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ee9247c3 1GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
d614a753 2Copyright (C) 1992-2020 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 2.33
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10Major new features:
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12* The dynamic linker accepts the --argv0 argument and provides opportunity
13 to change argv[0] string.
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15* The mallinfo2 function is added to report statistics as per mallinfo,
16 but with larger field widths to accurately report values that are
17 larger than fit in an integer.
18
96203980 19* Add <sys/platform/x86.h> to provide query macros for x86 CPU features.
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21* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been expanded to run on
22 32-bit hardware. This is supported for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
23
24 - rv32imac ilp32
25 - rv32imafdc ilp32
26 - rv32imafdc ilp32d
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28 The 32-bit RISC-V port requires at least Linux 5.4, GCC 7.1 and binutils
29 2.28.
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31Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
32
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33* The mallinfo function is marked deprecated. Callers should call
34 mallinfo2 instead.
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36* When dlopen is used in statically linked programs, alternative library
37 implementations from HWCAP subdirectories are no longer loaded.
38 Instead, the default implementation is used.
39
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40* The deprecated <sys/vtimes.h> header and the function vtimes have been
41 removed. To support old binaries, the vtimes function continues to exist
42 as a compatibility symbol. Applications should use the getrlimit or
43 prlimit.
44
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45* Following a change in the tzdata 2018a release upstream, the zdump
46 program is now installed in the /usr/bin subdirectory. Previously,
47 the /usr/sbin subdirectory was used.
48
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49* On s390(x), the type float_t is now derived from the macro
50 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ that is defined by the compiler, instead of being
51 hardcoded to double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
52 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
53 libraries that use this type in their interfaces. The new definition
54 improves consistency with compiler behavior in many scenarios.
55
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56Changes to build and runtime requirements:
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58* On Linux, the system administrator needs to configure /dev/pts with
59 the intended access modes for pseudo-terminals. glibc no longer
60 attemps to adjust permissions of terminal devices. The previous glibc
61 defaults ("tty" group, user read/write and group write) already
62 corresponded to what most systems used, so that grantpt did not
63 perform any adjustments.
64
65* On Linux, the posix_openpt and getpt functions no longer attempt to
66 use legacy (BSD) pseudo-terminals and assume that if /dev/ptmx exists
67 (and pseudo-terminals are supported), a devpts file system is mounted
68 on /dev/pts. Current systems already meet these requirements.
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70* s390x requires GCC 7.1 or newer. See gcc Bug 98269.
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72Security related changes:
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74 CVE-2020-27618: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
75 invoked with input containing redundant shift sequences in the IBM1364,
76 IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, or IBM1399 character sets.
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78 CVE-2020-29562: An assertion failure has been fixed in the iconv function
79 when invoked with UCS4 input containing an invalid character.
80
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81The following bugs are resolved with this release:
82
83 [The release manager will add the list generated by
84 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
85
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87Version 2.32
88
89Major new features:
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91* Unicode 13.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
92 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 13.0.0, using
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93 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
94
95* New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq)
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97* Support for Synopsys ARC HS cores (ARCv2 ISA) running Linux has been
98 added. This port requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-8.3 and Linux-5.1.
99 Three ABIs are supported:
100
101 - arc-linux-gnu
102 - arc-linux-gnuhf
103 - arceb-linux-gnu
104
4d3a77c7 105 The arc* ABIs are little-endian while arceb is big-endian. All ABIs use
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106 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
107
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108* The GNU C Library now loads audit modules listed in the DT_AUDIT and
109 DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
110
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4d3a77c7 112 using -mabi=ieeelongdouble to compile C code on supported GCC
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113 toolchains. It is recommended to use GCC 8 or newer when testing
114 this option.
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117 several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This
118 should help GCC 10 issue better warnings.
119
4d3a77c7 120* On Linux, functions pthread_attr_setsigmask_np and
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121 pthread_attr_getsigmask_np have been added. They allow applications
122 to specify the signal mask of a thread created with pthread_create.
123
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124* The GNU C Library now provides the header file <sys/single_threaded.h>
125 which declares the variable __libc_single_threaded. Applications are
126 encouraged to use this variable for single-thread optimizations,
127 instead of weak references to symbols historically defined in
128 libpthread.
129
bfe05aa2 130* The functions sigabbrev_np and sigdescr_np have been added. The
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131 sigabbrev_np function returns the abbreviated signal name (e.g. "HUP" for
132 SIGHUP) while sigdescr_np returns a string describing the signal number
133 (e.g "Hangup" for SIGHUP). Different than strsignal, sigdescr_np does not
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134 attempt to translate the return description, both functions return
135 NULL for an invalid signal number.
136
137 They should be used instead of sys_siglist or sys_sigabbrev and they
138 are both thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
139
325081b9 140* The functions strerrorname_np and strerrordesc_np have been added. The
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141 strerroname_np function returns error number name (e.g. "EINVAL" for EINVAL)
142 while strerrordesc_np returns a string describing the error number
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143 (e.g "Invalid argument" for EINVAL). Different than strerror,
144 strerrordesc_np does not attempt to translate the return description, both
145 functions return NULL for an invalid error number.
146
147 They should be used instead of sys_errlist and sys_nerr, both are
148 thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
149
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150* AArch64 now supports standard branch protection security hardening
151 in glibc when it is built with a GCC that is configured with
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152 --enable-standard-branch-protection (or if -mbranch-protection=standard
153 flag is passed when building both GCC target libraries and glibc,
154 in either case a custom GCC is needed). This includes branch target
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155 identification (BTI) and pointer authentication for return addresses
156 (PAC-RET). They require armv8.5-a and armv8.3-a architecture
157 extensions respectively for the protection to be effective,
158 otherwise the used instructions are nops. User code can use PAC-RET
159 without libc support, but BTI requires a libc that is built with BTI
160 support, otherwise runtime objects linked into user code will not be
161 BTI compatible.
162
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165* Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc. Sun RPC is removed
166 from glibc. This includes the rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and the Sun
167 RPC header files. Backward compatibility for old programs is kept
168 only for architectures and ABIs that have been added in or before
169 glibc 2.31. New programs need to use TI-RPC
170 <http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=summary> and
171 rpcsvc-proto <https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto>.
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174 as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules "nis"
175 and "nisplus" are not built at all and libnsl's headers aren't
176 installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs
177 that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement
178 implementations based on TI-RPC, which additionally support IPv6, are
179 available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not
4d3a77c7 180 affect the "compat" NSS module, which does not depend on libnsl
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181 since 2.27 and thus can be used without NIS.
182
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183* The deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
184 removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
185 exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
186 but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system
187 call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5.
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189* The sstk function is no longer available to newly linked binaries.
190 Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function
191 was not declared in any header file.
192
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193* The legacy signal handling functions siginterrupt, sigpause, sighold,
194 sigrelse, sigignore and sigset, and the sigmask macro have been
195 deprecated. Applications should use the sigsuspend, sigprocmask and
196 sigaction functions instead.
197
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199 already supported this format for almost 20 years.
200
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201* The deprecated arrays sys_siglist, _sys_siglist, and sys_sigabbrev
202 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
203 have been removed from <string.h>. They are exported solely as
204 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
205 strsignal instead.
206
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207* The deprecated symbols sys_errlist, _sys_errlist, sys_nerr, and _sys_nerr
208 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
4d3a77c7 209 have been removed from <stdio.h>. They are exported solely as
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210 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
211 strerror or strerror_r instead.
212
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213* Both strerror and strerror_l now share the same internal buffer in the
214 calling thread, meaning that the returned string pointer may be invalided
215 or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same thread or
216 if the thread is terminated. It makes strerror MT-safe.
217
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218* Using weak references to libpthread functions such as pthread_create
219 or pthread_key_create to detect the singled-threaded nature of a
220 program is an obsolescent feature. Future versions of glibc will
221 define pthread_create within libc.so.6 itself, so such checks will
222 always flag the program as multi-threaded. Applications should check
223 the __libc_single_threaded variable declared in
224 <sys/single_threaded.h> instead.
225
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227 secure RPC). The contents of the /etc/publickey file will be ignored,
228 regardless of the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of
229 storing RPC keys only supported the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES
230 flavor of secure RPC.)
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232* The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
233 implementation __default_morecore have been deprecated. Applications
234 should use malloc interposition to change malloc behavior, and mmap to
235 allocate anonymous memory. A future version of glibc may require that
236 applications which use the malloc hooks must preload a special shared
237 object, to enable the hooks.
238
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239* The hesiod NSS module has been deprecated and will be removed in a
240 future version of glibc. System administrators are encouraged to
241 switch to other approaches for networked account databases, such as
242 LDAP.
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246* powerpc64le requires GCC 7.4 or newer. This is required for supporting
247 long double redirects.
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249Security related changes:
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251 CVE-2016-10228: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
252 invoked with the -c option and when processing invalid multi-byte input
253 sequences. Reported by Jan Engelhardt.
254
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255 CVE-2020-10029: Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack
256 corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido
257 Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
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259 CVE-2020-1752: A use-after-free vulnerability in the glob function when
260 expanding ~user has been fixed.
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262 CVE-2020-6096: A signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy and
263 memmove functions has been fixed. Discovered by Jason Royes and Samual
264 Dytrych of the Cisco Security Assessment and Penetration Team (See
265 TALOS-2020-1019).
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267The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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269 [9809] localedata: ckb_IQ: new Kurdish Sorani locale
270 [10441] manual: Backtraces code example lacks error checking
271 [10815] librt: [timer_create / SIGEV_THREAD] signalmask of
272 timer_sigev_thread dangerous
273 [14231] stdio: stdio-common tests memory requirements
274 [14578] libc: /proc-based emulation for lchmod, fchmodat
275 [16272] dynamic-link: dlopen()ing a DT_FILTER library crashes if
276 filtee has constructor
277 [19519] locale: iconv(1) with -c option hangs on illegal multi-byte
278 sequences (CVE-2016-10228)
279 [19737] admin: Doc page “20.5.2 Infinity and NaN” has incorrect HTML
280 character entities for infinity & pi
281 [20338] libc: Parsing of /etc/gshadow can return bad pointers causing
282 segfaults in applications
283 [20543] libc: Please move from .gnu.linkonce to comdat
284 [22489] network: gcc warns about implicit convertion in
285 ICMP6_FILTER_SETPASS with -Wsign-conversion
286 [22525] localedata: or_IN LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
287 [23294] math: Complex _FloatN functions are redirected to the wrong
288 function with -mlong-double-64
289 [23296] libc: Data race in setting function descriptor during lazy
290 binding
291 [23668] dynamic-link: ldconfig: Default to the new format for
292 ld.so.cache
293 [23819] hurd: hurd: Add C11 thread support
294 [23990] build: test-container error out on failure to exec child.
