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ee9247c3 1GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
581c785b 2Copyright (C) 1992-2022 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 2.37
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10Major new features:
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14Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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16 [Add deprecations, removals and changes affecting compatibility here]
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18Changes to build and runtime requirements:
19
20 [Add changes to build and runtime requirements here]
21
22Security related changes:
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24 CVE-2022-39046: When the syslog function is passed a crafted input
25 string larger than 1024 bytes, it reads uninitialized memory from the
26 heap and prints it to the target log file, potentially revealing a
27 portion of the contents of the heap.
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29The following bugs are resolved with this release:
30
31 [The release manager will add the list generated by
32 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
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34Version 2.36
35
36Major new features:
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38* Support for DT_RELR relative relocation format has been added to
39 glibc. This is a new ELF dynamic tag that improves the size of
40 relative relocations in shared object files and position independent
41 executables (PIE). DT_RELR generation requires linker support for
42 -z pack-relative-relocs option, which is supported for some targets
43 in recent binutils versions. Lazy binding doesn't apply to DT_RELR.
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45* On Linux, the pidfd_open, pidfd_getfd, and pidfd_send_signal functions
46 have been added. The pidfd functionality provides access to a process
47 while avoiding the issue of PID reuse on tranditional Unix systems.
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49* On Linux, the process_madvise function has been added. It has the
50 same functionality as madvise but alters the target process identified
51 by the pidfd.
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53* On Linux, the process_mrelease function has been added. It allows a
54 caller to release the memory of a dying process. The release of the
55 memory is carried out in the context of the caller, using the caller's
56 CPU affinity, and priority with CPU usage accounted to the caller.
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58* The “no-aaaa” DNS stub resolver option has been added. System
59 administrators can use it to suppress AAAA queries made by the stub
60 resolver, including AAAA lookups triggered by NSS-based interfaces
61 such as getaddrinfo. Only DNS lookups are affected: IPv6 data in
62 /etc/hosts is still used, getaddrinfo with AI_PASSIVE will still
63 produce IPv6 addresses, and configured IPv6 name servers are still
64 used. To produce correct Name Error (NXDOMAIN) results, AAAA queries
65 are translated to A queries. The new resolver option is intended
66 primarily for diagnostic purposes, to rule out that AAAA DNS queries
67 have adverse impact. It is incompatible with EDNS0 usage and DNSSEC
68 validation by applications.
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70* On Linux, the fsopen, fsmount, move_mount, fsconfig, fspick, open_tree,
71 and mount_setattr have been added. They are part of the new Linux kernel
72 mount APIs that allow applications to more flexibly configure and operate
73 on filesystem mounts. The new mount APIs are specifically designed to work
78a408ee 74 with namespaces.
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76* localedef now accepts locale definition files encoded in UTF-8.
77 Previously, input bytes not within the ASCII range resulted in
78 unpredictable output.
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80* Support for the mbrtoc8 and c8rtomb multibyte/UTF-8 character conversion
81 functions has been added per the ISO C2X N2653 and C++20 P0482R6 proposals.
82 Support for the char8_t typedef has been added per the ISO C2X N2653
83 proposal. The functions are declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the
84 _GNU_SOURCE macro or C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro is defined.
85 The char8_t typedef is declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the
86 _GNU_SOURCE macro is defined and the C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro
87 is not defined (if __cpp_char8_t is defined, then char8_t is a builtin type).
88
6f4e0fcf 89* The functions arc4random, arc4random_buf, and arc4random_uniform have been
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90 added. The functions wrap getrandom and/or /dev/urandom to return high-
91 quality randomness from the kernel.
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3a380458 93* Support for LoongArch running on Linux has been added. This port requires
94 as least binutils 2.38, GCC 12, and Linux 5.19. Currently only hard-float
95 ABI is supported:
96
97 - loongarch64-linux-gnu
98
99 The LoongArch ABI is 64-bit little-endian.
100
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101Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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103* Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes
104 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
105 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
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107* The Linux kernel version check has been removed along with the
108 LD_ASSUME_KERNEL environment variable. The minimum kernel used to built
109 glibc is still provided through NT_GNU_ABI_TAG ELF note and also printed
110 when libc.so is issued directly.
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112* On Linux, The LD_LIBRARY_VERSION environment variable has been removed.
113
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114The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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116 [14932] dynamic-link: dlsym(handle, "foo") and dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "foo")
117 return different result with versioned "foo"
118 [16355] libc: syslog.h's SYSLOG_NAMES namespace violation and utter
119 mess
120 [23293] dynamic-link: aarch64: getauxval is broken when run as ld.so
121 ./exe and ld.so adjusts argv on the stack
122 [24595] nptl: [2.28 Regression]: Deadlock in atfork handler which
123 calls dlclose
124 [25744] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS returns 2 instead of 1 when
125 consuming the second byte of certain double byte characters
126 [25812] stdio: Libio vtable protection is sometimes only partially
127 enforced
128 [27054] libc: pthread_atfork handlers that call pthread_atfork
129 deadlock
130 [27924] dynamic-link: ld.so: Support DT_RELR relative relocation
131 format
132 [28128] build: declare_symbol_alias doesn't work for assembly codes
133 [28566] network: getnameinfo with NI_NOFQDN is not thread safe
134 [28752] nss: Segfault in getpwuid when stat fails
135 [28815] libc: realpath should not copy to resolved buffer on error
136 [28828] stdio: fputwc crashes
137 [28838] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-p_align3
138 [28845] locale: ld-monetary.c should be updated to match ISO C and
139 other standards.
140 [28850] libc: linux: __get_nprocs_sched reads uninitialized memory
141 from the stack
142 [28852] libc: getaddrinfo leaks memory with AI_ALL
143 [28853] libc: tst-spawn6 changes current foreground process group
144 (breaks test isolation)
145 [28857] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-audit24a
146 [28860] build: --enable-kernel=5.1.0 build fails because of missing
147 __convert_scm_timestamps
148 [28865] libc: linux: _SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF and _SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN are
149 inaccurate without /sys and /proc
150 [28868] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader DFS algorithm segfaults on
151 missing libraries
152 [28880] libc: Program crashes if date beyone 2038
153 [28883] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/select.c: __select64
154 !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS && !__ASSUME_PSELECT fails on Microblaze
155 [28896] string: strncmp-avx2-rtm and wcsncmp-avx2-rtm fallback on non-
156 rtm variants when avoiding overflow
157 [28922] build: The .d dependency files aren't always generated
158 [28931] libc: hosts lookup broken for SUCCESS=CONTINUE and
159 SUCCESS=MERGE
160 [28936] build: nm: No such file
161 [28950] localedata: Add locale for ISO code "tok" (Toki Pona)
162 [28953] nss: NSS lookup result can be incorrect if function lookup
163 clobbers errno
164 [28970] math: benchtest: libmvec benchmark doesn't build with make
165 bench.
166 [28991] libc: sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF) should read
167 /sys/devices/system/cpu/possible
168 [28993] libc: closefrom() iterates until max int if no access to
169 /proc/self/fd/
170 [28996] libc: realpath fails to copy partial result to resolved buffer
171 on ENOENT and EACCES
172 [29027] math: [ia64] fabs fails with sNAN input
173 [29029] nptl: poll() spuriously returns EINTR during thread
174 cancellation and with cancellation disabled
175 [29030] string: GLIBC 2.35 regression - Fortify crash on certain valid
176 uses of mbsrtowcs (*** buffer overflow detected ***: terminated)
177 [29062] dynamic-link: Memory leak in _dl_find_object_update if object
178 is promoted to global scope
179 [29069] libc: fstatat64_time64_statx wrapper broken on MIPS N32 with
180 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 and -D_TIME_BITS=64
181 [29071] dynamic-link: m68k: Removal of ELF_DURING_STARTUP optimization
182 broke ld.so
183 [29097] time: fchmodat does not handle 64 bit time_t for
184 AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW
185 [29109] libc: posix_spawn() always returns 1 (EPERM) on clone()
186 failure
187 [29141] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 fail for gcc 12/glibc 2.35
188 [29162] string: [PATCH] string.h syntactic error:
189 include/bits/string_fortified.h:110: error: expected ',' or ';'
190 before '__fortified_attr_access'
191 [29165] libc: [Regression] broken argv adjustment
192 [29187] dynamic-link: [regression] broken argv adjustment for nios2
193 [29193] math: sincos produces a different output than sin/cos
194 [29197] string: __strncpy_power9() uses uninitialised register vs18
195 value for filling after \0
196 [29203] libc: daemon is not y2038 aware
197 [29204] libc: getusershell is not 2038 aware
198 [29207] libc: posix_fallocate fallback implementation is not y2038
199 aware
200 [29208] libc: fpathconf(_PC_ASYNC_IO) is not y2038 aware
201 [29209] libc: isfdtype is not y2038 aware
202 [29210] network: ruserpass is not y2038 aware
203 [29211] libc: __open_catalog is not y2038 aware
204 [29213] libc: gconv_parseconfdir is not y2038 aware
205 [29214] nptl: pthread_setcanceltype fails to set type
206 [29225] network: Mistyped define statement in socket/sys/socket.h in
207 line 184
208 [29274] nptl: __read_chk is not a cancellation point
209 [29279] libc: undefined reference to `mbstowcs_chk' after
210 464d189b9622932a75302290625de84931656ec0
211 [29304] libc: mq_timedreceive does not handle 64 bit syscall return
212 correct for !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS
213 [29403] libc: st_atim, st_mtim, st_ctim stat struct members are
214 missing on microblaze with largefile
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216Version 2.35
217
218Major new features:
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220* Unicode 14.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
221 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 14.0.0, using
222 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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224* Bump r_version in the debugger interface to 2 and add a new field,
225 r_next, support multiple namespaces.
226
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227* Support for the C.UTF-8 locale has been added to glibc. The locale
228 supports full code-point sorting for all valid Unicode code points. A
229 limitation in the framework for fnmatch, regexec, and regcomp requires
230 a compromise to save space and only ASCII-based range expressions are
231 supported for now (see bug 28255). The full size of the locale is
232 only ~400KiB, with 346KiB coming from LC_CTYPE information for
233 Unicode. This locale harmonizes downstream C.UTF-8 already shipping
234 in various downstream distributions. The locale is not built into
235 glibc, and must be installed.
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237* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type, and
238 corresponding <tgmath.h> macros, are added from TS 18661-1:2014, TS
239 18661-3:2015 and draft ISO C2X:
240
241 - fsqrt, fsqrtl, dsqrtl and corresponding fMsqrtfN, fMsqrtfNx,
242 fMxsqrtfN and fMxsqrtfNx functions.
243
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244 - ffma, ffmal, dfmal and corresponding fMfmafN, fMfmafNx, fMxfmafN and
245 fMxfmafNx functions.
246
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247* <math.h> functions for floating-point maximum and minimum,
248 corresponding to new operations in IEEE 754-2019, and corresponding
249 <tgmath.h> macros, are added from draft ISO C2X: fmaximum,
250 fmaximum_num, fmaximum_mag, fmaximum_mag_num, fminimum, fminimum_num,
251 fminimum_mag, fminimum_mag_num and corresponding functions for float,
252 long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx.
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254* <math.h> macros for single-precision float constants are added as a
255 GNU extension: M_Ef, M_LOG2Ef, M_LOG10Ef, M_LN2f, M_LN10f, M_PIf,
256 M_PI_2f, M_PI_4f, M_1_PIf, M_2_PIf, M_2_SQRTPIf, M_SQRT2f and
257 M_SQRT1_2f.
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259* The __STDC_IEC_60559_BFP__ and __STDC_IEC_60559_COMPLEX__ macros are
260 predefined as specified in TS 18661-1:2014.
261
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262* The exp10 functions in <math.h> now have a corresponding type-generic
263 macro in <tgmath.h>.
264
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265* The ISO C2X macro _PRINTF_NAN_LEN_MAX has been added to <stdio.h>.
266
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267* printf-family functions now support the %b format for output of
268 integers in binary, as specified in draft ISO C2X, and the %B variant
269 of that format recommended by draft ISO C2X.
270
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271* A new DSO sorting algorithm has been added in the dynamic linker that uses
272 topological sorting by depth-first search (DFS), solving performance issues
273 of the existing sorting algorithm when encountering particular circular
274 object dependency cases.
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276* A new tunable, glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort, can be used to select between
277 the two DSO sorting algorithms. The default setting of '2' uses the
278 new DFS-based algorithm. The setting '1' switches to the old
279 algorithm used in glibc 2.33 and earlier.
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281* ABI support for a new function '__memcmpeq'. '__memcmpeq' is meant
282 to be used by compilers for optimizing usage of 'memcmp' when its
283 return value is only used for its boolean status.
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285* Support for automatically registering threads with the Linux rseq
286 system call has been added. This system call is implemented starting
287 from Linux 4.18. The Restartable Sequences ABI accelerates user-space
288 operations on per-cpu data. It allows user-space to perform updates
289 on per-cpu data without requiring heavy-weight atomic operations.
290 Automatically registering threads allows all libraries, including
291 libc, to make immediate use of the rseq support by using the
292 documented ABI, via the __rseq_flags, __rseq_offset, and __rseq_size
293 variables. The GNU C Library manual has details on integration of
294 Restartable Sequences.
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296* A symbolic link to the dynamic linker is now installed under
297 /usr/bin/ld.so (or more precisely, '${bindir}/ld.so').
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299* All programs and the testsuite in glibc are now built as position independent
300 executables (PIE) by default on toolchains and architectures that support it.
301 Further, if the toolchain and architecture supports it, even static programs
302 are built as PIE and the resultant glibc can be used to build static PIE
303 executables. A new option --disable-default-pie has been added to disable
304 this behavior and get a non-PIE build. This option replaces
305 --enable-static-pie, which no longer has any effect on the build
306 configuration.
307
5f6d8d97 308* On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.malloc.hugetlb, can be used to
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309 either make malloc issue madvise plus MADV_HUGEPAGE on mmap and sbrk
310 or to use huge pages directly with mmap calls with the MAP_HUGETLB
311 flags). The former can improve performance when Transparent Huge Pages
312 is set to 'madvise' mode while the latter uses the system reserved
313 huge pages.
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315* The printf family of functions now handles the flagged %#m conversion
316 specifier, printing errno as an error constant (similar to strerrorname_np).
317
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318* The function _dl_find_object has been added. In-process unwinders
319 can use it to efficiently locate unwinding information for a code
320 address.
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322* Support for OpenRISC running on Linux has been added. This port requires
323 as least binutils 2.35, GCC 11, and Linux 5.4. Currently only soft-float
324 ABI is supported:
325
326 - or1k-linux-gnu
327
328 The OpenRISC ABI is 32-bit big-endian and uses 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and
329 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
330
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331* A new configure option, --with-rtld-early-cflags, can be used to
332 specify additional compiler flags for building the early startup code
333 of the dynamic linker. On targets which have CPU compatibility
334 checks, this can help to ensure that proper diagnostics are printed if
335 the dynamic loader runs on an incompatible CPU.
336
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337* On Linux, the epoll_pwait2 function has been added. It is similar to
338 epoll_wait with the difference the timeout has nanoseconds resolution.
339
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340* The function posix_spawn_file_actions_addtcsetpgrp_np has been added,
341 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to set the controlling terminal in
342 the new process in a race free manner. This function is a GNU extension.
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344* Source fortification (_FORTIFY_SOURCE) level 3 is now available for
345 applications compiling with glibc and gcc 12 and later. Level 3 leverages
346 the __builtin_dynamic_object_size function to deliver additional
347 fortification balanced against additional runtime cost (checking non-constant
348 bounds).
349
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350* The audit libraries will avoid unnecessary slowdown if it is not required
351 PLT tracking (by not implementing the la_pltenter or la_pltexit callbacks).
352
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353Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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355* On x86-64, the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC environment variable support
356 has been removed since the first PT_LOAD segment is no longer executable
357 due to defaulting to -z separate-code.
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359* The r_version update in the debugger interface makes the glibc binary
360 incompatible with GDB binaries built without the following commits:
361
362 c0154a4a21a gdb: Don't assume r_ldsomap when r_version > 1 on Linux
363 4eb629d50d4 gdbserver: Check r_version < 1 for Linux debugger interface
364
365 when audit modules or dlmopen are used.
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367* Intel MPX support (lazy PLT, ld.so profile, and LD_AUDIT) has been removed.
368
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369* The --enable-static-pie option is no longer available. The glibc build
370 configuration script now automatically detects static-pie support in the
371 toolchain and architecture and enables it if available.
372
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373* The catchsegv script and associated libSegFault.so shared object have
374 been removed. There are widely-deployed out-of-process alternatives for
375 catching coredumps and backtraces.
376
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377* Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes
378 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
379 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
380
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381* The LD_TRACE_PRELINKING environment variable has been removed. Similar
382 functionality to obtain the program mapping address can be achieved by
383 using LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS to value of 2.
384
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385* The LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS has been removed. The variable was mainly used to
386 support prelink PIE binaries.
387
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388Changes to build and runtime requirements:
389
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390* The audit module interface version LAV_CURRENT is increased to enable
391 proper bind-now support. The loader now advertises via the la_symbind
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392 flags that PLT trace is not possible. New audit modules require the
393 new dynamic loader supporing the latest LAV_CURRENT version. Old audit
394 modules are still loaded for all targets except aarch64.
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397 result location register (x8) and NEON Q register. Old audit modules are
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398 rejected by the loader. Audit modules must be rebuilt to use the newer
399 structure sizes and the latest module interface version for LAV_CURRENT.
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401Security related changes:
402
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403 CVE-2022-23219: Passing an overlong file name to the clnt_create
404 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow when
405 using the "unix" protocol. Reported by Martin Sebor.
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407 CVE-2022-23218: Passing an overlong file name to the svcunix_create
408 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow.
409
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410 CVE-2021-3998: Passing a path longer than PATH_MAX to the realpath
411 function could result in a memory leak and potential access of
412 uninitialized memory. Reported by Qualys.
413
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414 CVE-2021-3999: Passing a buffer of size exactly 1 byte to the getcwd
415 function may result in an off-by-one buffer underflow and overflow
416 when the current working directory is longer than PATH_MAX and also
417 corresponds to the / directory through an unprivileged mount
418 namespace. Reported by Qualys.
419
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420The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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422 [12889] nptl: Race condition in pthread_kill
423 [14232] nptl: tst-cancel7 and tst-cancelx7 race condition
424 [14913] libc: [mips] Clean up MIPS 64-bit register-dump.h output
425 [15310] dynamic-link: _dl_sort_fini is O(n^3) causing slow exit when
426 many dsos
427 [15333] libc: Use 64-bit stat functions in installed programs
428 [15533] dynamic-link: LD_AUDIT introduces an avoidable performance
429 degradation
430 [15971] dynamic-link: No interface for debugger access to libraries
431 loaded with dlmopen
432 [17318] locale: [RFE] Provide a C.UTF-8 locale by default
433 [17645] dynamic-link: RFE: Improve performance of dynamic loader for
434 deeply nested DSO dependencies.
