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ee9247c3 1GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
04277e02 2Copyright (C) 1992-2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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3See the end for copying conditions.
4
a306c790 5Please send GNU C library bug reports via <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
69be6aaf 6using `glibc' in the "product" field.
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8Version 2.29
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10Major new features:
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12* The getcpu wrapper function has been added, which returns the currently
13 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
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15* A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
16 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
17 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
18 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
19 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
20 configured location.
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424c4f60 22* Optimized generic exp, exp2, log, log2, pow, sinf, cosf, sincosf and tanf.
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24* The reallocarray function is now declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE, not just
25 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
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27* For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
28 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
29 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
30 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
31 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
32 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
33 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
34 process actually does not use HTM).
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36* The functions posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np and
37 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
38 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
39 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
40 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
41 of the same name.
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43* The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
44 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
45 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
5fc3eca7 46 inconsistent mutex state after a fork call in a multi-threaded process.
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47 In both popen and system there is no direct access to user-defined mutexes.
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49* Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
50 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
51 supported:
52 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
53 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
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55Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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57* The glibc.tune tunable namespace has been renamed to glibc.cpu and the
58 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
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60* The type of the pr_uid and pr_gid members of struct elf_prpsinfo, defined
61 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
62 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
63 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
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65* For the MIPS n32 ABI, the type of the pr_sigpend and pr_sighold members of
66 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
67 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
68 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
69 structures.
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71* An archaic GNU extension to scanf, under which '%as', '%aS', and '%a[...]'
72 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
73 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
74 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
75 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
76 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
77
78 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
79 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
80 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
81 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
82 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
83
84 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
85 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
86 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
87
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88Changes to build and runtime requirements:
89
c6982f7e 90* Python 3.4 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
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92* On most architectures, GCC 5 or later is required to build the GNU C
93 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
94
95 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
96 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
97
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98Security related changes:
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100 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
101 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
102 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
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104 CVE-2019-6488: On x32, the size_t parameter may be passed in the lower
105 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
106 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
107 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
108 Reported by H.J. Lu.
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110 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
111 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
112 or command injection issues in applications.
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114The following bugs are resolved with this release:
115
116 [The release manager will add the list generated by
117 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
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120Version 2.28
121
122Major new features:
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124* The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
125 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
126 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
127 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
128 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
129 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
130 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
131 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
132 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
133 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
134 archive or binary locales.
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136* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for Intel CET, AKA
137 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
138 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
139 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
140 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
141 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
142 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
143 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
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144 Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
145 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
146 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
147 validated for i686.
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149* The GNU C Library now has correct support for ABSOLUTE symbols
150 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
151 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
152 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
153 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
154 field) to indicate such support is required.
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156* Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
157 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
158 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
159
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160* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
161 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
162
163 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
164 fMxaddfNx functions.
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166 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
167 fMxsubfNx functions.
168
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169 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
170 fMxmulfNx functions.
171
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172 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
173 fMxdivfNx functions.
174
e607a352 175* Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
df467d22 176 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
9145f033 177 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
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178 support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
179 and Kashubian.
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61c4aad7 181* Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
e607a352 182 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
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184* Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
185 patches.
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187* The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
188 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
189 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
190 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
191 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
192 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
193 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
194 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
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196* The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
197 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
198 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
199 the fstatat64 function.
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201* IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
202 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
203 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
204 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
205 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
206 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
207 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
208 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
209 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
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211* Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
212 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
213 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
214 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
215 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
216 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
217 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
218 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
219 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
220 results in a load failure now.
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222* Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The
223 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
224 <threads.h>:
225
226 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
227 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
228
229 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
230 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
231
232 - call_once for function call synchronization.
233
234 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
235 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
236
237 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
238
239 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
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241Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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243* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
244 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
245 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
246
247* The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
248 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
249 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
250 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
251 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
252 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
253
254* All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
255 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
256 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
257 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
258 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
259 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
260 (Bug #1190.)
261
262* The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
263 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
264 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
265 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
266 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
267 further explanation.
268
269 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
270 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
271 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
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273* The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
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275* The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
276 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
277 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
278
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279* The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
280 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
281 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
282 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
283
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284* The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
285 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
286 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
287 for this function instead.
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289* The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
290 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
291 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
292
293* The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
294 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
295 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
296 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
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298* The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
299 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
300 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
301 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
302 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
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304* The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
305 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
306 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
307 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
308 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
309 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
310 such as libgcrypt.
311
312* Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
313 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
314 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
315 enabled.
316
317* The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
318 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
319 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
320
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321* We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
322 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
323 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
324 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
325 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
326 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
327
328 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
329 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
330 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
331 behavior in a future release.
332
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334
f2873d2d 335 GNU make 4.0 or later is now required to build glibc.
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337Security related changes:
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339 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
340 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
341 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
342 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
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344 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
345 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
346
347 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
348 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
349 Izbyshev.
350
351 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
352 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
353 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
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355The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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357 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
358 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
359 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
360 when __WORDSIZE != 64
361 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
362 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
363 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
364 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
365 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
366 14651
367 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
368 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
369 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
370 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
371 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
372 conversion is given
373 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
374 date
375 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
376 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
377 scope with -O1 and higher
378 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
379 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
380 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
381 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
382 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
383 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
384 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
385 horrible machine code)
386 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
387 last constant.
388 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
389 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
390 symbols
391 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
392 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
393 defined
394 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
395 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
396 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
397 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
398 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
399 fpscr.c'
400 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
401 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
402 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
403 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
404 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
405 the base address
406 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
407 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
408 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
409 open_verify
410 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
411 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
412 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
413 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
414 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
415 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
416 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
417 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
418 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
419 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
420 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
421 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
422 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
423 dlopen
424 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
425 AT_SECURE=1
426 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
427 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
428 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
429 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
430 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
431 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
432 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
433 for Spanish with CLDR
434 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
435 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
436 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
437 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
438 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
439 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
440 es_BO
441 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
442 CLOCKS_PER_SECOND
443 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
444 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
445 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
446 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
447 dlopen failures
448 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
449 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
450 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
451 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
452 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
453 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
454 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
455 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
456 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
457 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
458 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
459 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
460 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
461 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
462 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
463 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
464 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
465 makecontext
466 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
467 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
468 required
469 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
470 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
471 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
472 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
473 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
474 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
475 disabled
476 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
477 failure
478 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
479 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
480 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
481 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
482 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
483 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
484 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
485 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
486 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
487 and libc build with -Os)
488 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
489 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
490 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
491 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
492 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
493 that changes /etc/passwd
494 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
495 (CVE-2018-11237)
496 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
497 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
498 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
499 posix/regcomp.c
500 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
501 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
502 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
503 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
504 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
505 AT_SECURE
506 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
507 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
508 parser.c
509 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
510 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
511 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
512 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
513 directed rounding
514 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
515 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
516 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
517 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
518 lookup
519 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
520 interposition
521 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
522 DSO boundaries.
523 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
524 <linux/time.h>
525 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
526 checking
527 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
528 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
529 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
530 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
531 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
532 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
533 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
534 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
535 processors
536 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
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540
541Major new features:
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544 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
bd7bbb26 545 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
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547 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
548 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
549 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
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550 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
551 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
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ac817e08 553* Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
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555 H.J. Lu from Intel.
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557* Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
558
4cf82d23 559* Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
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562 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
563 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
564 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
565 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
566 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
567 from a security and performance perspective.
568
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569* The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
570 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
571 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
572 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
573
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576 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
577 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
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578 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
579
a23aa5b7 580* On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
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582 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
583 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
584 _Float128.
585
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586* The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
587 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
588 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
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592* Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
593 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
594 pkey_get.
595
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597
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598* Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
599
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600* The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
601 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
602 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
603
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605 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
606 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
607 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
608 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
609 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
610 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
611
612 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
613 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
614 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
615 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
616 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
617 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
618 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
619
620 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
621 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
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623 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
624 respectively.
625
626 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
627 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
628 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
629 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
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631 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
632 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
633 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
634
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636 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
0a32e219 637 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
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640 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
641 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
642
643 - rv64imac lp64
644 - rv64imafdc lp64
645 - rv64imafdc lp64d
646
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648
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650 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
d4ae7827 651 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
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653 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
654 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
655 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
656 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
657 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
658 fix this.
659
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660* Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
661 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
662 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
663
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664* Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
665 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
666 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
667 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
668 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
669 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
670 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
671 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
672 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
673 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
674 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
675 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
676 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
677 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
678 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
679 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
680 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
681 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
682 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
683 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
684 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
685 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
686 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
687 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
688 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
689 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
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692 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
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695 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
696 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
697 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
698 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
699 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
700 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
701
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702* The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
703 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
704 exp10l for these functions instead.
705
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706* The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
707 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
708 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
709
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710* The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
711 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
712 ignored.
713
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714* The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
715 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
716 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
717 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
718
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720 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
721
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722* In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
723 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
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725* The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
726 programs.
727
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728* The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
729
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730* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
731 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
732 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
733 instead.
734
735 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
736 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
737 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
738 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
739 use, but predates the bits convention.
740
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743* bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
744 subdirectory.
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746Security related changes:
747
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748 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
749 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
750 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
751 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
752 script.)
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754 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
755 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
756 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
757 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
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759 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
760 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
761 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
762 of service.
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765 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
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767
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768 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
769 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
770 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
771 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
772
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773 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
774 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
775 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
776 Qualys.
777
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778 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
779 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
780 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
781 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
782 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
783
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784 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
785 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
786 current directory.
