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ee9247c3 1GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
04277e02 2Copyright (C) 1992-2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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3See the end for copying conditions.
4
a306c790 5Please send GNU C library bug reports via <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
69be6aaf 6using `glibc' in the "product" field.
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8Version 2.29
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10Major new features:
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12* The getcpu wrapper function has been added, which returns the currently
13 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
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15* A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
16 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
17 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
18 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
19 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
20 configured location.
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424c4f60 22* Optimized generic exp, exp2, log, log2, pow, sinf, cosf, sincosf and tanf.
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24* The reallocarray function is now declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE, not just
25 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
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27* For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
28 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
29 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
30 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
31 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
32 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
33 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
34 process actually does not use HTM).
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36* The functions posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np and
37 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
38 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
39 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
40 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
41 of the same name.
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43* The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
44 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
45 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
5fc3eca7 46 inconsistent mutex state after a fork call in a multi-threaded process.
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47 In both popen and system there is no direct access to user-defined mutexes.
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49* Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
50 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
51 supported:
52 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
53 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
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55* strftime's default formatting of a locale's alternative year (%Ey)
56 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
57 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
58 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
59 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
60 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
61 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
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63* As a GNU extension, the '_' and '-' flags can now be applied to
64 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
65 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
66
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67Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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69* The glibc.tune tunable namespace has been renamed to glibc.cpu and the
70 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
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72* The type of the pr_uid and pr_gid members of struct elf_prpsinfo, defined
73 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
74 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
75 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
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77* For the MIPS n32 ABI, the type of the pr_sigpend and pr_sighold members of
78 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
79 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
80 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
81 structures.
82
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83* An archaic GNU extension to scanf, under which '%as', '%aS', and '%a[...]'
84 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
85 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
86 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
87 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
88 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
89
90 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
91 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
92 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
93 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
94 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
95
96 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
97 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
98 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
99
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100Changes to build and runtime requirements:
101
c6982f7e 102* Python 3.4 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
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104* On most architectures, GCC 5 or later is required to build the GNU C
105 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
106
107 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
108 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
109
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110Security related changes:
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112 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
113 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
114 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
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116 CVE-2019-6488: On x32, the size_t parameter may be passed in the lower
117 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
118 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
119 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
120 Reported by H.J. Lu.
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122 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
123 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
124 or command injection issues in applications.
125
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126The following bugs are resolved with this release:
127
128 [The release manager will add the list generated by
129 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
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132Version 2.28
133
134Major new features:
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136* The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
137 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
138 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
139 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
140 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
141 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
142 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
143 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
144 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
145 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
146 archive or binary locales.
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148* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for Intel CET, AKA
149 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
150 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
151 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
152 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
153 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
154 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
155 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
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156 Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
157 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
158 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
159 validated for i686.
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161* The GNU C Library now has correct support for ABSOLUTE symbols
162 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
163 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
164 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
165 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
166 field) to indicate such support is required.
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168* Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
169 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
170 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
171
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172* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
173 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
174
175 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
176 fMxaddfNx functions.
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178 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
179 fMxsubfNx functions.
180
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181 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
182 fMxmulfNx functions.
183
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184 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
185 fMxdivfNx functions.
186
e607a352 187* Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
df467d22 188 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
9145f033 189 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
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190 support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
191 and Kashubian.
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61c4aad7 193* Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
e607a352 194 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
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196* Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
197 patches.
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199* The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
200 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
201 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
202 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
203 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
204 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
205 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
206 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
207
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208* The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
209 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
210 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
211 the fstatat64 function.
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213* IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
214 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
215 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
216 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
217 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
218 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
219 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
220 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
221 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
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223* Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
224 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
225 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
226 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
227 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
228 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
229 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
230 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
231 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
232 results in a load failure now.
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234* Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The
235 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
236 <threads.h>:
237
238 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
239 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
240
241 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
242 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
243
244 - call_once for function call synchronization.
245
246 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
247 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
248
249 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
250
251 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
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253Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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255* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
256 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
257 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
258
259* The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
260 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
261 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
262 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
263 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
264 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
265
266* All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
267 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
268 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
269 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
270 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
271 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
272 (Bug #1190.)
273
274* The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
275 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
276 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
277 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
278 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
279 further explanation.
280
281 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
282 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
283 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
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285* The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
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287* The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
288 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
289 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
290
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291* The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
292 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
293 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
294 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
295
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296* The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
297 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
298 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
299 for this function instead.
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301* The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
302 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
303 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
304
305* The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
306 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
307 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
308 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
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310* The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
311 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
312 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
313 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
314 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
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316* The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
317 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
318 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
319 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
320 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
321 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
322 such as libgcrypt.
323
324* Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
325 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
326 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
327 enabled.
328
329* The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
330 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
331 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
332
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333* We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
334 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
335 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
336 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
337 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
338 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
339
340 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
341 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
342 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
343 behavior in a future release.
344
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345Changes to build and runtime requirements:
346
f2873d2d 347 GNU make 4.0 or later is now required to build glibc.
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349Security related changes:
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351 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
352 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
353 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
354 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
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356 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
357 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
358
359 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
360 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
361 Izbyshev.
362
363 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
364 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
365 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
366
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367The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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369 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
370 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
371 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
372 when __WORDSIZE != 64
373 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
374 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
375 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
376 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
377 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
378 14651
379 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
380 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
381 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
382 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
383 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
384 conversion is given
385 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
386 date
387 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
388 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
389 scope with -O1 and higher
390 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
391 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
392 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
393 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
394 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
395 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
396 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
397 horrible machine code)
398 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
399 last constant.
400 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
401 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
402 symbols
403 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
404 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
405 defined
406 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
407 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
408 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
409 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
410 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
411 fpscr.c'
412 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
413 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
414 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
415 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
416 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
417 the base address
418 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
419 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
420 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
421 open_verify
422 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
423 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
424 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
425 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
426 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
427 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
428 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
429 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
430 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
431 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
432 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
433 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
434 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
435 dlopen
436 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
437 AT_SECURE=1
438 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
439 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
440 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
441 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
442 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
443 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
444 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
445 for Spanish with CLDR
446 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
447 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
448 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
449 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
450 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
451 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
452 es_BO
453 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
454 CLOCKS_PER_SECOND
455 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
456 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
457 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
458 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
459 dlopen failures
460 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
461 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
462 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
463 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
464 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
465 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
466 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
467 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
468 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
469 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
470 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
471 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
472 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
473 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
474 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
475 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
476 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
477 makecontext
478 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
479 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
480 required
481 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
482 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
483 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
484 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
485 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
486 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
487 disabled
488 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
489 failure
490 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
491 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
492 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
493 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
494 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
495 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
496 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
497 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
498 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
499 and libc build with -Os)
500 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
501 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
502 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
503 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
504 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
505 that changes /etc/passwd
506 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
507 (CVE-2018-11237)
508 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
509 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
510 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
511 posix/regcomp.c
512 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
513 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
514 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
515 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
516 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
517 AT_SECURE
518 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
519 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
520 parser.c
521 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
522 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
523 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
524 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
525 directed rounding
526 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
527 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
528 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
529 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
530 lookup
531 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
532 interposition
533 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
534 DSO boundaries.
535 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
536 <linux/time.h>
537 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
538 checking
539 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
540 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
541 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
542 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
543 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
544 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
545 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
546 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
547 processors
548 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
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551Version 2.27
552
553Major new features:
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556 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
bd7bbb26 557 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
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558 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
559 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
560 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
561 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
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562 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
563 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
9d7a3741 564
ac817e08 565* Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
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567 H.J. Lu from Intel.
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570
4cf82d23 571* Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
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573* In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
574 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
575 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
576 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
577 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
578 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
579 from a security and performance perspective.
580
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582 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
583 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
584 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
585
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588 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
589 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
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590 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
591
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594 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
595 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
596 _Float128.
597
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599 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
600 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
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604* Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
605 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
606 pkey_get.
607
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609
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610* Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
611
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612* The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
613 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
614 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
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617 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
618 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
619 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
620 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
621 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
622 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
623
624 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
625 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
626 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
627 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
628 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
629 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
630 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
631
632 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
633 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
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635 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
636 respectively.
637
638 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
639 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
640 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
641 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
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643 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
644 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
645 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
646
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648 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
0a32e219 649 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
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652 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
653 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
654
655 - rv64imac lp64
656 - rv64imafdc lp64
657 - rv64imafdc lp64d
658
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660
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662 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
d4ae7827 663 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
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665 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
666 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
667 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
668 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
669 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
670 fix this.
671
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672* Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
673 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
674 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
675
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676* Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
677 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
678 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
679 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
680 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
681 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
682 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
683 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
684 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
685 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
686 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
687 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
688 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
689 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
690 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
691 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
692 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
693 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
694 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
695 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
696 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
697 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
698 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
699 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
700 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
701 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
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704 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
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707 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
708 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
709 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
710 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
711 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
712 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
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714* The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
715 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
716 exp10l for these functions instead.
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718* The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
719 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
720 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
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722* The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
723 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
724 ignored.
725
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726* The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
727 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
728 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
729 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
730
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731* The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
732 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
733
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734* In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
735 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
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737* The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
738 programs.
739
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740* The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
741
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742* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
743 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
744 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
745 instead.
746
747 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
748 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
749 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
750 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
751 use, but predates the bits convention.
752
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754
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755* bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
756 subdirectory.