435 [19193] nptl: pthread_kill, pthread_cancel return ESRCH for a thread
436 ID whose lifetime has not ended
437 [22542] network: buffer overflow in sunrpc clnt_create
438 (CVE-2022-23219)
439 [22716] malloc: [PATCH] mtrace.pl: use TRACE_PRELINKING instead of
440 TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS
441 [25947] malloc: memory leak in muntrace
442 [26045] math: fmaxf(inf, nan) does not always work
443 [26108] math: exp10() has problems with <tgmath.h>
444 [26779] build: benign use after realloc at localealias.c:329
445 [27609] dynamic-link: [2.32/2.33/2.34 Regression] In elf/dl-open.c
446 (_dl_open) we might use __LM_ID_CALLER to index GL(dl_ns)[]
447 [27945] build: build-many-glibcs.py doesn't configure GCC with
448 --enable-initfini-array
449 [27991] build: x86: sysdeps/x86/configure.ac breaks when
450 libc_cv_include_x86_isa_level is loaded from cache
451 [28036] nptl: Incorrect types for pthread_mutexattr_set/getrobust_np
452 in __REDIRECT_NTH macro
453 [28061] dynamic-link: A failing dlmopen called by an auditor crashed
454 [28062] dynamic-link: Suppress audit calls when a (new) namespace is
455 empty
456 [28126] libc: nftw aborts for paths longer than PATH_MAX
457 [28129] dynamic-link: Unnecessary check DT_DEBUG in ld.so
458 [28153] libc: [test] gmon/tst-gmon-gprof* may have a f3 line when
459 built with ld.lld
460 [28182] libc: _TIME_BITS=64 in C++ has issues with fcntl, ioctl, prctl
461 [28185] math: Inaccurate j0f function (again)
462 [28199] locale: iconvconfig prefix flag behaves differently in glibc
463 2.34
464 [28203] dynamic-link: aarch64: elf_machine_{load_address,dynamic}
465 should drop _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_[0] in favor of __ehdr_start for
466 robustness
467 [28213] librt: NULL pointer dereference in mq_notify (CVE-2021-38604)
468 [28223] libc: mips: clone does not align stack
469 [28253] dynamic-link: Missing colon in LD_SHOW_AUXV output after
470 AT_MINSIGSTKSZ
471 [28256] malloc: Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised
472 value(s) in __GI___tunables_init
473 [28260] build: io/tst-closefrom, misc/tst-close_range, posix/tst-
474 spawn5 fail if stray fds are open
475 [28310] libc: Do not use affinity mask for sysconf
476 (_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF)
477 [28338] time: undefined behavior in __tzfile_compute with oddball TZif
478 file
479 [28340] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes while loading a DSO with a read-
480 only dynamic section
481 [28349] libc: Segfault for ping -R on qemux86 caused by recvmsg()
482 [28350] libc: ping receives SIGABRT on lib32-qemux86-64 caused by
483 recvmsg()
484 [28353] network: Race condition on __opensock
485 [28357] dynamic-link: deadlock between pthread_create and ctors
486 [28358] math: f64xdivf128 and f64xmulf128 spurious underflows
487 [28361] nptl: Fix for bug 12889 causes setxid deadlock
488 [28368] build: -Waddress instances in stdio-common/vfprintf-internal.c
489 [28390] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 14.0.0
490 [28397] math: tgmath.h should not define fmaxmag, fminmag macros for
491 C2X
492 [28400] libc: [2.35 Regression] string/test-strncasecmp: cannot set
493 locale "en_US.UTF-8"
494 [28407] nptl: pthread_kill assumes that kill (getpid ()) is equivalent
495 to tgkill (getpid (), gettid())
496 [28455] dynamic-link: -Wl,--enable-new-dtags doesn't work
497 [28457] dynamic-link: Missing reldepmod4.so dependency for
498 globalmod1.so
499 [28469] time: linux: struct timex is not correctly set for 32-bit
500 systems with TIMESIZE=64
501 [28470] regex: Buffer read overrun in regular expression searching
502 [28475] string: Incorrect access attribute on memfrob
503 [28524] libc: Conversion from ISO-2022-JP-3 with iconv may emit
504 spurious NUL character on state reset
505 [28532] libc: powerpc64[le]: CFI for assembly templated syscalls is
506 incorrect
507 [28550] dynamic-link: FAIL: tst-dso-
508 ordering9_112-ecbda(GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort=1)
509 execution test
510 [28554] build: Undefined generate-md5
511 [28572] libc: Misaligned accesses in test-memcpy and test-mempcpy on
512 hppa
513 [28607] nptl: Masked signals are delivered on thread exit
514 [28624] libc: openjdk 8/9 assume uni processor and gets stuck due to
515 lack of cpu counting /proc fallback with glibc 2.34
516 [28646] string: [2.35 Regression] mock -r fedora-36-x86_64
517 /tmp/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.312.b07-2.fc36.src.rpm& fails to build
518 [28648] dynamic-link: Running ld.so on statically linked binaries
519 crashes
520 [28656] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC no longer works due to
521 binutils changes
522 [28676] dynamic-link: p_align on PT_LOAD segment in DSO isn't honored
523 [28678] nptl: nptl/tst-create1 hangs sporadically
524 [28688] dynamic-link: PT_LOAD p_align check is too strict
525 [28700] nss: "dns [!UNAVAIL=return] files" default for hosts database
526 is not useful
527 [28707] time: assert in tzfile.c __tzfile_read striking with truncated
528 timezones generated by tzcode-2021d and later
529 [28713] math: GCC 12 miscompiles libm
530 [28732] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-dl_find_object
531 [28738] build: LIBC_LINKER_FEATURE doesn't work on linker -z option
532 [28745] dynamic-link: _dl_find_object miscompilation on powerpc64le
533 [28746] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE does not work for stpcpy
534 [28749] libc: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: rtld.c: 1632: dl_main:
535 Assertion `GL(dl_rtld_map).l_libname' failed!
536 [28755] string: overflow bug in wcsncmp_avx2 and wcsncmp_evex
537 [28757] nptl: GDB printer tests failed with new GDB
538 [28765] math: x86_64 libmvec atan2 accuracy
539 [28766] manual: Document libmvec accuracy
540 [28768] network: Buffer overflow in svcunix_create with long pathnames
541 (CVE-2022-23218)
542 [28769] libc: Off-by-one buffer overflow/underflow in getcwd()
543 (CVE-2021-3999)
544 [28770] libc: Unexpected return value from realpath() for too long
545 results (CVE-2021-3998)
546 [28771] libc: %ebx optimization macros are incompatible with .altmacro
547 in Systemtap probes
548 [28780] build: --disable-default-pie doesn't work on static programs
549 [28782] libc: x86-64 ISA level for glibc itself is always
550 x86-64-baseline
551 [28792] glob: possible wrong behaviour with patterns with double [
552 with no closing ]
553 [28837] libc: FAIL: socket/tst-socket-timestamp-compat
554 [28847] locale: Empty mon_decimal_point in LC_MONETARY results in non-
555 empty mon_decimal_point_wc
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560Major new features:
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563 the implementation of the runtime all functionality formerly
564 implemented in the libraries libpthread, libdl, libutil, libanl has
565 been integrated into libc. New applications do not need to link with
566 -lpthread, -ldl, -lutil, -lanl anymore. For backwards compatibility,
567 empty static archives libpthread.a, libdl.a, libutil.a, libanl.a are
568 provided, so that the linker options keep working. Applications which
569 have been linked against glibc 2.33 or earlier continue to load the
570 corresponding shared objects (which are now empty). The integration
571 of those libraries into libc means that additional symbols become
572 available by default. This can cause applications that contain weak
573 references to take unexpected code paths that would only have been
574 used in previous glibc versions when e.g. preloading libpthread.so.0,
575 potentially exposing application bugs.
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580 sets for modern architectural features like Arm SVE.
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583 or _GNU_SOURCE are defined, MINSIGSTKSZ and SIGSTKSZ are no longer
57fb02b2 584 constant on Linux. MINSIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf(_SC_MINSIGSTKSZ)
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586 dynamic sized register sets for modern architectural features like
587 Arm SVE.
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590 a dump of information related to IFUNC resolver operation and
591 glibc-hwcaps subdirectory selection.
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594 execve and it is is already used to implement fexecve without requiring
595 /proc to be mounted. However, different than fexecve, if the syscall is not
596 supported by the kernel an error is returned instead of trying a fallback.
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601 C2X, is supported to enable declarations of functions defined in Annex F
602 of C2X. Those declarations are also enabled when
603 __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, as specified in TS 18661-1, is
604 defined, and when _GNU_SOURCE is defined.
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607 --disable-scv configure option.
608
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610 is traditionally 32-bit. Although time_t still defaults to 32-bit on
611 these configurations, this default may change in future versions.
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613 only supported when LFS (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) is also enabled. It is
614 only enabled for Linux and the full support requires a minimum kernel
615 version of 5.1.
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618 essential converter modules and the rest have been moved into a supplementary
619 configuration file gconv-modules-extra.conf in the gconv-modules.d directory
620 in the same GCONV_PATH. Similarly, external converter modules directories
621 may have supplementary configuration files in a gconv-modules.d directory
622 with names ending with .conf to logically classify the converter modules in
623 that directory.
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626 to configure the size of the thread stack cache.
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629 since Austin Group issue 62 droped the async-signal-safe requirement for
630 fork (and it will be included in the future POSIX standard). The new _Fork
631 function does not run any atfork function neither resets any internal state
632 or lock (such as the malloc one), and only sets up a minimal state required
633 to call async-signal-safe functions (such as raise or execve). This function
634 is currently a GNU extension.
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637 closing a range of file descriptors on recent kernels (version 5.9).
638
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641 although it is also present in other systems.
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644 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to close all file descriptors greater
645 than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
646 although Solaris also provides a similar function.
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649 execute programs that do not have any dynamic dependency (that is,
650 they are statically linked). This feature is Linux-specific.
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655 should use the equivalent standard function pthread_mutex_consistent
656 instead.
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658* The function pthread_mutexattr_getrobust_np has been deprecated;
659 programs should use the equivalent standard function
660 pthread_mutexattr_getrobust instead.
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663 programs should use the equivalent standard function
664 pthread_mutexattr_setrobust instead.
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667 the equivalent standard function sched_yield instead.
668
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670
671* Various rarely-used functions declared in <resolv.h> and
672 <arpa/nameser.h> have been deprecated. Applications are encouraged to
673 use dedicated DNS processing libraries if applicable. For <resolv.h>,
674 this affects the functions dn_count_labels, fp_nquery, fp_query,
675 fp_resstat, hostalias, loc_aton, loc_ntoa, p_cdname, p_cdnname,
676 p_class, p_fqname, p_fqnname, p_option, p_query, p_rcode, p_time,
677 p_type, putlong, putshort, res_hostalias, res_isourserver,
678 res_nameinquery, res_queriesmatch, res_randomid, sym_ntop, sym_ntos,
679 sym_ston. For <arpa/nameser.h>, the functions ns_datetosecs,
680 ns_format_ttl, ns_makecanon, ns_parse_ttl, ns_samedomain, ns_samename,
681 ns_sprintrr, ns_sprintrrf, ns_subdomain have been deprecated.
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684 in order to prepare for libresolv moving entirely into libc (see earlier
685 entry for merging libraries into libc). The symbols __dn_comp,
686 __dn_expand, __dn_skipname, __res_dnok, __res_hnok, __res_mailok,
687 __res_mkquery, __res_nmkquery, __res_nquery, __res_nquerydomain,
688 __res_nsearch, __res_nsend, __res_ownok, __res_query, __res_querydomain,
689 __res_search, __res_send formerly in libresolv have been renamed and no
690 longer have a __ prefix. They are now available in libc.
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693 pthread_cancel will always send the internal SIGCANCEL on a cancellation
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696 is enabled) or ignore the cancellation internal signal. However there are
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698 see a spurious EINTR error when cancellation interrupts a blocking syscall.
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701 file names such as libc-2.33.so. The ABI sonames (e.g., libc.so.6)
702 were provided as symbolic links. Starting with glibc 2.34, the shared
703 objects are installed under their ABI sonames directly, without
704 symbolic links. This increases compatibility with distribution
705 package managers that delete removed files late during the package
706 upgrade or downgrade process.
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709 mtrace. Similar functionality can be achieved by using conditional
710 breakpoints within mtrace functions from within gdb.
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713 implementation __default_morecore have been removed from the API. Existing
714 applications will continue to link against these symbols but the interfaces
715 no longer have any effect on malloc.
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718 (or the glibc.malloc.check tunable), mtrace() and mcheck() have now been
719 disabled by default in the main C library. Users looking to use these
720 features now need to preload a new debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so to get
721 this functionality back.
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724 moved from the core C library into libc_malloc_debug.so. Legacy applications
725 that still use these functions will now need to preload libc_malloc_debug.so
726 in their environment using the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
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729 __memalign_hook and __free_hook are now removed from the API. Compatibility
730 symbols are present to support legacy programs but new applications can no
731 longer link to these symbols. These hooks no longer have any effect on glibc
732 functionality. The malloc debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so currently
733 supports hooks and can be preloaded to get this functionality back for older
734 programs. However this is a transitional measure and may be removed in a
735 future release of the GNU C Library. Users may port away from these hooks by
736 writing and preloading their own malloc interposition library.
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741 file shared memory file system to be mounted at /dev/shm. These functions
742 no longer search among the system's mount points for a suitable
743 replacement if /dev/shm is not available.
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748 a request for netgroup lookup, may crash due to a double-free,
749 potentially resulting in degraded service or Denial of Service on the
750 local system. Reported by Chris Schanzle.
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752 CVE-2021-33574: The mq_notify function has a potential use-after-free
753 issue when using a notification type of SIGEV_THREAD and a thread
754 attribute with a non-default affinity mask.
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757 parameter number when processing the expansion resulting in a crash.
758 Reported by Philippe Antoine.
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762 [4737] libc: fork is not async-signal-safe
763 [5781] math: Slow dbl-64 sin/cos/sincos for special values
764 [10353] libc: Methods for deleting all file descriptors greater than
765 given integer (closefrom)
766 [14185] glob: fnmatch() fails when '*' wildcard is applied on the file
767 name containing multi-byte character(s)
768 [14469] math: Inaccurate j0f function
769 [14470] math: Inaccurate j1f function
770 [14471] math: Inaccurate y0f function
771 [14472] math: Inaccurate y1f function
772 [14744] nptl: kill -32 $pid or kill -33 $pid on a process cancels a
773 random thread
774 [15271] dynamic-link: dlmopen()ed shared library with LM_ID_NEWLM
775 crashes if it fails dlsym() twice
776 [15648] nptl: multiple definition of `__lll_lock_wait_private'
777 [16063] nptl: Provide a pthread_once variant in libc directly
778 [17144] libc: syslog is not thread-safe if NO_SIGPIPE is not defined
779 [17145] libc: syslog with LOG_CONS leaks console file descriptor
780 [17183] manual: description of ENTRY struct in <search.h> in glibc
781 manual is incorrect
782 [18435] nptl: pthread_once hangs when init routine throws an exception
783 [18524] nptl: Missing calloc error checking in
784 __cxa_thread_atexit_impl
785 [19329] dynamic-link: dl-tls.c assert failure at concurrent
786 pthread_create and dlopen
787 [19366] nptl: returning from a thread should disable cancellation
788 [19511] nptl: 8MB memory leak in pthread_create in case of failure
789 when non-root user changes priority
790 [20802] dynamic-link: getauxval NULL pointer dereference after static
791 dlopen
792 [20813] nptl: pthread_exit is inconsistent between libc and libpthread
793 [22057] malloc: malloc_usable_size is broken with mcheck
794 [22668] locale: LC_COLLATE: the last character of ellipsis is not
795 ordered correctly
796 [23323] libc: [RFE] CSU startup hardening.
797 [23328] malloc: Remove malloc hooks and ensure related APIs return no
798 data.
799 [23462] dynamic-link: Static binary with dynamic string tokens ($LIB,
800 $PLATFORM, $ORIGIN) crashes
801 [23489] libc: "gcc -lmcheck" aborts on free when using posix_memalign
802 [23554] nptl: pthread_getattr_np reports wrong stack size with
803 MULTI_PAGE_ALIASING
804 [24106] libc: Bash interpreter in ldd script is taken from host
805 [24773] dynamic-link: dlerror in an secondary namespace does not use
806 the right free implementation
807 [25036] localedata: Update collation order for Swedish
808 [25383] libc: where_is_shmfs/__shm_directory/SHM_GET_NAME may cause
809 shm_open to pick wrong directory
810 [25680] dynamic-link: ifuncmain9picstatic and ifuncmain9picstatic
811 crash in IFUNC resolver due to stack canary (--enable-stack-
812 protector=all)
813 [26874] build: -Warray-bounds in _IO_wdefault_doallocate
814 [26983] math: [x86_64] x86_64 tgamma has too large ULP error
815 [27111] dynamic-link: pthread_create and tls access use link_map
816 objects that may be concurrently freed by dlclose
817 [27132] malloc: memusagestat is linked to system librt, leading to
818 undefined symbols on major version upgrade
819 [27136] dynamic-link: dtv setup at thread creation may leave an entry
820 uninitialized
821 [27249] libc: libSegFault.so does not output signal number properly
822 [27304] nptl: pthread_cond_destroy does not pass private flag to futex
823 system calls
824 [27318] dynamic-link: glibc fails to load binaries when built with
825 -march=sandybridge: CPU ISA level is lower than required
826 [27343] nss: initgroups() SIGSEGVs when called on a system without
827 nsswich.conf (in a chroot)
828 [27346] dynamic-link: x86: PTWRITE feature check is missing
829 [27389] network: NSS chroot hardening causes regressions in chroot
830 deployments
831 [27403] dynamic-link: aarch64: tlsdesc htab is not freed on dlclose
832 [27444] libc: sysconf reports unsupported option (-1) for
833 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_LINESIZE on X86 since v2.33
834 [27462] nscd: double-free in nscd (CVE-2021-27645)
835 [27468] malloc: aarch64: realloc crash with heap tagging: FAIL:
836 malloc/tst-malloc-thread-fail
837 [27498] dynamic-link: __dl_iterate_phdr lacks unwinding information
838 [27511] libc: S390 memmove assumes Vector Facility when MIE Facility 3
839 is present
840 [27522] glob: glob, glob64 incorrectly marked as __THROW
841 [27555] dynamic-link: Static tests fail with --enable-stack-
842 protector=all
843 [27559] libc: fstat(AT_FDCWD) succeeds (it shouldn't) and returns
844 information for the current directory
845 [27577] dynamic-link: elf/ld.so --help doesn't work
846 [27605] libc: tunables can't control xsave/xsavec selection in
847 dl_runtime_resolve_*
848 [27623] libc: powerpc: Missing registers in sc[v] clobbers list
849 [27645] libc: [linux] sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSOR...) breaks down on
850 containers
851 [27646] dynamic-link: Linker error for non-existing NSS symbols (e.g.
852 _nss_files_getcanonname_r) from within a dlmopen namespace.