787
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788 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
789 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
790 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
791
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792 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
793 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
794 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
795
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796 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
797 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
798 small, instead of NULL.
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803 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
804 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
805 locale
806 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
807 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
808 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
809 cases
810 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
811 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
812 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
813 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
814 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
815 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
816 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
817 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
818 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
819 "Bangla"
820 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
821 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
822 width Latin characters
823 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
824 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
825 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
826 letters
827 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
828 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
829 (CVE-2009-5064)
830 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
831 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
832 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
833 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
834 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
835 if malloc succeeded
836 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
837 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
838 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
839 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
840 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
841 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
842 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
843 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
844 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
845 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
846 U+309A
847 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
848 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
849 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
850 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
851 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
852 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
853 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
854 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
855 for Nicaragua
856 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
857 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
858 are not found.
859 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
860 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
861 access
862 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
863 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
864 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
865 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
866 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
867 __regcall calling convention
868 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
869 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
870 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
871 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
872 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
873 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
874 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
875 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
876 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
877 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
878 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
879 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
880 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
881 locale
882 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
883 protector=all
884 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
885 wcwidth
886 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
887 consistency check failures
888 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
889 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
890 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
891 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
892 PIE
893 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
894 locales
895 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
896 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
897 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
898 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
899 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
900 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
901 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
902 on memory allocation failure
903 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
904 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
905 the suspect)
906 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
907 default (i386)
908 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
909 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
910 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
911 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
912 instead of EAI_NODATA
913 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
914 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
915 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
916 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
917 implementation
918 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
919 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
920 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
921 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
922 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
923 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
924 allocation in syscall loops)
925 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
926 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
927 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
928 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
929 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
930 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
931 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
932 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
933 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
934 occur with -O3
935 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
936 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
937 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
938 amounts)
939 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
940 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
941 niu_NZ
942 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
943 checks
944 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
945 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
946 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
947 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
948 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
949 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
950 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
951 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
952 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
953 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
954 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
955 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
956 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
957 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
958 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
959 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
960 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
961 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
962 parsing after OOM
963 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
964 object
965 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
966 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
967 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
968 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
969 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
970 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
971 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf oupts a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
972 ppc64le
973 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
974 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
975 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
976 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
977 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
978 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
979 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
980 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
981 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
982 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
983 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
984 math_force_eval
985 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
986 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
987 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
988 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
989 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
990 the svid compat wrapper
991 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
992 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
993 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
994 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
995 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
996 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
997 --verbose.
998 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
999 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
1000 to 2.26
1001 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
1002 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
1003 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
1004 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
1005 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
1006 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
1007 (CVE-2017-15804)
1008 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
1009 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
1010 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
1011 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
1012 failure."
1013 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
1014 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
1015 -m32
1016 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
1017 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
1018 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
1019 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
1020 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
1021 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
1022 inside the ASCII printable range
1023 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
1024 -mlong-double-64
1025 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
1026 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
1027 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
1028 Internet
1029 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
1030 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
1031 backslash
1032 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
1033 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
1034 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
1035 heaps in an arena
1036 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
1037 networking interface
1038 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
1039 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
1040 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
1041 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
1042 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
1043 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
1044 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
1045 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
1046 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
1047 order
1048 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1049 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1050 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1051 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1052 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1053 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
1054 same as for Croatian
1055 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
1056 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
1057 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
1058 for initial thread"
1059 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
1060 SC_SSIZE_MAX
1061 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
1062 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
1063 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1064 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
1065 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
1066 (CVE-2017-1000408)
1067 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
1068 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
1069 modified in case of success
1070 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
1071 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
1072 success
1073 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
1074 stack-protector=all
1075 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
1076 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
1077 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
1078 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
1079 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
1080 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
1081 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
1082 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
1083 adding it on top
1084 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
1085 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
1086 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
1087 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
1088 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
1089 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
1090 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
1091 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
1092 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
1093 (CVE-2018-1000001)
1094 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
1095 elision and tunables
1096 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
1097 "invalid" exception
1098 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
1099 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
1100 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
1101 exception
1102 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
1103 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
1104 power4
1105 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
1106 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
1107 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
1108 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
1109 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
1110 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
1111 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
1112 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
1113 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
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1116Version 2.26
1117
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1118Major new features:
1119
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1120* A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
1121 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
1122 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
1123 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
1124 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
1125 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
1126 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
1127
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1128* Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1129 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
0b38d66a 1130 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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1131 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
1132 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
1133 are rendered with pango, see for example:
1134 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
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1136* Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
1137 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
1138 Egmont Koblinger.
e4e79484 1139
2b2ccd0c 1140* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
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1142 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
1143 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
1144 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
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1146 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
1147 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
1148 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
1149 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
1150 object are still limited to six search domains.
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1152 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
1153 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
1154 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
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1156* The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
1157 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
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1159* New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
1160 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
1161 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
1162 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
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1164* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
1165 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
1166 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
1167 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
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1169* posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
1170 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
1171 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
1172 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
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1174* errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
1175 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
1176 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
12d2dd70 1177
2b2ccd0c 1178* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
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1179 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
1180 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
1181 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
2c0b90ab 1182
2b2ccd0c 1183 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
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1184 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
1185 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
1186 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
1187 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
1188
1189 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
1190 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
1191 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
1192 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
1193 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
1194 interfaces should be used instead.
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1196Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1197
1198* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
1199 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
1200 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
1201 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
1202 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
1203 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
1204 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
1205 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
1206
1207* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
1208 removed.
1209
1210* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
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1212 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
1213 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
1214
1215* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
1216 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
1217 default.
1218
1219 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
1220 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
1221 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
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1222 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
1223 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
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1225 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
1226 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
1227 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
1228 name service modules, to be built and installed.
1229
1230* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
1231 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
1232 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
1233 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
1234
1235* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
1236 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
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1238* The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
1239 exported by accident.
1240
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1241* <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
1242 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
1243 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
1244
1245* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
1246 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
1247 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
1248 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
1249
1250* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
1251
1252* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
1253
1254* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
1255 free instead.
1256
1257* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
1258 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1259
1260* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
1261 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1262
1263* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
1264 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
1265 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
1266 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
1267 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
1268 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
1269 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
1270 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
1271
1272* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
1273 synced with the kernel:
1274
1275 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
1276 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
1277
1278 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
1279 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
1280 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
1281
1282 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
1283 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
1284
1285Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1286
1287* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
1288 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
1289 x86-32 and x86-64.)
1290
7e368000 1291* GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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1294 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
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1296 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
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1297 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
1298 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
1299 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2b2ccd0c 1300 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
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1303
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1305 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
1306
1307* LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
1308 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
1309
1310* Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
1311 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
1312 (CVE-2010-3192).
1313
1314* A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
1315 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
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1317The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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1319 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
1320 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
1321 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
1322 fields
1323 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
1324 (CVE-2010-3192)
1325 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
1326 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
1327 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
1328 ld.bfd is available
1329 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
1330 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
1331 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
1332 x86 and other generic code
1333 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
1334 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
1335 incorrect
1336 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
1337 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
1338 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
1339 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
1340 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
1341 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
1342 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
1343 resolver
1344 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
1345 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
1346 order of 0D36 and 0D37
1347 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
1348 chillu characters
1349 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
1350 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
1351 receiving data
1352 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
1353 whitespace
1354 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
1355 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
1356 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
1357 for Peru
1358 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
1359 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
1360 failures consistently
1361 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
1362 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
1363 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
1364 frame-pointer on i386
1365 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
1366 register
1367 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
1368 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
1369 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
1370 generic c code is used
1371 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
1372 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
1373 around 4000
1374 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
1375 (CVE-2017-12133)
1376 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
1377 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
1378 with -lieee
1379 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
1380 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
1381 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
1382 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
1383 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
1384 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
1385 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
1386 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
1387 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
1388 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
1389 remove()
1390 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
1391 checked for errors.
1392 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
1393 new posix_spawn implementation
1394 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
1395 leads to lower CPU frequency
1396 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
1397 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
1398 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
1399 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
1400 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
1401 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
1402 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
1403 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
1404 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
1405 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
1406 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
1407 not support gethostbyname4_r
1408 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
1409 switching
1410 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
1411 arenas
1412 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
1413 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
1414 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
1415 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
1416 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
1417 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
1418 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
1419 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
1420 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
1421 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
1422 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
1423 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
1424 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
1425 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
1426 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
1427 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
1428 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
1429 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
1430 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
1431 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
1432 retry value
1433 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
1434 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
1435 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
1436 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
1437 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
1438 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
1439 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
1440 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
1441 [21537] libc:
1442 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
1443 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
1444 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
1445 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
1446 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
1447 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
1448 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
1449 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
1450 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
1451 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
1452 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
1453 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
1454 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
1455 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
1456 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
1457 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
1458 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
1459 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
1460 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
1461 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
1462 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
1463 issue on x86-64
1464 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
1465 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
1466 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
1467 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
1468 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
1469 construction
1470 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
1471 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
1472 between_2_3
1473 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
1474 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
1475 conditions
1476 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
1477 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
1478 Hindi Locale
1479 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
1480 posix/sched_cpucount.c
1481 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
1482 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
1483 locale
1484 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
1485 leading to relocation crash
1486 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
1487 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
1488 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
1489 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
1490 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
1491 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
1492 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
1493 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
1494 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
1495 locale
1496 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
1497 locale
1498 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
1499 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
1500 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
1501 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
1502 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
1503 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
1504 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
1505 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
1506 strings
1507 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
1508 protector=all
1509 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
1510 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
1511 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
1512 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
1513 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
1514 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
1515 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
1516 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
1517 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
1518 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
1519 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
1520 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
1521 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
1522 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
1523 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
1524 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
1525 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
1526 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
1527 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
1528 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
1529 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
1530 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
1531 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
1532 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
1533 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
1534 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
1535 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
1536 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
1537 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
1538 with unicode 9.0
1539 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
1540 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
1541 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
1542 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
1543 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
58557c22 1544
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1546Version 2.25
1547
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1548* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
1549 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
1550 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
1551 Library.
e720d3d9 1552
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1553* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
1554 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
a5ac5676 1555 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
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1556 the GNU C Library.
