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ee9247c3 1GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
688903eb 2Copyright (C) 1992-2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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3See the end for copying conditions.
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a306c790 5Please send GNU C library bug reports via <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
69be6aaf 6using `glibc' in the "product" field.
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8Version 2.28.1
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10Major new features:
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12* The entry for the new Japanese era has been added for ja_JP locale.
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14Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
15
16* For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
17 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
18 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
19 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
20 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
21 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
22 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
23 process actually does not use HTM).
24
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25* The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
26 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
27 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
28 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
29 copy_file_range function will have to be run on kernels which implement
30 the copy_file_range system call. Support for most architectures was added
31 in version 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
32
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33The following bugs are resolved with this release:
34
5cbb7300 35 [18035] Fix pldd hang
1e5c5303 36 [19444] build failures with -O1 due to -Wmaybe-uninitialized
2373941b 37 [20018] getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing characters
5473739a 38 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
d948478b 39 [20568] Fix crash in _IO_wfile_sync
fc0e3393 40 [22927] libanl: properly cleanup if first helper thread creation failed
df11de91 41 [23400] stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc source tree
4b25485f 42 [23497] readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
3e8d8dd5 43 [23509] CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older linker
2f498f3d 44 [23521] nss_files aliases database file stream leak
aa8a3e4c 45 [23538] pthread_cond_broadcast: Fix waiters-after-spinning case
69d1e73d 46 [23562] signal: Use correct type for si_band in siginfo_t
58559f14 47 [23578] regex: Fix memory overread in re_compile_pattern
044c96f0 48 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
2339d6a5 49 [23606] Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
85262025 50 [23614] powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_* functions
e7d22db2 51 [23679] gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
65010329 52 [23709] Fix CPU string flags for Haswell-type CPUs
3a67c72c 53 [23717] Fix stack overflow in stdlib/tst-setcontext9
aff9b377 54 [23821] si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
5256ffc5 55 [23822] ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
4bf5ab31 56 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
e8c13d5f 57 [23844] pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
ce6ba630 58 [23927] Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor (CVE-2018-19591)
5f1ae50a 59 [23972] __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
bee4baf6 60 [24018] gettext may return NULL
be62bbb6 61 [24022] riscv may lack <asm/syscalls.h>
198bfee8 62 [24024] strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-error
8f83d095 63 [24027] malloc: Integer overflow in realloc
2a8612b2 64 [24034] tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when using GCC 8
384113d1 65 [24040] riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
492524a6 66 [24097] Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for x32 (CVE-2019-6488)
9aaa0833 67 [24155] x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
60f80624 68 [24161] __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
91b02c5b 69 [24228] old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
059d6750 70 [24476] dlfcn: Guard __dlerror_main_freeres with __libc_once_get (once)
5f7fa9ac 71 [24744] io: Remove the copy_file_range emulation.
f55e312b 72 [25203] libio: Disable vtable validation for pre-2.1 interposed handles
7966ce07 73 [25204] Ignore LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC for SUID programs
9f917f7b 74 [25225] ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-protection
ef005107 75 [25232] No const correctness for strchr et al. for Clang++
21344a3d 76 [25414] 'glob' use-after-free bug (CVE-2020-1752)
0478174d 77 [25423] Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
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79Security related changes:
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81 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
82 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
83 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
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85 CVE-2019-6488: On x32, the size_t parameter may be passed in the lower
86 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
87 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
88 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
89 Reported by H.J. Lu.
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91 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
92 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
93 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
94 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
95 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
96 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
97 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
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99 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
100 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
101 or command injection issues in applications.
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103 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
104 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
105 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
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107 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
108 environment variable during program execution after a security
109 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
110 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
111 program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
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113 CVE-2020-1752: A use-after-free vulnerability in the glob function when
114 expanding ~user has been fixed.
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117Version 2.28
118
119Major new features:
120
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121* The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
122 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
123 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
124 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
125 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
126 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
127 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
128 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
129 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
130 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
131 archive or binary locales.
132
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133* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for Intel CET, AKA
134 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
135 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
136 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
137 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
138 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
139 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
140 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
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141 Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
142 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
143 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
144 validated for i686.
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146* The GNU C Library now has correct support for ABSOLUTE symbols
147 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
148 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
149 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
150 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
151 field) to indicate such support is required.
152
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153* Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
154 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
155 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
156
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157* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
158 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
159
160 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
161 fMxaddfNx functions.
086ee48e 162
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163 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
164 fMxsubfNx functions.
165
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166 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
167 fMxmulfNx functions.
168
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169 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
170 fMxdivfNx functions.
171
e607a352 172* Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
df467d22 173 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
9145f033 174 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
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175 support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
176 and Kashubian.
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61c4aad7 178* Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
e607a352 179 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
a1e0c5fa 180
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181* Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
182 patches.
183
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184* The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
185 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
186 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
187 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
188 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
189 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
190 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
191 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
192
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193* The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
194 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
195 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
196 the fstatat64 function.
197
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198* IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
199 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
200 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
201 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
202 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
203 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
204 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
205 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
206 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
207
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208* Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
209 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
210 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
211 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
212 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
213 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
214 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
215 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
216 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
217 results in a load failure now.
218
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219* Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The
220 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
221 <threads.h>:
222
223 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
224 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
225
226 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
227 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
228
229 - call_once for function call synchronization.
230
231 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
232 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
233
234 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
235
236 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
237
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238Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
239
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240* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
241 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
242 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
243
244* The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
245 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
246 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
247 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
248 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
249 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
250
251* All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
252 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
253 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
254 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
255 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
256 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
257 (Bug #1190.)
258
259* The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
260 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
261 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
262 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
263 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
264 further explanation.
265
266 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
267 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
268 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
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270* The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
271
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272* The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
273 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
274 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
275
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276* The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
277 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
278 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
279 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
280
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281* The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
282 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
283 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
284 for this function instead.
285
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286* The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
287 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
288 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
289
290* The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
291 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
292 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
293 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
294
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295* The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
296 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
297 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
298 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
299 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
300
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301* The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
302 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
303 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
304 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
305 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
306 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
307 such as libgcrypt.
308
309* Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
310 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
311 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
312 enabled.
313
314* The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
315 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
316 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
317
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318* We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
319 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
320 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
321 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
322 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
323 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
324
325 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
326 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
327 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
328 behavior in a future release.
329
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330Changes to build and runtime requirements:
331
f2873d2d 332 GNU make 4.0 or later is now required to build glibc.
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334Security related changes:
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336 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
337 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
338 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
339 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
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341 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
342 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
343
344 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
345 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
346 Izbyshev.
347
348 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
349 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
350 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
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352The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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354 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
355 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
356 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
357 when __WORDSIZE != 64
358 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
359 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
360 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
361 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
362 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
363 14651
364 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
365 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
366 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
367 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
368 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
369 conversion is given
370 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
371 date
372 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
373 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
374 scope with -O1 and higher
375 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
376 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
377 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
378 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
379 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
380 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
381 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
382 horrible machine code)
383 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
384 last constant.
385 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
386 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
387 symbols
388 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
389 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
390 defined
391 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
392 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
393 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
394 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
395 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
396 fpscr.c'
397 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
398 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
399 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
400 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
401 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
402 the base address
403 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
404 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
405 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
406 open_verify
407 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
408 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
409 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
410 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
411 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
412 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
413 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
414 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
415 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
416 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
417 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
418 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
419 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
420 dlopen
421 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
422 AT_SECURE=1
423 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
424 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
425 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
426 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
427 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
428 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
429 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
430 for Spanish with CLDR
431 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
432 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
433 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
434 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
435 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
436 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
437 es_BO
438 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
439 CLOCKS_PER_SECOND
440 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
441 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
442 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
443 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
444 dlopen failures
445 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
446 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
447 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
448 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
449 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
450 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
451 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
452 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
453 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
454 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
455 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
456 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
457 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
458 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
459 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
460 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
461 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
462 makecontext
463 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
464 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
465 required
466 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
467 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
468 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
469 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
470 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
471 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
472 disabled
473 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
474 failure
475 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
476 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
477 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
478 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
479 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
480 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
481 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
482 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
483 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
484 and libc build with -Os)
485 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
486 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
487 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
488 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
489 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
490 that changes /etc/passwd
491 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
492 (CVE-2018-11237)
493 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
494 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
495 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
496 posix/regcomp.c
497 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
498 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
499 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
500 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
501 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
502 AT_SECURE
503 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
504 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
505 parser.c
506 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
507 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
508 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
509 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
510 directed rounding
511 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
512 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
513 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
514 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
515 lookup
516 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
517 interposition
518 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
519 DSO boundaries.
520 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
521 <linux/time.h>
522 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
523 checking
524 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
525 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
526 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
527 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
528 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
529 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
530 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
531 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
532 processors
533 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
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535 answers will be rejected)
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538Version 2.27
539
540Major new features:
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543 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
bd7bbb26 544 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
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546 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
547 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
548 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
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550 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
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ac817e08 552* Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
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554 H.J. Lu from Intel.
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557
4cf82d23 558* Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
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561 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
562 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
563 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
564 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
565 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
566 from a security and performance perspective.
567
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568* The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
569 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
570 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
571 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
572
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575 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
576 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
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577 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
578
a23aa5b7 579* On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
40ca951b 580 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
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581 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
582 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
583 _Float128.
584
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585* The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
586 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
587 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
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592 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
593 pkey_get.
594
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596
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597* Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
598
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599* The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
600 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
601 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
602
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604 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
605 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
606 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
607 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
608 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
609 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
610
611 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
612 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
613 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
614 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
615 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
616 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
617 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
618
619 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
620 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
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622 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
623 respectively.
