls access use link_map
1042 objects that may be concurrently freed by dlclose
1043 [27132] malloc: memusagestat is linked to system librt, leading to
1044 undefined symbols on major version upgrade
1045 [27136] dynamic-link: dtv setup at thread creation may leave an entry
1046 uninitialized
1047 [27249] libc: libSegFault.so does not output signal number properly
1048 [27304] nptl: pthread_cond_destroy does not pass private flag to futex
1049 system calls
1050 [27318] dynamic-link: glibc fails to load binaries when built with
1051 -march=sandybridge: CPU ISA level is lower than required
1052 [27343] nss: initgroups() SIGSEGVs when called on a system without
1053 nsswich.conf (in a chroot)
1054 [27346] dynamic-link: x86: PTWRITE feature check is missing
1055 [27389] network: NSS chroot hardening causes regressions in chroot
1056 deployments
1057 [27403] dynamic-link: aarch64: tlsdesc htab is not freed on dlclose
1058 [27444] libc: sysconf reports unsupported option (-1) for
1059 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_LINESIZE on X86 since v2.33
1060 [27462] nscd: double-free in nscd (CVE-2021-27645)
1061 [27468] malloc: aarch64: realloc crash with heap tagging: FAIL:
1062 malloc/tst-malloc-thread-fail
1063 [27498] dynamic-link: __dl_iterate_phdr lacks unwinding information
1064 [27511] libc: S390 memmove assumes Vector Facility when MIE Facility 3
1065 is present
1066 [27522] glob: glob, glob64 incorrectly marked as __THROW
1067 [27555] dynamic-link: Static tests fail with --enable-stack-
1068 protector=all
1069 [27559] libc: fstat(AT_FDCWD) succeeds (it shouldn't) and returns
1070 information for the current directory
1071 [27577] dynamic-link: elf/ld.so --help doesn't work
1072 [27605] libc: tunables can't control xsave/xsavec selection in
1073 dl_runtime_resolve_*
1074 [27623] libc: powerpc: Missing registers in sc[v] clobbers list
1075 [27645] libc: [linux] sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSOR...) breaks down on
1076 containers
1077 [27646] dynamic-link: Linker error for non-existing NSS symbols (e.g.
1078 _nss_files_getcanonname_r) from within a dlmopen namespace.
1079 [27648] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-select
1080 [27650] stdio: vfscanf returns too early if a match is longer than
1081 INT_MAX
1082 [27651] libc: Performance regression after updating to 2.33
1083 [27655] string: Wrong size calculation in string/test-strnlen.c
1084 [27706] libc: select fails to update timeout on error
1085 [27709] libc: arm: FAIL: debug/tst-longjmp_chk2
1086 [27721] dynamic-link: x86: ld_audit ignores bind now for TLSDESC and
1087 tries resolving them lazily
1088 [27744] nptl: Support different libpthread/ld.so load orders in
1089 libthread_db
1090 [27749] libc: Data race __run_exit_handlers
1091 [27761] libc: getconf: Segmentation fault when passing '-vq' as
1092 argument
1093 [27832] nss: makedb.c:797:7: error: 'writev' specified size 4294967295
1094 exceeds maximum object size 2147483647
1095 [27870] malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ causes realloc(valid_ptr, TOO_LARGE) to
1096 not set ENOMEM
1097 [27872] build: Obsolete configure option --enable-stackguard-
1098 randomization
1099 [27873] build: tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo fail when building on AMD cpu
1100 [27882] localedata: Use U+00AF MACRON in more EBCDIC charsets
1101 [27892] libc: powerpc: scv ABI error handling fails to check
1102 IS_ERR_VALUE
1103 [27896] nptl: mq_notify does not handle separately allocated thread
1104 attributes (CVE-2021-33574)
1105 [27901] libc: TEST_STACK_ALIGN doesn't work
1106 [27902] libc: The x86-64 clone wrapper fails to align child stack
1107 [27914] nptl: Install SIGSETXID handler with SA_ONSTACK
1108 [27939] libc: aarch64: clone does not align the stack
1109 [27968] libc: s390x: clone does not align the stack
1110 [28011] libc: Wild read in wordexp (parse_param) (CVE-2021-35942)
1111 [28024] string: s390(31bit): Wrong result of memchr (MEMCHR_Z900_G5)
1112 with n >= 0x80000000
1113 [28028] malloc: malloc: tcache shutdown sequence does not work if the
1114 thread never allocated anything
1115 [28033] libc: Need to check RTM_ALWAYS_ABORT for RTM
1116 [28064] string: x86_64:wcslen implementation list has wcsnlen
1117 [28067] libc: FAIL: posix/tst-spawn5
1118 [28068] malloc: FAIL: malloc/tst-mallocalign1-mcheck
1119 [28071] time: clock_gettime, gettimeofday, time lost vDSO acceleration
1120 on older kernels
1121 [28075] nis: Out-of-bounds static buffer read in nis_local_domain
1122 [28089] build: tst-tls20 fails when linker defaults to --as-needed
1123 [28090] build: elf/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo-static fails on certain
1124 AMD64 cpus
1125 [28091] network: ns_name_skip may return 0 for domain names without
1126 terminator
1127
1128 \f
1129 Version 2.33
1130
1131 Major new features:
1132
1133 * The dynamic linker accepts the --list-tunables argument which prints
1134 all the supported tunables. This option is disable if glibc is
1135 configured with tunables disabled (--enable-tunables=no).
1136
1137 * The dynamic linker accepts the --argv0 argument and provides opportunity
1138 to change argv[0] string.
1139
1140 * The dynamic linker loads optimized implementations of shared objects
1141 from subdirectories under the glibc-hwcaps directory on the library
1142 search path if the system's capabilities meet the requirements for
1143 that subdirectory. Initially supported subdirectories include
1144 "power9" and "power10" for the powerpc64le-linux-gnu architecture,
1145 "z13", "z14", "z15" for s390x-linux-gnu, and "x86-64-v2", "x86-64-v3",
1146 "x86-64-v4" for x86_64-linux-gnu. In the x86_64-linux-gnu case, the
1147 subdirectory names correspond to the vendor-independent x86-64
1148 microarchitecture levels defined in the x86-64 psABI supplement.
1149
1150 * The new --help option of the dynamic linker provides usage and
1151 information and library search path diagnostics.
1152
1153 * The mallinfo2 function is added to report statistics as per mallinfo,
1154 but with larger field widths to accurately report values that are
1155 larger than fit in an integer.
1156
1157 * Add <sys/platform/x86.h> to provide query macros for x86 CPU features.
1158
1159 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been expanded to run on
1160 32-bit hardware. This is supported for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
1161
1162 - rv32imac ilp32
1163 - rv32imafdc ilp32
1164 - rv32imafdc ilp32d
1165
1166 The 32-bit RISC-V port requires at least Linux 5.4, GCC 7.1 and binutils
1167 2.28.
1168
1169 * A new fortification level _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 is available. At this level,
1170 glibc may use additional checks that may have an additional performance
1171 overhead. At present these checks are available only on LLVM 9 and later.
1172 The latest GCC available at this time (10.2) does not support this level of
1173 fortification.
1174
1175 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1176
1177 * The mallinfo function is marked deprecated. Callers should call
1178 mallinfo2 instead.
1179
1180 * When dlopen is used in statically linked programs, alternative library
1181 implementations from HWCAP subdirectories are no longer loaded.
1182 Instead, the default implementation is used.
1183
1184 * The deprecated <sys/vtimes.h> header and the function vtimes have been
1185 removed. To support old binaries, the vtimes function continues to exist
1186 as a compatibility symbol. Applications should use the getrlimit or
1187 prlimit.
1188
1189 * Following a change in the tzdata 2018a release upstream, the zdump
1190 program is now installed in the /usr/bin subdirectory. Previously,
1191 the /usr/sbin subdirectory was used.
1192
1193 * On s390(x), the type float_t is now derived from the macro
1194 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ that is defined by the compiler, instead of being
1195 hardcoded to double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
1196 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
1197 libraries that use this type in their interfaces. The new definition
1198 improves consistency with compiler behavior in many scenarios.
1199
1200 * A future version of glibc will stop loading shared objects from the
1201 "tls" subdirectories on the library search path, the subdirectory that
1202 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, and also stop employing
1203 the legacy AT_HWCAP search mechanism. Applications should switch to
1204 the new glibc-hwcaps mechanism instead; if they do not do that, only
1205 the baseline version (directly from the search path directory) will be
1206 loaded.
1207
1208 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1209
1210 * On Linux, the system administrator needs to configure /dev/pts with
1211 the intended access modes for pseudo-terminals. glibc no longer
1212 attempts to adjust permissions of terminal devices. The previous glibc
1213 defaults ("tty" group, user read/write and group write) already
1214 corresponded to what most systems used, so that grantpt did not
1215 perform any adjustments.
1216
1217 * On Linux, the posix_openpt and getpt functions no longer attempt to
1218 use legacy (BSD) pseudo-terminals and assume that if /dev/ptmx exists
1219 (and pseudo-terminals are supported), a devpts file system is mounted
1220 on /dev/pts. Current systems already meet these requirements.
1221
1222 * s390x requires GCC 7.1 or newer. See gcc Bug 98269.
1223
1224 Security related changes:
1225
1226 CVE-2021-3326: An assertion failure during conversion from the
1227 ISO-20220-JP-3 character set using the iconv function has been fixed.
1228 This assertion was triggered by certain valid inputs in which the
1229 converted output contains a combined sequence of two wide characters
1230 crossing a buffer boundary. Reported by Tavis Ormandy.
1231
1232 CVE-2020-27618: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
1233 invoked with input containing redundant shift sequences in the IBM1364,
1234 IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, or IBM1399 character sets.
1235
1236 CVE-2020-29562: An assertion failure has been fixed in the iconv function
1237 when invoked with UCS4 input containing an invalid character.
1238
1239 CVE-2019-25013: A buffer overflow has been fixed in the iconv function when
1240 invoked with EUC-KR input containing invalid multibyte input sequences.
1241
1242 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1243
1244 [10635] libc: realpath portability patches
1245 [16124] dynamic-link: ld.so should allow to change argv[0]
1246 [17924] malloc: 'free' should not set errno
1247 [18683] libc: Linux faccessat implementation can incorrectly ignore
1248 AT_EACCESS
1249 [22899] libc: Use 64-bit readdir() in generic POSIX getcwd()
1250 [23091] hurd: missing waitid support
1251 [23249] libc: Epyc and other current AMD CPUs do not select the
1252 "haswell" platform subdirectory
1253 [24080] dynamic-link: Definition of "haswell" platform is inconsistent
1254 with GCC
1255 [24202] libc: m68k setjmp() saves incorrect 'a5' register in --enable-
1256 stack-protector=all
1257 [24941] libc: Make grantpt usable after multi-threaded fork in more
1258 cases
1259 [24970] libc: realpath mishandles EOVERFLOW; stat not needed anyway
1260 [24973] locale: iconv encounters segmentation fault when converting
1261 0x00 0xfe in EUC-KR to UTF-8 (CVE-2019-25013)
1262 [25399] string: undefined reference to `__warn_memset_zero_len' when
1263 changing gnuc version
1264 [25859] libc: glibc parser for /sys/devices/system/cpu/online is
1265 incorrect
1266 [25938] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should store meaning of hwcap mask
1267 bits
1268 [25971] libc: s390 bits/hwcap.h out of sync with kernel
1269 [26053] libc: unlockpt fails with ENOTTY for non-ptmx descriptors
1270 [26100] libc: Race in syslog(3) with regards to tag printing.
1271 [26124] libc: Export <cpu-features.h>
1272 [26130] nscd: Inconsistent nscd cache during pruning
1273 [26203] libc: GLRO(dl_x86_cpu_features) may not be initialized
1274 [26224] locale: iconv hangs when converting some invalid inputs from
1275 several IBM character sets (CVE-2020-27618)
1276 [26341] libc: realpath cyclically call __alloca(path_max) to consume
1277 too much stack space
1278 [26343] manual: invalid documented return type for strerrorname_np(),
1279 strerrordesc_np(), sigdescr_np(), sigabbrev_np()
1280 [26376] libc: Namespace violation in stdio.h and sys/stat.h if build
1281 with optimization.