853 [27648] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-select
854 [27650] stdio: vfscanf returns too early if a match is longer than
855 INT_MAX
856 [27651] libc: Performance regression after updating to 2.33
857 [27655] string: Wrong size calculation in string/test-strnlen.c
858 [27706] libc: select fails to update timeout on error
859 [27709] libc: arm: FAIL: debug/tst-longjmp_chk2
860 [27721] dynamic-link: x86: ld_audit ignores bind now for TLSDESC and
861 tries resolving them lazily
862 [27744] nptl: Support different libpthread/ld.so load orders in
863 libthread_db
864 [27749] libc: Data race __run_exit_handlers
865 [27761] libc: getconf: Segmentation fault when passing '-vq' as
866 argument
867 [27832] nss: makedb.c:797:7: error: 'writev' specified size 4294967295
868 exceeds maximum object size 2147483647
869 [27870] malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ causes realloc(valid_ptr, TOO_LARGE) to
870 not set ENOMEM
871 [27872] build: Obsolete configure option --enable-stackguard-
872 randomization
873 [27873] build: tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo fail when building on AMD cpu
874 [27882] localedata: Use U+00AF MACRON in more EBCDIC charsets
875 [27892] libc: powerpc: scv ABI error handling fails to check
876 IS_ERR_VALUE
877 [27896] nptl: mq_notify does not handle separately allocated thread
878 attributes (CVE-2021-33574)
879 [27901] libc: TEST_STACK_ALIGN doesn't work
880 [27902] libc: The x86-64 clone wrapper fails to align child stack
881 [27914] nptl: Install SIGSETXID handler with SA_ONSTACK
882 [27939] libc: aarch64: clone does not align the stack
883 [27968] libc: s390x: clone does not align the stack
884 [28011] libc: Wild read in wordexp (parse_param) (CVE-2021-35942)
885 [28024] string: s390(31bit): Wrong result of memchr (MEMCHR_Z900_G5)
886 with n >= 0x80000000
887 [28028] malloc: malloc: tcache shutdown sequence does not work if the
888 thread never allocated anything
889 [28033] libc: Need to check RTM_ALWAYS_ABORT for RTM
890 [28064] string: x86_64:wcslen implementation list has wcsnlen
891 [28067] libc: FAIL: posix/tst-spawn5
892 [28068] malloc: FAIL: malloc/tst-mallocalign1-mcheck
893 [28071] time: clock_gettime, gettimeofday, time lost vDSO acceleration
894 on older kernels
895 [28075] nis: Out-of-bounds static buffer read in nis_local_domain
896 [28089] build: tst-tls20 fails when linker defaults to --as-needed
897 [28090] build: elf/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo-static fails on certain
898 AMD64 cpus
899 [28091] network: ns_name_skip may return 0 for domain names without
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908 all the supported tunables. This option is disable if glibc is
909 configured with tunables disabled (--enable-tunables=no).
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912 to change argv[0] string.
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915 from subdirectories under the glibc-hwcaps directory on the library
916 search path if the system's capabilities meet the requirements for
917 that subdirectory. Initially supported subdirectories include
918 "power9" and "power10" for the powerpc64le-linux-gnu architecture,
919 "z13", "z14", "z15" for s390x-linux-gnu, and "x86-64-v2", "x86-64-v3",
920 "x86-64-v4" for x86_64-linux-gnu. In the x86_64-linux-gnu case, the
921 subdirectory names correspond to the vendor-independent x86-64
922 microarchitecture levels defined in the x86-64 psABI supplement.
923
924* The new --help option of the dynamic linker provides usage and
925 information and library search path diagnostics.
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928 but with larger field widths to accurately report values that are
929 larger than fit in an integer.
930
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933* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been expanded to run on
934 32-bit hardware. This is supported for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
935
936 - rv32imac ilp32
937 - rv32imafdc ilp32
938 - rv32imafdc ilp32d
939
940 The 32-bit RISC-V port requires at least Linux 5.4, GCC 7.1 and binutils
941 2.28.
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944 glibc may use additional checks that may have an additional performance
945 overhead. At present these checks are available only on LLVM 9 and later.
946 The latest GCC available at this time (10.2) does not support this level of
947 fortification.
948
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949Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
950
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951* The mallinfo function is marked deprecated. Callers should call
952 mallinfo2 instead.
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954* When dlopen is used in statically linked programs, alternative library
955 implementations from HWCAP subdirectories are no longer loaded.
956 Instead, the default implementation is used.
957
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958* The deprecated <sys/vtimes.h> header and the function vtimes have been
959 removed. To support old binaries, the vtimes function continues to exist
960 as a compatibility symbol. Applications should use the getrlimit or
961 prlimit.
962
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963* Following a change in the tzdata 2018a release upstream, the zdump
964 program is now installed in the /usr/bin subdirectory. Previously,
965 the /usr/sbin subdirectory was used.
966
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968 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ that is defined by the compiler, instead of being
969 hardcoded to double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
970 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
971 libraries that use this type in their interfaces. The new definition
972 improves consistency with compiler behavior in many scenarios.
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974* A future version of glibc will stop loading shared objects from the
975 "tls" subdirectories on the library search path, the subdirectory that
976 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, and also stop employing
977 the legacy AT_HWCAP search mechanism. Applications should switch to
978 the new glibc-hwcaps mechanism instead; if they do not do that, only
979 the baseline version (directly from the search path directory) will be
980 loaded.
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984* On Linux, the system administrator needs to configure /dev/pts with
985 the intended access modes for pseudo-terminals. glibc no longer
986 attemps to adjust permissions of terminal devices. The previous glibc
987 defaults ("tty" group, user read/write and group write) already
988 corresponded to what most systems used, so that grantpt did not
989 perform any adjustments.
990
991* On Linux, the posix_openpt and getpt functions no longer attempt to
992 use legacy (BSD) pseudo-terminals and assume that if /dev/ptmx exists
993 (and pseudo-terminals are supported), a devpts file system is mounted
994 on /dev/pts. Current systems already meet these requirements.
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996* s390x requires GCC 7.1 or newer. See gcc Bug 98269.
997
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998Security related changes:
999
d7f4f3f5 1000 CVE-2021-3326: An assertion failure during conversion from the
934c48a0 1001 ISO-20220-JP-3 character set using the iconv function has been fixed.
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1002 This assertion was triggered by certain valid inputs in which the
1003 converted output contains a combined sequence of two wide characters
1004 crossing a buffer boundary. Reported by Tavis Ormandy.
1005
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1006 CVE-2020-27618: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
1007 invoked with input containing redundant shift sequences in the IBM1364,
1008 IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, or IBM1399 character sets.
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1010 CVE-2020-29562: An assertion failure has been fixed in the iconv function
1011 when invoked with UCS4 input containing an invalid character.
1012
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1013 CVE-2019-25013: A buffer overflow has been fixed in the iconv function when
1014 invoked with EUC-KR input containing invalid multibyte input sequences.
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1017
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1018 [10635] libc: realpath portability patches
1019 [16124] dynamic-link: ld.so should allow to change argv[0]
1020 [17924] malloc: 'free' should not set errno
1021 [18683] libc: Linux faccessat implementation can incorrectly ignore
1022 AT_EACCESS
1023 [22899] libc: Use 64-bit readdir() in generic POSIX getcwd()
597d0267 1024 [23091] hurd: missing waitid support
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1025 [23249] libc: Epyc and other current AMD CPUs do not select the
1026 "haswell" platform subdirectory
1027 [24080] dynamic-link: Definition of "haswell" platform is inconsistent
1028 with GCC
1029 [24202] libc: m68k setjmp() saves incorrect 'a5' register in --enable-
1030 stack-protector=all
1031 [24941] libc: Make grantpt usable after multi-threaded fork in more
1032 cases
1033 [24970] libc: realpath mishandles EOVERFLOW; stat not needed anyway
1034 [24973] locale: iconv encounters segmentation fault when converting
1035 0x00 0xfe in EUC-KR to UTF-8 (CVE-2019-25013)
1036 [25399] string: undefined reference to `__warn_memset_zero_len' when
1037 changing gnuc version
1038 [25859] libc: glibc parser for /sys/devices/system/cpu/online is
1039 incorrect
1040 [25938] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should store meaning of hwcap mask
1041 bits
1042 [25971] libc: s390 bits/hwcap.h out of sync with kernel
1043 [26053] libc: unlockpt fails with ENOTTY for non-ptmx descriptors
1044 [26100] libc: Race in syslog(3) with regards to tag printing.
1045 [26124] libc: Export <cpu-features.h>
1046 [26130] nscd: Inconsistent nscd cache during pruning
1047 [26203] libc: GLRO(dl_x86_cpu_features) may not be intialized
1048 [26224] locale: iconv hangs when converting some invalid inputs from
1049 several IBM character sets (CVE-2020-27618)
1050 [26341] libc: realpath cyclically call __alloca(path_max) to consume
1051 too much stack space
1052 [26343] manual: invalid documented return type for strerrorname_np(),
1053 strerrordesc_np(), sigdescr_np(), sigabbrev_np()
1054 [26376] libc: Namespace violation in stdio.h and sys/stat.h if build
1055 with optimization.
1056 [26383] locale: bind_textdomain_codeset doesn't accept //TRANSLIT
1057 anymore
1058 [26394] time: [2.33 Regression] FAIL: nptl/tst-join14
1059 [26534] math: libm.so 2.32 SIGILL in pow() due to FMA4 instruction on
1060 non-FMA4 system
1061 [26552] dynamic-link: CPU_FEATURE_USABLE_P should be more conservative
1062 [26553] libc: mtx_init allows type set to "mtx_recursive" only
1063 [26555] string: strerrorname_np does not return the documented value
1064 [26592] libc: pointer arithmetic overflows in realpath
1065 [26600] network: Transaction ID collisions cause slow DNS lookups in
1066 getaddrinfo
1067 [26606] libc: [2.33 Regression] pselect is broken on x32
1068 [26615] libc: powerpc: libc segfaults when LD_PRELOADed with libgcc
1069 [26620] glob: fnmatch with collating symbols results in segmentation
1070 fault
1071 [26625] libc: [2.33 Regression] CET is disabled
1072 [26636] libc: 32-bit shmctl(IPC_INFO) crashes when shminfo struct is
1073 at the end of a memory mapping
1074 [26637] libc: semctl SEM_STAT_ANY fails to pass the buffer specified
1075 by the caller to the kernel
1076 [26639] libc: msgctl IPC_INFO and MSG_INFO return garbage
1077 [26647] build: [-Werror=array-parameter=] due to different
1078 declarations for __sigsetjmp
1079 [26648] libc: mkstemp is likely to fail on systems with non-stricly-
1080 monotonic clocks
1081 [26649] stdio: printf should handle non-normal x86 long double numbers
1082 gracefully (CVE-2020-29573)
1083 [26686] build: -Warray-parameter instances building with GCC 11
1084 [26687] build: -Warray-bounds instances building with GCC 11
1085 [26690] stdio: Aliasing violation in __vfscanf_internal
1086 [26691] nptl: Use a minimum guard size of 64 KiB on aarch64
1087 [26726] build: GCC warning calling new_composite_name with an array of
1088 one element
1089 [26736] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-sysvshm-linux
1090 [26737] libc: Random FAIL: rt/tst-shm
1091 [26791] libc: Missing O_CLOEXEC in sysconf.c
1092 [26798] dynamic-link: aarch64: variant PCS symbols may be incorrectly
1093 lazy bound
1094 [26801] nptl: pthread_mutex_clocklock with CLOCK_MONOTONIC can fail on
1095 PI mutexes
1096 [26818] string: aarch64: string tests may run ifunc variants that are
1097 not safe
1098 [26821] libc: Memory leak test failures on Fedora 33
1099 [26824] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-cpu-features-supports with recent trunk:
1100 FSGSBASE/LM/RDRAND check failure
1101 [26833] time: adjtime() with delta == NULL segfaults on armv7 32bit
1102 platform
1103 [26853] libc: aarch64: Missing unwind information in statically linked
1104 startup code
1105 [26923] locale: Assertion failure in iconv when converting invalid
1106 UCS4 (CVE-2020-29562)
1107 [26926] dynamic-link: aarch64: library dependencies are not bti
1108 protected
1109 [26932] libc: sh: Multiple floating point functions defined as stubs
1110 only since 2.31
1111 [26964] nptl: pthread_mutex_timedlock returning EAGAIN after futex is
1112 locked
1113 [26988] dynamic-link: aarch64: BTI mprotect address is not page
1114 aligned
1115 [27002] build: libc_freeres_fn build failure with GCC 11
1116 [27004] dynamic-link: ld.so is miscompiled by GCC 11
1117 [27008] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should have endianness markup
1118 [27042] libc: [alpha] anonymous union in struct stat confuses
1119 detection logic
1120 [27053] libc: Conformance regression in system(3) (and probably also
1121 pclose(3))
1122 [27072] dynamic-link: static pie ifunc resolvers run before hwcap is
1123 setup
1124 [27077] network: Do not reload /etc/nsswitch.conf from chroot
1125 [27083] libc: Unsafe unbounded alloca in addmntent
1126 [27104] dynamic-link: The COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_MAX handshake does not
1127 work
1128 [27130] string: "rep movsb" performance issue
1129 [27150] libc: alpha: wait4() is unavailable in static linking
1130 [27177] dynamic-link:
1131 GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.cpu.x86_ibt=on:glibc.cpu.x86_shstk=on doesn't
1132 work
1133 [27222] dynamic-link: Incorrect sysdeps/x86/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo.c
1134 [27237] malloc: deadlock in malloc/tst-malloc-stats-cancellation
1135 [27256] locale: Assertion failure in ISO-2022-JP-3 gconv module
1136 related to combining characters (CVE-2021-3326)
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1140
1141Major new features:
1142
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1143* Unicode 13.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1144 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 13.0.0, using
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1145 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1146
1147* New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq)
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1149* Support for Synopsys ARC HS cores (ARCv2 ISA) running Linux has been
1150 added. This port requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-8.3 and Linux-5.1.
1151 Three ABIs are supported:
1152
1153 - arc-linux-gnu
1154 - arc-linux-gnuhf
1155 - arceb-linux-gnu
1156
4d3a77c7 1157 The arc* ABIs are little-endian while arceb is big-endian. All ABIs use
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1158 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
1159
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1160* The GNU C Library now loads audit modules listed in the DT_AUDIT and
1161 DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
1162
051be01f 1163* powerpc64le supports IEEE128 long double libm/libc redirects when
4d3a77c7 1164 using -mabi=ieeelongdouble to compile C code on supported GCC
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1165 toolchains. It is recommended to use GCC 8 or newer when testing
1166 this option.
1167
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1168* To help detect buffer overflows and other out-of-bounds accesses
1169 several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This
1170 should help GCC 10 issue better warnings.
1171
4d3a77c7 1172* On Linux, functions pthread_attr_setsigmask_np and
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1173 pthread_attr_getsigmask_np have been added. They allow applications
1174 to specify the signal mask of a thread created with pthread_create.
1175
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1176* The GNU C Library now provides the header file <sys/single_threaded.h>
1177 which declares the variable __libc_single_threaded. Applications are
1178 encouraged to use this variable for single-thread optimizations,
1179 instead of weak references to symbols historically defined in
1180 libpthread.
1181
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1183 sigabbrev_np function returns the abbreviated signal name (e.g. "HUP" for
1184 SIGHUP) while sigdescr_np returns a string describing the signal number
1185 (e.g "Hangup" for SIGHUP). Different than strsignal, sigdescr_np does not
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1186 attempt to translate the return description, both functions return
1187 NULL for an invalid signal number.
1188
1189 They should be used instead of sys_siglist or sys_sigabbrev and they
1190 are both thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
1191
325081b9 1192* The functions strerrorname_np and strerrordesc_np have been added. The
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1193 strerroname_np function returns error number name (e.g. "EINVAL" for EINVAL)
1194 while strerrordesc_np returns a string describing the error number
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1195 (e.g "Invalid argument" for EINVAL). Different than strerror,
1196 strerrordesc_np does not attempt to translate the return description, both
1197 functions return NULL for an invalid error number.
1198
1199 They should be used instead of sys_errlist and sys_nerr, both are
1200 thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
1201
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1202* AArch64 now supports standard branch protection security hardening
1203 in glibc when it is built with a GCC that is configured with
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1204 --enable-standard-branch-protection (or if -mbranch-protection=standard
1205 flag is passed when building both GCC target libraries and glibc,
1206 in either case a custom GCC is needed). This includes branch target
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1207 identification (BTI) and pointer authentication for return addresses
1208 (PAC-RET). They require armv8.5-a and armv8.3-a architecture
1209 extensions respectively for the protection to be effective,
1210 otherwise the used instructions are nops. User code can use PAC-RET
1211 without libc support, but BTI requires a libc that is built with BTI
1212 support, otherwise runtime objects linked into user code will not be
1213 BTI compatible.
1214
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1217* Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc. Sun RPC is removed
1218 from glibc. This includes the rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and the Sun
1219 RPC header files. Backward compatibility for old programs is kept
1220 only for architectures and ABIs that have been added in or before
1221 glibc 2.31. New programs need to use TI-RPC
1222 <http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=summary> and
1223 rpcsvc-proto <https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto>.
1224
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1225* Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-nsl. libnsl is only built
1226 as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules "nis"
1227 and "nisplus" are not built at all and libnsl's headers aren't
1228 installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs
1229 that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement
1230 implementations based on TI-RPC, which additionally support IPv6, are
1231 available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not
4d3a77c7 1232 affect the "compat" NSS module, which does not depend on libnsl
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1234
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1235* The deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
1236 removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
1237 exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
1238 but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system
1239 call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5.
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1241* The sstk function is no longer available to newly linked binaries.
1242 Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function
1243 was not declared in any header file.
1244
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1245* The legacy signal handling functions siginterrupt, sigpause, sighold,
1246 sigrelse, sigignore and sigset, and the sigmask macro have been
1247 deprecated. Applications should use the sigsuspend, sigprocmask and
1248 sigaction functions instead.
1249
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1250* ldconfig now defaults to the new format for ld.so.cache. glibc has
1251 already supported this format for almost 20 years.
1252
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1253* The deprecated arrays sys_siglist, _sys_siglist, and sys_sigabbrev
1254 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
1255 have been removed from <string.h>. They are exported solely as
1256 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
1257 strsignal instead.
1258
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1259* The deprecated symbols sys_errlist, _sys_errlist, sys_nerr, and _sys_nerr
1260 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
4d3a77c7 1261 have been removed from <stdio.h>. They are exported solely as
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1262 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
1263 strerror or strerror_r instead.
1264
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1265* Both strerror and strerror_l now share the same internal buffer in the
1266 calling thread, meaning that the returned string pointer may be invalided
1267 or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same thread or
1268 if the thread is terminated. It makes strerror MT-safe.
1269
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1270* Using weak references to libpthread functions such as pthread_create
1271 or pthread_key_create to detect the singled-threaded nature of a
1272 program is an obsolescent feature. Future versions of glibc will
1273 define pthread_create within libc.so.6 itself, so such checks will
1274 always flag the program as multi-threaded. Applications should check
1275 the __libc_single_threaded variable declared in
1276 <sys/single_threaded.h> instead.