295 [23991] build: shell-container typo in run_command_array
296 [24638] manual: Error in example of parsing a template string
297 [24654] manual: Wrong declaration of wcschr in libc manual
298 [24943] dynamic-link: Support DT_AUDIT, DT_DEPAUDIT in the dynamic
299 linker
300 [25051] dynamic-link: aarch64, powerpc64 uses surplus static tls for
301 dynamically loaded dsos
302 [25098] nptl: nptl: ctype classification functions are not AS-Safe
303 [25219] libc: improve out-of-bounds checking with GCC 10 attribute
304 access
305 [25262] libc: getcontext/setcontext/swapcontext unnecessarily save and
306 restore EAX, ECX and EDX
307 [25397] dynamic-link: Legacy bitmap doesn't cover jitted code
308 [25414] glob: 'glob' use-after-free bug (CVE-2020-1752)
309 [25420] network: Race condition in resolv_conf.c can result in caching
310 stale configuration forever
311 [25487] math: sinl() stack corruption from crafted input
312 (CVE-2020-10029)
313 [25506] build: configure: broken detection of STT_GNU_IFUNC when GCC
314 defaults to PIE
315 [25523] libc: MIPS/Linux inline syscall template is miscompiled
316 [25620] libc: Signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy()
317 (CVE-2020-6096)
318 [25623] libc: test-sysvmsg, test-sysvsem, test-sysvshm fail with 2.31
319 on 32 bit and old kernel
320 [25635] libc: arm: Wrong sysdep order selection for soft-fp
321 [25639] localedata: Some names of days and months wrongly spelt in
322 Occitan
323 [25657] libc: sigprocmask() and sigisemptyset() manipulate different
324 amount of sigset_t bytes
325 [25691] stdio: printf: memory leak when printing long multibyte
326 strings
327 [25715] libc: system() returns wrong errors when posix_spawn fails
328 [25733] malloc: mallopt(M_MXFAST) can set global_max_fast to 0
329 [25734] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS fails to reset conversion
330 state for conversions that produce two Unicode code points
331 [25765] nptl: Incorrect futex syscall in __pthread_disable_asynccancel
332 for linux x86_64 leads to livelock
333 [25788] dynamic-link: [i386] -fno-omit-frame-pointer in CFLAGS causes
334 test failures, invalid instruction in ld.so
335 [25790] glob: Typo in tst-fnmatch.input
336 [25810] libc: x32: Incorrect syscall entries with pointer, off_t and
337 size_t
338 [25819] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 13.0.0
339 [25824] libc: Abnormal function of strnlen in aarch64
340 [25887] dynamic-link: Wasted space in _dl_x86_feature_1[1]
341 [25896] libc: Incorrect prctl
342 [25902] libc: Bad LOADARGS_N
343 [25905] dynamic-link: VSX registers are corrupted during PLT
344 resolution when glibc is built with --disable-multi-arch and --with-
345 cpu=power9
346 [25933] string: Off by one error in __strncmp_avx2 when
347 length=VEC_SIZE*4 and strings are at page boundaries can cause a
348 segfault
349 [25942] nptl: Deadlock on stack_cache_lock between __nptl_setxid and
350 exiting detached thread
351 [25966] libc: Incorrect access of __x86_shared_non_temporal_threshold
352 for x32
353 [25976] nss: internal_end*ent in nss_compat may clobber errno, hiding
354 ERANGE
355 [25999] nptl: Use-after-free issue in pthread_getaddr_default_np
356 [26073] math: getpayload() has wrong return value
357 [26076] dynamic-link: dlmopen crashes after failing to load
358 dependencies in audit mode
359 [26120] localedata: column width of of some Korean
360 JUNGSEONG/JONGSEONG characters wrong (should be 0)
361 [26128] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFLUSHOPT
362 [26133] libc: Incorrect need_arch_feature_F16C
363 [26137] libc: strtod() triggers exception FE_INEXACT on reasonable
364 input
365 [26149] libc: PKU is usable only if OSPKE is set
366 [26173] libc: powerpc64*: Add @notoc to calls to functions that do not
367 preserve r2
368 [26208] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFSH
369 [26210] network: Incorrect use of hidden symbols for global sunrpc
370 variables
371 [26211] stdio: printf integer overflow calculating allocation size
372 [26214] stdio: printf_fp double free
373 [26215] stdio: printf_fp memory leak
374 [26232] time: FAIL: support/tst-timespec for 32-bit targets
375 [26258] nss: nss_compat should not read input files with mmap
376 [26332] string: Incorrect cache line size load causes memory
377 corruption in memset
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382Major new features:
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384* The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
385 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
386 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
387 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
388 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
389 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
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391* The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
392 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
393 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
394 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
395
69ca4b54 396* The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
3ef5e118 397 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
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398 CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME. This function is a GNU extension.
399
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400* New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar).
401
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403 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
404 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
405 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
406 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
407 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
408 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
409 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
410
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414 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
415 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
416 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
417 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
418 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
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421 binaries, and its declaration has been removed from <time.h>.
422 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
423
424* We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
425 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
426 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
427 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
428
429* The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
430 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
431 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
432 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
433 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
434 made this no longer practical.
435
436 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
437 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
438 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
439 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
440 release.)
441
442 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
443 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
444 with the current time, use the localtime function.
445
446 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
447 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
448 using clock_gettime instead.
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451 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
452 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
453 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
454 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
455
456 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
457 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
458 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
459 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
460
461 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
462 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
463 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
464 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
465 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
466 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
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469 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
470 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
471 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
472 offset API.
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475 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
476 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
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479 configurations.
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482 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
483 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
484 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
485 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
486
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488 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
489 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
490 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
491 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
492 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
493 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
494 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
495
496 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
497 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
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500 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
501 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
502 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
503 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
504 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
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507
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510 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
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513 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
514 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
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517
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518 CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an
519 out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context.
520
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522 environment variable during program execution after a security
523 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
524 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
525 program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
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527The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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529 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
530 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
531 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
532 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
533 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
534 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
535 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
536 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
537 linking failure
538 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
539 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
540 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
541 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
542 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
543 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
544 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
545 constructors/destructors is not fatal
546 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
547 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
548 7408-2005
549 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
550 with localedef
551 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
552 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
553 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
554 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
555 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
556 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
557 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
558 utmp entries
559 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
560 ABSOLUTE ABI
561 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
562 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
563 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
564 (stringop-overflow error)
565 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
566 functions other can lead to crashes
567 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
568 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
569 unconditionally
570 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
571 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
572 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
573 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
574 still can fail with an error
575 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
576 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
577 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
578 initialized correctly
579 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
580 -frewrite-includes
581 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
582 value to an unsigned
583 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
584 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
585 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
586 protection
587 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
588 ifunc variant.
589 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
590 al. for Clang++
591 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
592 (Slovenian)
593 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
594 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
595 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
596 with -std=c11
597 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
598 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
599 part
600 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
601 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
602 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
603 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
604 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
605 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
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610Major new features:
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613 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
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614 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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617 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
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620 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
621 to the callback function.
622
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626 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
627 nan_TW, lzh_TW.
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632 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
633 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
634 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
635 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
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638 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
639 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
640 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
641 link time reference, is gone.
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644 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
645 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
646 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
647 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
648 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
649 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
650 the clock choice at initialization time).
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653 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
654 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
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659 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
660 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
661 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
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663 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
664 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
665 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
666 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
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668* The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime,
669 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
670 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
671 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
672 since glibc 2.17.
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674* The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
675 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
676
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677* Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
678 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
679
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680* The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
681 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
682
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683* With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
684 BIND_NOW flag.
685
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686* Support for the PowerPC SPE ISA extension (powerpc-*-*gnuspe*
687 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
688 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
689
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690* On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
691 header have been removed.
692
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693* The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
694 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
695 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
696 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
697
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699
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701
702 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
703 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
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705Security related changes:
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707 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
708 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
709 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
710 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
711 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
712 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
713 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
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716 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
717 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
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721 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
722 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
723 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
724 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
725 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
726 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
727 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
728 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
729 invalid input drops valid char
730 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
731 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
732 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
733 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
734 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
735 malloc.h.
736 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
737 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
738 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
739 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
740 functions
741 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
742 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
743 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
744 for long double = double
745 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
746 long double = double
747 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
748 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
749 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
750 long timeouts
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752 [24059] nss: nss_files: get_next_alias calls fgets_unlocked without
753 checking for NULL.
754 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
755 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
756 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
757 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
758 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
759 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
760 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
761 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
762 not the default "nor"
763 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
764 false positives, change to modern flexible array
765 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
766 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
767 compiler barriers.
768 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
769 unnecessary librt dependencies
770 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
771 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
772 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
773 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
774 unsorted chunk
775 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
776 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
777 to R_SPARC_H44
778 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
779 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
780 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
781 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
782 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
783 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
784 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
785 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
786 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
787 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
788 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
789 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
790 was not used
791 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
792 tests
793 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
794 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
795 time_t changes
796 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
797 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
798 kernels and break testing
799 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
800 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
801 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
802 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
803 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
804 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
805 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
806 -O3 -march=skylake
807 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
808 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
809 crash
810 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
811 linked glibc
812 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
813 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
814 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
815 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
816 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
817 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
818 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
819 always implemented in the same library
820 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
821 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
822 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
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828Major new features:
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831 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
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834 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
835 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
836 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
837 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
838 configured location.
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842* The reallocarray function is now declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE, not just
843 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
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846 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
847 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
848 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
849 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
850 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
851 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
852 process actually does not use HTM).
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855 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
856 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
857 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
858 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
859 of the same name.
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862 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
863 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
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866
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867* Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
868 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
869 supported:
870 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
871 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
872
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874 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
875 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
876 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
877 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
878 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
879 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
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882 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
883 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
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888 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
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891 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
892 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
893 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
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896 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
897 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
898 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
899 structures.
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902 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
903 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
904 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
905 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
906 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
907
908 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
909 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
910 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
911 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
912 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
913
914 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
915 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
916 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
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923 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
924
925 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
926 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
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931 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
932 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
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935 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
936 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
937 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
938 Reported by H.J. Lu.
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940 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
941 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
942 or command injection issues in applications.
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946 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
947 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
948 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
949 thousands
950 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
951 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
952 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
953 --param options)
954 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
955 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
956 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
957 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
958 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
959 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
960 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
961 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
962 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
963 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
964 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
965 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
966 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
967 pointer argument is non-NULL
968 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
969 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
970 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
971 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
972 multithreads call popen
973 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
974 and pthread_create fails.
975 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
976 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
977 constructor
978 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
979 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
980 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
981 source tree
982 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
983 float
984 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
985 one error
986 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
987 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
988 linker
989 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
990 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
991 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
992 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
993 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
994 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
995 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
996 filesystems
997 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
998 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
999 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
1000 functions
1001 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
1002 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
1003 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
1004 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
1005 have wrong type
1006 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
1007 wrong type
1008 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
1009 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
1010 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
1011 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
1012 threads
1013 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
1014 start.S
1015 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
1016 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
1017 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
1018 powerpc64le
1019 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
1020 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
1021 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
1022 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
1023 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
1024 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
1025 strftime
1026 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
1027 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
1028 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
1029 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
1030 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
1031 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
1032 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
1033 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
1034 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
1035 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
1036 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
1037 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
1038 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
1039 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
1040 tcache size
1041 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
1042 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
1043 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
1044 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
1045 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
1046 (CVE-2018-19591)
1047 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
1048 nearest rounding mode
1049 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
1050 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
1051 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
1052 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
1053 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
1054 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
1055 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
1056 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
1057 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
1058 error
1059 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
1060 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
1061 using GCC 8
1062 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
1063 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
1064 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
1065 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
1066 ppc64le
1067 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
1068 expected result
1069 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
1070 x32 (CVE-2019-6488)
1071 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
1072 sigaltstack
1073 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
1074 answers will be rejected)
1075 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
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1079
1080Major new features:
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1082* The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
1083 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
1084 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
1085 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
1086 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
1087 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
1088 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
1089 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
1090 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
1091 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
1092 archive or binary locales.
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1095 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
1096 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
1097 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
1098 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
1099 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
1100 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
1101 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
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1103 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
1104 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
1105 validated for i686.
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1108 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
1109 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
1110 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
1111 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
1112 field) to indicate such support is required.
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1115 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
1116 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1117
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1118* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
1119 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
1120
1121 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
1122 fMxaddfNx functions.
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1124 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
1125 fMxsubfNx functions.
1126
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1127 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
1128 fMxmulfNx functions.
1129
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1130 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
1131 fMxdivfNx functions.
1132
e607a352 1133* Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
df467d22 1134 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
9145f033 1135 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
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1137 and Kashubian.
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61c4aad7 1139* Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
e607a352 1140 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
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1142* Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
1143 patches.
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1145* The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
1146 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
1147 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
1148 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
1149 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
1150 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
1151 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
1152 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
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1155 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
1156 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
1157 the fstatat64 function.
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1159* IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
1160 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
1161 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
1162 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
1163 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
1164 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
1165 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
1166 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
1167 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
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1170 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
1171 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
1172 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
1173 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
1174 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
1175 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
1176 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
1177 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
1178 results in a load failure now.
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1181 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
1182 <threads.h>:
1183
1184 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
1185 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
1186
1187 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
1188 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
1189
1190 - call_once for function call synchronization.
1191
1192 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
1193 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
1194
1195 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
1196
1197 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
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1200
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1201* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
1202 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
1203 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
1204
1205* The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
1206 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
1207 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
1208 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
1209 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
1210 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
1211
1212* All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
1213 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
1214 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
1215 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
1216 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
1217 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
1218 (Bug #1190.)
1219
1220* The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
1221 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
1222 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
1223 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
1224 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
1225 further explanation.
1226
1227 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
1228 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
1229 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
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1231* The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
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1233* The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
1234 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
1235 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
1236
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1237* The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
1238 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
1239 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
1240 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
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1242* The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
1243 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
1244 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
1245 for this function instead.