1282 [26383] locale: bind_textdomain_codeset doesn't accept //TRANSLIT
1283 anymore
1284 [26394] time: [2.33 Regression] FAIL: nptl/tst-join14
1285 [26534] math: libm.so 2.32 SIGILL in pow() due to FMA4 instruction on
1286 non-FMA4 system
1287 [26552] dynamic-link: CPU_FEATURE_USABLE_P should be more conservative
1288 [26553] libc: mtx_init allows type set to "mtx_recursive" only
1289 [26555] string: strerrorname_np does not return the documented value
1290 [26592] libc: pointer arithmetic overflows in realpath
1291 [26600] network: Transaction ID collisions cause slow DNS lookups in
1292 getaddrinfo
1293 [26606] libc: [2.33 Regression] pselect is broken on x32
1294 [26615] libc: powerpc: libc segfaults when LD_PRELOADed with libgcc
1295 [26620] glob: fnmatch with collating symbols results in segmentation
1296 fault
1297 [26625] libc: [2.33 Regression] CET is disabled
1298 [26636] libc: 32-bit shmctl(IPC_INFO) crashes when shminfo struct is
1299 at the end of a memory mapping
1300 [26637] libc: semctl SEM_STAT_ANY fails to pass the buffer specified
1301 by the caller to the kernel
1302 [26639] libc: msgctl IPC_INFO and MSG_INFO return garbage
1303 [26647] build: [-Werror=array-parameter=] due to different
1304 declarations for __sigsetjmp
1305 [26648] libc: mkstemp is likely to fail on systems with non-stricly-
1306 monotonic clocks
1307 [26649] stdio: printf should handle non-normal x86 long double numbers
1308 gracefully (CVE-2020-29573)
1309 [26686] build: -Warray-parameter instances building with GCC 11
1310 [26687] build: -Warray-bounds instances building with GCC 11
1311 [26690] stdio: Aliasing violation in __vfscanf_internal
1312 [26691] nptl: Use a minimum guard size of 64 KiB on aarch64
1313 [26726] build: GCC warning calling new_composite_name with an array of
1314 one element
1315 [26736] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-sysvshm-linux
1316 [26737] libc: Random FAIL: rt/tst-shm
1317 [26791] libc: Missing O_CLOEXEC in sysconf.c
1318 [26798] dynamic-link: aarch64: variant PCS symbols may be incorrectly
1319 lazy bound
1320 [26801] nptl: pthread_mutex_clocklock with CLOCK_MONOTONIC can fail on
1321 PI mutexes
1322 [26818] string: aarch64: string tests may run ifunc variants that are
1323 not safe
1324 [26821] libc: Memory leak test failures on Fedora 33
1325 [26824] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-cpu-features-supports with recent trunk:
1326 FSGSBASE/LM/RDRAND check failure
1327 [26833] time: adjtime() with delta == NULL segfaults on armv7 32bit
1328 platform
1329 [26853] libc: aarch64: Missing unwind information in statically linked
1330 startup code
1331 [26923] locale: Assertion failure in iconv when converting invalid
1332 UCS4 (CVE-2020-29562)
1333 [26926] dynamic-link: aarch64: library dependencies are not bti
1334 protected
1335 [26932] libc: sh: Multiple floating point functions defined as stubs
1336 only since 2.31
1337 [26964] nptl: pthread_mutex_timedlock returning EAGAIN after futex is
1338 locked
1339 [26988] dynamic-link: aarch64: BTI mprotect address is not page
1340 aligned
1341 [27002] build: libc_freeres_fn build failure with GCC 11
1342 [27004] dynamic-link: ld.so is miscompiled by GCC 11
1343 [27008] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should have endianness markup
1344 [27042] libc: [alpha] anonymous union in struct stat confuses
1345 detection logic
1346 [27053] libc: Conformance regression in system(3) (and probably also
1347 pclose(3))
1348 [27072] dynamic-link: static pie ifunc resolvers run before hwcap is
1349 setup
1350 [27077] network: Do not reload /etc/nsswitch.conf from chroot
1351 [27083] libc: Unsafe unbounded alloca in addmntent
1352 [27104] dynamic-link: The COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_MAX handshake does not
1353 work
1354 [27130] string: "rep movsb" performance issue
1355 [27150] libc: alpha: wait4() is unavailable in static linking
1356 [27177] dynamic-link:
1357 GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.cpu.x86_ibt=on:glibc.cpu.x86_shstk=on doesn't
1358 work
1359 [27222] dynamic-link: Incorrect sysdeps/x86/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo.c
1360 [27237] malloc: deadlock in malloc/tst-malloc-stats-cancellation
1361 [27256] locale: Assertion failure in ISO-2022-JP-3 gconv module
1362 related to combining characters (CVE-2021-3326)
1363
1364 \f
1365 Version 2.32
1366
1367 Major new features:
1368
1369 * Unicode 13.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1370 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 13.0.0, using
1371 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1372
1373 * New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq)
1374
1375 * Support for Synopsys ARC HS cores (ARCv2 ISA) running Linux has been
1376 added. This port requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-8.3 and Linux-5.1.
1377 Three ABIs are supported:
1378
1379 - arc-linux-gnu
1380 - arc-linux-gnuhf
1381 - arceb-linux-gnu
1382
1383 The arc* ABIs are little-endian while arceb is big-endian. All ABIs use
1384 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
1385
1386 * The GNU C Library now loads audit modules listed in the DT_AUDIT and
1387 DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
1388
1389 * powerpc64le supports IEEE128 long double libm/libc redirects when
1390 using -mabi=ieeelongdouble to compile C code on supported GCC
1391 toolchains. It is recommended to use GCC 8 or newer when testing
1392 this option.
1393
1394 * To help detect buffer overflows and other out-of-bounds accesses
1395 several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This
1396 should help GCC 10 issue better warnings.
1397
1398 * On Linux, functions pthread_attr_setsigmask_np and
1399 pthread_attr_getsigmask_np have been added. They allow applications
1400 to specify the signal mask of a thread created with pthread_create.
1401
1402 * The GNU C Library now provides the header file <sys/single_threaded.h>
1403 which declares the variable __libc_single_threaded. Applications are
1404 encouraged to use this variable for single-thread optimizations,
1405 instead of weak references to symbols historically defined in
1406 libpthread.
1407
1408 * The functions sigabbrev_np and sigdescr_np have been added. The
1409 sigabbrev_np function returns the abbreviated signal name (e.g. "HUP" for
1410 SIGHUP) while sigdescr_np returns a string describing the signal number
1411 (e.g "Hangup" for SIGHUP). Different than strsignal, sigdescr_np does not
1412 attempt to translate the return description, both functions return
1413 NULL for an invalid signal number.
1414
1415 They should be used instead of sys_siglist or sys_sigabbrev and they
1416 are both thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
1417
1418 * The functions strerrorname_np and strerrordesc_np have been added. The
1419 strerroname_np function returns error number name (e.g. "EINVAL" for EINVAL)
1420 while strerrordesc_np returns a string describing the error number
1421 (e.g "Invalid argument" for EINVAL). Different than strerror,
1422 strerrordesc_np does not attempt to translate the return description, both
1423 functions return NULL for an invalid error number.
1424
1425 They should be used instead of sys_errlist and sys_nerr, both are
1426 thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
1427
1428 * AArch64 now supports standard branch protection security hardening
1429 in glibc when it is built with a GCC that is configured with
1430 --enable-standard-branch-protection (or if -mbranch-protection=standard
1431 flag is passed when building both GCC target libraries and glibc,
1432 in either case a custom GCC is needed). This includes branch target
1433 identification (BTI) and pointer authentication for return addresses
1434 (PAC-RET). They require armv8.5-a and armv8.3-a architecture
1435 extensions respectively for the protection to be effective,
1436 otherwise the used instructions are nops. User code can use PAC-RET
1437 without libc support, but BTI requires a libc that is built with BTI
1438 support, otherwise runtime objects linked into user code will not be
1439 BTI compatible.
1440
1441 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1442
1443 * Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc. Sun RPC is removed
1444 from glibc. This includes the rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and the Sun
1445 RPC header files. Backward compatibility for old programs is kept
1446 only for architectures and ABIs that have been added in or before
1447 glibc 2.31. New programs need to use TI-RPC
1448 <http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=summary> and
1449 rpcsvc-proto <https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto>.
1450
1451 * Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-nsl. libnsl is only built
1452 as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules "nis"
1453 and "nisplus" are not built at all and libnsl's headers aren't
1454 installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs
1455 that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement
1456 implementations based on TI-RPC, which additionally support IPv6, are
1457 available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not
1458 affect the "compat" NSS module, which does not depend on libnsl
1459 since 2.27 and thus can be used without NIS.
1460
1461 * The deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
1462 removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
1463 exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
1464 but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system
1465 call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5.
1466
1467 * The sstk function is no longer available to newly linked binaries.
1468 Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function
1469 was not declared in any header file.
1470
1471 * The legacy signal handling functions siginterrupt, sigpause, sighold,
1472 sigrelse, sigignore and sigset, and the sigmask macro have been
1473 deprecated. Applications should use the sigsuspend, sigprocmask and
1474 sigaction functions instead.
1475
1476 * ldconfig now defaults to the new format for ld.so.cache. glibc has
1477 already supported this format for almost 20 years.
1478
1479 * The deprecated arrays sys_siglist, _sys_siglist, and sys_sigabbrev
1480 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
1481 have been removed from <string.h>. They are exported solely as
1482 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
1483 strsignal instead.
1484
1485 * The deprecated symbols sys_errlist, _sys_errlist, sys_nerr, and _sys_nerr
1486 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
1487 have been removed from <stdio.h>. They are exported solely as
1488 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
1489 strerror or strerror_r instead.
1490
1491 * Both strerror and strerror_l now share the same internal buffer in the
1492 calling thread, meaning that the returned string pointer may be invalided
1493 or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same thread or
1494 if the thread is terminated. It makes strerror MT-safe.
1495
1496 * Using weak references to libpthread functions such as pthread_create
1497 or pthread_key_create to detect the singled-threaded nature of a
1498 program is an obsolescent feature. Future versions of glibc will
1499 define pthread_create within libc.so.6 itself, so such checks will
1500 always flag the program as multi-threaded. Applications should check
1501 the __libc_single_threaded variable declared in
1502 <sys/single_threaded.h> instead.
1503
1504 * The "files" NSS module no longer supports the "key" database (used for
1505 secure RPC). The contents of the /etc/publickey file will be ignored,
1506 regardless of the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of
1507 storing RPC keys only supported the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES
1508 flavor of secure RPC.)
1509
1510 * The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
1511 implementation __default_morecore have been deprecated. Applications
1512 should use malloc interposition to change malloc behavior, and mmap to
1513 allocate anonymous memory. A future version of glibc may require that
1514 applications which use the malloc hooks must preload a special shared
1515 object, to enable the hooks.
1516
1517 * The hesiod NSS module has been deprecated and will be removed in a
1518 future version of glibc. System administrators are encouraged to
1519 switch to other approaches for networked account databases, such as
1520 LDAP.
1521
1522 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1523
1524 * powerpc64le requires GCC 7.4 or newer. This is required for supporting
1525 long double redirects.
1526
1527 Security related changes:
1528
1529 CVE-2016-10228: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
1530 invoked with the -c option and when processing invalid multi-byte input
1531 sequences. Reported by Jan Engelhardt.
1532
1533 CVE-2020-10029: Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack
1534 corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido
1535 Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
1536
1537 CVE-2020-1752: A use-after-free vulnerability in the glob function when
1538 expanding ~user has been fixed.
1539
1540 CVE-2020-6096: A signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy and
1541 memmove functions has been fixed. Discovered by Jason Royes and Samual
1542 Dytrych of the Cisco Security Assessment and Penetration Team (See
1543 TALOS-2020-1019).
1544
1545 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1546
1547 [9809] localedata: ckb_IQ: new Kurdish Sorani locale
1548 [10441] manual: Backtraces code example lacks error checking
1549 [10815] librt: [timer_create / SIGEV_THREAD] signalmask of
1550 timer_sigev_thread dangerous
1551 [14231] stdio: stdio-common tests memory requirements
1552 [14578] libc: /proc-based emulation for lchmod, fchmodat
1553 [16272] dynamic-link: dlopen()ing a DT_FILTER library crashes if
1554 filtee has constructor
1555 [19519] locale: iconv(1) with -c option hangs on illegal multi-byte
1556 sequences (CVE-2016-10228)
1557 [19737] admin: Doc page “20.5.2 Infinity and NaN” has incorrect HTML
1558 character entities for infinity & pi
1559 [20338] libc: Parsing of /etc/gshadow can return bad pointers causing
1560 segfaults in applications
1561 [20543] libc: Please move from .gnu.linkonce to comdat
1562 [22489] network: gcc warns about implicit conversion in
1563 ICMP6_FILTER_SETPASS with -Wsign-conversion
1564 [22525] localedata: or_IN LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1565 [23294] math: Complex _FloatN functions are redirected to the wrong
1566 function with -mlong-double-64
1567 [23296] libc: Data race in setting function descriptor during lazy
1568 binding
1569 [23668] dynamic-link: ldconfig: Default to the new format for
1570 ld.so.cache
1571 [23819] hurd: hurd: Add C11 thread support
1572 [23990] build: test-container error out on failure to exec child.
1573 [23991] build: shell-container typo in run_command_array
1574 [24638] manual: Error in example of parsing a template string
1575 [24654] manual: Wrong declaration of wcschr in libc manual
1576 [24943] dynamic-link: Support DT_AUDIT, DT_DEPAUDIT in the dynamic
1577 linker
1578 [25051] dynamic-link: aarch64, powerpc64 uses surplus static tls for
1579 dynamically loaded dsos
1580 [25098] nptl: nptl: ctype classification functions are not AS-Safe
1581 [25219] libc: improve out-of-bounds checking with GCC 10 attribute
1582 access
1583 [25262] libc: getcontext/setcontext/swapcontext unnecessarily save and
1584 restore EAX, ECX and EDX
1585 [25397] dynamic-link: Legacy bitmap doesn't cover jitted code
1586 [25414] glob: 'glob' use-after-free bug (CVE-2020-1752)
1587 [25420] network: Race condition in resolv_conf.c can result in caching
1588 stale configuration forever
1589 [25487] math: sinl() stack corruption from crafted input
1590 (CVE-2020-10029)
1591 [25506] build: configure: broken detection of STT_GNU_IFUNC when GCC
1592 defaults to PIE
1593 [25523] libc: MIPS/Linux inline syscall template is miscompiled
1594 [25620] libc: Signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy()
1595 (CVE-2020-6096)
1596 [25623] libc: test-sysvmsg, test-sysvsem, test-sysvshm fail with 2.31
1597 on 32 bit and old kernel
1598 [25635] libc: arm: Wrong sysdep order selection for soft-fp
1599 [25639] localedata: Some names of days and months wrongly spelt in
1600 Occitan
1601 [25657] libc: sigprocmask() and sigisemptyset() manipulate different
1602 amount of sigset_t bytes
1603 [25691] stdio: printf: memory leak when printing long multibyte
1604 strings
1605 [25715] libc: system() returns wrong errors when posix_spawn fails
1606 [25733] malloc: mallopt(M_MXFAST) can set global_max_fast to 0
1607 [25734] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS fails to reset conversion
1608 state for conversions that produce two Unicode code points
1609 [25765] nptl: Incorrect futex syscall in __pthread_disable_asynccancel
1610 for linux x86_64 leads to livelock
1611 [25788] dynamic-link: [i386] -fno-omit-frame-pointer in CFLAGS causes
1612 test failures, invalid instruction in ld.so
1613 [25790] glob: Typo in tst-fnmatch.input
1614 [25810] libc: x32: Incorrect syscall entries with pointer, off_t and
1615 size_t
1616 [25819] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 13.0.0
1617 [25824] libc: Abnormal function of strnlen in aarch64
1618 [25887] dynamic-link: Wasted space in _dl_x86_feature_1[1]
1619 [25896] libc: Incorrect prctl
1620 [25902] libc: Bad LOADARGS_N
1621 [25905] dynamic-link: VSX registers are corrupted during PLT
1622 resolution when glibc is built with --disable-multi-arch and --with-
1623 cpu=power9
1624 [25933] string: Off by one error in __strncmp_avx2 when
1625 length=VEC_SIZE*4 and strings are at page boundaries can cause a
1626 segfault
1627 [25942] nptl: Deadlock on stack_cache_lock between __nptl_setxid and
1628 exiting detached thread
1629 [25966] libc: Incorrect access of __x86_shared_non_temporal_threshold
1630 for x32
1631 [25976] nss: internal_end*ent in nss_compat may clobber errno, hiding
1632 ERANGE
1633 [25999] nptl: Use-after-free issue in pthread_getaddr_default_np
1634 [26073] math: getpayload() has wrong return value
1635 [26076] dynamic-link: dlmopen crashes after failing to load
1636 dependencies in audit mode
1637 [26120] localedata: column width of of some Korean
1638 JUNGSEONG/JONGSEONG characters wrong (should be 0)
1639 [26128] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFLUSHOPT
1640 [26133] libc: Incorrect need_arch_feature_F16C
1641 [26137] libc: strtod() triggers exception FE_INEXACT on reasonable
1642 input
1643 [26149] libc: PKU is usable only if OSPKE is set
1644 [26173] libc: powerpc64*: Add @notoc to calls to functions that do not
1645 preserve r2
1646 [26208] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFSH
1647 [26210] network: Incorrect use of hidden symbols for global sunrpc
1648 variables
1649 [26211] stdio: printf integer overflow calculating allocation size
1650 [26214] stdio: printf_fp double free
1651 [26215] stdio: printf_fp memory leak
1652 [26232] time: FAIL: support/tst-timespec for 32-bit targets
1653 [26258] nss: nss_compat should not read input files with mmap
1654 [26332] string: Incorrect cache line size load causes memory
1655 corruption in memset
1656
1657 \f
1658 Version 2.31
1659
1660 Major new features:
1661
1662 * The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
1663 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
1664 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
1665 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
1666 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
1667 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
1668
1669 * The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
1670 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
1671 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
1672 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
1673
1674 * The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
1675 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
1676 CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME. This function is a GNU extension.
1677
1678 * New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar).