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1279 secure RPC). The contents of the /etc/publickey file will be ignored,
1280 regardless of the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of
1281 storing RPC keys only supported the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES
1282 flavor of secure RPC.)
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1284* The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
1285 implementation __default_morecore have been deprecated. Applications
1286 should use malloc interposition to change malloc behavior, and mmap to
1287 allocate anonymous memory. A future version of glibc may require that
1288 applications which use the malloc hooks must preload a special shared
1289 object, to enable the hooks.
1290
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1291* The hesiod NSS module has been deprecated and will be removed in a
1292 future version of glibc. System administrators are encouraged to
1293 switch to other approaches for networked account databases, such as
1294 LDAP.
1295
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1297
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1298* powerpc64le requires GCC 7.4 or newer. This is required for supporting
1299 long double redirects.
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1301Security related changes:
1302
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1303 CVE-2016-10228: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
1304 invoked with the -c option and when processing invalid multi-byte input
1305 sequences. Reported by Jan Engelhardt.
1306
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1307 CVE-2020-10029: Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack
1308 corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido
1309 Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
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1311 CVE-2020-1752: A use-after-free vulnerability in the glob function when
1312 expanding ~user has been fixed.
1313
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1314 CVE-2020-6096: A signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy and
1315 memmove functions has been fixed. Discovered by Jason Royes and Samual
1316 Dytrych of the Cisco Security Assessment and Penetration Team (See
1317 TALOS-2020-1019).
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1321 [9809] localedata: ckb_IQ: new Kurdish Sorani locale
1322 [10441] manual: Backtraces code example lacks error checking
1323 [10815] librt: [timer_create / SIGEV_THREAD] signalmask of
1324 timer_sigev_thread dangerous
1325 [14231] stdio: stdio-common tests memory requirements
1326 [14578] libc: /proc-based emulation for lchmod, fchmodat
1327 [16272] dynamic-link: dlopen()ing a DT_FILTER library crashes if
1328 filtee has constructor
1329 [19519] locale: iconv(1) with -c option hangs on illegal multi-byte
1330 sequences (CVE-2016-10228)
1331 [19737] admin: Doc page “20.5.2 Infinity and NaN” has incorrect HTML
1332 character entities for infinity & pi
1333 [20338] libc: Parsing of /etc/gshadow can return bad pointers causing
1334 segfaults in applications
1335 [20543] libc: Please move from .gnu.linkonce to comdat
1336 [22489] network: gcc warns about implicit convertion in
1337 ICMP6_FILTER_SETPASS with -Wsign-conversion
1338 [22525] localedata: or_IN LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1339 [23294] math: Complex _FloatN functions are redirected to the wrong
1340 function with -mlong-double-64
1341 [23296] libc: Data race in setting function descriptor during lazy
1342 binding
1343 [23668] dynamic-link: ldconfig: Default to the new format for
1344 ld.so.cache
1345 [23819] hurd: hurd: Add C11 thread support
1346 [23990] build: test-container error out on failure to exec child.
1347 [23991] build: shell-container typo in run_command_array
1348 [24638] manual: Error in example of parsing a template string
1349 [24654] manual: Wrong declaration of wcschr in libc manual
1350 [24943] dynamic-link: Support DT_AUDIT, DT_DEPAUDIT in the dynamic
1351 linker
1352 [25051] dynamic-link: aarch64, powerpc64 uses surplus static tls for
1353 dynamically loaded dsos
1354 [25098] nptl: nptl: ctype classification functions are not AS-Safe
1355 [25219] libc: improve out-of-bounds checking with GCC 10 attribute
1356 access
1357 [25262] libc: getcontext/setcontext/swapcontext unnecessarily save and
1358 restore EAX, ECX and EDX
1359 [25397] dynamic-link: Legacy bitmap doesn't cover jitted code
1360 [25414] glob: 'glob' use-after-free bug (CVE-2020-1752)
1361 [25420] network: Race condition in resolv_conf.c can result in caching
1362 stale configuration forever
1363 [25487] math: sinl() stack corruption from crafted input
1364 (CVE-2020-10029)
1365 [25506] build: configure: broken detection of STT_GNU_IFUNC when GCC
1366 defaults to PIE
1367 [25523] libc: MIPS/Linux inline syscall template is miscompiled
1368 [25620] libc: Signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy()
1369 (CVE-2020-6096)
1370 [25623] libc: test-sysvmsg, test-sysvsem, test-sysvshm fail with 2.31
1371 on 32 bit and old kernel
1372 [25635] libc: arm: Wrong sysdep order selection for soft-fp
1373 [25639] localedata: Some names of days and months wrongly spelt in
1374 Occitan
1375 [25657] libc: sigprocmask() and sigisemptyset() manipulate different
1376 amount of sigset_t bytes
1377 [25691] stdio: printf: memory leak when printing long multibyte
1378 strings
1379 [25715] libc: system() returns wrong errors when posix_spawn fails
1380 [25733] malloc: mallopt(M_MXFAST) can set global_max_fast to 0
1381 [25734] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS fails to reset conversion
1382 state for conversions that produce two Unicode code points
1383 [25765] nptl: Incorrect futex syscall in __pthread_disable_asynccancel
1384 for linux x86_64 leads to livelock
1385 [25788] dynamic-link: [i386] -fno-omit-frame-pointer in CFLAGS causes
1386 test failures, invalid instruction in ld.so
1387 [25790] glob: Typo in tst-fnmatch.input
1388 [25810] libc: x32: Incorrect syscall entries with pointer, off_t and
1389 size_t
1390 [25819] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 13.0.0
1391 [25824] libc: Abnormal function of strnlen in aarch64
1392 [25887] dynamic-link: Wasted space in _dl_x86_feature_1[1]
1393 [25896] libc: Incorrect prctl
1394 [25902] libc: Bad LOADARGS_N
1395 [25905] dynamic-link: VSX registers are corrupted during PLT
1396 resolution when glibc is built with --disable-multi-arch and --with-
1397 cpu=power9
1398 [25933] string: Off by one error in __strncmp_avx2 when
1399 length=VEC_SIZE*4 and strings are at page boundaries can cause a
1400 segfault
1401 [25942] nptl: Deadlock on stack_cache_lock between __nptl_setxid and
1402 exiting detached thread
1403 [25966] libc: Incorrect access of __x86_shared_non_temporal_threshold
1404 for x32
1405 [25976] nss: internal_end*ent in nss_compat may clobber errno, hiding
1406 ERANGE
1407 [25999] nptl: Use-after-free issue in pthread_getaddr_default_np
1408 [26073] math: getpayload() has wrong return value
1409 [26076] dynamic-link: dlmopen crashes after failing to load
1410 dependencies in audit mode
1411 [26120] localedata: column width of of some Korean
1412 JUNGSEONG/JONGSEONG characters wrong (should be 0)
1413 [26128] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFLUSHOPT
1414 [26133] libc: Incorrect need_arch_feature_F16C
1415 [26137] libc: strtod() triggers exception FE_INEXACT on reasonable
1416 input
1417 [26149] libc: PKU is usable only if OSPKE is set
1418 [26173] libc: powerpc64*: Add @notoc to calls to functions that do not
1419 preserve r2
1420 [26208] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFSH
1421 [26210] network: Incorrect use of hidden symbols for global sunrpc
1422 variables
1423 [26211] stdio: printf integer overflow calculating allocation size
1424 [26214] stdio: printf_fp double free
1425 [26215] stdio: printf_fp memory leak
1426 [26232] time: FAIL: support/tst-timespec for 32-bit targets
1427 [26258] nss: nss_compat should not read input files with mmap
1428 [26332] string: Incorrect cache line size load causes memory
1429 corruption in memset
1430
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1433
1434Major new features:
1435
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1436* The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
1437 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
1438 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
1439 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
1440 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
1441 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
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1443* The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
1444 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
1445 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
1446 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
1447
69ca4b54 1448* The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
3ef5e118 1449 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
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1450 CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME. This function is a GNU extension.
1451
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1452* New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar).
1453
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1454* The DNS stub resolver will optionally send the AD (authenticated data) bit
1455 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
1456 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
1457 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
1458 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
1459 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
1460 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
1461 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
1462
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1464
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1465* The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
1466 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
1467 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
1468 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
1469 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
1470 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
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1474 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
1475
1476* We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
1477 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
1478 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
1479 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
1480
1481* The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
1482 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
1483 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
1484 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
1485 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
1486 made this no longer practical.
1487
1488 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
1489 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
1490 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
1491 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
1492 release.)
1493
1494 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
1495 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
1496 with the current time, use the localtime function.
1497
1498 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
1499 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
1500 using clock_gettime instead.
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1502* The settimeofday function can still be used to set a system-wide time
1503 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
1504 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
1505 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
1506 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
1507
1508 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
1509 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
1510 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
1511 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
1512
1513 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
1514 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
1515 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
1516 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
1517 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
1518 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
1519
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1521 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
1522 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
1523 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
1524 offset API.
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1526* SPARC ISA v7 is no longer supported. v8 is still supported, but only if
1527 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
1528 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
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1530 As the oldest 64-bit SPARC ISA is v9, this only affects 32-bit
1531 configurations.
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1533* If a lazy binding failure happens during dlopen, during the execution of
1534 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
1535 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
1536 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
1537 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
1538
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1540 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
1541 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
1542 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
1543 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
1544 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
1545 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
1546 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
1547
1548 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
1549 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
1550
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1551* System call wrappers for time system calls now use the new time64 system
1552 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
1553 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
1554 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
1555 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
1556 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
1557
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1559
a1bd5f86 1560* It is no longer necessary to have recent Linux kernel headers to build
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1561 working (non-stub) system call wrappers on all architectures except 64-bit
1562 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
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1564* The ChangeLog file is no longer present in the toplevel directory of the
1565 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
1566 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
1567
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1569
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1570 CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an
1571 out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context.
1572
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1573 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
1574 environment variable during program execution after a security
1575 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
1576 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
1577 program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
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1579The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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1581 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
1582 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
1583 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
1584 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
1585 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
1586 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
1587 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
1588 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
1589 linking failure
1590 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
1591 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
1592 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
1593 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
1594 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
1595 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
1596 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
1597 constructors/destructors is not fatal
1598 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
1599 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
1600 7408-2005
1601 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
1602 with localedef
1603 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
1604 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
1605 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
1606 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
1607 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
1608 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
1609 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
1610 utmp entries
1611 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
1612 ABSOLUTE ABI
1613 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
1614 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
1615 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
1616 (stringop-overflow error)
1617 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
1618 functions other can lead to crashes
1619 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
1620 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
1621 unconditionally
1622 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
1623 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
1624 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
1625 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
1626 still can fail with an error
1627 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
1628 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
1629 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
1630 initialized correctly
1631 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
1632 -frewrite-includes
1633 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
1634 value to an unsigned
1635 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
1636 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
1637 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
1638 protection
1639 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
1640 ifunc variant.
1641 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
1642 al. for Clang++
1643 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
1644 (Slovenian)
1645 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
1646 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
1647 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
1648 with -std=c11
1649 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
1650 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
1651 part
1652 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
1653 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
1654 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
1655 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
1656 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
1657 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
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1660Version 2.30
1661
1662Major new features:
1663
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1664* Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1665 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
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1666 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1667
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1668* The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
1669 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
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1671* The twalk_r function has been added. It is similar to the existing
1672 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
1673 to the callback function.
1674
51ea67d5 1675* On Linux, the getdents64, gettid, and tgkill functions have been added.
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1677* Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
1678 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
1679 nan_TW, lzh_TW.
1680
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1681* The entry for the new Japanese era has been added for ja_JP locale.
1682
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1683* Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
1684 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
1685 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
1686 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
1687 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
1688
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1689* The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
1690 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
1691 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
1692 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
1693 link time reference, is gone.
1694
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1695* Add new POSIX-proposed pthread_cond_clockwait, pthread_mutex_clocklock,
1696 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
1697 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
1698 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
1699 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
1700 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
1701 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
1702 the clock choice at initialization time).
1703
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1704* On AArch64 the GNU IFUNC resolver call ABI changed: old resolvers still
1705 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
1706 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
1707
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1708Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1709
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1710* The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
1711 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
1712 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
1713 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
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1714 copy_file_range function can no longer rely on glibc to provide a fallback
1715 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
1716 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
1717 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
1718 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
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1720* The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime,
1721 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
1722 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
1723 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
1724 since glibc 2.17.
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1726* The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
1727 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
1728
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1729* Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
1730 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
1731
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1732* The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
1733 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
1734
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1735* With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
1736 BIND_NOW flag.
1737
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1738* Support for the PowerPC SPE ISA extension (powerpc-*-*gnuspe*
1739 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
1740 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
1741
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1742* On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
1743 header have been removed.
1744
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1745* The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
1746 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
1747 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
1748 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
1749
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1751
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1752* GCC 6.2 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
1753
1754 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
1755 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
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1757Security related changes:
1758
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1759 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
1760 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
1761 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
1762 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
1763 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
1764 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
1765 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
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1767 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
1768 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
1769 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
1770
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1773 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
1774 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
1775 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
1776 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
1777 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
1778 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
1779 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
1780 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
1781 invalid input drops valid char
1782 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
1783 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
1784 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
1785 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
1786 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
1787 malloc.h.
1788 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
1789 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
1790 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
1791 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
1792 functions
1793 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
1794 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
1795 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
1796 for long double = double
1797 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
1798 long double = double
1799 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
1800 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
1801 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
1802 long timeouts
fdb724f9 1803 [24051] stdio: puts and putchar output to _IO_stdout instead of stdout
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1804 [24059] nss: nss_files: get_next_alias calls fgets_unlocked without
1805 checking for NULL.
1806 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
1807 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
1808 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
1809 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
1810 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
1811 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
1812 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
1813 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
1814 not the default "nor"
1815 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
1816 false positives, change to modern flexible array
1817 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
1818 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
1819 compiler barriers.
1820 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
1821 unnecessary librt dependencies
1822 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
1823 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
1824 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
1825 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
1826 unsorted chunk
1827 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
1828 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
1829 to R_SPARC_H44
1830 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
1831 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
1832 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
1833 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
1834 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
1835 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
1836 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
1837 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
1838 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
1839 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
1840 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
1841 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
1842 was not used
1843 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
1844 tests
1845 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
1846 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
1847 time_t changes
1848 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
1849 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
1850 kernels and break testing
1851 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
1852 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
1853 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
1854 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
1855 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
1856 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
1857 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
1858 -O3 -march=skylake
1859 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
1860 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
1861 crash
1862 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
1863 linked glibc
1864 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
1865 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
1866 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
1867 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
1868 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
1869 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
1870 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
1871 always implemented in the same library
1872 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
1873 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
1874 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
1875 testroot
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1879
1880Major new features:
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1883 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
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1885* A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
1886 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
1887 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
1888 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
1889 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
1890 configured location.
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424c4f60 1892* Optimized generic exp, exp2, log, log2, pow, sinf, cosf, sincosf and tanf.
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1894* The reallocarray function is now declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE, not just
1895 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
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1897* For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
1898 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
1899 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
1900 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
1901 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
1902 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
1903 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
1904 process actually does not use HTM).
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1906* The functions posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np and
1907 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
1908 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
1909 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
1910 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
1911 of the same name.
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1913* The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
1914 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
1915 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
5fc3eca7 1916 inconsistent mutex state after a fork call in a multi-threaded process.
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1917 In both popen and system there is no direct access to user-defined mutexes.
1918
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1919* Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
1920 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
1921 supported:
1922 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
1923 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
1924
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1926 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
1927 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
1928 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
1929 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
1930 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
1931 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
1932
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1934 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
1935 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
1936
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1937Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1938
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1939* The glibc.tune tunable namespace has been renamed to glibc.cpu and the
1940 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
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1942* The type of the pr_uid and pr_gid members of struct elf_prpsinfo, defined
1943 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
1944 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
1945 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
1946
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1947* For the MIPS n32 ABI, the type of the pr_sigpend and pr_sighold members of
1948 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
1949 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
1950 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
1951 structures.
1952
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1954 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
1955 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
1956 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
1957 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
1958 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
1959
1960 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
1961 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
1962 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
1963 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
1964 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
1965
1966 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
1967 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
1968 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
1969
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1971
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1974* On most architectures, GCC 5 or later is required to build the GNU C
1975 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
1976
1977 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
1978 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
1979
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1981
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1982 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
1983 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
1984 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
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1986 CVE-2019-6488: On x32, the size_t parameter may be passed in the lower
1987 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
1988 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
1989 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
1990 Reported by H.J. Lu.
1991
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1992 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
1993 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
1994 or command injection issues in applications.
1995
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1998 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
1999 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
2000 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
2001 thousands
2002 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
2003 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
2004 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
2005 --param options)
2006 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
2007 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
2008 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
2009 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
2010 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
2011 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
2012 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
2013 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
2014 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
2015 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
2016 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
2017 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
2018 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
2019 pointer argument is non-NULL
2020 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
2021 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
2022 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
2023 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
2024 multithreads call popen
2025 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
2026 and pthread_create fails.
2027 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
2028 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
2029 constructor
2030 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
2031 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
2032 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
2033 source tree
2034 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
2035 float
2036 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
2037 one error
2038 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
2039 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
2040 linker
2041 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
2042 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
2043 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
2044 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
2045 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
2046 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
2047 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
2048 filesystems
2049 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
2050 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
2051 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
2052 functions
2053 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
2054 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
2055 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
2056 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
2057 have wrong type
2058 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
2059 wrong type
2060 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
2061 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
2062 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
2063 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
2064 threads
2065 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
2066 start.S
2067 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
2068 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
2069 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
2070 powerpc64le
2071 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
2072 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
2073 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
2074 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
2075 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
2076 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
2077 strftime
2078 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
2079 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
2080 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
2081 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
2082 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
2083 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
2084 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
2085 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
2086 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
2087 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
2088 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
2089 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
2090 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
2091 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
2092 tcache size
2093 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
2094 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
2095 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
2096 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
2097 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
2098 (CVE-2018-19591)
2099 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
2100 nearest rounding mode
2101 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
2102 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
2103 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
2104 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
2105 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
2106 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
2107 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
2108 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
2109 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
2110 error
2111 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
2112 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
2113 using GCC 8
2114 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
2115 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
2116 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
2117 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
2118 ppc64le
2119 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
2120 expected result
2121 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
2122 x32 (CVE-2019-6488)
2123 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
2124 sigaltstack
2125 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
2126 answers will be rejected)
2127 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
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2131
2132Major new features:
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2135 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
2136 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
2137 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
2138 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
2139 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
2140 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
2141 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
2142 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
2143 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
2144 archive or binary locales.
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2146* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for Intel CET, AKA
2147 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
2148 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
2149 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
2150 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
2151 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
2152 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
2153 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
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2154 Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
2155 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
2156 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
2157 validated for i686.
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2160 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
2161 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
2162 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
2163 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
2164 field) to indicate such support is required.