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1247* The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
1248 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
1249 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
1250
1251* The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
1252 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
1253 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
1254 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
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1256* The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
1257 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
1258 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
1259 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
1260 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
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1262* The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
1263 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
1264 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
1265 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
1266 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
1267 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
1268 such as libgcrypt.
1269
1270* Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
1271 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
1272 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
1273 enabled.
1274
1275* The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
1276 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
1277 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
1278
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1280 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
1281 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
1282 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
1283 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
1284 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
1285
1286 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
1287 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
1288 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
1289 behavior in a future release.
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1292
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1295Security related changes:
1296
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1297 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
1298 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
1299 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
1300 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
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1302 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
1303 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
1304
1305 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
1306 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
1307 Izbyshev.
1308
1309 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
1310 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
1311 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
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1315 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
1316 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
1317 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
1318 when __WORDSIZE != 64
1319 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
1320 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
1321 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
1322 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
1323 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
1324 14651
1325 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
1326 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
1327 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
1328 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
1329 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
1330 conversion is given
1331 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
1332 date
1333 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
1334 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
1335 scope with -O1 and higher
1336 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
1337 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
1338 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
1339 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
1340 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
1341 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
1342 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
1343 horrible machine code)
1344 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
1345 last constant.
1346 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
1347 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
1348 symbols
1349 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
1350 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
1351 defined
1352 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
1353 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
1354 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
1355 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
1356 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
1357 fpscr.c'
1358 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
1359 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
1360 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
1361 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
1362 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
1363 the base address
1364 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
1365 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
1366 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
1367 open_verify
1368 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
1369 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
1370 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
1371 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
1372 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
1373 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
1374 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
1375 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
1376 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
1377 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
1378 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
1379 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
1380 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
1381 dlopen
1382 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
1383 AT_SECURE=1
1384 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
1385 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
1386 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
1387 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
1388 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
1389 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
1390 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
1391 for Spanish with CLDR
1392 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
1393 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
1394 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
1395 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
1396 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
1397 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
1398 es_BO
1399 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
1400 CLOCKS_PER_SECOND
1401 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
1402 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
1403 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
1404 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
1405 dlopen failures
1406 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
1407 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
1408 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
1409 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
1410 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
1411 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
1412 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
1413 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
1414 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
1415 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
1416 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
1417 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
1418 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
1419 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
1420 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
1421 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
1422 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
1423 makecontext
1424 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
1425 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
1426 required
1427 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
1428 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
1429 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
1430 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
1431 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
1432 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
1433 disabled
1434 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
1435 failure
1436 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
1437 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
1438 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
1439 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
1440 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
1441 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
1442 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
1443 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
1444 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
1445 and libc build with -Os)
1446 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
1447 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
1448 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
1449 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
1450 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
1451 that changes /etc/passwd
1452 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
1453 (CVE-2018-11237)
1454 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
1455 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
1456 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
1457 posix/regcomp.c
1458 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
1459 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
1460 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
1461 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
1462 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
1463 AT_SECURE
1464 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
1465 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
1466 parser.c
1467 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
1468 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
1469 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
1470 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
1471 directed rounding
1472 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
1473 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
1474 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
1475 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
1476 lookup
1477 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
1478 interposition
1479 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
1480 DSO boundaries.
1481 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
1482 <linux/time.h>
1483 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
1484 checking
1485 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
1486 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
1487 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
1488 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
1489 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
1490 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
1491 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
1492 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
1493 processors
1494 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
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1497Version 2.27
1498
1499Major new features:
1500
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1501* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
1502 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
bd7bbb26 1503 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
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1504 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
1505 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
1506 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
1507 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
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1508 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
1509 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
9d7a3741 1510
ac817e08 1511* Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
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1512 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
1513 H.J. Lu from Intel.
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1515* Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
1516
4cf82d23 1517* Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
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1519* In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
1520 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
1521 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
1522 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
1523 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
1524 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
1525 from a security and performance perspective.
1526
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1527* The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
1528 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
1529 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
1530 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
1531
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1533 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
1534 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
1535 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
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1536 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
1537
a23aa5b7 1538* On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
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1540 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
1541 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
1542 _Float128.
1543
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1544* The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
1545 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
1546 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
0d93b7fd 1547
4bab0224 1548* glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
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1550* Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
1551 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
1552 pkey_get.
1553
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1554* The copy_file_range function was added.
1555
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1556* Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
1557
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1558* The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
1559 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
1560 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
1561
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1563 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
1564 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
1565 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
1566 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
1567 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
1568 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
1569
1570 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
1571 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
1572 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
1573 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
1574 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
1575 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
1576 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
1577
1578 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
1579 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
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1580 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
1581 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
1582 respectively.
1583
1584 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
1585 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
1586 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
1587 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
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1589 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
1590 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
1591 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
1592
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1594 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
0a32e219 1595 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
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1598 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
1599 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
1600
1601 - rv64imac lp64
1602 - rv64imafdc lp64
1603 - rv64imafdc lp64d
1604
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1605Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1606
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1607* Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
1608 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
d4ae7827 1609 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
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1610 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
1611 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
1612 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
1613 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
1614 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
1615 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
1616 fix this.
1617
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1618* Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
1619 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
1620 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
1621
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1622* Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
1623 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
1624 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
1625 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
1626 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
1627 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
1628 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
1629 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
1630 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
1631 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
1632 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
1633 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
1634 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
1635 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
1636 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
1637 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
1638 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
1639 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
1640 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
1641 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
1642 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
1643 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
1644 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
1645 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
1646 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
1647 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
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1650 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
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1652* libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
1653 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
1654 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
1655 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
1656 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
1657 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
1658 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
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1660* The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
1661 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
1662 exp10l for these functions instead.
1663
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1664* The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
1665 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
1666 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1667
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1668* The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
1669 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
1670 ignored.
1671
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1672* The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
1673 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
1674 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
1675 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
1676
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1677* The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
1678 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
1679
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1680* In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
1681 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
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1683* The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
1684 programs.
1685
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1686* The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
1687
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1688* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
1689 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
1690 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
1691 instead.
1692
1693 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
1694 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
1695 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
1696 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
1697 use, but predates the bits convention.
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1701* bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
1702 subdirectory.
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1704Security related changes:
1705
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1706 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
1707 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
1708 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
1709 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
1710 script.)
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1712 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
1713 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
1714 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
1715 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
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1717 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
1718 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
1719 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
1720 of service.
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1722 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
1723 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
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1724 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
1725
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1726 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
1727 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
1728 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
1729 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
1730
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1731 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
1732 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
1733 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
1734 Qualys.
1735
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1736 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
1737 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
1738 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
1739 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
1740 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
1741
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1742 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
1743 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
1744 current directory.
1745
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1746 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
1747 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
1748 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
1749
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1750 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
1751 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
1752 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
1753
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1754 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
1755 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
1756 small, instead of NULL.
1757
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1759
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1760 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
1761 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
1762 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
1763 locale
1764 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
1765 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
1766 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
1767 cases
1768 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
1769 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
1770 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
1771 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
1772 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
1773 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
1774 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
1775 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
1776 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
1777 "Bangla"
1778 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
1779 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
1780 width Latin characters
1781 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
1782 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
1783 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
1784 letters
1785 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
1786 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
1787 (CVE-2009-5064)
1788 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
1789 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
1790 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
1791 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
1792 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
1793 if malloc succeeded
1794 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
1795 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
1796 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
1797 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
1798 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
1799 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
1800 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
1801 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
1802 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
1803 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
1804 U+309A
1805 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
1806 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
1807 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
1808 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
1809 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
1810 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
1811 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
1812 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
1813 for Nicaragua
1814 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
1815 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
1816 are not found.
1817 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
1818 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
1819 access
1820 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
1821 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
1822 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
1823 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
1824 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
1825 __regcall calling convention
1826 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
1827 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
1828 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
1829 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
1830 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
1831 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
1832 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
1833 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
1834 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
1835 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
1836 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
1837 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
1838 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
1839 locale
1840 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
1841 protector=all
1842 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
1843 wcwidth
1844 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
1845 consistency check failures
1846 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
1847 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
1848 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
1849 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
1850 PIE
1851 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
1852 locales
1853 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
1854 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
1855 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
1856 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
1857 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
1858 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
1859 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
1860 on memory allocation failure
1861 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
1862 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
1863 the suspect)
1864 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
1865 default (i386)
1866 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
1867 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
1868 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
1869 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
1870 instead of EAI_NODATA
1871 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
1872 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
1873 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
1874 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
1875 implementation
1876 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
1877 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
1878 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
1879 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
1880 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
1881 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
1882 allocation in syscall loops)
1883 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
1884 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
1885 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
1886 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
1887 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
1888 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
1889 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
1890 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
1891 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
1892 occur with -O3
1893 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
1894 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
1895 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
1896 amounts)
1897 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
1898 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
1899 niu_NZ
1900 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
1901 checks
1902 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
1903 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
1904 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
1905 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
1906 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
1907 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
1908 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
1909 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
1910 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
1911 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
1912 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
1913 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
1914 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
1915 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
1916 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
1917 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
1918 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
1919 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
1920 parsing after OOM
1921 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
1922 object
1923 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
1924 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
1925 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
1926 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
1927 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
1928 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
fdb724f9 1929 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf outputs a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
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1930 ppc64le
1931 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
1932 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
1933 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
1934 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
1935 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
1936 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
1937 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
1938 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
1939 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
1940 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
1941 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
1942 math_force_eval
1943 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
1944 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
1945 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
1946 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
1947 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
1948 the svid compat wrapper
1949 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
1950 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
1951 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
1952 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
1953 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
1954 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
1955 --verbose.
1956 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
1957 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
1958 to 2.26
1959 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
1960 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
1961 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
1962 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
1963 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
1964 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
1965 (CVE-2017-15804)
1966 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
1967 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
1968 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
1969 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
1970 failure."
1971 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
1972 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
1973 -m32
1974 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
1975 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
1976 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
1977 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
1978 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
1979 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
1980 inside the ASCII printable range
1981 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
1982 -mlong-double-64
1983 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
1984 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
1985 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
1986 Internet
1987 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
1988 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
1989 backslash
1990 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
1991 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
1992 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
1993 heaps in an arena
1994 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
1995 networking interface
1996 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
1997 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
1998 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
1999 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
2000 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
2001 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
2002 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
2003 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
2004 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
2005 order
2006 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2007 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2008 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2009 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2010 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2011 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
2012 same as for Croatian
2013 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
2014 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
2015 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
2016 for initial thread"
2017 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
2018 SC_SSIZE_MAX
2019 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
2020 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
2021 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2022 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
2023 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
2024 (CVE-2017-1000408)
2025 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
2026 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
2027 modified in case of success
2028 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
2029 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
2030 success
2031 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
2032 stack-protector=all
2033 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
2034 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
2035 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
2036 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
2037 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
2038 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
2039 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
2040 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
2041 adding it on top
2042 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
2043 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
2044 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
2045 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
2046 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
2047 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
2048 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
2049 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
2050 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
2051 (CVE-2018-1000001)
2052 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
2053 elision and tunables
2054 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
2055 "invalid" exception
2056 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
2057 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
2058 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
2059 exception
2060 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2061 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
2062 power4
2063 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
2064 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
2065 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
2066 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
2067 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
2068 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
2069 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
2070 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
2071 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
00cdcf5a 2072
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2073\f
2074Version 2.26
2075
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2076Major new features:
2077
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2078* A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
2079 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
2080 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
2081 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
2082 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
2083 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
2084 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
2085
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2086* Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2087 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
0b38d66a 2088 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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2089 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
2090 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
2091 are rendered with pango, see for example:
2092 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
58557c22 2093
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2094* Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
2095 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
2096 Egmont Koblinger.
e4e79484 2097
2b2ccd0c 2098* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
025b33ae 2099
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2100 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
2101 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
2102 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
daeb1fa2 2103
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2104 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
2105 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
2106 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
2107 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
2108 object are still limited to six search domains.