1679
1680 * The DNS stub resolver will optionally send the AD (authenticated data) bit
1681 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
1682 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
1683 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
1684 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
1685 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
1686 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
1687 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
1688
1689 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1690
1691 * The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
1692 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
1693 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
1694 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
1695 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
1696 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
1697
1698 * The obsolete function stime is no longer available to newly linked
1699 binaries, and its declaration has been removed from <time.h>.
1700 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
1701
1702 * We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
1703 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
1704 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
1705 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
1706
1707 * The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
1708 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
1709 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
1710 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
1711 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
1712 made this no longer practical.
1713
1714 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
1715 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
1716 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
1717 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
1718 release.)
1719
1720 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
1721 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
1722 with the current time, use the localtime function.
1723
1724 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
1725 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
1726 using clock_gettime instead.
1727
1728 * The settimeofday function can still be used to set a system-wide time
1729 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
1730 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
1731 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
1732 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
1733
1734 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
1735 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
1736 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
1737 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
1738
1739 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
1740 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
1741 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
1742 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
1743 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
1744 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
1745
1746 settimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. Programs that set
1747 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
1748 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
1749 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
1750 offset API.
1751
1752 * SPARC ISA v7 is no longer supported. v8 is still supported, but only if
1753 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
1754 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
1755
1756 As the oldest 64-bit SPARC ISA is v9, this only affects 32-bit
1757 configurations.
1758
1759 * If a lazy binding failure happens during dlopen, during the execution of
1760 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
1761 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
1762 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
1763 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
1764
1765 * For MIPS hard-float ABIs, the GNU C Library will be configured to need an
1766 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
1767 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
1768 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
1769 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
1770 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
1771 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
1772 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
1773
1774 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
1775 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
1776
1777 * System call wrappers for time system calls now use the new time64 system
1778 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
1779 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
1780 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
1781 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
1782 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
1783
1784 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1785
1786 * It is no longer necessary to have recent Linux kernel headers to build
1787 working (non-stub) system call wrappers on all architectures except 64-bit
1788 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
1789
1790 * The ChangeLog file is no longer present in the toplevel directory of the
1791 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
1792 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
1793
1794 Security related changes:
1795
1796 CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an
1797 out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context.
1798
1799 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
1800 environment variable during program execution after a security
1801 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
1802 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
1803 program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
1804
1805 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1806
1807 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
1808 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
1809 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
1810 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
1811 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
1812 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
1813 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
1814 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
1815 linking failure
1816 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
1817 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
1818 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
1819 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
1820 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
1821 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
1822 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
1823 constructors/destructors is not fatal
1824 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
1825 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
1826 7408-2005
1827 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
1828 with localedef
1829 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
1830 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
1831 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
1832 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
1833 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
1834 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
1835 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
1836 utmp entries
1837 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
1838 ABSOLUTE ABI
1839 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
1840 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
1841 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
1842 (stringop-overflow error)
1843 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
1844 functions other can lead to crashes
1845 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
1846 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
1847 unconditionally
1848 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
1849 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
1850 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
1851 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
1852 still can fail with an error
1853 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
1854 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
1855 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
1856 initialized correctly
1857 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
1858 -frewrite-includes
1859 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
1860 value to an unsigned
1861 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
1862 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
1863 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
1864 protection
1865 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
1866 ifunc variant.
1867 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
1868 al. for Clang++
1869 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
1870 (Slovenian)
1871 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
1872 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
1873 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
1874 with -std=c11
1875 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
1876 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
1877 part
1878 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
1879 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
1880 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
1881 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
1882 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
1883 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
1884
1885 \f
1886 Version 2.30
1887
1888 Major new features:
1889
1890 * Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1891 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
1892 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1893
1894 * The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
1895 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
1896
1897 * The twalk_r function has been added. It is similar to the existing
1898 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
1899 to the callback function.
1900
1901 * On Linux, the getdents64, gettid, and tgkill functions have been added.
1902
1903 * Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
1904 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
1905 nan_TW, lzh_TW.
1906
1907 * The entry for the new Japanese era has been added for ja_JP locale.
1908
1909 * Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
1910 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
1911 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
1912 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
1913 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
1914
1915 * The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
1916 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
1917 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
1918 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
1919 link time reference, is gone.
1920
1921 * Add new POSIX-proposed pthread_cond_clockwait, pthread_mutex_clocklock,
1922 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
1923 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
1924 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
1925 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
1926 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
1927 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
1928 the clock choice at initialization time).
1929
1930 * On AArch64 the GNU IFUNC resolver call ABI changed: old resolvers still
1931 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
1932 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
1933
1934 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1935
1936 * The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
1937 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
1938 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
1939 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
1940 copy_file_range function can no longer rely on glibc to provide a fallback
1941 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
1942 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
1943 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
1944 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
1945
1946 * The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime,
1947 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
1948 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
1949 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
1950 since glibc 2.17.
1951
1952 * The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
1953 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
1954
1955 * Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
1956 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
1957
1958 * The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
1959 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
1960
1961 * With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
1962 BIND_NOW flag.
1963
1964 * Support for the PowerPC SPE ISA extension (powerpc-*-*gnuspe*
1965 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
1966 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
1967
1968 * On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
1969 header have been removed.
1970
1971 * The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
1972 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
1973 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
1974 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
1975
1976 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1977
1978 * GCC 6.2 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
1979
1980 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
1981 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
1982
1983 Security related changes:
1984
1985 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
1986 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
1987 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
1988 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
1989 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
1990 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
1991 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
1992
1993 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
1994 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
1995 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
1996
1997 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1998
1999 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
2000 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
2001 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
2002 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
2003 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
2004 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
2005 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
2006 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
2007 invalid input drops valid char
2008 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
2009 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
2010 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
2011 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
2012 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
2013 malloc.h.
2014 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
2015 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
2016 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
2017 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
2018 functions
2019 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
2020 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
2021 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
2022 for long double = double
2023 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
2024 long double = double
2025 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
2026 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
2027 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
2028 long timeouts
2029 [24051] stdio: puts and putchar output to _IO_stdout instead of stdout
2030 [24059] nss: nss_files: get_next_alias calls fgets_unlocked without
2031 checking for NULL.
2032 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
2033 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
2034 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
2035 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
2036 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
2037 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
2038 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
2039 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
2040 not the default "nor"
2041 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
2042 false positives, change to modern flexible array
2043 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
2044 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
2045 compiler barriers.
2046 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
2047 unnecessary librt dependencies
2048 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
2049 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
2050 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
2051 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
2052 unsorted chunk
2053 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
2054 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
2055 to R_SPARC_H44
2056 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
2057 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
2058 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
2059 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
2060 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
2061 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
2062 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
2063 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
2064 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
2065 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
2066 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
2067 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
2068 was not used
2069 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
2070 tests
2071 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
2072 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
2073 time_t changes
2074 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
2075 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
2076 kernels and break testing
2077 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
2078 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
2079 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
2080 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
2081 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
2082 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
2083 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
2084 -O3 -march=skylake
2085 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
2086 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
2087 crash
2088 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
2089 linked glibc
2090 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
2091 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
2092 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
2093 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
2094 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
2095 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
2096 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
2097 always implemented in the same library
2098 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
2099 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
2100 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
2101 testroot
2102
2103 \f
2104 Version 2.29
2105
2106 Major new features:
2107
2108 * The getcpu wrapper function has been added, which returns the currently
2109 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
2110
2111 * A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
2112 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
2113 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
2114 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
2115 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
2116 configured location.
2117
2118 * Optimized generic exp, exp2, log, log2, pow, sinf, cosf, sincosf and tanf.
2119
2120 * The reallocarray function is now declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE, not just
2121 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
2122
2123 * For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
2124 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
2125 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
2126 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
2127 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
2128 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
2129 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
2130 process actually does not use HTM).
2131
2132 * The functions posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np and
2133 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
2134 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
2135 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
2136 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
2137 of the same name.
2138
2139 * The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
2140 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
2141 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
2142 inconsistent mutex state after a fork call in a multi-threaded process.
2143 In both popen and system there is no direct access to user-defined mutexes.
2144
2145 * Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
2146 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
2147 supported:
2148 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
2149 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
2150
2151 * strftime's default formatting of a locale's alternative year (%Ey)
2152 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
2153 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
2154 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
2155 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
2156 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
2157 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
2158
2159 * As a GNU extension, the '_' and '-' flags can now be applied to
2160 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
2161 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
2162
2163 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2164
2165 * The glibc.tune tunable namespace has been renamed to glibc.cpu and the
2166 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
2167
2168 * The type of the pr_uid and pr_gid members of struct elf_prpsinfo, defined
2169 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
2170 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
2171 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
2172
2173 * For the MIPS n32 ABI, the type of the pr_sigpend and pr_sighold members of
2174 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
2175 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
2176 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
2177 structures.
2178
2179 * An archaic GNU extension to scanf, under which '%as', '%aS', and '%a[...]'
2180 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
2181 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
2182 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
2183 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
2184 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
2185
2186 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
2187 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
2188 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
2189 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
2190 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
2191
2192 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
2193 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
2194 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
2195
2196 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2197
2198 * Python 3.4 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
2199
2200 * On most architectures, GCC 5 or later is required to build the GNU C
2201 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
2202
2203 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
2204 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
2205
2206 Security related changes:
2207
2208 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
2209 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
2210 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
2211
2212 CVE-2019-6488: On x32, the size_t parameter may be passed in the lower
2213 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
2214 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
2215 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
2216 Reported by H.J. Lu.
2217
2218 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
2219 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
2220 or command injection issues in applications.
2221
2222 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2223
2224 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
2225 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
2226 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
2227 thousands
2228 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
2229 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
2230 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
2231 --param options)
2232 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
2233 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
2234 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
2235 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
2236 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
2237 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
2238 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
2239 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
2240 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
2241 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
2242 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
2243 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
2244 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
2245 pointer argument is non-NULL
2246 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
2247 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
2248 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
2249 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
2250 multithreads call popen
2251 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
2252 and pthread_create fails.
2253 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
2254 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
2255 constructor
2256 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
2257 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
2258 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
2259 source tree
2260 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
2261 float
2262 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
2263 one error
2264 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
2265 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
2266 linker
2267 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
2268 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
2269 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
2270 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
2271 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
2272 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
2273 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
2274 filesystems
2275 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
2276 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
2277 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
2278 functions
2279 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
2280 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
2281 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
2282 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
2283 have wrong type
2284 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
2285 wrong type
2286 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
2287 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
2288 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
2289 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
2290 threads
2291 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
2292 start.S
2293 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
2294 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
2295 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
2296 powerpc64le
2297 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
2298 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
2299 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
2300 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
2301 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
2302 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
2303 strftime
2304 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
2305 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
2306 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
2307 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
2308 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
2309 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
2310 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
2311 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
2312 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
2313 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
2314 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
2315 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
2316 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
2317 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
2318 tcache size
2319 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
2320 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
2321 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
2322 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
2323 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
2324 (CVE-2018-19591)
2325 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
2326 nearest rounding mode
2327 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
2328 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
2329 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
2330 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
2331 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
2332 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
2333 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
2334 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
2335 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
2336 error
2337 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
2338 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
2339 using GCC 8
2340 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
2341 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
2342 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
2343 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
2344 ppc64le
2345 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
2346 expected result
2347 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
2348 x32 (CVE-2019-6488)
2349 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
2350 sigaltstack
2351 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
2352 answers will be rejected)
2353 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
2354
2355 \f
2356 Version 2.28
2357
2358 Major new features:
2359
2360 * The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
2361 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
2362 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
2363 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
2364 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
2365 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
2366 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
2367 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
2368 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
2369 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
2370 archive or binary locales.
2371
2372 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for Intel CET, AKA
2373 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
2374 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
2375 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
2376 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
2377 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
2378 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
2379 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
2380 Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
2381 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
2382 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
2383 validated for i686.
2384
2385 * The GNU C Library now has correct support for ABSOLUTE symbols
2386 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
2387 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
2388 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
2389 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
2390 field) to indicate such support is required.
2391
2392 * Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2393 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
2394 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2395
2396 * <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
2397 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
2398
2399 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
2400 fMxaddfNx functions.
2401
2402 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
2403 fMxsubfNx functions.
2404
2405 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
2406 fMxmulfNx functions.
2407
2408 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
2409 fMxdivfNx functions.
2410
2411 * Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
2412 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
2413 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
2414 support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
2415 and Kashubian.
2416
2417 * Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
2418 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
2419
2420 * Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
2421 patches.
2422
2423 * The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
2424 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
2425 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
2426 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
2427 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
2428 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
2429 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
2430 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
2431
2432 * The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
2433 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
2434 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
2435 the fstatat64 function.