624
625 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
626 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
627 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
628 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
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630 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
631 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
632 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
633
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635 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
0a32e219 636 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
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639 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
640 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
641
642 - rv64imac lp64
643 - rv64imafdc lp64
644 - rv64imafdc lp64d
645
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647
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648* Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
649 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
d4ae7827 650 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
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651 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
652 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
653 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
654 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
655 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
656 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
657 fix this.
658
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659* Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
660 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
661 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
662
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663* Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
664 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
665 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
666 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
667 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
668 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
669 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
670 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
671 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
672 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
673 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
674 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
675 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
676 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
677 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
678 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
679 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
680 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
681 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
682 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
683 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
684 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
685 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
686 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
687 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
688 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
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691 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
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694 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
695 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
696 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
697 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
698 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
699 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
700
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701* The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
702 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
703 exp10l for these functions instead.
704
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705* The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
706 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
707 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
708
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709* The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
710 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
711 ignored.
712
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713* The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
714 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
715 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
716 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
717
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718* The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
719 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
720
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721* In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
722 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
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724* The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
725 programs.
726
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727* The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
728
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729* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
730 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
731 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
732 instead.
733
734 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
735 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
736 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
737 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
738 use, but predates the bits convention.
739
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741
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742* bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
743 subdirectory.
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745Security related changes:
746
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747 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
748 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
749 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
750 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
751 script.)
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753 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
754 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
755 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
756 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
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758 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
759 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
760 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
761 of service.
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764 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
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765 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
766
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767 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
768 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
769 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
770 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
771
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772 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
773 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
774 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
775 Qualys.
776
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777 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
778 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
779 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
780 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
781 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
782
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783 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
784 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
785 current directory.
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787 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
788 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
789 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
790
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791 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
792 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
793 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
794
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795 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
796 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
797 small, instead of NULL.
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802 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
803 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
804 locale
805 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
806 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
807 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
808 cases
809 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
810 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
811 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
812 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
813 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
814 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
815 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
816 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
817 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
818 "Bangla"
819 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
820 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
821 width Latin characters
822 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
823 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
824 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
825 letters
826 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
827 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
828 (CVE-2009-5064)
829 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
830 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
831 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
832 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
833 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
834 if malloc succeeded
835 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
836 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
837 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
838 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
839 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
840 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
841 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
842 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
843 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
844 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
845 U+309A
846 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
847 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
848 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
849 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
850 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
851 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
852 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
853 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
854 for Nicaragua
855 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
856 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
857 are not found.
858 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
859 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
860 access
861 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
862 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
863 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
864 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
865 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
866 __regcall calling convention
867 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
868 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
869 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
870 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
871 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
872 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
873 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
874 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
875 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
876 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
877 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
878 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
879 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
880 locale
881 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
882 protector=all
883 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
884 wcwidth
885 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
886 consistency check failures
887 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
888 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
889 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
890 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
891 PIE
892 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
893 locales
894 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
895 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
896 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
897 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
898 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
899 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
900 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
901 on memory allocation failure
902 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
903 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
904 the suspect)
905 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
906 default (i386)
907 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
908 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
909 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
910 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
911 instead of EAI_NODATA
912 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
913 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
914 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
915 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
916 implementation
917 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
918 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
919 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
920 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
921 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
922 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
923 allocation in syscall loops)
924 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
925 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
926 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
927 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
928 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
929 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
930 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
931 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
932 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
933 occur with -O3
934 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
935 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
936 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
937 amounts)
938 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
939 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
940 niu_NZ
941 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
942 checks
943 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
944 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
945 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
946 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
947 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
948 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
949 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
950 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
951 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
952 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
953 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
954 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
955 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
956 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
957 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
958 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
959 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
960 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
961 parsing after OOM
962 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
963 object
964 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
965 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
966 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
967 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
968 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
969 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
970 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf oupts a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
971 ppc64le
972 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
973 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
974 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
975 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
976 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
977 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
978 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
979 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
980 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
981 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
982 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
983 math_force_eval
984 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
985 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
986 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
987 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
988 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
989 the svid compat wrapper
990 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
991 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
992 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
993 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
994 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
995 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
996 --verbose.
997 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
998 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
999 to 2.26
1000 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
1001 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
1002 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
1003 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
1004 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
1005 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
1006 (CVE-2017-15804)
1007 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
1008 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
1009 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
1010 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
1011 failure."
1012 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
1013 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
1014 -m32
1015 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
1016 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
1017 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
1018 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
1019 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
1020 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
1021 inside the ASCII printable range
1022 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
1023 -mlong-double-64
1024 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
1025 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
1026 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
1027 Internet
1028 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
1029 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
1030 backslash
1031 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
1032 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
1033 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
1034 heaps in an arena
1035 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
1036 networking interface
1037 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
1038 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
1039 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
1040 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
1041 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
1042 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
1043 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
1044 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
1045 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
1046 order
1047 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1048 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1049 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1050 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1051 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1052 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
1053 same as for Croatian
1054 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
1055 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
1056 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
1057 for initial thread"
1058 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
1059 SC_SSIZE_MAX
1060 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
1061 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
1062 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1063 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
1064 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
1065 (CVE-2017-1000408)
1066 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
1067 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
1068 modified in case of success
1069 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
1070 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
1071 success
1072 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
1073 stack-protector=all
1074 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
1075 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
1076 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
1077 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
1078 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
1079 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
1080 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
1081 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
1082 adding it on top
1083 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
1084 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
1085 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
1086 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
1087 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
1088 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
1089 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
1090 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
1091 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
1092 (CVE-2018-1000001)
1093 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
1094 elision and tunables
1095 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
1096 "invalid" exception
1097 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
1098 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
1099 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
1100 exception
1101 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
1102 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
1103 power4
1104 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
1105 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
1106 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
1107 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
1108 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
1109 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
1110 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
1111 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
1112 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
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1115Version 2.26
1116
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1117Major new features:
1118
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1119* A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
1120 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
1121 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
1122 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
1123 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
1124 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
1125 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
1126
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1127* Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1128 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
0b38d66a 1129 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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1130 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
1131 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
1132 are rendered with pango, see for example:
1133 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
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1135* Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
1136 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
1137 Egmont Koblinger.
e4e79484 1138
2b2ccd0c 1139* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
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1141 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
1142 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
1143 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
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1145 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
1146 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
1147 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
1148 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
1149 object are still limited to six search domains.
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1151 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
1152 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
1153 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
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1155* The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
1156 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
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1158* New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
1159 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
1160 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
1161 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
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1163* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
1164 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
1165 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
1166 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
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1168* posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
1169 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
1170 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
1171 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
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1173* errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
1174 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
1175 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
12d2dd70 1176
2b2ccd0c 1177* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
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1178 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
1179 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
1180 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
2c0b90ab 1181
2b2ccd0c 1182 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
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1183 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
1184 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
1185 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
1186 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
1187
1188 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
1189 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
1190 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
1191 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
1192 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
1193 interfaces should be used instead.
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1195Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1196
1197* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
1198 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
1199 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
1200 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
1201 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
1202 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
1203 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
1204 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
1205
1206* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
1207 removed.
1208
1209* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
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1211 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
1212 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
1213
1214* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
1215 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
1216 default.
1217
1218 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
1219 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
1220 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
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1222 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
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1224 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
1225 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
1226 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
1227 name service modules, to be built and installed.
1228
1229* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
1230 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
1231 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
1232 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
1233
1234* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
1235 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
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1237* The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
1238 exported by accident.
1239
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1240* <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
1241 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
1242 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
1243
1244* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
1245 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
1246 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
1247 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
1248
1249* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
1250
1251* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
1252
1253* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
1254 free instead.
1255
1256* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
1257 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1258
1259* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
1260 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1261
1262* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
1263 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
1264 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
1265 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
1266 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
1267 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
1268 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
1269 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
1270
1271* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
1272 synced with the kernel:
1273
1274 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
1275 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
1276
1277 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
1278 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
1279 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
1280
1281 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
1282 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
1283
1284Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1285
1286* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
1287 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
1288 x86-32 and x86-64.)
1289
7e368000 1290* GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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1293 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
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1295 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
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1296 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
1297 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
1298 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2b2ccd0c 1299 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
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1302
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1304 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
1305
1306* LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
1307 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
1308
1309* Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
1310 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
1311 (CVE-2010-3192).
1312
1313* A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
1314 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
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1316The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1317
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1318 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
1319 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
1320 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
1321 fields
1322 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
1323 (CVE-2010-3192)
1324 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
1325 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
1326 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
1327 ld.bfd is available
1328 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
1329 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
1330 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
1331 x86 and other generic code
1332 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
1333 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
1334 incorrect
1335 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
1336 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
1337 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
1338 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
1339 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
1340 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
1341 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
1342 resolver
1343 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
1344 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
1345 order of 0D36 and 0D37
1346 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
1347 chillu characters
1348 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
1349 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
1350 receiving data
1351 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
1352 whitespace
1353 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
1354 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
1355 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
1356 for Peru
1357 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
1358 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
1359 failures consistently
1360 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
1361 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
1362 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
1363 frame-pointer on i386
1364 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
1365 register
1366 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
1367 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
1368 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
1369 generic c code is used
1370 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
1371 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
1372 around 4000
1373 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
1374 (CVE-2017-12133)
1375 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
1376 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
1377 with -lieee
1378 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
1379 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
1380 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
1381 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
1382 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
1383 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
1384 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
1385 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
1386 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
1387 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
1388 remove()
1389 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
1390 checked for errors.