1557
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1558* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
1559 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
1560 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
1561 the GNU C Library.
1562
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1563* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
1564 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
1565 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
1566 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
1567 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
1568 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
1569 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
1570 will not.
1571
1572 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
1573 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
1574 many years.
1575
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1576* The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
1577 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
1578 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
1579
1580 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
1581 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
1582 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
1583 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
1584 problem.
1585
ec94343f 1586* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
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1587 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
1588 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
5146356f 1589
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1590* Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
1591 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
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1592 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
1593 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
1594 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
1595 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
1596 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
1597 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
1598 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
1599 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
1600 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
1601 WINT_WIDTH.
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1603* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
1604
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1605 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
1606
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1607 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
1608 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
1609 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
41c67149 1610
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1611 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
1612 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
1613
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1614 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
1615 fminmagf, fminmagl.
1616
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1617 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
1618
29cb9293 1619 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
d942e95c 1620
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1621 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
1622 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
5e9d98a3 1623
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1624 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
1625
eb3c12c7 1626 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
457663a7 1627 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
f8e8b8ed 1628
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1629* The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
1630 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
1631
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1632* Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
1633 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
1634 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
1635
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1636* The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
1637 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
1638 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
1639 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
1640 effects of the memory clear).
1641
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1642* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
1643 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
1644 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
1645 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
1646
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1647* On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
1648 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
1649 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
1650 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
1651 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
1652 if they are compiled or used with those options.
6962682f 1653
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1654* The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
1655 have been added.
1656
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1657* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
1658 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
1659 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
1660 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
1661 as large as several megabytes.
1662
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1663* The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
1664 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
1665 been removed.
1666
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1667* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
1668 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
1669 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
1670 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
1671 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
1672 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
1673 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
1674
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1675* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
1676 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
1677 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
1678 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
1679
099191b1 1680* The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
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1681 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
1682 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
1683 Internet.
1684
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1685* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
1686 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
1687 They were already unimplemented.
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1689* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
1690 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
1691 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
1692 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
1693
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1694* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
1695 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
1696 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
1697 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
1698 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
1699
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1700* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
1701 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
1702 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
1703 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
1704 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
1705
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1706* The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
1707 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
1708 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
1709 did not reflect that.
1710
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1711* For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
1712 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
1713 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
1714 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
1715 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
1716 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
1717 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
1718 'gcc/config.gcc'.
1719
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1720* GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
1721 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
1722 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
1723 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
1724
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1725* Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
1726 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
1727 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
1728 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
1729
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1730* A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
1731 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
1732 guarantees.
1733
1734* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
1735 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
1736 make state changes.
1737
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1738Security related changes:
1739
fc82b0a2 1740* On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
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1741 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
1742 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
1743 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
056dd72a 1744 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
e720d3d9 1745
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1746* The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
1747 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
1748 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
1749 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
1750 (CVE-2015-5180)
1751
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1753
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1754 [4099] stdio: Overly agressive caching by stream i/o functions.
1755 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
1756 protector-all
1757 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
1758 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
1759 before it started waiting
1760 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
1761 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
1762 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
1763 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
1764 wrong type
1765 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
1766 library linked with pthread
1767 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
1768 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
1769 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
1770 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
1771 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
1772 after being __libc_memalign()'d
1773 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
1774 when it shouldnt
1775 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
1776 not
1777 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
1778 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
1779 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
1780 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
1781 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
1782 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
1783 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
1784 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
1785 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
1786 termination
1787 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
1788 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
1789 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
1790 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
1791 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
1792 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
1793 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
1794 causes a segmentation fault
1795 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
1796 linking
1797 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
1798 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
1799 uninitialized GOT
1800 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
1801 versions
1802 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
1803 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
1804 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
1805 is always true.
1806 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
1807 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
1808 modes
1809 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
1810 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
1811 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
1812 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
1813 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
1814 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
1815 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
1816 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
1817 libpthread.a
1818 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
1819 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
1820 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
1821 _res_hconf
1822 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
1823 information.
1824 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
1825 penalty
1826 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
1827 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
1828 cause transition penalty
1829 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
1830 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
1831 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
1832 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
1833 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
1834 mcount.oS)
1835 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
1836 Checking
1837 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
1838 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
1839 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
1840 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
1841 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
1842 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
1843 multi-arch
1844 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
1845 (RES_USEBSTRING)
1846 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
1847 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
1848 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
1849 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
1850 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
1851 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
1852 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
1853 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
1854 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
1855 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
1856 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
1857 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
1858 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
1859 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
1860 glibc
1861 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
1862 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
1863 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
1864 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
1865 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
1866 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
1867 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
1868 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
1869 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
1870 U+20AC), not same as GBK
1871 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
1872 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
1873 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
1874 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
1875 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
1876 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
1877 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
1878 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
1879 RES_USE_INET6
1880 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1881 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
1882 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
1883 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
1884 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
1885 wrong condition
1886 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1887 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
1888 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
1889 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
1890 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
1891 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
1892 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
1893 clang
1894 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
1895 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
1896 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
1897 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
1898 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
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1900Version 2.24
1901
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1902* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
1903 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
1904 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
1905 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
1906 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
1907 architectures.
1908
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1909* The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
1910 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
1911 been included in previous releases.
11fca961 1912
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1913* The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
1914 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
1915
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1916* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
1917 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
1918 instead of “union wait”.
1919
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1920* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
1921 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
1922 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
1923 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
1924 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
1925 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
1926 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
1927
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1928* The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
1929 API.
1930
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1931* The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
1932 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
1933 drop it.
6a54bcda 1934
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1935* nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
1936 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
1937 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
1938 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
1939 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
1940 extensions.
1941
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1942Security related changes:
1943
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1944* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
1945 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
1946 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
1947
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1948* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
1949 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
1950 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
1951 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
11fca961 1952
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1953* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
1954 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
1955 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
1956
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1957* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
1958 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
1959 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
1960
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1961* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
1962 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
1963 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
1964 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
1965
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1966The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1967
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1968 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
1969 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
1970 of MS-DOS.
1971 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
1972 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
1973 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
1974 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
1975 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
1976 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
1977 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
1978 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
1979 CLDR data
1980 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
1981 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
1982 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
1983 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
1984 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
1985 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
1986 romanisation
1987 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
1988 and +/-
1989 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
1990 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
1991 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
1992 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
1993 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
1994 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
1995 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
1996 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
1997 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
1998 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
1999 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
2000 all locales
2001 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
2002 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
2003 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
2004 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
2005 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
2006 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
2007 execute
2008 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
2009 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
2010 -Wsystem-headers
2011 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
2012 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
2013 Romanian locale data
2014 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
2015 symbol
2016 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
2017 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
2018 language
2019 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
2020 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
2021 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
2022 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
2023 machine
2024 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
2025 description
2026 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
2027 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
2028 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
2029 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
2030 when using RTLD_NEXT
2031 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
2032 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
2033 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
2034 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
2035 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
2036 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
2037 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
2038 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
2039 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
2040 Excavator core
2041 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2042 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2043 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2044 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
2045 double range
2046 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
2047 part zero incorrect
2048 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
2049 equality tests
2050 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
2051 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
2052 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
2053 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
2054 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
2055 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
2056 glibc-2.22
2057 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
2058 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
2059 'tst-numeric.c'
2060 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
2061 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
2062 low part
2063 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
2064 result
2065 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
2066 unaligned stack
2067 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
2068 pointers and lengths in error-case.
2069 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
2070 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
2071 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
2072 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
2073 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
2074 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
2075 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
2076 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
2077 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
2078 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
2079 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
2080 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
2081 modes
2082 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
2083 server addresses
2084 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
2085 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
2086 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
2087 response to getaddrinfo
2088 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
2089 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
2090 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
2091 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
2092 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
2093 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
2094 sometimes incorrect
2095 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
2096 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
2097 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
2098 record types
2099 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
2100 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
2101 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
2102 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
2103 (CVE-2016-3075)
2104 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
2105 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
2106 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
2107 resolving symbols
2108 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
2109 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
2110 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
2111 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
2112 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
2113 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
2114 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
2115 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
2116 gethosts
2117 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
2118 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
2119 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
2120 (CVE-2016-3706)
2121 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
2122 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
2123 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
2124 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
2125 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
2126 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
2127 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
2128 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
2129 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
2130 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
2131 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
2132 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
2133 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
2134 executable
2135 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
2136 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
2137 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
2138 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
2139 XPG3
2140 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
2141 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
2142 (CVE-2016-4429)
2143 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
2144 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
2145 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
2146 AS not supporting AVX512
2147 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
2148 sNaN argument
2149 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2150 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
2151 argument
2152 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
2153 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
2154 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
2155 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
2156 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
2157 eax=0x80000001
2158 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
2159 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
2160 subnormals
2161 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
2162 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
2163 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
2164 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2165 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2166 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
2167 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2168 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
2169 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
2170 input
2171 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2172 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2173 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2174 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2175 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2176 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2177 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2178 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
2179 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
2180 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
2181 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
2182 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
2183 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
2184 double rounding
2185 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
2186 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
2187 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
2188 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
2189 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
2190 (Only arm/linux)
2191 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
2192 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
2193 fallbacks
2194 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
2195 "invalid" exceptions
2196 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
2197 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
2198 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
2199 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
2200 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
2201 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
2202 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
2203 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
2204 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
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2206Version 2.23
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2208* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2209 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
2210 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2211 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
2212 89, 16061, and 18568.