2436
2437 * IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
2438 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
2439 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
2440 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
2441 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
2442 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
2443 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
2444 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
2445 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
2446
2447 * Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
2448 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
2449 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
2450 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
2451 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
2452 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
2453 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
2454 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
2455 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
2456 results in a load failure now.
2457
2458 * Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The
2459 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
2460 <threads.h>:
2461
2462 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
2463 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
2464
2465 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
2466 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
2467
2468 - call_once for function call synchronization.
2469
2470 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
2471 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
2472
2473 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
2474
2475 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
2476
2477 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2478
2479 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
2480 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
2481 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
2482
2483 * The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
2484 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
2485 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
2486 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
2487 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
2488 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
2489
2490 * All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
2491 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
2492 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
2493 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
2494 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
2495 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
2496 (Bug #1190.)
2497
2498 * The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
2499 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
2500 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
2501 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
2502 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
2503 further explanation.
2504
2505 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
2506 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
2507 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
2508
2509 * The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
2510
2511 * The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
2512 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
2513 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
2514
2515 * The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
2516 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
2517 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
2518 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
2519
2520 * The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
2521 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
2522 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
2523 for this function instead.
2524
2525 * The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
2526 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
2527 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
2528
2529 * The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
2530 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
2531 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
2532 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
2533
2534 * The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
2535 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
2536 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
2537 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
2538 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
2539
2540 * The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
2541 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
2542 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
2543 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
2544 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
2545 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
2546 such as libgcrypt.
2547
2548 * Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
2549 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
2550 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
2551 enabled.
2552
2553 * The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
2554 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
2555 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
2556
2557 * We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
2558 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
2559 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
2560 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
2561 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
2562 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
2563
2564 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
2565 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
2566 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
2567 behavior in a future release.
2568
2569 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2570
2571 GNU make 4.0 or later is now required to build glibc.
2572
2573 Security related changes:
2574
2575 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
2576 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
2577 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
2578 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
2579
2580 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
2581 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
2582
2583 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
2584 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
2585 Izbyshev.
2586
2587 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
2588 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
2589 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
2590
2591 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2592
2593 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
2594 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
2595 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
2596 when __WORDSIZE != 64
2597 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
2598 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
2599 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
2600 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
2601 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
2602 14651
2603 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
2604 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
2605 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
2606 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
2607 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
2608 conversion is given
2609 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
2610 date
2611 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
2612 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
2613 scope with -O1 and higher
2614 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
2615 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
2616 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
2617 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
2618 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
2619 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
2620 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
2621 horrible machine code)
2622 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
2623 last constant.
2624 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
2625 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
2626 symbols
2627 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
2628 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
2629 defined
2630 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
2631 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
2632 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
2633 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
2634 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
2635 fpscr.c'
2636 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
2637 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
2638 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
2639 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
2640 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
2641 the base address
2642 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
2643 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
2644 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
2645 open_verify
2646 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
2647 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
2648 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
2649 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
2650 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
2651 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
2652 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
2653 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
2654 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
2655 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
2656 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
2657 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
2658 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
2659 dlopen
2660 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
2661 AT_SECURE=1
2662 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
2663 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
2664 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
2665 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
2666 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
2667 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
2668 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
2669 for Spanish with CLDR
2670 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
2671 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
2672 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
2673 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
2674 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
2675 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
2676 es_BO
2677 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
2678 CLOCKS_PER_SECOND
2679 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
2680 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
2681 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
2682 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
2683 dlopen failures
2684 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
2685 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
2686 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
2687 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
2688 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
2689 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
2690 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
2691 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
2692 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
2693 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
2694 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
2695 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
2696 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
2697 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
2698 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
2699 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
2700 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
2701 makecontext
2702 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
2703 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
2704 required
2705 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
2706 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
2707 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
2708 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
2709 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
2710 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
2711 disabled
2712 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
2713 failure
2714 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
2715 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
2716 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
2717 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
2718 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
2719 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
2720 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
2721 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
2722 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
2723 and libc build with -Os)
2724 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
2725 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
2726 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
2727 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
2728 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
2729 that changes /etc/passwd
2730 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
2731 (CVE-2018-11237)
2732 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
2733 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
2734 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
2735 posix/regcomp.c
2736 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
2737 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
2738 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
2739 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
2740 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
2741 AT_SECURE
2742 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
2743 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
2744 parser.c
2745 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
2746 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
2747 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
2748 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
2749 directed rounding
2750 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
2751 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
2752 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
2753 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
2754 lookup
2755 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
2756 interposition
2757 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
2758 DSO boundaries.
2759 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
2760 <linux/time.h>
2761 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
2762 checking
2763 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
2764 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
2765 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
2766 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
2767 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
2768 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
2769 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
2770 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
2771 processors
2772 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
2773
2774 \f
2775 Version 2.27
2776
2777 Major new features:
2778
2779 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
2780 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
2781 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
2782 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
2783 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
2784 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
2785 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
2786 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
2787 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
2788
2789 * Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
2790 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
2791 H.J. Lu from Intel.
2792
2793 * Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
2794
2795 * Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
2796
2797 * In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
2798 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
2799 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
2800 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
2801 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
2802 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
2803 from a security and performance perspective.
2804
2805 * The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
2806 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
2807 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
2808 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
2809
2810 * On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
2811 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
2812 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
2813 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
2814 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
2815
2816 * On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
2817 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
2818 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
2819 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
2820 _Float128.
2821
2822 * The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
2823 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
2824 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
2825
2826 * glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
2827
2828 * Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
2829 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
2830 pkey_get.
2831
2832 * The copy_file_range function was added.
2833
2834 * Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
2835
2836 * The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
2837 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
2838 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
2839
2840 * Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
2841 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
2842 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
2843 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
2844 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
2845 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
2846 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
2847
2848 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
2849 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
2850 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
2851 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
2852 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
2853 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
2854 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
2855
2856 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
2857 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
2858 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
2859 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
2860 respectively.
2861
2862 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
2863 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
2864 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
2865 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
2866
2867 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
2868 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
2869 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
2870
2871 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
2872 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
2873 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
2874
2875 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
2876 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
2877 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
2878
2879 - rv64imac lp64
2880 - rv64imafdc lp64
2881 - rv64imafdc lp64d
2882
2883 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2884
2885 * Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
2886 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
2887 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
2888 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
2889 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
2890 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
2891 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
2892 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
2893 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
2894 fix this.
2895
2896 * Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
2897 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
2898 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
2899
2900 * Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
2901 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
2902 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
2903 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
2904 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
2905 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
2906 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
2907 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
2908 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
2909 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
2910 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
2911 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
2912 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
2913 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
2914 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
2915 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
2916 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
2917 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
2918 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
2919 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
2920 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
2921 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
2922 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
2923 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
2924 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
2925 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
2926
2927 * On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
2928 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
2929
2930 * libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
2931 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
2932 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
2933 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
2934 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
2935 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
2936 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
2937
2938 * The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
2939 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
2940 exp10l for these functions instead.
2941
2942 * The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
2943 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
2944 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2945
2946 * The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
2947 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
2948 ignored.
2949
2950 * The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
2951 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
2952 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
2953 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
2954
2955 * The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
2956 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
2957
2958 * In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
2959 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
2960
2961 * The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
2962 programs.
2963
2964 * The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
2965
2966 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
2967 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
2968 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
2969 instead.
2970
2971 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
2972 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
2973 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
2974 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
2975 use, but predates the bits convention.
2976
2977 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2978
2979 * bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
2980 subdirectory.
2981
2982 Security related changes:
2983
2984 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
2985 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
2986 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
2987 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
2988 script.)
2989
2990 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
2991 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
2992 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
2993 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
2994
2995 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
2996 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
2997 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
2998 of service.
2999
3000 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
3001 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
3002 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
3003
3004 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
3005 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
3006 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
3007 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
3008
3009 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
3010 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
3011 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
3012 Qualys.
3013
3014 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
3015 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
3016 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
3017 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
3018 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
3019
3020 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
3021 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
3022 current directory.
3023
3024 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
3025 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
3026 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
3027
3028 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
3029 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
3030 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
3031
3032 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
3033 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
3034 small, instead of NULL.
3035
3036 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3037
3038 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
3039 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
3040 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
3041 locale
3042 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
3043 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
3044 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
3045 cases
3046 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
3047 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
3048 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
3049 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
3050 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
3051 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
3052 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
3053 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
3054 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
3055 "Bangla"
3056 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
3057 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
3058 width Latin characters
3059 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
3060 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
3061 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
3062 letters
3063 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
3064 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
3065 (CVE-2009-5064)
3066 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
3067 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
3068 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
3069 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
3070 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
3071 if malloc succeeded
3072 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
3073 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
3074 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
3075 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
3076 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
3077 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
3078 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
3079 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
3080 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
3081 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
3082 U+309A
3083 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
3084 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
3085 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
3086 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
3087 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
3088 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
3089 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
3090 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
3091 for Nicaragua
3092 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
3093 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
3094 are not found.
3095 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
3096 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
3097 access
3098 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
3099 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
3100 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
3101 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
3102 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
3103 __regcall calling convention
3104 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
3105 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
3106 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
3107 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
3108 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
3109 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
3110 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
3111 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
3112 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
3113 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
3114 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
3115 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
3116 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
3117 locale
3118 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
3119 protector=all
3120 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
3121 wcwidth
3122 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
3123 consistency check failures
3124 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
3125 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
3126 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
3127 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
3128 PIE
3129 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
3130 locales
3131 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
3132 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
3133 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
3134 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
3135 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
3136 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
3137 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
3138 on memory allocation failure
3139 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
3140 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
3141 the suspect)
3142 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
3143 default (i386)
3144 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
3145 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
3146 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
3147 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
3148 instead of EAI_NODATA
3149 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
3150 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
3151 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
3152 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
3153 implementation
3154 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
3155 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
3156 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
3157 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
3158 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
3159 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
3160 allocation in syscall loops)
3161 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
3162 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
3163 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
3164 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
3165 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
3166 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
3167 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
3168 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
3169 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
3170 occur with -O3
3171 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
3172 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
3173 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
3174 amounts)
3175 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
3176 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
3177 niu_NZ
3178 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
3179 checks
3180 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
3181 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
3182 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
3183 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
3184 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
3185 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
3186 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
3187 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
3188 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
3189 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
3190 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
3191 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
3192 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
3193 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
3194 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
3195 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
3196 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
3197 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
3198 parsing after OOM
3199 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
3200 object
3201 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
3202 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
3203 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
3204 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
3205 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
3206 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
3207 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf outputs a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
3208 ppc64le
3209 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
3210 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
3211 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
3212 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
3213 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
3214 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
3215 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
3216 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
3217 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
3218 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
3219 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
3220 math_force_eval
3221 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
3222 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
3223 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
3224 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
3225 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
3226 the svid compat wrapper
3227 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
3228 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
3229 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
3230 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
3231 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
3232 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
3233 --verbose.
3234 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
3235 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
3236 to 2.26
3237 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
3238 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
3239 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
3240 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
3241 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
3242 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
3243 (CVE-2017-15804)
3244 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
3245 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
3246 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
3247 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
3248 failure."
3249 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
3250 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
3251 -m32
3252 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
3253 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
3254 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
3255 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
3256 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
3257 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
3258 inside the ASCII printable range
3259 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
3260 -mlong-double-64
3261 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
3262 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
3263 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
3264 Internet
3265 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
3266 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
3267 backslash
3268 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
3269 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
3270 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
3271 heaps in an arena
3272 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
3273 networking interface
3274 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
3275 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
3276 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
3277 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
3278 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
3279 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
3280 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
3281 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
3282 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
3283 order
3284 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3285 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3286 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3287 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3288 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3289 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
3290 same as for Croatian
3291 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
3292 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
3293 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
3294 for initial thread"
3295 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
3296 SC_SSIZE_MAX
3297 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
3298 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
3299 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3300 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
3301 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
3302 (CVE-2017-1000408)
3303 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
3304 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
3305 modified in case of success
3306 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
3307 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
3308 success
3309 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
3310 stack-protector=all
3311 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
3312 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
3313 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
3314 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
3315 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
3316 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
3317 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
3318 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
3319 adding it on top
3320 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
3321 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
3322 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
3323 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
3324 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
3325 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
3326 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
3327 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
3328 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
3329 (CVE-2018-1000001)
3330 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
3331 elision and tunables
3332 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
3333 "invalid" exception
3334 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
3335 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
3336 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
3337 exception
3338 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3339 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
3340 power4
3341 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
3342 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
3343 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
3344 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
3345 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
3346 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
3347 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
3348 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
3349 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
3350
3351 \f
3352 Version 2.26
3353
3354 Major new features:
3355
3356 * A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
3357 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
3358 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
3359 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
3360 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
3361 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
3362 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
3363
3364 * Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
3365 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
3366 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
3367 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
3368 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
3369 are rendered with pango, see for example:
3370 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
3371
3372 * Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
3373 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
3374 Egmont Koblinger.
3375
3376 * Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
3377
3378 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
3379 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
3380 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
3381
3382 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
3383 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
3384 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
3385 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
3386 object are still limited to six search domains.
3387
3388 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
3389 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
3390 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
3391
3392 * The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
3393 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
3394
3395 * New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
3396 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
3397 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
3398 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
3399
3400 * New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
3401 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
3402 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
3403 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
3404
3405 * posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
3406 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
3407 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
3408 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
3409
3410 * errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
3411 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
3412 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
3413
3414 * On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
3415 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
3416 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
3417 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
3418
3419 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
3420 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
3421 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
3422 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
3423 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
3424
3425 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
3426 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
3427 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
3428 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
3429 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
3430 interfaces should be used instead.
3431
3432 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
3433
3434 * The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
3435 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
3436 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
3437 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
3438 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
3439 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
3440 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
3441 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
3442
3443 * The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
3444 removed.
3445
3446 * Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
3447 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
3448 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
3449 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
3450
3451 * The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
3452 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
3453 default.
3454
3455 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
3456 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
3457 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
3458 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
3459 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
3460
3461 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
3462 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
3463 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
3464 name service modules, to be built and installed.
3465
3466 * The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
3467 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
3468 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
3469 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
3470
3471 * res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
3472 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
3473
3474 * The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
3475 exported by accident.
3476
3477 * <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
3478 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
3479 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
3480
3481 * The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
3482 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
3483 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
3484 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
3485
3486 * The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
3487
3488 * The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
3489
3490 * The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
3491 free instead.