1391 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
1392 new posix_spawn implementation
1393 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
1394 leads to lower CPU frequency
1395 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
1396 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
1397 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
1398 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
1399 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
1400 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
1401 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
1402 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
1403 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
1404 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
1405 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
1406 not support gethostbyname4_r
1407 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
1408 switching
1409 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
1410 arenas
1411 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
1412 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
1413 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
1414 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
1415 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
1416 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
1417 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
1418 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
1419 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
1420 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
1421 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
1422 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
1423 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
1424 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
1425 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
1426 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
1427 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
1428 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
1429 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
1430 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
1431 retry value
1432 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
1433 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
1434 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
1435 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
1436 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
1437 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
1438 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
1439 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
1440 [21537] libc:
1441 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
1442 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
1443 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
1444 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
1445 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
1446 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
1447 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
1448 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
1449 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
1450 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
1451 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
1452 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
1453 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
1454 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
1455 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
1456 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
1457 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
1458 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
1459 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
1460 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
1461 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
1462 issue on x86-64
1463 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
1464 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
1465 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
1466 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
1467 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
1468 construction
1469 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
1470 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
1471 between_2_3
1472 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
1473 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
1474 conditions
1475 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
1476 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
1477 Hindi Locale
1478 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
1479 posix/sched_cpucount.c
1480 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
1481 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
1482 locale
1483 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
1484 leading to relocation crash
1485 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
1486 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
1487 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
1488 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
1489 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
1490 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
1491 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
1492 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
1493 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
1494 locale
1495 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
1496 locale
1497 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
1498 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
1499 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
1500 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
1501 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
1502 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
1503 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
1504 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
1505 strings
1506 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
1507 protector=all
1508 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
1509 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
1510 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
1511 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
1512 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
1513 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
1514 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
1515 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
1516 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
1517 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
1518 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
1519 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
1520 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
1521 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
1522 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
1523 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
1524 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
1525 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
1526 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
1527 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
1528 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
1529 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
1530 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
1531 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
1532 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
1533 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
1534 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
1535 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
1536 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
1537 with unicode 9.0
1538 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
1539 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
1540 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
1541 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
1542 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
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1545Version 2.25
1546
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1547* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
1548 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
1549 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
1550 Library.
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1552* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
1553 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
a5ac5676 1554 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
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1555 the GNU C Library.
1556
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1557* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
1558 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
1559 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
1560 the GNU C Library.
1561
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1562* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
1563 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
1564 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
1565 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
1566 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
1567 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
1568 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
1569 will not.
1570
1571 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
1572 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
1573 many years.
1574
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1575* The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
1576 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
1577 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
1578
1579 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
1580 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
1581 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
1582 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
1583 problem.
1584
ec94343f 1585* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
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1586 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
1587 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
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1589* Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
1590 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
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1591 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
1592 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
1593 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
1594 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
1595 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
1596 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
1597 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
1598 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
1599 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
1600 WINT_WIDTH.
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1602* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
1603
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1604 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
1605
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1606 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
1607 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
1608 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
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1610 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
1611 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
1612
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1613 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
1614 fminmagf, fminmagl.
1615
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1616 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
1617
29cb9293 1618 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
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1620 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
1621 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
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1623 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
1624
eb3c12c7 1625 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
457663a7 1626 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
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1628* The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
1629 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
1630
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1631* Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
1632 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
1633 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
1634
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1635* The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
1636 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
1637 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
1638 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
1639 effects of the memory clear).
1640
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1641* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
1642 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
1643 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
1644 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
1645
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1646* On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
1647 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
1648 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
1649 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
1650 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
1651 if they are compiled or used with those options.
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1653* The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
1654 have been added.
1655
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1656* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
1657 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
1658 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
1659 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
1660 as large as several megabytes.
1661
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1662* The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
1663 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
1664 been removed.
1665
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1666* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
1667 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
1668 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
1669 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
1670 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
1671 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
1672 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
1673
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1674* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
1675 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
1676 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
1677 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
1678
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1680 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
1681 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
1682 Internet.
1683
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1684* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
1685 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
1686 They were already unimplemented.
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1688* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
1689 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
1690 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
1691 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
1692
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1693* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
1694 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
1695 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
1696 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
1697 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
1698
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1699* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
1700 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
1701 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
1702 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
1703 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
1704
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1705* The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
1706 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
1707 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
1708 did not reflect that.
1709
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1710* For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
1711 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
1712 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
1713 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
1714 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
1715 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
1716 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
1717 'gcc/config.gcc'.
1718
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1719* GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
1720 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
1721 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
1722 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
1723
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1724* Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
1725 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
1726 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
1727 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
1728
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1730 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
1731 guarantees.
1732
1733* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
1734 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
1735 make state changes.
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1738
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1740 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
1741 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
1742 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
056dd72a 1743 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
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1745* The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
1746 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
1747 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
1748 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
1749 (CVE-2015-5180)
1750
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1752
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1753 [4099] stdio: Overly agressive caching by stream i/o functions.
1754 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
1755 protector-all
1756 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
1757 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
1758 before it started waiting
1759 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
1760 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
1761 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
1762 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
1763 wrong type
1764 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
1765 library linked with pthread
1766 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
1767 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
1768 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
1769 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
1770 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
1771 after being __libc_memalign()'d
1772 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
1773 when it shouldnt
1774 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
1775 not
1776 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
1777 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
1778 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
1779 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
1780 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
1781 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
1782 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
1783 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
1784 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
1785 termination
1786 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
1787 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
1788 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
1789 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
1790 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
1791 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
1792 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
1793 causes a segmentation fault
1794 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
1795 linking
1796 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
1797 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
1798 uninitialized GOT
1799 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
1800 versions
1801 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
1802 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
1803 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
1804 is always true.
1805 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
1806 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
1807 modes
1808 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
1809 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
1810 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
1811 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
1812 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
1813 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
1814 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
1815 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
1816 libpthread.a
1817 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
1818 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
1819 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
1820 _res_hconf
1821 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
1822 information.
1823 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
1824 penalty
1825 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
1826 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
1827 cause transition penalty
1828 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
1829 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
1830 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
1831 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
1832 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
1833 mcount.oS)
1834 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
1835 Checking
1836 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
1837 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
1838 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
1839 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
1840 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
1841 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
1842 multi-arch
1843 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
1844 (RES_USEBSTRING)
1845 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
1846 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
1847 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
1848 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
1849 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
1850 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
1851 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
1852 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
1853 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
1854 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
1855 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
1856 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
1857 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
1858 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
1859 glibc
1860 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
1861 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
1862 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
1863 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
1864 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
1865 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
1866 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
1867 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
1868 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
1869 U+20AC), not same as GBK
1870 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
1871 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
1872 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
1873 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
1874 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
1875 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
1876 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
1877 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
1878 RES_USE_INET6
1879 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1880 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
1881 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
1882 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
1883 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
1884 wrong condition
1885 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1886 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
1887 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
1888 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
1889 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
1890 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
1891 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
1892 clang
1893 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
1894 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
1895 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
1896 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
1897 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
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1899Version 2.24
1900
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1901* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
1902 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
1903 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
1904 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
1905 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
1906 architectures.
1907
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1908* The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
1909 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
1910 been included in previous releases.
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1912* The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
1913 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
1914
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1915* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
1916 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
1917 instead of “union wait”.
1918
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1919* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
1920 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
1921 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
1922 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
1923 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
1924 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
1925 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
1926
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1927* The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
1928 API.
1929
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1930* The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
1931 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
1932 drop it.
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1934* nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
1935 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
1936 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
1937 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
1938 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
1939 extensions.
1940
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1942
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1943* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
1944 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
1945 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
1946
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1947* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
1948 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
1949 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
1950 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
11fca961 1951
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1952* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
1953 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
1954 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
1955
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1956* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
1957 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
1958 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
1959
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1960* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
1961 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
1962 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
1963 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
1964
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1965The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1966
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1967 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
1968 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
1969 of MS-DOS.
1970 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
1971 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
1972 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
1973 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
1974 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
1975 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
1976 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
1977 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
1978 CLDR data
1979 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
1980 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
1981 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
1982 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
1983 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
1984 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
1985 romanisation
1986 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
1987 and +/-
1988 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
1989 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
1990 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
1991 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
1992 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
1993 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
1994 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
1995 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
1996 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
1997 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
1998 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
1999 all locales
2000 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
2001 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
2002 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
2003 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
2004 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
2005 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
2006 execute
2007 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
2008 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
2009 -Wsystem-headers
2010 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
2011 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
2012 Romanian locale data
2013 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
2014 symbol
2015 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
2016 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
2017 language
2018 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
2019 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
2020 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
2021 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
2022 machine
2023 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
2024 description
2025 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
2026 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
2027 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
2028 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
2029 when using RTLD_NEXT
2030 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
2031 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
2032 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
2033 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
2034 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
2035 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
2036 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
2037 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
2038 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
2039 Excavator core
2040 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2041 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2042 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2043 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
2044 double range
2045 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
2046 part zero incorrect
2047 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
2048 equality tests
2049 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
2050 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
2051 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
2052 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
2053 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
2054 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
2055 glibc-2.22
2056 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
2057 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
2058 'tst-numeric.c'
2059 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
2060 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
2061 low part
2062 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
2063 result
2064 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
2065 unaligned stack
2066 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
2067 pointers and lengths in error-case.