2213
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2214* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
2215 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
2216 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
2217 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
2218 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
2219 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
2220 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
2221
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2222* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
2223 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
2224 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
2225
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2226* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
2227 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
2228 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
2229 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
2230 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
2231 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
2232 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
2233
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2234* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
2235 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
2236 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
2237 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
2238 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 2239 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
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2240 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
2241 Ericsson.)
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2243* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
2244 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
2245 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
2246 independent of the GNU C Library.
2247
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2248* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
2249 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
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2251* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
2252 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
2253 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
2254 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
2255 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
2256 Linux kernel.
2257
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2258* Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
2259 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
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2261* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
2262 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
2263 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
2264 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
2265 defining their own copy.
2266
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2267* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
2268 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
2269 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
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2271Security related changes:
2272
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2273* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
2274 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
2275
2276* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
2277 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
2278 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
2279 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
2280 (CVE-2015-8777)
2281
2282* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
2283 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
2284
2285* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
2286 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
2287
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2288* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
2289 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 2290 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
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2292* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
2293 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
2294 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
2295 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
2296 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
2297 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
2298 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
2299 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
2300 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
2301 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
2302 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
2303 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
2304 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
2305
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2308 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
2309 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
2310 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
2311 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
2312 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
2313 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
2314 use `mkstemp'
2315 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
2316 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
2317 overflow/underflow errors
2318 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
2319 overflow/underflow
2320 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
2321 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
2322 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
2323 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
2324 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
2325 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
2326 are not contiguous
2327 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
2328 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
2329 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
2330 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
2331 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
2332 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
2333 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
2334 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
2335 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
2336 all exceptions
2337 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
2338 arguments
2339 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
2340 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
2341 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
2342 should include
2343 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
2344 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
2345 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
2346 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
2347 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
2348 GNU/Linux
2349 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
2350 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
2351 arguments
2352 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
2353 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
2354 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
2355 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
2356 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
2357 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
2358 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
2359 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
2360 rounding results
2361 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
2362 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
2363 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
2364 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
2365 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
2366 fails
2367 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
2368 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
2369 block boundary
2370 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
2371 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
2372 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
2373 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
2374 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
2375 4.7?
2376 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
2377 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
2378 (related to lock elision)
2379 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
2380 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
2381 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
2382 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
2383 (CVE-2015-8779)
2384 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
2385 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
2386 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
2387 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
2388 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
2389 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
2390 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
2391 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
2392 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
2393 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
2394 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
2395 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
2396 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
2397 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
2398 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
2399 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
2400 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
2401 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
2402 contains a vector instruction exception.
2403 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
2404 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
2405 locales
2406 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
2407 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
2408 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
2409 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
2410 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
2411 missing break ?
2412 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
2413 32bit processes
2414 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
2415 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
2416 infinity
2417 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
2418 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
2419 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
2420 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
2421 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
2422 be forced unloaded
2423 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
2424 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
2425 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
2426 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
2427 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
2428 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
2429 statically too large
2430 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
2431 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
2432 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
2433 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
2434 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
2435 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
2436 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
2437 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
2438 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
2439 FUTEX_SHARED
2440 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
2441 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
2442 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
2443 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
2444 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
2445 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
2446 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
2447 opendir()
2448 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
2449 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
2450 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
2451 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
2452 signgam
2453 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
2454 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
2455 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
2456 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
2457 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
2458 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
2459 dependencies
2460 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
2461 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
2462 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
2463 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
2464 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
2465 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
2466 (CVE-2015-8776)
2467 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
2468 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
2469 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
2470 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
2471 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
2472 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2473 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
2474 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
2475 contention
2476 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
2477 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
2478 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
2479 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2480 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
2481 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
2482 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
2483 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
2484 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
2485 rounding modes
2486 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
2487 ILP32
2488 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
2489 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
2490 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
2491 threshold
2492 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
2493 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
2494 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
2495 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
2496 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
2497 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
2498 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
2499 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
2500 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
2501 pthread_setaffinity_np
2502 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
2503 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
2504 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
2505 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
2506 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
2507 prelink
2508 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
2509 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
2510 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
2511 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
2512 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2513 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
2514 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
2515 bits/mathcalls.h
2516 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
2517 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
2518 for C99-based standards
2519 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
2520 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
2521 math-only
2522 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
2523 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
2524 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
2525 disabled
2526 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
2527 "inexact" exceptions
2528 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
2529 arguments
2530 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
2531 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
2532 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
2533 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
2534 rules
2535 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
2536 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
2537 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
2538 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
2539 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
2540 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
2541 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
2542 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
2543 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
2544 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
2545 from 32bit
2546 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
2547 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
2548 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
2549 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
2550 subnormals
2551 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
2552 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
2553 error on 32-bit architectures
2554 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
2555 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
2556 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
2557 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
2558 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
2559 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
2560 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
2561 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
2562 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
2563 -Os
2564 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
2565 CPU's.
2566 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
2567 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
2568 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
2569 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
2570 architectures
2571 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
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2574
2575* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2576
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2578 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
2579 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
2580 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
2581 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
2582 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
2583 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
2584 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
2585 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
2586 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
2587 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
2588 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
2589 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
2590 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
2591 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
2592 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
2593 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
2594 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
6fdd5d65
FW
2595 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
2596 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
2959eda9 2597
f7fba805
SL
2598* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
2599 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
2600
2959eda9
AS
2601* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
2602 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
2603 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
2604 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
2605 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
2606 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4a4839c9 2607
42261ad7
FW
2608* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
2609 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
2610 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
2611 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
2612 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
2613
afcd9480
AM
2614* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
2615 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
2616 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
2617
4a4839c9
AO
2618* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
2619 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
2620 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
2621 17998.
2622
b13b96ca
AS
2623* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
2624 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
2625 condition in some applications.
21933112
AS
2626
2627* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
a6336cc4
AS
2628 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
2629 pow, powf.
21933112
AS
2630 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
2631 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
037e4b99
AS
2632 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
2633 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 2634 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
fdb7d390
AZ
2635
2636* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
2637 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
2638 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
2639 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
7fde904c
MF
2640
2641* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
2642 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
2643 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
7493ab25
RM
2644
2645* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
2646 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
2ec11c2b
ZW
2647
2648* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
2649 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
2650 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
2651
a03ba363 2652 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
2ec11c2b
ZW
2653 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
2654 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
1c7a4a51 2655\f
58b930ae
SP
2656Version 2.21
2657
2658* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2659
042e1521 2660 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
5bd80bfe
PP
2661 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
2662 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
2663 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
2664 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
2665 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
2666 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
2667 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
2668 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
2669 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
2670 17892.
2671
46d54873
FW
2672* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
2673 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
2674 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
2675 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
2676 intended.
042e1521
CD
2677
2678* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
2679 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
2680 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
2681 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
2682 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
2683 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
a39208bd 2684
522e6ee3
CLT
2685* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
2686
d3b00f46
AZ
2687* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
2688 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 2689 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
96d6fd6c 2690
8d2c0a59
AZ
2691* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
2692 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
2693 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
2694 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
2695 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
2696 effects being visible outside transactions.
2697
dc400d7b
RE
2698* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
2699 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
ec582ca0 2700
0f9dfe04
L
2701* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
2702
a39208bd
CD
2703* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
2704 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
ebda2f17 2705 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
a39208bd
CD
2706 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
2707 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
fb89b46d 2708
a5357b7c
JL
2709* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
2710 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
2711
e54db0ea
AM
2712* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
2713 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
2714 format.
11e3417a 2715
4863355a
JM
2716* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
2717 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
2718 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
2719
a4ecc9eb
JM
2720* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
2721 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
2722
0d560bbf 2723* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
0781a777
RM
2724
2725* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
2726 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
2727 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
2728 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
6d248857
WN
2729
2730* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
2731 with newer versions of bison.
28c38448
MF
2732
2733* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
2734 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
2735 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
2736 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
2737 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
2738 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
2739 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
2740 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
2741 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
2742 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
2743 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
2744 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
2745 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
2746
2747 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
2748 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
2749 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
2750 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
2751 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
58b930ae 2752\f
d5b396c1
AM
2753Version 2.20
2754
2755* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2756
6a9350c8
JM
2757 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
2758 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
2759 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
2760 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
2761 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
2762 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
2763 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
2764 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
2765 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
2766 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
2767 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
2768 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
2769 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
2770 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
2771 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
0961f7e1 2772
95ee7fb1
SL
2773* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
2774 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
2775 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
2776 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
2777 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 2778 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
95ee7fb1
SL
2779 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
2780 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
2781 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
2782 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
2783
0961f7e1
JL
2784* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
2785 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
2786 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
2787 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
2788 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
f3d338c9 2789
f940b965
RE
2790* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
2791
d0f5b3f8
JM
2792* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
2793 can be used with is 2.6.32.