3492
3493 * The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
3494 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3495
3496 * The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
3497 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3498
3499 * On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
3500 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
3501 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
3502 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
3503 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
3504 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
3505 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
3506 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
3507
3508 * On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
3509 synced with the kernel:
3510
3511 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
3512 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
3513
3514 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
3515 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
3516 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
3517
3518 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
3519 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
3520
3521 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
3522
3523 * Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
3524 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
3525 x86-32 and x86-64.)
3526
3527 * GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
3528
3529 * On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
3530 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
3531
3532 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
3533 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
3534 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
3535 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
3536 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
3537
3538 Security related changes:
3539
3540 * The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
3541 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
3542
3543 * LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
3544 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
3545
3546 * Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
3547 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
3548 (CVE-2010-3192).
3549
3550 * A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
3551 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
3552
3553 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3554
3555 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
3556 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
3557 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
3558 fields
3559 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
3560 (CVE-2010-3192)
3561 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
3562 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
3563 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
3564 ld.bfd is available
3565 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
3566 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
3567 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
3568 x86 and other generic code
3569 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
3570 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
3571 incorrect
3572 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
3573 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
3574 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
3575 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
3576 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
3577 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
3578 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
3579 resolver
3580 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
3581 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
3582 order of 0D36 and 0D37
3583 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
3584 chillu characters
3585 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
3586 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
3587 receiving data
3588 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
3589 whitespace
3590 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
3591 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
3592 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
3593 for Peru
3594 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
3595 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
3596 failures consistently
3597 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
3598 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
3599 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
3600 frame-pointer on i386
3601 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
3602 register
3603 [21075] libc: unused assignment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
3604 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
3605 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
3606 generic c code is used
3607 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
3608 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
3609 around 4000
3610 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
3611 (CVE-2017-12133)
3612 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
3613 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
3614 with -lieee
3615 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
3616 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
3617 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
3618 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
3619 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
3620 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
3621 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
3622 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
3623 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
3624 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
3625 remove()
3626 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
3627 checked for errors.
3628 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
3629 new posix_spawn implementation
3630 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
3631 leads to lower CPU frequency
3632 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
3633 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
3634 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
3635 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
3636 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
3637 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
3638 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
3639 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
3640 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
3641 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
3642 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
3643 not support gethostbyname4_r
3644 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
3645 switching
3646 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
3647 arenas
3648 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
3649 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
3650 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
3651 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
3652 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
3653 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
3654 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
3655 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
3656 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
3657 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
3658 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
3659 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
3660 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
3661 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
3662 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
3663 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
3664 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
3665 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
3666 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
3667 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
3668 retry value
3669 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
3670 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
3671 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
3672 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
3673 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
3674 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
3675 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
3676 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
3677 [21537] libc:
3678 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
3679 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
3680 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
3681 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
3682 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
3683 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
3684 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
3685 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
3686 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
3687 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
3688 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
3689 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
3690 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
3691 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
3692 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
3693 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
3694 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
3695 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
3696 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
3697 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
3698 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
3699 issue on x86-64
3700 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
3701 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
3702 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
3703 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
3704 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
3705 construction
3706 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
3707 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
3708 between_2_3
3709 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
3710 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
3711 conditions
3712 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
3713 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
3714 Hindi Locale
3715 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
3716 posix/sched_cpucount.c
3717 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
3718 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
3719 locale
3720 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
3721 leading to relocation crash
3722 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
3723 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
3724 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
3725 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
3726 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
3727 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
3728 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
3729 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
3730 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
3731 locale
3732 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
3733 locale
3734 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
3735 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
3736 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
3737 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
3738 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
3739 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
3740 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
3741 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
3742 strings
3743 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
3744 protector=all
3745 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
3746 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
3747 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
3748 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
3749 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
3750 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
3751 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
3752 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
3753 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
3754 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
3755 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
3756 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
3757 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
3758 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
3759 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
3760 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
3761 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
3762 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
3763 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
3764 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
3765 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
3766 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
3767 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
3768 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
3769 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
3770 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
3771 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
3772 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
3773 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
3774 with unicode 9.0
3775 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
3776 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
3777 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
3778 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
3779 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
3780
3781 \f
3782 Version 2.25
3783
3784 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
3785 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
3786 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
3787 Library.
3788
3789 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
3790 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
3791 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
3792 the GNU C Library.
3793
3794 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
3795 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
3796 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
3797 the GNU C Library.
3798
3799 * The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
3800 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
3801 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
3802 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
3803 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
3804 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
3805 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
3806 will not.
3807
3808 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
3809 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
3810 many years.
3811
3812 * The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
3813 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
3814 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
3815
3816 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
3817 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
3818 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
3819 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
3820 problem.
3821
3822 * New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
3823 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
3824 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
3825
3826 * Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
3827 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
3828 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
3829 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
3830 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
3831 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
3832 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
3833 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
3834 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
3835 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
3836 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
3837 WINT_WIDTH.
3838
3839 * New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
3840
3841 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
3842
3843 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
3844 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
3845 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
3846
3847 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
3848 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
3849
3850 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
3851 fminmagf, fminmagl.
3852
3853 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
3854
3855 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
3856
3857 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
3858 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
3859
3860 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
3861
3862 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
3863 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
3864
3865 * The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
3866 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
3867
3868 * Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
3869 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
3870 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
3871
3872 * The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
3873 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
3874 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
3875 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
3876 effects of the memory clear).
3877
3878 * On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
3879 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
3880 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
3881 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
3882
3883 * On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
3884 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
3885 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
3886 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
3887 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
3888 if they are compiled or used with those options.
3889
3890 * The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
3891 have been added.
3892
3893 * The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
3894 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
3895 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
3896 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
3897 as large as several megabytes.
3898
3899 * The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
3900 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
3901 been removed.
3902
3903 * The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
3904 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
3905 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
3906 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
3907 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
3908 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
3909 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
3910
3911 * The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
3912 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
3913 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
3914 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
3915
3916 * The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
3917 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
3918 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
3919 Internet.
3920
3921 * The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
3922 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
3923 They were already unimplemented.
3924
3925 * The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
3926 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
3927 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
3928 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
3929
3930 * DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
3931 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
3932 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
3933 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
3934 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
3935
3936 * The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
3937 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
3938 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
3939 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
3940 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
3941
3942 * The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
3943 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
3944 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
3945 did not reflect that.
3946
3947 * For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
3948 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
3949 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
3950 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
3951 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
3952 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
3953 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
3954 'gcc/config.gcc'.
3955
3956 * GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
3957 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
3958 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
3959 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
3960
3961 * Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
3962 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
3963 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
3964 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
3965
3966 * A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
3967 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
3968 guarantees.
3969
3970 * A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
3971 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
3972 make state changes.
3973
3974 Security related changes:
3975
3976 * On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
3977 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
3978 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
3979 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
3980 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
3981
3982 * The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
3983 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
3984 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
3985 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
3986 (CVE-2015-5180)
3987
3988 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3989
3990 [4099] stdio: Overly aggressive caching by stream i/o functions.
3991 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
3992 protector-all
3993 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
3994 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
3995 before it started waiting
3996 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
3997 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
3998 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
3999 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
4000 wrong type
4001 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
4002 library linked with pthread
4003 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
4004 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
4005 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
4006 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
4007 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
4008 after being __libc_memalign()'d
4009 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
4010 when it shouldn't
4011 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
4012 not
4013 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
4014 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
4015 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
4016 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
4017 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
4018 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
4019 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
4020 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
4021 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
4022 termination
4023 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
4024 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
4025 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
4026 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
4027 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
4028 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
4029 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
4030 causes a segmentation fault
4031 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
4032 linking
4033 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
4034 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
4035 uninitialized GOT
4036 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
4037 versions
4038 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
4039 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
4040 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
4041 is always true.
4042 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
4043 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
4044 modes
4045 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
4046 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
4047 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
4048 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
4049 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
4050 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
4051 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
4052 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
4053 libpthread.a
4054 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
4055 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
4056 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
4057 _res_hconf
4058 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
4059 information.
4060 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
4061 penalty
4062 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
4063 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
4064 cause transition penalty
4065 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
4066 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
4067 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
4068 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
4069 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
4070 mcount.oS)
4071 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
4072 Checking
4073 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
4074 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
4075 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
4076 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
4077 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
4078 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
4079 multi-arch
4080 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
4081 (RES_USEBSTRING)
4082 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
4083 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
4084 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
4085 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
4086 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
4087 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
4088 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
4089 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
4090 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
4091 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
4092 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
4093 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
4094 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
4095 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
4096 glibc
4097 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
4098 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
4099 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
4100 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
4101 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
4102 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
4103 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
4104 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
4105 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
4106 U+20AC), not same as GBK
4107 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
4108 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
4109 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
4110 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
4111 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
4112 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
4113 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
4114 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
4115 RES_USE_INET6
4116 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
4117 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
4118 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
4119 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
4120 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
4121 wrong condition
4122 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
4123 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
4124 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
4125 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
4126 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
4127 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
4128 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
4129 clang
4130 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
4131 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
4132 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
4133 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
4134 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
4135 \f
4136 Version 2.24
4137
4138 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
4139 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
4140 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
4141 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
4142 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
4143 architectures.
4144
4145 * The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
4146 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
4147 been included in previous releases.
4148
4149 * The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
4150 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
4151
4152 * The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
4153 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
4154 instead of “union wait”.
4155
4156 * A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
4157 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
4158 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
4159 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
4160 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
4161 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
4162 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
4163
4164 * The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
4165 API.
4166
4167 * The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
4168 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
4169 drop it.
4170
4171 * nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
4172 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
4173 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
4174 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
4175 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
4176 extensions.
4177
4178 Security related changes:
4179
4180 * An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
4181 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
4182 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
4183
4184 * Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
4185 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
4186 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
4187 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
4188
4189 * The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
4190 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
4191 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
4192
4193 * The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
4194 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
4195 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
4196
4197 * The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
4198 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
4199 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
4200 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
4201
4202 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4203
4204 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
4205 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
4206 of MS-DOS.
4207 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
4208 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
4209 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
4210 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
4211 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
4212 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
4213 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
4214 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
4215 CLDR data
4216 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
4217 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
4218 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
4219 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
4220 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
4221 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
4222 romanisation
4223 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
4224 and +/-
4225 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
4226 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
4227 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
4228 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
4229 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
4230 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
4231 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
4232 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
4233 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
4234 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
4235 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
4236 all locales
4237 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
4238 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
4239 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
4240 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
4241 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
4242 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
4243 execute
4244 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
4245 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
4246 -Wsystem-headers
4247 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
4248 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
4249 Romanian locale data
4250 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
4251 symbol
4252 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
4253 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
4254 language
4255 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
4256 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
4257 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
4258 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
4259 machine
4260 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
4261 description
4262 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
4263 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
4264 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
4265 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
4266 when using RTLD_NEXT
4267 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
4268 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
4269 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
4270 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
4271 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
4272 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
4273 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
4274 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
4275 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
4276 Excavator core
4277 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4278 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4279 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4280 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
4281 double range
4282 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
4283 part zero incorrect
4284 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
4285 equality tests
4286 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
4287 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
4288 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
4289 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
4290 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
4291 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
4292 glibc-2.22
4293 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
4294 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
4295 'tst-numeric.c'
4296 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
4297 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
4298 low part
4299 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
4300 result
4301 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
4302 unaligned stack
4303 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
4304 pointers and lengths in error-case.
4305 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
4306 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
4307 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
4308 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
4309 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
4310 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
4311 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
4312 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
4313 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
4314 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
4315 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
4316 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
4317 modes
4318 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
4319 server addresses
4320 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
4321 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
4322 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
4323 response to getaddrinfo
4324 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
4325 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
4326 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
4327 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
4328 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
4329 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
4330 sometimes incorrect
4331 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
4332 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
4333 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
4334 record types
4335 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
4336 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
4337 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
4338 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
4339 (CVE-2016-3075)
4340 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
4341 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
4342 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
4343 resolving symbols
4344 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
4345 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
4346 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
4347 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
4348 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
4349 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
4350 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
4351 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
4352 gethosts
4353 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
4354 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
4355 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
4356 (CVE-2016-3706)
4357 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
4358 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
4359 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
4360 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
4361 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
4362 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
4363 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
4364 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
4365 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
4366 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
4367 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
4368 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
4369 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
4370 executable
4371 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
4372 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
4373 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
4374 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
4375 XPG3
4376 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
4377 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
4378 (CVE-2016-4429)
4379 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
4380 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
4381 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
4382 AS not supporting AVX512
4383 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
4384 sNaN argument
4385 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4386 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
4387 argument
4388 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
4389 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
4390 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
4391 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
4392 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
4393 eax=0x80000001
4394 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
4395 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
4396 subnormals
4397 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
4398 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
4399 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
4400 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4401 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4402 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
4403 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4404 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
4405 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
4406 input
4407 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4408 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4409 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4410 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4411 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4412 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4413 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4414 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
4415 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
4416 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
4417 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
4418 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
4419 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
4420 double rounding
4421 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
4422 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
4423 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
4424 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
4425 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
4426 (Only arm/linux)
4427 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
4428 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
4429 fallbacks
4430 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
4431 "invalid" exceptions
4432 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
4433 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
4434 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
4435 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
4436 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
4437 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
4438 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
4439 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
4440 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
4441 \f
4442 Version 2.23
4443
4444 * Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
4445 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
4446 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
4447 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
4448 89, 16061, and 18568.
4449
4450 * sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
4451 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
4452 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
4453 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
4454 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
4455 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
4456 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
4457
4458 * The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
4459 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
4460 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
4461
4462 * getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
4463 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
4464 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
4465 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
4466 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
4467 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
4468 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
4469
4470 * A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
4471 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
4472 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
4473 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
4474 the concurrent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
4475 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
4476 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
4477 Ericsson.)
4478
4479 * There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
4480 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
4481 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
4482 independent of the GNU C Library.
4483
4484 * The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
4485 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
4486
4487 * The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
4488 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
4489 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
4490 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
4491 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
4492 Linux kernel.
4493
4494 * Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
4495 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
4496
4497 * Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
4498 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
4499 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
4500 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
4501 defining their own copy.