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758Security related changes:
759
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760 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
761 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
762 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
763 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
764 script.)
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767 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
768 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
769 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
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771 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
772 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
773 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
774 of service.
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777 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
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778 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
779
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780 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
781 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
782 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
783 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
784
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785 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
786 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
787 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
788 Qualys.
789
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790 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
791 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
792 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
793 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
794 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
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796 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
797 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
798 current directory.
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801 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
802 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
803
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804 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
805 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
806 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
807
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808 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
809 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
810 small, instead of NULL.
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815 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
816 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
817 locale
818 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
819 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
820 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
821 cases
822 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
823 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
824 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
825 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
826 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
827 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
828 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
829 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
830 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
831 "Bangla"
832 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
833 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
834 width Latin characters
835 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
836 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
837 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
838 letters
839 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
840 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
841 (CVE-2009-5064)
842 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
843 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
844 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
845 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
846 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
847 if malloc succeeded
848 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
849 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
850 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
851 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
852 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
853 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
854 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
855 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
856 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
857 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
858 U+309A
859 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
860 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
861 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
862 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
863 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
864 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
865 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
866 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
867 for Nicaragua
868 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
869 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
870 are not found.
871 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
872 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
873 access
874 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
875 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
876 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
877 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
878 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
879 __regcall calling convention
880 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
881 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
882 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
883 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
884 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
885 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
886 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
887 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
888 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
889 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
890 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
891 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
892 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
893 locale
894 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
895 protector=all
896 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
897 wcwidth
898 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
899 consistency check failures
900 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
901 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
902 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
903 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
904 PIE
905 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
906 locales
907 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
908 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
909 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
910 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
911 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
912 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
913 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
914 on memory allocation failure
915 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
916 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
917 the suspect)
918 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
919 default (i386)
920 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
921 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
922 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
923 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
924 instead of EAI_NODATA
925 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
926 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
927 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
928 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
929 implementation
930 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
931 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
932 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
933 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
934 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
935 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
936 allocation in syscall loops)
937 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
938 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
939 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
940 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
941 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
942 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
943 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
944 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
945 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
946 occur with -O3
947 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
948 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
949 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
950 amounts)
951 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
952 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
953 niu_NZ
954 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
955 checks
956 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
957 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
958 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
959 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
960 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
961 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
962 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
963 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
964 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
965 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
966 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
967 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
968 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
969 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
970 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
971 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
972 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
973 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
974 parsing after OOM
975 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
976 object
977 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
978 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
979 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
980 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
981 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
982 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
983 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf oupts a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
984 ppc64le
985 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
986 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
987 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
988 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
989 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
990 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
991 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
992 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
993 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
994 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
995 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
996 math_force_eval
997 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
998 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
999 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
1000 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
1001 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
1002 the svid compat wrapper
1003 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
1004 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
1005 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
1006 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
1007 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
1008 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
1009 --verbose.
1010 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
1011 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
1012 to 2.26
1013 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
1014 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
1015 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
1016 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
1017 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
1018 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
1019 (CVE-2017-15804)
1020 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
1021 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
1022 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
1023 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
1024 failure."
1025 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
1026 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
1027 -m32
1028 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
1029 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
1030 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
1031 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
1032 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
1033 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
1034 inside the ASCII printable range
1035 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
1036 -mlong-double-64
1037 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
1038 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
1039 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
1040 Internet
1041 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
1042 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
1043 backslash
1044 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
1045 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
1046 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
1047 heaps in an arena
1048 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
1049 networking interface
1050 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
1051 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
1052 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
1053 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
1054 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
1055 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
1056 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
1057 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
1058 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
1059 order
1060 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1061 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1062 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1063 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1064 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1065 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
1066 same as for Croatian
1067 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
1068 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
1069 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
1070 for initial thread"
1071 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
1072 SC_SSIZE_MAX
1073 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
1074 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
1075 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1076 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
1077 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
1078 (CVE-2017-1000408)
1079 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
1080 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
1081 modified in case of success
1082 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
1083 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
1084 success
1085 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
1086 stack-protector=all
1087 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
1088 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
1089 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
1090 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
1091 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
1092 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
1093 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
1094 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
1095 adding it on top
1096 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
1097 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
1098 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
1099 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
1100 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
1101 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
1102 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
1103 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
1104 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
1105 (CVE-2018-1000001)
1106 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
1107 elision and tunables
1108 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
1109 "invalid" exception
1110 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
1111 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
1112 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
1113 exception
1114 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
1115 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
1116 power4
1117 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
1118 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
1119 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
1120 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
1121 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
1122 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
1123 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
1124 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
1125 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
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1128Version 2.26
1129
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1130Major new features:
1131
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1132* A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
1133 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
1134 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
1135 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
1136 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
1137 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
1138 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
1139
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1140* Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1141 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
0b38d66a 1142 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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1143 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
1144 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
1145 are rendered with pango, see for example:
1146 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
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1148* Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
1149 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
1150 Egmont Koblinger.
e4e79484 1151
2b2ccd0c 1152* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
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1154 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
1155 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
1156 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
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1158 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
1159 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
1160 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
1161 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
1162 object are still limited to six search domains.
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1164 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
1165 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
1166 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
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1168* The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
1169 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
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1171* New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
1172 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
1173 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
1174 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
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1176* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
1177 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
1178 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
1179 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
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1181* posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
1182 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
1183 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
1184 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
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1186* errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
1187 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
1188 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
12d2dd70 1189
2b2ccd0c 1190* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
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1191 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
1192 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
1193 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
2c0b90ab 1194
2b2ccd0c 1195 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
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1197 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
1198 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
1199 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
1200
1201 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
1202 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
1203 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
1204 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
1205 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
1206 interfaces should be used instead.
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1208Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1209
1210* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
1211 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
1212 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
1213 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
1214 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
1215 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
1216 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
1217 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
1218
1219* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
1220 removed.
1221
1222* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
7e368000 1223 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
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1224 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
1225 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
1226
1227* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
1228 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
1229 default.
1230
1231 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
1232 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
1233 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
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1234 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
1235 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
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1237 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
1238 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
1239 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
1240 name service modules, to be built and installed.
1241
1242* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
1243 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
1244 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
1245 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
1246
1247* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
1248 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
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1250* The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
1251 exported by accident.
1252
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1253* <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
1254 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
1255 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
1256
1257* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
1258 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
1259 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
1260 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
1261
1262* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
1263
1264* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
1265
1266* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
1267 free instead.
1268
1269* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
1270 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1271
1272* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
1273 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1274
1275* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
1276 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
1277 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
1278 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
1279 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
1280 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
1281 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
1282 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
1283
1284* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
1285 synced with the kernel:
1286
1287 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
1288 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
1289
1290 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
1291 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
1292 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
1293
1294 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
1295 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
1296
1297Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1298
1299* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
1300 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
1301 x86-32 and x86-64.)
1302
7e368000 1303* GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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1306 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
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1308 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
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1310 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
1311 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2b2ccd0c 1312 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
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1315
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1317 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
1318
1319* LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
1320 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
1321
1322* Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
1323 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
1324 (CVE-2010-3192).
1325
1326* A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
1327 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
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1329The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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1331 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
1332 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
1333 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
1334 fields
1335 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
1336 (CVE-2010-3192)
1337 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
1338 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
1339 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
1340 ld.bfd is available
1341 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
1342 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
1343 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
1344 x86 and other generic code
1345 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
1346 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
1347 incorrect
1348 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
1349 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
1350 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
1351 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
1352 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
1353 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
1354 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
1355 resolver
1356 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
1357 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
1358 order of 0D36 and 0D37
1359 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
1360 chillu characters
1361 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
1362 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
1363 receiving data
1364 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
1365 whitespace
1366 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
1367 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
1368 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
1369 for Peru
1370 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
1371 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
1372 failures consistently
1373 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
1374 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
1375 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
1376 frame-pointer on i386
1377 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
1378 register
1379 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
1380 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
1381 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
1382 generic c code is used
1383 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
1384 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
1385 around 4000
1386 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
1387 (CVE-2017-12133)
1388 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
1389 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
1390 with -lieee
1391 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
1392 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
1393 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
1394 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
1395 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
1396 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
1397 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
1398 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
1399 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
1400 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
1401 remove()
1402 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
1403 checked for errors.