2068 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
2069 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
2070 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
2071 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
2072 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
2073 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
2074 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
2075 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
2076 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
2077 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
2078 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
2079 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
2080 modes
2081 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
2082 server addresses
2083 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
2084 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
2085 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
2086 response to getaddrinfo
2087 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
2088 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
2089 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
2090 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
2091 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
2092 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
2093 sometimes incorrect
2094 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
2095 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
2096 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
2097 record types
2098 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
2099 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
2100 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
2101 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
2102 (CVE-2016-3075)
2103 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
2104 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
2105 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
2106 resolving symbols
2107 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
2108 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
2109 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
2110 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
2111 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
2112 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
2113 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
2114 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
2115 gethosts
2116 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
2117 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
2118 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
2119 (CVE-2016-3706)
2120 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
2121 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
2122 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
2123 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
2124 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
2125 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
2126 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
2127 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
2128 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
2129 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
2130 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
2131 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
2132 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
2133 executable
2134 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
2135 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
2136 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
2137 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
2138 XPG3
2139 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
2140 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
2141 (CVE-2016-4429)
2142 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
2143 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
2144 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
2145 AS not supporting AVX512
2146 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
2147 sNaN argument
2148 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2149 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
2150 argument
2151 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
2152 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
2153 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
2154 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
2155 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
2156 eax=0x80000001
2157 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
2158 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
2159 subnormals
2160 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
2161 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
2162 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
2163 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2164 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2165 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
2166 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2167 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
2168 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
2169 input
2170 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2171 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2172 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2173 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2174 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2175 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2176 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2177 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
2178 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
2179 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
2180 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
2181 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
2182 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
2183 double rounding
2184 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
2185 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
2186 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
2187 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
2188 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
2189 (Only arm/linux)
2190 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
2191 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
2192 fallbacks
2193 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
2194 "invalid" exceptions
2195 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
2196 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
2197 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
2198 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
2199 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
2200 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
2201 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
2202 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
2203 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
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2205Version 2.23
2206
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2207* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2208 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
2209 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2210 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
2211 89, 16061, and 18568.
2212
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2213* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
2214 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
2215 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
2216 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
2217 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
2218 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
2219 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
2220
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2221* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
2222 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
2223 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
2224
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2225* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
2226 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
2227 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
2228 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
2229 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
2230 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
2231 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
2232
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2233* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
2234 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
2235 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
2236 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
2237 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 2238 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
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2239 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
2240 Ericsson.)
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2242* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
2243 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
2244 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
2245 independent of the GNU C Library.
2246
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2247* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
2248 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
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2250* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
2251 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
2252 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
2253 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
2254 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
2255 Linux kernel.
2256
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2257* Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
2258 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
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2260* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
2261 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
2262 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
2263 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
2264 defining their own copy.
2265
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2266* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
2267 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
2268 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
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2270Security related changes:
2271
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2272* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
2273 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
2274
2275* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
2276 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
2277 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
2278 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
2279 (CVE-2015-8777)
2280
2281* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
2282 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
2283
2284* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
2285 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
2286
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2287* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
2288 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 2289 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
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2291* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
2292 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
2293 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
2294 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
2295 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
2296 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
2297 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
2298 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
2299 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
2300 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
2301 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
2302 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
2303 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
2304
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2307 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
2308 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
2309 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
2310 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
2311 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
2312 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
2313 use `mkstemp'
2314 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
2315 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
2316 overflow/underflow errors
2317 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
2318 overflow/underflow
2319 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
2320 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
2321 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
2322 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
2323 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
2324 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
2325 are not contiguous
2326 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
2327 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
2328 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
2329 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
2330 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
2331 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
2332 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
2333 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
2334 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
2335 all exceptions
2336 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
2337 arguments
2338 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
2339 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
2340 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
2341 should include
2342 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
2343 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
2344 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
2345 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
2346 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
2347 GNU/Linux
2348 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
2349 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
2350 arguments
2351 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
2352 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
2353 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
2354 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
2355 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
2356 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
2357 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
2358 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
2359 rounding results
2360 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
2361 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
2362 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
2363 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
2364 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
2365 fails
2366 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
2367 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
2368 block boundary
2369 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
2370 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
2371 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
2372 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
2373 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
2374 4.7?
2375 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
2376 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
2377 (related to lock elision)
2378 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
2379 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
2380 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
2381 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
2382 (CVE-2015-8779)
2383 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
2384 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
2385 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
2386 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
2387 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
2388 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
2389 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
2390 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
2391 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
2392 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
2393 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
2394 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
2395 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
2396 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
2397 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
2398 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
2399 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
2400 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
2401 contains a vector instruction exception.
2402 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
2403 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
2404 locales
2405 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
2406 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
2407 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
2408 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
2409 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
2410 missing break ?
2411 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
2412 32bit processes
2413 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
2414 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
2415 infinity
2416 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
2417 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
2418 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
2419 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
2420 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
2421 be forced unloaded
2422 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
2423 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
2424 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
2425 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
2426 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
2427 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
2428 statically too large
2429 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
2430 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
2431 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
2432 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
2433 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
2434 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
2435 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
2436 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
2437 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
2438 FUTEX_SHARED
2439 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
2440 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
2441 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
2442 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
2443 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
2444 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
2445 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
2446 opendir()
2447 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
2448 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
2449 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
2450 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
2451 signgam
2452 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
2453 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
2454 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
2455 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
2456 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
2457 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
2458 dependencies
2459 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
2460 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
2461 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
2462 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
2463 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
2464 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
2465 (CVE-2015-8776)
2466 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
2467 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
2468 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
2469 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
2470 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
2471 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2472 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
2473 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
2474 contention
2475 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
2476 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
2477 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
2478 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2479 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
2480 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
2481 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
2482 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
2483 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
2484 rounding modes
2485 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
2486 ILP32
2487 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
2488 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
2489 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
2490 threshold
2491 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
2492 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
2493 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
2494 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
2495 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
2496 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
2497 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
2498 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
2499 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
2500 pthread_setaffinity_np
2501 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
2502 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
2503 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
2504 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
2505 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
2506 prelink
2507 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
2508 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
2509 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
2510 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
2511 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2512 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
2513 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
2514 bits/mathcalls.h
2515 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
2516 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
2517 for C99-based standards
2518 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
2519 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
2520 math-only
2521 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
2522 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
2523 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
2524 disabled
2525 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
2526 "inexact" exceptions
2527 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
2528 arguments
2529 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
2530 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
2531 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
2532 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
2533 rules
2534 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
2535 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
2536 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
2537 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
2538 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
2539 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
2540 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
2541 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
2542 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
2543 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
2544 from 32bit
2545 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
2546 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
2547 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
2548 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
2549 subnormals
2550 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
2551 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
2552 error on 32-bit architectures
2553 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
2554 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
2555 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
2556 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
2557 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
2558 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
2559 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
2560 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
2561 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
2562 -Os
2563 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
2564 CPU's.
2565 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
2566 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
2567 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
2568 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
2569 architectures
2570 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
aeb47bbc 2571\f
1c7a4a51
JM
2572Version 2.22
2573
2574* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2575
3df5cd98 2576 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
0e569d30
MF
2577 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
2578 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
2579 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
2580 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
2581 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
2582 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
2583 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
2584 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
2585 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
2586 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
2587 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
2588 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
2589 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
2590 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
2591 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
2592 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
2593 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
6fdd5d65
FW
2594 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
2595 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
2959eda9 2596
f7fba805
SL
2597* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
2598 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
2599
2959eda9
AS
2600* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
2601 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
2602 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
2603 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
2604 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
2605 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4a4839c9 2606
42261ad7
FW
2607* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
2608 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
2609 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
2610 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
2611 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
2612
afcd9480
AM
2613* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
2614 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
2615 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
2616
4a4839c9
AO
2617* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
2618 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
2619 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
2620 17998.
2621
b13b96ca
AS
2622* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
2623 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
2624 condition in some applications.
21933112
AS
2625
2626* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
a6336cc4
AS
2627 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
2628 pow, powf.
21933112
AS
2629 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
2630 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
037e4b99
AS
2631 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
2632 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 2633 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
fdb7d390
AZ
2634
2635* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
2636 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
2637 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
2638 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
7fde904c
MF
2639
2640* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
2641 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
2642 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
7493ab25
RM
2643
2644* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
2645 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
2ec11c2b
ZW
2646
2647* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
2648 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
2649 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
2650
a03ba363 2651 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
2ec11c2b
ZW
2652 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
2653 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
1c7a4a51 2654\f
58b930ae
SP
2655Version 2.21
2656
2657* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2658
042e1521 2659 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
5bd80bfe
PP
2660 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
2661 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
2662 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
2663 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
2664 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
2665 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
2666 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
2667 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
2668 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
2669 17892.
2670
46d54873
FW
2671* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
2672 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
2673 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
2674 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
2675 intended.
042e1521
CD
2676
2677* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
2678 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
2679 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
2680 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
2681 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
2682 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
a39208bd 2683
522e6ee3
CLT
2684* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
2685
d3b00f46
AZ
2686* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
2687 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 2688 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
96d6fd6c 2689
8d2c0a59
AZ
2690* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
2691 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
2692 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
2693 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
2694 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
2695 effects being visible outside transactions.
2696
dc400d7b
RE
2697* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
2698 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
ec582ca0 2699
0f9dfe04
L
2700* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
2701
a39208bd
CD
2702* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
2703 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
ebda2f17 2704 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
a39208bd
CD
2705 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
2706 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
fb89b46d 2707
a5357b7c
JL
2708* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
2709 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
2710
e54db0ea
AM
2711* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
2712 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
2713 format.
11e3417a 2714
4863355a
JM
2715* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
2716 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
2717 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
2718
a4ecc9eb
JM
2719* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
2720 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
2721
0d560bbf 2722* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
0781a777
RM
2723
2724* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
2725 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
2726 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
2727 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
6d248857
WN
2728
2729* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
2730 with newer versions of bison.