139ace95 2109
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2110 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
2111 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
2112 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
cd354a38 2113
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2114* The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
2115 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
d8cee557 2116
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2117* New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
2118 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
2119 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
2120 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
f0be25b6 2121
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2122* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
2123 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
2124 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
2125 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
8082d91e 2126
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2127* posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
2128 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
2129 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
2130 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
2e0bbbfb 2131
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2132* errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
2133 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
2134 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
12d2dd70 2135
2b2ccd0c 2136* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
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2137 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
2138 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
2139 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
2c0b90ab 2140
2b2ccd0c 2141 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
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2142 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
2143 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
2144 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
2145 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
2146
2147 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
2148 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
2149 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
2150 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
2151 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
2152 interfaces should be used instead.
f819dbea 2153
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2154Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2155
2156* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
2157 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
2158 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
2159 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
2160 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
2161 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
2162 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
2163 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
2164
2165* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
2166 removed.
2167
2168* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
7e368000 2169 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
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2170 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
2171 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
2172
2173* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
2174 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
2175 default.
2176
2177 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
2178 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
2179 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
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2180 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
2181 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
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2182
2183 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
2184 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
2185 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
2186 name service modules, to be built and installed.
2187
2188* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
2189 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
2190 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
2191 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
2192
2193* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
2194 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
5b757a51 2195
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2196* The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
2197 exported by accident.
2198
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2199* <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
2200 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
2201 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
2202
2203* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
2204 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
2205 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
2206 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
2207
2208* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
2209
2210* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
2211
2212* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
2213 free instead.
2214
2215* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
2216 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2217
2218* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
2219 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2220
2221* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
2222 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
2223 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
2224 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
2225 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
2226 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
2227 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
2228 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
2229
2230* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
2231 synced with the kernel:
2232
2233 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
2234 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
2235
2236 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
2237 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
2238 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
2239
2240 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
2241 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
2242
2243Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2244
2245* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
2246 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
2247 x86-32 and x86-64.)
2248
7e368000 2249* GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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2251* On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
2252 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
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2254 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
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2255 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
2256 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
2257 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2b2ccd0c 2258 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
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2260Security related changes:
2261
e14a2772 2262* The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
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2263 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
2264
2265* LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
2266 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
2267
2268* Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
2269 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
2270 (CVE-2010-3192).
2271
2272* A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
2273 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
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2275The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2276
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2277 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
2278 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
2279 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
2280 fields
2281 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
2282 (CVE-2010-3192)
2283 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
2284 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
2285 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
2286 ld.bfd is available
2287 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
2288 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
2289 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
2290 x86 and other generic code
2291 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
2292 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
2293 incorrect
2294 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
2295 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
2296 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
2297 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
2298 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
2299 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
2300 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
2301 resolver
2302 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
2303 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
2304 order of 0D36 and 0D37
2305 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
2306 chillu characters
2307 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
2308 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
2309 receiving data
2310 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
2311 whitespace
2312 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
2313 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
2314 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
2315 for Peru
2316 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
2317 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
2318 failures consistently
2319 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
2320 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
2321 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
2322 frame-pointer on i386
2323 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
2324 register
2325 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
2326 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
2327 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
2328 generic c code is used
2329 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
2330 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
2331 around 4000
2332 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
2333 (CVE-2017-12133)
2334 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
2335 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
2336 with -lieee
2337 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
2338 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
2339 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
2340 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
2341 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
2342 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
2343 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
2344 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
2345 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
2346 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
2347 remove()
2348 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
2349 checked for errors.
2350 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
2351 new posix_spawn implementation
2352 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
2353 leads to lower CPU frequency
2354 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
2355 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
2356 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
2357 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
2358 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
2359 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
2360 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
2361 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
2362 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
2363 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
2364 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
2365 not support gethostbyname4_r
2366 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
2367 switching
2368 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
2369 arenas
2370 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
2371 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
2372 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
2373 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
2374 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
2375 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
2376 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
2377 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
2378 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
2379 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
2380 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
2381 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
2382 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
2383 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
2384 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
2385 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
2386 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
2387 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
2388 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
2389 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
2390 retry value
2391 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
2392 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
2393 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
2394 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
2395 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
2396 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
2397 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
2398 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
2399 [21537] libc:
2400 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
2401 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
2402 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
2403 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
2404 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
2405 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
2406 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
2407 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
2408 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
2409 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
2410 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
2411 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
2412 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
2413 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
2414 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
2415 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
2416 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
2417 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
2418 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
2419 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
2420 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
2421 issue on x86-64
2422 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
2423 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
2424 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
2425 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
2426 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
2427 construction
2428 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
2429 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
2430 between_2_3
2431 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
2432 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
2433 conditions
2434 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
2435 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
2436 Hindi Locale
2437 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
2438 posix/sched_cpucount.c
2439 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
2440 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
2441 locale
2442 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
2443 leading to relocation crash
2444 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
2445 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
2446 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
2447 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
2448 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
2449 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
2450 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
2451 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
2452 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
2453 locale
2454 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
2455 locale
2456 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
2457 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
2458 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
2459 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
2460 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
2461 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
2462 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
2463 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
2464 strings
2465 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
2466 protector=all
2467 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
2468 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
2469 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
2470 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
2471 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
2472 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
2473 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
2474 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
2475 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
2476 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
2477 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
2478 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
2479 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
2480 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
2481 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
2482 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
2483 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
2484 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
2485 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
2486 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
2487 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
2488 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
2489 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
2490 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
2491 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
2492 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
2493 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
2494 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
2495 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
2496 with unicode 9.0
2497 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
2498 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
2499 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
2500 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
2501 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
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2504Version 2.25
2505
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2506* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
2507 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
2508 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
2509 Library.
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2511* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
2512 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
a5ac5676 2513 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
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2514 the GNU C Library.
2515
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2516* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
2517 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
2518 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
2519 the GNU C Library.
2520
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2521* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
2522 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
2523 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
2524 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
2525 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
2526 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
2527 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
2528 will not.
2529
2530 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
2531 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
2532 many years.
2533
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2534* The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
2535 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
2536 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
2537
2538 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
2539 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
2540 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
2541 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
2542 problem.
2543
ec94343f 2544* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
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2545 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
2546 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
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2548* Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
2549 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
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2550 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
2551 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
2552 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
2553 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
2554 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
2555 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
2556 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
2557 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
2558 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
2559 WINT_WIDTH.
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2561* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
2562
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2563 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
2564
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2565 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
2566 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
2567 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
41c67149 2568
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2569 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
2570 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
2571
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2572 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
2573 fminmagf, fminmagl.
2574
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2575 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
2576
29cb9293 2577 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
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2579 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
2580 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
5e9d98a3 2581
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2582 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
2583
eb3c12c7 2584 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
457663a7 2585 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
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2587* The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
2588 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
2589
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2590* Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
2591 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
2592 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
2593
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2594* The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
2595 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
2596 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
2597 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
2598 effects of the memory clear).
2599
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2600* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
2601 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
2602 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
2603 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
2604
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2605* On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
2606 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
2607 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
2608 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
2609 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
2610 if they are compiled or used with those options.
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2612* The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
2613 have been added.
2614
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2615* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
2616 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
2617 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
2618 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
2619 as large as several megabytes.
2620
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2621* The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
2622 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
2623 been removed.
2624
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2625* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
2626 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
2627 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
2628 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
2629 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
2630 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
2631 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
2632
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2633* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
2634 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
2635 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
2636 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
2637
099191b1 2638* The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
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2639 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
2640 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
2641 Internet.
2642
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2643* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
2644 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
2645 They were already unimplemented.
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2647* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
2648 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
2649 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
2650 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
2651
3a2a1d2c
FW
2652* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
2653 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
2654 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
2655 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
2656 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
2657
be728303
FW
2658* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
2659 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
2660 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
2661 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
2662 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
2663
6815a33d
FW
2664* The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
2665 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
2666 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
2667 did not reflect that.
2668
022dfdce
SL
2669* For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
2670 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
2671 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
2672 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
2673 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
2674 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
2675 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
2676 'gcc/config.gcc'.
2677
23b5cae1
MG
2678* GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
2679 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
2680 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
2681 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
2682
7715d3ab
SP
2683* Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
2684 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
2685 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
2686 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
2687
0cea3587
SP
2688* A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
2689 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
2690 guarantees.
2691
2692* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
2693 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
2694 make state changes.
2695
e720d3d9
CD
2696Security related changes:
2697
fc82b0a2 2698* On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
4d047efd
FW
2699 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
2700 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
2701 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
056dd72a 2702 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
e720d3d9 2703
fc82b0a2
FW
2704* The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
2705 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
2706 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
2707 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
2708 (CVE-2015-5180)
2709
e720d3d9
CD
2710The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2711
fdb724f9 2712 [4099] stdio: Overly aggressive caching by stream i/o functions.
4e054e6b
SP
2713 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
2714 protector-all
2715 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
2716 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
2717 before it started waiting
2718 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
2719 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
2720 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
2721 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
2722 wrong type
2723 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
2724 library linked with pthread
2725 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
2726 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
2727 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
2728 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
2729 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
2730 after being __libc_memalign()'d
2731 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
2732 when it shouldnt
2733 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
2734 not
2735 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
2736 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
2737 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
2738 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
2739 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
2740 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
2741 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
2742 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
2743 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
2744 termination
2745 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
2746 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
2747 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
2748 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
2749 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
2750 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
2751 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
2752 causes a segmentation fault
2753 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
2754 linking
2755 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
2756 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
2757 uninitialized GOT
2758 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
2759 versions
2760 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
2761 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
2762 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
2763 is always true.
2764 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
2765 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
2766 modes
2767 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
2768 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
2769 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
2770 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
2771 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
2772 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
2773 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
2774 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
2775 libpthread.a
2776 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
2777 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
2778 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
2779 _res_hconf
2780 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
2781 information.
2782 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
2783 penalty
2784 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
2785 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
2786 cause transition penalty
2787 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
2788 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
2789 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
2790 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
2791 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
2792 mcount.oS)
2793 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
2794 Checking
2795 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
2796 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
2797 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
2798 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
2799 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
2800 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
2801 multi-arch
2802 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
2803 (RES_USEBSTRING)
2804 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
2805 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
2806 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
2807 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
2808 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
2809 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
2810 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
2811 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
2812 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
2813 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
2814 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
2815 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
2816 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
2817 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
2818 glibc
2819 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
2820 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
2821 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
2822 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
2823 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
2824 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
2825 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
2826 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
2827 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
2828 U+20AC), not same as GBK
2829 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
2830 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
2831 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
2832 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
2833 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
2834 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
2835 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
2836 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
2837 RES_USE_INET6
2838 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2839 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
2840 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
2841 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
2842 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
2843 wrong condition
2844 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2845 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
2846 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
2847 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
2848 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
2849 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
2850 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
2851 clang
2852 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
2853 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
2854 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
2855 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
2856 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
e720d3d9 2857\f
11fca961
AZ
2858Version 2.24
2859
5b4ecd3f
JM
2860* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
2861 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
2862 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
2863 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
2864 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
2865 architectures.
2866
b6ebba70
MF
2867* The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
2868 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
2869 been included in previous releases.
11fca961 2870
7584a3f9
FW
2871* The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
2872 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
2873
b49ab5f4
FW
2874* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
2875 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
2876 instead of “union wait”.
2877
ced8f893
SG
2878* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
2879 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
2880 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
2881 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
2882 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
2883 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
2884 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
2885
2ba3cfa1
FW
2886* The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
2887 API.
2888
b7a9b7b0
MF
2889* The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
2890 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
2891 drop it.
6a54bcda 2892
41a359e2
RS
2893* nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
2894 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
2895 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
2896 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
2897 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
2898 extensions.
2899
11fca961
AZ
2900Security related changes:
2901
f5b3338d
FW
2902* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
2903 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
2904 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
2905
4ab2ab03
FW
2906* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
2907 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
2908 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
2909 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
11fca961 2910
5171f307
FW
2911* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
2912 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
2913 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
2914
bc779a1a
FW
2915* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
2916 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
2917 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
2918
fab38231
FW
2919* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
2920 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
2921 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
2922 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
2923
11fca961
AZ
2924The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2925
3c4f81ec
CD
2926 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
2927 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
2928 of MS-DOS.