1404 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
1405 new posix_spawn implementation
1406 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
1407 leads to lower CPU frequency
1408 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
1409 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
1410 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
1411 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
1412 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
1413 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
1414 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
1415 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
1416 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
1417 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
1418 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
1419 not support gethostbyname4_r
1420 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
1421 switching
1422 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
1423 arenas
1424 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
1425 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
1426 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
1427 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
1428 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
1429 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
1430 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
1431 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
1432 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
1433 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
1434 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
1435 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
1436 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
1437 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
1438 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
1439 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
1440 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
1441 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
1442 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
1443 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
1444 retry value
1445 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
1446 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
1447 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
1448 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
1449 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
1450 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
1451 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
1452 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
1453 [21537] libc:
1454 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
1455 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
1456 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
1457 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
1458 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
1459 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
1460 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
1461 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
1462 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
1463 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
1464 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
1465 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
1466 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
1467 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
1468 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
1469 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
1470 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
1471 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
1472 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
1473 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
1474 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
1475 issue on x86-64
1476 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
1477 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
1478 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
1479 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
1480 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
1481 construction
1482 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
1483 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
1484 between_2_3
1485 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
1486 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
1487 conditions
1488 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
1489 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
1490 Hindi Locale
1491 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
1492 posix/sched_cpucount.c
1493 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
1494 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
1495 locale
1496 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
1497 leading to relocation crash
1498 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
1499 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
1500 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
1501 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
1502 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
1503 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
1504 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
1505 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
1506 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
1507 locale
1508 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
1509 locale
1510 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
1511 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
1512 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
1513 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
1514 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
1515 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
1516 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
1517 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
1518 strings
1519 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
1520 protector=all
1521 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
1522 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
1523 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
1524 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
1525 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
1526 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
1527 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
1528 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
1529 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
1530 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
1531 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
1532 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
1533 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
1534 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
1535 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
1536 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
1537 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
1538 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
1539 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
1540 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
1541 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
1542 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
1543 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
1544 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
1545 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
1546 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
1547 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
1548 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
1549 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
1550 with unicode 9.0
1551 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
1552 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
1553 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
1554 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
1555 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
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1558Version 2.25
1559
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1560* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
1561 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
1562 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
1563 Library.
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1565* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
1566 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
a5ac5676 1567 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
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1568 the GNU C Library.
1569
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1570* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
1571 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
1572 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
1573 the GNU C Library.
1574
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1575* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
1576 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
1577 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
1578 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
1579 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
1580 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
1581 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
1582 will not.
1583
1584 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
1585 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
1586 many years.
1587
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1588* The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
1589 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
1590 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
1591
1592 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
1593 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
1594 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
1595 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
1596 problem.
1597
ec94343f 1598* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
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1599 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
1600 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
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1602* Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
1603 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
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1604 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
1605 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
1606 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
1607 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
1608 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
1609 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
1610 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
1611 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
1612 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
1613 WINT_WIDTH.
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1615* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
1616
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1617 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
1618
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1619 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
1620 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
1621 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
41c67149 1622
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1623 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
1624 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
1625
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1626 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
1627 fminmagf, fminmagl.
1628
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1629 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
1630
29cb9293 1631 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
d942e95c 1632
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1633 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
1634 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
5e9d98a3 1635
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1636 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
1637
eb3c12c7 1638 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
457663a7 1639 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
f8e8b8ed 1640
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1641* The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
1642 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
1643
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1644* Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
1645 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
1646 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
1647
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1648* The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
1649 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
1650 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
1651 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
1652 effects of the memory clear).
1653
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1654* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
1655 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
1656 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
1657 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
1658
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1659* On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
1660 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
1661 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
1662 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
1663 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
1664 if they are compiled or used with those options.
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1666* The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
1667 have been added.
1668
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1669* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
1670 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
1671 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
1672 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
1673 as large as several megabytes.
1674
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1675* The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
1676 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
1677 been removed.
1678
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1679* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
1680 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
1681 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
1682 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
1683 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
1684 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
1685 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
1686
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1687* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
1688 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
1689 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
1690 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
1691
099191b1 1692* The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
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1693 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
1694 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
1695 Internet.
1696
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1697* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
1698 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
1699 They were already unimplemented.
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1701* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
1702 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
1703 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
1704 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
1705
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1706* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
1707 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
1708 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
1709 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
1710 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
1711
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1712* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
1713 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
1714 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
1715 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
1716 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
1717
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1718* The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
1719 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
1720 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
1721 did not reflect that.
1722
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1723* For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
1724 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
1725 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
1726 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
1727 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
1728 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
1729 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
1730 'gcc/config.gcc'.
1731
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1732* GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
1733 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
1734 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
1735 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
1736
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1737* Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
1738 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
1739 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
1740 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
1741
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1742* A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
1743 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
1744 guarantees.
1745
1746* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
1747 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
1748 make state changes.
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1750Security related changes:
1751
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1753 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
1754 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
1755 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
056dd72a 1756 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
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1758* The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
1759 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
1760 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
1761 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
1762 (CVE-2015-5180)
1763
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1764The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1765
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1766 [4099] stdio: Overly agressive caching by stream i/o functions.
1767 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
1768 protector-all
1769 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
1770 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
1771 before it started waiting
1772 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
1773 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
1774 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
1775 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
1776 wrong type
1777 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
1778 library linked with pthread
1779 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
1780 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
1781 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
1782 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
1783 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
1784 after being __libc_memalign()'d
1785 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
1786 when it shouldnt
1787 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
1788 not
1789 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
1790 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
1791 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
1792 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
1793 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
1794 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
1795 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
1796 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
1797 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
1798 termination
1799 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
1800 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
1801 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
1802 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
1803 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
1804 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
1805 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
1806 causes a segmentation fault
1807 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
1808 linking
1809 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
1810 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
1811 uninitialized GOT
1812 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
1813 versions
1814 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
1815 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
1816 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
1817 is always true.
1818 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
1819 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
1820 modes
1821 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
1822 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
1823 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
1824 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
1825 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
1826 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
1827 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
1828 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
1829 libpthread.a
1830 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
1831 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
1832 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
1833 _res_hconf
1834 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
1835 information.
1836 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
1837 penalty
1838 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
1839 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
1840 cause transition penalty
1841 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
1842 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
1843 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
1844 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
1845 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
1846 mcount.oS)
1847 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
1848 Checking
1849 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
1850 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
1851 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
1852 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
1853 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
1854 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
1855 multi-arch
1856 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
1857 (RES_USEBSTRING)
1858 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
1859 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
1860 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
1861 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
1862 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
1863 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
1864 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
1865 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
1866 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
1867 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
1868 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
1869 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
1870 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
1871 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
1872 glibc
1873 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
1874 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
1875 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
1876 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
1877 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
1878 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
1879 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
1880 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
1881 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
1882 U+20AC), not same as GBK
1883 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
1884 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
1885 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
1886 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
1887 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
1888 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
1889 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
1890 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
1891 RES_USE_INET6
1892 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1893 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
1894 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
1895 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
1896 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
1897 wrong condition
1898 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1899 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
1900 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
1901 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
1902 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
1903 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
1904 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
1905 clang
1906 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
1907 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
1908 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
1909 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
1910 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
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1912Version 2.24
1913
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1914* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
1915 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
1916 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
1917 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
1918 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
1919 architectures.
1920
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1921* The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
1922 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
1923 been included in previous releases.
11fca961 1924
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1925* The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
1926 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
1927
b49ab5f4
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1928* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
1929 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
1930 instead of “union wait”.
1931
ced8f893
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1932* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
1933 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
1934 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
1935 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
1936 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
1937 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
1938 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
1939
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1940* The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
1941 API.
1942
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1943* The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
1944 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
1945 drop it.
6a54bcda 1946
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1947* nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
1948 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
1949 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
1950 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
1951 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
1952 extensions.
1953
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1954Security related changes:
1955
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1956* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
1957 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
1958 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
1959
4ab2ab03
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1960* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
1961 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
1962 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
1963 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
11fca961 1964
5171f307
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1965* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
1966 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
1967 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
1968
bc779a1a
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1969* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
1970 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
1971 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
1972
fab38231
FW
1973* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
1974 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
1975 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
1976 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
1977
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1978The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1979
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1980 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
1981 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
1982 of MS-DOS.
1983 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
1984 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
1985 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
1986 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
1987 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
1988 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
1989 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
1990 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
1991 CLDR data
1992 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
1993 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
1994 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
1995 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
1996 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
1997 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
1998 romanisation
1999 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
2000 and +/-
2001 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
2002 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
2003 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
2004 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
2005 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
2006 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
2007 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
2008 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
2009 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
2010 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
2011 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
2012 all locales
2013 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
2014 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
2015 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
2016 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
2017 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
2018 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
2019 execute
2020 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
2021 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
2022 -Wsystem-headers
2023 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
2024 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
2025 Romanian locale data
2026 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
2027 symbol
2028 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
2029 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
2030 language
2031 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
2032 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
2033 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
2034 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
2035 machine
2036 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
2037 description
2038 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
2039 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
2040 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
2041 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
2042 when using RTLD_NEXT
2043 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
2044 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
2045 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
2046 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
2047 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
2048 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
2049 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
2050 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
2051 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
2052 Excavator core
2053 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2054 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2055 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2056 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
2057 double range
2058 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
2059 part zero incorrect
2060 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
2061 equality tests
2062 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
2063 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
2064 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
2065 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
2066 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
2067 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
2068 glibc-2.22
2069 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
2070 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
2071 'tst-numeric.c'
2072 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
2073 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
2074 low part
2075 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
2076 result
2077 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
2078 unaligned stack
2079 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
2080 pointers and lengths in error-case.