2794
d6fe5e58
JM
2795* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
2796 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
2797 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
2798 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
2799 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
2800 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
2801
464263cc
JM
2802* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
2803 from ports.
c941736c
JM
2804
2805* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
2806 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
2807 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
2808 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
2809 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
2810 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
2811 test macros defined.
f63c86fe
WN
2812
2813* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5a414ff7
DV
2814
2815* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
2816 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
2817 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
2818 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
2819 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
2820 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
2821 is not built.
d03efb2f
AM
2822
2823* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
2824 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
2825 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
2826 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
2827 invocation.
cfd2ea50
JM
2828
2829* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
2830 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
2831 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
f083450f
RM
2832
2833* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
2834 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
2835 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
2836 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
4e8f95a0
FW
2837
2838* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
2839 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
2840 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
2841 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
2842 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
2843 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
2844 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
2845 additional checks.
9a8a5720
RM
2846
2847* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
2848 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
2849 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
2850 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
2851 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
2852 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
2853 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
2854 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
2855 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
a1a6a401
FW
2856
2857* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
2858 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
2859 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
2860 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
2861 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 2862 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
41488498
FW
2863
2864* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
2865 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
2866 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
2867 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
6c1fd795
DM
2868\f
2869Version 2.19
2870
2871* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2872
fd2f9486
JM
2873 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
2874 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
2875 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
2876 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
2877 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
2878 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
2879 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
2880 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
2881 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
2882 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
ed27ed83
JM
2883 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
2884 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
2885 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
2886 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
2887 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
798212a0
PP
2888 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
2889 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
2890 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
141f3a77 2891
11520a57
CD
2892* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
2893 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
2894
2fe16229
CD
2895* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
2896 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
2897 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
08d76093
CD
2898 extension which uses __block.
2899
303e567a
SP
2900* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
2901 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
2902 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
2903 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
2904 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
2905
141f3a77
SP
2906* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
2907 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
2908 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
2909 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
2910 if malloc fails.
c61b4d41
CD
2911
2912* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
2913 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
2914 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
2915 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
2916 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
91ce4085
FW
2917
2918* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
2919 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
2920 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
2921
ba0d798c
WN
2922* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
2923 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
2924 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
2925 #15856, #15857).
2926
7cbcdb36
SP
2927* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
2928 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
2929
82bab04b 2930* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 2931 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
ddd9fb8f 2932
c5f840fd
MB
2933* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
2934
3e181dda
CD
2935* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
2936 supported locales.
ddd9fb8f 2937
3e181dda 2938* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
7447ccd9 2939
8a05c252
CL
2940* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
2941
6055173a
JM
2942* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
2943 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
2944 for which the C library was built.
2945
b125d3e5
JM
2946* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
2947 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
2948 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
2949 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
2950 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
2951 in the following circumstances:
2952
2953 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
2954
2955 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
2956 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
2957
d4f66d37
JM
2958* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
2959 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
2960
3e181dda
CD
2961* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
2962 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
e35696c3 2963
ffb89e53
AO
2964* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
2965
5d29ccce
SP
2966* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
2967 transcendental functions have been introduced.
2968
8b7d57cd 2969* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
b125d3e5
JM
2970
2971* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 2972
fd712ef3 2973* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 2974
c688b419
JM
2975* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
2976 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
2977 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
2978 disable some of those declarations.
2979
7011c262 2980* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
029c7b25
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2981 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
2982 that did nothing) has also been removed.
0a57b83e
AO
2983
2984* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
2985 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
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2986
2987* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
2988 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
2989 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
2990 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
2991 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
2992 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
2993 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
2994 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
2995 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
2996 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
2997 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
2998 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
2999 require recompilation.
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3001Version 2.18
3002
3003* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3004
17db6e8d 3005 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
0432680e
PY
3006 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
3007 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
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3008 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
3009 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
3010 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
3011 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
3012 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
3013 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
3014 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
3015 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
3016 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
3017 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
3018 15755, 15759.
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3019
3020* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
3021 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
3022 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
3023 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
3024 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
3025 understands and accepts the risks.
1cef1b19 3026
5b535ac4
AS
3027* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
3028 #15078).
3029
1cef1b19
AS
3030* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
3031 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
7fffbdff 3032
55e4107b
SP
3033* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
3034 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
3035 destructor calls to glibc.
3036
e5c74c63
SP
3037* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
3038 output.
3039
3040* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
3041 non-x86 architectures.
3042
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3043* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
3044
3045* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
3046
3047* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
3048 Richard Henderson.
3049
3050* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
3051
3052* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
3053 Richard Henderson.
3054
3055* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
3056 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
3057
8cfdb7e0
SP
3058* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
3059
57267616
TS
3060* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
3061 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
58206c68 3062
c204ab28
SP
3063* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
3064 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
61dd6208 3065
0748546f
PE
3066* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
3067 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
3068 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
3069
61dd6208
SP
3070* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
3071 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
3072 attributes of a process.
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3073
3074* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
3075 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
3076 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
3077 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
3078 mutexes.
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3079
3080* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
3081 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
3082
3083* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
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3084\f
3085Version 2.17
3086
3087* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3088
80ceeaee 3089 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
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3090 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
3091 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
3092 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
3093 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
3094 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
3095 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
3096 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
3097 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
3098 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
3099 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
3100 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
3101 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
3102 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
3103 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
14bc93a9 3104
95b4f1b6
SE
3105* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
3106
14bc93a9
JL
3107* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
3108 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
7a845b2c 3109
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3110* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
3111 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
3112
7e2bd01f
MS
3113* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
3114
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3115* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
3116 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
3117 zEnterprise z196.
3118 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
3119
84b3fd84
FW
3120* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
3121 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
3122 the internal function __secure_getenv.
3123
815e6fa3
GB
3124* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
3125 Implemented by Gary Benson.
3126
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MK
3127* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
3128 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
3129
7aab07e4 3130* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 3131 can be used with is 2.6.16.
7aab07e4 3132
15d0da8c
WS
3133* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
3134 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
3135
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3136* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
3137 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
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3138 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
3139 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3cc3ef96 3140
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3141* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
3142 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
3143
85429b1a 3144* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 3145 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
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3146 default.
3147
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3148* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
3149 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
3150 information in --help and --version output.
3151
050af9c4
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3152* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
3153 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
3154 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
3155
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AO
3156* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
3157 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
3158 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
3159 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
3160 when the mode is enabled.
3161
6e6249d0
RM
3162* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
3163 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
3164 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
3165 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
3166 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
3167 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
3168 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5a04f376 3169
d9286582
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3170* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
3171 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
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3172\f
3173Version 2.16
3174
3175* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3176
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3177 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
3178 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
3179 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
3180 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
3181 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
3182 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
3183 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
3184 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
3185 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
3186 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
3187 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
3188 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
3189 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
3190 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
3191 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
3192 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
3193 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
3194 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
3195 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
3196 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
3197 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
3198 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
3199 14277, 14278.
380d7e87 3200
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3201* Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
3202 configuring glibc with:
3203 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
3204 Visit <http://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
3205 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3206
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3207* ISO C11 support:
3208
3209 + define static_assert
3210
3211 + do not declare gets
3212
3213 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
3214
3215 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
3216 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
3217 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
3218 implementation.
8d44e150 3219
74033a25 3220 + timespec_get added
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3221
3222 + uchar.h support added
d75a0a62 3223
ac097f5c
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3224 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
3225
16dd419d
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3226 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3227
9dc4e1fb 3228* Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
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3229
3230* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
d9a216c0
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3231
3232* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
3233 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
daa891c0
UD
3234
3235* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
3236 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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AJ
3237
3238* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
3239 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
3240 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
3241 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
3242 existing applications.
ffb7875d 3243
21708942 3244* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
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3245 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
3246 before 2.6.
83678f76 3247
edb00e4d
RH
3248* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
3249 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
3250 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
3251
83678f76 3252* New locales: mag_IN
7b44a2df
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3253
3254* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
3255 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
3256 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
3257 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
3258 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
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3259
3260* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3261
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
3262* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
3263 and Will Schmidt.
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JM
3264
3265* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
3266
3267* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
3268 without a previously built glibc.
3269
3270* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
3271 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
3272
3273* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
3274 now supported for ARM processors.
3275
3276* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
3277 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
3278 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
3279
3280* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
3281
3282* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
3283 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
3284 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
3285 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
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3286
3287* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
3288 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
3289 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
3290 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
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3291
3292* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
3293 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
3294 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
3295 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
3296 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
3297
3298* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
3299 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
3300 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
3301 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
ee1a7fab 3302\f
e80fab37 3303Version 2.15
11988f8f 3304
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3305* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3306
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3307 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
3308 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
3309 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
3310 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
3311 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
3312 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
3313 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
c0244a9d 3314
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3315* New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
3316 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
9f2da732
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3317
3318* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
3319 and support for initgroups lookups.