28c38448
MF
2731
2732* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
2733 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
2734 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
2735 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
2736 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
2737 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
2738 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
2739 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
2740 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
2741 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
2742 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
2743 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
2744 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
2745
2746 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
2747 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
2748 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
2749 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
2750 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
58b930ae 2751\f
d5b396c1
AM
2752Version 2.20
2753
2754* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2755
6a9350c8
JM
2756 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
2757 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
2758 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
2759 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
2760 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
2761 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
2762 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
2763 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
2764 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
2765 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
2766 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
2767 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
2768 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
2769 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
2770 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
0961f7e1 2771
95ee7fb1
SL
2772* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
2773 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
2774 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
2775 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
2776 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 2777 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
95ee7fb1
SL
2778 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
2779 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
2780 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
2781 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
2782
0961f7e1
JL
2783* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
2784 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
2785 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
2786 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
2787 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
f3d338c9 2788
f940b965
RE
2789* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
2790
d0f5b3f8
JM
2791* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
2792 can be used with is 2.6.32.
2793
d6fe5e58
JM
2794* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
2795 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
2796 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
2797 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
2798 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
2799 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
2800
464263cc
JM
2801* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
2802 from ports.
c941736c
JM
2803
2804* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
2805 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
2806 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
2807 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
2808 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
2809 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
2810 test macros defined.
f63c86fe
WN
2811
2812* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5a414ff7
DV
2813
2814* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
2815 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
2816 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
2817 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
2818 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
2819 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
2820 is not built.
d03efb2f
AM
2821
2822* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
2823 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
2824 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
2825 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
2826 invocation.
cfd2ea50
JM
2827
2828* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
2829 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
2830 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
f083450f
RM
2831
2832* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
2833 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
2834 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
2835 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
4e8f95a0
FW
2836
2837* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
2838 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
2839 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
2840 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
2841 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
2842 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
2843 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
2844 additional checks.
9a8a5720
RM
2845
2846* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
2847 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
2848 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
2849 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
2850 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
2851 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
2852 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
2853 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
2854 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
a1a6a401
FW
2855
2856* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
2857 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
2858 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
2859 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
2860 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 2861 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
41488498
FW
2862
2863* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
2864 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
2865 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
2866 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
6c1fd795
DM
2867\f
2868Version 2.19
2869
2870* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2871
fd2f9486
JM
2872 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
2873 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
2874 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
2875 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
2876 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
2877 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
2878 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
2879 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
2880 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
2881 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
ed27ed83
JM
2882 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
2883 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
2884 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
2885 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
2886 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
798212a0
PP
2887 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
2888 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
2889 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
141f3a77 2890
11520a57
CD
2891* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
2892 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
2893
2fe16229
CD
2894* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
2895 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
2896 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
08d76093
CD
2897 extension which uses __block.
2898
303e567a
SP
2899* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
2900 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
2901 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
2902 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
2903 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
2904
141f3a77
SP
2905* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
2906 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
2907 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
2908 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
2909 if malloc fails.
c61b4d41
CD
2910
2911* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
2912 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
2913 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
2914 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
2915 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
91ce4085
FW
2916
2917* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
2918 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
2919 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
2920
ba0d798c
WN
2921* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
2922 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
2923 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
2924 #15856, #15857).
2925
7cbcdb36
SP
2926* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
2927 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
2928
82bab04b 2929* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 2930 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
ddd9fb8f 2931
c5f840fd
MB
2932* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
2933
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CD
2934* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
2935 supported locales.
ddd9fb8f 2936
3e181dda 2937* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
7447ccd9 2938
8a05c252
CL
2939* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
2940
6055173a
JM
2941* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
2942 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
2943 for which the C library was built.
2944
b125d3e5
JM
2945* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
2946 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
2947 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
2948 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
2949 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
2950 in the following circumstances:
2951
2952 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
2953
2954 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
2955 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
2956
d4f66d37
JM
2957* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
2958 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
2959
3e181dda
CD
2960* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
2961 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
e35696c3 2962
ffb89e53
AO
2963* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
2964
5d29ccce
SP
2965* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
2966 transcendental functions have been introduced.
2967
8b7d57cd 2968* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
b125d3e5
JM
2969
2970* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 2971
fd712ef3 2972* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 2973
c688b419
JM
2974* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
2975 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
2976 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
2977 disable some of those declarations.
2978
7011c262 2979* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
029c7b25
JM
2980 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
2981 that did nothing) has also been removed.
0a57b83e
AO
2982
2983* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
2984 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
ee4ec1d7
AK
2985
2986* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
2987 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
2988 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
2989 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
2990 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
2991 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
2992 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
2993 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
2994 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
2995 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
2996 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
2997 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
2998 require recompilation.
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3000Version 2.18
3001
3002* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3003
17db6e8d 3004 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
0432680e
PY
3005 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
3006 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
8c17cb1f
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3007 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
3008 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
3009 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
3010 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
3011 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
3012 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
3013 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
3014 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
3015 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
3016 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
3017 15755, 15759.
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3018
3019* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
3020 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
3021 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
3022 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
3023 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
3024 understands and accepts the risks.
1cef1b19 3025
5b535ac4
AS
3026* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
3027 #15078).
3028
1cef1b19
AS
3029* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
3030 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
7fffbdff 3031
55e4107b
SP
3032* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
3033 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
3034 destructor calls to glibc.
3035
e5c74c63
SP
3036* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
3037 output.
3038
3039* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
3040 non-x86 architectures.
3041
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3042* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
3043
3044* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
3045
3046* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
3047 Richard Henderson.
3048
3049* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
3050
3051* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
3052 Richard Henderson.
3053
3054* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
3055 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
3056
8cfdb7e0
SP
3057* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
3058
57267616
TS
3059* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
3060 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
58206c68 3061
c204ab28
SP
3062* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
3063 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
61dd6208 3064
0748546f
PE
3065* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
3066 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
3067 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
3068
61dd6208
SP
3069* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
3070 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
3071 attributes of a process.
a7cb9d67
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3072
3073* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
3074 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
3075 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
3076 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
3077 mutexes.
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3078
3079* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
3080 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
3081
3082* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
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3083\f
3084Version 2.17
3085
3086* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3087
80ceeaee 3088 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
b4180a5e
AJ
3089 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
3090 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
3091 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
3092 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
3093 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
3094 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
3095 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
3096 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
3097 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
3098 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
3099 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
3100 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
3101 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
3102 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
14bc93a9 3103
95b4f1b6
SE
3104* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
3105
14bc93a9
JL
3106* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
3107 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
7a845b2c 3108
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3109* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
3110 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
3111
7e2bd01f
MS
3112* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
3113
08f43f9b
AK
3114* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
3115 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
3116 zEnterprise z196.
3117 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
3118
84b3fd84
FW
3119* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
3120 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
3121 the internal function __secure_getenv.
3122
815e6fa3
GB
3123* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
3124 Implemented by Gary Benson.
3125
400726de
MK
3126* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
3127 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
3128
7aab07e4 3129* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 3130 can be used with is 2.6.16.
7aab07e4 3131
15d0da8c
WS
3132* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
3133 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
3134
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3135* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
3136 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
c53d909c
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3137 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
3138 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3cc3ef96 3139
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3140* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
3141 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
3142
85429b1a 3143* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 3144 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
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3145 default.
3146
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3147* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
3148 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
3149 information in --help and --version output.
3150
050af9c4
SP
3151* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
3152 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
3153 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
3154
89a3ad0b
AO
3155* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
3156 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
3157 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
3158 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
3159 when the mode is enabled.
3160
6e6249d0
RM
3161* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
3162 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
3163 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
3164 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
3165 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
3166 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
3167 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5a04f376 3168
d9286582
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3169* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
3170 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
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3171\f
3172Version 2.16
3173
3174* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3175
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3176 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
3177 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
3178 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
3179 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
3180 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
3181 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
3182 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
3183 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
3184 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
3185 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
3186 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
3187 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
3188 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
3189 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
3190 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
3191 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
3192 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
3193 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
3194 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
3195 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
3196 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
3197 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
3198 14277, 14278.
380d7e87 3199
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3200* Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
3201 configuring glibc with:
3202 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
3203 Visit <http://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
3204 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3205
380d7e87
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3206* ISO C11 support:
3207
3208 + define static_assert
3209
3210 + do not declare gets
3211
3212 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
3213
3214 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
3215 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
3216 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
3217 implementation.
8d44e150 3218
74033a25 3219 + timespec_get added
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3220
3221 + uchar.h support added
d75a0a62 3222
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3223 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
3224
16dd419d
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3225 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3226
9dc4e1fb 3227* Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
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3228
3229* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
d9a216c0
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3230
3231* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
3232 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
daa891c0
UD
3233
3234* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
3235 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
021db4be
AJ
3236
3237* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
3238 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
3239 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
3240 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
3241 existing applications.
ffb7875d 3242
21708942 3243* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
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3244 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
3245 before 2.6.
83678f76 3246
edb00e4d
RH
3247* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
3248 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
3249 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
3250
83678f76 3251* New locales: mag_IN
7b44a2df
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3252
3253* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
3254 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
3255 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
3256 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
3257 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
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3258
3259* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3260
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
3261* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
3262 and Will Schmidt.
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JM
3263
3264* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
3265
3266* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
3267 without a previously built glibc.
3268
3269* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
3270 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
3271
3272* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
3273 now supported for ARM processors.