2081 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
2082 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
2083 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
2084 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
2085 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
2086 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
2087 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
2088 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
2089 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
2090 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
2091 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
2092 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
2093 modes
2094 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
2095 server addresses
2096 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
2097 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
2098 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
2099 response to getaddrinfo
2100 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
2101 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
2102 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
2103 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
2104 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
2105 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
2106 sometimes incorrect
2107 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
2108 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
2109 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
2110 record types
2111 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
2112 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
2113 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
2114 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
2115 (CVE-2016-3075)
2116 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
2117 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
2118 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
2119 resolving symbols
2120 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
2121 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
2122 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
2123 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
2124 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
2125 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
2126 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
2127 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
2128 gethosts
2129 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
2130 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
2131 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
2132 (CVE-2016-3706)
2133 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
2134 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
2135 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
2136 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
2137 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
2138 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
2139 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
2140 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
2141 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
2142 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
2143 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
2144 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
2145 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
2146 executable
2147 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
2148 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
2149 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
2150 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
2151 XPG3
2152 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
2153 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
2154 (CVE-2016-4429)
2155 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
2156 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
2157 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
2158 AS not supporting AVX512
2159 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
2160 sNaN argument
2161 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2162 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
2163 argument
2164 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
2165 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
2166 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
2167 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
2168 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
2169 eax=0x80000001
2170 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
2171 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
2172 subnormals
2173 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
2174 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
2175 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
2176 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2177 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2178 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
2179 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2180 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
2181 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
2182 input
2183 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2184 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2185 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2186 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2187 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2188 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2189 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2190 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
2191 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
2192 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
2193 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
2194 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
2195 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
2196 double rounding
2197 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
2198 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
2199 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
2200 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
2201 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
2202 (Only arm/linux)
2203 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
2204 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
2205 fallbacks
2206 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
2207 "invalid" exceptions
2208 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
2209 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
2210 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
2211 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
2212 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
2213 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
2214 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
2215 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
2216 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
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2220* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2221 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
2222 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2223 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
2224 89, 16061, and 18568.
2225
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2226* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
2227 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
2228 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
2229 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
2230 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
2231 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
2232 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
2233
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2234* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
2235 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
2236 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
2237
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2238* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
2239 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
2240 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
2241 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
2242 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
2243 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
2244 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
2245
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2246* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
2247 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
2248 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
2249 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
2250 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 2251 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
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2252 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
2253 Ericsson.)
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2255* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
2256 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
2257 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
2258 independent of the GNU C Library.
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2260* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
2261 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
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2263* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
2264 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
2265 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
2266 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
2267 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
2268 Linux kernel.
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2270* Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
2271 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
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2273* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
2274 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
2275 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
2276 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
2277 defining their own copy.
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2279* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
2280 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
2281 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
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2283Security related changes:
2284
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2285* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
2286 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
2287
2288* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
2289 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
2290 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
2291 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
2292 (CVE-2015-8777)
2293
2294* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
2295 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
2296
2297* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
2298 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
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2300* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
2301 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 2302 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
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2304* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
2305 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
2306 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
2307 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
2308 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
2309 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
2310 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
2311 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
2312 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
2313 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
2314 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
2315 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
2316 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
2317
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2320 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
2321 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
2322 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
2323 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
2324 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
2325 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
2326 use `mkstemp'
2327 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
2328 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
2329 overflow/underflow errors
2330 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
2331 overflow/underflow
2332 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
2333 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
2334 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
2335 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
2336 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
2337 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
2338 are not contiguous
2339 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
2340 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
2341 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
2342 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
2343 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
2344 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
2345 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
2346 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
2347 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
2348 all exceptions
2349 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
2350 arguments
2351 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
2352 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
2353 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
2354 should include
2355 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
2356 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
2357 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
2358 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
2359 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
2360 GNU/Linux
2361 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
2362 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
2363 arguments
2364 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
2365 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
2366 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
2367 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
2368 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
2369 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
2370 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
2371 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
2372 rounding results
2373 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
2374 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
2375 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
2376 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
2377 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
2378 fails
2379 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
2380 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
2381 block boundary
2382 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
2383 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
2384 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
2385 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
2386 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
2387 4.7?
2388 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
2389 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
2390 (related to lock elision)
2391 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
2392 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
2393 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
2394 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
2395 (CVE-2015-8779)
2396 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
2397 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
2398 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
2399 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
2400 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
2401 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
2402 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
2403 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
2404 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
2405 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
2406 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
2407 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
2408 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
2409 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
2410 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
2411 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
2412 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
2413 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
2414 contains a vector instruction exception.
2415 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
2416 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
2417 locales
2418 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
2419 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
2420 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
2421 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
2422 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
2423 missing break ?
2424 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
2425 32bit processes
2426 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
2427 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
2428 infinity
2429 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
2430 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
2431 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
2432 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
2433 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
2434 be forced unloaded
2435 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
2436 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
2437 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
2438 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
2439 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
2440 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
2441 statically too large
2442 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
2443 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
2444 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
2445 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
2446 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
2447 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
2448 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
2449 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
2450 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
2451 FUTEX_SHARED
2452 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
2453 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
2454 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
2455 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
2456 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
2457 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
2458 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
2459 opendir()
2460 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
2461 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
2462 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
2463 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
2464 signgam
2465 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
2466 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
2467 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
2468 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
2469 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
2470 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
2471 dependencies
2472 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
2473 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
2474 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
2475 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
2476 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
2477 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
2478 (CVE-2015-8776)
2479 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
2480 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
2481 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
2482 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
2483 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
2484 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2485 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
2486 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
2487 contention
2488 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
2489 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
2490 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
2491 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2492 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
2493 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
2494 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
2495 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
2496 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
2497 rounding modes
2498 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
2499 ILP32
2500 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
2501 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
2502 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
2503 threshold
2504 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
2505 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
2506 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
2507 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
2508 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
2509 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
2510 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
2511 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
2512 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
2513 pthread_setaffinity_np
2514 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
2515 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
2516 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
2517 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
2518 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
2519 prelink
2520 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
2521 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
2522 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
2523 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
2524 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2525 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
2526 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
2527 bits/mathcalls.h
2528 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
2529 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
2530 for C99-based standards
2531 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
2532 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
2533 math-only
2534 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
2535 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
2536 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
2537 disabled
2538 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
2539 "inexact" exceptions
2540 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
2541 arguments
2542 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
2543 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
2544 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
2545 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
2546 rules
2547 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
2548 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
2549 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
2550 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
2551 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
2552 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
2553 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
2554 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
2555 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
2556 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
2557 from 32bit
2558 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
2559 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
2560 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
2561 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
2562 subnormals
2563 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
2564 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
2565 error on 32-bit architectures
2566 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
2567 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
2568 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
2569 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
2570 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
2571 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
2572 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
2573 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
2574 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
2575 -Os
2576 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
2577 CPU's.
2578 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
2579 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
2580 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
2581 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
2582 architectures
2583 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
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2586
2587* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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2590 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
2591 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
2592 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
2593 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
2594 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
2595 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
2596 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
2597 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
2598 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
2599 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
2600 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
2601 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
2602 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
2603 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
2604 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
2605 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
2606 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
6fdd5d65
FW
2607 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
2608 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
2959eda9 2609
f7fba805
SL
2610* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
2611 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
2612
2959eda9
AS
2613* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
2614 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
2615 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
2616 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
2617 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
2618 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4a4839c9 2619
42261ad7
FW
2620* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
2621 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
2622 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
2623 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
2624 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
2625
afcd9480
AM
2626* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
2627 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
2628 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
2629
4a4839c9
AO
2630* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
2631 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
2632 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
2633 17998.
2634
b13b96ca
AS
2635* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
2636 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
2637 condition in some applications.
21933112
AS
2638
2639* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
a6336cc4
AS
2640 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
2641 pow, powf.
21933112
AS
2642 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
2643 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
037e4b99
AS
2644 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
2645 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 2646 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
fdb7d390
AZ
2647
2648* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
2649 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
2650 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
2651 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
7fde904c
MF
2652
2653* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
2654 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
2655 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
7493ab25
RM
2656
2657* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
2658 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
2ec11c2b
ZW
2659
2660* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
2661 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
2662 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
2663
a03ba363 2664 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
2ec11c2b
ZW
2665 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
2666 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
1c7a4a51 2667\f
58b930ae
SP
2668Version 2.21
2669
2670* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2671
042e1521 2672 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
5bd80bfe
PP
2673 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
2674 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
2675 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
2676 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
2677 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
2678 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
2679 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
2680 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
2681 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
2682 17892.
2683
46d54873
FW
2684* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
2685 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
2686 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
2687 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
2688 intended.
042e1521
CD
2689
2690* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
2691 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
2692 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
2693 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
2694 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
2695 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
a39208bd 2696
522e6ee3
CLT
2697* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
2698
d3b00f46
AZ
2699* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
2700 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 2701 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
96d6fd6c 2702
8d2c0a59
AZ
2703* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
2704 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
2705 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
2706 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
2707 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
2708 effects being visible outside transactions.
2709
dc400d7b
RE
2710* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
2711 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
ec582ca0 2712
0f9dfe04
L
2713* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
2714
a39208bd
CD
2715* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
2716 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
ebda2f17 2717 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
a39208bd
CD
2718 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
2719 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
fb89b46d 2720
a5357b7c
JL
2721* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
2722 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
2723
e54db0ea
AM
2724* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
2725 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
2726 format.
11e3417a 2727
4863355a
JM
2728* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
2729 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
2730 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
2731
a4ecc9eb
JM
2732* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
2733 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
2734
0d560bbf 2735* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
0781a777
RM
2736
2737* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
2738 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
2739 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
2740 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
6d248857
WN
2741
2742* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
2743 with newer versions of bison.