4502
4503 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
4504 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
4505 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
4506
4507 Security related changes:
4508
4509 * An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
4510 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
4511
4512 * The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
4513 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
4514 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
4515 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
4516 (CVE-2015-8777)
4517
4518 * An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
4519 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
4520
4521 * The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
4522 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
4523
4524 * The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
4525 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
4526 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
4527
4528 * A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
4529 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
4530 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
4531 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
4532 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
4533 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
4534 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
4535 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
4536 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
4537 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
4538 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
4539 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
4540 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
4541
4542 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4543
4544 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
4545 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
4546 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
4547 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
4548 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
4549 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
4550 use `mkstemp'
4551 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
4552 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doesn't set errno on
4553 overflow/underflow errors
4554 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
4555 overflow/underflow
4556 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
4557 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
4558 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
4559 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
4560 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
4561 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
4562 are not contiguous
4563 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
4564 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
4565 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
4566 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
4567 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
4568 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
4569 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
4570 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
4571 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
4572 all exceptions
4573 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
4574 arguments
4575 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
4576 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
4577 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
4578 should include
4579 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
4580 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
4581 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
4582 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
4583 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
4584 GNU/Linux
4585 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
4586 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
4587 arguments
4588 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
4589 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
4590 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
4591 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
4592 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
4593 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
4594 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
4595 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
4596 rounding results
4597 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
4598 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
4599 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
4600 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
4601 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
4602 fails
4603 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
4604 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
4605 block boundary
4606 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
4607 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
4608 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
4609 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
4610 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
4611 4.7?
4612 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
4613 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
4614 (related to lock elision)
4615 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
4616 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
4617 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
4618 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
4619 (CVE-2015-8779)
4620 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
4621 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
4622 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
4623 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
4624 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
4625 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
4626 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
4627 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
4628 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
4629 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
4630 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
4631 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
4632 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
4633 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
4634 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
4635 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
4636 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
4637 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
4638 contains a vector instruction exception.
4639 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
4640 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
4641 locales
4642 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
4643 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
4644 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
4645 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
4646 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
4647 missing break ?
4648 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
4649 32bit processes
4650 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
4651 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
4652 infinity
4653 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
4654 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
4655 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
4656 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
4657 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
4658 be forced unloaded
4659 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
4660 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
4661 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
4662 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
4663 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
4664 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
4665 statically too large
4666 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
4667 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
4668 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
4669 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
4670 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
4671 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
4672 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
4673 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
4674 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
4675 FUTEX_SHARED
4676 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
4677 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
4678 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
4679 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
4680 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
4681 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
4682 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
4683 opendir()
4684 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
4685 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
4686 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
4687 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
4688 signgam
4689 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
4690 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
4691 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
4692 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
4693 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
4694 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
4695 dependencies
4696 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
4697 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
4698 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
4699 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
4700 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
4701 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
4702 (CVE-2015-8776)
4703 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
4704 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
4705 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
4706 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
4707 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
4708 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4709 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
4710 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
4711 contention
4712 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
4713 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
4714 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
4715 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4716 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
4717 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
4718 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
4719 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
4720 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
4721 rounding modes
4722 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
4723 ILP32
4724 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
4725 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
4726 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
4727 threshold
4728 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
4729 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
4730 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
4731 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assembler
4732 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
4733 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
4734 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
4735 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
4736 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
4737 pthread_setaffinity_np
4738 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
4739 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
4740 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
4741 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
4742 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
4743 prelink
4744 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
4745 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
4746 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
4747 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
4748 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4749 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
4750 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
4751 bits/mathcalls.h
4752 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
4753 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
4754 for C99-based standards
4755 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
4756 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
4757 math-only
4758 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
4759 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
4760 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
4761 disabled
4762 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
4763 "inexact" exceptions
4764 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
4765 arguments
4766 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
4767 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
4768 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
4769 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
4770 rules
4771 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
4772 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
4773 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
4774 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
4775 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
4776 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
4777 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
4778 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
4779 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
4780 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
4781 from 32bit
4782 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
4783 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
4784 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
4785 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
4786 subnormals
4787 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
4788 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
4789 error on 32-bit architectures
4790 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
4791 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
4792 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
4793 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
4794 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
4795 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
4796 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
4797 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
4798 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
4799 -Os
4800 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
4801 CPU's.
4802 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
4803 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
4804 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
4805 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
4806 architectures
4807 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
4808 \f
4809 Version 2.22
4810
4811 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4812
4813 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
4814 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
4815 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
4816 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
4817 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
4818 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
4819 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
4820 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
4821 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
4822 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
4823 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
4824 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
4825 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
4826 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
4827 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
4828 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
4829 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
4830 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
4831 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
4832 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
4833
4834 * Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
4835 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
4836
4837 * A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
4838 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
4839 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
4840 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
4841 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
4842 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4843
4844 * The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
4845 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
4846 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
4847 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
4848 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
4849
4850 * A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
4851 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
4852 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
4853
4854 * Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
4855 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
4856 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
4857 17998.
4858
4859 * CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
4860 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
4861 condition in some applications.
4862
4863 * Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
4864 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
4865 pow, powf.
4866 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
4867 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
4868 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
4869 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
4870 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
4871
4872 * A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
4873 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
4874 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
4875 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
4876
4877 * The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
4878 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
4879 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
4880
4881 * Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
4882 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
4883
4884 * The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
4885 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
4886 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
4887
4888 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
4889 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
4890 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
4891 \f
4892 Version 2.21
4893
4894 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4895
4896 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
4897 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
4898 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
4899 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
4900 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
4901 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
4902 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
4903 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
4904 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
4905 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
4906 17892.
4907
4908 * CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
4909 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
4910 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
4911 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
4912 intended.
4913
4914 * A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
4915 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
4916 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
4917 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
4918 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
4919 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
4920
4921 * Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
4922
4923 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
4924 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
4925 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
4926
4927 * Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
4928 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
4929 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
4930 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
4931 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
4932 effects being visible outside transactions.
4933
4934 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
4935 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
4936
4937 * i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
4938
4939 * CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
4940 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
4941 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
4942 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
4943 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
4944
4945 * CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
4946 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
4947
4948 * CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
4949 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
4950 format.
4951
4952 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
4953 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
4954 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
4955
4956 * The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
4957 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
4958
4959 * New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
4960
4961 * The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
4962 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
4963 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
4964 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
4965
4966 * Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
4967 with newer versions of bison.
4968
4969 * Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
4970 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
4971 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
4972 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
4973 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
4974 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
4975 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
4976 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
4977 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
4978 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
4979 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
4980 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
4981 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
4982
4983 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
4984 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
4985 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
4986 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
4987 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
4988 \f
4989 Version 2.20
4990
4991 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4992
4993 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
4994 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
4995 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
4996 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
4997 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
4998 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
4999 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
5000 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
5001 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
5002 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
5003 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
5004 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
5005 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
5006 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
5007 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
5008
5009 * Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
5010 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
5011 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
5012 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
5013 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
5014 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
5015 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
5016 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
5017 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
5018 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
5019
5020 * Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
5021 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
5022 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
5023 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
5024 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
5025
5026 * Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5027
5028 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
5029 can be used with is 2.6.32.
5030
5031 * Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
5032 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
5033 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
5034 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
5035 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
5036 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
5037
5038 * The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
5039 from ports.
5040
5041 * The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
5042 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
5043 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
5044 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
5045 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
5046 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
5047 test macros defined.
5048
5049 * Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5050
5051 * Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
5052 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
5053 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
5054 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
5055 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
5056 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
5057 is not built.
5058
5059 * CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
5060 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
5061 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
5062 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
5063 invocation.
5064
5065 * All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
5066 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
5067 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
5068
5069 * The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
5070 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
5071 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
5072 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
5073
5074 * Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
5075 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
5076 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
5077 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
5078 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
5079 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
5080 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
5081 additional checks.
5082
5083 * On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
5084 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
5085 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
5086 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
5087 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
5088 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
5089 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
5090 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
5091 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
5092
5093 * Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
5094 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
5095 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
5096 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
5097 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
5098 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
5099
5100 * Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
5101 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
5102 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
5103 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
5104 \f
5105 Version 2.19
5106
5107 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5108
5109 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
5110 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
5111 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
5112 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
5113 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
5114 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
5115 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
5116 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
5117 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
5118 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
5119 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
5120 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
5121 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
5122 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
5123 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
5124 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
5125 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
5126 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
5127
5128 * Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
5129 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
5130
5131 * The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
5132 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
5133 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
5134 extension which uses __block.
5135
5136 * CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
5137 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
5138 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
5139 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
5140 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
5141
5142 * CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
5143 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
5144 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
5145 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
5146 if malloc fails.
5147
5148 * CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
5149 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
5150 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
5151 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
5152 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
5153
5154 * CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
5155 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
5156 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
5157
5158 * CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
5159 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
5160 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
5161 #15856, #15857).
5162
5163 * CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
5164 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
5165
5166 * New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
5167 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
5168
5169 * Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
5170
5171 * The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
5172 supported locales.
5173
5174 * ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
5175
5176 * ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
5177
5178 * The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
5179 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
5180 for which the C library was built.
5181
5182 * Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
5183 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
5184 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
5185 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
5186 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
5187 in the following circumstances:
5188
5189 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
5190
5191 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
5192 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
5193
5194 * The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
5195 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
5196
5197 * ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
5198 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
5199
5200 * SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
5201
5202 * SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
5203 transcendental functions have been introduced.
5204
5205 * Support for powerpc64le has been added.
5206
5207 * The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
5208
5209 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
5210
5211 * A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
5212 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
5213 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
5214 disable some of those declarations.
5215
5216 * The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
5217 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
5218 that did nothing) has also been removed.
5219
5220 * Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
5221 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
5222
5223 * Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
5224 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
5225 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
5226 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
5227 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
5228 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
5229 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
5230 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
5231 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
5232 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
5233 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
5234 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
5235 require recompilation.
5236 \f
5237 Version 2.18
5238
5239 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5240
5241 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
5242 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
5243 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
5244 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
5245 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
5246 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
5247 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
5248 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
5249 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
5250 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
5251 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
5252 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
5253 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
5254 15755, 15759.
5255
5256 * CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
5257 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
5258 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
5259 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
5260 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
5261 understands and accepts the risks.
5262
5263 * CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
5264 #15078).
5265
5266 * CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
5267 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
5268
5269 * Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
5270 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
5271 destructor calls to glibc.
5272
5273 * Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
5274 output.
5275
5276 * Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
5277 non-x86 architectures.
5278
5279 * Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
5280
5281 * Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
5282
5283 * Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
5284 Richard Henderson.
5285
5286 * Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
5287
5288 * Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
5289 Richard Henderson.
5290
5291 * Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
5292 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
5293
5294 * Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
5295
5296 * New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
5297 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
5298
5299 * On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
5300 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
5301
5302 * Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
5303 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
5304 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
5305
5306 * Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
5307 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
5308 attributes of a process.
5309
5310 * Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
5311 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
5312 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
5313 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
5314 mutexes.
5315
5316 * Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
5317 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
5318
5319 * Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
5320 \f
5321 Version 2.17
5322
5323 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5324
5325 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
5326 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
5327 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
5328 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
5329 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
5330 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
5331 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
5332 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
5333 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
5334 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
5335 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
5336 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
5337 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
5338 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
5339 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
5340
5341 * Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
5342
5343 * CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
5344 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
5345
5346 * The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
5347 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
5348
5349 * Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
5350
5351 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
5352 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
5353 zEnterprise z196.
5354 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
5355
5356 * The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
5357 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
5358 the internal function __secure_getenv.
5359
5360 * SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
5361 Implemented by Gary Benson.
5362
5363 * Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
5364 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
5365
5366 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
5367 can be used with is 2.6.16.
5368
5369 * Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
5370 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
5371
5372 * New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
5373 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
5374 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
5375 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
5376
5377 * Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
5378 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
5379
5380 * Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
5381 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
5382 default.
5383
5384 * New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
5385 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
5386 information in --help and --version output.
5387
5388 * The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
5389 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
5390 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
5391
5392 * The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
5393 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
5394 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
5395 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
5396 when the mode is enabled.
5397
5398 * The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
5399 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
5400 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
5401 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
5402 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
5403 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
5404 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5405
5406 * New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
5407 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
5408 \f
5409 Version 2.16
5410
5411 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5412
5413 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
5414 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
5415 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
5416 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
5417 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
5418 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
5419 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
5420 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
5421 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
5422 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
5423 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
5424 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
5425 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
5426 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
5427 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
5428 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
5429 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
5430 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
5431 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
5432 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
5433 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
5434 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
5435 14277, 14278.
5436
5437 * Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
5438 configuring glibc with:
5439 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
5440 Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
5441 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5442
5443 * ISO C11 support:
5444
5445 + define static_assert
5446
5447 + do not declare gets
5448
5449 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
5450
5451 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
5452 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
5453 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
5454 implementation.
5455
5456 + timespec_get added
5457
5458 + uchar.h support added
5459
5460 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
5461
5462 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5463
5464 * Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
5465
5466 * Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
5467
5468 * Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
5469 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5470
5471 * More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
5472 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5473
5474 * New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
5475 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
5476 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
5477 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
5478 existing applications.
5479
5480 * Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
5481 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
5482 before 2.6.
5483
5484 * New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
5485 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
5486 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
5487
5488 * New locales: mag_IN
5489
5490 * New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
5491 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
5492 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
5493 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
5494 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
5495
5496 * Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5497
5498 * More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
5499 and Will Schmidt.
5500
5501 * More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
5502
5503 * Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
5504 without a previously built glibc.
5505
5506 * Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
5507 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
5508
5509 * Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
5510 now supported for ARM processors.
5511
5512 * The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
5513 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
5514 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
5515
5516 * Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
5517
5518 * A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
5519 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
5520 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
5521 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
5522
5523 * ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
5524 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
5525 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
5526 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5527
5528 * Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
5529 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
5530 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
5531 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
5532 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
5533
5534 * Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
5535 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
5536 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
5537 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
5538 \f
5539 Version 2.15
5540
5541 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5542
5543 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
5544 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
5545 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
5546 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
5547 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
5548 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
5549 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
5550
5551 * New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
5552 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5553
5554 * Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
5555 and support for initgroups lookups.
5556 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5557
5558 * Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
5559 Contributed by HJ Lu.
5560
5561 * Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
5562 Contributed by HJ Lu.
5563
5564 * Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
5565 on x86-32 and x86-64.
5566 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5567
5568 * Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
5569 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5570
5571 * Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
5572 for x86-64 and x86-32.
