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