28c38448
MF
2744
2745* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
2746 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
2747 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
2748 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
2749 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
2750 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
2751 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
2752 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
2753 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
2754 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
2755 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
2756 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
2757 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
2758
2759 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
2760 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
2761 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
2762 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
2763 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
58b930ae 2764\f
d5b396c1
AM
2765Version 2.20
2766
2767* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2768
6a9350c8
JM
2769 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
2770 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
2771 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
2772 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
2773 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
2774 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
2775 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
2776 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
2777 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
2778 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
2779 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
2780 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
2781 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
2782 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
2783 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
0961f7e1 2784
95ee7fb1
SL
2785* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
2786 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
2787 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
2788 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
2789 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 2790 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
95ee7fb1
SL
2791 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
2792 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
2793 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
2794 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
2795
0961f7e1
JL
2796* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
2797 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
2798 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
2799 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
2800 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
f3d338c9 2801
f940b965
RE
2802* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
2803
d0f5b3f8
JM
2804* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
2805 can be used with is 2.6.32.
2806
d6fe5e58
JM
2807* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
2808 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
2809 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
2810 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
2811 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
2812 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
2813
464263cc
JM
2814* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
2815 from ports.
c941736c
JM
2816
2817* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
2818 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
2819 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
2820 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
2821 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
2822 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
2823 test macros defined.
f63c86fe
WN
2824
2825* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5a414ff7
DV
2826
2827* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
2828 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
2829 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
2830 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
2831 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
2832 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
2833 is not built.
d03efb2f
AM
2834
2835* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
2836 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
2837 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
2838 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
2839 invocation.
cfd2ea50
JM
2840
2841* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
2842 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
2843 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
f083450f
RM
2844
2845* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
2846 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
2847 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
2848 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
4e8f95a0
FW
2849
2850* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
2851 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
2852 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
2853 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
2854 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
2855 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
2856 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
2857 additional checks.
9a8a5720
RM
2858
2859* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
2860 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
2861 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
2862 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
2863 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
2864 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
2865 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
2866 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
2867 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
a1a6a401
FW
2868
2869* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
2870 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
2871 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
2872 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
2873 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 2874 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
41488498
FW
2875
2876* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
2877 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
2878 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
2879 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
6c1fd795
DM
2880\f
2881Version 2.19
2882
2883* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2884
fd2f9486
JM
2885 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
2886 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
2887 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
2888 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
2889 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
2890 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
2891 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
2892 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
2893 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
2894 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
ed27ed83
JM
2895 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
2896 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
2897 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
2898 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
2899 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
798212a0
PP
2900 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
2901 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
2902 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
141f3a77 2903
11520a57
CD
2904* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
2905 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
2906
2fe16229
CD
2907* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
2908 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
2909 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
08d76093
CD
2910 extension which uses __block.
2911
303e567a
SP
2912* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
2913 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
2914 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
2915 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
2916 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
2917
141f3a77
SP
2918* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
2919 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
2920 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
2921 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
2922 if malloc fails.
c61b4d41
CD
2923
2924* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
2925 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
2926 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
2927 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
2928 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
91ce4085
FW
2929
2930* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
2931 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
2932 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
2933
ba0d798c
WN
2934* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
2935 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
2936 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
2937 #15856, #15857).
2938
7cbcdb36
SP
2939* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
2940 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
2941
82bab04b 2942* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 2943 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
ddd9fb8f 2944
c5f840fd
MB
2945* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
2946
3e181dda
CD
2947* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
2948 supported locales.
ddd9fb8f 2949
3e181dda 2950* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
7447ccd9 2951
8a05c252
CL
2952* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
2953
6055173a
JM
2954* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
2955 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
2956 for which the C library was built.
2957
b125d3e5
JM
2958* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
2959 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
2960 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
2961 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
2962 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
2963 in the following circumstances:
2964
2965 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
2966
2967 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
2968 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
2969
d4f66d37
JM
2970* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
2971 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
2972
3e181dda
CD
2973* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
2974 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
e35696c3 2975
ffb89e53
AO
2976* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
2977
5d29ccce
SP
2978* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
2979 transcendental functions have been introduced.
2980
8b7d57cd 2981* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
b125d3e5
JM
2982
2983* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 2984
fd712ef3 2985* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 2986
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2987* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
2988 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
2989 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
2990 disable some of those declarations.
2991
7011c262 2992* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
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2993 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
2994 that did nothing) has also been removed.
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2995
2996* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
2997 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
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2998
2999* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
3000 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
3001 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
3002 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
3003 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
3004 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
3005 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
3006 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
3007 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
3008 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
3009 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
3010 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
3011 require recompilation.
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3012\f
3013Version 2.18
3014
3015* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3016
17db6e8d 3017 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
0432680e
PY
3018 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
3019 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
8c17cb1f
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3020 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
3021 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
3022 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
3023 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
3024 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
3025 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
3026 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
3027 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
3028 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
3029 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
3030 15755, 15759.
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3031
3032* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
3033 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
3034 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
3035 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
3036 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
3037 understands and accepts the risks.
1cef1b19 3038
5b535ac4
AS
3039* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
3040 #15078).
3041
1cef1b19
AS
3042* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
3043 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
7fffbdff 3044
55e4107b
SP
3045* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
3046 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
3047 destructor calls to glibc.
3048
e5c74c63
SP
3049* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
3050 output.
3051
3052* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
3053 non-x86 architectures.
3054
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3055* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
3056
3057* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
3058
3059* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
3060 Richard Henderson.
3061
3062* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
3063
3064* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
3065 Richard Henderson.
3066
3067* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
3068 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
3069
8cfdb7e0
SP
3070* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
3071
57267616
TS
3072* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
3073 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
58206c68 3074
c204ab28
SP
3075* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
3076 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
61dd6208 3077
0748546f
PE
3078* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
3079 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
3080 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
3081
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3082* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
3083 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
3084 attributes of a process.
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3085
3086* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
3087 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
3088 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
3089 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
3090 mutexes.
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3091
3092* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
3093 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
3094
3095* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
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3096\f
3097Version 2.17
3098
3099* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3100
80ceeaee 3101 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
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AJ
3102 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
3103 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
3104 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
3105 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
3106 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
3107 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
3108 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
3109 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
3110 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
3111 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
3112 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
3113 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
3114 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
3115 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
14bc93a9 3116
95b4f1b6
SE
3117* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
3118
14bc93a9
JL
3119* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
3120 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
7a845b2c 3121
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3122* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
3123 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
3124
7e2bd01f
MS
3125* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
3126
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3127* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
3128 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
3129 zEnterprise z196.
3130 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
3131
84b3fd84
FW
3132* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
3133 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
3134 the internal function __secure_getenv.
3135
815e6fa3
GB
3136* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
3137 Implemented by Gary Benson.
3138
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3139* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
3140 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
3141
7aab07e4 3142* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 3143 can be used with is 2.6.16.
7aab07e4 3144
15d0da8c
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3145* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
3146 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
3147
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3148* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
3149 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
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3150 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
3151 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3cc3ef96 3152
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3153* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
3154 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
3155
85429b1a 3156* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 3157 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
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3158 default.
3159
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3160* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
3161 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
3162 information in --help and --version output.
3163
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3164* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
3165 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
3166 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
3167
89a3ad0b
AO
3168* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
3169 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
3170 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
3171 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
3172 when the mode is enabled.
3173
6e6249d0
RM
3174* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
3175 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
3176 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
3177 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
3178 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
3179 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
3180 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5a04f376 3181
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3182* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
3183 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
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3184\f
3185Version 2.16
3186
3187* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3188
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3189 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
3190 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
3191 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
3192 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
3193 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
3194 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
3195 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
3196 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
3197 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
3198 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
3199 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
3200 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
3201 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
3202 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
3203 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
3204 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
3205 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
3206 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
3207 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
3208 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
3209 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
3210 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
3211 14277, 14278.
380d7e87 3212
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3213* Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
3214 configuring glibc with:
3215 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
3216 Visit <http://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
3217 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3218
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3219* ISO C11 support:
3220
3221 + define static_assert
3222
3223 + do not declare gets
3224
3225 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
3226
3227 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
3228 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
3229 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
3230 implementation.
8d44e150 3231
74033a25 3232 + timespec_get added
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3233
3234 + uchar.h support added
d75a0a62 3235
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3236 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
3237
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3238 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3239
9dc4e1fb 3240* Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
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3241
3242* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
d9a216c0
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3243
3244* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
3245 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
daa891c0
UD
3246
3247* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
3248 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
021db4be
AJ
3249
3250* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
3251 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
3252 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
3253 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
3254 existing applications.
ffb7875d 3255
21708942 3256* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
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3257 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
3258 before 2.6.
83678f76 3259
edb00e4d
RH
3260* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
3261 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
3262 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
3263
83678f76 3264* New locales: mag_IN
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3265
3266* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
3267 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
3268 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
3269 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
3270 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
47e452cf
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3271
3272* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3273
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
3274* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
3275 and Will Schmidt.
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3276
3277* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
3278
3279* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
3280 without a previously built glibc.
3281
3282* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
3283 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
3284
3285* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
3286 now supported for ARM processors.
3287
3288* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
3289 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
3290 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
3291
3292* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
3293
3294* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
3295 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
3296 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
3297 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
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3298
3299* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
3300 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
3301 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
3302 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
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3303
3304* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
3305 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
3306 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
3307 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
3308 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
3309
3310* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
3311 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
3312 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
3313 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
ee1a7fab 3314\f
e80fab37 3315Version 2.15
11988f8f 3316
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3317* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3318
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3319 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
3320 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
3321 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
3322 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
3323 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
3324 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
3325 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
c0244a9d 3326
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3327* New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
3328 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3329
3330* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
3331 and support for initgroups lookups.