3320 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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L
3321
3322* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
3323 Contributed by HJ Lu.
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L
3324
3325* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
3326 Contributed by HJ Lu.
99710781 3327
fc2ee42a
LD
3328* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
3329 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 3330 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 3331
d42964a0 3332* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
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3333 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3334
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3335* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
3336 for x86-64 and x86-32.
093ecf92
LD
3337 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3338
c55fbd1e
UD
3339* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
3340 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a0f33f99
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3341
3342* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
3343 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3344
3345* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
3346 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
0ac5ae23
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3347
3348* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
3349 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
d9a4d2ab
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3350
3351* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
3352 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3353
3354* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
3355 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
78239589
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3356
3357* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
e188ebba
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3358
3359* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
3360 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a1267ba1 3361
f0b264f1
AZ
3362* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
3363 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
2655fd5c 3364
6b64057b 3365* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
e80fab37 3366\f
dded88cd 3367Version 2.14
9f94d2ea 3368
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3369* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3370
553149f6 3371 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 3372 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 3373 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 3374 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
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3375 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
3376 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
3377 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
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3378 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
3379 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 3380 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
50934221 3381
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3382* The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
3383 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
3384 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 3385 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
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3386
3387 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
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3388 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
3389 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
7b57bfe5
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3390 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3391
c6489db3 3392* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
f1f929d7 3393 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
83fe108b 3394
72d1dddb 3395* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 3396 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
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3397
3398* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
a9171047
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3399
3400* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
3401 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3403* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
3404 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
3405 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
3406 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
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3409
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3411
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3413 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
3414 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
3415 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
3416 12378, 12394, 12397
ac2b484c 3417
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c08fb0d7 3419
ac2b484c 3420* POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
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3422* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
3423 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 3424 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3426Version 2.12
3427
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3428* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3429
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3430 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
3431 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
3432 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
3433 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
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3434 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
3435 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
3436 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 3437 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
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3439* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
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3441* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
3442
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3443* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
3444
3445* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
3446 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
3447 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3448
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3450 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
3451 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
3452 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
3453 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3454
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3458
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3459* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3460
3461 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
3462 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
3463 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
3464 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
3465 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
3466 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
3467
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3468* New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
3469 mkostemps64
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3470 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3471
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3473 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3474
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3475* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
3476 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3477
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3478* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
3479
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9d36a6c4 3481 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 3482 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
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3484
9d36a6c4 3485 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
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3486 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3487
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3488* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
3489 strstr, strcasestr.
3490 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
3491
3492* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
3493 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
3494
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3495* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
3496 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3497
3498* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
3499 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3500
3501* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
3502 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
3503 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
3504 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
3505 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
3506 necessity is every process again.
3507 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3508
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3509* New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
3510 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
3511
3512* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
3513 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
3514
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3515* Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
3516 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
3517 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3518
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3522
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3523* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3524
3525 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
3526 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
3527 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
3528 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
3529 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
3530
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3532 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3533
425ce2ed 3534* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
e109c612 3535 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 3536
1fdd89a7 3537* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
735be400 3538 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
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3540* XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
3541 now in POSIX.
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1f04d005 3543* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6cbe890a 3544 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3546* New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
3547 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3548
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3549* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
3550 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3551
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3552* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
3553 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3554
3555* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
3556 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
3557 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3558
735be400 3559* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
878b72c5 3560
84aa52d7 3561* Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
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3562 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3563
3564* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
3565 and extend existing format specifiers.
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3566 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3567
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3568* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
3569 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3570
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3571* DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
3572 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
3573 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
3574 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
3575 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
3576 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3578Version 2.9
3579
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3580* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3581
3582 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447, 6461,
3583 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712, 6713,
3584 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839, 6843,
3585 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955, 6966,
3586 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
3587
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3589 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3590
3591* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
3592 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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3593
3594* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
3595 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3596
3597* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
3598 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
3599 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3600
3601* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
3602 Implemented by Eric Blake.
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8ec2550e 3604* New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
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3605
3606* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
ebcc1f4d 3607 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3609* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
3610 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
3611 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
3612 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3613
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3614* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
3615 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3617* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
3618 Sinhala)
48b22986 3619 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
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3620
3621* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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3623Version 2.8
3624
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3625* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3626
3627 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
3628 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
3629 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
3630 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
3631 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
3632 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
3633 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
3634
e038616f 3635* New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
b4354cf4 3636
77751669 3637* New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
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3638
3639* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
3640 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
3641
3642* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
3643
3644* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
3645 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3646
3647* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
3648 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3649
3650* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
3651 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
3652 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3653
3654* Faster memset for x86-64.
3655 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
3656
3657* Faster memcpy on x86.
3658 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3659
3660* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
3661 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3662
3663* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
d990b282 3664 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
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3666Version 2.7
3667
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3668* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3669
3670 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
3671 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
3672 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
3673 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
3674 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
3675
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3676* More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
3677 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3678
3679* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3680
3681* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
3682 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
3683 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3684
3685* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
3686 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
3687
28919a77 3688* New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
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3689 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3690
3691* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3692
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3693* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
3694 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3695
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3696* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
3697 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3698
3699* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
3700 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
3701
3702* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3703
3704* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
3705 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3707* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
3708 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
3709 yo_NG.
3710
3711+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
3712 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3716* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3717
3718 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
3719 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
3720 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
3721 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
3722 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
3723 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
3724 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
3725 4702, 4858
3726
bce20b9a 3727* New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
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3729* New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
3730
b21fa963 3731* nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3734
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3735* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3736
3737 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
3738 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
3739 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
3740 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
3741 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
3742 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
3743 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
3744 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
3745 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
3746
3af48b5b 3747* For Linux, the sorting of addresses returned by getaddrinfo now also
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3748 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
3749 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3751* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
3752 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3753
871b9158 3754* New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
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3755
3756* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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3758* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
3759 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
3760 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
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3762 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3763
07bfff20 3764* Iterating over entire database in NIS can be slow. With the
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3765 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
3766 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
3767 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3768
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3769* The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
3770 Ulrich Drepper.
3771
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3772* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
3773
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3774* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
3775 Ulrich Drepper.
3776
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3777* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
3778
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3779* New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
3780 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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3783
3784* More overflow detection functions.
3785
3786* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
3787 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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3789 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
3790 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
3791 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
3792 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
3793 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
3794 by Masahide Washizawa.
3795
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3796* It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
3797 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3799* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
3800 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
3801 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
3802 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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3804* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
3805 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
3806
3807* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
3808
3809* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
3810 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
3811 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
3812
3813* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
3814 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
3815
3816* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
3817 for compatibility with some other systems.
3818
3819* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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3821Version 2.3.6
3822
3823* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3824
3825 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
3826 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
3827 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
3828 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
3829 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
3830 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
3831
3832 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
3833
3834* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
3835
3836* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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3839
3840* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3841
3842 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
3843 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
3844 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
3845 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
3846
3847 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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3849Version 2.3.4
3850
3851* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
3852 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3853
3854* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
3855 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
3856 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3857
3858* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
3859 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
3860
0325dd20 3861* getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
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3862 efficiently.
3863 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3864
3865* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
3866 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
3867 handling data.
3868
3869* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
3870 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
0325dd20 3871 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3873* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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3874 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3875
3876* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
3877 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
3878 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
3879 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3880
3881* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
3882 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
3883 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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3884 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3885
3886* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
3887 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
3888 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
3889 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
3890 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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3892Version 2.3.3
3893
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3894* New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
3895 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
3896
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3897* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
3898 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
925c3c5c 3899
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3901 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
3902
3903* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
3904 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3906* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
3907 by Roland McGrath.
3908
c5af724c 3909* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
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3910 and Ulrich Drepper.
3911
3912* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
3913 RFC 3484.
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3915Version 2.3.2
3916
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3917* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
3918 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
3919 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
3920 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
3921 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
3922 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
3923 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
3924 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
3925 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
3926
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3927* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
3928 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
3929 and are now also available on the Hurd.
3930
3931* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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3932
3933* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
3934 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
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3936* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
3937 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
3938
52a16e58 3939* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
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3941* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
3942 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
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3943
3944* With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
3945 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
3946 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
3947 of weak definition in ld.so.
3948
3949* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
3950 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
3951
3952* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
3953 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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3957* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
3958 charsets.
3959
3960* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
3961 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
47e8b443 3962
bb0ec5bd 3963* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 3964 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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3965
3966* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
3967 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
8e57fc70 3968
bb0ec5bd 3969* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
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3970 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
3971 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3972
3973* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
3974 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3b0bdc72 3975
bb0ec5bd 3976* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3b0bdc72 3977 implementation of regex.
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3979* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
3980 Unicode 3.2.
be45f421 3981
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3982* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
3983 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
be45f421 3984
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3985* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
3986 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
3987 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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3988
3989* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
f87277f2 3990 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
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3991
3992* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
3993 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
3994 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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3995
3996* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
3997 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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3998
3999* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
4000 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
4001 and Ulrich Drepper.
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4002
4003* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
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4005Version 2.2.6
4006
4007* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
4008 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
4009
4010* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
4011 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
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4013Version 2.2.5
4014
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4015* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
4016 128-bit long double format.
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4018* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
4019 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
a8ae31c2 4020
ad2e4f18 4021* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
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4023* Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
4024
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4025* libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
4026 as well.
4027
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4028* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
4029 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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4030
4031* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
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4033Version 2.2.4
4034
2995f70e 4035* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 4036 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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4037
4038* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
4039 support Unicode 3.1.