3274
3275* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
3276 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
3277 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
3278
3279* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
3280
3281* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
3282 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
3283 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
3284 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
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3285
3286* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
3287 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
3288 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
3289 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
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3290
3291* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
3292 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
3293 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
3294 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
3295 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
3296
3297* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
3298 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
3299 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
3300 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
ee1a7fab 3301\f
e80fab37 3302Version 2.15
11988f8f 3303
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3304* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3305
aebae053
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3306 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
3307 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
3308 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
3309 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
3310 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
3311 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
3312 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
c0244a9d 3313
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3314* New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
3315 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
9f2da732
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3316
3317* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
3318 and support for initgroups lookups.
3319 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3320
3321* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
3322 Contributed by HJ Lu.
8912479f
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3323
3324* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
3325 Contributed by HJ Lu.
99710781 3326
fc2ee42a
LD
3327* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
3328 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 3329 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 3330
d42964a0 3331* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
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3332 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3333
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3334* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
3335 for x86-64 and x86-32.
093ecf92
LD
3336 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3337
c55fbd1e
UD
3338* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
3339 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a0f33f99
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3340
3341* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
3342 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3343
3344* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
3345 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
0ac5ae23
UD
3346
3347* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
3348 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
d9a4d2ab
UD
3349
3350* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
3351 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3352
3353* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
3354 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
78239589
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3355
3356* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
e188ebba
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3357
3358* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
3359 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a1267ba1 3360
f0b264f1
AZ
3361* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
3362 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
2655fd5c 3363
6b64057b 3364* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
e80fab37 3365\f
dded88cd 3366Version 2.14
9f94d2ea 3367
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3368* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3369
553149f6 3370 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 3371 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 3372 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 3373 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
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3374 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
3375 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
3376 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
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3377 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
3378 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 3379 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
50934221 3380
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3381* The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
3382 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
3383 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 3384 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
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3386 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
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3387 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
3388 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
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3389 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3390
c6489db3 3391* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
f1f929d7 3392 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
83fe108b 3393
72d1dddb 3394* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 3395 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
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3397* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
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3399* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
3400 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3402* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
3403 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
3404 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
3405 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
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3408
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3410
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3412 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
3413 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
3414 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
3415 12378, 12394, 12397
ac2b484c 3416
10b3bedc 3417* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
c08fb0d7 3418
ac2b484c 3419* POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
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3421* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
3422 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 3423 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3425Version 2.12
3426
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3427* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3428
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3429 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
3430 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
3431 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
3432 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
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3433 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
3434 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
3435 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 3436 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
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3438* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
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3440* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
3441
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3442* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
3443
3444* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
3445 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
3446 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3447
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3449 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
3450 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
3451 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
3452 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3453
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3457
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3458* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3459
3460 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
3461 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
3462 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
3463 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
3464 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
3465 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
3466
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3467* New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
3468 mkostemps64
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3469 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3470
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3472 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3473
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3474* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
3475 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3476
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3477* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
3478
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9d36a6c4 3480 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 3481 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
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3483
9d36a6c4 3484 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
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3485 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3486
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3487* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
3488 strstr, strcasestr.
3489 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
3490
3491* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
3492 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
3493
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3494* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
3495 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3496
3497* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
3498 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3499
3500* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
3501 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
3502 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
3503 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
3504 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
3505 necessity is every process again.
3506 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3507
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3508* New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
3509 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
3510
3511* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
3512 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
3513
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3514* Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
3515 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
3516 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3517
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3521
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3522* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3523
3524 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
3525 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
3526 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
3527 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
3528 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
3529
bb066545 3530* New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
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3531 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3532
425ce2ed 3533* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
e109c612 3534 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 3535
1fdd89a7 3536* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
735be400 3537 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
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3539* XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
3540 now in POSIX.
77db439e 3541
1f04d005 3542* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6cbe890a 3543 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1f04d005 3544
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3545* New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
3546 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3547
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3548* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
3549 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3550
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3551* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
3552 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3553
3554* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
3555 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
3556 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3557
735be400 3558* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
878b72c5 3559
84aa52d7 3560* Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
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3561 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3562
3563* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
3564 and extend existing format specifiers.
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3565 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3566
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3567* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
3568 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3569
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3570* DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
3571 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
3572 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
3573 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
3574 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
3575 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3577Version 2.9
3578
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3579* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3580
3581 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447, 6461,
3582 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712, 6713,
3583 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839, 6843,
3584 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955, 6966,
3585 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
3586
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3588 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3589
3590* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
3591 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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3592
3593* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
3594 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3595
3596* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
3597 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
3598 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3599
3600* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
3601 Implemented by Eric Blake.
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8ec2550e 3603* New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
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3604
3605* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
ebcc1f4d 3606 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3608* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
3609 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
3610 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
3611 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3612
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3613* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
3614 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3616* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
3617 Sinhala)
48b22986 3618 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
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3619
3620* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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3622Version 2.8
3623
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3624* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3625
3626 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
3627 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
3628 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
3629 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
3630 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
3631 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
3632 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
3633
e038616f 3634* New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
b4354cf4 3635
77751669 3636* New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
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3638* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
3639 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
3640
3641* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
3642
3643* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
3644 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3645
3646* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
3647 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3648
3649* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
3650 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
3651 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3652
3653* Faster memset for x86-64.
3654 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
3655
3656* Faster memcpy on x86.
3657 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3658
3659* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
3660 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3662* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
d990b282 3663 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
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3665Version 2.7
3666
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3667* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3668
3669 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
3670 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
3671 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
3672 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
3673 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
3674
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3675* More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
3676 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3677
3678* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3679
3680* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
3681 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
3682 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3683
3684* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
3685 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
3686
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3688 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3689
3690* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3691
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3692* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
3693 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3694
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3695* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
3696 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3697
3698* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
3699 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
3700
3701* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3702
3703* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
3704 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3706* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
3707 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
3708 yo_NG.
3709
3710+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
3711 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3716
3717 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
3718 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
3719 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
3720 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
3721 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
3722 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
3723 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
3724 4702, 4858
3725
bce20b9a 3726* New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
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3728* New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
3729
b21fa963 3730* nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3732Version 2.5
3733
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3735
3736 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
3737 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
3738 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
3739 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
3740 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
3741 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
3742 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
3743 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
3744 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
3745
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3747 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
3748 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3750* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
3751 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3752
871b9158 3753* New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
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3754
3755* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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3757* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
3758 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
3759 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
457b559e 3760 site might have problems with the default behavior.
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3761 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3762
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3764 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
3765 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
3766 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3767
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3768* The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
3769 Ulrich Drepper.
3770
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3771* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
3772
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3773* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
3774 Ulrich Drepper.
3775
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3776* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
3777
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3778* New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
3779 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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3782
3783* More overflow detection functions.
3784
3785* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
3786 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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3788 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
3789 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
3790 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
3791 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
3792 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
3793 by Masahide Washizawa.
3794
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3795* It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
3796 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3798* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
3799 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
3800 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
3801 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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3803* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
3804 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
3805
3806* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
3807
3808* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
3809 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
3810 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
3811
3812* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
3813 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
3814
3815* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
3816 for compatibility with some other systems.
3817
3818* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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3820Version 2.3.6
3821
3822* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3823
3824 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
3825 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
3826 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
3827 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
3828 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
3829 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
3830
3831 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
3832
3833* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
3834
3835* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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3837Version 2.3.5
3838
3839* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3840
3841 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
3842 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
3843 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
3844 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
3845
3846 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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3848Version 2.3.4
3849
3850* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
3851 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3852
3853* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
3854 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
3855 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3856
3857* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
3858 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
3859
0325dd20 3860* getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
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3861 efficiently.
3862 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3863
3864* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
3865 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
3866 handling data.
3867
3868* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
3869 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
0325dd20 3870 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3872* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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3873 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3874
3875* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
3876 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
3877 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
3878 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3879
3880* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
3881 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
3882 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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3883 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3884
3885* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
3886 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
3887 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
3888 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
3889 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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3891Version 2.3.3
3892
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3893* New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
3894 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
3895
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3896* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
3897 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
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69be6aaf 3899* getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
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3900 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
3901
3902* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
3903 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3905* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
3906 by Roland McGrath.
3907
c5af724c 3908* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
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3909 and Ulrich Drepper.
3910
3911* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
3912 RFC 3484.
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3914Version 2.3.2
3915
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3916* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
3917 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
3918 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
3919 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
3920 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
3921 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
3922 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
3923 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
3924 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
3925
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3926* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
3927 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
3928 and are now also available on the Hurd.
3929
3930* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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3931
3932* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
3933 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
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3935* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
3936 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
3937
52a16e58 3938* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
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3940* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
3941 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
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3942
3943* With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
3944 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
3945 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
3946 of weak definition in ld.so.
3947
3948* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
3949 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
3950
3951* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
3952 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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3956* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
3957 charsets.
3958
3959* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
3960 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
47e8b443 3961
bb0ec5bd 3962* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 3963 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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3964
3965* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
3966 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
8e57fc70 3967
bb0ec5bd 3968* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
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3969 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
3970 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3971
3972* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
3973 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3b0bdc72 3974
bb0ec5bd 3975* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3b0bdc72 3976 implementation of regex.
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3977
3978* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
3979 Unicode 3.2.
be45f421 3980
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3981* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
3982 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
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3984* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
3985 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
3986 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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3987
3988* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
f87277f2 3989 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
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3990
3991* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
3992 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
3993 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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3995* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
3996 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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3997
3998* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
3999 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
4000 and Ulrich Drepper.
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4001
4002* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
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4004Version 2.2.6
4005
4006* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
4007 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
4008
4009* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
4010 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
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4012Version 2.2.5
4013
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4014* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
4015 128-bit long double format.