3332 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3333
3334* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
3335 Contributed by HJ Lu.
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3336
3337* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
3338 Contributed by HJ Lu.
99710781 3339
fc2ee42a
LD
3340* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
3341 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 3342 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 3343
d42964a0 3344* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
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3345 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3346
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3347* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
3348 for x86-64 and x86-32.
093ecf92
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3349 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3350
c55fbd1e
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3351* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
3352 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a0f33f99
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3353
3354* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
3355 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3356
3357* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
3358 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3359
3360* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
3361 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
d9a4d2ab
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3362
3363* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
3364 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3365
3366* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
3367 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3368
3369* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
e188ebba
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3370
3371* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
3372 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a1267ba1 3373
f0b264f1
AZ
3374* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
3375 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
2655fd5c 3376
6b64057b 3377* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
e80fab37 3378\f
dded88cd 3379Version 2.14
9f94d2ea 3380
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3381* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3382
553149f6 3383 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 3384 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 3385 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 3386 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
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3387 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
3388 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
3389 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
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3390 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
3391 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 3392 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
50934221 3393
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3394* The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
3395 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
3396 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 3397 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
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3398
3399 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
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3400 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
3401 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
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3402 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3403
c6489db3 3404* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
f1f929d7 3405 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
83fe108b 3406
72d1dddb 3407* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 3408 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
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3410* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
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3412* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
3413 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3415* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
3416 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
3417 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
3418 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
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3421
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3423
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3425 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
3426 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
3427 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
3428 12378, 12394, 12397
ac2b484c 3429
10b3bedc 3430* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
c08fb0d7 3431
ac2b484c 3432* POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
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3435 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 3436 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3438Version 2.12
3439
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3441
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3442 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
3443 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
3444 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
3445 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
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3446 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
3447 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
3448 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 3449 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
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3451* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
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3453* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
3454
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3455* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
3456
3457* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
3458 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
3459 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3460
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3462 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
3463 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
3464 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
3465 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3466
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3470
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3472
3473 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
3474 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
3475 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
3476 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
3477 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
3478 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
3479
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3480* New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
3481 mkostemps64
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3483
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3485 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3486
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3487* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
3488 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3489
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3490* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
3491
0122f28e 3492* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
9d36a6c4 3493 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 3494 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
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3496
9d36a6c4 3497 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
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3498 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3499
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3500* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
3501 strstr, strcasestr.
3502 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
3503
3504* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
3505 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
3506
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3507* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
3508 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3509
3510* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
3511 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3512
3513* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
3514 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
3515 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
3516 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
3517 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
3518 necessity is every process again.
3519 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3520
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3521* New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
3522 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
3523
3524* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
3525 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
3526
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3527* Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
3528 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
3529 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3530
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3534
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3535* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3536
3537 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
3538 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
3539 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
3540 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
3541 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
3542
bb066545 3543* New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
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3544 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3545
425ce2ed 3546* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
e109c612 3547 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 3548
1fdd89a7 3549* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
735be400 3550 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
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3552* XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
3553 now in POSIX.
77db439e 3554
1f04d005 3555* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6cbe890a 3556 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3558* New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
3559 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3560
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3561* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
3562 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3563
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3564* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
3565 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3566
3567* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
3568 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
3569 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3570
735be400 3571* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
878b72c5 3572
84aa52d7 3573* Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
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3574 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3575
3576* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
3577 and extend existing format specifiers.
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3578 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3579
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3580* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
3581 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3582
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3583* DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
3584 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
3585 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
3586 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
3587 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
3588 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3590Version 2.9
3591
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3592* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3593
3594 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447, 6461,
3595 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712, 6713,
3596 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839, 6843,
3597 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955, 6966,
3598 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
3599
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3601 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3602
3603* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
3604 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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3606* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
3607 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3609* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
3610 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
3611 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3612
3613* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
3614 Implemented by Eric Blake.
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3617
3618* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
ebcc1f4d 3619 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3621* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
3622 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
3623 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
3624 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3625
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3626* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
3627 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3629* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
3630 Sinhala)
48b22986 3631 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
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3633* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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3635Version 2.8
3636
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3637* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3638
3639 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
3640 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
3641 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
3642 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
3643 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
3644 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
3645 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
3646
e038616f 3647* New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
b4354cf4 3648
77751669 3649* New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
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3651* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
3652 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
3653
3654* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
3655
3656* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
3657 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3658
3659* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
3660 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3661
3662* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
3663 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
3664 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3665
3666* Faster memset for x86-64.
3667 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
3668
3669* Faster memcpy on x86.
3670 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3671
3672* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
3673 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3675* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
d990b282 3676 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
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3678Version 2.7
3679
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3680* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3681
3682 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
3683 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
3684 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
3685 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
3686 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
3687
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3688* More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
3689 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3690
3691* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3692
3693* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
3694 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
3695 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3696
3697* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
3698 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
3699
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3701 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3702
3703* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3704
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3705* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
3706 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3707
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3708* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
3709 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3710
3711* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
3712 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
3713
3714* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3715
3716* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
3717 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3719* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
3720 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
3721 yo_NG.
3722
3723+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
3724 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3729
3730 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
3731 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
3732 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
3733 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
3734 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
3735 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
3736 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
3737 4702, 4858
3738
bce20b9a 3739* New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
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3742
b21fa963 3743* nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3746
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3748
3749 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
3750 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
3751 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
3752 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
3753 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
3754 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
3755 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
3756 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
3757 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
3758
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3760 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
3761 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3763* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
3764 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3765
871b9158 3766* New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
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3768* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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3770* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
3771 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
3772 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
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3774 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3775
07bfff20 3776* Iterating over entire database in NIS can be slow. With the
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3777 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
3778 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
3779 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3780
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3781* The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
3782 Ulrich Drepper.
3783
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3784* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
3785
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3786* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
3787 Ulrich Drepper.
3788
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3789* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
3790
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3791* New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
3792 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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3795
3796* More overflow detection functions.
3797
3798* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
3799 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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3801 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
3802 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
3803 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
3804 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
3805 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
3806 by Masahide Washizawa.
3807
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3808* It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
3809 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3811* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
3812 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
3813 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
3814 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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3816* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
3817 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
3818
3819* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
3820
3821* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
3822 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
3823 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
3824
3825* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
3826 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
3827
3828* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
3829 for compatibility with some other systems.
3830
3831* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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3833Version 2.3.6
3834
3835* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3836
3837 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
3838 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
3839 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
3840 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
3841 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
3842 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
3843
3844 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
3845
3846* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
3847
3848* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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3850Version 2.3.5
3851
3852* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3853
3854 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
3855 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
3856 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
3857 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
3858
3859 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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3861Version 2.3.4
3862
3863* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
3864 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3865
3866* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
3867 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
3868 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3869
3870* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
3871 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
3872
0325dd20 3873* getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
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3874 efficiently.
3875 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3876
3877* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
3878 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
3879 handling data.
3880
3881* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
3882 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
0325dd20 3883 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3884
3885* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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3886 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3887
3888* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
3889 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
3890 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
3891 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3892
3893* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
3894 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
3895 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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3896 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3897
3898* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
3899 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
3900 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
3901 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
3902 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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3904Version 2.3.3
3905
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3906* New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
3907 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
3908
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3909* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
3910 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
925c3c5c 3911
69be6aaf 3912* getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
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3913 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
3914
3915* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
3916 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3918* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
3919 by Roland McGrath.
3920
c5af724c 3921* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
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3922 and Ulrich Drepper.
3923
3924* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
3925 RFC 3484.
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3927Version 2.3.2
3928
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3929* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
3930 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
3931 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
3932 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
3933 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
3934 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
3935 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
3936 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
3937 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
3938
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3939* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
3940 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
3941 and are now also available on the Hurd.
3942
3943* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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3944
3945* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
3946 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
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3948* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
3949 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
3950
52a16e58 3951* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
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3953* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
3954 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
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3955
3956* With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
3957 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
3958 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
3959 of weak definition in ld.so.
3960
3961* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
3962 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
3963
3964* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
3965 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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3969* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
3970 charsets.
3971
3972* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
3973 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
47e8b443 3974
bb0ec5bd 3975* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 3976 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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3977
3978* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
3979 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
8e57fc70 3980
bb0ec5bd 3981* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
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3982 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
3983 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3984
3985* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
3986 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3b0bdc72 3987
bb0ec5bd 3988* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3b0bdc72 3989 implementation of regex.
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3990
3991* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
3992 Unicode 3.2.
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3994* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
3995 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
be45f421 3996
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3997* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
3998 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
3999 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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4000
4001* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
f87277f2 4002 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
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4003
4004* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
4005 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
4006 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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4007
4008* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
4009 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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4010
4011* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
4012 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
4013 and Ulrich Drepper.
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4014
4015* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
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4017Version 2.2.6
4018
4019* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
4020 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
4021
4022* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
4023 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
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4025Version 2.2.5
4026
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4027* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
4028 128-bit long double format.
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4030* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
4031 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
a8ae31c2 4032
ad2e4f18 4033* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
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4035* Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
4036
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4037* libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
4038 as well.
4039
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4040* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
4041 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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4042
4043* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
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4045Version 2.2.4
4046
2995f70e 4047* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 4048 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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4049
4050* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
4051 support Unicode 3.1.