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4040
4041* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
4042 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
045fcd26 4043
69d5f925 4044* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 4045
69d5f925 4046* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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4047 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
4048 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
4049
4050* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
4051 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
4052
4053* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
4054 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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4055
4056* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
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4058Version 2.2.3
4059
1746f2b0 4060* Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
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4061 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
4062 in float, double, and long double format.
4063
f128331c 4064* Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
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4065 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
4066 128-bit long double format.
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4068* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
4069 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
4070 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
4071 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
4072
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4073* An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
4074 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
4075 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4076
4077* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
4078 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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4079
4080* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
4081 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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4082
4083* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
4084 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
4085 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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4086
4087* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
4088 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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4089
4090* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
4091 of functions for Linux/x86.
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4092
4093* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
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4095Version 2.2.2
4096
464d97ec 4097* Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
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4098 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
4099 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
4100 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
4101 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
4102 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
4103 other headers.
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4104
4105* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
4106 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
4107
4108* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
4109 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
4110 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
4111 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
4112
4113* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
4114 locales. While
4115
4116 locale -a
4117
4118 only lists the names of the supported locales
4119
4120 locale -a --verbose
4121
4122 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
4123 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
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4125Version 2.2.1
4126
4127* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
4128 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
4129 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
4130 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
4131 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
4132
4133 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
4134
4135 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
4136
4137 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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4138
4139* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
4140 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
4141 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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4142
4143* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
4144 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
4145
4146* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
4147 changed from the default "C" locale.
4148
4149* The usual bug fixes.
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4151Version 2.2
4152
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4153* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
4154 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
4155 is in progress.
4156
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4157* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
4158
793bd4d9 4159* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
2e92188d 4160
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4161 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
4162 obviously requires a database library being available.
4163
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4164* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4165
abbffdf9 4166* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
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4168* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
4169 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
4170
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4171* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
4172
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4173* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
4174 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
4175 and Mark Kettenis.
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4176
4177 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
4178 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
4179 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 4180
a00c3ca9 4181 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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4182 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
4183
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4184* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
4185 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
4186 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
4187
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4188* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
4189 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
4190 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
4191 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4192
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4193 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
4194 structures for the wide character tables.
4195
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4196* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4197
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4198* The utmp daemon has been removed.
4199
4200* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
4201
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4202* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
4203 and Yutaka Niibe.
4204
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4205* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
4206
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4207* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
4208
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4209* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4210
4211* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
4212
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4213* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
4214
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4215* the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
4216 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
4217 implemented for Linux.
4218
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4219* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
4220 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
4221 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
4222 versions.
4223
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4224* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
4225 Masahide Washizawa.
4226
8f3f1e09 4227* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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4229Version 2.1.3
4230
4231* bug fixes
4232
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4234Version 2.1.2
4235
4236* bug fixes
4237
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4239Version 2.1.1
4240
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4241* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
4242
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4243* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
4244
407d26b7 4245* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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4246
4247* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
4248
407d26b7 4249* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 4250
407d26b7 4251* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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4252
4253* Update timezone data files.
27995311 4254
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4255* lots of charmaps corrections
4256
4257* some new locale definitions and charmaps
4258
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4261
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4262* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
4263 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
4264 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
4265 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
4266 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
4267 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
4268
c84142e8 4269* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 4270 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 4271
1fb05e3d 4272* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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4273 symbol level.
4274
4275* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
4276 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
377a515b 4277
cbdee279 4278* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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4279
4280* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 4281 numbers.
377a515b 4282
cbdee279 4283* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
e61abf83 4284
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4285* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
4286 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
e61abf83 4287
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4288* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
4289 library.
4290
e61abf83 4291* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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4292 functions from ISO C 9X.
4293
4294* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
4295 real valued functions.
e61abf83 4296
a5a0310d 4297* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
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4299* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
4300
4301* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 4302
440d13e2 4303* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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4304
4305* Optimized string functions have been added.
4306
4307* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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4309* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
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4312 daemon for NSS (nscd).
4313
4314 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
4315 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
4316
0dee6738 4317 user system wall
48244d09 4318
0dee6738 4319 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 4320
0dee6738 4321 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 4322
0dee6738 4323 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
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4325 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
4326
4327 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
4328
4329 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
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4331 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
4332 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
0dee6738 4333 horribly slow.
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4335 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
4336 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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4338* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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4340* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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4341
4342* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
4343 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
4344
4345* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
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4347* A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
4348 Bambrough.
4349
4350* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
4351 latest draft standards.
4352
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4353* Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
4354
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4355* Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
4356~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
62595351 4357addseverity NEW: Unix98
48244d09 4358alphasort64 NEW: LFS
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4359argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
4360argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
4361argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
4362argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
4363argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
4364argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
4365argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
4366argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
4367argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
4368argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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4369authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
4370authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
4371authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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4372backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
4373backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
4374backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
4375cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
4376cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
4377cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
4378cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
4379cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
4380cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
4381capget NEW: kernel
4382capset NEW: kernel
4383carg NEW: ISO C 9x
4384cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
4385cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
4386casin NEW: ISO C 9x
4387casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
4388casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
4389casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4390casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4391casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
4392catan NEW: ISO C 9x
4393catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4394catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
4395catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4396catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4397catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4399ccos NEW: ISO C 9x
4400ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
4401ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
4402ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
4403ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
4404ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
4405cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
4406cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
4407cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
4408cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
4409cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
4410cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
4411clearerr_locked REMOVED
4412clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
4413clog NEW: ISO C 9x
4414clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
4415clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
4416clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
4417clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
4418clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
4419conj NEW: ISO C 9x
4420conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
4421conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
4422cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
4423cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
4424cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
4425cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
4426cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
4427cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
4428creal NEW: ISO C 9x
4429crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
4430creall NEW: ISO C 9x
4431creat64 NEW: LFS
4432csin NEW: ISO C 9x
4433csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
4434csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
4435csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4436csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4437csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
4438csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
4439csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
4440csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
4441ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
4442ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4443ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
4444ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4445ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4446ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4447des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
4448ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 4449endutxent NEW: Unix98
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4450exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x
4451exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
4452exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
4453exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
4454exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
4455exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
4456fattach NEW: STREAMS
4457fdetach NEW: STREAMS
4458fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
4459fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
4460fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
4461feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4462fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4463fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
4464fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
4465feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4466feof_locked REMOVED
4467feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4468ferror_locked REMOVED
4469fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4470fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
4471fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
4472fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4473feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4474fflush_locked REMOVED
4475ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
4476ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
4477fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
4478fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4479fileno_locked REMOVED
4480fma NEW: ISO C 9x
4481fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
4482fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
4483fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
4484fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
4485fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
4486fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
4487fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
4488fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
62595351 4489fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
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4490fopen64 NEW: LFS
4491fputc_locked REMOVED
4492fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4493fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4494freopen64 NEW: LFS
4495fseeko NEW: Unix98
4496fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
4497fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
4498fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
4499fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
4500ftello NEW: Unix98
4501ftello64 NEW: LFS
4502ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
4503ftw64 NEW: LFS
4504fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4505gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
4506gamma_r REMOVED
4507gammaf_r REMOVED
4508gammal_r REMOVED
4509getchar_locked REMOVED
4510getdate NEW: Unix98
4511getdate_err NEW: Unix98
4512getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
4513getmsg NEW: STREAMS
4514getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
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4516getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
4517getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
4518getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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4519getutxent NEW: Unix98
4520getutxid NEW: Unix98
4521getutxline NEW: Unix98
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4522glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
4523globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
4524gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
4525gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
4526grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
e980ca92 4527host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
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4528iconv NEW: iconv
4529iconv_close NEW: iconv
4530iconv_open NEW: iconv
4531if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
4532if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
4533if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
4534if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
4535in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
4536in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
4537inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
4538isastream NEW: STREAMS
4539iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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4540key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
4541key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
4542key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
4543key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
4544key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
4545key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
4546key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
4547key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
4548key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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4549llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
4550llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4551llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
4552llround NEW: ISO C 9x
4553llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4554llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4555log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
4556log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
4557log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
4558lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
4559lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4560lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
4561lround NEW: ISO C 9x
4562lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4563lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4564lseek64 NEW: LFS
4565makecontext NEW: Unix98
4566mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
4567mmap64 NEW: LFS
4568moncontrol REMOVED
4569modify_ldt NEW: kernel
4570nan NEW: ISO C 9x
4571nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4572nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
4573nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
4574nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4575nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4576netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
4577netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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4578nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
4579nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
4580nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4581nftw NEW: Unix98
4582nftw64 NEW: LFS
4583open64 NEW: LFS
e980ca92 4584passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
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4585pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
4586pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
4587pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
4588pread NEW: Unix98
4589pread64 NEW: LFS
4590printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
4591printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
4592profil_counter REMOVED
4593pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
4594pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
4595ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
4596ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
4597putc_locked REMOVED
4598putchar_locked REMOVED
4599putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
4600putmsg NEW: STREAMS
4601putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
62595351 4602pututxline NEW: Unix98
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4603pwrite NEW: Unix98
4604pwrite64 NEW: LFS
4605readdir64 NEW: LFS
4606readdir64_r NEW: LFS
4607remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
4608remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
4609remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
4610round NEW: ISO C 9x
4611roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4612roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4613rtime NEW: GNU ext.