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4017* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
4018 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
a8ae31c2 4019
ad2e4f18 4020* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
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4022* Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
4023
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4024* libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
4025 as well.
4026
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4027* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
4028 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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4029
4030* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
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4032Version 2.2.4
4033
2995f70e 4034* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 4035 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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4036
4037* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
4038 support Unicode 3.1.
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4039
4040* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
4041 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
045fcd26 4042
69d5f925 4043* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 4044
69d5f925 4045* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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4046 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
4047 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
4048
4049* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
4050 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
4051
4052* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
4053 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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4054
4055* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
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4057Version 2.2.3
4058
1746f2b0 4059* Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
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4060 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
4061 in float, double, and long double format.
4062
f128331c 4063* Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
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4064 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
4065 128-bit long double format.
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4067* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
4068 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
4069 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
4070 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
4071
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4072* An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
4073 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
4074 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4075
4076* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
4077 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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4078
4079* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
4080 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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4081
4082* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
4083 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
4084 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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4085
4086* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
4087 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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4088
4089* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
4090 of functions for Linux/x86.
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4091
4092* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
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4094Version 2.2.2
4095
464d97ec 4096* Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
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4097 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
4098 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
4099 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
4100 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
4101 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
4102 other headers.
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4103
4104* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
4105 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
4106
4107* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
4108 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
4109 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
4110 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
4111
4112* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
4113 locales. While
4114
4115 locale -a
4116
4117 only lists the names of the supported locales
4118
4119 locale -a --verbose
4120
4121 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
4122 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
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4124Version 2.2.1
4125
4126* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
4127 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
4128 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
4129 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
4130 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
4131
4132 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
4133
4134 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
4135
4136 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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4137
4138* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
4139 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
4140 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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4141
4142* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
4143 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
4144
4145* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
4146 changed from the default "C" locale.
4147
4148* The usual bug fixes.
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4150Version 2.2
4151
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4152* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
4153 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
4154 is in progress.
4155
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4156* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
4157
793bd4d9 4158* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
2e92188d 4159
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4160 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
4161 obviously requires a database library being available.
4162
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4163* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4164
abbffdf9 4165* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
01c771d0 4166
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4167* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
4168 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
4169
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4170* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
4171
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4172* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
4173 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
4174 and Mark Kettenis.
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4175
4176 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
4177 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
4178 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 4179
a00c3ca9 4180 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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4181 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
4182
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4183* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
4184 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
4185 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
4186
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4187* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
4188 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
4189 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
4190 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4191
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4192 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
4193 structures for the wide character tables.
4194
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4195* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4196
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4197* The utmp daemon has been removed.
4198
4199* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
4200
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4201* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
4202 and Yutaka Niibe.
4203
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4204* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
4205
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4206* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
4207
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4208* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4209
4210* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
4211
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4212* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
4213
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4214* the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
4215 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
4216 implemented for Linux.
4217
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4218* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
4219 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
4220 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
4221 versions.
4222
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4223* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
4224 Masahide Washizawa.
4225
8f3f1e09 4226* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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4228Version 2.1.3
4229
4230* bug fixes
4231
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4233Version 2.1.2
4234
4235* bug fixes
4236
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4238Version 2.1.1
4239
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4240* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
4241
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4242* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
4243
407d26b7 4244* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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4245
4246* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
4247
407d26b7 4248* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 4249
407d26b7 4250* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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4251
4252* Update timezone data files.
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4254* lots of charmaps corrections
4255
4256* some new locale definitions and charmaps
4257
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4260
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4261* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
4262 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
4263 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
4264 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
4265 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
4266 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
4267
c84142e8 4268* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 4269 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 4270
1fb05e3d 4271* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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4272 symbol level.
4273
4274* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
4275 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
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cbdee279 4277* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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4278
4279* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 4280 numbers.
377a515b 4281
cbdee279 4282* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
e61abf83 4283
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4284* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
4285 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
e61abf83 4286
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4287* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
4288 library.
4289
e61abf83 4290* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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4291 functions from ISO C 9X.
4292
4293* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
4294 real valued functions.
e61abf83 4295
a5a0310d 4296* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
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4298* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
4299
4300* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 4301
440d13e2 4302* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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4304* Optimized string functions have been added.
4305
4306* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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4307
4308* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
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4310* Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
4311 daemon for NSS (nscd).
4312
4313 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
4314 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
4315
0dee6738 4316 user system wall
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0dee6738 4318 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 4319
0dee6738 4320 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 4321
0dee6738 4322 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
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4324 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
4325
4326 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
4327
4328 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
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4330 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
4331 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
0dee6738 4332 horribly slow.
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4334 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
4335 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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4337* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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4339* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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4340
4341* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
4342 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
4343
4344* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
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4346* A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
4347 Bambrough.
4348
4349* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
4350 latest draft standards.
4351
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4352* Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
4353
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4355~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
62595351 4356addseverity NEW: Unix98
48244d09 4357alphasort64 NEW: LFS
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4358argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
4359argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
4360argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
4361argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
4362argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
4363argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
4364argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
4365argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
4366argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
4367argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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4368authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
4369authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
4370authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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4371backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
4372backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
4373backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
4374cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
4375cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
4376cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
4377cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
4378cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
4379cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
4380capget NEW: kernel
4381capset NEW: kernel
4382carg NEW: ISO C 9x
4383cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
4384cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
4385casin NEW: ISO C 9x
4386casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
4387casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
4388casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4389casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4390casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
4391catan NEW: ISO C 9x
4392catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4393catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
4394catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4395catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4396catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4398ccos NEW: ISO C 9x
4399ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
4400ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
4401ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
4402ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
4403ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
4404cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
4405cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
4406cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
4407cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
4408cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
4409cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
4410clearerr_locked REMOVED
4411clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
4412clog NEW: ISO C 9x
4413clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
4414clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
4415clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
4416clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
4417clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
4418conj NEW: ISO C 9x
4419conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
4420conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
4421cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
4422cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
4423cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
4424cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
4425cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
4426cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
4427creal NEW: ISO C 9x
4428crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
4429creall NEW: ISO C 9x
4430creat64 NEW: LFS
4431csin NEW: ISO C 9x
4432csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
4433csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
4434csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4435csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4436csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
4437csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
4438csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
4439csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
4440ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
4441ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4442ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
4443ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4444ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4445ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4446des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
4447ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 4448endutxent NEW: Unix98
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4449exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x
4450exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
4451exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
4452exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
4453exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
4454exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
4455fattach NEW: STREAMS
4456fdetach NEW: STREAMS
4457fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
4458fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
4459fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
4460feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4461fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4462fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
4463fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
4464feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4465feof_locked REMOVED
4466feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4467ferror_locked REMOVED
4468fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4469fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
4470fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
4471fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4472feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4473fflush_locked REMOVED
4474ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
4475ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
4476fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
4477fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4478fileno_locked REMOVED
4479fma NEW: ISO C 9x
4480fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
4481fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
4482fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
4483fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
4484fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
4485fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
4486fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
4487fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
62595351 4488fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
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4489fopen64 NEW: LFS
4490fputc_locked REMOVED
4491fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4492fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4493freopen64 NEW: LFS
4494fseeko NEW: Unix98
4495fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
4496fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
4497fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
4498fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
4499ftello NEW: Unix98
4500ftello64 NEW: LFS
4501ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
4502ftw64 NEW: LFS
4503fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4504gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
4505gamma_r REMOVED
4506gammaf_r REMOVED
4507gammal_r REMOVED
4508getchar_locked REMOVED
4509getdate NEW: Unix98
4510getdate_err NEW: Unix98
4511getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
4512getmsg NEW: STREAMS
4513getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
e980ca92 4514getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
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4515getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
4516getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
4517getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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4518getutxent NEW: Unix98
4519getutxid NEW: Unix98
4520getutxline NEW: Unix98
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4521glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
4522globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
4523gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
4524gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
4525grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
e980ca92 4526host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
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4527iconv NEW: iconv
4528iconv_close NEW: iconv
4529iconv_open NEW: iconv
4530if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
4531if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
4532if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
4533if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
4534in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
4535in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
4536inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
4537isastream NEW: STREAMS
4538iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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4539key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
4540key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
4541key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
4542key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
4543key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
4544key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
4545key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
4546key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
4547key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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4548llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
4549llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4550llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
4551llround NEW: ISO C 9x
4552llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4553llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4554log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
4555log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
4556log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
4557lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
4558lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4559lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
4560lround NEW: ISO C 9x
4561lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4562lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4563lseek64 NEW: LFS
4564makecontext NEW: Unix98
4565mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
4566mmap64 NEW: LFS
4567moncontrol REMOVED
4568modify_ldt NEW: kernel
4569nan NEW: ISO C 9x
4570nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4571nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
4572nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
4573nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4574nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4575netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
4576netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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4577nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
4578nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
4579nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4580nftw NEW: Unix98
4581nftw64 NEW: LFS
4582open64 NEW: LFS
e980ca92 4583passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
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4584pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
4585pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
4586pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
4587pread NEW: Unix98
4588pread64 NEW: LFS
4589printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
4590printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
4591profil_counter REMOVED
4592pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
4593pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
4594ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
4595ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
4596putc_locked REMOVED
4597putchar_locked REMOVED
4598putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
4599putmsg NEW: STREAMS
4600putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
62595351 4601pututxline NEW: Unix98
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4602pwrite NEW: Unix98
4603pwrite64 NEW: LFS
4604readdir64 NEW: LFS
4605readdir64_r NEW: LFS
4606remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
4607remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
4608remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
4609round NEW: ISO C 9x
4610roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4611roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4612rtime NEW: GNU ext.