5573 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5574
5575 * New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
5576 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5577
5578 * Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
5579 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5580
5581 * nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
5582 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5583
5584 * Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
5585 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5586
5587 * Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
5588 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5589
5590 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
5591 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5592
5593 * New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
5594
5595 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
5596 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5597
5598 * Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
5599 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
5600
5601 * New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
5602 \f
5603 Version 2.14
5604
5605 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5606
5607 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
5608 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
5609 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
5610 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
5611 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
5612 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
5613 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
5614 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
5615 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
5616 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
5617
5618 * The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
5619 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
5620 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
5621 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
5622
5623 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
5624 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
5625 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
5626 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5627
5628 * New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
5629 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
5630
5631 * New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
5632 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
5633
5634 * New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
5635
5636 * New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
5637 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5638
5639 * The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
5640 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
5641 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
5642 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
5643 \f
5644 Version 2.13
5645
5646 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5647
5648 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
5649 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
5650 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
5651 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
5652 12378, 12394, 12397
5653
5654 * New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
5655
5656 * POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
5657
5658 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
5659 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
5660 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5661 \f
5662 Version 2.12
5663
5664 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5665
5666 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
5667 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
5668 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
5669 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
5670 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
5671 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
5672 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5673 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
5674
5675 * New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
5676
5677 * New Linux interface: recvmmsg
5678
5679 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
5680
5681 * The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
5682 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
5683 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5684
5685 * New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
5686 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
5687 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
5688 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
5689 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5690
5691 * New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
5692 \f
5693 Version 2.11
5694
5695 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5696
5697 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
5698 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
5699 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
5700 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
5701 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
5702 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
5703
5704 * New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
5705 mkostemps64
5706 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5707
5708 * Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
5709 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5710
5711 * STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
5712 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5713
5714 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
5715
5716 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
5717 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
5718 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
5719 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5720
5721 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
5722 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5723
5724 * New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
5725 strstr, strcasestr.
5726 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5727
5728 * Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
5729 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
5730
5731 * AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
5732 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5733
5734 * STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
5735 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5736
5737 * Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
5738 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
5739 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
5740 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
5741 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
5742 necessity is every process again.
5743 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5744
5745 * New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
5746 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
5747
5748 * Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
5749 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
5750
5751 * Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
5752 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
5753 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5754
5755 * New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
5756 \f
5757 Version 2.10
5758
5759 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5760
5761 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
5762 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
5763 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
5764 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
5765 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
5766
5767 * New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
5768 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5769
5770 * New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
5771 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5772
5773 * Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
5774 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
5775
5776 * XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
5777 now in POSIX.
5778
5779 * New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
5780 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5781
5782 * New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
5783 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5784
5785 * Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
5786 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5787
5788 * The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
5789 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5790
5791 * The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
5792 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
5793 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5794
5795 * New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
5796
5797 * Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
5798 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5799
5800 * Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
5801 and extend existing format specifiers.
5802 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5803
5804 * Handling for group shadow files has been added.
5805 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5806
5807 * DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
5808 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
5809 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
5810 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
5811 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
5812 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5813 \f
5814 Version 2.9
5815
5816 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5817
5818 2447, 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447,
5819 6461, 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712,
5820 6713, 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839,
5821 6843, 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955,
5822 6966, 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
5823
5824 * Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
5825 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5826
5827 * TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
5828 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
5829
5830 * getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
5831 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5832
5833 * New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
5834 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
5835 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5836
5837 * New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
5838 Implemented by Eric Blake.
5839
5840 * New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
5841
5842 * Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
5843 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5844
5845 * Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
5846 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
5847 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
5848 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5849
5850 * Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
5851 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5852
5853 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
5854 Sinhala)
5855 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
5856
5857 * New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
5858 \f
5859 Version 2.8
5860
5861 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5862
5863 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
5864 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
5865 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
5866 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
5867 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
5868 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
5869 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
5870
5871 * New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
5872
5873 * New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
5874
5875 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
5876 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
5877
5878 * IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
5879
5880 * nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
5881 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5882
5883 * nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
5884 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5885
5886 * More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
5887 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
5888 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5889
5890 * Faster memset for x86-64.
5891 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
5892
5893 * Faster memcpy on x86.
5894 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5895
5896 * ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
5897 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5898
5899 * Faster sqrt and sqrtf implementation for some PPC variants.
5900 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
5901 \f
5902 Version 2.7
5903
5904 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5905
5906 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
5907 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
5908 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
5909 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
5910 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
5911
5912 * More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
5913 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5914
5915 * Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5916
5917 * Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
5918 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
5919 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5920
5921 * PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
5922 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
5923
5924 * New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
5925 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5926
5927 * More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5928
5929 * New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
5930 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5931
5932 * Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
5933 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5934
5935 * Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
5936 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
5937
5938 * Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5939
5940 * SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
5941 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5942
5943 * New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
5944 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
5945 yo_NG.
5946
5947 + New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
5948 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5949 \f
5950 Version 2.6
5951
5952 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5953
5954 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
5955 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
5956 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
5957 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
5958 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
5959 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
5960 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
5961 4702, 4858
5962
5963 * New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
5964
5965 * New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
5966
5967 * nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5968 \f
5969 Version 2.5
5970
5971 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5972
5973 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
5974 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
5975 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
5976 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
5977 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
5978 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
5979 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
5980 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
5981 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
5982
5983 * For Linux, the sorting of addresses returned by getaddrinfo now also
5984 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
5985 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5986
5987 * Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
5988 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5989
5990 * New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
5991
5992 * New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
5993
5994 * For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
5995 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
5996 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
5997 site might have problems with the default behavior.
5998 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5999
6000 * Iterating over entire database in NIS can be slow. With the
6001 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
6002 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
6003 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6004
6005 * The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
6006 Ulrich Drepper.
6007
6008 * Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
6009
6010 * Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
6011 Ulrich Drepper.
6012
6013 * Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
6014
6015 * New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
6016 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
6017 \f
6018 Version 2.4
6019
6020 * More overflow detection functions.
6021
6022 * New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
6023 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
6024
6025 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
6026 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
6027 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
6028 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
6029 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
6030 by Masahide Washizawa.
6031
6032 * It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
6033 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6034
6035 * The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
6036 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
6037 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
6038 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
6039
6040 * The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
6041 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
6042
6043 * The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
6044
6045 * New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
6046 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
6047 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
6048
6049 * New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
6050 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
6051
6052 * The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
6053 for compatibility with some other systems.
6054
6055 * Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
6056 \f
6057 Version 2.3.6
6058
6059 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6060
6061 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
6062 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
6063 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
6064 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
6065 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
6066 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
6067
6068 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
6069
6070 * As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
6071
6072 * Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
6073 \f
6074 Version 2.3.5
6075
6076 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6077
6078 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
6079 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
6080 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
6081 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
6082
6083 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
6084 \f
6085 Version 2.3.4
6086
6087 * Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
6088 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6089
6090 * nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
6091 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
6092 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6093
6094 * nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
6095 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
6096
6097 * getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
6098 efficiently.
6099 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6100
6101 * The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
6102 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
6103 handling data.
6104
6105 * The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
6106 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
6107 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6108
6109 * Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
6110 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6111
6112 * Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
6113 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
6114 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
6115 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6116
6117 * Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
6118 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
6119 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
6120 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
6121
6122 * Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
6123 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
6124 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
6125 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
6126 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
6127 \f
6128 Version 2.3.3
6129
6130 * New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
6131 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
6132
6133 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
6134 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
6135
6136 * getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
6137 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
6138
6139 * getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
6140 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6141
6142 * support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
6143 by Roland McGrath.
6144
6145 * regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
6146 and Ulrich Drepper.
6147
6148 * getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
6149 RFC 3484.
6150 \f
6151 Version 2.3.2
6152
6153 * Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
6154 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
6155 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
6156 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
6157 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
6158 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
6159 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
6160 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
6161 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
6162
6163 * The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
6164 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
6165 and are now also available on the Hurd.
6166
6167 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
6168
6169 * The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
6170 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
6171
6172 * Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
6173 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
6174
6175 * fexecve is implemented on Linux.
6176
6177 * The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
6178 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
6179
6180 * With appropriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
6181 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
6182 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
6183 of weak definition in ld.so.
6184
6185 * Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
6186 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
6187
6188 * Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
6189 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
6190 \f
6191 Version 2.3
6192
6193 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
6194 charsets.
6195
6196 * iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
6197 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
6198
6199 * localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
6200 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
6201
6202 * Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
6203 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
6204
6205 * Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
6206 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
6207 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6208
6209 * The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
6210 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
6211
6212 * Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
6213 implementation of regex.
6214
6215 * Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
6216 Unicode 3.2.
6217
6218 * Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
6219 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
6220
6221 * The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
6222 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
6223 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
6224
6225 * Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
6226 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
6227
6228 * New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
6229 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
6230 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
6231
6232 * Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
6233 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
6234
6235 * Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
6236 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
6237 and Ulrich Drepper.
6238
6239 * Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
6240 \f
6241 Version 2.2.6
6242
6243 * The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
6244 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
6245
6246 * The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
6247 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
6248 \f
6249 Version 2.2.5
6250
6251 * Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
6252 128-bit long double format.
6253
6254 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
6255 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
6256
6257 * Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
6258
6259 * Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
6260
6261 * libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
6262 as well.
6263
6264 * optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
6265 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
6266
6267 * Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
6268 \f
6269 Version 2.2.4
6270
6271 * Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
6272 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
6273
6274 * Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
6275 support Unicode 3.1.
6276
6277 * Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
6278 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
6279
6280 * Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
6281
6282 * Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
6283 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
6284 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6285
6286 * The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
6287 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
6288
6289 * The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
6290 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
6291
6292 * mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
6293 \f
6294 Version 2.2.3
6295
6296 * Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
6297 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
6298 in float, double, and long double format.
6299
6300 * Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
6301 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
6302 128-bit long double format.
6303
6304 * The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
6305 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
6306 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
6307 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
6308
6309 * An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
6310 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
6311 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6312
6313 * Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
6314 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
6315
6316 * David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
6317 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
6318
6319 * The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
6320 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
6321 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
6322
6323 * Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
6324 family of functions for Linux/S390.
6325
6326 * Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
6327 of functions for Linux/x86.
6328
6329 * Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
6330 \f
6331 Version 2.2.2
6332
6333 * Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
6334 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
6335 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
6336 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
6337 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
6338 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
6339 other headers.
6340
6341 * regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
6342 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
6343
6344 * iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
6345 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
6346 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
6347 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6348
6349 * The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
6350 locales. While
6351
6352 locale -a
6353
6354 only lists the names of the supported locales
6355
6356 locale -a --verbose
6357
6358 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
6359 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6360 \f
6361 Version 2.2.1
6362
6363 * The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
6364 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
6365 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
6366 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
6367 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
6368
6369 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
6370
6371 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
6372
6373 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
6374
6375 * New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
6376 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
6377 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
6378
6379 * Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
6380 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
6381
6382 * The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
6383 changed from the default "C" locale.
6384
6385 * The usual bug fixes.
6386 \f
6387 Version 2.2
6388
6389 * Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
6390 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
6391 is in progress.
6392
6393 * Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
6394
6395 * The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
6396
6397 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
6398 obviously requires a database library being available.
6399
6400 * Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6401
6402 * Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
6403
6404 * Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
6405 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
6406
6407 * ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
6408
6409 * The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
6410 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
6411 and Mark Kettenis.
6412
6413 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
6414 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
6415 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
6416
6417 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
6418 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
6419
6420 * Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
6421 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
6422 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
6423
6424 * Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
6425 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
6426 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
6427 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6428
6429 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
6430 structures for the wide character tables.
6431
6432 * Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6433
6434 * The utmp daemon has been removed.
6435
6436 * The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
6437
6438 * A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
6439 and Yutaka Niibe.
6440
6441 * POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
6442
6443 * POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
6444
6445 * POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6446
6447 * POSIX spinlocks are now available.
6448
6449 * Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
6450
6451 * the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
6452 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
6453 implemented for Linux.
6454
6455 * the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
6456 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
6457 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
6458 versions.
6459
6460 * various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
6461 Masahide Washizawa.
6462
6463 * IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
6464 \f
6465 Version 2.1.3
6466
6467 * bug fixes
6468
6469 \f
6470 Version 2.1.2
6471
6472 * bug fixes
6473
6474 \f
6475 Version 2.1.1
6476
6477 * New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
6478
6479 * New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
6480
6481 * Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
6482
6483 * Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
6484
6485 * New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
6486
6487 * Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
6488
6489 * Update timezone data files.
6490
6491 * lots of charmaps corrections
6492
6493 * some new locale definitions and charmaps
6494
6495 \f
6496 Version 2.1
6497
6498 * Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
6499 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
6500 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
6501 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
6502 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
6503 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
6504
6505 * An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
6506 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6507
6508 * Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
6509 symbol level.
6510
6511 * Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierarchical
6512 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
6513
6514 * strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
6515
6516 * printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
6517 numbers.
6518
6519 * scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
6520
6521 * the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
6522 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
6523
6524 * about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
6525 library.
6526
6527 * the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
6528 functions from ISO C 9X.
6529
6530 * the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
6531 real valued functions.
6532
6533 * Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
6534
6535 * Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
6536
6537 * Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
6538
6539 * Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
6540
6541 * Optimized string functions have been added.
6542
6543 * The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
6544
6545 * An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
6546
6547 * Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
6548 daemon for NSS (nscd).
6549
6550 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
6551 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
6552
6553 user system wall
6554
6555 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
6556
6557 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
6558
6559 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
6560
6561 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
6562
6563 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
6564
6565 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
6566
6567 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
6568 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
6569 horribly slow.
6570
6571 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
6572 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
6573
6574 * Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
6575
6576 * Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
6577
6578 * The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
6579 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
6580
6581 * rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
6582
6583 * A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
6584 Bambrough.
6585
6586 * Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
6587 latest draft standards.