2929 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
2930 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
2931 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
2932 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
2933 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
2934 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
2935 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
2936 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
2937 CLDR data
2938 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
2939 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
2940 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
2941 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
2942 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
2943 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
2944 romanisation
2945 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
2946 and +/-
2947 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
2948 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
2949 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
2950 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
2951 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
2952 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
2953 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
2954 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
2955 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
2956 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
2957 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
2958 all locales
2959 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
2960 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
2961 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
2962 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
2963 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
2964 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
2965 execute
2966 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
2967 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
2968 -Wsystem-headers
2969 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
2970 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
2971 Romanian locale data
2972 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
2973 symbol
2974 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
2975 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
2976 language
2977 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
2978 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
2979 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
2980 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
2981 machine
2982 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
2983 description
2984 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
2985 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
2986 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
2987 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
2988 when using RTLD_NEXT
2989 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
2990 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
2991 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
2992 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
2993 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
2994 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
2995 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
2996 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
2997 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
2998 Excavator core
2999 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3000 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3001 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3002 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
3003 double range
3004 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
3005 part zero incorrect
3006 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
3007 equality tests
3008 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
3009 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
3010 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
3011 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
3012 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
3013 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
3014 glibc-2.22
3015 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
3016 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
3017 'tst-numeric.c'
3018 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
3019 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
3020 low part
3021 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
3022 result
3023 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
3024 unaligned stack
3025 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
3026 pointers and lengths in error-case.
3027 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
3028 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
3029 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
3030 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
3031 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
3032 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
3033 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
3034 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
3035 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
3036 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
3037 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
3038 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
3039 modes
3040 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
3041 server addresses
3042 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
3043 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
3044 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
3045 response to getaddrinfo
3046 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
3047 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
3048 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
3049 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
3050 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
3051 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
3052 sometimes incorrect
3053 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
3054 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
3055 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
3056 record types
3057 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
3058 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
3059 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
3060 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
3061 (CVE-2016-3075)
3062 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
3063 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
3064 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
3065 resolving symbols
3066 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
3067 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
3068 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
3069 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
3070 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
3071 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
3072 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
3073 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
3074 gethosts
3075 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
3076 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
3077 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
3078 (CVE-2016-3706)
3079 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
3080 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
3081 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
3082 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
3083 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
3084 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
3085 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
3086 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
3087 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
3088 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
3089 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
3090 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
3091 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
3092 executable
3093 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
3094 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
3095 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
3096 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
3097 XPG3
3098 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
3099 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
3100 (CVE-2016-4429)
3101 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
3102 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
3103 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
3104 AS not supporting AVX512
3105 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
3106 sNaN argument
3107 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3108 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
3109 argument
3110 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
3111 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
3112 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
3113 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
3114 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
3115 eax=0x80000001
3116 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
3117 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
3118 subnormals
3119 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
3120 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
3121 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
3122 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3123 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3124 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
3125 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3126 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
3127 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
3128 input
3129 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3130 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3131 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3132 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3133 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3134 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3135 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3136 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
3137 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
3138 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
3139 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
3140 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
3141 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
3142 double rounding
3143 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
3144 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
3145 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
3146 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
3147 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
3148 (Only arm/linux)
3149 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
3150 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
3151 fallbacks
3152 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
3153 "invalid" exceptions
3154 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
3155 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
3156 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
3157 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
3158 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
3159 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
3160 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
3161 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
3162 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
11fca961 3163\f
aeb47bbc
DM
3164Version 2.23
3165
23256f5e
MF
3166* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
3167 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
3168 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
3169 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
3170 89, 16061, and 18568.
3171
2359035a
FW
3172* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
3173 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
3174 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
3175 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
3176 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
3177 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
3178 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
3179
8b7b7f75
MW
3180* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
3181 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
3182 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
3183
2eecc8af
FW
3184* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
3185 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
3186 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
3187 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
3188 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
3189 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
3190 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
3191
a62719ba
FW
3192* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
3193 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
3194 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
3195 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
3196 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 3197 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
a62719ba
FW
3198 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
3199 Ericsson.)
a014cecd 3200
bc148ca1
MF
3201* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
3202 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
3203 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
3204 independent of the GNU C Library.
3205
1c70b6f1
ZW
3206* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
3207 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
1efad39b 3208
eed3e1eb
JM
3209* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
3210 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
3211 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
3212 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
3213 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
3214 Linux kernel.
3215
1efad39b
SL
3216* Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
3217 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
b08b4218 3218
d709042a
JM
3219* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
3220 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
3221 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
3222 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
3223 defining their own copy.
3224
b08b4218
JM
3225* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
3226 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
3227 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
f268ab5f 3228
8f5e8b01
JM
3229Security related changes:
3230
6400ae6e
FW
3231* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
3232 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
3233
3234* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
3235 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
3236 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
3237 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
3238 (CVE-2015-8777)
3239
3240* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
3241 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
3242
3243* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
3244 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
3245
8f5e8b01
JM
3246* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
3247 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 3248 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
8f5e8b01 3249
e9db92d3
CD
3250* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
3251 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
3252 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
3253 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
3254 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
3255 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
3256 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
3257 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
3258 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
3259 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
3260 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
3261 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
3262 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
3263
ad372e29 3264The following bugs are resolved with this release:
f268ab5f 3265
ad372e29
AZ
3266 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
3267 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
3268 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
3269 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
3270 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
3271 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
3272 use `mkstemp'
3273 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
3274 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
3275 overflow/underflow errors
3276 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
3277 overflow/underflow
3278 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
3279 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
3280 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
3281 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
3282 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
3283 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
3284 are not contiguous
3285 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
3286 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
3287 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
3288 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
3289 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
3290 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
3291 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
3292 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
3293 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
3294 all exceptions
3295 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
3296 arguments
3297 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
3298 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
3299 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
3300 should include
3301 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
3302 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
3303 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
3304 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
3305 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
3306 GNU/Linux
3307 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
3308 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
3309 arguments
3310 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
3311 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
3312 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
3313 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
3314 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
3315 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
3316 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
3317 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
3318 rounding results
3319 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
3320 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
3321 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
3322 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
3323 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
3324 fails
3325 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
3326 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
3327 block boundary
3328 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
3329 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
3330 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
3331 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
3332 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
3333 4.7?
3334 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
3335 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
3336 (related to lock elision)
3337 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
3338 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
3339 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
3340 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
3341 (CVE-2015-8779)
3342 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
3343 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
3344 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
3345 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
3346 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
3347 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
3348 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
3349 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
3350 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
3351 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
3352 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
3353 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
3354 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
3355 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
3356 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
3357 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
3358 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
3359 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
3360 contains a vector instruction exception.
3361 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
3362 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
3363 locales
3364 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
3365 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
3366 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
3367 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
3368 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
3369 missing break ?
3370 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
3371 32bit processes
3372 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
3373 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
3374 infinity
3375 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
3376 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
3377 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
3378 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
3379 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
3380 be forced unloaded
3381 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
3382 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
3383 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
3384 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
3385 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
3386 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
3387 statically too large
3388 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
3389 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
3390 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
3391 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
3392 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
3393 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
3394 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
3395 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
3396 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
3397 FUTEX_SHARED
3398 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
3399 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
3400 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
3401 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
3402 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
3403 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
3404 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
3405 opendir()
3406 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
3407 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
3408 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
3409 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
3410 signgam
3411 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
3412 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
3413 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
3414 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
3415 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
3416 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
3417 dependencies
3418 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
3419 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
3420 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
3421 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
3422 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
3423 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
3424 (CVE-2015-8776)
3425 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
3426 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
3427 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
3428 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
3429 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
3430 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3431 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
3432 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
3433 contention
3434 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
3435 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
3436 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
3437 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3438 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
3439 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
3440 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
3441 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
3442 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
3443 rounding modes
3444 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
3445 ILP32
3446 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
3447 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
3448 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
3449 threshold
3450 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
3451 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
3452 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
3453 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
3454 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
3455 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
3456 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
3457 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
3458 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
3459 pthread_setaffinity_np
3460 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
3461 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
3462 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
3463 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
3464 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
3465 prelink
3466 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
3467 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
3468 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
3469 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
3470 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3471 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
3472 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
3473 bits/mathcalls.h
3474 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
3475 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
3476 for C99-based standards
3477 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
3478 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
3479 math-only
3480 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
3481 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
3482 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
3483 disabled
3484 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
3485 "inexact" exceptions
3486 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
3487 arguments
3488 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
3489 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
3490 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
3491 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
3492 rules
3493 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
3494 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
3495 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
3496 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
3497 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
3498 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
3499 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
3500 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
3501 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
3502 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
3503 from 32bit
3504 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
3505 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
3506 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
3507 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
3508 subnormals
3509 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
3510 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
3511 error on 32-bit architectures
3512 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
3513 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
3514 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
3515 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
3516 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
3517 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
3518 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
3519 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
3520 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
3521 -Os
3522 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
3523 CPU's.
3524 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
3525 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
3526 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
3527 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
3528 architectures
3529 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
aeb47bbc 3530\f
1c7a4a51
JM
3531Version 2.22
3532
3533* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3534
3df5cd98 3535 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
0e569d30
MF
3536 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
3537 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
3538 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
3539 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
3540 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
3541 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
3542 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
3543 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
3544 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
3545 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
3546 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
3547 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
3548 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
3549 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
3550 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
3551 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
3552 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
6fdd5d65
FW
3553 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
3554 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
2959eda9 3555
f7fba805
SL
3556* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
3557 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
3558
2959eda9
AS
3559* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
3560 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
3561 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
3562 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
3563 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
3564 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4a4839c9 3565
42261ad7
FW
3566* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
3567 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
3568 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
3569 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
3570 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
3571
afcd9480
AM
3572* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
3573 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
3574 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
3575
4a4839c9
AO
3576* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
3577 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
3578 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
3579 17998.
3580
b13b96ca
AS
3581* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
3582 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
3583 condition in some applications.
21933112
AS
3584
3585* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
a6336cc4
AS
3586 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
3587 pow, powf.
21933112
AS
3588 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
3589 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
037e4b99
AS
3590 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
3591 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 3592 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
fdb7d390
AZ
3593
3594* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
3595 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
3596 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
3597 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
7fde904c
MF
3598
3599* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
3600 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
3601 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
7493ab25
RM
3602
3603* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
3604 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
2ec11c2b
ZW
3605
3606* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
3607 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
3608 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
3609
a03ba363 3610 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
2ec11c2b
ZW
3611 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
3612 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
1c7a4a51 3613\f
58b930ae
SP
3614Version 2.21
3615
3616* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3617
042e1521 3618 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
5bd80bfe
PP
3619 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
3620 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
3621 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
3622 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
3623 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
3624 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
3625 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
3626 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
3627 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
3628 17892.
3629
46d54873
FW
3630* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
3631 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
3632 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
3633 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
3634 intended.
042e1521
CD
3635
3636* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
3637 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
3638 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
3639 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
3640 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
3641 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
a39208bd 3642
522e6ee3
CLT
3643* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
3644
d3b00f46
AZ
3645* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
3646 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 3647 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
96d6fd6c 3648
8d2c0a59
AZ
3649* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
3650 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
3651 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
3652 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
3653 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
3654 effects being visible outside transactions.
3655
dc400d7b
RE
3656* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
3657 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
ec582ca0 3658
0f9dfe04
L
3659* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
3660
a39208bd
CD
3661* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
3662 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
ebda2f17 3663 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
a39208bd
CD
3664 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
3665 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
fb89b46d 3666
a5357b7c
JL
3667* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
3668 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
3669
e54db0ea
AM
3670* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
3671 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
3672 format.
11e3417a 3673
4863355a
JM
3674* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
3675 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
3676 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
3677
a4ecc9eb
JM
3678* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
3679 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
3680
0d560bbf 3681* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
0781a777
RM
3682
3683* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
3684 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
3685 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
3686 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
6d248857
WN
3687
3688* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
3689 with newer versions of bison.
28c38448
MF
3690
3691* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
3692 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
3693 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
3694 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
3695 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
3696 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
3697 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
3698 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
3699 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
3700 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
3701 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
3702 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
3703 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
3704
3705 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
3706 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
3707 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
3708 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
3709 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
58b930ae 3710\f
d5b396c1
AM
3711Version 2.20
3712
3713* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3714
6a9350c8
JM
3715 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
3716 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
3717 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
3718 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
3719 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
3720 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
3721 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
3722 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
3723 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
3724 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
3725 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
3726 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
3727 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
3728 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
3729 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
0961f7e1 3730
95ee7fb1
SL
3731* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
3732 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
3733 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
3734 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
3735 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 3736 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
95ee7fb1
SL
3737 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
3738 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
3739 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
3740 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
3741
0961f7e1
JL
3742* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
3743 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
3744 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
3745 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
3746 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
f3d338c9 3747
f940b965
RE
3748* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
3749
d0f5b3f8
JM
3750* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
3751 can be used with is 2.6.32.