4613scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
4614scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
4615scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
4616scandir64 NEW: LFS
4617sendfile NEW: kernel
4618setcontext NEW: Unix98
4619setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 4620setutxent NEW: Unix98
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4621sighold NEW: Unix98
4622sigignore NEW: Unix98
4623sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
4624sigrelse NEW: Unix98
4625sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
4626sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
4627sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
4628sincos NEW: GNU ext.
4629sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
4630sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
4631statfs64 NEW: LFS
4632statvfs NEW: Unix98
4633statvfs64 NEW: LFS
4634strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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4635strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
4636strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
4637strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
e980ca92 4638svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
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4639svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
4640svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
4641swapcontext NEW: Unix98
4642tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
4643tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
4644tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
4645tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
4646tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
4647tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
4648trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
4649truncate64 NEW: LFS
4650truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
4651truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
4652umount2 NEW: kernel
4653unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 4654updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 4655user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 4656utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 4657versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
3ef4002b 4658versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
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4659waitid NEW: Unix98
4660wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
4661wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
4662wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
4663wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
4664wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
4665wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
4666wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
4667wcswcs NEW: Unix98
4668wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
4669wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
4670write_profiling REMOVED
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4671xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
4672xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
4673xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
4674xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
4675xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
4676xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
4677xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
4678xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
4679xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
4680xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
4681xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
4682xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
4683xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 4684xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
e980ca92 4685xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 4686~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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4688Version 2.0.6
4689
4690* more bug fixes
4691
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4692\f
4693Version 2.0.5
4694
4695* more bug fixes
4696
4697* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
4698
4699* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
4700
4701* rewrite of cbrt function
4702
4703* update of timezone data
4704\f
4705Version 2.0.4
4706
4707* more bug fixes
4708\f
4709Version 2.0.3
4710
4711* more bug fixes
c84142e8 4712\f
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4713Version 2.0.2
4714
4715* more bug fixes
4716
4717* add atoll function
4718
4719* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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4721* fix math functions
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4722\f
4723Version 2.0.1
4724
4725* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
4726
4727* dynamic loader preserves all registers
4728
4729* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
4730 the ELF dynamic loader.
4731
4732* support for parallel builds is improved
4733\f
40a4b79f 4734Version 2.0
28f540f4 4735
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4736* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
4737 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
4738 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
4739
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4740* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
4741 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
4742 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
4743 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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4744 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
4745 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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4746 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
4747 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
4748 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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4749 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
4750 files in the ELF format.
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4751
4752* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
4753 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
4754
4755* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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4756 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
4757 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
4758 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
4759 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
4760 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
4761 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
4762 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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4763 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
4764 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
4765 about dynamically linked binaries.
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4767* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
4768 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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4769 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
4770 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
4771 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 4772
f7eac6eb 4773* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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4774 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
4775 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
4776 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
4777 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
4778
4779* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
f7eac6eb 4780
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4781* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
4782 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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4783 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
4784 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
4785 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
4786 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
4787 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
4788 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
4789 NSS services available.
5f0e6fc7 4790
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4791* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
4792 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
4793 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
4794
4795* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
4796 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
4797 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
4798
4799* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
4800 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
4801 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
4802 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
4803
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4804* The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
4805 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
4806 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
4807
4808* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
4809 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
4810 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
4811
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4812* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
4813 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
4814
f7eac6eb 4815* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 4816 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 4817 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
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4818 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
4819
4820* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
4821 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
4822 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 4823
71733723 4824* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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4825 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
4826 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
4827 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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4828 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
4829 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 4830 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 4831 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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4832
4833* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
4834 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
4835 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
4836 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
4837 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
4838 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
4839 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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4840
4841* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
4842 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
4843 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
4844 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
4845 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
4846 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
4847
4848* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
4849 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
4850
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4851* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
4852 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
4853 NSS scheme used in glibc.
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4855* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
4856
4857* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
4858 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
4859 their use is discouraged.
4860
4861* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
4862 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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4864* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
4865 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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4866
4867* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
4868 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
4869
4870* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
4871 see <dirent.h>.
4872
4873* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
4874 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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4876 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
4877 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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4879* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
4880 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
4881 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
4882 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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4883
4884* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
4885 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
4886
4887* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
4888 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
4889 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
4890 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
4891 number generator.
4892
4893* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
4894 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
4895
4896* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
4897 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
4898
71733723 4899* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 4900 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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4902 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
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4904* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
4905
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4906* David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
4907 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
4908 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
4909
4910* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
4911 for arithmetic and string handling.
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c709e372 4913* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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4914 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
4915 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
4916 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
4917
4918* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
4919 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
4920 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
4921 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
4922 programs already written to use it.)
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4923
4924* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
4925 constants.
4926
4927* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
4928 with 4.4 BSD.
4929
4930* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
4931 a given effective group ID.
4932
4933* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
4934 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
4935 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
4936 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
4937
4938* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 4939 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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4940 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
4941 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
4942 doing the same thing.
4943
4944* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
4945 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
4946
4947* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 4948 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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4949
4950* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
4951
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4952* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
4953 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
4954 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 4955 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 4956 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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4957
4958* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
4959 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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4961* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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4962 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
4963 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
4964 function.
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4965
4966* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
4967
4968* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
4969 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
4970 strings.
4971
4972* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
4973 and writing the utmp file.
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4974
4975* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
4976 Thorsten Kukuk.
4977
4978* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
4979 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
4980 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
4981
4982* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
4983 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
4984
4985* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
4986 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
4987 specification.
4988
4989* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
4990 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
4991 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
4992 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
4993
4994* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
4995 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
4996 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
4997
4998* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
4999 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
5000 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
5001 expression matcher.
5002
5003* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
5004 functionality.
5005
5006* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
5007 by Ulrich Drepper.
5008
5009* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
5010
5011* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
5012 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
5013 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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5014\f
5015Version 1.09
5016
5017* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
5018
5019* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
5020 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
5021
5022* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
5023 want to put themselves in the background.
5024
5025* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
5026 run without an operating system.
5027
5028* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
5029 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
5030
5031* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
5032 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
5033
5034* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
5035
5036* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
5037 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
5038 have YP (aka NIS).
5039
5040* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
5041 conventions.
5042
5043* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
5044 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
5045\f
5046Version 1.08
5047
5048* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
5049 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
5050 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
5051
5052* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
5053 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
5054
5055* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
5056 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
5057
5058* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
5059
5060* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
5061
5062* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
5063 compatibility.
5064
5065* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
5066 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
5067 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
5068
5069* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
5070
5071* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
5072 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
5073 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
5074
5075* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
5076 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
5077 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
5078 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
5079 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
5080 on a block).
5081
5082* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
5083 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
5084 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
5085 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
5086 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
5087 cross-compiler.
5088
5089* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
5090 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
5091\f
5092Version 1.07
5093
5094* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
5095 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
5096
5097* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
5098 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
5099 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
5100
5101* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
5102 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
5103 address of the last character written.
5104
5105* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
5106 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
5107
5108* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
5109 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
5110
5111* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
5112 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
5113 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
5114 you dereference this pointer.
5115
5116* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
5117 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
5118
5119* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
5120 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
5121 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
5122 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
5123
5124* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
5125 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
5126 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
5127 EAGAIN in every system call function.
5128\f
5129Version 1.06
5130
5131* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
5132 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
5133 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
5134 in Emacs or the `info' program.
ea278354 5135 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
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5136
5137* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
5138
5139* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
5140
5141* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
5142 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
5143
5144* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
5145 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
5146
5147* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
5148 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
5149
5150* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
5151 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
5152 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
5153 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
5154 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
5155
5156* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
5157 to the error code in `errno'.
5158
5159* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
5160 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
5161 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
5162 malloc'd string.
5163
5164* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
5165 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
5166 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
5167
5168* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
5169 uniquely-named temporary file.
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5171Version 1.05
5172
5173* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
5174 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
5175 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
5176
5177* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
5178 characters.
5179
5180* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
5181 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
5182
5183* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
5184\f
5185Version 1.04
5186
5187* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
5188 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
5189 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
5190 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
5191
5192* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
5193 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
5194 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
5195
5196* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
5197 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
5198
5199* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
5200 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
5201 made itself into a shared library.
5202
5203* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
5204 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
5205
5206* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
5207 with limited length.
5208
5209* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
5210
5211* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
5212
5213* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
5214
5215* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
5216 function for traversing a directory tree.
5217
5218* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
5219 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
5220 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
5221 formatted output directly to an obstack.
5222
5223* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
5224 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
5225
5226* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
5227
5228* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
5229 things to your strings.
5230
5231* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
5232
5233* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
5234 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
5235 supporting those systems.
5236
5237* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
5238 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
5239 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
5240 configuration files.
5241
5242* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
5243 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
5244
5245* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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5246 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
5247 in <strings.h>.)
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5248
5249* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
5250 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
5251 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
5252 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
5253 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
5254 required storage is not available.
5255
5256* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
5257 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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5258
5259* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
5260 latest files released from Berkeley.
5261\f
5262----------------------------------------------------------------------
5263Copyright information:
5264
09533208 5265Copyright (C) 1992-2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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5266
5267 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
5268 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
5269 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
5270 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
5271
5272 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
5273 of this document, or of portions of it,
5274 under the above conditions, provided also that they
5275 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
5276\f
5277Local variables:
5278version-control: never
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