2165
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2166* Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2167 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
2168 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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2170* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
2171 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
2172
2173 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
2174 fMxaddfNx functions.
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2176 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
2177 fMxsubfNx functions.
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2179 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
2180 fMxmulfNx functions.
2181
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2182 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
2183 fMxdivfNx functions.
2184
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df467d22 2186 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
9145f033 2187 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
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2189 and Kashubian.
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61c4aad7 2191* Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
e607a352 2192 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
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2194* Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
2195 patches.
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2198 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
2199 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
2200 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
2201 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
2202 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
2203 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
2204 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
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2206* The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
2207 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
2208 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
2209 the fstatat64 function.
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2211* IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
2212 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
2213 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
2214 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
2215 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
2216 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
2217 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
2218 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
2219 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
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2222 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
2223 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
2224 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
2225 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
2226 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
2227 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
2228 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
2229 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
2230 results in a load failure now.
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2233 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
2234 <threads.h>:
2235
2236 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
2237 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
2238
2239 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
2240 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
2241
2242 - call_once for function call synchronization.
2243
2244 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
2245 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
2246
2247 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
2248
2249 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
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2254 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
2255 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
2256
2257* The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
2258 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
2259 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
2260 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
2261 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
2262 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
2263
2264* All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
2265 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
2266 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
2267 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
2268 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
2269 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
2270 (Bug #1190.)
2271
2272* The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
2273 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
2274 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
2275 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
2276 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
2277 further explanation.
2278
2279 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
2280 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
2281 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
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2283* The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
2284
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2285* The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
2286 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
2287 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
2288
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2289* The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
2290 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
2291 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
2292 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
2293
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2294* The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
2295 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
2296 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
2297 for this function instead.
2298
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2299* The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
2300 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
2301 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
2302
2303* The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
2304 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
2305 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
2306 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
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2308* The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
2309 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
2310 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
2311 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
2312 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
2313
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2314* The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
2315 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
2316 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
2317 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
2318 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
2319 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
2320 such as libgcrypt.
2321
2322* Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
2323 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
2324 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
2325 enabled.
2326
2327* The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
2328 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
2329 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
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2331* We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
2332 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
2333 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
2334 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
2335 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
2336 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
2337
2338 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
2339 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
2340 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
2341 behavior in a future release.
2342
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2344
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2347Security related changes:
2348
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2349 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
2350 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
2351 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
2352 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
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2354 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
2355 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
2356
2357 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
2358 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
2359 Izbyshev.
2360
2361 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
2362 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
2363 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
2364
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2365The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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2367 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
2368 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
2369 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
2370 when __WORDSIZE != 64
2371 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
2372 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
2373 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
2374 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
2375 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
2376 14651
2377 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
2378 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
2379 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
2380 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
2381 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
2382 conversion is given
2383 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
2384 date
2385 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
2386 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
2387 scope with -O1 and higher
2388 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
2389 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
2390 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
2391 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
2392 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
2393 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
2394 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
2395 horrible machine code)
2396 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
2397 last constant.
2398 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
2399 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
2400 symbols
2401 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
2402 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
2403 defined
2404 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
2405 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
2406 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
2407 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
2408 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
2409 fpscr.c'
2410 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
2411 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
2412 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
2413 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
2414 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
2415 the base address
2416 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
2417 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
2418 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
2419 open_verify
2420 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
2421 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
2422 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
2423 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
2424 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
2425 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
2426 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
2427 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
2428 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
2429 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
2430 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
2431 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
2432 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
2433 dlopen
2434 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
2435 AT_SECURE=1
2436 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
2437 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
2438 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
2439 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
2440 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
2441 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
2442 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
2443 for Spanish with CLDR
2444 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
2445 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
2446 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
2447 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
2448 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
2449 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
2450 es_BO
2451 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
2452 CLOCKS_PER_SECOND
2453 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
2454 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
2455 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
2456 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
2457 dlopen failures
2458 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
2459 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
2460 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
2461 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
2462 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
2463 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
2464 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
2465 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
2466 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
2467 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
2468 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
2469 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
2470 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
2471 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
2472 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
2473 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
2474 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
2475 makecontext
2476 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
2477 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
2478 required
2479 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
2480 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
2481 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
2482 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
2483 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
2484 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
2485 disabled
2486 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
2487 failure
2488 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
2489 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
2490 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
2491 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
2492 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
2493 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
2494 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
2495 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
2496 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
2497 and libc build with -Os)
2498 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
2499 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
2500 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
2501 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
2502 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
2503 that changes /etc/passwd
2504 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
2505 (CVE-2018-11237)
2506 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
2507 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
2508 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
2509 posix/regcomp.c
2510 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
2511 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
2512 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
2513 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
2514 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
2515 AT_SECURE
2516 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
2517 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
2518 parser.c
2519 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
2520 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
2521 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
2522 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
2523 directed rounding
2524 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
2525 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
2526 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
2527 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
2528 lookup
2529 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
2530 interposition
2531 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
2532 DSO boundaries.
2533 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
2534 <linux/time.h>
2535 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
2536 checking
2537 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
2538 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
2539 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
2540 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
2541 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
2542 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
2543 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
2544 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
2545 processors
2546 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
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2549Version 2.27
2550
2551Major new features:
2552
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2553* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
2554 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
bd7bbb26 2555 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
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2556 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
2557 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
2558 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
2559 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
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2560 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
2561 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
9d7a3741 2562
ac817e08 2563* Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
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2564 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
2565 H.J. Lu from Intel.
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2567* Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
2568
4cf82d23 2569* Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
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2571* In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
2572 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
2573 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
2574 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
2575 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
2576 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
2577 from a security and performance perspective.
2578
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2579* The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
2580 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
2581 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
2582 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
2583
81325b12 2584* On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
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2585 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
2586 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
2587 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
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2588 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
2589
a23aa5b7 2590* On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
40ca951b 2591 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
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2592 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
2593 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
2594 _Float128.
2595
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2596* The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
2597 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
2598 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
0d93b7fd 2599
4bab0224 2600* glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
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2602* Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
2603 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
2604 pkey_get.
2605
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2606* The copy_file_range function was added.
2607
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2608* Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
2609
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2610* The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
2611 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
2612 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
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2614* Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
2615 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
2616 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
2617 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
2618 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
2619 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
2620 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
2621
2622 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
2623 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
2624 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
2625 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
2626 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
2627 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
2628 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
2629
2630 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
2631 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
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2632 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
2633 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
2634 respectively.
2635
2636 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
2637 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
2638 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
2639 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
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2641 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
2642 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
2643 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
2644
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2645 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
2646 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
0a32e219 2647 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
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2649* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
2650 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
2651 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
2652
2653 - rv64imac lp64
2654 - rv64imafdc lp64
2655 - rv64imafdc lp64d
2656
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2658
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2659* Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
2660 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
d4ae7827 2661 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
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2662 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
2663 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
2664 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
2665 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
2666 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
2667 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
2668 fix this.
2669
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2670* Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
2671 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
2672 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
2673
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2674* Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
2675 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
2676 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
2677 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
2678 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
2679 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
2680 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
2681 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
2682 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
2683 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
2684 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
2685 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
2686 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
2687 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
2688 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
2689 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
2690 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
2691 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
2692 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
2693 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
2694 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
2695 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
2696 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
2697 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
2698 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
2699 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
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2702 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
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2704* libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
2705 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
2706 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
2707 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
2708 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
2709 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
2710 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
2711
5a80d39d
JM
2712* The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
2713 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
2714 exp10l for these functions instead.
2715
4fa9b3bf
JM
2716* The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
2717 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
2718 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2719
644d3857
JM
2720* The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
2721 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
2722 ignored.
2723
8df5d347
JM
2724* The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
2725 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
2726 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
2727 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
2728
c0a25aa9
FW
2729* The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
2730 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
2731
34eb4157
FW
2732* In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
2733 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
2734
754034c4
JM
2735* The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
2736 programs.
2737
ed95f611
AZ
2738* The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
2739
48a8f832
ZW
2740* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
2741 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
2742 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
2743 instead.
2744
2745 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
2746 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
2747 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
2748 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
2749 use, but predates the bits convention.
2750
00cdcf5a
SP
2751Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2752
1faaf703
JB
2753* bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
2754 subdirectory.
00cdcf5a
SP
2755
2756Security related changes:
2757
403143e1
FW
2758 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
2759 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
2760 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
2761 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
2762 script.)
00cdcf5a 2763
822f523b
FW
2764 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
2765 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
2766 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
2767 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
c369d66e 2768
914c9994
FW
2769 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
2770 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
2771 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
2772 of service.
2773
15e84c63
AJ
2774 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
2775 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
a159b53f
PE
2776 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
2777
37ac8e63
FW
2778 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
2779 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
2780 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
2781 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
2782
8a0b17e4
FW
2783 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
2784 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
2785 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
2786 Qualys.
2787
3ff3dfa5
FW
2788 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
2789 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
2790 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
2791 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
2792 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
2793
3e3c904d
AJ
2794 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
2795 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
2796 current directory.
2797
52a713fd
DL
2798 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
2799 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
2800 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
2801
4590634f
FW
2802 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
2803 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
2804 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
2805
71aa429b
FW
2806 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
2807 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
2808 small, instead of NULL.
2809
00cdcf5a
SP
2810The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2811
242cbc90
DL
2812 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
2813 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
2814 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
2815 locale
2816 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
2817 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
2818 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
2819 cases
2820 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
2821 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
2822 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
2823 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
2824 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
2825 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
2826 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
2827 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
2828 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
2829 "Bangla"
2830 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
2831 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
2832 width Latin characters
2833 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
2834 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
2835 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
2836 letters
2837 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
2838 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
2839 (CVE-2009-5064)
2840 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
2841 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
2842 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
2843 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
2844 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
2845 if malloc succeeded
2846 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
2847 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
2848 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
2849 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
2850 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
2851 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
2852 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
2853 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
2854 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
2855 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
2856 U+309A
2857 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
2858 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
2859 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
2860 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
2861 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
2862 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
2863 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
2864 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
2865 for Nicaragua
2866 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
2867 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
2868 are not found.
2869 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
2870 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
2871 access
2872 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
2873 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
2874 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
2875 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
2876 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
2877 __regcall calling convention
2878 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
2879 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
2880 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
2881 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
2882 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
2883 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
2884 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
2885 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
2886 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
2887 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
2888 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
2889 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
2890 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
2891 locale
2892 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
2893 protector=all
2894 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
2895 wcwidth
2896 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
2897 consistency check failures
2898 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
2899 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
2900 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
2901 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
2902 PIE
2903 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
2904 locales
2905 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
2906 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
2907 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
2908 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
2909 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
2910 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
2911 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
2912 on memory allocation failure
2913 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
2914 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
2915 the suspect)
2916 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
2917 default (i386)
2918 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
2919 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
2920 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
2921 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
2922 instead of EAI_NODATA
2923 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
2924 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
2925 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
2926 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
2927 implementation
2928 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
2929 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
2930 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
2931 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
2932 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
2933 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
2934 allocation in syscall loops)
2935 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
2936 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
2937 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
2938 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
2939 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
2940 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
2941 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
2942 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
2943 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
2944 occur with -O3
2945 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
2946 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
2947 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
2948 amounts)
2949 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
2950 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
2951 niu_NZ
2952 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
2953 checks
2954 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
2955 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
2956 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
2957 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
2958 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
2959 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
2960 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
2961 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
2962 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
2963 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
2964 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
2965 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
2966 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
2967 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
2968 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
2969 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
2970 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
2971 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
2972 parsing after OOM
2973 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
2974 object
2975 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
2976 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
2977 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
2978 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
2979 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
2980 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
fdb724f9 2981 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf outputs a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
242cbc90
DL
2982 ppc64le
2983 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
2984 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
2985 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
2986 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
2987 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
2988 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
2989 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
2990 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
2991 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
2992 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
2993 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
2994 math_force_eval
2995 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
2996 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
2997 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
2998 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
2999 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
3000 the svid compat wrapper
3001 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
3002 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
3003 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
3004 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
3005 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
3006 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
3007 --verbose.
3008 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
3009 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
3010 to 2.26
3011 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
3012 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
3013 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
3014 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
3015 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
3016 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
3017 (CVE-2017-15804)
3018 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
3019 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
3020 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
3021 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
3022 failure."
3023 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
3024 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
3025 -m32
3026 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
3027 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
3028 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
3029 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
3030 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
3031 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
3032 inside the ASCII printable range
3033 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
3034 -mlong-double-64
3035 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
3036 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
3037 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
3038 Internet
3039 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
3040 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
3041 backslash
3042 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
3043 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
3044 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
3045 heaps in an arena
3046 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
3047 networking interface
3048 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
3049 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
3050 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
3051 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
3052 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
3053 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
3054 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
3055 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
3056 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
3057 order
3058 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3059 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3060 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3061 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3062 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3063 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
3064 same as for Croatian
3065 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
3066 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
3067 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
3068 for initial thread"
3069 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
3070 SC_SSIZE_MAX
3071 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
3072 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
3073 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3074 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
3075 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
3076 (CVE-2017-1000408)
3077 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
3078 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
3079 modified in case of success
3080 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
3081 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
3082 success
3083 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
3084 stack-protector=all
3085 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
3086 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
3087 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
3088 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
3089 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
3090 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
3091 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
3092 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
3093 adding it on top
3094 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
3095 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
3096 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
3097 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
3098 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
3099 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
3100 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
3101 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
3102 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
3103 (CVE-2018-1000001)
3104 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
3105 elision and tunables
3106 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
3107 "invalid" exception
3108 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
3109 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
3110 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
3111 exception
3112 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3113 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
3114 power4
3115 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
3116 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
3117 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
3118 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
3119 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
3120 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
3121 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
3122 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
3123 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
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3126Version 2.26
3127
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3128Major new features:
3129
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3130* A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
3131 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
3132 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
3133 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
3134 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
3135 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
3136 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
3137
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3138* Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
3139 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
0b38d66a 3140 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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3141 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
3142 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
3143 are rendered with pango, see for example:
3144 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
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3146* Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
3147 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
3148 Egmont Koblinger.
e4e79484 3149
2b2ccd0c 3150* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
025b33ae 3151
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3152 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
3153 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
3154 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
daeb1fa2 3155
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3156 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
3157 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
3158 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
3159 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
3160 object are still limited to six search domains.
139ace95 3161
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3162 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
3163 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
3164 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
cd354a38 3165
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3166* The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
3167 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
d8cee557 3168
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3169* New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
3170 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
3171 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
3172 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
f0be25b6 3173
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3174* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
3175 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
3176 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
3177 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
8082d91e 3178
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3179* posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
3180 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
3181 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
3182 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
2e0bbbfb 3183
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3184* errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
3185 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
3186 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
12d2dd70 3187
2b2ccd0c 3188* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
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3189 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
3190 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
3191 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
2c0b90ab 3192
2b2ccd0c 3193 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
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3194 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
3195 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
3196 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
3197 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
3198
3199 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
3200 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
3201 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
3202 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
3203 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
3204 interfaces should be used instead.
f819dbea 3205
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3206Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
3207
3208* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
3209 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
3210 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
3211 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
3212 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
3213 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
3214 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
3215 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
3216
3217* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
3218 removed.
3219
3220* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
7e368000 3221 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
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3222 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
3223 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
3224
3225* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
3226 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
3227 default.
3228
3229 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
3230 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
3231 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
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3232 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
3233 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
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3234
3235 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
3236 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
3237 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
3238 name service modules, to be built and installed.
3239
3240* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
3241 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
3242 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
3243 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
3244
3245* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
3246 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
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3248* The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
3249 exported by accident.
3250
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3251* <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
3252 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
3253 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
3254
3255* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
3256 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
3257 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
3258 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
3259
3260* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
3261
3262* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
3263
3264* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
3265 free instead.
3266
3267* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
3268 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3269
3270* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
3271 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3272
3273* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
3274 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
3275 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
3276 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
3277 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
3278 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
3279 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
3280 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
3281
3282* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
3283 synced with the kernel:
3284
3285 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
3286 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
3287
3288 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
3289 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
3290 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
3291
3292 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
3293 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
3294
3295Changes to build and runtime requirements:
3296
3297* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
3298 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
3299 x86-32 and x86-64.)
3300
7e368000 3301* GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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3303* On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
3304 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
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3305
3306 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
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3307 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
3308 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
3309 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2b2ccd0c 3310 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
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3312Security related changes:
3313
e14a2772 3314* The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
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3315 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
3316
3317* LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
3318 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
3319
3320* Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
3321 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
3322 (CVE-2010-3192).
3323
3324* A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
3325 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
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3326
3327The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3328
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3329 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
3330 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
3331 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
3332 fields
3333 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
3334 (CVE-2010-3192)
3335 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
3336 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
3337 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
3338 ld.bfd is available
3339 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
3340 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
3341 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
3342 x86 and other generic code
3343 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
3344 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
3345 incorrect
3346 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
3347 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
3348 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
3349 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
3350 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
3351 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
3352 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
3353 resolver
3354 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
3355 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
3356 order of 0D36 and 0D37
3357 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
3358 chillu characters
3359 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
3360 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
3361 receiving data
3362 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
3363 whitespace
3364 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
3365 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
3366 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
3367 for Peru
3368 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
3369 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
3370 failures consistently
3371 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
3372 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
3373 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
3374 frame-pointer on i386
3375 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
3376 register
3377 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
3378 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
3379 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
3380 generic c code is used
3381 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
3382 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
3383 around 4000
3384 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
3385 (CVE-2017-12133)
3386 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
3387 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
3388 with -lieee
3389 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
3390 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
3391 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
3392 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
3393 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
3394 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
3395 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
3396 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
3397 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
3398 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
3399 remove()
3400 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
3401 checked for errors.
3402 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
3403 new posix_spawn implementation
3404 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
3405 leads to lower CPU frequency
3406 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
3407 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
3408 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
3409 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
3410 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
3411 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
3412 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
3413 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
3414 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
3415 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
3416 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
3417 not support gethostbyname4_r
3418 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
3419 switching
3420 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
3421 arenas
3422 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
3423 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
3424 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
3425 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
3426 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
3427 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
3428 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
3429 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
3430 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
3431 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
3432 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
3433 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
3434 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
3435 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
3436 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
3437 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
3438 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
3439 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
3440 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
3441 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
3442 retry value
3443 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
3444 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
3445 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
3446 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
3447 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
3448 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
3449 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
3450 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
3451 [21537] libc:
3452 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
3453 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
3454 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
3455 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
3456 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
3457 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
3458 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
3459 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
3460 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
3461 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
3462 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
3463 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
3464 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
3465 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
3466 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
3467 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
3468 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
3469 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
3470 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
3471 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
3472 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
3473 issue on x86-64
3474 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
3475 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
3476 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
3477 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
3478 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
3479 construction
3480 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
3481 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
3482 between_2_3
3483 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
3484 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
3485 conditions
3486 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
3487 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
3488 Hindi Locale
3489 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
3490 posix/sched_cpucount.c
3491 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
3492 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
3493 locale
3494 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
3495 leading to relocation crash
3496 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
3497 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
3498 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
3499 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
3500 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
3501 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
3502 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
3503 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
3504 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
3505 locale
3506 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
3507 locale
3508 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
3509 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
3510 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
3511 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
3512 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
3513 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
3514 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
3515 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
3516 strings
3517 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
3518 protector=all
3519 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
3520 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
3521 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
3522 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
3523 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
3524 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
3525 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
3526 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
3527 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
3528 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
3529 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
3530 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
3531 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
3532 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
3533 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
3534 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
3535 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
3536 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
3537 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
3538 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
3539 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
3540 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
3541 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
3542 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
3543 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
3544 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
3545 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
3546 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
3547 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
3548 with unicode 9.0
3549 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
3550 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
3551 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
3552 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
3553 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
58557c22 3554
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3556Version 2.25
3557
48789000
JM
3558* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
3559 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
3560 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
3561 Library.
e720d3d9 3562
bf91be88
JM
3563* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
3564 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
a5ac5676 3565 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
bf91be88
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3566 the GNU C Library.