3752
d6fe5e58
JM
3753* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
3754 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
3755 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
3756 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
3757 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
3758 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
3759
464263cc
JM
3760* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
3761 from ports.
c941736c
JM
3762
3763* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
3764 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
3765 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
3766 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
3767 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
3768 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
3769 test macros defined.
f63c86fe
WN
3770
3771* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5a414ff7
DV
3772
3773* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
3774 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
3775 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
3776 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
3777 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
3778 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
3779 is not built.
d03efb2f
AM
3780
3781* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
3782 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
3783 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
3784 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
3785 invocation.
cfd2ea50
JM
3786
3787* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
3788 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
3789 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
f083450f
RM
3790
3791* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
3792 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
3793 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
3794 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
4e8f95a0
FW
3795
3796* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
3797 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
3798 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
3799 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
3800 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
3801 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
3802 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
3803 additional checks.
9a8a5720
RM
3804
3805* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
3806 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
3807 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
3808 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
3809 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
3810 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
3811 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
3812 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
3813 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
a1a6a401
FW
3814
3815* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
3816 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
3817 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
3818 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
3819 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 3820 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
41488498
FW
3821
3822* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
3823 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
3824 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
3825 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
6c1fd795
DM
3826\f
3827Version 2.19
3828
3829* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3830
fd2f9486
JM
3831 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
3832 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
3833 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
3834 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
3835 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
3836 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
3837 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
3838 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
3839 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
3840 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
ed27ed83
JM
3841 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
3842 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
3843 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
3844 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
3845 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
798212a0
PP
3846 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
3847 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
3848 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
141f3a77 3849
11520a57
CD
3850* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
3851 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
3852
2fe16229
CD
3853* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
3854 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
3855 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
08d76093
CD
3856 extension which uses __block.
3857
303e567a
SP
3858* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
3859 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
3860 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
3861 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
3862 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
3863
141f3a77
SP
3864* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
3865 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
3866 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
3867 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
3868 if malloc fails.
c61b4d41
CD
3869
3870* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
3871 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
3872 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
3873 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
3874 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
91ce4085
FW
3875
3876* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
3877 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
3878 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
3879
ba0d798c
WN
3880* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
3881 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
3882 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
3883 #15856, #15857).
3884
7cbcdb36
SP
3885* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
3886 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
3887
82bab04b 3888* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 3889 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
ddd9fb8f 3890
c5f840fd
MB
3891* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
3892
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CD
3893* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
3894 supported locales.
ddd9fb8f 3895
3e181dda 3896* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
7447ccd9 3897
8a05c252
CL
3898* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
3899
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JM
3900* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
3901 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
3902 for which the C library was built.
3903
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JM
3904* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
3905 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
3906 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
3907 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
3908 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
3909 in the following circumstances:
3910
3911 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
3912
3913 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
3914 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
3915
d4f66d37
JM
3916* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
3917 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
3918
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3919* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
3920 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
e35696c3 3921
ffb89e53
AO
3922* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
3923
5d29ccce
SP
3924* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
3925 transcendental functions have been introduced.
3926
8b7d57cd 3927* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
b125d3e5
JM
3928
3929* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 3930
fd712ef3 3931* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 3932
c688b419
JM
3933* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
3934 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
3935 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
3936 disable some of those declarations.
3937
7011c262 3938* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
029c7b25
JM
3939 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
3940 that did nothing) has also been removed.
0a57b83e
AO
3941
3942* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
3943 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
ee4ec1d7
AK
3944
3945* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
3946 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
3947 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
3948 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
3949 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
3950 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
3951 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
3952 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
3953 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
3954 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
3955 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
3956 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
3957 require recompilation.
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3958\f
3959Version 2.18
3960
3961* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3962
17db6e8d 3963 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
0432680e
PY
3964 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
3965 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
8c17cb1f
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3966 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
3967 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
3968 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
3969 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
3970 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
3971 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
3972 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
3973 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
3974 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
3975 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
3976 15755, 15759.
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3977
3978* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
3979 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
3980 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
3981 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
3982 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
3983 understands and accepts the risks.
1cef1b19 3984
5b535ac4
AS
3985* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
3986 #15078).
3987
1cef1b19
AS
3988* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
3989 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
7fffbdff 3990
55e4107b
SP
3991* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
3992 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
3993 destructor calls to glibc.
3994
e5c74c63
SP
3995* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
3996 output.
3997
3998* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
3999 non-x86 architectures.
4000
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4001* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
4002
4003* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
4004
4005* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
4006 Richard Henderson.
4007
4008* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
4009
4010* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
4011 Richard Henderson.
4012
4013* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
4014 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
4015
8cfdb7e0
SP
4016* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
4017
57267616
TS
4018* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
4019 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
58206c68 4020
c204ab28
SP
4021* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
4022 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
61dd6208 4023
0748546f
PE
4024* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
4025 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
4026 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
4027
61dd6208
SP
4028* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
4029 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
4030 attributes of a process.
a7cb9d67
AK
4031
4032* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
4033 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
4034 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
4035 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
4036 mutexes.
be063fa4
RA
4037
4038* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
4039 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
4040
4041* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
370ca3d2
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4042\f
4043Version 2.17
4044
4045* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4046
80ceeaee 4047 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
b4180a5e
AJ
4048 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
4049 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
4050 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
4051 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
4052 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
4053 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
4054 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
4055 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
4056 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
4057 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
4058 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
4059 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
4060 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
4061 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
14bc93a9 4062
95b4f1b6
SE
4063* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
4064
14bc93a9
JL
4065* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
4066 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
7a845b2c 4067
b54eb3cb
JM
4068* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
4069 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
4070
7e2bd01f
MS
4071* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
4072
08f43f9b
AK
4073* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
4074 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
4075 zEnterprise z196.
4076 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
4077
84b3fd84
FW
4078* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
4079 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
4080 the internal function __secure_getenv.
4081
815e6fa3
GB
4082* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
4083 Implemented by Gary Benson.
4084
400726de
MK
4085* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
4086 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
4087
7aab07e4 4088* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 4089 can be used with is 2.6.16.
7aab07e4 4090
15d0da8c
WS
4091* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
4092 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
4093
3cc3ef96
RM
4094* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
4095 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
c53d909c
RM
4096 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
4097 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3cc3ef96 4098
b54eb3cb
JM
4099* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
4100 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
4101
85429b1a 4102* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 4103 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
85429b1a
DM
4104 default.
4105
b54eb3cb
JM
4106* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
4107 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
4108 information in --help and --version output.
4109
050af9c4
SP
4110* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
4111 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
4112 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
4113
89a3ad0b
AO
4114* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
4115 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
4116 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
4117 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
4118 when the mode is enabled.
4119
6e6249d0
RM
4120* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
4121 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
4122 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
4123 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
4124 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
4125 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
4126 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5a04f376 4127
d9286582
NK
4128* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
4129 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
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UD
4130\f
4131Version 2.16
4132
4133* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4134
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4135 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
4136 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
4137 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
4138 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
4139 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
4140 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
4141 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
4142 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
4143 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
4144 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
4145 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
4146 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
4147 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
4148 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
4149 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
4150 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
4151 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
4152 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
4153 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
4154 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
4155 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
4156 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
4157 14277, 14278.
380d7e87 4158
a086b4d6
L
4159* Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
4160 configuring glibc with:
4161 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
8f7a75d7 4162 Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
a086b4d6
L
4163 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4164
380d7e87
UD
4165* ISO C11 support:
4166
4167 + define static_assert
4168
4169 + do not declare gets
4170
4171 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
4172
4173 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
4174 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
4175 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
4176 implementation.
8d44e150 4177
74033a25 4178 + timespec_get added
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4179
4180 + uchar.h support added
d75a0a62 4181
ac097f5c
UD
4182 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
4183
16dd419d
UD
4184 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4185
9dc4e1fb 4186* Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
33808bf1
UD
4187
4188* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
d9a216c0
UD
4189
4190* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
4191 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
daa891c0
UD
4192
4193* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
4194 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
021db4be
AJ
4195
4196* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
4197 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
4198 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
4199 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
4200 existing applications.
ffb7875d 4201
21708942 4202* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
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JM
4203 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
4204 before 2.6.
83678f76 4205
edb00e4d
RH
4206* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
4207 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
4208 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
4209
83678f76 4210* New locales: mag_IN
7b44a2df
RM
4211
4212* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
4213 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
4214 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
4215 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
4216 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
47e452cf
JM
4217
4218* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4219
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
4220* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
4221 and Will Schmidt.
47e452cf
JM
4222
4223* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
4224
4225* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
4226 without a previously built glibc.
4227
4228* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
4229 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
4230
4231* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
4232 now supported for ARM processors.
4233
4234* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
4235 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
4236 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
4237
4238* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
4239
4240* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
4241 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
4242 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
4243 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
929cc14e
AJ
4244
4245* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
4246 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
4247 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
4248 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
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4249
4250* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
4251 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
4252 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
4253 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
4254 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
4255
4256* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
4257 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
4258 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
4259 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
ee1a7fab 4260\f
e80fab37 4261Version 2.15
11988f8f 4262
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4263* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4264
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4265 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
4266 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
4267 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
4268 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
4269 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
4270 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
4271 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
c0244a9d 4272
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4273* New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
4274 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
9f2da732
UD
4275
4276* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
4277 and support for initgroups lookups.
4278 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
0b1cbaae
L
4279
4280* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
4281 Contributed by HJ Lu.
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L
4282
4283* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
4284 Contributed by HJ Lu.
99710781 4285
fc2ee42a
LD
4286* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
4287 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 4288 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 4289
d42964a0 4290* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
693fb948
LD
4291 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4292
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UD
4293* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
4294 for x86-64 and x86-32.
093ecf92
LD
4295 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4296
c55fbd1e
UD
4297* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
4298 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a0f33f99
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4299
4300* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
4301 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
684ae515
UD
4302
4303* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
4304 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
0ac5ae23
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4305
4306* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
4307 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
d9a4d2ab
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4308
4309* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
4310 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4311
4312* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
4313 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4315* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
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4317* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
4318 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4320* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
4321 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
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6b64057b 4323* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
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4328
553149f6 4329 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 4330 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 4331 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 4332 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
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4334 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
4335 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
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4336 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
4337 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 4338 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
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4340* The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
4341 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
4342 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 4343 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
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4345 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
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4346 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
4347 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
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4348 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4349
c6489db3 4350* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
f1f929d7 4351 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
83fe108b 4352
72d1dddb 4353* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 4354 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
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4356* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
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4358* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
4359 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4361* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
4362 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
4363 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
4364 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
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4367
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4369
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4370 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
4371 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
4372 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
4373 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
4374 12378, 12394, 12397
ac2b484c 4375
10b3bedc 4376* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
c08fb0d7 4377
ac2b484c 4378* POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
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4380* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
4381 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 4382 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4384Version 2.12
4385
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4387
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4388 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
4389 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
4390 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
4391 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
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4392 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
4393 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
4394 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 4395 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
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4397* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
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4399* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
4400
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4401* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
4402
4403* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
4404 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
4405 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4406
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4408 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
4409 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
4410 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
4411 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4412
d36b9613 4413* New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
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4416
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4417* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4418
4419 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
4420 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
4421 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
4422 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
4423 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
4424 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
4425
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4426* New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
4427 mkostemps64
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4428 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4429
24ab9c76 4430* Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
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4431 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4432
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4433* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
4434 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4435
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4436* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
4437
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9d36a6c4 4439 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 4440 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
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4441 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
4442
9d36a6c4 4443 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
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4444 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4445
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4446* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
4447 strstr, strcasestr.
4448 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
4449
4450* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
4451 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
4452
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4453* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
4454 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4455
4456* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
4457 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4458
4459* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
4460 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
4461 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
4462 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
4463 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
4464 necessity is every process again.
4465 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4466
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4467* New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
4468 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
4469
4470* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
4471 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
4472
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4473* Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
4474 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
4475 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4476
9dd5b8a1 4477* New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
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4479Version 2.10
4480
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4481* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4482
4483 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
4484 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
4485 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
4486 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
4487 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
4488
bb066545 4489* New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
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4490 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4491
425ce2ed 4492* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
e109c612 4493 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 4494
1fdd89a7 4495* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
735be400 4496 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
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4498* XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
4499 now in POSIX.