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4052
4053* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
4054 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
045fcd26 4055
69d5f925 4056* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 4057
69d5f925 4058* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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4059 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
4060 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
4061
4062* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
4063 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
4064
4065* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
4066 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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4067
4068* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
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4070Version 2.2.3
4071
1746f2b0 4072* Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
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4073 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
4074 in float, double, and long double format.
4075
f128331c 4076* Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
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4077 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
4078 128-bit long double format.
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4080* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
4081 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
4082 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
4083 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
4084
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4085* An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
4086 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
4087 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4088
4089* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
4090 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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4091
4092* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
4093 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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4094
4095* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
4096 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
4097 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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4098
4099* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
4100 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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4101
4102* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
4103 of functions for Linux/x86.
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4104
4105* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
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4107Version 2.2.2
4108
464d97ec 4109* Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
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4110 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
4111 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
4112 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
4113 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
4114 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
4115 other headers.
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4116
4117* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
4118 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
4119
4120* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
4121 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
4122 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
4123 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
4124
4125* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
4126 locales. While
4127
4128 locale -a
4129
4130 only lists the names of the supported locales
4131
4132 locale -a --verbose
4133
4134 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
4135 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
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4137Version 2.2.1
4138
4139* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
4140 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
4141 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
4142 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
4143 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
4144
4145 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
4146
4147 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
4148
4149 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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4150
4151* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
4152 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
4153 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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4154
4155* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
4156 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
4157
4158* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
4159 changed from the default "C" locale.
4160
4161* The usual bug fixes.
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4163Version 2.2
4164
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4165* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
4166 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
4167 is in progress.
4168
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4169* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
4170
793bd4d9 4171* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
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4173 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
4174 obviously requires a database library being available.
4175
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4176* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4177
abbffdf9 4178* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
01c771d0 4179
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4180* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
4181 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
4182
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4183* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
4184
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4185* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
4186 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
4187 and Mark Kettenis.
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4188
4189 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
4190 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
4191 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 4192
a00c3ca9 4193 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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4194 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
4195
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4196* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
4197 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
4198 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
4199
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4200* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
4201 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
4202 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
4203 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4204
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4205 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
4206 structures for the wide character tables.
4207
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4208* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4209
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4210* The utmp daemon has been removed.
4211
4212* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
4213
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4214* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
4215 and Yutaka Niibe.
4216
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4217* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
4218
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4219* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
4220
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4221* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4222
4223* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
4224
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4225* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
4226
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4227* the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
4228 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
4229 implemented for Linux.
4230
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4231* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
4232 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
4233 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
4234 versions.
4235
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4236* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
4237 Masahide Washizawa.
4238
8f3f1e09 4239* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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4241Version 2.1.3
4242
4243* bug fixes
4244
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4246Version 2.1.2
4247
4248* bug fixes
4249
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4251Version 2.1.1
4252
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4253* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
4254
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4255* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
4256
407d26b7 4257* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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4258
4259* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
4260
407d26b7 4261* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 4262
407d26b7 4263* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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4264
4265* Update timezone data files.
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4267* lots of charmaps corrections
4268
4269* some new locale definitions and charmaps
4270
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4272Version 2.1
4273
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4274* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
4275 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
4276 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
4277 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
4278 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
4279 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
4280
c84142e8 4281* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 4282 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 4283
1fb05e3d 4284* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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4285 symbol level.
4286
4287* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
4288 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
377a515b 4289
cbdee279 4290* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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4291
4292* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 4293 numbers.
377a515b 4294
cbdee279 4295* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
e61abf83 4296
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4297* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
4298 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
e61abf83 4299
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4300* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
4301 library.
4302
e61abf83 4303* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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4304 functions from ISO C 9X.
4305
4306* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
4307 real valued functions.
e61abf83 4308
a5a0310d 4309* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
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4311* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
4312
4313* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 4314
440d13e2 4315* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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4316
4317* Optimized string functions have been added.
4318
4319* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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4321* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
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4323* Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
4324 daemon for NSS (nscd).
4325
4326 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
4327 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
4328
0dee6738 4329 user system wall
48244d09 4330
0dee6738 4331 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 4332
0dee6738 4333 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 4334
0dee6738 4335 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
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4337 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
4338
4339 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
4340
4341 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
48244d09 4342
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4343 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
4344 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
0dee6738 4345 horribly slow.
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4347 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
4348 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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4350* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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4352* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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4353
4354* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
4355 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
4356
4357* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
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4359* A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
4360 Bambrough.
4361
4362* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
4363 latest draft standards.
4364
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4366
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4368~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
62595351 4369addseverity NEW: Unix98
48244d09 4370alphasort64 NEW: LFS
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4372argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
4373argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
4374argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
4375argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
4376argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
4377argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
4378argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
4379argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
4380argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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4381authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
4382authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
4383authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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4384backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
4385backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
4386backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
4387cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
4388cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
4389cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
4390cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
4391cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
4392cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
4393capget NEW: kernel
4394capset NEW: kernel
4395carg NEW: ISO C 9x
4396cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
4397cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
4398casin NEW: ISO C 9x
4399casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
4400casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
4401casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4402casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4403casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
4404catan NEW: ISO C 9x
4405catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4406catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
4407catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4408catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4409catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4411ccos NEW: ISO C 9x
4412ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
4413ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
4414ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
4415ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
4416ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
4417cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
4418cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
4419cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
4420cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
4421cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
4422cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
4423clearerr_locked REMOVED
4424clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
4425clog NEW: ISO C 9x
4426clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
4427clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
4428clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
4429clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
4430clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
4431conj NEW: ISO C 9x
4432conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
4433conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
4434cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
4435cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
4436cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
4437cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
4438cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
4439cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
4440creal NEW: ISO C 9x
4441crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
4442creall NEW: ISO C 9x
4443creat64 NEW: LFS
4444csin NEW: ISO C 9x
4445csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
4446csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
4447csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4448csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4449csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
4450csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
4451csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
4452csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
4453ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
4454ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4455ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
4456ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4457ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4458ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4459des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
4460ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 4461endutxent NEW: Unix98
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4462exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x
4463exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
4464exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
4465exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
4466exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
4467exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
4468fattach NEW: STREAMS
4469fdetach NEW: STREAMS
4470fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
4471fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
4472fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
4473feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4474fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4475fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
4476fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
4477feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4478feof_locked REMOVED
4479feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4480ferror_locked REMOVED
4481fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4482fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
4483fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
4484fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4485feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4486fflush_locked REMOVED
4487ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
4488ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
4489fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
4490fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4491fileno_locked REMOVED
4492fma NEW: ISO C 9x
4493fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
4494fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
4495fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
4496fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
4497fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
4498fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
4499fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
4500fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
62595351 4501fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
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4502fopen64 NEW: LFS
4503fputc_locked REMOVED
4504fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4505fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4506freopen64 NEW: LFS
4507fseeko NEW: Unix98
4508fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
4509fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
4510fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
4511fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
4512ftello NEW: Unix98
4513ftello64 NEW: LFS
4514ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
4515ftw64 NEW: LFS
4516fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4517gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
4518gamma_r REMOVED
4519gammaf_r REMOVED
4520gammal_r REMOVED
4521getchar_locked REMOVED
4522getdate NEW: Unix98
4523getdate_err NEW: Unix98
4524getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
4525getmsg NEW: STREAMS
4526getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
e980ca92 4527getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
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4528getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
4529getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
4530getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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4531getutxent NEW: Unix98
4532getutxid NEW: Unix98
4533getutxline NEW: Unix98
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4534glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
4535globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
4536gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
4537gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
4538grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
e980ca92 4539host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
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4540iconv NEW: iconv
4541iconv_close NEW: iconv
4542iconv_open NEW: iconv
4543if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
4544if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
4545if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
4546if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
4547in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
4548in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
4549inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
4550isastream NEW: STREAMS
4551iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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4552key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
4553key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
4554key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
4555key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
4556key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
4557key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
4558key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
4559key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
4560key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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4561llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
4562llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4563llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
4564llround NEW: ISO C 9x
4565llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4566llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4567log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
4568log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
4569log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
4570lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
4571lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4572lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
4573lround NEW: ISO C 9x
4574lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4575lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4576lseek64 NEW: LFS
4577makecontext NEW: Unix98
4578mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
4579mmap64 NEW: LFS
4580moncontrol REMOVED
4581modify_ldt NEW: kernel
4582nan NEW: ISO C 9x
4583nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4584nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
4585nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
4586nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4587nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4588netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
4589netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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4590nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
4591nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
4592nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4593nftw NEW: Unix98
4594nftw64 NEW: LFS
4595open64 NEW: LFS
e980ca92 4596passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
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4597pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
4598pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
4599pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
4600pread NEW: Unix98
4601pread64 NEW: LFS
4602printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
4603printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
4604profil_counter REMOVED
4605pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
4606pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
4607ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
4608ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
4609putc_locked REMOVED
4610putchar_locked REMOVED
4611putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
4612putmsg NEW: STREAMS
4613putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
62595351 4614pututxline NEW: Unix98
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4615pwrite NEW: Unix98
4616pwrite64 NEW: LFS
4617readdir64 NEW: LFS
4618readdir64_r NEW: LFS
4619remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
4620remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
4621remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
4622round NEW: ISO C 9x
4623roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4624roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4625rtime NEW: GNU ext.