3567
412cb261
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3568* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
3569 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
3570 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
3571 the GNU C Library.
3572
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ZW
3573* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
3574 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
3575 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
3576 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
3577 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
3578 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
3579 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
3580 will not.
3581
3582 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
3583 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
3584 many years.
3585
dbab6577
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3586* The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
3587 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
3588 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
3589
3590 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
3591 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
3592 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
3593 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
3594 problem.
3595
ec94343f 3596* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
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3597 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
3598 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
5146356f 3599
a292f45a
JM
3600* Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
3601 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
5b17fd0d
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3602 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
3603 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
3604 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
3605 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
3606 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
3607 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
3608 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
3609 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
3610 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
3611 WINT_WIDTH.
a292f45a 3612
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3613* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
3614
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3615 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
3616
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3617 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
3618 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
3619 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
41c67149 3620
55a38f82
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3621 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
3622 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
3623
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3624 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
3625 fminmagf, fminmagl.
3626
1e7c8fcc
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3627 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
3628
29cb9293 3629 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
d942e95c 3630
cc6a8d74
JM
3631 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
3632 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
5e9d98a3 3633
eaf5ad0b
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3634 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
3635
eb3c12c7 3636 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
457663a7 3637 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
f8e8b8ed 3638
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3639* The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
3640 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
3641
cecbc796
NA
3642* Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
3643 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
3644 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
3645
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ZW
3646* The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
3647 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
3648 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
3649 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
3650 effects of the memory clear).
3651
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3652* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
3653 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
3654 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
3655 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
3656
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3657* On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
3658 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
3659 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
3660 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
3661 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
3662 if they are compiled or used with those options.
6962682f 3663
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3664* The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
3665 have been added.
3666
705a79f8
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3667* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
3668 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
3669 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
3670 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
3671 as large as several megabytes.
3672
4d728087
FW
3673* The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
3674 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
3675 been removed.
3676
e863cce5
FW
3677* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
3678 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
3679 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
3680 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
3681 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
3682 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
3683 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
3684
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FW
3685* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
3686 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
3687 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
3688 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
3689
099191b1 3690* The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
5140d036
FW
3691 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
3692 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
3693 Internet.
3694
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3695* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
3696 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
3697 They were already unimplemented.
bfbd1de1 3698
b76e0659
FW
3699* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
3700 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
3701 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
3702 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
3703
3a2a1d2c
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3704* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
3705 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
3706 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
3707 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
3708 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
3709
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3710* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
3711 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
3712 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
3713 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
3714 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
3715
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3716* The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
3717 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
3718 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
3719 did not reflect that.
3720
022dfdce
SL
3721* For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
3722 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
3723 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
3724 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
3725 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
3726 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
3727 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
3728 'gcc/config.gcc'.
3729
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3730* GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
3731 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
3732 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
3733 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
3734
7715d3ab
SP
3735* Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
3736 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
3737 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
3738 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
3739
0cea3587
SP
3740* A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
3741 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
3742 guarantees.
3743
3744* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
3745 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
3746 make state changes.
3747
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3748Security related changes:
3749
fc82b0a2 3750* On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
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3751 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
3752 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
3753 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
056dd72a 3754 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
e720d3d9 3755
fc82b0a2
FW
3756* The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
3757 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
3758 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
3759 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
3760 (CVE-2015-5180)
3761
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3762The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3763
fdb724f9 3764 [4099] stdio: Overly aggressive caching by stream i/o functions.
4e054e6b
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3765 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
3766 protector-all
3767 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
3768 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
3769 before it started waiting
3770 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
3771 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
3772 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
3773 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
3774 wrong type
3775 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
3776 library linked with pthread
3777 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
3778 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
3779 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
3780 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
3781 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
3782 after being __libc_memalign()'d
3783 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
3784 when it shouldnt
3785 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
3786 not
3787 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
3788 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
3789 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
3790 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
3791 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
3792 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
3793 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
3794 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
3795 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
3796 termination
3797 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
3798 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
3799 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
3800 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
3801 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
3802 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
3803 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
3804 causes a segmentation fault
3805 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
3806 linking
3807 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
3808 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
3809 uninitialized GOT
3810 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
3811 versions
3812 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
3813 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
3814 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
3815 is always true.
3816 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
3817 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
3818 modes
3819 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
3820 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
3821 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
3822 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
3823 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
3824 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
3825 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
3826 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
3827 libpthread.a
3828 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
3829 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
3830 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
3831 _res_hconf
3832 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
3833 information.
3834 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
3835 penalty
3836 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
3837 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
3838 cause transition penalty
3839 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
3840 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
3841 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
3842 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
3843 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
3844 mcount.oS)
3845 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
3846 Checking
3847 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
3848 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
3849 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
3850 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
3851 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
3852 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
3853 multi-arch
3854 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
3855 (RES_USEBSTRING)
3856 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
3857 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
3858 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
3859 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
3860 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
3861 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
3862 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
3863 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
3864 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
3865 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
3866 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
3867 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
3868 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
3869 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
3870 glibc
3871 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
3872 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
3873 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
3874 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
3875 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
3876 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
3877 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
3878 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
3879 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
3880 U+20AC), not same as GBK
3881 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
3882 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
3883 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
3884 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
3885 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
3886 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
3887 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
3888 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
3889 RES_USE_INET6
3890 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3891 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
3892 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
3893 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
3894 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
3895 wrong condition
3896 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3897 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
3898 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
3899 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
3900 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
3901 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
3902 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
3903 clang
3904 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
3905 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
3906 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
3907 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
3908 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
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3910Version 2.24
3911
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3912* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
3913 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
3914 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
3915 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
3916 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
3917 architectures.
3918
b6ebba70
MF
3919* The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
3920 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
3921 been included in previous releases.
11fca961 3922
7584a3f9
FW
3923* The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
3924 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
3925
b49ab5f4
FW
3926* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
3927 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
3928 instead of “union wait”.
3929
ced8f893
SG
3930* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
3931 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
3932 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
3933 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
3934 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
3935 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
3936 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
3937
2ba3cfa1
FW
3938* The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
3939 API.
3940
b7a9b7b0
MF
3941* The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
3942 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
3943 drop it.
6a54bcda 3944
41a359e2
RS
3945* nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
3946 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
3947 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
3948 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
3949 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
3950 extensions.
3951
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3952Security related changes:
3953
f5b3338d
FW
3954* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
3955 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
3956 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
3957
4ab2ab03
FW
3958* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
3959 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
3960 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
3961 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
11fca961 3962
5171f307
FW
3963* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
3964 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
3965 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
3966
bc779a1a
FW
3967* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
3968 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
3969 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
3970
fab38231
FW
3971* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
3972 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
3973 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
3974 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
3975
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AZ
3976The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3977
3c4f81ec
CD
3978 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
3979 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
3980 of MS-DOS.
3981 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
3982 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
3983 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
3984 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
3985 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
3986 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
3987 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
3988 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
3989 CLDR data
3990 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
3991 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
3992 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
3993 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
3994 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
3995 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
3996 romanisation
3997 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
3998 and +/-
3999 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
4000 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
4001 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
4002 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
4003 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
4004 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
4005 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
4006 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
4007 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
4008 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
4009 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
4010 all locales
4011 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
4012 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
4013 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
4014 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
4015 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
4016 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
4017 execute
4018 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
4019 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
4020 -Wsystem-headers
4021 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
4022 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
4023 Romanian locale data
4024 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
4025 symbol
4026 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
4027 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
4028 language
4029 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
4030 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
4031 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
4032 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
4033 machine
4034 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
4035 description
4036 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
4037 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
4038 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
4039 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
4040 when using RTLD_NEXT
4041 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
4042 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
4043 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
4044 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
4045 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
4046 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
4047 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
4048 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
4049 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
4050 Excavator core
4051 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4052 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4053 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4054 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
4055 double range
4056 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
4057 part zero incorrect
4058 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
4059 equality tests
4060 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
4061 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
4062 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
4063 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
4064 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
4065 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
4066 glibc-2.22
4067 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
4068 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
4069 'tst-numeric.c'
4070 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
4071 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
4072 low part
4073 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
4074 result
4075 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
4076 unaligned stack
4077 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
4078 pointers and lengths in error-case.
4079 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
4080 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
4081 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
4082 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
4083 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
4084 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
4085 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
4086 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
4087 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
4088 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
4089 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
4090 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
4091 modes
4092 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
4093 server addresses
4094 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
4095 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
4096 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
4097 response to getaddrinfo
4098 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
4099 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
4100 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
4101 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
4102 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
4103 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
4104 sometimes incorrect
4105 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
4106 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
4107 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
4108 record types
4109 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
4110 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
4111 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
4112 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
4113 (CVE-2016-3075)
4114 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
4115 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
4116 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
4117 resolving symbols
4118 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
4119 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
4120 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
4121 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
4122 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
4123 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
4124 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
4125 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
4126 gethosts
4127 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
4128 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
4129 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
4130 (CVE-2016-3706)
4131 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
4132 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
4133 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
4134 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
4135 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
4136 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
4137 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
4138 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
4139 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
4140 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
4141 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
4142 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
4143 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
4144 executable
4145 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
4146 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
4147 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
4148 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
4149 XPG3
4150 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
4151 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
4152 (CVE-2016-4429)
4153 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
4154 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
4155 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
4156 AS not supporting AVX512
4157 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
4158 sNaN argument
4159 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4160 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
4161 argument
4162 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
4163 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
4164 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
4165 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
4166 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
4167 eax=0x80000001
4168 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
4169 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
4170 subnormals
4171 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
4172 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
4173 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
4174 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4175 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4176 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
4177 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4178 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
4179 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
4180 input
4181 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4182 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4183 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4184 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4185 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4186 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4187 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4188 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
4189 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
4190 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
4191 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
4192 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
4193 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
4194 double rounding
4195 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
4196 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
4197 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
4198 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
4199 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
4200 (Only arm/linux)
4201 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
4202 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
4203 fallbacks
4204 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
4205 "invalid" exceptions
4206 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
4207 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
4208 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
4209 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
4210 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
4211 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
4212 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
4213 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
4214 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
11fca961 4215\f
aeb47bbc
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4216Version 2.23
4217
23256f5e
MF
4218* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
4219 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
4220 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
4221 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
4222 89, 16061, and 18568.
4223
2359035a
FW
4224* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
4225 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
4226 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
4227 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
4228 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
4229 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
4230 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
4231
8b7b7f75
MW
4232* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
4233 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
4234 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
4235
2eecc8af
FW
4236* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
4237 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
4238 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
4239 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
4240 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
4241 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
4242 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
4243
a62719ba
FW
4244* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
4245 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
4246 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
4247 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
4248 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 4249 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
a62719ba
FW
4250 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
4251 Ericsson.)
a014cecd 4252
bc148ca1
MF
4253* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
4254 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
4255 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
4256 independent of the GNU C Library.
4257
1c70b6f1
ZW
4258* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
4259 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
1efad39b 4260
eed3e1eb
JM
4261* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
4262 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
4263 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
4264 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
4265 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
4266 Linux kernel.
4267
1efad39b
SL
4268* Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
4269 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
b08b4218 4270
d709042a
JM
4271* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
4272 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
4273 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
4274 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
4275 defining their own copy.
4276
b08b4218
JM
4277* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
4278 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
4279 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
f268ab5f 4280
8f5e8b01
JM
4281Security related changes:
4282
6400ae6e
FW
4283* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
4284 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
4285
4286* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
4287 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
4288 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
4289 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
4290 (CVE-2015-8777)
4291
4292* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
4293 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
4294
4295* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
4296 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
4297
8f5e8b01
JM
4298* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
4299 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 4300 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
8f5e8b01 4301
e9db92d3
CD
4302* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
4303 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
4304 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
4305 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
4306 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
4307 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
4308 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
4309 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
4310 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
4311 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
4312 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
4313 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
4314 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
4315
ad372e29 4316The following bugs are resolved with this release:
f268ab5f 4317
ad372e29
AZ
4318 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
4319 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
4320 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
4321 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
4322 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
4323 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
4324 use `mkstemp'
4325 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
4326 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
4327 overflow/underflow errors
4328 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
4329 overflow/underflow
4330 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
4331 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
4332 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
4333 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
4334 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
4335 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
4336 are not contiguous
4337 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
4338 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
4339 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
4340 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
4341 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
4342 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
4343 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
4344 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
4345 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
4346 all exceptions
4347 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
4348 arguments
4349 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
4350 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
4351 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
4352 should include
4353 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
4354 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
4355 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
4356 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
4357 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
4358 GNU/Linux
4359 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
4360 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
4361 arguments
4362 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
4363 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
4364 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
4365 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
4366 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
4367 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
4368 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
4369 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
4370 rounding results
4371 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
4372 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
4373 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
4374 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
4375 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
4376 fails
4377 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
4378 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
4379 block boundary
4380 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
4381 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
4382 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
4383 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
4384 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
4385 4.7?
4386 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
4387 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
4388 (related to lock elision)
4389 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
4390 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
4391 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
4392 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
4393 (CVE-2015-8779)
4394 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
4395 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
4396 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
4397 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
4398 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
4399 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
4400 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
4401 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
4402 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
4403 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
4404 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
4405 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
4406 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
4407 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
4408 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
4409 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
4410 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
4411 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
4412 contains a vector instruction exception.
4413 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
4414 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
4415 locales
4416 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
4417 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
4418 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
4419 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
4420 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
4421 missing break ?
4422 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
4423 32bit processes
4424 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
4425 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
4426 infinity
4427 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
4428 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
4429 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
4430 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
4431 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
4432 be forced unloaded
4433 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
4434 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
4435 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
4436 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
4437 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
4438 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
4439 statically too large
4440 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
4441 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
4442 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
4443 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
4444 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
4445 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
4446 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
4447 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
4448 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
4449 FUTEX_SHARED
4450 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
4451 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
4452 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
4453 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
4454 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
4455 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
4456 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
4457 opendir()
4458 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
4459 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
4460 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
4461 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
4462 signgam
4463 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
4464 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
4465 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
4466 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
4467 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
4468 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
4469 dependencies
4470 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
4471 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
4472 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
4473 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
4474 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
4475 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
4476 (CVE-2015-8776)
4477 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
4478 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
4479 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
4480 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
4481 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
4482 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4483 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
4484 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
4485 contention
4486 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
4487 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
4488 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
4489 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4490 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
4491 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
4492 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
4493 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
4494 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
4495 rounding modes
4496 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
4497 ILP32
4498 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
4499 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
4500 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
4501 threshold
4502 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
4503 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
4504 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
4505 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
4506 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
4507 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
4508 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
4509 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
4510 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
4511 pthread_setaffinity_np
4512 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
4513 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
4514 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
4515 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
4516 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
4517 prelink
4518 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
4519 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
4520 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
4521 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
4522 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4523 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
4524 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
4525 bits/mathcalls.h
4526 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
4527 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
4528 for C99-based standards
4529 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
4530 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
4531 math-only
4532 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
4533 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
4534 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
4535 disabled
4536 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
4537 "inexact" exceptions
4538 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
4539 arguments
4540 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
4541 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
4542 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
4543 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
4544 rules
4545 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
4546 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
4547 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
4548 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
4549 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
4550 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
4551 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
4552 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
4553 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
4554 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
4555 from 32bit
4556 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
4557 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
4558 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
4559 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
4560 subnormals
4561 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
4562 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
4563 error on 32-bit architectures
4564 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
4565 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
4566 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
4567 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
4568 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
4569 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
4570 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
4571 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
4572 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
4573 -Os
4574 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
4575 CPU's.
4576 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
4577 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
4578 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
4579 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
4580 architectures
4581 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
aeb47bbc 4582\f
1c7a4a51
JM
4583Version 2.22
4584
4585* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4586
3df5cd98 4587 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
0e569d30
MF
4588 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
4589 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
4590 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
4591 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
4592 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
4593 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
4594 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
4595 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
4596 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
4597 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
4598 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
4599 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
4600 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
4601 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
4602 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
4603 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
4604 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
6fdd5d65
FW
4605 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
4606 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
2959eda9 4607
f7fba805
SL
4608* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
4609 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
4610
2959eda9
AS
4611* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
4612 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
4613 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
4614 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
4615 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
4616 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4a4839c9 4617
42261ad7
FW
4618* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
4619 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
4620 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
4621 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
4622 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
4623
afcd9480
AM
4624* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
4625 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
4626 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
4627
4a4839c9
AO
4628* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
4629 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
4630 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
4631 17998.
4632
b13b96ca
AS
4633* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
4634 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
4635 condition in some applications.
21933112
AS
4636
4637* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
a6336cc4
AS
4638 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
4639 pow, powf.
21933112
AS
4640 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
4641 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
037e4b99
AS
4642 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
4643 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 4644 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
fdb7d390
AZ
4645
4646* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
4647 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
4648 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
4649 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
7fde904c
MF
4650
4651* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
4652 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
4653 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
7493ab25
RM
4654
4655* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
4656 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
2ec11c2b
ZW
4657
4658* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
4659 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
4660 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
4661
a03ba363 4662 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
2ec11c2b
ZW
4663 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
4664 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
1c7a4a51 4665\f
58b930ae
SP
4666Version 2.21
4667
4668* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4669
042e1521 4670 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
5bd80bfe
PP
4671 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
4672 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
4673 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
4674 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
4675 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
4676 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
4677 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
4678 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
4679 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
4680 17892.
4681
46d54873
FW
4682* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
4683 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
4684 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
4685 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
4686 intended.
042e1521
CD
4687
4688* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
4689 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
4690 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
4691 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
4692 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
4693 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
a39208bd 4694
522e6ee3
CLT
4695* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
4696
d3b00f46
AZ
4697* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
4698 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 4699 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
96d6fd6c 4700
8d2c0a59
AZ
4701* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
4702 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
4703 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
4704 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
4705 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
4706 effects being visible outside transactions.
4707
dc400d7b
RE
4708* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
4709 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
ec582ca0 4710
0f9dfe04
L
4711* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
4712
a39208bd
CD
4713* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
4714 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
ebda2f17 4715 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
a39208bd
CD
4716 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
4717 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
fb89b46d 4718
a5357b7c
JL
4719* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
4720 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
4721
e54db0ea
AM
4722* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
4723 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
4724 format.