77db439e 4500
1f04d005 4501* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6cbe890a 4502 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4504* New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
4505 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4506
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4507* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
4508 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4509
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4510* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
4511 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4512
4513* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
4514 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
4515 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4516
735be400 4517* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
878b72c5 4518
84aa52d7 4519* Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
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4520 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4521
4522* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
4523 and extend existing format specifiers.
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4524 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4525
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4526* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
4527 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4528
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4529* DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
4530 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
4531 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
4532 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
4533 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
4534 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4536Version 2.9
4537
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4538* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4539
4540 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447, 6461,
4541 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712, 6713,
4542 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839, 6843,
4543 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955, 6966,
4544 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
4545
b29899ae 4546* Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
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4547 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4548
4549* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
4550 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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4552* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
4553 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4555* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
4556 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
4557 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4558
4559* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
4560 Implemented by Eric Blake.
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4564* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
ebcc1f4d 4565 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4567* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
4568 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
4569 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
4570 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4571
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4572* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
4573 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4575* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
4576 Sinhala)
48b22986 4577 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
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4579* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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4582
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4583* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4584
4585 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
4586 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
4587 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
4588 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
4589 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
4590 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
4591 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
4592
e038616f 4593* New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
b4354cf4 4594
77751669 4595* New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
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4597* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
4598 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
4599
4600* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
4601
4602* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
4603 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4604
4605* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
4606 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4607
4608* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
4609 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
4610 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4611
4612* Faster memset for x86-64.
4613 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
4614
4615* Faster memcpy on x86.
4616 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4617
4618* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
4619 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4621* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
d990b282 4622 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
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4624Version 2.7
4625
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4626* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4627
4628 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
4629 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
4630 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
4631 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
4632 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
4633
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4634* More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
4635 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4636
4637* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4638
4639* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
4640 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
4641 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4642
4643* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
4644 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
4645
28919a77 4646* New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
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4647 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4648
4649* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4650
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4651* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
4652 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4653
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4654* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
4655 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4656
4657* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
4658 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
4659
4660* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4661
4662* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
4663 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4665* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
4666 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
4667 yo_NG.
4668
4669+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
4670 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4675
4676 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
4677 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
4678 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
4679 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
4680 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
4681 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
4682 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
4683 4702, 4858
4684
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4688
b21fa963 4689* nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4691Version 2.5
4692
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4693* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4694
4695 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
4696 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
4697 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
4698 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
4699 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
4700 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
4701 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
4702 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
4703 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
4704
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4706 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
4707 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4709* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
4710 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4711
871b9158 4712* New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
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4713
4714* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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4716* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
4717 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
4718 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
457b559e 4719 site might have problems with the default behavior.
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4720 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4721
07bfff20 4722* Iterating over entire database in NIS can be slow. With the
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4723 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
4724 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
4725 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4726
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4727* The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
4728 Ulrich Drepper.
4729
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4730* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
4731
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4732* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
4733 Ulrich Drepper.
4734
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4735* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
4736
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4737* New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
4738 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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4741
4742* More overflow detection functions.
4743
4744* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
4745 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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4747 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
4748 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
4749 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
4750 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
4751 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
4752 by Masahide Washizawa.
4753
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4754* It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
4755 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4757* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
4758 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
4759 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
4760 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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4762* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
4763 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
4764
4765* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
4766
4767* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
4768 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
4769 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
4770
4771* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
4772 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
4773
4774* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
4775 for compatibility with some other systems.
4776
4777* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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4779Version 2.3.6
4780
4781* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4782
4783 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
4784 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
4785 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
4786 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
4787 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
4788 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
4789
5a82c748 4790 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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4791
4792* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
4793
4794* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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4796Version 2.3.5
4797
4798* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4799
4800 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
4801 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
4802 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
4803 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
4804
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4808
4809* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
4810 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4811
4812* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
4813 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
4814 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4815
4816* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
4817 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
4818
0325dd20 4819* getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
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4820 efficiently.
4821 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4822
4823* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
4824 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
4825 handling data.
4826
4827* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
4828 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
0325dd20 4829 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4831* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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4832 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4833
4834* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
4835 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
4836 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
4837 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4838
4839* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
4840 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
4841 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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4842 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4843
4844* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
4845 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
4846 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
4847 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
4848 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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4850Version 2.3.3
4851
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4852* New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
4853 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
4854
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4855* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
4856 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
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4859 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
4860
4861* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
4862 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4864* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
4865 by Roland McGrath.
4866
c5af724c 4867* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
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4868 and Ulrich Drepper.
4869
4870* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
4871 RFC 3484.
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4873Version 2.3.2
4874
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4875* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
4876 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
4877 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
4878 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
4879 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
4880 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
4881 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
4882 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
4883 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
4884
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4885* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
4886 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
4887 and are now also available on the Hurd.
4888
4889* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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4890
4891* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
4892 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
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4894* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
4895 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
4896
52a16e58 4897* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
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4899* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
4900 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
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4901
4902* With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
4903 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
4904 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
4905 of weak definition in ld.so.
4906
4907* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
4908 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
4909
4910* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
4911 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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4915* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
4916 charsets.
4917
4918* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
4919 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
47e8b443 4920
bb0ec5bd 4921* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 4922 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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4924* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
4925 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
8e57fc70 4926
bb0ec5bd 4927* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
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4928 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
4929 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4931* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
4932 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3b0bdc72 4933
bb0ec5bd 4934* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3b0bdc72 4935 implementation of regex.
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4937* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
4938 Unicode 3.2.
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4940* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
4941 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
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4943* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
4944 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
4945 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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4946
4947* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
f87277f2 4948 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
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4949
4950* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
4951 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
4952 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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4954* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
4955 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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4957* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
4958 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
4959 and Ulrich Drepper.
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4960
4961* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
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4963Version 2.2.6
4964
4965* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
4966 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
4967
4968* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
4969 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
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4971Version 2.2.5
4972
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4973* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
4974 128-bit long double format.
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4976* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
4977 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
a8ae31c2 4978
ad2e4f18 4979* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
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4981* Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
4982
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4983* libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
4984 as well.
4985
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4986* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
4987 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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4988
4989* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
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4991Version 2.2.4
4992
2995f70e 4993* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 4994 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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4995
4996* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
4997 support Unicode 3.1.
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4998
4999* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
5000 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
045fcd26 5001
69d5f925 5002* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 5003
69d5f925 5004* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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5005 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
5006 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5007
5008* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
5009 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
5010
5011* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
5012 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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5014* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
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5016Version 2.2.3
5017
1746f2b0 5018* Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
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5019 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
5020 in float, double, and long double format.
5021
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5023 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
5024 128-bit long double format.
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5026* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
5027 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
5028 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
5029 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
5030
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5031* An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
5032 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
5033 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5034
5035* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
5036 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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5037
5038* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
5039 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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5041* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
5042 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
5043 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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5044
5045* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
5046 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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5048* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
5049 of functions for Linux/x86.
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5050
5051* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
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5053Version 2.2.2
5054
464d97ec 5055* Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
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5056 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
5057 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
5058 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
5059 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
5060 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
5061 other headers.
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5063* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
5064 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
5065
5066* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
5067 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
5068 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
5069 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5070
5071* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
5072 locales. While
5073
5074 locale -a
5075
5076 only lists the names of the supported locales
5077
5078 locale -a --verbose
5079
5080 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
5081 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
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5084
5085* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
5086 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
5087 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
5088 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
5089 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
5090
5091 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
5092
5093 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
5094
5095 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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5097* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
5098 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
5099 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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5101* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
5102 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
5103
5104* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
5105 changed from the default "C" locale.
5106
5107* The usual bug fixes.
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5109Version 2.2
5110
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5112 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
5113 is in progress.
5114
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5115* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
5116
793bd4d9 5117* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
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5119 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
5120 obviously requires a database library being available.
5121
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5122* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5123
abbffdf9 5124* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
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5126* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
5127 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
5128
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5129* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
5130
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5131* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
5132 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
5133 and Mark Kettenis.
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5134
5135 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
5136 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
5137 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 5138
a00c3ca9 5139 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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5140 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
5141
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5142* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
5143 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
5144 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
5145
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5146* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
5147 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
5148 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
5149 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5150
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5151 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
5152 structures for the wide character tables.
5153
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5154* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5155
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5156* The utmp daemon has been removed.
5157
5158* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
5159
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5160* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
5161 and Yutaka Niibe.
5162
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5163* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
5164
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5165* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
5166
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5167* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5168
5169* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
5170
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5171* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
5172
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5173* the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
5174 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
5175 implemented for Linux.
5176
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5177* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
5178 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
5179 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
5180 versions.
5181
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5182* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
5183 Masahide Washizawa.
5184
8f3f1e09 5185* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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5187Version 2.1.3
5188
5189* bug fixes
5190
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5192Version 2.1.2
5193
5194* bug fixes
5195
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5197Version 2.1.1
5198
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5199* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
5200
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5201* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
5202
407d26b7 5203* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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5205* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
5206
407d26b7 5207* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 5208
407d26b7 5209* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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5211* Update timezone data files.
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5213* lots of charmaps corrections
5214
5215* some new locale definitions and charmaps
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5218Version 2.1
5219
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5220* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
5221 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
5222 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
5223 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
5224 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
5225 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
5226
c84142e8 5227* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 5228 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 5229
1fb05e3d 5230* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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5231 symbol level.
5232
5233* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
5234 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
377a515b 5235
cbdee279 5236* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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5237
5238* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 5239 numbers.
377a515b 5240
cbdee279 5241* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
e61abf83 5242
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5243* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
5244 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
e61abf83 5245
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5246* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
5247 library.
5248
e61abf83 5249* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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5250 functions from ISO C 9X.
5251
5252* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
5253 real valued functions.
e61abf83 5254
a5a0310d 5255* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
e61abf83 5256
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5257* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
5258
5259* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 5260
440d13e2 5261* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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5262
5263* Optimized string functions have been added.
5264
5265* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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5266
5267* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
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5269* Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
5270 daemon for NSS (nscd).
5271
5272 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
5273 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
5274
0dee6738 5275 user system wall
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0dee6738 5277 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 5278
0dee6738 5279 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 5280
0dee6738 5281 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
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5283 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
5284
5285 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
5286
5287 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
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5289 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
5290 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
0dee6738 5291 horribly slow.
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5293 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
5294 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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5296* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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5298* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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5299
5300* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
5301 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
5302
5303* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
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5305* A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
5306 Bambrough.
5307
5308* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
5309 latest draft standards.