4614scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
4615scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
4616scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
4617scandir64 NEW: LFS
4618sendfile NEW: kernel
4619setcontext NEW: Unix98
4620setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 4621setutxent NEW: Unix98
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4622sighold NEW: Unix98
4623sigignore NEW: Unix98
4624sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
4625sigrelse NEW: Unix98
4626sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
4627sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
4628sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
4629sincos NEW: GNU ext.
4630sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
4631sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
4632statfs64 NEW: LFS
4633statvfs NEW: Unix98
4634statvfs64 NEW: LFS
4635strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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4636strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
4637strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
4638strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
e980ca92 4639svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
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4640svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
4641svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
4642swapcontext NEW: Unix98
4643tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
4644tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
4645tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
4646tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
4647tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
4648tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
4649trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
4650truncate64 NEW: LFS
4651truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
4652truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
4653umount2 NEW: kernel
4654unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 4655updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 4656user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 4657utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 4658versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
3ef4002b 4659versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
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4660waitid NEW: Unix98
4661wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
4662wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
4663wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
4664wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
4665wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
4666wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
4667wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
4668wcswcs NEW: Unix98
4669wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
4670wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
4671write_profiling REMOVED
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4672xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
4673xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
4674xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
4675xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
4676xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
4677xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
4678xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
4679xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
4680xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
4681xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
4682xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
4683xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
4684xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 4685xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
e980ca92 4686xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 4687~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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4689Version 2.0.6
4690
4691* more bug fixes
4692
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4693\f
4694Version 2.0.5
4695
4696* more bug fixes
4697
4698* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
4699
4700* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
4701
4702* rewrite of cbrt function
4703
4704* update of timezone data
4705\f
4706Version 2.0.4
4707
4708* more bug fixes
4709\f
4710Version 2.0.3
4711
4712* more bug fixes
c84142e8 4713\f
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4714Version 2.0.2
4715
4716* more bug fixes
4717
4718* add atoll function
4719
4720* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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4721
4722* fix math functions
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4723\f
4724Version 2.0.1
4725
4726* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
4727
4728* dynamic loader preserves all registers
4729
4730* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
4731 the ELF dynamic loader.
4732
4733* support for parallel builds is improved
4734\f
40a4b79f 4735Version 2.0
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4737* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
4738 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
4739 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
4740
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4741* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
4742 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
4743 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
4744 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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4745 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
4746 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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4747 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
4748 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
4749 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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4750 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
4751 files in the ELF format.
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4752
4753* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
4754 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
4755
4756* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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4757 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
4758 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
4759 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
4760 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
4761 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
4762 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
4763 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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4764 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
4765 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
4766 about dynamically linked binaries.
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4768* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
4769 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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4770 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
4771 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
4772 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 4773
f7eac6eb 4774* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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4775 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
4776 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
4777 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
4778 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
4779
4780* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
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4782* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
4783 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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4784 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
4785 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
4786 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
4787 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
4788 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
4789 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
4790 NSS services available.
5f0e6fc7 4791
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4792* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
4793 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
4794 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
4795
4796* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
4797 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
4798 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
4799
4800* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
4801 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
4802 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
4803 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
4804
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4805* The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
4806 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
4807 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
4808
4809* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
4810 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
4811 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
4812
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4813* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
4814 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
4815
f7eac6eb 4816* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 4817 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 4818 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
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4819 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
4820
4821* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
4822 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
4823 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 4824
71733723 4825* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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4826 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
4827 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
4828 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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4829 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
4830 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 4831 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 4832 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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4833
4834* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
4835 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
4836 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
4837 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
4838 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
4839 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
4840 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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4841
4842* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
4843 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
4844 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
4845 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
4846 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
4847 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
4848
4849* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
4850 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
4851
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4852* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
4853 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
4854 NSS scheme used in glibc.
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4856* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
4857
4858* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
4859 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
4860 their use is discouraged.
4861
4862* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
4863 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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4865* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
4866 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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4867
4868* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
4869 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
4870
4871* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
4872 see <dirent.h>.
4873
4874* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
4875 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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4876 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
4877 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
4878 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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4879
4880* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
4881 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
4882 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
4883 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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4884
4885* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
4886 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
4887
4888* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
4889 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
4890 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
4891 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
4892 number generator.
4893
4894* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
4895 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
4896
4897* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
4898 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
4899
71733723 4900* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 4901 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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4902 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
4903 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
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4905* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
4906
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4907* David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
4908 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
4909 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
4910
4911* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
4912 for arithmetic and string handling.
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c709e372 4914* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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4915 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
4916 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
4917 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
4918
4919* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
4920 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
4921 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
4922 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
4923 programs already written to use it.)
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4924
4925* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
4926 constants.
4927
4928* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
4929 with 4.4 BSD.
4930
4931* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
4932 a given effective group ID.
4933
4934* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
4935 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
4936 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
4937 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
4938
4939* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 4940 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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4941 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
4942 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
4943 doing the same thing.
4944
4945* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
4946 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
4947
4948* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 4949 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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4950
4951* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
4952
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4953* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
4954 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
4955 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 4956 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 4957 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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4958
4959* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
4960 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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4962* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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4963 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
4964 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
4965 function.
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4966
4967* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
4968
4969* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
4970 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
4971 strings.
4972
4973* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
4974 and writing the utmp file.
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4975
4976* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
4977 Thorsten Kukuk.
4978
4979* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
4980 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
4981 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
4982
4983* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
4984 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
4985
4986* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
4987 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
4988 specification.
4989
4990* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
4991 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
4992 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
4993 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
4994
4995* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
4996 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
4997 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
4998
4999* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
5000 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
5001 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
5002 expression matcher.
5003
5004* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
5005 functionality.
5006
5007* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
5008 by Ulrich Drepper.
5009
5010* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
5011
5012* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
5013 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
5014 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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5015\f
5016Version 1.09
5017
5018* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
5019
5020* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
5021 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
5022
5023* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
5024 want to put themselves in the background.
5025
5026* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
5027 run without an operating system.
5028
5029* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
5030 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
5031
5032* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
5033 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
5034
5035* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
5036
5037* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
5038 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
5039 have YP (aka NIS).
5040
5041* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
5042 conventions.
5043
5044* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
5045 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
5046\f
5047Version 1.08
5048
5049* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
5050 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
5051 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
5052
5053* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
5054 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
5055
5056* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
5057 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
5058
5059* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
5060
5061* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
5062
5063* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
5064 compatibility.
5065
5066* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
5067 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
5068 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
5069
5070* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
5071
5072* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
5073 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
5074 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
5075
5076* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
5077 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
5078 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
5079 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
5080 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
5081 on a block).
5082
5083* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
5084 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
5085 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
5086 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
5087 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
5088 cross-compiler.
5089
5090* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
5091 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
5092\f
5093Version 1.07
5094
5095* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
5096 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
5097
5098* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
5099 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
5100 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
5101
5102* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
5103 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
5104 address of the last character written.
5105
5106* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
5107 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
5108
5109* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
5110 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
5111
5112* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
5113 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
5114 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
5115 you dereference this pointer.
5116
5117* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
5118 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
5119
5120* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
5121 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
5122 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
5123 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
5124
5125* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
5126 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
5127 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
5128 EAGAIN in every system call function.
5129\f
5130Version 1.06
5131
5132* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
5133 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
5134 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
5135 in Emacs or the `info' program.
ea278354 5136 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
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5137
5138* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
5139
5140* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
5141
5142* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
5143 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
5144
5145* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
5146 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
5147
5148* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
5149 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
5150
5151* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
5152 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
5153 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
5154 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
5155 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
5156
5157* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
5158 to the error code in `errno'.
5159
5160* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
5161 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
5162 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
5163 malloc'd string.
5164
5165* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
5166 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
5167 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
5168
5169* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
5170 uniquely-named temporary file.
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5172Version 1.05
5173
5174* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
5175 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
5176 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
5177
5178* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
5179 characters.
5180
5181* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
5182 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
5183
5184* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
5185\f
5186Version 1.04
5187
5188* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
5189 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
5190 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
5191 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
5192
5193* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
5194 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
5195 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
5196
5197* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
5198 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
5199
5200* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
5201 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
5202 made itself into a shared library.
5203
5204* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
5205 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
5206
5207* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
5208 with limited length.
5209
5210* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
5211
5212* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
5213
5214* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
5215
5216* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
5217 function for traversing a directory tree.
5218
5219* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
5220 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
5221 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
5222 formatted output directly to an obstack.
5223
5224* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
5225 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
5226
5227* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
5228
5229* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
5230 things to your strings.
5231
5232* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
5233
5234* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
5235 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
5236 supporting those systems.
5237
5238* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
5239 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
5240 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
5241 configuration files.
5242
5243* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
5244 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
5245
5246* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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5247 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
5248 in <strings.h>.)
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5249
5250* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
5251 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
5252 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
5253 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
5254 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
5255 required storage is not available.
5256
5257* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
5258 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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5259
5260* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
5261 latest files released from Berkeley.
5262\f
5263----------------------------------------------------------------------
5264Copyright information:
5265
c9123888 5266Copyright (C) 1992-2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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5267
5268 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
5269 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
5270 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
5271 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
5272
5273 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
5274 of this document, or of portions of it,
5275 under the above conditions, provided also that they
5276 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
5277\f
5278Local variables:
5279version-control: never
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