11e3417a 4725
4863355a
JM
4726* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
4727 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
4728 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
4729
a4ecc9eb
JM
4730* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
4731 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
4732
0d560bbf 4733* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
0781a777
RM
4734
4735* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
4736 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
4737 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
4738 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
6d248857
WN
4739
4740* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
4741 with newer versions of bison.
28c38448
MF
4742
4743* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
4744 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
4745 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
4746 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
4747 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
4748 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
4749 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
4750 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
4751 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
4752 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
4753 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
4754 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
4755 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
4756
4757 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
4758 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
4759 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
4760 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
4761 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
58b930ae 4762\f
d5b396c1
AM
4763Version 2.20
4764
4765* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4766
6a9350c8
JM
4767 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
4768 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
4769 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
4770 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
4771 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
4772 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
4773 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
4774 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
4775 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
4776 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
4777 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
4778 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
4779 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
4780 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
4781 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
0961f7e1 4782
95ee7fb1
SL
4783* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
4784 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
4785 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
4786 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
4787 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 4788 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
95ee7fb1
SL
4789 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
4790 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
4791 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
4792 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
4793
0961f7e1
JL
4794* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
4795 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
4796 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
4797 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
4798 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
f3d338c9 4799
f940b965
RE
4800* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
4801
d0f5b3f8
JM
4802* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
4803 can be used with is 2.6.32.
4804
d6fe5e58
JM
4805* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
4806 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
4807 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
4808 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
4809 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
4810 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
4811
464263cc
JM
4812* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
4813 from ports.
c941736c
JM
4814
4815* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
4816 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
4817 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
4818 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
4819 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
4820 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
4821 test macros defined.
f63c86fe
WN
4822
4823* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5a414ff7
DV
4824
4825* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
4826 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
4827 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
4828 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
4829 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
4830 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
4831 is not built.
d03efb2f
AM
4832
4833* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
4834 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
4835 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
4836 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
4837 invocation.
cfd2ea50
JM
4838
4839* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
4840 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
4841 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
f083450f
RM
4842
4843* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
4844 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
4845 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
4846 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
4e8f95a0
FW
4847
4848* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
4849 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
4850 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
4851 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
4852 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
4853 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
4854 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
4855 additional checks.
9a8a5720
RM
4856
4857* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
4858 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
4859 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
4860 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
4861 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
4862 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
4863 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
4864 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
4865 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
a1a6a401
FW
4866
4867* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
4868 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
4869 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
4870 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
4871 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 4872 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
41488498
FW
4873
4874* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
4875 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
4876 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
4877 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
6c1fd795
DM
4878\f
4879Version 2.19
4880
4881* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4882
fd2f9486
JM
4883 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
4884 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
4885 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
4886 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
4887 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
4888 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
4889 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
4890 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
4891 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
4892 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
ed27ed83
JM
4893 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
4894 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
4895 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
4896 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
4897 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
798212a0
PP
4898 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
4899 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
4900 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
141f3a77 4901
11520a57
CD
4902* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
4903 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
4904
2fe16229
CD
4905* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
4906 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
4907 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
08d76093
CD
4908 extension which uses __block.
4909
303e567a
SP
4910* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
4911 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
4912 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
4913 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
4914 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
4915
141f3a77
SP
4916* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
4917 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
4918 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
4919 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
4920 if malloc fails.
c61b4d41
CD
4921
4922* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
4923 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
4924 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
4925 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
4926 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
91ce4085
FW
4927
4928* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
4929 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
4930 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
4931
ba0d798c
WN
4932* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
4933 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
4934 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
4935 #15856, #15857).
4936
7cbcdb36
SP
4937* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
4938 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
4939
82bab04b 4940* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 4941 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
ddd9fb8f 4942
c5f840fd
MB
4943* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
4944
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CD
4945* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
4946 supported locales.
ddd9fb8f 4947
3e181dda 4948* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
7447ccd9 4949
8a05c252
CL
4950* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
4951
6055173a
JM
4952* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
4953 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
4954 for which the C library was built.
4955
b125d3e5
JM
4956* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
4957 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
4958 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
4959 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
4960 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
4961 in the following circumstances:
4962
4963 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
4964
4965 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
4966 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
4967
d4f66d37
JM
4968* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
4969 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
4970
3e181dda
CD
4971* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
4972 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
e35696c3 4973
ffb89e53
AO
4974* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
4975
5d29ccce
SP
4976* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
4977 transcendental functions have been introduced.
4978
8b7d57cd 4979* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
b125d3e5
JM
4980
4981* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 4982
fd712ef3 4983* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 4984
c688b419
JM
4985* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
4986 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
4987 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
4988 disable some of those declarations.
4989
7011c262 4990* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
029c7b25
JM
4991 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
4992 that did nothing) has also been removed.
0a57b83e
AO
4993
4994* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
4995 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
ee4ec1d7
AK
4996
4997* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
4998 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
4999 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
5000 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
5001 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
5002 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
5003 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
5004 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
5005 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
5006 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
5007 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
5008 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
5009 require recompilation.
2c8bfe7d
DM
5010\f
5011Version 2.18
5012
5013* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5014
17db6e8d 5015 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
0432680e
PY
5016 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
5017 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
8c17cb1f
JM
5018 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
5019 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
5020 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
5021 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
5022 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
5023 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
5024 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
5025 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
5026 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
5027 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
5028 15755, 15759.
e4608715
CD
5029
5030* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
5031 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
5032 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
5033 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
5034 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
5035 understands and accepts the risks.
1cef1b19 5036
5b535ac4
AS
5037* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
5038 #15078).
5039
1cef1b19
AS
5040* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
5041 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
7fffbdff 5042
55e4107b
SP
5043* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
5044 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
5045 destructor calls to glibc.
5046
e5c74c63
SP
5047* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
5048 output.
5049
5050* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
5051 non-x86 architectures.
5052
e7521973
JM
5053* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
5054
5055* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
5056
5057* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
5058 Richard Henderson.
5059
5060* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
5061
5062* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
5063 Richard Henderson.
5064
5065* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
5066 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
5067
8cfdb7e0
SP
5068* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
5069
57267616
TS
5070* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
5071 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
58206c68 5072
c204ab28
SP
5073* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
5074 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
61dd6208 5075
0748546f
PE
5076* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
5077 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
5078 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
5079
61dd6208
SP
5080* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
5081 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
5082 attributes of a process.
a7cb9d67
AK
5083
5084* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
5085 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
5086 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
5087 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
5088 mutexes.
be063fa4
RA
5089
5090* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
5091 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
5092
5093* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
370ca3d2
JM
5094\f
5095Version 2.17
5096
5097* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5098
80ceeaee 5099 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
b4180a5e
AJ
5100 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
5101 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
5102 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
5103 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
5104 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
5105 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
5106 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
5107 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
5108 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
5109 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
5110 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
5111 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
5112 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
5113 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
14bc93a9 5114
95b4f1b6
SE
5115* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
5116
14bc93a9
JL
5117* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
5118 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
7a845b2c 5119
b54eb3cb
JM
5120* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
5121 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
5122
7e2bd01f
MS
5123* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
5124
08f43f9b
AK
5125* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
5126 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
5127 zEnterprise z196.
5128 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
5129
84b3fd84
FW
5130* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
5131 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
5132 the internal function __secure_getenv.
5133
815e6fa3
GB
5134* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
5135 Implemented by Gary Benson.
5136
400726de
MK
5137* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
5138 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
5139
7aab07e4 5140* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 5141 can be used with is 2.6.16.
7aab07e4 5142
15d0da8c
WS
5143* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
5144 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
5145
3cc3ef96
RM
5146* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
5147 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
c53d909c
RM
5148 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
5149 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3cc3ef96 5150
b54eb3cb
JM
5151* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
5152 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
5153
85429b1a 5154* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 5155 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
85429b1a
DM
5156 default.
5157
b54eb3cb
JM
5158* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
5159 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
5160 information in --help and --version output.
5161
050af9c4
SP
5162* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
5163 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
5164 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
5165
89a3ad0b
AO
5166* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
5167 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
5168 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
5169 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
5170 when the mode is enabled.
5171
6e6249d0
RM
5172* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
5173 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
5174 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
5175 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
5176 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
5177 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
5178 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5a04f376 5179
d9286582
NK
5180* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
5181 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
8d44e150
UD
5182\f
5183Version 2.16
5184
5185* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5186
a8133e19
JM
5187 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
5188 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
5189 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
5190 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
5191 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
5192 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
5193 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
5194 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
5195 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
5196 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
5197 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
5198 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
5199 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
5200 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
5201 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
5202 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
5203 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
5204 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
5205 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
5206 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
5207 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
5208 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
5209 14277, 14278.
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5211* Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
5212 configuring glibc with:
5213 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
8f7a75d7 5214 Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
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5215 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5216
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5217* ISO C11 support:
5218
5219 + define static_assert
5220
5221 + do not declare gets
5222
5223 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
5224
5225 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
5226 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
5227 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
5228 implementation.
8d44e150 5229
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5231
5232 + uchar.h support added
d75a0a62 5233
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5234 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
5235
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5236 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5237
9dc4e1fb 5238* Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
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5239
5240* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
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5241
5242* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
5243 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5244
5245* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
5246 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5247
5248* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
5249 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
5250 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
5251 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
5252 existing applications.
ffb7875d 5253
21708942 5254* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
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5255 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
5256 before 2.6.
83678f76 5257
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RH
5258* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
5259 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
5260 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
5261
83678f76 5262* New locales: mag_IN
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5263
5264* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
5265 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
5266 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
5267 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
5268 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
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5269
5270* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5271
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
5272* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
5273 and Will Schmidt.
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5274
5275* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
5276
5277* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
5278 without a previously built glibc.
5279
5280* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
5281 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
5282
5283* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
5284 now supported for ARM processors.
5285
5286* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
5287 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
5288 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
5289
5290* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
5291
5292* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
5293 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
5294 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
5295 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
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5296
5297* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
5298 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
5299 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
5300 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
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5301
5302* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
5303 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
5304 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
5305 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
5306 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
5307
5308* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
5309 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
5310 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
5311 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
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e80fab37 5313Version 2.15
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5315* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5316
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5317 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
5318 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
5319 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
5320 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
5321 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
5322 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
5323 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
c0244a9d 5324
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5325* New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
5326 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5327
5328* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
5329 and support for initgroups lookups.
5330 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5331
5332* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
5333 Contributed by HJ Lu.
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5334
5335* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
5336 Contributed by HJ Lu.
99710781 5337
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5338* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
5339 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 5340 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 5341
d42964a0 5342* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
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5343 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5344
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5345* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
5346 for x86-64 and x86-32.
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5347 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5348
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5349* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
5350 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5351
5352* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
5353 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5354
5355* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
5356 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5357
5358* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
5359 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5360
5361* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
5362 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5363
5364* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
5365 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5366
5367* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
e188ebba
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5368
5369* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
5370 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a1267ba1 5371
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AZ
5372* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
5373 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
2655fd5c 5374
6b64057b 5375* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
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9f94d2ea 5378
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5379* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5380
553149f6 5381 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 5382 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 5383 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 5384 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
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5385 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
5386 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
5387 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
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5388 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
5389 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 5390 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
50934221 5391
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5392* The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
5393 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
5394 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 5395 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
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5396
5397 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
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5398 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
5399 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
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5400 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5401
c6489db3 5402* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
f1f929d7 5403 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
83fe108b 5404
72d1dddb 5405* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 5406 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
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5407
5408* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
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5409
5410* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
5411 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5412
5413* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
5414 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
5415 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
5416 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
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5418Version 2.13
5419
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5420* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5421
c30b7ee2
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5422 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
5423 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
5424 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
5425 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
5426 12378, 12394, 12397
ac2b484c 5427
10b3bedc 5428* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
c08fb0d7 5429
ac2b484c 5430* POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
8d50becc 5431
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5432* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
5433 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 5434 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5436Version 2.12
5437
d36b9613
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5438* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5439
2e0fb521
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5440 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
5441 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
5442 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
5443 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
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5444 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
5445 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
5446 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 5447 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
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5448
5449* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
d36b9613 5450
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5451* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
5452
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5453* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
5454
5455* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
5456 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
5457 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5458
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5459* New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
5460 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
5461 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
5462 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
5463 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5464
d36b9613 5465* New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
b50f8e42
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5466\f
5467Version 2.11
5468
d36b9613
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5469* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5470
5471 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
5472 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
5473 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
5474 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
5475 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
5476 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
5477
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5478* New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
5479 mkostemps64
3d5243d4
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5480 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5481
24ab9c76 5482* Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
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5483 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5484
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5485* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
5486 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5487
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5488* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
5489
0122f28e 5490* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
9d36a6c4 5491 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 5492 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
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5493 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5494
9d36a6c4 5495 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
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5496 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5497
9d36a6c4
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5498* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
5499 strstr, strcasestr.
5500 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5501
5502* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
5503 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
5504
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5505* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
5506 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5507
5508* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
5509 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5510
5511* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
5512 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
5513 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
5514 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
5515 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
5516 necessity is every process again.
5517 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5518
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5519* New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
5520 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
5521
5522* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
5523 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
5524
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5525* Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
5526 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
5527 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5528
9dd5b8a1 5529* New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
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5530\f
5531Version 2.10
5532
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5533* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5534
5535 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
5536 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
5537 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
5538 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
5539 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
5540
bb066545 5541* New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
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5542 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5543
425ce2ed 5544* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
e109c612 5545 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 5546
1fdd89a7 5547* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
735be400 5548 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
1fdd89a7 5549
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5550* XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
5551 now in POSIX.
77db439e 5552
1f04d005 5553* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6cbe890a 5554 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1f04d005 5555
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5556* New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
5557 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5558
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5559* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
5560 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5561
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5562* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
5563 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5564
5565* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
5566 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
5567 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5568
735be400 5569* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
878b72c5 5570
84aa52d7 5571* Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
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5572 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5573
5574* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
5575 and extend existing format specifiers.
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5576 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5577
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5578* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
5579 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5580
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5581* DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
5582 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
5583 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
5584 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
5585 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
5586 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5588Version 2.9
5589
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5590* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5591
597d0267
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5592 2447, 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447,
5593 6461, 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712,
5594 6713, 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839,
5595 6843, 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955,
5596 6966, 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
d36b9613 5597
b29899ae 5598* Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
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5599 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5600
5601* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
5602 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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5603
5604* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
5605 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5606
5607* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
5608 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
5609 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5610
5611* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
5612 Implemented by Eric Blake.
e038616f 5613
8ec2550e 5614* New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
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5615
5616* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
ebcc1f4d 5617 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5619* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
5620 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
5621 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
5622 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5623
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5624* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
5625 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5627* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
5628 Sinhala)
48b22986 5629 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
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5631* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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5634
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5635* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5636
5637 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
5638 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
5639 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
5640 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
5641 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
5642 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
5643 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
5644
e038616f 5645* New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
b4354cf4 5646
77751669 5647* New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
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5648
5649* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
5650 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
5651
5652* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
5653
5654* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
5655 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5656
5657* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
5658 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5659
5660* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
5661 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
5662 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5663
5664* Faster memset for x86-64.
5665 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
5666
5667* Faster memcpy on x86.
5668 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5669
5670* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
5671 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5673* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
d990b282 5674 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
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5676Version 2.7
5677
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5678* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5679
5680 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
5681 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
5682 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
5683 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
5684 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
5685
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5686* More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
5687 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5688
5689* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5690
5691* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
5692 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
5693 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5694
5695* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
5696 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
5697
28919a77 5698* New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
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5699 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5700
5701* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5702
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5703* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
5704 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5705
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5706* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
5707 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5708
5709* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
5710 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
5711
5712* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5713
5714* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
5715 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5717* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
5718 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
5719 yo_NG.
5720
5721+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
5722 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5727
5728 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
5729 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
5730 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
5731 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
5732 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
5733 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
5734 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
5735 4702, 4858
5736
bce20b9a 5737* New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
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5740
b21fa963 5741* nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5744
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5745* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5746
5747 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
5748 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
5749 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
5750 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
5751 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
5752 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
5753 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
5754 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
5755 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
5756
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5758 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
5759 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5761* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
5762 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5763
871b9158 5764* New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
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5765
5766* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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5768* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
5769 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
5770 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
457b559e 5771 site might have problems with the default behavior.
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5772 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5773
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5775 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
5776 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
5777 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5778
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5779* The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
5780 Ulrich Drepper.
5781
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5782* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
5783
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5784* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
5785 Ulrich Drepper.
5786
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5787* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
5788
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5789* New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
5790 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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5792Version 2.4
5793
5794* More overflow detection functions.
5795
5796* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
5797 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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5799 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
5800 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
5801 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
5802 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
5803 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
5804 by Masahide Washizawa.
5805
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5806* It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
5807 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5808
5809* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
5810 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
5811 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
5812 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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5814* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
5815 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
5816
5817* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
5818
5819* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
5820 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
5821 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
5822
5823* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
5824 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
5825
5826* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
5827 for compatibility with some other systems.
5828
5829* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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5831Version 2.3.6
5832
5833* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5834
5835 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
5836 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
5837 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
5838 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
5839 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
5840 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
5841
5a82c748 5842 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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5843
5844* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
5845
5846* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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5848Version 2.3.5
5849
5850* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5851
5852 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
5853 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
5854 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
5855 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
5856
5a82c748 5857 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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5859Version 2.3.4
5860
5861* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
5862 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5863
5864* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
5865 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
5866 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5867
5868* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
5869 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
5870
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5872 efficiently.
5873 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5874
5875* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
5876 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
5877 handling data.
5878
5879* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
5880 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
0325dd20 5881 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5882
5883* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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5884 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5885
5886* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
5887 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
5888 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
5889 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5890
5891* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
5892 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
5893 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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5894 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5895
5896* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
5897 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
5898 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
5899 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
5900 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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5902Version 2.3.3
5903
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5904* New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
5905 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
5906
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5907* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
5908 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
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69be6aaf 5910* getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
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5911 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
5912
5913* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
5914 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5916* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
5917 by Roland McGrath.
5918
c5af724c 5919* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
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5920 and Ulrich Drepper.
5921
5922* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
5923 RFC 3484.
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5925Version 2.3.2
5926
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5927* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
5928 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
5929 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
5930 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
5931 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
5932 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
5933 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
5934 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
5935 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
5936
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5937* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
5938 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
5939 and are now also available on the Hurd.
5940
5941* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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5942
5943* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
5944 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
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5946* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
5947 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
5948
52a16e58 5949* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
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5951* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
5952 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
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5954* With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
5955 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
5956 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
5957 of weak definition in ld.so.
5958
5959* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
5960 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
5961
5962* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
5963 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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5967* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
5968 charsets.
5969
5970* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
5971 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
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bb0ec5bd 5973* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 5974 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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5976* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
5977 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
8e57fc70 5978
bb0ec5bd 5979* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
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5980 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
5981 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5983* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
5984 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3b0bdc72 5985
bb0ec5bd 5986* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3b0bdc72 5987 implementation of regex.