6588
6589 * Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
6590
6591 * Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
6592 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
6593 addseverity NEW: Unix98
6594 alphasort64 NEW: LFS
6595 argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
6596 argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
6597 argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
6598 argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
6599 argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
6600 argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
6601 argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
6602 argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
6603 argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
6604 argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
6605 authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
6606 authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
6607 authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
6608 backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
6609 backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
6610 backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
6611 cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
6612 cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
6613 cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
6614 cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
6615 cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
6616 cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
6617 capget NEW: kernel
6618 capset NEW: kernel
6619 carg NEW: ISO C 9x
6620 cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
6621 cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
6622 casin NEW: ISO C 9x
6623 casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
6624 casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
6625 casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6626 casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6627 casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
6628 catan NEW: ISO C 9x
6629 catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6630 catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
6631 catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6632 catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6633 catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
6634 cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
6635 ccos NEW: ISO C 9x
6636 ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
6637 ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
6638 ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
6639 ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
6640 ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
6641 cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
6642 cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
6643 cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
6644 cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
6645 cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
6646 cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
6647 clearerr_locked REMOVED
6648 clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
6649 clog NEW: ISO C 9x
6650 clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
6651 clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
6652 clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
6653 clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
6654 clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
6655 conj NEW: ISO C 9x
6656 conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
6657 conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
6658 cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
6659 cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
6660 cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
6661 cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
6662 cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
6663 cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
6664 creal NEW: ISO C 9x
6665 crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
6666 creall NEW: ISO C 9x
6667 creat64 NEW: LFS
6668 csin NEW: ISO C 9x
6669 csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
6670 csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
6671 csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6672 csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6673 csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
6674 csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
6675 csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
6676 csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
6677 ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
6678 ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6679 ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
6680 ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6681 ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6682 ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
6683 des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
6684 ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
6685 endutxent NEW: Unix98
6686 exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x
6687 exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
6688 exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
6689 exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
6690 exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
6691 exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
6692 fattach NEW: STREAMS
6693 fdetach NEW: STREAMS
6694 fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
6695 fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
6696 fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
6697 feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6698 fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6699 fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
6700 fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
6701 feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6702 feof_locked REMOVED
6703 feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6704 ferror_locked REMOVED
6705 fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6706 fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
6707 fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
6708 fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6709 feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6710 fflush_locked REMOVED
6711 ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
6712 ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
6713 fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
6714 fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6715 fileno_locked REMOVED
6716 fma NEW: ISO C 9x
6717 fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
6718 fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
6719 fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
6720 fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
6721 fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
6722 fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
6723 fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
6724 fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
6725 fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
6726 fopen64 NEW: LFS
6727 fputc_locked REMOVED
6728 fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6729 fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6730 freopen64 NEW: LFS
6731 fseeko NEW: Unix98
6732 fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
6733 fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
6734 fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
6735 fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
6736 ftello NEW: Unix98
6737 ftello64 NEW: LFS
6738 ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
6739 ftw64 NEW: LFS
6740 fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6741 gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
6742 gamma_r REMOVED
6743 gammaf_r REMOVED
6744 gammal_r REMOVED
6745 getchar_locked REMOVED
6746 getdate NEW: Unix98
6747 getdate_err NEW: Unix98
6748 getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
6749 getmsg NEW: STREAMS
6750 getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
6751 getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
6752 getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
6753 getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
6754 getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
6755 getutxent NEW: Unix98
6756 getutxid NEW: Unix98
6757 getutxline NEW: Unix98
6758 glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
6759 globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
6760 gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
6761 gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
6762 grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
6763 host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
6764 iconv NEW: iconv
6765 iconv_close NEW: iconv
6766 iconv_open NEW: iconv
6767 if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
6768 if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
6769 if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
6770 if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
6771 in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
6772 in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
6773 inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
6774 isastream NEW: STREAMS
6775 iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
6776 key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
6777 key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
6778 key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
6779 key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
6780 key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
6781 key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
6782 key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
6783 key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
6784 key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
6785 llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
6786 llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6787 llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6788 llround NEW: ISO C 9x
6789 llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6790 llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6791 log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
6792 log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
6793 log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
6794 lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
6795 lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6796 lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6797 lround NEW: ISO C 9x
6798 lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6799 lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6800 lseek64 NEW: LFS
6801 makecontext NEW: Unix98
6802 mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
6803 mmap64 NEW: LFS
6804 moncontrol REMOVED
6805 modify_ldt NEW: kernel
6806 nan NEW: ISO C 9x
6807 nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6808 nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
6809 nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
6810 nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6811 nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6812 netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
6813 netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
6814 nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
6815 nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
6816 nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
6817 nftw NEW: Unix98
6818 nftw64 NEW: LFS
6819 open64 NEW: LFS
6820 passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
6821 pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
6822 pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
6823 pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
6824 pread NEW: Unix98
6825 pread64 NEW: LFS
6826 printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
6827 printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
6828 profil_counter REMOVED
6829 pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
6830 pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
6831 ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
6832 ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
6833 putc_locked REMOVED
6834 putchar_locked REMOVED
6835 putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
6836 putmsg NEW: STREAMS
6837 putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
6838 pututxline NEW: Unix98
6839 pwrite NEW: Unix98
6840 pwrite64 NEW: LFS
6841 readdir64 NEW: LFS
6842 readdir64_r NEW: LFS
6843 remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
6844 remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
6845 remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
6846 round NEW: ISO C 9x
6847 roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6848 roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6849 rtime NEW: GNU ext.
6850 scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
6851 scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
6852 scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
6853 scandir64 NEW: LFS
6854 sendfile NEW: kernel
6855 setcontext NEW: Unix98
6856 setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
6857 setutxent NEW: Unix98
6858 sighold NEW: Unix98
6859 sigignore NEW: Unix98
6860 sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
6861 sigrelse NEW: Unix98
6862 sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
6863 sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
6864 sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
6865 sincos NEW: GNU ext.
6866 sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
6867 sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
6868 statfs64 NEW: LFS
6869 statvfs NEW: Unix98
6870 statvfs64 NEW: LFS
6871 strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
6872 strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
6873 strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
6874 strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
6875 svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
6876 svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
6877 svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
6878 swapcontext NEW: Unix98
6879 tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
6880 tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
6881 tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
6882 tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
6883 tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
6884 tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
6885 trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
6886 truncate64 NEW: LFS
6887 truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
6888 truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
6889 umount2 NEW: kernel
6890 unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
6891 updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
6892 user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
6893 utmpxname NEW: Unix98
6894 versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
6895 versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
6896 waitid NEW: Unix98
6897 wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
6898 wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
6899 wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
6900 wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
6901 wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
6902 wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
6903 wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
6904 wcswcs NEW: Unix98
6905 wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
6906 wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
6907 write_profiling REMOVED
6908 xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
6909 xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
6910 xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
6911 xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
6912 xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
6913 xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
6914 xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
6915 xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
6916 xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
6917 xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
6918 xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
6919 xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
6920 xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
6921 xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
6922 xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
6923 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
6924 \f
6925 Version 2.0.6
6926
6927 * more bug fixes
6928
6929 \f
6930 Version 2.0.5
6931
6932 * more bug fixes
6933
6934 * inet_ntoa is thread-safe
6935
6936 * updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
6937
6938 * rewrite of cbrt function
6939
6940 * update of timezone data
6941 \f
6942 Version 2.0.4
6943
6944 * more bug fixes
6945 \f
6946 Version 2.0.3
6947
6948 * more bug fixes
6949 \f
6950 Version 2.0.2
6951
6952 * more bug fixes
6953
6954 * add atoll function
6955
6956 * fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
6957
6958 * fix math functions
6959 \f
6960 Version 2.0.1
6961
6962 * fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
6963
6964 * dynamic loader preserves all registers
6965
6966 * Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
6967 the ELF dynamic loader.
6968
6969 * support for parallel builds is improved
6970 \f
6971 Version 2.0
6972
6973 * GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
6974 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
6975 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
6976
6977 * The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
6978 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
6979 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
6980 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
6981 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
6982 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
6983 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
6984 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
6985 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
6986 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
6987 files in the ELF format.
6988
6989 * Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
6990 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
6991
6992 * The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
6993 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
6994 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
6995 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
6996 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
6997 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
6998 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
6999 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
7000 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
7001 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
7002 about dynamically linked binaries.
7003
7004 * The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
7005 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
7006 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
7007 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
7008 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
7009
7010 * The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
7011 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
7012 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
7013 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
7014 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
7015
7016 * John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
7017
7018 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
7019 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
7020 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
7021 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
7022 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
7023 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
7024 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
7025 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
7026 NSS services available.
7027
7028 * The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
7029 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
7030 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
7031
7032 * The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
7033 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
7034 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
7035
7036 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
7037 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
7038 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
7039 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
7040
7041 * The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
7042 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
7043 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
7044
7045 * The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
7046 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
7047 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
7048
7049 * The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
7050 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
7051
7052 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
7053 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
7054 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
7055 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendment 1 specification.
7056
7057 * There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
7058 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
7059 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
7060
7061 * You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
7062 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
7063 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
7064 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
7065 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
7066 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
7067 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
7068 the header file <printf.h> for details.
7069
7070 * The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
7071 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
7072 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
7073 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
7074 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
7075 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
7076 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
7077
7078 * The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
7079 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
7080 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
7081 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
7082 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
7083 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
7084
7085 * The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
7086 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
7087
7088 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
7089 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
7090 NSS scheme used in glibc.
7091
7092 * There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
7093
7094 * There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
7095 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
7096 their use is discouraged.
7097
7098 * The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
7099 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
7100
7101 * New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
7102 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
7103
7104 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
7105 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
7106
7107 * The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
7108 see <dirent.h>.
7109
7110 * The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
7111 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
7112 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
7113 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
7114 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
7115
7116 * The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
7117 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
7118 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
7119 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
7120
7121 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
7122 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
7123
7124 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
7125 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
7126 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
7127 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
7128 number generator.
7129
7130 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
7131 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
7132
7133 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
7134 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
7135
7136 * Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
7137 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
7138 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
7139 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
7140
7141 * Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
7142
7143 * David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
7144 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
7145 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
7146
7147 * Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
7148 for arithmetic and string handling.
7149
7150 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
7151 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
7152 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
7153 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
7154
7155 * For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
7156 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
7157 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
7158 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
7159 programs already written to use it.)
7160
7161 * New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
7162 constants.
7163
7164 * Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
7165 with 4.4 BSD.
7166
7167 * New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
7168 a given effective group ID.
7169
7170 * When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
7171 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
7172 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
7173 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
7174
7175 * New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
7176 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
7177 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
7178 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
7179 doing the same thing.
7180
7181 * The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
7182 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
7183
7184 * New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
7185 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
7186
7187 * New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
7188
7189 * We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
7190 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
7191 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
7192 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
7193 `-ldb' to get these functions.
7194
7195 * New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
7196 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
7197
7198 * New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
7199 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
7200 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
7201 function.
7202
7203 * New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
7204
7205 * The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
7206 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
7207 strings.
7208
7209 * A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
7210 and writing the utmp file.
7211
7212 * An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
7213 Thorsten Kukuk.
7214
7215 * Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
7216 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
7217 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
7218
7219 * Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
7220 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
7221
7222 * Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
7223 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
7224 specification.
7225
7226 * The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
7227 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
7228 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
7229 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
7230
7231 * Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
7232 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
7233 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
7234
7235 * Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
7236 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
7237 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
7238 expression matcher.
7239
7240 * the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
7241 functionality.
7242
7243 * The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
7244 by Ulrich Drepper.
7245
7246 * David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
7247
7248 * POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
7249 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
7250 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
7251 \f
7252 Version 1.09
7253
7254 * For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
7255
7256 * New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
7257 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
7258
7259 * The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
7260 want to put themselves in the background.
7261
7262 * Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
7263 run without an operating system.
7264
7265 * `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
7266 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
7267
7268 * All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
7269 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
7270
7271 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
7272
7273 * The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
7274 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
7275 have YP (aka NIS).
7276
7277 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
7278 conventions.
7279
7280 * The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
7281 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
7282 \f
7283 Version 1.08
7284
7285 * The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
7286 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
7287 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
7288
7289 * Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
7290 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
7291
7292 * The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
7293 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
7294
7295 * New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
7296
7297 * New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
7298
7299 * New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
7300 compatibility.
7301
7302 * The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
7303 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
7304 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
7305
7306 * The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
7307
7308 * The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
7309 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
7310 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
7311
7312 * The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
7313 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
7314 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
7315 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
7316 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
7317 on a block).
7318
7319 * It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
7320 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
7321 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
7322 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
7323 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
7324 cross-compiler.
7325
7326 * The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
7327 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
7328 \f
7329 Version 1.07
7330
7331 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
7332 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
7333
7334 * You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
7335 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
7336 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
7337
7338 * The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
7339 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
7340 address of the last character written.
7341
7342 * You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
7343 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
7344
7345 * You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
7346 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
7347
7348 * ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
7349 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
7350 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
7351 you dereference this pointer.
7352
7353 * The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
7354 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
7355
7356 * The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
7357 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
7358 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
7359 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
7360
7361 * The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
7362 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
7363 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
7364 EAGAIN in every system call function.
7365 \f
7366 Version 1.06
7367
7368 * The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
7369 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
7370 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
7371 in Emacs or the `info' program.
7372 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
7373
7374 * The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
7375
7376 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
7377
7378 * Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
7379 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
7380
7381 * The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
7382 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
7383
7384 * New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
7385 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
7386
7387 * The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
7388 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
7389 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
7390 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
7391 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
7392
7393 * There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
7394 to the error code in `errno'.
7395
7396 * In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
7397 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
7398 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
7399 malloc'd string.
7400
7401 * The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
7402 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
7403 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
7404
7405 * `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
7406 uniquely-named temporary file.
7407 \f
7408 Version 1.05
7409
7410 * The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
7411 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
7412 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
7413
7414 * The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
7415 characters.
7416
7417 * `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
7418 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
7419
7420 * New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
7421 \f
7422 Version 1.04
7423
7424 * The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
7425 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
7426 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
7427 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
7428
7429 * The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
7430 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
7431 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
7432
7433 * Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
7434 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
7435
7436 * The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
7437 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
7438 made itself into a shared library.
7439
7440 * Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
7441 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
7442
7443 * New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
7444 with limited length.
7445
7446 * New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
7447
7448 * New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
7449
7450 * New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
7451
7452 * Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
7453 function for traversing a directory tree.
7454
7455 * The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
7456 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
7457 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
7458 formatted output directly to an obstack.
7459
7460 * Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
7461 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
7462
7463 * `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
7464
7465 * The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
7466 things to your strings.
7467
7468 * There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
7469
7470 * Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
7471 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
7472 supporting those systems.
7473
7474 * `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
7475 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
7476 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
7477 configuration files.
7478
7479 * The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
7480 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
7481
7482 * The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
7483 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
7484 in <strings.h>.)
7485
7486 * Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
7487 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
7488 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
7489 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
7490 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
7491 required storage is not available.
7492
7493 * The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
7494 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
7495
7496 * The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
7497 latest files released from Berkeley.
7498 \f
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7502 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
7503 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
7504 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
7505 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
7506
7507 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
7508 of this document, or of portions of it,
7509 under the above conditions, provided also that they
7510 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
7511 \f
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