4626scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
4627scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
4628scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
4629scandir64 NEW: LFS
4630sendfile NEW: kernel
4631setcontext NEW: Unix98
4632setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 4633setutxent NEW: Unix98
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4634sighold NEW: Unix98
4635sigignore NEW: Unix98
4636sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
4637sigrelse NEW: Unix98
4638sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
4639sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
4640sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
4641sincos NEW: GNU ext.
4642sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
4643sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
4644statfs64 NEW: LFS
4645statvfs NEW: Unix98
4646statvfs64 NEW: LFS
4647strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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4648strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
4649strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
4650strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
e980ca92 4651svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
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4652svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
4653svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
4654swapcontext NEW: Unix98
4655tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
4656tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
4657tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
4658tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
4659tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
4660tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
4661trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
4662truncate64 NEW: LFS
4663truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
4664truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
4665umount2 NEW: kernel
4666unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 4667updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 4668user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 4669utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 4670versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
3ef4002b 4671versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
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4672waitid NEW: Unix98
4673wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
4674wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
4675wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
4676wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
4677wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
4678wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
4679wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
4680wcswcs NEW: Unix98
4681wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
4682wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
4683write_profiling REMOVED
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4684xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
4685xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
4686xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
4687xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
4688xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
4689xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
4690xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
4691xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
4692xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
4693xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
4694xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
4695xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
4696xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 4697xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
e980ca92 4698xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 4699~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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4701Version 2.0.6
4702
4703* more bug fixes
4704
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4705\f
4706Version 2.0.5
4707
4708* more bug fixes
4709
4710* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
4711
4712* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
4713
4714* rewrite of cbrt function
4715
4716* update of timezone data
4717\f
4718Version 2.0.4
4719
4720* more bug fixes
4721\f
4722Version 2.0.3
4723
4724* more bug fixes
c84142e8 4725\f
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4726Version 2.0.2
4727
4728* more bug fixes
4729
4730* add atoll function
4731
4732* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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4734* fix math functions
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4735\f
4736Version 2.0.1
4737
4738* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
4739
4740* dynamic loader preserves all registers
4741
4742* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
4743 the ELF dynamic loader.
4744
4745* support for parallel builds is improved
4746\f
40a4b79f 4747Version 2.0
28f540f4 4748
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4749* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
4750 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
4751 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
4752
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4753* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
4754 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
4755 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
4756 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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4757 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
4758 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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4759 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
4760 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
4761 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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4762 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
4763 files in the ELF format.
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4764
4765* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
4766 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
4767
4768* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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4769 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
4770 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
4771 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
4772 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
4773 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
4774 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
4775 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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4776 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
4777 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
4778 about dynamically linked binaries.
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4780* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
4781 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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4782 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
4783 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
4784 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 4785
f7eac6eb 4786* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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4787 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
4788 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
4789 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
4790 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
4791
4792* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
f7eac6eb 4793
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4794* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
4795 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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4796 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
4797 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
4798 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
4799 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
4800 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
4801 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
4802 NSS services available.
5f0e6fc7 4803
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4804* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
4805 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
4806 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
4807
4808* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
4809 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
4810 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
4811
4812* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
4813 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
4814 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
4815 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
4816
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4817* The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
4818 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
4819 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
4820
4821* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
4822 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
4823 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
4824
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4825* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
4826 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
4827
f7eac6eb 4828* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 4829 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 4830 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
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4831 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
4832
4833* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
4834 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
4835 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 4836
71733723 4837* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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4838 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
4839 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
4840 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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4841 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
4842 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 4843 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 4844 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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4845
4846* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
4847 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
4848 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
4849 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
4850 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
4851 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
4852 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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4853
4854* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
4855 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
4856 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
4857 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
4858 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
4859 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
4860
4861* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
4862 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
4863
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4864* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
4865 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
4866 NSS scheme used in glibc.
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4868* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
4869
4870* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
4871 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
4872 their use is discouraged.
4873
4874* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
4875 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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4877* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
4878 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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4879
4880* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
4881 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
4882
4883* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
4884 see <dirent.h>.
4885
4886* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
4887 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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4888 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
4889 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
4890 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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4891
4892* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
4893 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
4894 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
4895 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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4896
4897* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
4898 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
4899
4900* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
4901 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
4902 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
4903 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
4904 number generator.
4905
4906* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
4907 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
4908
4909* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
4910 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
4911
71733723 4912* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 4913 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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4915 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
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4917* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
4918
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4920 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
4921 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
4922
4923* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
4924 for arithmetic and string handling.
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c709e372 4926* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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4927 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
4928 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
4929 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
4930
4931* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
4932 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
4933 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
4934 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
4935 programs already written to use it.)
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4936
4937* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
4938 constants.
4939
4940* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
4941 with 4.4 BSD.
4942
4943* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
4944 a given effective group ID.
4945
4946* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
4947 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
4948 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
4949 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
4950
4951* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 4952 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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4953 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
4954 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
4955 doing the same thing.
4956
4957* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
4958 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
4959
4960* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 4961 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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4962
4963* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
4964
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4965* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
4966 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
4967 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 4968 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 4969 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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4970
4971* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
4972 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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4974* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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4975 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
4976 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
4977 function.
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4978
4979* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
4980
4981* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
4982 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
4983 strings.
4984
4985* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
4986 and writing the utmp file.
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4988* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
4989 Thorsten Kukuk.
4990
4991* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
4992 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
4993 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
4994
4995* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
4996 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
4997
4998* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
4999 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
5000 specification.
5001
5002* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
5003 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
5004 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
5005 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
5006
5007* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
5008 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
5009 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
5010
5011* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
5012 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
5013 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
5014 expression matcher.
5015
5016* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
5017 functionality.
5018
5019* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
5020 by Ulrich Drepper.
5021
5022* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
5023
5024* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
5025 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
5026 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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5027\f
5028Version 1.09
5029
5030* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
5031
5032* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
5033 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
5034
5035* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
5036 want to put themselves in the background.
5037
5038* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
5039 run without an operating system.
5040
5041* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
5042 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
5043
5044* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
5045 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
5046
5047* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
5048
5049* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
5050 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
5051 have YP (aka NIS).
5052
5053* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
5054 conventions.
5055
5056* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
5057 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
5058\f
5059Version 1.08
5060
5061* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
5062 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
5063 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
5064
5065* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
5066 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
5067
5068* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
5069 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
5070
5071* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
5072
5073* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
5074
5075* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
5076 compatibility.
5077
5078* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
5079 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
5080 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
5081
5082* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
5083
5084* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
5085 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
5086 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
5087
5088* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
5089 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
5090 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
5091 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
5092 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
5093 on a block).
5094
5095* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
5096 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
5097 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
5098 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
5099 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
5100 cross-compiler.
5101
5102* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
5103 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
5104\f
5105Version 1.07
5106
5107* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
5108 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
5109
5110* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
5111 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
5112 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
5113
5114* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
5115 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
5116 address of the last character written.
5117
5118* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
5119 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
5120
5121* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
5122 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
5123
5124* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
5125 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
5126 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
5127 you dereference this pointer.
5128
5129* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
5130 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
5131
5132* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
5133 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
5134 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
5135 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
5136
5137* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
5138 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
5139 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
5140 EAGAIN in every system call function.
5141\f
5142Version 1.06
5143
5144* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
5145 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
5146 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
5147 in Emacs or the `info' program.
ea278354 5148 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
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5149
5150* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
5151
5152* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
5153
5154* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
5155 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
5156
5157* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
5158 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
5159
5160* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
5161 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
5162
5163* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
5164 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
5165 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
5166 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
5167 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
5168
5169* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
5170 to the error code in `errno'.
5171
5172* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
5173 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
5174 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
5175 malloc'd string.
5176
5177* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
5178 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
5179 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
5180
5181* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
5182 uniquely-named temporary file.
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5184Version 1.05
5185
5186* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
5187 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
5188 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
5189
5190* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
5191 characters.
5192
5193* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
5194 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
5195
5196* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
5197\f
5198Version 1.04
5199
5200* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
5201 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
5202 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
5203 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
5204
5205* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
5206 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
5207 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
5208
5209* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
5210 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
5211
5212* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
5213 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
5214 made itself into a shared library.
5215
5216* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
5217 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
5218
5219* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
5220 with limited length.
5221
5222* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
5223
5224* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
5225
5226* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
5227
5228* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
5229 function for traversing a directory tree.
5230
5231* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
5232 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
5233 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
5234 formatted output directly to an obstack.
5235
5236* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
5237 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
5238
5239* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
5240
5241* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
5242 things to your strings.
5243
5244* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
5245
5246* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
5247 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
5248 supporting those systems.
5249
5250* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
5251 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
5252 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
5253 configuration files.
5254
5255* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
5256 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
5257
5258* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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5259 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
5260 in <strings.h>.)
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5261
5262* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
5263 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
5264 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
5265 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
5266 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
5267 required storage is not available.
5268
5269* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
5270 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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5271
5272* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
5273 latest files released from Berkeley.
5274\f
5275----------------------------------------------------------------------
5276Copyright information:
5277
c9123888 5278Copyright (C) 1992-2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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5279
5280 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
5281 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
5282 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
5283 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
5284
5285 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
5286 of this document, or of portions of it,
5287 under the above conditions, provided also that they
5288 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
5289\f
5290Local variables:
5291version-control: never
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