5310
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5311* Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
5312
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5314~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
62595351 5315addseverity NEW: Unix98
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5317argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
5318argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
5319argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
5320argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
5321argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
5322argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
5323argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
5324argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
5325argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
5326argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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5327authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
5328authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
5329authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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5330backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
5331backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
5332backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
5333cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
5334cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
5335cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
5336cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
5337cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
5338cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
5339capget NEW: kernel
5340capset NEW: kernel
5341carg NEW: ISO C 9x
5342cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
5343cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
5344casin NEW: ISO C 9x
5345casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
5346casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
5347casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5348casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5349casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
5350catan NEW: ISO C 9x
5351catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
5352catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
5353catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5354catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5355catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
e980ca92 5356cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
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5357ccos NEW: ISO C 9x
5358ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
5359ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
5360ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
5361ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
5362ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
5363cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
5364cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
5365cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
5366cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
5367cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
5368cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
5369clearerr_locked REMOVED
5370clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
5371clog NEW: ISO C 9x
5372clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
5373clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
5374clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
5375clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
5376clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
5377conj NEW: ISO C 9x
5378conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
5379conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
5380cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
5381cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
5382cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
5383cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
5384cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
5385cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
5386creal NEW: ISO C 9x
5387crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
5388creall NEW: ISO C 9x
5389creat64 NEW: LFS
5390csin NEW: ISO C 9x
5391csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
5392csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
5393csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5394csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5395csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
5396csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
5397csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
5398csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
5399ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
5400ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
5401ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
5402ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5403ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5404ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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5405des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
5406ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 5407endutxent NEW: Unix98
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5408exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x
5409exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
5410exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
5411exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
5412exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
5413exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
5414fattach NEW: STREAMS
5415fdetach NEW: STREAMS
5416fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
5417fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
5418fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
5419feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5420fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5421fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
5422fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
5423feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5424feof_locked REMOVED
5425feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5426ferror_locked REMOVED
5427fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5428fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
5429fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
5430fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5431feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5432fflush_locked REMOVED
5433ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
5434ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
5435fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
5436fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5437fileno_locked REMOVED
5438fma NEW: ISO C 9x
5439fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
5440fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
5441fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
5442fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
5443fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
5444fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
5445fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
5446fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
62595351 5447fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
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5448fopen64 NEW: LFS
5449fputc_locked REMOVED
5450fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5451fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5452freopen64 NEW: LFS
5453fseeko NEW: Unix98
5454fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
5455fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
5456fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
5457fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
5458ftello NEW: Unix98
5459ftello64 NEW: LFS
5460ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
5461ftw64 NEW: LFS
5462fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5463gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
5464gamma_r REMOVED
5465gammaf_r REMOVED
5466gammal_r REMOVED
5467getchar_locked REMOVED
5468getdate NEW: Unix98
5469getdate_err NEW: Unix98
5470getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
5471getmsg NEW: STREAMS
5472getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
e980ca92 5473getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
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5474getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
5475getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
5476getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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5477getutxent NEW: Unix98
5478getutxid NEW: Unix98
5479getutxline NEW: Unix98
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5480glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
5481globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
5482gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
5483gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
5484grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
e980ca92 5485host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
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5486iconv NEW: iconv
5487iconv_close NEW: iconv
5488iconv_open NEW: iconv
5489if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
5490if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
5491if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
5492if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
5493in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
5494in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
5495inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
5496isastream NEW: STREAMS
5497iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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5498key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
5499key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
5500key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
5501key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
5502key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
5503key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
5504key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
5505key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
5506key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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5507llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
5508llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5509llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
5510llround NEW: ISO C 9x
5511llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5512llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5513log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
5514log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
5515log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
5516lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
5517lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5518lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
5519lround NEW: ISO C 9x
5520lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5521lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5522lseek64 NEW: LFS
5523makecontext NEW: Unix98
5524mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
5525mmap64 NEW: LFS
5526moncontrol REMOVED
5527modify_ldt NEW: kernel
5528nan NEW: ISO C 9x
5529nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
5530nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
5531nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
5532nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5533nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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5534netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
5535netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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5536nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
5537nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
5538nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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5539nftw NEW: Unix98
5540nftw64 NEW: LFS
5541open64 NEW: LFS
e980ca92 5542passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
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5543pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
5544pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
5545pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
5546pread NEW: Unix98
5547pread64 NEW: LFS
5548printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
5549printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
5550profil_counter REMOVED
5551pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
5552pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
5553ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
5554ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
5555putc_locked REMOVED
5556putchar_locked REMOVED
5557putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
5558putmsg NEW: STREAMS
5559putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
62595351 5560pututxline NEW: Unix98
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5561pwrite NEW: Unix98
5562pwrite64 NEW: LFS
5563readdir64 NEW: LFS
5564readdir64_r NEW: LFS
5565remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
5566remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
5567remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
5568round NEW: ISO C 9x
5569roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5570roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5571rtime NEW: GNU ext.
5572scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
5573scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
5574scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
5575scandir64 NEW: LFS
5576sendfile NEW: kernel
5577setcontext NEW: Unix98
5578setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 5579setutxent NEW: Unix98
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5580sighold NEW: Unix98
5581sigignore NEW: Unix98
5582sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
5583sigrelse NEW: Unix98
5584sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
5585sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
5586sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
5587sincos NEW: GNU ext.
5588sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
5589sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
5590statfs64 NEW: LFS
5591statvfs NEW: Unix98
5592statvfs64 NEW: LFS
5593strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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5594strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
5595strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
5596strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
e980ca92 5597svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
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5598svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
5599svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
5600swapcontext NEW: Unix98
5601tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
5602tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
5603tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
5604tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
5605tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
5606tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
5607trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
5608truncate64 NEW: LFS
5609truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
5610truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
5611umount2 NEW: kernel
5612unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 5613updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 5614user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 5615utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 5616versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
3ef4002b 5617versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
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5618waitid NEW: Unix98
5619wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
5620wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
5621wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
5622wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
5623wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
5624wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
5625wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
5626wcswcs NEW: Unix98
5627wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
5628wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
5629write_profiling REMOVED
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5630xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
5631xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
5632xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
5633xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
5634xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
5635xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
5636xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
5637xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
5638xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
5639xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
5640xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
5641xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
5642xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 5643xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
e980ca92 5644xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
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5647Version 2.0.6
5648
5649* more bug fixes
5650
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5652Version 2.0.5
5653
5654* more bug fixes
5655
5656* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
5657
5658* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
5659
5660* rewrite of cbrt function
5661
5662* update of timezone data
5663\f
5664Version 2.0.4
5665
5666* more bug fixes
5667\f
5668Version 2.0.3
5669
5670* more bug fixes
c84142e8 5671\f
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5672Version 2.0.2
5673
5674* more bug fixes
5675
5676* add atoll function
5677
5678* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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5680* fix math functions
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5682Version 2.0.1
5683
5684* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
5685
5686* dynamic loader preserves all registers
5687
5688* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
5689 the ELF dynamic loader.
5690
5691* support for parallel builds is improved
5692\f
40a4b79f 5693Version 2.0
28f540f4 5694
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5695* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
5696 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
5697 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
5698
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5699* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
5700 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
5701 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
5702 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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5703 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
5704 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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5705 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
5706 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
5707 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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5708 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
5709 files in the ELF format.
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5710
5711* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
5712 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
5713
5714* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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5715 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
5716 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
5717 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
5718 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
5719 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
5720 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
5721 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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5722 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
5723 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
5724 about dynamically linked binaries.
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5726* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
5727 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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5728 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
5729 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
5730 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 5731
f7eac6eb 5732* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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5733 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
5734 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
5735 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
5736 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
5737
5738* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
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5740* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
5741 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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5742 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
5743 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
5744 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
5745 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
5746 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
5747 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
5748 NSS services available.
5f0e6fc7 5749
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5750* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
5751 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
5752 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
5753
5754* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
5755 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
5756 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
5757
5758* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
5759 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
5760 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
5761 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
5762
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5763* The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
5764 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
5765 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
5766
5767* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
5768 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
5769 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
5770
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5771* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
5772 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
5773
f7eac6eb 5774* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 5775 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 5776 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
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5777 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
5778
5779* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
5780 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
5781 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 5782
71733723 5783* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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5784 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
5785 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
5786 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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5787 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
5788 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 5789 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 5790 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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5791
5792* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
5793 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
5794 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
5795 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
5796 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
5797 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
5798 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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5799
5800* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
5801 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
5802 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
5803 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
5804 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
5805 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
5806
5807* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
5808 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
5809
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5810* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
5811 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
5812 NSS scheme used in glibc.
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5814* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
5815
5816* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
5817 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
5818 their use is discouraged.
5819
5820* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
5821 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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5823* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
5824 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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5825
5826* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
5827 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
5828
5829* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
5830 see <dirent.h>.
5831
5832* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
5833 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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5834 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
5835 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
5836 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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5837
5838* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
5839 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
5840 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
5841 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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5842
5843* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
5844 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
5845
5846* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
5847 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
5848 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
5849 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
5850 number generator.
5851
5852* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
5853 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
5854
5855* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
5856 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
5857
71733723 5858* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 5859 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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5860 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
5861 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
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5863* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
5864
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5865* David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
5866 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
5867 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
5868
5869* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
5870 for arithmetic and string handling.
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c709e372 5872* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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5873 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
5874 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
5875 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
5876
5877* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
5878 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
5879 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
5880 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
5881 programs already written to use it.)
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5882
5883* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
5884 constants.
5885
5886* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
5887 with 4.4 BSD.
5888
5889* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
5890 a given effective group ID.
5891
5892* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
5893 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
5894 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
5895 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
5896
5897* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 5898 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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5899 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
5900 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
5901 doing the same thing.
5902
5903* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
5904 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
5905
5906* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 5907 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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5908
5909* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
5910
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5911* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
5912 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
5913 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 5914 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 5915 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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5916
5917* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
5918 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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5919
5920* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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5921 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
5922 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
5923 function.
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5924
5925* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
5926
5927* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
5928 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
5929 strings.
5930
5931* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
5932 and writing the utmp file.
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5933
5934* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
5935 Thorsten Kukuk.
5936
5937* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
5938 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
5939 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
5940
5941* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
5942 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
5943
5944* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
5945 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
5946 specification.
5947
5948* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
5949 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
5950 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
5951 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
5952
5953* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
5954 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
5955 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
5956
5957* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
5958 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
5959 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
5960 expression matcher.
5961
5962* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
5963 functionality.
5964
5965* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
5966 by Ulrich Drepper.
5967
5968* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
5969
5970* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
5971 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
5972 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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5974Version 1.09
5975
5976* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
5977
5978* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
5979 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
5980
5981* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
5982 want to put themselves in the background.
5983
5984* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
5985 run without an operating system.
5986
5987* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
5988 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
5989
5990* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
5991 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
5992
5993* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
5994
5995* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
5996 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
5997 have YP (aka NIS).
5998
5999* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
6000 conventions.
6001
6002* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
6003 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
6004\f
6005Version 1.08
6006
6007* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
6008 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
6009 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
6010
6011* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
6012 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
6013
6014* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
6015 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
6016
6017* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
6018
6019* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
6020
6021* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
6022 compatibility.
6023
6024* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
6025 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
6026 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
6027
6028* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
6029
6030* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
6031 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
6032 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
6033
6034* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
6035 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
6036 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
6037 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
6038 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
6039 on a block).
6040
6041* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
6042 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
6043 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
6044 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
6045 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
6046 cross-compiler.
6047
6048* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
6049 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
6050\f
6051Version 1.07
6052
6053* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
6054 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
6055
6056* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
6057 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
6058 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
6059
6060* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
6061 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
6062 address of the last character written.
6063
6064* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
6065 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
6066
6067* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
6068 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
6069
6070* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
6071 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
6072 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
6073 you dereference this pointer.
6074
6075* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
6076 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
6077
6078* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
6079 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
6080 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
6081 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
6082
6083* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
6084 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
6085 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
6086 EAGAIN in every system call function.
6087\f
6088Version 1.06
6089
6090* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
6091 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
6092 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
6093 in Emacs or the `info' program.
ea278354 6094 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
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6096* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
6097
6098* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
6099
6100* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
6101 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
6102
6103* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
6104 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
6105
6106* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
6107 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
6108
6109* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
6110 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
6111 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
6112 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
6113 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
6114
6115* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
6116 to the error code in `errno'.
6117
6118* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
6119 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
6120 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
6121 malloc'd string.
6122
6123* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
6124 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
6125 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
6126
6127* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
6128 uniquely-named temporary file.
6129\f
6130Version 1.05
6131
6132* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
6133 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
6134 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
6135
6136* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
6137 characters.
6138
6139* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
6140 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
6141
6142* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
6143\f
6144Version 1.04
6145
6146* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
6147 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
6148 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
6149 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
6150
6151* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
6152 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
6153 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
6154
6155* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
6156 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
6157
6158* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
6159 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
6160 made itself into a shared library.
6161
6162* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
6163 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
6164
6165* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
6166 with limited length.
6167
6168* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
6169
6170* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
6171
6172* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
6173
6174* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
6175 function for traversing a directory tree.
6176
6177* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
6178 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
6179 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
6180 formatted output directly to an obstack.
6181
6182* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
6183 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
6184
6185* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
6186
6187* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
6188 things to your strings.
6189
6190* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
6191
6192* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
6193 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
6194 supporting those systems.
6195
6196* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
6197 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
6198 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
6199 configuration files.
6200
6201* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
6202 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
6203
6204* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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6205 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
6206 in <strings.h>.)
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6207
6208* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
6209 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
6210 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
6211 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
6212 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
6213 required storage is not available.
6214
6215* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
6216 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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6217
6218* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
6219 latest files released from Berkeley.
6220\f
6221----------------------------------------------------------------------
6222Copyright information:
6223
5f72f980 6224Copyright (C) 1992-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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6225
6226 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
6227 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
6228 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
6229 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
6230
6231 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
6232 of this document, or of portions of it,
6233 under the above conditions, provided also that they
6234 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
6235\f
6236Local variables:
6237version-control: never
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