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5988
5989* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
5990 Unicode 3.2.
be45f421 5991
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5992* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
5993 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
be45f421 5994
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5995* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
5996 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
5997 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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5998
5999* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
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6001
6002* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
6003 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
6004 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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6005
6006* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
6007 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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6009* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
6010 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
6011 and Ulrich Drepper.
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6013* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
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6015Version 2.2.6
6016
6017* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
6018 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
6019
6020* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
6021 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
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6023Version 2.2.5
6024
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6025* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
6026 128-bit long double format.
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6028* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
6029 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
a8ae31c2 6030
ad2e4f18 6031* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
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6033* Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
6034
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6035* libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
6036 as well.
6037
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6038* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
6039 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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6040
6041* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
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6043Version 2.2.4
6044
2995f70e 6045* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 6046 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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6047
6048* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
6049 support Unicode 3.1.
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6050
6051* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
6052 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
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69d5f925 6054* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 6055
69d5f925 6056* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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6057 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
6058 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6059
6060* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
6061 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
6062
6063* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
6064 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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6066* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
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6068Version 2.2.3
6069
1746f2b0 6070* Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
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6071 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
6072 in float, double, and long double format.
6073
f128331c 6074* Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
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6075 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
6076 128-bit long double format.
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6078* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
6079 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
6080 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
6081 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
6082
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6083* An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
6084 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
6085 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6086
6087* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
6088 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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6089
6090* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
6091 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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6092
6093* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
6094 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
6095 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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6096
6097* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
6098 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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6100* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
6101 of functions for Linux/x86.
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6102
6103* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
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6105Version 2.2.2
6106
464d97ec 6107* Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
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6108 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
6109 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
6110 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
6111 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
6112 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
6113 other headers.
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6114
6115* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
6116 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
6117
6118* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
6119 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
6120 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
6121 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6122
6123* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
6124 locales. While
6125
6126 locale -a
6127
6128 only lists the names of the supported locales
6129
6130 locale -a --verbose
6131
6132 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
6133 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
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6135Version 2.2.1
6136
6137* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
6138 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
6139 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
6140 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
6141 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
6142
6143 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
6144
6145 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
6146
6147 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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6148
6149* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
6150 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
6151 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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6152
6153* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
6154 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
6155
6156* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
6157 changed from the default "C" locale.
6158
6159* The usual bug fixes.
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6161Version 2.2
6162
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6163* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
6164 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
6165 is in progress.
6166
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6167* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
6168
793bd4d9 6169* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
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6171 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
6172 obviously requires a database library being available.
6173
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6174* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6175
abbffdf9 6176* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
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6178* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
6179 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
6180
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6181* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
6182
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6183* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
6184 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
6185 and Mark Kettenis.
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6186
6187 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
6188 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
6189 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 6190
a00c3ca9 6191 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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6192 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
6193
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6194* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
6195 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
6196 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
6197
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6198* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
6199 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
6200 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
6201 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6202
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6203 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
6204 structures for the wide character tables.
6205
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6206* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6207
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6208* The utmp daemon has been removed.
6209
6210* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
6211
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6212* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
6213 and Yutaka Niibe.
6214
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6215* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
6216
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6217* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
6218
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6219* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6220
6221* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
6222
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6223* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
6224
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6226 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
6227 implemented for Linux.
6228
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6229* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
6230 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
6231 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
6232 versions.
6233
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6234* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
6235 Masahide Washizawa.
6236
8f3f1e09 6237* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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6239Version 2.1.3
6240
6241* bug fixes
6242
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6244Version 2.1.2
6245
6246* bug fixes
6247
28f540f4 6248\f
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6249Version 2.1.1
6250
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6251* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
6252
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6253* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
6254
407d26b7 6255* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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6256
6257* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
6258
407d26b7 6259* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 6260
407d26b7 6261* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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6262
6263* Update timezone data files.
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6265* lots of charmaps corrections
6266
6267* some new locale definitions and charmaps
6268
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6270Version 2.1
6271
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6272* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
6273 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
6274 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
6275 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
6276 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
6277 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
6278
c84142e8 6279* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 6280 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 6281
1fb05e3d 6282* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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6283 symbol level.
6284
6285* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
6286 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
377a515b 6287
cbdee279 6288* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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6289
6290* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 6291 numbers.
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cbdee279 6293* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
e61abf83 6294
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6295* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
6296 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
e61abf83 6297
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6298* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
6299 library.
6300
e61abf83 6301* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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6302 functions from ISO C 9X.
6303
6304* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
6305 real valued functions.
e61abf83 6306
a5a0310d 6307* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
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6309* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
6310
6311* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 6312
440d13e2 6313* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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6314
6315* Optimized string functions have been added.
6316
6317* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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6318
6319* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
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6321* Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
6322 daemon for NSS (nscd).
6323
6324 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
6325 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
6326
0dee6738 6327 user system wall
48244d09 6328
0dee6738 6329 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 6330
0dee6738 6331 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 6332
0dee6738 6333 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
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6335 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
6336
6337 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
6338
6339 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
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6341 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
6342 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
0dee6738 6343 horribly slow.
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6345 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
6346 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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6347
6348* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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6349
6350* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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6351
6352* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
6353 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
6354
6355* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
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6357* A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
6358 Bambrough.
6359
6360* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
6361 latest draft standards.
6362
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6363* Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
6364
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6365* Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
6366~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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6369argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
6370argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
6371argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
6372argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
6373argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
6374argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
6375argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
6376argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
6377argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
6378argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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6380authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
6381authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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6383backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
6384backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
6385cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
6386cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
6387cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
6388cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
6389cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
6390cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
6391capget NEW: kernel
6392capset NEW: kernel
6393carg NEW: ISO C 9x
6394cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
6395cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
6396casin NEW: ISO C 9x
6397casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
6398casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
6399casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6400casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6401casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
6402catan NEW: ISO C 9x
6403catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6404catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
6405catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6406catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6407catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
e980ca92 6408cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
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6410ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
6411ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
6412ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
6413ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
6414ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
6415cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
6416cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
6417cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
6418cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
6419cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
6420cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
6421clearerr_locked REMOVED
6422clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
6423clog NEW: ISO C 9x
6424clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
6425clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
6426clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
6427clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
6428clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
6429conj NEW: ISO C 9x
6430conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
6431conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
6432cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
6433cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
6434cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
6435cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
6436cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
6437cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
6438creal NEW: ISO C 9x
6439crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
6440creall NEW: ISO C 9x
6441creat64 NEW: LFS
6442csin NEW: ISO C 9x
6443csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
6444csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
6445csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6446csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6447csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
6448csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
6449csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
6450csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
6451ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
6452ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6453ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
6454ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6455ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6456ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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6458ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 6459endutxent NEW: Unix98
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6461exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
6462exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
6463exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
6464exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
6465exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
6466fattach NEW: STREAMS
6467fdetach NEW: STREAMS
6468fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
6469fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
6470fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
6471feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6472fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6473fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
6474fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
6475feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6476feof_locked REMOVED
6477feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6478ferror_locked REMOVED
6479fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6480fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
6481fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
6482fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6483feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6484fflush_locked REMOVED
6485ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
6486ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
6487fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
6488fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6489fileno_locked REMOVED
6490fma NEW: ISO C 9x
6491fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
6492fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
6493fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
6494fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
6495fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
6496fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
6497fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
6498fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
62595351 6499fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
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6501fputc_locked REMOVED
6502fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6503fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6504freopen64 NEW: LFS
6505fseeko NEW: Unix98
6506fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
6507fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
6508fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
6509fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
6510ftello NEW: Unix98
6511ftello64 NEW: LFS
6512ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
6513ftw64 NEW: LFS
6514fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6515gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
6516gamma_r REMOVED
6517gammaf_r REMOVED
6518gammal_r REMOVED
6519getchar_locked REMOVED
6520getdate NEW: Unix98
6521getdate_err NEW: Unix98
6522getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
6523getmsg NEW: STREAMS
6524getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
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6527getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
6528getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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6529getutxent NEW: Unix98
6530getutxid NEW: Unix98
6531getutxline NEW: Unix98
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6532glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
6533globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
6534gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
6535gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
6536grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
e980ca92 6537host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
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6538iconv NEW: iconv
6539iconv_close NEW: iconv
6540iconv_open NEW: iconv
6541if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
6542if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
6543if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
6544if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
6545in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
6546in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
6547inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
6548isastream NEW: STREAMS
6549iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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6550key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
6551key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
6552key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
6553key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
6554key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
6555key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
6556key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
6557key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
6558key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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6559llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
6560llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6561llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6562llround NEW: ISO C 9x
6563llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6564llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6565log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
6566log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
6567log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
6568lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
6569lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6570lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6571lround NEW: ISO C 9x
6572lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6573lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6574lseek64 NEW: LFS
6575makecontext NEW: Unix98
6576mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
6577mmap64 NEW: LFS
6578moncontrol REMOVED
6579modify_ldt NEW: kernel
6580nan NEW: ISO C 9x
6581nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6582nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
6583nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
6584nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6585nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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6587netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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6588nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
6589nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
6590nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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6591nftw NEW: Unix98
6592nftw64 NEW: LFS
6593open64 NEW: LFS
e980ca92 6594passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
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6595pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
6596pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
6597pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
6598pread NEW: Unix98
6599pread64 NEW: LFS
6600printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
6601printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
6602profil_counter REMOVED
6603pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
6604pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
6605ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
6606ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
6607putc_locked REMOVED
6608putchar_locked REMOVED
6609putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
6610putmsg NEW: STREAMS
6611putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
62595351 6612pututxline NEW: Unix98
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6614pwrite64 NEW: LFS
6615readdir64 NEW: LFS
6616readdir64_r NEW: LFS
6617remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
6618remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
6619remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
6620round NEW: ISO C 9x
6621roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6622roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6623rtime NEW: GNU ext.
6624scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
6625scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
6626scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
6627scandir64 NEW: LFS
6628sendfile NEW: kernel
6629setcontext NEW: Unix98
6630setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 6631setutxent NEW: Unix98
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6632sighold NEW: Unix98
6633sigignore NEW: Unix98
6634sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
6635sigrelse NEW: Unix98
6636sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
6637sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
6638sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
6639sincos NEW: GNU ext.
6640sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
6641sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
6642statfs64 NEW: LFS
6643statvfs NEW: Unix98
6644statvfs64 NEW: LFS
6645strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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6646strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
6647strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
6648strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
e980ca92 6649svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
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6650svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
6651svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
6652swapcontext NEW: Unix98
6653tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
6654tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
6655tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
6656tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
6657tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
6658tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
6659trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
6660truncate64 NEW: LFS
6661truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
6662truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
6663umount2 NEW: kernel
6664unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 6665updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 6666user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 6667utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 6668versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
3ef4002b 6669versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
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6670waitid NEW: Unix98
6671wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
6672wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
6673wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
6674wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
6675wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
6676wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
6677wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
6678wcswcs NEW: Unix98
6679wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
6680wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
6681write_profiling REMOVED
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6682xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
6683xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
6684xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
6685xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
6686xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
6687xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
6688xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
6689xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
6690xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
6691xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
6692xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
6693xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
6694xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 6695xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
e980ca92 6696xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 6697~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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6699Version 2.0.6
6700
6701* more bug fixes
6702
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6704Version 2.0.5
6705
6706* more bug fixes
6707
6708* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
6709
6710* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
6711
6712* rewrite of cbrt function
6713
6714* update of timezone data
6715\f
6716Version 2.0.4
6717
6718* more bug fixes
6719\f
6720Version 2.0.3
6721
6722* more bug fixes
c84142e8 6723\f
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6724Version 2.0.2
6725
6726* more bug fixes
6727
6728* add atoll function
6729
6730* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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6731
6732* fix math functions
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6734Version 2.0.1
6735
6736* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
6737
6738* dynamic loader preserves all registers
6739
6740* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
6741 the ELF dynamic loader.
6742
6743* support for parallel builds is improved
6744\f
40a4b79f 6745Version 2.0
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6747* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
6748 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
6749 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
6750
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6751* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
6752 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
6753 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
6754 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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6755 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
6756 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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6757 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
6758 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
6759 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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6760 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
6761 files in the ELF format.
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6762
6763* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
6764 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
6765
6766* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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6767 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
6768 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
6769 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
6770 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
6771 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
6772 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
6773 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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6774 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
6775 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
6776 about dynamically linked binaries.
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6778* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
6779 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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6780 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
6781 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
6782 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 6783
f7eac6eb 6784* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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6785 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
6786 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
6787 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
6788 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
6789
6790* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
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6792* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
6793 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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6794 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
6795 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
6796 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
6797 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
6798 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
6799 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
6800 NSS services available.
5f0e6fc7 6801
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6802* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
6803 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
6804 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
6805
6806* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
6807 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
6808 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
6809
6810* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
6811 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
6812 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
6813 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
6814
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6815* The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
6816 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
6817 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
6818
6819* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
6820 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
6821 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
6822
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6823* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
6824 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
6825
f7eac6eb 6826* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 6827 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 6828 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
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6829 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
6830
6831* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
6832 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
6833 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 6834
71733723 6835* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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6836 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
6837 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
6838 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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6839 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
6840 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 6841 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 6842 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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6843
6844* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
6845 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
6846 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
6847 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
6848 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
6849 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
6850 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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6851
6852* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
6853 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
6854 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
6855 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
6856 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
6857 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
6858
6859* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
6860 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
6861
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6862* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
6863 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
6864 NSS scheme used in glibc.
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6866* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
6867
6868* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
6869 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
6870 their use is discouraged.
6871
6872* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
6873 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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6875* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
6876 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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6877
6878* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
6879 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
6880
6881* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
6882 see <dirent.h>.
6883
6884* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
6885 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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6886 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
6887 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
6888 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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6889
6890* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
6891 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
6892 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
6893 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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6894
6895* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
6896 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
6897
6898* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
6899 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
6900 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
6901 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
6902 number generator.
6903
6904* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
6905 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
6906
6907* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
6908 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
6909
71733723 6910* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 6911 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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6912 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
6913 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
c709e372 6914
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6915* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
6916
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6917* David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
6918 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
6919 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
6920
6921* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
6922 for arithmetic and string handling.
d3669add 6923
c709e372 6924* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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6925 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
6926 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
6927 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
6928
6929* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
6930 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
6931 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
6932 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
6933 programs already written to use it.)
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6934
6935* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
6936 constants.
6937
6938* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
6939 with 4.4 BSD.
6940
6941* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
6942 a given effective group ID.
6943
6944* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
6945 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
6946 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
6947 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
6948
6949* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 6950 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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6951 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
6952 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
6953 doing the same thing.
6954
6955* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
6956 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
6957
6958* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 6959 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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6960
6961* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
6962
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6963* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
6964 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
6965 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 6966 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 6967 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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6968
6969* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
6970 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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6971
6972* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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6973 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
6974 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
6975 function.
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6976
6977* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
6978
6979* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
6980 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
6981 strings.
6982
6983* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
6984 and writing the utmp file.
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6985
6986* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
6987 Thorsten Kukuk.
6988
6989* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
6990 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
6991 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
6992
6993* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
6994 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
6995
6996* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
6997 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
6998 specification.
6999
7000* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
7001 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
7002 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
7003 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
7004
7005* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
7006 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
7007 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
7008
7009* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
7010 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
7011 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
7012 expression matcher.
7013
7014* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
7015 functionality.
7016
7017* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
7018 by Ulrich Drepper.
7019
7020* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
7021
7022* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
7023 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
7024 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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7026Version 1.09
7027
7028* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
7029
7030* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
7031 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
7032
7033* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
7034 want to put themselves in the background.
7035
7036* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
7037 run without an operating system.
7038
7039* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
7040 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
7041
7042* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
7043 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
7044
7045* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
7046
7047* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
7048 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
7049 have YP (aka NIS).
7050
7051* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
7052 conventions.
7053
7054* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
7055 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
7056\f
7057Version 1.08
7058
7059* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
7060 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
7061 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
7062
7063* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
7064 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
7065
7066* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
7067 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
7068
7069* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
7070
7071* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
7072
7073* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
7074 compatibility.
7075
7076* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
7077 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
7078 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
7079
7080* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
7081
7082* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
7083 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
7084 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
7085
7086* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
7087 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
7088 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
7089 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
7090 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
7091 on a block).
7092
7093* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
7094 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
7095 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
7096 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
7097 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
7098 cross-compiler.
7099
7100* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
7101 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
7102\f
7103Version 1.07
7104
7105* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
7106 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
7107
7108* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
7109 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
7110 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
7111
7112* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
7113 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
7114 address of the last character written.
7115
7116* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
7117 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
7118
7119* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
7120 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
7121
7122* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
7123 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
7124 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
7125 you dereference this pointer.
7126
7127* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
7128 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
7129
7130* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
7131 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
7132 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
7133 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
7134
7135* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
7136 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
7137 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
7138 EAGAIN in every system call function.
7139\f
7140Version 1.06
7141
7142* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
7143 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
7144 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
7145 in Emacs or the `info' program.
ea278354 7146 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
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7147
7148* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
7149
7150* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
7151
7152* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
7153 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
7154
7155* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
7156 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
7157
7158* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
7159 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
7160
7161* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
7162 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
7163 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
7164 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
7165 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
7166
7167* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
7168 to the error code in `errno'.
7169
7170* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
7171 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
7172 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
7173 malloc'd string.
7174
7175* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
7176 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
7177 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
7178
7179* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
7180 uniquely-named temporary file.
7181\f
7182Version 1.05
7183
7184* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
7185 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
7186 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
7187
7188* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
7189 characters.
7190
7191* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
7192 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
7193
7194* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
7195\f
7196Version 1.04
7197
7198* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
7199 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
7200 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
7201 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
7202
7203* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
7204 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
7205 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
7206
7207* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
7208 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
7209
7210* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
7211 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
7212 made itself into a shared library.
7213
7214* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
7215 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
7216
7217* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
7218 with limited length.
7219
7220* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
7221
7222* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
7223
7224* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
7225
7226* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
7227 function for traversing a directory tree.
7228
7229* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
7230 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
7231 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
7232 formatted output directly to an obstack.
7233
7234* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
7235 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
7236
7237* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
7238
7239* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
7240 things to your strings.
7241
7242* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
7243
7244* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
7245 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
7246 supporting those systems.
7247
7248* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
7249 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
7250 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
7251 configuration files.
7252
7253* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
7254 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
7255
7256* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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7257 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
7258 in <strings.h>.)
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7259
7260* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
7261 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
7262 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
7263 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
7264 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
7265 required storage is not available.
7266
7267* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
7268 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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7269
7270* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
7271 latest files released from Berkeley.
7272\f
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9fcdec73 7274Copying conditions:
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7275
7276 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
7277 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
7278 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
7279 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
7280
7281 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
7282 of this document, or of portions of it,
7283 under the above conditions, provided also that they
7284 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
7285\f
7286Local variables:
7287version-control: never
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